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The Christmas Cup · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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Speaker 2: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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Speaker 3: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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Speaker 2: On today's episode, we are wrapping up our review of
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Speaker 2: Mary Thanksgiving Weekend Movies with the Christmas Cup, which originally
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Speaker 2: aired on Hallmark on Sunday, November thirtieth and is currently
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Speaker 2: available to stream you nowhere on Hallmark Plus. I feel
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Speaker 2: like the tone right now of our voices is giving
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Speaker 2: drift off into a my night's sleep, you know.
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Speaker 1: What I mean?
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Speaker 2: Like that there could be real money to be made there.
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Speaker 2: Do we need to make a sleep podcast where we
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Speaker 2: just read Hallmark movie? Oh yeah, maybe, and we just
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Speaker 2: read through the IMDBs starring Ashley Williams, who was also
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Speaker 2: in Wendy.
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Speaker 3: I don't hate that idea.
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Speaker 2: I don't think that's the best idea she's ever heard.
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Speaker 3: I don't hate that idea at all.
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Speaker 2: People have made money in stranger ways.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but my voice isn't really like soothing. It's like
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Speaker 3: screechy and.
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Speaker 2: Mine isn't either, But you know how I'm making it
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Speaker 2: that way.
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Speaker 3: I can hear it yeah, I'm aware I'm sitting across
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Speaker 3: the table from here right now now.
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Speaker 2: I sometimes I'm doing it on purpose right now, because
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Speaker 2: sometimes I listen back and I'm.
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Speaker 3: Like, mag, oh, my gosh, you're so annoying. Well, I mean,
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Speaker 3: we can get real animated sometimes when we're excited. So
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Speaker 3: it is what it is. That's why. Like if you
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Speaker 3: sometimes you'll notice the tone of our episode starts starts
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Speaker 3: off like kind of calm, like we've been doing, and
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Speaker 3: it gets slowly the pitch raises.
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Speaker 2: We try and keep it in, but I gotta tell you,
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Speaker 2: yesterday's episode of Christmas with the Cat and Ipe Cafe
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Speaker 2: was full blown off the rail. So let's see if
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Speaker 2: we can write the ship. Speaking of writing, hey, check
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Speaker 2: out our website Girls Gone Hallmark dot com, where we
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Speaker 2: write a ton of stuff. Wendy writes way more than
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Speaker 2: I do. That's a peak behind the scenes. There is
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Speaker 2: so much over there, so you need to check it out.
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Speaker 2: Just scroll through see what we got. There's also a
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Speaker 2: link right at the top to our shop page where
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Speaker 2: you can shop Hallmark inspired merchandise for the holidays and beyond.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna suggest you get your port Haven sweatshirts.
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Speaker 2: Get them all you can. They're gonna be a vintage
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Speaker 2: item soon.
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Speaker 3: I know. I worem one the other day and I
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Speaker 3: was like, does anybody see what I'm wearing? Like? Does
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Speaker 3: anybody get it? Anyway?
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Speaker 2: I actually messaged the showrunner of that show to say,
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Speaker 2: because I think there's a petition out about the show
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Speaker 2: to get it renewed. Petitions everywhere this year, estions everywhere.
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Speaker 2: But I I She was expressing thanks about all the
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Speaker 2: dms that she's received, lovely comments, but then she says
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Speaker 2: the next screen was just a spot a shot of
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Speaker 2: the Landry House, and she said, you know what they
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Speaker 2: say about Landry's and I do believe the lines from
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Speaker 2: the show is a Landry never gives up.
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Speaker 3: Mm hm.
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Speaker 2: So I messaged and I said, genuine question here, what's
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Speaker 2: what's the end? Like do you want to get picked
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Speaker 2: up by another network? And if so, what's the best
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Speaker 2: way we can support you? But I haven't heard back.
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Speaker 2: I'll share that here if I do.
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Speaker 3: If you were a show runner, would you want another
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Speaker 3: network to pick you up? Hell? Yeah? Right?
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Speaker 2: Well, I think I said, this is probably a stupid question,
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Speaker 2: but I again don't know how those things work. So yes,
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Speaker 2: I would want to be picked up and it does.
