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Christmas in Tahoe · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a bonus episode of Long
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Speaker 2: Story Short the podcast. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy, and today
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Speaker 2: we're discussing Christmas in Tahoe from Hallmark's Mary Thanksgiving Weekend,
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Speaker 2: part of their Countdown to Christmas series of forty movies
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Speaker 2: this year, and we are three movies in to a
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Speaker 2: four movie series this week alone.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, even more stuff like that doesn't make the podcast
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Speaker 1: so you know, if you're looking for information on these movies, hey,
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Speaker 2: As mentioned today, we're discussing Christmas in Tahoe and Wendy
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Speaker 2: hit us up with a synopsis.
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Speaker 1: Ah shit, I know it seems like a bit every time,
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Speaker 1: but like I honestly forget Okay. To save her family's hotels,
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Speaker 1: Christmas Show talent booker Claire Musk asks for help from
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Speaker 1: her ex boyfriend, Ryan, the lead guitarist of a now
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Speaker 1: famous band that fired her as their manager years ago.
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Speaker 3: That's it.
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Speaker 1: That's all it says. You know, these synopses need a
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Speaker 1: little work because a lot more happens in this movie.
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Speaker 3: I agree.
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Speaker 2: Before we get into that, let's talk about some news
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Speaker 2: and notes, and I have far more than I usually
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Speaker 2: do for this particular movie.
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Speaker 1: Hit me with it. This was not shot in Tahoe.
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Speaker 2: It's rather shot in Vancouver, as were the vast majority
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Speaker 2: of this year's Countdown to Christmas movies, and it was
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Speaker 2: written by Nina Weinman, who is a prolific Hallmark movie writer.
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Speaker 2: And she has not one, but two Holiday movies in
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Speaker 2: this series.
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Speaker 1: What's her second Holiday movie this year?
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Speaker 2: Missus Miracle Christmas and I have not watched that, although
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Speaker 2: I do have it recorded. There are only so many
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Speaker 2: hours in the day. And I have heard great things.
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Speaker 2: I have seen some fellow Hallmark podcasters and Hallmark movie
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Speaker 2: fans doing their rankings of the movies this year, and
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Speaker 2: many of them are putting a Missus Miracle Christmas up
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Speaker 2: toward the top of their list, and its stars Caroline
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Speaker 2: Ray and I really enjoy her.
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Speaker 1: So that is going to be my next non reviewing watch.
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Speaker 1: Just was that enjoyment?
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Speaker 3: Was that on movies and mysteries? Yes? Oh, interesting and interesting?
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Speaker 1: Well, if there's so much hype around it, I might
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Speaker 1: I might set the old recorder for that one too. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, even though I'm desperately dying for a Hallmark
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Speaker 1: Christmas movie break, I don't know. Sometimes when somebody says
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Speaker 1: something's good, I'm easily influenced. Let me ask you, have
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Speaker 1: you ever been to Lake Tahoe.
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Speaker 3: I have.
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Speaker 1: I've never been there, and I know it's on like
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Speaker 1: it's it's in California right or on the California Nevada border.
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Speaker 2: Somewhere there's a California side and the Nevada side.
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Speaker 3: Uh. Is there usually that much snow?
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Speaker 1: Like they showed in this it's a huge ski destination, okay,
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Speaker 1: but only isn't similar to what they portrayed in the movie,
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Speaker 1: is that like people only go there during like the
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Speaker 1: snowy season and other times it's kind of desolate. Well,
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Speaker 1: there's a no because it's a lake. So the lake
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Speaker 1: has a summer season and there are casinos. So I
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Speaker 1: do think it is probably most popular in the winter.
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Speaker 1: But it's definitely a year round destination. There's hiking and
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Speaker 1: there's water sports on the lake. I have only been
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Speaker 1: in the winter, okay, So the storyline that there is
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Speaker 1: no need for year round entertainment at this resort is
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Speaker 1: kind of bogus.
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Speaker 2: I think it's definitely winter is its high season.
