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Sweet Pecan Summer · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a bonus episode
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  Speaker 1: of Long Story Short the podcast. I'm Megan.
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  Speaker 2: You really have your podcast voice on? Don't you? Really?
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  Speaker 1: Was imagining? What's that Saturday Night live skit with the ladies?
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm talking about?
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  Speaker 2: I do know what you're talking about, but I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what it's called.
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  Speaker 1: Radio show that I really felt like that as I
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  Speaker 1: started talking.
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  Speaker 2: That was funny. Hi guys, I am Wendy.
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  Speaker 1: And today on this bonus episode of the podcast, we
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  Speaker 1: are discussing Sweet Pecan Summer, another movie in Hallmarks Summer
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  Speaker 1: Nights series which is winding down. We've got one to
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  Speaker 1: go after this, And Wendy, do you have a synopsis
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  Speaker 1: of this movie?
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  Speaker 2: I do? But first two things. One, do you say
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  Speaker 2: pecan or pecan?
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  Speaker 1: Say pecan?
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  Speaker 2: Pecan? Yeah, pecan? Yeah, I guess I do. I wonder
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  Speaker 2: if that's like a regional I'm sure you know I
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  Speaker 2: tomato tomato right. The other thing I wanted to mention
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  Speaker 2: is that Megan continues to make fun of me because
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  Speaker 2: on our calendar I had a typo and it said
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  Speaker 2: Sweat Pecan Summer. So that's what we call this movie now,
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  Speaker 2: and delicious dish. What's delicious dish?
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  Speaker 1: The name of Saturday eight Lives Fake Radio. Oh gosh, wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's impressive. I thought you were talking about pecans for
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  Speaker 1: some reason. I googled it. I did not drudge it
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  Speaker 1: up for my memory.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, all right, so let's talk about sweet
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  Speaker 2: pecan summer. Here is the summery Amanda has to work
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  Speaker 2: with her ex boyfriend JP to sell her favorite ants,
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  Speaker 2: pecan farm. My aunt tripped me up there because sometime, Aunt, Aunt,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Anyway, putting aside their differences,
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  Speaker 2: old feelings start to rekindle and they question their life,
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  Speaker 2: life's paths. Jeez, that one got me all tongue tied.
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  Speaker 2: Stars Christinko, Wes Brown, and Lauren tom Mm hmmm. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: It's time for news and notes. I have a ton
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  Speaker 1: of them. Yeah, do you I have several?
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  Speaker 2: All right, news and notes. Wes Brown was an executive
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  Speaker 2: producer on this film.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and his daughter was in the film. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I did read that, and I went back and looked
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  Speaker 2: at it this morning. I wanted to see her. Not
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  Speaker 2: that it didn't matter. She didn't have a line or anything.
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  Speaker 2: She was basically an extra but that's real cute.
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  Speaker 1: But then she's in the final softball scene again. I
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  Speaker 1: think I don't recall that. I begeez, he likes she's
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  Speaker 1: real cute with her brains.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's her. Yeah, that's her. I
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  Speaker 2: also read that his wife, Amanda, sold the story to
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  Speaker 2: I don't know whoever, see this is what his wife's
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  Speaker 2: name is, Amanda Brown. I rewatched this movie for a
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  Speaker 2: second time this morning to pay careful close attention to
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  Speaker 2: like the credits right at the beginning. I didn't look
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  Speaker 2: at them at the end because you know, and they
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  Speaker 2: smushed them all rolled tight to show a preview of
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  Speaker 2: like right, whatever. And I did not see her name.
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  Speaker 2: But the article I read, according to I don't remember
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  Speaker 2: what webs that's what it was Southernliving dot com. The
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  Speaker 2: story is based on her family farm experience in Alabama. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and Aunt Carol is a real aunt Carol.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. I really love that, And I thank
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  Speaker 1: you Hallmark for you know, Wes Brown's wife is a white,
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  Speaker 1: blond lady. But we didn't have to make this a
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  Speaker 1: white family. Yeah, the stories are universal, so I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: that we have a full leading non white family.