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Speaker 2: It seems like that they're holding out hope that that
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Speaker 2: will happen. But I don't want to be out here
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Speaker 2: being like, let's push them to do this. If that's
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Speaker 2: not what the people on the show want, what do
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Speaker 2: you want? Tell me? And then yeah, that'll be my messaging.
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Speaker 3: You know, you and I have been talking like if
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Speaker 3: you guys want to listen to this and you just
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Speaker 3: want to get to our glowing review of the Christmas Cup,
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Speaker 3: please tap tap tap ahead right to the end of
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Speaker 3: the episode, like fadays, it's.
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Speaker 4: Too many reviews one day in one week, Okay, But
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Speaker 4: my point was there was some breaking news yesterday about
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Speaker 4: when Wynn Calls the Heart.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that it was renewed for a fourteenth season in
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Speaker 2: advance of the thirteen season dropping when we still have
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Speaker 2: not heard if a third season of Mistletoe Murders is
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Speaker 2: gonna come.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what the heck man? And Laurie Laughlin is coming
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Speaker 3: back to the network. This is probably the wrong episode
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Speaker 3: to have a hot take on Wind Calls the Heart.
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Speaker 3: I have no notes on Wind Calls the Heart. I
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Speaker 3: don't watch the show. We did a first impression I
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Speaker 3: liked the first episode that I saw of it, but
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Speaker 3: I've never watched any of the other seasons after that.
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Speaker 2: Not that we don't want wyn Calls the Heart to
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Speaker 2: get renewed, we just want all of our other favorites
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Speaker 2: to get Yeah.
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Speaker 3: My concern that I voiced to you and now that
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Speaker 3: I'm going to tell the listeners of the podcast, I'm
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Speaker 3: a little bit concerned what Hallmark is doing. I'm afraid
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Speaker 3: that we're just walking backwards pre twenty twenty is do
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Speaker 3: you think that's happening.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I need to see more. Need I need to see more?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. We did see some new January movie
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Speaker 2: information come out, and some of our faiths are there,
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Speaker 2: Chris Paalaha and Lacey Shaverer, Ian Harding, there are some
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Speaker 2: good names. So I'm reserving judgment on the future of Hallmark.
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Speaker 2: I have fully believed that twenty twenty five was a
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Speaker 2: rebuilding year, and so I hope that remains to be
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Speaker 2: true for twenty twenty six. But there are so many
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Speaker 2: unknowns about what could be happening.
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Speaker 3: That I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not
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Speaker 3: trying to speculate here, No, But also am I going
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Speaker 3: to be like, Hi, I'm Wendy. I'm a Hallmark hater
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Speaker 3: in the New Year. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Network Television.
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Speaker 3: Didn't we just say we were gonna try to stay
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Speaker 3: on the rails with this one here?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well we knew that was a last cause before
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Speaker 2: we started. Let's stalk the Christmas Cup and let's start
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Speaker 2: with the synopsis. I'm worried about what. I'm worried about
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Speaker 2: the state of the IMDb synopsis It's not bad, today's's
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Speaker 2: fine staff.
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Speaker 3: Sergeant Kelly Brandt, recovering from a knee injury, leads her
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Speaker 3: hometown team in an annual Christmas Cup. Despite her heart
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Speaker 3: aching for her career, she discovers there are multiple ways
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Speaker 3: to serve her community.
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Speaker 2: This was directed by Robin Dunn. This is his seventeenth
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Speaker 2: directing credit and his second Hallmark movie. His previous Hallmark
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Speaker 2: title was Entertaining Christmas in twenty eighteen. Most of his
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Speaker 2: other work looks and feels Hallmark adjacent, but aired on
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Speaker 2: different networks.
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Speaker 3: If you know what I'm putting down. The teleplay was
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Speaker 3: by Hold Your Horses, Guys, Stuart gold Mark, Hapuala, Emily Moss,
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Speaker 3: Wilson and Jason Shane Scott. Yes, there are four writers
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Speaker 3: on this movie. Do you want me to get into
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Speaker 3: details of it? Sure? Emily Moss Wilson has nine writing credits,
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Speaker 3: including My Southern Family Christmas, plus several other similar style
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Speaker 3: movies for other netws works. Jason Shane Scott has fifteen
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Speaker 3: writing credits, mostly thrillers like Listen to this List Secrets
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Speaker 3: of a Celebrity Nanny. These are all in my lane
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Speaker 3: too Deadly, daughter switch and engaged to a psycho. It
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Speaker 3: has to be lifetime, right, Yes. Stuart Gold has three
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Speaker 3: previous writing credits. This is his first for Hallmark as well.