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Speaker 3: Speaking of Nina Weinman.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So on Instagram this weekend, I had noticed that
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Speaker 1: the mom and dad in this movie also where the
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Speaker 1: mom and dad in the Tyler Hines an Unexpected Christmas movie, Yes,
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Speaker 1: which is so funny to me, So I had asked
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Speaker 1: because I needed confirmation obviously, so I asked on Instagram, like, Hey,
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Speaker 1: are these the same actors? And Nina responded and she said,
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen an Unexpected Christmas yet. That would be
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Speaker 1: so funny and so Vancouver. So that's kind of cute, right,
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Speaker 1: And I told her that, you know, I was liking
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Speaker 1: the movie. This was like Midwatch. I was like, I
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Speaker 1: like the movie and I love the music, and she said, well,
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Speaker 1: some of it is mine. But I had to let
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Speaker 1: go of this one since the production happened at the
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Speaker 1: same time as two others. But the new writers did
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Speaker 1: a great job well.
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Speaker 2: So we had seen on Instagram that she was working
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Speaker 2: on a Missus Miracle Christmas. She was on location for that,
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Speaker 2: and so I could see how she would need to
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Speaker 2: focus her time. I don't know what the other one was,
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Speaker 2: perhaps she was January movie. But yeah, I will say
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Speaker 2: that you made the comment about the parents being the
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Speaker 2: same from an Unexpected Christmas. The mom is played by
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Speaker 2: Linda Boyd, but she is not credited on the Christmas
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Speaker 2: in Tahoe IMDb. And the dad, I do not know
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Speaker 2: the actor's name because he is not credited on either
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Speaker 2: the Christmas in Tahoe or the Unexpected Christmas IMDb.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so I did receive another DM from one of
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Speaker 1: our followers and she said the dad for sure is
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Speaker 1: played by Paul mcgillan on Tahoe and Unexpected. The mom
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Speaker 1: from Unexpected is Linda Boyd, but I can't tell if
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Speaker 1: that's her in Tahoe. So well, i've either an actress
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Speaker 1: that is her or someone who looks a lot like her.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, Linda Boyd is not credited, and I don't
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Speaker 2: believe there's an actress who plays the mom who is
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Speaker 2: credited on IMDb.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's why wouldn't they give them like credit for
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Speaker 1: that they have speaking lines? Like it.
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Speaker 2: Could have just been because sometimes I go to look
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Speaker 2: for an I listing a few days before these are
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Speaker 2: out and there isn't one. So it could be that
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Speaker 2: these are done down to the wire and they're just
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Speaker 2: getting the bare bones information and perhaps they will go
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Speaker 2: back in and add that. But I don't know the
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Speaker 2: answer to.
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Speaker 1: That, because you know, it's like some assistant on there
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Speaker 1: adding all that information to IMDb. So it's not like
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Speaker 1: the production company is doing that or whatever. You know,
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Speaker 1: some low level, unpaid assistant is doing it. And I'll
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Speaker 1: tell you as someone who adds a lot of stuff
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Speaker 1: to IMDb, it is not user friendly, so you know,
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Speaker 1: it takes some time and as a little pain in
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Speaker 1: the butt to navigate. So I understand if all those
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Speaker 1: actors aren't added yet.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Pat Monahan of Train Train had a twenty fifteen holiday
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Speaker 2: album called Christmas in Tahoe, and he said that he
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Speaker 2: was very happy to see that album come to life
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Speaker 2: in this movie. Although I don't necessarily believe that the
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Speaker 2: album was about a hotel events planner who struggles, but
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Speaker 2: I'm sure he loved to see the title of his
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Speaker 2: album come to life in a movie. And he performs
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Speaker 2: two songs in this movie, shake Up Christmas and the
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Speaker 2: new original song Mittens. You love Pat Wanahan.
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Speaker 3: I love his voice.