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  Speaker 2: Me too, and here listen to this note. According to
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  Speaker 2: qcapproved dot com, this is the second movie ever to
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  Speaker 2: feature in an Asian American family ever on Hallmark. On Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's real, guys.
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  Speaker 2: That's bananas. That is bananas to me.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta get it moving, dude.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I really hope that there are twenty two
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  Speaker 2: plans twenty two, twenty twenty two plans for movies more diversity.
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  Speaker 2: We got little steps this year, but I want more
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  Speaker 2: diversity baby steps, right.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, Wendy and I both love Big Brother on CBS,
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  Speaker 1: and this year, CBS has a new rule that their
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  Speaker 1: reality shows must feature a cast that is fifty percent
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  Speaker 1: persons of color, and so Big Brother, for the very
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  Speaker 1: first time has a rather diverse cast, and more diverse
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  Speaker 1: than in the past. You know, they would throw in
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  Speaker 1: a token person of color and a token member of
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  Speaker 1: the LGBTQ community, but it is, I would say, more
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  Speaker 1: diverse than it has been. And I gotta say, I
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  Speaker 1: love the cast this season. And whether it's simply good
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  Speaker 1: casting or it's hey, look, you get a variety of
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  Speaker 1: people and put them on a show, and all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden you get all these really interesting relationships. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So take a queue from CBS, who you know has
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  Speaker 1: come under their fair share of fire for some of
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  Speaker 1: their executives in the past. So let's moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: So I read that this movie was formally titled Love
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  Speaker 2: at Peacan Farm. Oh, I'm gladly changed that name to
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  Speaker 2: Sweat Peacan Summer indeed.
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  Speaker 1: Because well, we'll talk about that when we get to
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  Speaker 1: what we liked. Okay, Lauren tom who plays Aunt Carol.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know her other memorable role?
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  Speaker 2: I know she was in Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, she played Julie on Friends. The second she comes
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  Speaker 1: on screen, my brain does that thing, you know her,
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  Speaker 1: but I could not place her, and then I MD
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  Speaker 1: beat her and there she is. She's Julie from Friends.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, did you see the long list of movies and
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  Speaker 2: TV and voice actor and video games? In stage?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: She has a prolific she does resume.
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  Speaker 1: Her biggest callback for me is Friends. That's where I
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  Speaker 1: recognized her face and somehow she has managed not to
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  Speaker 1: age in the thirty years since she was Julie on Friends.
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  Speaker 2: I see, I haven't seen Friends enough to even know, Like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember Julie, Like, what was her like? What
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  Speaker 2: was her storyline?
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  Speaker 1: She was Ross's girlfriend when he came back from China.
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  Speaker 1: So Rachel meets him at the airport ready to tell
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  Speaker 1: him that she loves him too, and he comes back
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  Speaker 1: with Julie, and so we have a multi episode relationship
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  Speaker 1: arc where Rachel's trying to like, you know, not be
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  Speaker 1: in love with him.
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  Speaker 2: Got it? H Yeah, I don't. I don't remember that.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the one that she didn't like shave her
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  Speaker 2: head that was on her right.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's Ben Stiller's wife.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: His name has flown out of my head. Christine something yeah,
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  Speaker 1: something good. I loved her. Did you watch that show
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  Speaker 1: Hey Dude on Nickelodeon?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, well I didn't watch it. I was in high
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  Speaker 2: school when Hey Dude was on, but I.
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  Speaker 1: Was a mere child.
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  Speaker 2: You were, you were four years younger than me.
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 2: But my little brother watched it, Hey Dude. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: it was on TV a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I loved that show, guys, dude.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: This movie was filmed in Canada.
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  Speaker 2: Yeh. Can't you believe it?
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  Speaker 1: It was filmed in Utah and they used an actual
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  Speaker 1: pecan farm, the Thompson Family Pecan Farm.