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Speaker 3: Mark Haapala has seven writing credits. This is also his
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Speaker 3: first for Hallmark.
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Speaker 2: Rhiann and Fish stars as Kelly. She has thirty four
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Speaker 2: acting credits and recently appeared in two episodes of The
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Speaker 2: Chicken Sisters. She also starred in A Machu Pichu Proposal
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Speaker 2: and Polar Opposites this year. Benjamin Rosenbaum plays Quinn. He
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Speaker 2: has ten acting credits and is well known to win
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Speaker 2: calls the heart fans as Mike Hickham, with nearly one
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Speaker 2: hundred episodes under his belt. One hundred episodes I mean,
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Speaker 2: I guess it's on fourteen seasons or whatever it is.
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Speaker 2: Is he still currently on the show? You're asking the
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Speaker 2: wrong or I am. Natasha Burnette plays Brie. She has
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Speaker 2: twenty four acting credits and is also from The Wind
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Speaker 2: Calls the Heart universe, where she plays Minie. She's appeared
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Speaker 2: in Hallmark titles like Legend of the Lost Lockett and
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Speaker 2: Sweet Revenge, a Hannah Swinson mystery.
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Speaker 3: Michael Tagan plays Mickey. He has one hundred and three
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Speaker 3: acting credits and has been a in a long list
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Speaker 3: of Hallmark movies, including Game of Love, Roadhouse Romance, and
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Speaker 3: Dator's Handbook, which if you haven't seen Dater's Handbook, you
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Speaker 3: need to dig into the Hallmark Plus archives and watch
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Speaker 3: that because that is a great movie.
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Speaker 2: Chris Paula, Megan markle Yep Harlow Robbins plays Kip. This
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Speaker 2: is her first acting credit and.
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Speaker 3: For the Wind Calls the Heart fans. There is also
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Speaker 3: several cameo appearances Andrea Brooks, Pascal Hutton, and Kevin Smith.
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Speaker 2: This one is an all Canadian entertainment production with casting
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Speaker 2: by Judy Lee, not one of Hallmark's regular casting jury.
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Speaker 3: That actually should have been my digit that did you
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Speaker 3: notice that at the beginning of the movie it said
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Speaker 3: this is an all Canadian entertainment production. No, yeah, interesting, right,
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Speaker 3: and what does that mean? But I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Let's take a quick break and we will come back
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Speaker 2: with our first impressions. Hey, Wendy, what was your first
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Speaker 2: impression of the Christmas Cup After a weekend of Hallmark Bangers,
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Speaker 2: this one arrived with the energy of a movie that
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Speaker 2: I thought was airing on a Tuesday in June. My
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Speaker 2: first impression is, maybe it would have helped if we
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Speaker 2: were hearties.
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Speaker 3: Maybe it would have helped if we were hearties.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's talk what we liked about this movie.
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Speaker 3: This movie was perfectly fine. Fine is what I can
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Speaker 3: muster from it. Yeah, I think I was a little
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Speaker 3: bit disappointed, like this was their like button to the weekend. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: there was nothing offensive. There's nothing chaotic. It feels well,
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Speaker 3: okay chaotic in terms of it's not flat hygiene, it's
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Speaker 3: it's Yeah. I mean, there's like stupid stuff that I
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Speaker 3: not enjoying watching. But my point is like, there's nothing
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Speaker 3: offensive about it. I truly think this movie should have
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Speaker 3: been on another network. M It was like way safe
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Speaker 3: and in a season where we've had some smash hit movies. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and a weekend and a weekend exactly. This does not
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Speaker 3: keep the pace with those others.
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Speaker 2: No, my thoughts are I think Rann and Fish and
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Speaker 2: Ben Rosenbaum do the heavy lifting here, and I think
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Speaker 2: they do what can be done with a story that
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Speaker 2: just isn't quite there, you know, maybe having too many
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Speaker 2: cooks in the kitchen, with the number of writers we had,
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Speaker 2: maybe we were heading into many different directions. I think
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Speaker 2: Rihanna and Ben are fine. I think they have some
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Speaker 2: sweet moments. I really enjoy Rann and Fish. Maybe this
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Speaker 2: wasn't the role for her, but I think she I
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Speaker 2: have some things to say about the tone of this movie,
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Speaker 2: but I think I think you could see the emotional conflict,
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Speaker 2: the inner turmoil she was going through in terms of
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Speaker 2: the life changes she was going to have to make
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Speaker 2: and the way some things were out of her control.