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Speaker 1: I mean, every single one of his songs is made
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Speaker 1: up of like cliches, you know what I mean? Uh huh,
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Speaker 1: But I do love his voice. And my quick story
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Speaker 1: my dad had seen him like live at some point,
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Speaker 1: like at a very small event, and he was like
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Speaker 1: the guest singer. It wasn't Train, it was just Pat Monahan,
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Speaker 1: and my dad said, he is just incredible live.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if the listeners here know this, but
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Speaker 2: my husband goes to many concerts a year, and like
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Speaker 2: typically twenty in a year, and has seen Train perform
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Speaker 2: and says the same thing that they are fantastic. Pat
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Speaker 2: Monahan himself is fantastic live so information for you. Kyle
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Speaker 2: Celeg who plays Ryan in this movie, will also be
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Speaker 2: string later this year in Real Housewives of North Pole,
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Speaker 2: a Christmas movie on Peacock, also starring Kyle Richards.
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Speaker 3: What is this movie?
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Speaker 1: I have not heard any It's as spoof on Housewives
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Speaker 1: for christ.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's a movie that takes place in a town
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Speaker 2: called north Pole, Vermont, and I do believe it is
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Speaker 2: a spoof on housewives.
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Speaker 1: I don't know much, but it will be on Peacock
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Speaker 1: and Kyle Richards is playing herself or she's playing a housewife.
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Speaker 1: I don't the North Pole. I think she's playing a housewife.
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Speaker 1: There's a yes playing missus Claus.
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Speaker 2: They're they're in a town called north Pole, Vermont.
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Speaker 1: I get it. I know this is funny. It's gonna
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Speaker 1: be on this year. I'm sometimes soon this year. I
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Speaker 1: will leave showtimes in the show notes because I definitely
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Speaker 1: want to watch that one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no showtimes. It's streaming, but release dates.
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Speaker 1: Okay, fine, call me out for not being a millennial.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 2: And finally, we have Laura Astins, who we recently saw
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Speaker 2: and raise a glass to love. And last year, since
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Speaker 2: we are in the holiday season, she was in Run
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Speaker 2: One Royal Holiday, which was a movie that I actually
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Speaker 2: very much enjoyed last year. It was not when that
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Speaker 2: we reviewed on the podcast, but that was a Julie
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Speaker 2: Sherman wolf movie and that was a real heartstring tuggerh
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Speaker 2: for me.
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Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that one. Don't love Laura.
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Speaker 2: Ausiness's anti vax dance. But we're letting some things go
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Speaker 2: today because we are also recording an episode with Candace
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Speaker 2: Cameron Brat, who has her own vaccine thoughts.
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Speaker 1: So it's a theme. Yeah, I will tell you watching
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Speaker 1: this movie was hard to like put that out of
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Speaker 1: my mind, you know. And it also made me wonder
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Speaker 1: what Canada's rule are on vaccines. I'm guessing she probably
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Speaker 1: had to quarantine for how many days or whatever, but
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Speaker 1: is there a working situation there not required? Vaccines are
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Speaker 1: not required. I don't know how they.
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Speaker 2: Must not be at this point, but I do know
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Speaker 2: that they all do quarantine upon arrival, and I would
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Speaker 2: imagine they have a pretty extensive testing system in place.
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Speaker 2: But if she were required to be vaccinated, she wouldn't
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Speaker 2: be in the movie. So yeah, neither would Queen of
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Speaker 2: Christmas herself. Candice Cameron Berret.
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Speaker 1: I know, well, there's a network waiting for them if
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Speaker 1: they indeed ever make those changes.
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Speaker 2: You know, was your first impression of this Pat Monahan banger?
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Speaker 3: I don't know, that's just it. This was a Pet
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Speaker 3: monta hand banger.
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Speaker 1: He loved it. It lived I like expectations. I really
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Speaker 1: liked the music, to be honest, we don't get a
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Speaker 1: lot of like homework movies with like that have a
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Speaker 1: you know, contemporary musical flair to it, so I enjoyed
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Speaker 1: that part of it.