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  Speaker 2: Which I looked up because I was like, can I
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  Speaker 2: visit there? It's beautiful. I want to walk through those orchards,
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  Speaker 2: like it was so pretty that I don't know, I
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  Speaker 2: just I just wanted to look at it. They have
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  Speaker 2: like a storefront that you can go buy bags and
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  Speaker 2: bags of pecans. But you know what is really funny
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  Speaker 2: is that I was doing my usual dive on IMDb
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  Speaker 2: and somebody had complained, like they should have showed a
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  Speaker 2: real pecan farm. Those are not pecan trees, which side note,
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  Speaker 2: I had no idea where pecans come from. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if they grow on bushes or trees or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: So I was like, at first thinking they didn't film
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  Speaker 2: this in a real pecan farm, which okay, fine, but
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  Speaker 2: turns out they did, so we did. So sit down
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  Speaker 2: random IMDb reviews exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And I have to say, West Brown, So the most
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  Speaker 1: recent movie I believe we've seen him in is a
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  Speaker 1: Nashville Christmas Carol.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't remember what movie he was in. I knew
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  Speaker 2: I had seen him in a movie at least in
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  Speaker 2: the last twelve months, huh, And that was it.
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  Speaker 1: And I did love that movie. I did too, and
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  Speaker 1: that was really fun. But I kind of think West
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  Speaker 1: Brown's character was overshadowed by some of the fun cameos
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  Speaker 1: we got in that movie, like Kicks, Brooks and McIntyre.
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoy Wes Brown, so do I I need
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  Speaker 1: a great role for him, so do I. I mean
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  Speaker 1: when he look he's a good looking man, indeed with
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  Speaker 1: a nice hot bod. I'm just gonna say it. And
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  Speaker 1: he looks real good when he's on the baseball field
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  Speaker 1: or playing in corn hole. He didn't have a bad
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  Speaker 1: look in this movie, not at all, not at all.
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  Speaker 1: So do you have any other news and notes?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Uh so, what was your first impression of this movie?
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  Speaker 2: I quickly lost interest. I thought it was I thought
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  Speaker 2: it was a tad slow. Like the beginning and the
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  Speaker 2: end were good for me. The middle part was like
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  Speaker 2: hit or miss. I had to keep telling myself, like
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  Speaker 2: rewind and focus, rewind and focus. You know what about you?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we often talk about how we watched these movies,
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  Speaker 1: like what we're doing when we're watching these movies, And
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  Speaker 1: I will admit that I watched this movie this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I finished watching about five minutes prior to
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  Speaker 1: the recording of this episode, and so keep in mind
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  Speaker 1: that I was watching while I was brushing my teeth,
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  Speaker 1: I was watching while I was making my coffee, while
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  Speaker 1: I was having breakfast. However, all of that being said,
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  Speaker 1: leaning into this movie, I did not have high hopes
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  Speaker 1: for this movie because I the previews weren't doing anything
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  Speaker 1: for me. I thought this was such a cute movie.
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  Speaker 2: But didn't you think it was just like the same story?
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  Speaker 2: And I know that's what Homer movies are, are the
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  Speaker 2: same cookie cutter story, but I don't. I just thought
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  Speaker 2: I wanted more depth from it. Am I asking too much?
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  Speaker 1: You can ask for whatever you want. I thought they
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  Speaker 1: did a good job. And if we want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about what we liked, since that's our next segment. I
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  Speaker 1: liked that we got kind of a heavier dose of
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  Speaker 1: the family story.
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  Speaker 2: I did like that that we did have.
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  Speaker 1: Amanda and JP rekindling their relationship. But I liked, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: at the heart of this movie is this family farm
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  Speaker 1: that everyone's a little bit reluctant to give up. But
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  Speaker 1: everyone has their own goals, and so how do we
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  Speaker 1: get to a point where everyone's happy, where Aunt Carol
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  Speaker 1: gets to, you know, start her second phase in life?
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  Speaker 1: And where Amanda can find a career that she finds
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  Speaker 1: fulfillment in and the farm is not being sold to
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  Speaker 1: a developer. I really liked that storyline. And you're right,
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  Speaker 1: that's not new.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: We saw something like that in the As Luck would
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  Speaker 1: have It movie with the Ireland Hotel. Yeah, it's got
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  Speaker 1: this location that is so special to these people. And
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  Speaker 1: so again, I don't think Hallmark is particularly great at innovating.