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Speaker 3: That was the best part of the movie.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for me, that was.
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Speaker 3: The best part of the movie. I was like those
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Speaker 3: emotional beats where she was like in this transition of
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Speaker 3: I've been hurt, now my career is in jeopardy. What
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Speaker 3: am I going to do next? That was the good
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Speaker 3: stuff of the movie, and I thought she as an
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Speaker 3: actor handled that stuff really well. All the other nonsense
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Speaker 3: in this movie didn't work for me.
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Speaker 2: Right, there's anything else you liked?
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Speaker 3: I do believe that this quote Christmas cup concept had potential. Yes,
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Speaker 3: if you think about last year's twas the date before Christmas,
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Speaker 3: they had like a family Olympics. Yeah, and that was
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Speaker 3: very enjoyable to watch. This could have been that. It
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Speaker 3: just didn't get there for me.
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Speaker 2: There's some funny dialogue in this I like when her
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Speaker 2: dad says say hello to Captain Hotpants. For me, when
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Speaker 2: Caven and Pascal have their on screen cameo and they
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Speaker 2: realize they know each other. How long has it been?
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Speaker 2: Like a century? I laughed out loud. That was funny.
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Speaker 3: I thought that their little meet cute on there was
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Speaker 3: real cute, really cute. It was like one of my
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Speaker 3: favorite highlights, to.
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Speaker 2: Be honest, When when Rhiannon and Ben's characters are at
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Speaker 2: the firehouse and they're gonna rap gifts, he goes, should
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Speaker 2: we make some Christmas magic? And Kelly pauses, it has
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Speaker 2: real this is where the magic happens. From MTV cribs
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Speaker 2: all over it. He goes, you know, wrap some presents.
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Speaker 2: I thought it was funny. I thought it was a
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Speaker 2: little wink in and nod Right there.
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Speaker 3: You want to move on to wishes? I do, Okay,
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Speaker 3: why don't you start us.
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Speaker 2: Off while I realize I do need to suspend disbelief
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Speaker 2: to watch some Hallmark movies personally, for me, when the
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Speaker 2: conflict revolves around characters that are like cartoon super villains,
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Speaker 2: it begins to defy believability. Mayor Sheila, my daughter Penelope,
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Speaker 2: these are not how real people behave.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's hope not not in our lives.
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Speaker 2: I just don't believe. I think there are genuinely bad, mean,
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Speaker 2: snide people. But I just I felt like it had
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Speaker 2: the like, oh yeah aspect to it, and I wasn't
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Speaker 2: quite there. Also, back to my first impression, I think
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Speaker 2: if I were a Hardy I would have had my
13:25
Speaker 2: Peter Benson Peter Benson style moments watching this movie. It's
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Speaker 2: it's Kevin Smith right with many of the actors. Alas
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Speaker 2: I am not, and so I missed those moments.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would love to hear from like the Hardys,
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Speaker 3: like email us girls gone homework at gmail dot com,
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Speaker 3: Like was this awesome? For you because there were so
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Speaker 3: many of your faves popping up in it. I have
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Speaker 3: a couple more rooms remy Yeah, go ahead.
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Speaker 2: So they give a lot of weight to the Christmas
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Speaker 2: Cup in this movie, as if it's this big meaningful
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Speaker 2: thing and about her mom used to lead the team
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Speaker 2: and she's taking on this big role. And yet the
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Speaker 2: Christmas of itself, it's chugging eggnog and snowball fight. The
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Speaker 2: tone of the Christmas Cup and the tone of the
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Speaker 2: way they talk about the Christmas Cup do not match.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you all that hyjiinks, the silly
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Speaker 3: stuff with the Christmas Cup, the egg nog chugging, the
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Speaker 3: girl desperately wanting to sing.