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Speaker 2: My first impression is this movie was better than I
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Speaker 2: anticipated that it would be. I went in with very
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Speaker 2: low expectations and was pleasantly surprised.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought they might be leaning too hard on
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Speaker 1: the big name.
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Speaker 2: For this movie, but I don't think they did. So
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Speaker 2: let's talk about what we liked.
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Speaker 1: Who's the big name, Pat Monahan?
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Speaker 2: That's the draw here, don't you think? Come watch this
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Speaker 2: movie with megastar Pat Monahan.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I would consider him megastar. It's
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Speaker 1: not like it's Justin Bieber, you know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: Has Pat wanted to hand ever acted in anything else.
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Speaker 1: I don't think he is a draw. I think Laura
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Speaker 1: Onnes or whatever her name is, is a draw.
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Speaker 2: Onus Train has sold over ten million albums worldwide.
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Speaker 1: Uh huh.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if he's a draw.
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Speaker 1: He's not a draw for me. That's not why I
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Speaker 1: wanted to watch that.
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Speaker 2: Justin Bieber has sold more than seventy million albums worldwide.
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Speaker 3: What Holy Molly.
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Speaker 1: Pat Monahannas has forty five acting credits on IMDb.
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Speaker 3: What did not know?
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of like music videos. He was on
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Speaker 1: the comedy show Doctor Ken for an episode Hawaii five oh, nine,
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Speaker 1: oh two, one oh this series? What that must have
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Speaker 1: been the like remake the twenty twelve Well, you know whatever,
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Speaker 1: maybe he was the draw. Okay, what did you like
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Speaker 1: about this movie? You know, I kind of like the
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Speaker 1: storyline a little bit. I here's my problem is, I
14:01
Speaker 1: was having like irrational feelings towards the.
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Speaker 3: Term variety show for some reason that.
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Speaker 1: Very dated, like the Very Bunch very seventies. Yeah, so
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Speaker 1: I was.
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Speaker 3: Like, why do they keep calling it variety show? This
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Speaker 3: is a concert, you know.
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Speaker 1: What I mean? Well, because they had the comedian that
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Speaker 1: made it a variety show.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, a holiday extravaganza performance. I don't know, comedy
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Speaker 2: and concert, I.
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Speaker 1: Don't know. Yeah, I get you. I just for some reason,
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Speaker 1: I was like Variety show anyway, I liked that part
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Speaker 1: of the storyline. Well, I'll save it for what I
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Speaker 1: wished for. So I liked I liked the that part.
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Speaker 3: What did you like?
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Speaker 2: Well, I've got lots of little things that I enjoyed.
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Speaker 2: I thought, there's a moment where they're dining out side
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Speaker 2: and there's like these cool snow globes blown up behind them.
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Speaker 2: Did you catch those, like life size snow globes? Anyway,
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Speaker 2: I thought those were cool. I really loved the random
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Speaker 2: George Lopez cameos, and I love that he never seemed
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Speaker 2: to move. He was standing in the exact same place
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Speaker 2: every single time they failed him. I think he's security,
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Speaker 2: so he just always happens to be in the same spot.
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Speaker 1: But yes, go ahead. I wondered why he was in
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Speaker 1: this movie. I mean, he used to have his own
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Speaker 1: TV show, right, uh huh, Like, why is he playing
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Speaker 1: such a small little cameo part in this movie? Well,
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Speaker 1: Ny Camon his dad.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Hallmark's bringing the big names this year, and
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Speaker 2: I wish they'd used him more, but every time he
15:43
Speaker 2: came on screen, I was like, Oh, it's George. I
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Speaker 2: just enjoyed. I was like, that's that's nice. George is
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Speaker 2: the streity part. I enjoyed him. There's a moment where
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Speaker 2: they go to Ricky Page's room as the room service interlopers,
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Speaker 2: and they pour her a glass of champagne and then
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Speaker 2: Ryan pours one for himself and drinks it.