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  Speaker 1: They're not blowing your mind with their storylines. But I
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  Speaker 1: will just say that I found this totally enjoyable, and honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I kind of think it's a good one for the
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  Speaker 1: non Hallmark movie watcher to watch. Oh you think so, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I do. Well.
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  Speaker 2: It's definitely one that they can show over and over
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  Speaker 2: again because it's not themed for a particular season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you.
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  Speaker 2: I like the idea or not the idea. I like
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  Speaker 2: the note about it being more about the family. Definitely
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  Speaker 2: more about that than about the relationship between Amanda and JP,
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  Speaker 2: which to me was like, I have some problems with it.
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  Speaker 1: Are we gonna fight?
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  Speaker 2: No, We're not gonna Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: I thought they had great banter and great chemistry. I
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  Speaker 1: loved the way they just like ribbed each other the
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  Speaker 1: entire time. I really enjoyed their relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we'll get to that. Okay, all right, let me
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  Speaker 2: tell you I really really liked Christine co. I've never
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  Speaker 2: seen her in anything. I looked her up today. She's
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  Speaker 2: in a ton of things. She's been in like real network,
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  Speaker 2: not real network, but in network TV, a ton of it.
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  Speaker 1: She's a Hallmark newcomer.
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  Speaker 2: She's a Hallmark newcomer. And I liked her. I wrote,
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  Speaker 2: give me more. I thought she was adorable, natural, funny.
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  Speaker 1: Give her a Christmas movie.
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: Give this chick a Christmas movie. And I almost called
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  Speaker 2: her a B word. But that's not you know, that's
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  Speaker 2: just playful banter. That's totally okay. Anyway, Like in my notes,
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  Speaker 2: I liked west Brown, Lauren Tom. I really enjoyed her.
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  Speaker 2: I thought she was funny as like the kooky, eccentric aunt.
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  Speaker 2: She just made me laugh. She was just like brought
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  Speaker 2: some levity to the Yeah. I don't know, I just
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  Speaker 2: I liked her. I liked her. How about JP's friend,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what his name is.
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed him. You know what he reminded me of.
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  Speaker 2: I know what you're gonna say go do it? Uh
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  Speaker 2: uh huh the neighbor on date my dad, Yep, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I almost thought it was the same dude at first,
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  Speaker 2: and then I was like, no, I don't think that's him.
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  Speaker 1: But he had kind of the same storyline, like he
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: would have like his dad bod shirts and he Alan. No,
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Alan was the other friend. It doesn't matter regardless.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was funny. I had read somewhere too that
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  Speaker 2: people were like, Okay, we need another movie with him
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  Speaker 2: and Wes Brown, like some sort of like buddy movie. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I liked I thought he was funny.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, yeah, really they were a good friend match.
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  Speaker 2: Like in that whole scene when they're like at the
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  Speaker 2: softball game and he's like, watch this, Amanda, come out
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  Speaker 2: here on plate. It's for the kids, and then they're
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  Speaker 2: all chanting man a man. I thought it was really funny. See,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't hate this movie. So just hold your horses there, Darling.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, give it a meh, go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: I know. I got a couple of other funny scenes
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  Speaker 2: that I thought were very enjoyable. Are you ready for them?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: The microwave scene at the beginning when she's on the
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  Speaker 2: phone with her mom, and her mom's given her a
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  Speaker 2: hard time about like, you you know, you're too busy.
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  Speaker 2: You always eat a microwave food and then like she
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  Speaker 2: pulls it out and takes a bite and it's either
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  Speaker 2: I think it's too cold, and she spits it back
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  Speaker 2: out and puts it back in her microwave. I just
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  Speaker 2: thought that was really funny because super relatable. The spam
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  Speaker 2: phone call she gets while she's a grocery my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: that's my favorite scene from the whole movie. Is it?
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Because you can hear the phone call webscene?
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  Speaker 1: Social Security Police, we have a warrant for your arrest.
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  Speaker 1: I love that because who has not gotten that phone call?
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  Speaker 1: It's not sob security Usually it's the irs funniest line
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  Speaker 1: in the movie.
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  Speaker 2: I thought so too. And then the other scene that
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  Speaker 2: I thought was really funny is towards the end when
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  Speaker 2: she's like super caffeinated and she's working on her like
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  Speaker 2: pecan oil pitch or whatever in the kitchen and she's like,
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  Speaker 2: we're out of coffee and we're out of she's talking
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  Speaker 2: about they're all out of food, and then she's like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm just like whoa. She's explaining how caffeinated
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  Speaker 2: she is, and I was like, that is so relatable,
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  Speaker 2: Like I totally understand. I felt like I had that
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  Speaker 2: moment when I worked with you yesterday. Man, I was
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  Speaker 2: bouncing around your house. So those scenes I really enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: in this movie.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: I also enjoyed the goofy broker montage. And now I
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: know you don't love it when we get too kookie
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  Speaker 1: in these movies. I feel like it walked the line.
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  Speaker 1: It set it up for JP to come in and
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  Speaker 1: be their like straight and narrow broker.
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  Speaker 2: But I liked the three.
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  Speaker 1: People that they used, and I thought they were just
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  Speaker 1: the right side of kookie to make the point.
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  Speaker 2: The guy that was like maybe it was his first
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  Speaker 2: time like selling a house or totally oh yeah that
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  Speaker 2: was That was cute too. The softball scene made me
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  Speaker 2: have some feelings that I'm not comfortable with.
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  Speaker 1: Oh in a good way, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: It just screamed like small town community, we all like
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  Speaker 2: each other, let's do something good for the community and
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  Speaker 2: the kids and whatever, and really made me long for
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  Speaker 2: that in my own life, Like we just don't have that.
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  Speaker 1: Where we live.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: We don't hardly talk to our neighbors. You know what,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, so it just I don't know if it's
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: like the fall season making me really want to go
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: to a fall festival of fall harvest. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what it is, but it almost brought me to tears
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  Speaker 2: because I was like, that's what I want from our community.
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  Speaker 1: So my husband, as any long story short listener know,
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  Speaker 1: wants to move to a small town. He would move
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: tomorrow if I would move. And on vacation a couple
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  Speaker 1: of times we've gone to these like summer league baseball games,
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  Speaker 1: which are usually collegiate leagues, and they're just held basically
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: in like parks, like at a baseball field, but they're
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  Speaker 1: always free. There's always like a barbecue snack bar, and
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: there's always some sort of like charity element involved, but
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: it's all it's just like people come in from the
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: neighborhood to watch these games and they hang out. And
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: we went to one and it was Bark in the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Park night and the SPCA was there with all of
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: their adoptable dogs, and all these people know each other
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: and they're just there to watch these guys play baseball
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: and hang out and it's free to attend, and you
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: you know, your money supports the local something or other
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: when you buy food, and we do not have that here,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Like there's no summer league baseball that you're gonna go to.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: And look, obviously, Southern California has a lot of great things,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: but it doesn't have any sort of small town feel.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: And whenever I tell Wendy, like, oh, we'reth these tiny
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: little baseball games, She's like, that sounds miserable, But it
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: is that feeling that you get there, and I get it,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: and I get why he leaves, Like I just want
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: to live here, So but.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Would it be like that all the time? Would it
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: be like that all the time?
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: No? I mean no, because you have to just live
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: your life, but at least you would have access to that, right.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. What is so funny is like I never really
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: gave two thoughts about that before I started watching Hallmark
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: movies this year and like seeing that and really wish
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: that we lived that small town feel. I don't know,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: it has me thinking, because you know, I went to
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: a high school football game the other night kind of
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: hoping for the same thing, and it totally it totally
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: was not. It was like parents getting ham sandwiched out
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: in the parking lot.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Before himwiched you know what I mean.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: It was just like, really, that's what's happening. You guys
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: can't just go to a high school football game without
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: sneaking in a white claw and you're yetty like it.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: I just was like, okay, whatever, So anyway, side note, Sorry, no,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I think I like that.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I like that note.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Moving on, Do you have any other things that you
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: liked about this movie?