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Speaker 1: I didn't didn't notice that he takes too much and
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Speaker 1: then he just totally drinks him. I just thought it
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Speaker 1: was very funny. Can't let her drink alone. I loved
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Speaker 1: that whole scene. I thought it was so funny and
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Speaker 1: I was like, I'm really feeling this Ricky Page vibe here.
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Speaker 3: Like yes, totally relate to her.
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Speaker 1: Yes, And I thought she was quite funny when she
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Speaker 1: did her set too.
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Speaker 2: I was very impressed that they actually made like, you know,
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Speaker 2: that full ninety second joke. It totally worked. It had
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Speaker 2: to be very Hallmark appropriate. But then she like calls
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Speaker 2: out the audience member. I love that scene.
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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you.
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Speaker 3: It made me Miss Hacks. Yes.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I was like, when are we gonna get our
16:46
Speaker 1: favorite Geene smart?
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Speaker 3: What are we gonna get Jean Smart back in Hacks.
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Speaker 1: That's what I need to know. I get to work
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Speaker 1: on season two. Yeah, I laughed out when they did
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Speaker 1: the white Elephant gift and it was the botox talk.
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Speaker 3: All of them are like.
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Speaker 1: I dig it.
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Speaker 3: Oh, oh my god. It was so funny.
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Speaker 1: I was like, that's very relatable, just you know, maybe
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Speaker 1: relatable to this forty six year old who was dying
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Speaker 1: for botox. So yeah, there'd be fisticuffs for me to
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Speaker 1: get that gift.
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Speaker 2: There was something about Pat Monahan as Jackson in a
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Speaker 2: hotel name tag singing on stage that just set me
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Speaker 2: over the edge every time I saw it, even just
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Speaker 2: seeing him walking around in their hotel name tags.
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Speaker 1: They didn't need to have the name tags.
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Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.
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Speaker 1: He was constantly wearing a name tag, and then to
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Speaker 1: see him on stage in the name tag, honestly, it
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Speaker 1: killed me. It was it was like random low budge
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Speaker 1: holiday inn worker in.
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Speaker 2: His little little hotel name tag singing on stage.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. It's like he's like, I'm gonna take a break
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Speaker 1: and then you can find me on stage working on
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Speaker 1: my music. Come on, dude.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my goodness.
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Speaker 1: Less than I liked was the Star resort points. Lady like,
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Speaker 1: oh that was going bit, that was awesome, especially when
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Speaker 1: she was flirting with Ryan.
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Speaker 2: I thought that was very one hundred thousand star resorts point.
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Speaker 2: Get me a free ticket to your next concert.
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Speaker 3: Oh did you just hear that? I don't know, hold on,
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Speaker 3: hang on all right, Sorry about that.
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Speaker 1: What did you wish for? The main thing I wished
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Speaker 1: for is that I am so tired of this like
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Speaker 1: BS Hallmark trope that women don't pursue their dreams because
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Speaker 1: they feel tied to a location. You know, so she
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Speaker 1: wants to you know, she gets like a potential job
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Speaker 1: opportunity in Las Vegas, and she's very excited about it,
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Speaker 1: but you know, it's her family resort, and then at
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Speaker 1: the end.
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Speaker 3: She decides to stay.
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, really, like, boo, go pursue your dreams.
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Speaker 3: The family resort will be there.
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Speaker 2: You don't think that there's something very real about feeling
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Speaker 2: some sort of family obligation to not leaving your family
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Speaker 2: and the family business and there's not some guilt. I
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Speaker 2: think that's I mean, homework definitely plays on that, and
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Speaker 2: I think men would be like peace, I'm out of here.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to get this job that I want better.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I kind of think maybe that's real, Like women are
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Speaker 2: more inclined to be like I'll stay, I'll be the helper.
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Speaker 1: Well, I do think it's real, but I hate that
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Speaker 1: they continue to like perpetuate that storyline like I something else, please.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just bothered by it.