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I do not. What did you wish for?
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Well, okay, this is where we might have a little
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: bit of fisticuffs here. I did not think that Amanda
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: and JP had much like sexual chemistry. And I know
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: we're not sexually watching these movies, but I've I just
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: want to feel some sort of spark between them. I
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: thought they had great banter, but I didn't feel like
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: rekindling of some high school romance, you know.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: I did think it was funny though, because you know,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: one of my biggest pet peeves in these movies is
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: like when the female lead finds out that the male
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: lead is coming back and she starts to freak out.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: She did have that moment in the grocery store, but
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: it was relatable because if I saw my high school
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: boyfriend in a grocery store. I probably would have ran
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: the other way too, right, So that part I thought
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: was funny.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Well, often we get those like I don't want to
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: see this person, and it's like the brother of the groom,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: and they act shocked when they show up in an event,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: and I felt like this was well done. Right, she
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: was not expecting to run into him, she didn't know
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: he had moved back. And then of course she the
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: first time she's in town. I would have run away
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: from somebody too, Although I did think, oh, like, at
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: least she looks cute. Right at last, she's in her
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: pajamas rolling out to get something for breakfast, so totally totally,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: and she looks great throughout this entire movie. I was
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: really envious of her glowing skin.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it must be that pecan oil. The other thing
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I wished for was like her revelation that pecan oil
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: can become a product was not that surprising, you know,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Like she grew up on this far, did she not?
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: How would she not know that? Like the aunt was
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: using pecan oil as like a moisturizer.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I hear you, And just to play devil's advocate to that,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I will have a question, And I wonder if prior
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: to your twenties, like during the time that you lived
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: at home, Yeah, were you regularly moisturizing your hands before bed? No?
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: So I hear you, And my question is I did
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: not keep handlation next to my bed as a teenager
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: living at home. And so if you think of like
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: she moved out to go to college and probably hasn't
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: come back, and now she's in this phase of life
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: where they show like part of her nighttime routine as
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: many of us, I try and make it part of mine,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: but half the time I'm lazy is to you know,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: massage r you know, oil into your hands before you
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: go to bed. Maybe it just wasn't on our radar, right, Like,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: maybe she wasn't even aware that her aunt used that,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: and she probably didn't grow up in her aunt's home.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: True. I'm just saying, fine, you make good points. Fine, fine, fine,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: And now I'm wondering, are there beauty products with pecan
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: oil in it? I hear you googling.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Pecan oil can make a great moisturizer for dry skin,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: lighter and less comatogenic than olive oil and coconut oil,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: making it suitable for use in oil cleansing or as
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: a face moisturizer.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: All right, that's very interesting because there are people with
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: such allergies to tree nuts m hmm, that you would
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: have to be very aware of your ingredients in there, hmm.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: And maybe that's why. Maybe they don't use it as
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: an additive for that reason. Maybe they just sell like
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: coconut oil, pecancoba oil.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think a trip to the Thompson family
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: farm is in order.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: To see do they they sell pecan oil?
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I bet you they do. I bet you they do.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I didn't know you could cook with it. I've never
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: seen it. I'm gonna have to look at the grocery
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: store and see if it's, you know, sold at the market.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go to mother's.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Oh okay.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: So the only thing I really wished for is there
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: are a couple of scenes, and I understand their purpose
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: of Amanda getting into bed and moisturizing her hands, and
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: there's one scene where it cuts from JP and his
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: friend at the bar. There's like a scene of her
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: moisturizing her hands and going to bed with her winsome moisturizer,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and then she wakes up the next morning and then
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: she's by herself. There's no conversation. It's just to like
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: set the tone. But I feel like it was a
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: thrown in scene, like we need to make it clear that,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: like she moisturizes her hands every night, and then when
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: she runs out of her moisturizer, then she goes looking
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: for her aunt's pecan oil. I'm just not sure that
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the one standalone scene of her moisturizing her hands every
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: night was necessary to us understanding the follow up scene
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: several minutes later, when she realizes she's out of moisturizer
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: and goes to find some else's. I just think maybe
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: we could have made that connection. I just that scene.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I didn't love it. It just felt like, oh, let's
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: toss this in here. Okay, that makes sense, that's all.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: That's all all right, Moving on to did you see that?
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, can I go first?
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Please. When we talk about these movies, we often talk
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: about the Hallmark Movies app, which shows you upcoming movies
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: and past movies and information about movies. And when they
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: show you the upcoming movies, they will show you the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: image for the movie, and often the image for the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: movie is simply a stock photo with text over because
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: they haven't these movies are produced on such a tight
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: timeline that they have not created the movie image yet
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: and it doesn't exist. And I have often joked, oh,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: they just pulled a Canva stock image and threw some
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: text on it for these right, So imagine my surprise
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: when we open on the scene in the in some
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: cosmetics conference room and the giant images on the wall
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: are stock photos straight from Canva. And how I know
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: that because we've used them in some of our kind images.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to go back and look.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: But here's the other thing.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, so funny ahead.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: So many of them are of makeup because this is
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: a skincare company. At no point do they talk about makeup.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: They sell skincare. They are real big on their moisturizer,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: but they're a skincare company. And all the images they
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: have some like pretty faces just smiling. And I don't
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: know if those women are also just stock photos. It's
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: entirely possible they are. But there's like an image of
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: makeup brushes with makeup spilled on the counter that's straight
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: up a stock image from Canva. And it's like anybody
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: with a twelve ninety nine Canva Pro subscription can blow
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: this up and print it out. But you are a
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: skincare company. Why do we have photos of makeup on
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: the wall. Because I think the ideas were supposed to
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: believe like this is their makeup. They created mock up products,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: they had products with labels. They couldn't have had someone
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: take a photo and blow that up. All I'm saying
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: is anyone with an eagle eye would have recognized those
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Canva stock photos. Wow.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: I might have to go back and look just out
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: of curiosity.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: That's really funny, agreem at you.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Oh too funny? All right, So Amanda Jpre were supposed
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: to be high school sweethearts? No, yes, oh right, well
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: in real life, Wes Brown is thirty nine years old
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: and Christine co is thirty three. These two would have
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: never been high school together.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Ever, that's like straight up. They always cast the dudes
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: can play younger. I guess looking at them, it wasn't shocking.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: I would have believed that they were roughly the same age.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: I would have believed that she was not even thirty yet.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: I think she looks very young.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I well, she just has that beautiful glowing scin yeah,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: uh huh, but yeah, well I don't know, they're not give.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: It to me. I need I need somebody to pay
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: attention to the details. You know, here's a detail that
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: I did appreciate. When Amanda got to her aunt's house,
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: they took off their shoes and the ant put slippers on,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: and I just really appreciated this very important tradition within
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Asian families is that you remove your shoes when you
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: go into the house. I did some googling as to why.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: I assumed it was hygiene. Sometimes it's etiquette. There's very
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: very amongst what I found, but it was like etiquette hygiene.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's like you remove your stuff as you're going
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: into a personal space. I just really like that they
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: you know, this is obviously an age family, and I
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: love that they showed some like actually real life. I
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: don't want to use the word tradition. What's what's the
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: word I'm using. What's what am I looking for? Megan?