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Speaker 2: I needed someone to take a hand and ruffle Ryan's
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Speaker 2: hair a little bit. He was a little too much
19:50
Speaker 2: like that thing you do then he was rock star
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Speaker 2: for me, Like.
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Speaker 1: He was not too rock star in fact, like I
19:58
Speaker 1: kept going like, are they a rock band?
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Speaker 3: What kind of band are they?
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Speaker 1: Because he seems pretty clean cut, you know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he was so buttoned up. I was like, could
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Speaker 2: somebody like shake him up? Because at least the lead
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Speaker 2: singer had long hair, so it's like, oh, you're a
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Speaker 2: rock star. But I didn't believe Ryan as this like
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Speaker 2: even a boy bander. He was just a little too
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Speaker 2: a little too buttoned up for me. I needed some
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Speaker 2: toussled hair or a scruff or something.
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Speaker 1: I hear you, like he needed to be like taking
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Speaker 1: shots or smoking a sig or something right to be
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Speaker 1: a rock star. I don't know, I just feel like
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Speaker 1: I wasn't really into these two as a reconnecting couple. No,
20:41
Speaker 1: Like I feel like they had like completely moved on
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Speaker 1: into different You know, he was a rock star, she
20:49
Speaker 1: was like a hotel manager. Like there was never coming
20:52
Speaker 1: back to that, right, So I just was like, I
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Speaker 1: would I would have her with like Pat Monahan to
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Speaker 1: be honest, Yeah, you.
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Speaker 3: Know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: Kyle see like felt I don't know if he is,
21:08
Speaker 2: but he felt much younger than Laura austiness to me
21:11
Speaker 2: in this movie one.
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Speaker 1: It was a real mm hmm agree agree. I'm gonna
21:17
Speaker 1: have to look and see what their age difference is.
21:19
Speaker 1: Not that it matters if you know a older woman
21:22
Speaker 1: younger guy, but they had grown up together or some
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Speaker 1: not sens like that, right, am I getting this mix up?
21:29
Speaker 1: They went to like a show, right, like a kid's
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Speaker 1: a kid's uh Christmas play? Yes they did? Yeah, yeah
21:38
Speaker 1: that was too much for me with the girl who
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Speaker 1: was real showy on the stage and was like, no,
21:43
Speaker 1: you can't do it like does like the sprinkler and
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Speaker 1: the air guitar and the yeah, isn't that his little
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Speaker 1: sister his niece? I think I think it's his niece anyway.
21:52
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because I've sat through so many like elementary
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Speaker 1: school shows that I have a real like you know,
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Speaker 1: chip on my shoulder about continuing to watch them.
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Speaker 3: I don't know, not for me.
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Speaker 1: Sorry, So are you ready for did you see that?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
22:10
Speaker 1: So at one point Ryan and Claire go, see this
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Speaker 1: like a cappella show, right, She's trying to get them
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Speaker 1: as she's got this high side ponytail. That is a
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Speaker 1: real choice because it looks like she's going to watch
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Speaker 1: an eighties you know, Debbie gibbson. They come.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I was like, what who did that?
22:35
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. It was like, is
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Speaker 1: this her trying to like look cool so they can
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Speaker 1: get backstage? Look? Yeah, I don't know, it was it was.
22:45
Speaker 1: It was a lot. Well, speaking of that band, Infinitis,
22:48
Speaker 1: they had a real low budget Pentatonics vibe. For me,
22:51
Speaker 1: there was just three of them too, Like I was like, really,
22:54
Speaker 1: and I do think that their second performance at the
22:58
Speaker 1: resort was better when they sing Silent Night, but their
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Speaker 1: first performance I was like, yikes, yikes. Acapella is not
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Speaker 1: for everybody.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you might need more than three people to
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Speaker 2: be an a cappella group to have like that real
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Speaker 2: rich down.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, did you notice like there were several scenes where
23:21
Speaker 1: they would hook a cookie onto that cocoa cup. I did.
23:26
Speaker 1: Do you know they sell it was a Trader Joe's.