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I think tradition is fine. I almost wonder if Lauren
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Tom was like, hey, I should tick my shoes off now, folks.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I wonder I would love to know, like
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: who decided, Like who decided on that? I don't know.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: I just liked it. I liked it. And speaking of shoes,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: there were a lot of scenes, you know, we criticized
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: previous movies, even in the summer nights, where somebody's walking
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: down a dusty road and they got like platform shoes
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: on or whatever.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: They were wearing tennis shoes in the orchard and I
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: was like, yay, somebody paid attention.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: And no wedges in the orchard.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Exactly exactly.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: This is only tangentially related to the movie. But I
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: have to say, are the Chesapeake Shores promos calling to
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: you or what.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Kind of because they have a good cast, yes, yeah,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: especially has that older man I can't remember his.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Name, Hey Williams.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, it has him in it. He's like a legitimate
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: actor actor. But then they have a lot of nice
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: familiar faces of yes from movies that I liked this summer.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: But isn't that like a year serie series series like
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Win Calls the Heart, like every year there's like people
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: in it.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Yes, so it began in twenty sixteen. There are according
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: to IMDb, there are thirty nine episodes.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, I can tear through thirty nine antisodes.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: That's not a problem.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: That's no problem for me.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: And but it has a great cast, like you said,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: and a number of these people has a huge cast,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: which I kind of like because then we can just
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: keep the story. It's like a soap opera, like a
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Hallmark soap opera. Yeah, but it's just got this great
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: cast of all these beautiful people and Brendan Penny in it,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Jesse Metcalf.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm from a Desperate Housewives. Yes, he's in a
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: bunch of like, uh, murder mystery shows on the Hallmark
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: right channel.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, anyway, I might want to watch it.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Do I want to just start this season? Do I
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: need to go back and watch the other maybe?
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Maybe we just start now. I don't know that we
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: need to go back. And it's not like a murder mystery,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: so if you decide to go back, it's not like,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: oh it's been spoiled.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, if you guys watch it,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: email us at Megan and Wendy at gmail dot com
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: and tell us if it's worth giving some time to.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, do we need to go all the way back
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: to the beginning? And can we even go back all
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: the way to the beginning? Yeah?
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Who knows where it's available? Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. Is
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: that all you have for? Did you see that?
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: That's all I have? You?
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Ready to rate this bad Boy?
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I give it three stars, solid, three stars, I recommend it.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: I give it two ouch.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Ouch, I ow, it's worse than that movie last week.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: That week hated that I'd forgotten the name of already
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: little daytime drama. No oh, what.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Did I give that? I don't know. Let me look
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: and see what I gave that movie, because I would say, oh, that's.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Hard, that was boring to me, that was boring to me,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: and that this movie did not bore me.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: I'm looking back at my notes here to see when
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: I gave that movie.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: This movie had banter, which is what I said I
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: really wanted from a little daytime drama.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: I gave it something in the twos. I don't have
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: my notes here. I ah, okay, I gave it two
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: and a half stars. How about that.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: You can give it whatever you want.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: It was better than a little daytime drama.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I would say on par same kind of movie, though, huh,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: That's fine. Come to your opinion.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: I know I wrong, Okay, Well, I kind of just
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: wish like they started out the second reincarnation of Summer
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Nights like with a bang, like I love the first
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: two movies, and then this is kind of like, let's
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: finish it up.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Well. I just opened the Hallmark app so I could
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: find the name of the next movie, and it immediately
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: prompts me to add the Fall Harvest movies to my
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: watch list.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, there are six of.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Them and me. They begin on Saturday, September eleventh. But
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: but I would like to tell you that of the six,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: how many would you guess have images.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: One correct?
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Next week is the final movie in the Summer Night series.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: It is Journey of My Heart. It stars Rhiann and
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Fish and Darien Martin, both of whom are new to me,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: and it is about a wildlife biologist to travels to
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Alaska and receives guidance from a Native American family. Hallmark,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: I am trusting you with this movie. I hope you
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: treat this well. I hope you had some advising on
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: including a Native American family and whatever advice they're going
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: to be offering is all I'm saying.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: I agree, Yeah, I hope. I don't have high hopes
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: for this one because it doesn't have like a big,
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: a big name, right m hm. So we'll see, and
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: I think it was a late addition to the summer
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: night's lineup too.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: We live back next week to discuss that. You may
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: have noticed there was no Tuesday episode of the podcast
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: this week due to technical difficulties. We recorded one. It
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: sounded terrible, we could not put it out, so we
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: will be re recording that episode and it will come
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: out next Tuesday, So we hope you'll come back for that.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: If you are not following our podcast in the Apple
• 34:52
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• 34:54
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• 34:57
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• 35:01
  Speaker 1: any thoughts on these movies, you can email us at
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Megan and Wendy at gmail dot com and we'll see
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: you next time. Guys.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Bye bye,