23:28
Speaker 2: No, I didn't, not those exact but they have like
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Speaker 2: a gingerbread cookie that will like straddle the edge of
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Speaker 2: your mug. I'm sure Trader Joe's isn't the only one
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Speaker 2: that sells them, but they are available there.
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Speaker 1: I did notice them. I should probably get them from
23:45
Speaker 1: my daughter. She'd love that they had him like backstage
23:49
Speaker 1: after like the big Variety Show. I was like, they
23:52
Speaker 1: would not be drinking that at in backstage in that
23:56
Speaker 1: green room or whatever. But I have never seen a
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Speaker 1: cookie a mug like that before ever. There are some
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Speaker 1: major green screen moments in this movie.
24:06
Speaker 2: The first is early in the movie when the hotel
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Speaker 2: big wig is calling to.
24:10
Speaker 1: Recruit Claire for her variety show organization skills, and there's
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Speaker 1: like Vegas skyline outside his window. And then another one
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Speaker 1: is Ryan and Claire walk outside during the gala and
24:26
Speaker 1: there's like this big mountain skyline. And even my husband,
24:29
Speaker 1: who as I've mentioned.
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Speaker 2: Gets very upset when we speak badlyods movies was like
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Speaker 2: nice mountain, real, real heavy on the green screen.
24:37
Speaker 1: So I didn't I didn't notice that. I did notice
24:41
Speaker 1: at one point Claire's is it?
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Speaker 3: It might have been Claire's mom, I don't know, somebody's mom.
24:49
Speaker 3: It might have been Ryan's mom. I don't know.
24:52
Speaker 1: She had this drink that looked like a frappucino, like
24:57
Speaker 1: you know, a plastic cup with like the mound top,
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Speaker 1: you know.
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Speaker 3: And literally it is filled with.
25:04
Speaker 1: Like tissue paper, like a bright pink tissue paper to
25:08
Speaker 1: look like a drink. And I was like, God, kid,
25:11
Speaker 1: you be any more obvious. It's so bad.
25:14
Speaker 3: Set designers so bad.
25:17
Speaker 1: I thought the Christmas party at the hotel had a
25:20
Speaker 1: real office party vibe. Do it? Definitely like everybody's kind
25:26
Speaker 1: of dancing and they're in the lobby of the hotel
25:29
Speaker 1: and it's all the normal lighting. It was rough. It
25:34
Speaker 1: was rough. Is there anything else that you want to
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Speaker 1: point out?
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Speaker 2: Nope, just my rating, which you gave it a I gave.
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Speaker 1: It a two and a half star. Yeah, that's it.
25:48
Speaker 1: I gave it too. Yeah, like I wanted to love it.
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Speaker 3: I liked it. I think it's it was good for
25:59
Speaker 3: you because.
25:59
Speaker 1: You went in with like super low expectations, and I
26:02
Speaker 1: kind of went in with like a little bit of
26:03
Speaker 1: a higher expectation for this one. And I don't know why,
26:06
Speaker 1: just because the story was so different than you know,
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Speaker 1: most of the other stories we've been getting. So I
26:13
Speaker 1: was a little disappointed. Yeah, I did like the music,
26:17
Speaker 1: and I would download those songs, those Christmas songs. I
26:20
Speaker 1: need some rock and roll Christmas songs I liked.
26:23
Speaker 2: I would also listen to those songs. I would download
26:26
Speaker 2: the entire Train Christmas and Tahoe album.
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Speaker 1: Probably. I thought it was fine. I liked it. Two
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Speaker 1: point five was a pleasant surprise for me.
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Speaker 3: Okay, good deal. We will be.
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Speaker 1: Back tomorrow with the final Girls Gone Homework movie.
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Speaker 2: Of this week, which will be the Christmas Contest. Sorrying Candice,
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Speaker 2: Cameron Bray and John Brotherton, so make sure you come
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Speaker 2: back for that. Thanks for listening. Have a great week, everybody.
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Speaker 3: Goodbye bye
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Speaker 1: You