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Speaker 2: However, when the other towns guy gets up and does
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Speaker 2: a beautiful silent night, Yeah, pretty funny.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Put the rest of it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, all that competition prep stuff like I don't know
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Speaker 3: how to undo the tangled lights wants to make my
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Speaker 3: head explode.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And finally, Bree's restaurant situation, her speech about why
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Speaker 2: she couldn't sell her restaurant. She's trying to explain to
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Speaker 2: Kelly why it would be important, why she needs to
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Speaker 2: invest in the town and come home She's like, that's
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Speaker 2: why I couldn't sell my restaurant. I would have been
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Speaker 2: giving up on my family. And sometimes plans change. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: life circumstances, Life throws things that you. Kelly didn't anticipate
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Speaker 2: getting injured. She didn't anticipate this career change. She didn't
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Speaker 2: anticipate having to make these decisions. It's just a little
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Speaker 2: heavy handed.
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Speaker 3: I have a couple questions for you. Yes, when we
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Speaker 3: heard this movie was coming out, where like Rhann and
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Speaker 3: Fish as a military personnel, I'm like, I don't buy
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Speaker 3: it at all.
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Speaker 2: I kind of bought it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, me too, a little bit, me too coming home
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Speaker 3: and she's like in the uniform and all that stuff,
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Speaker 3: and she's real sweet to that little girl that's like,
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Speaker 3: thank you for your service, and that was really sweet.
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Speaker 2: Loved that, Like I kind of bought it.
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Speaker 3: I think maybe I was like expecting something else, so
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Speaker 3: I was pleasantly surprised by that part of it.
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Speaker 2: I did read some things.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if it was on Reddit or Facebook
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Speaker 3: or where, but they said some of the uniform was.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's all my DIGITSI okay, well we're.
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Speaker 3: Gonna wait to that. Then one of my biggest wishes
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Speaker 3: is that I didn't really buy into the romance between
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Speaker 3: Kelly and Quinn. Yeah, like I just there was like
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Speaker 3: nothing there and that scene where he overhears classic trope,
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Speaker 3: but he overhears Kelly and the friend talking yes, like
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Speaker 3: the friend is giving her a hard time, like you're
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Speaker 3: gonna leave, Like don't you want to see where this
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Speaker 3: goes with this guy? I'm like no, no, But first
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Speaker 3: Kelly's line is like he's practically a stranger. I was like, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 3: it hurts.
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Speaker 2: I didn't like that because the idea is supposed to
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Speaker 2: be like that trope is supposed to be like you misunderstood, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: he didn't misunderstand her. No, you just said we're just friends.
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Speaker 2: He's a stranger. And then she has to go back
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Speaker 2: to and be like, well I didn't mean what I said. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: but you did say it. He didn't misunderstand Nope, yeah,
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Speaker 2: exactly exactly.
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Speaker 3: But regardless, there was right no, like if you want
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Speaker 3: to see sparks fly off the TV screen, Watcheryan and
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Speaker 3: Fish and Tyler Hines.
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Speaker 2: And a picture of her every time, they're so good. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: but this they were so good. I was convinced they
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Speaker 2: were dating in real life. Yeah, I know, I remember,
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Speaker 2: I remember.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Sonay, that's it.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's talk Did you see that the.
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Speaker 3: Christmas Cup happens on Christmas Day?
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Speaker 2: I don't even think I knew that.
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Speaker 3: And that's like your biggest pet peeve something happening on
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Speaker 3: Christmas Eve or Christmas.
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Speaker 2: Day, participating in a town competition on Christmas Day. I'm
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Speaker 2: also not participating in any competition on Christmas Day. I
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Speaker 2: want to stay in my pajamas. I want to open presents,
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Speaker 2: eat food, enjoy my home with my children and my
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Speaker 2: family and my dogs.
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Speaker 3: Totally hold on. I'm sorry.
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Speaker 2: If I'm married into a family that was like we
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Speaker 2: participate in competitions on Christmas Day, I'd be like, I'm out, goodbye.
17:38
Speaker 2: Speaking of did you see the TikTok? You know what
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, let's talk about it of the family
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Speaker 2: that pranked the fiance of the brother saying we're a
17:48
Speaker 2: turkey trot family. And she goes all in. She trains,
17:51
Speaker 2: she buys a cute Thanksgiving sparkle skirt. They got shirts made,
17:55
Speaker 2: and then they're taking the picture and they're.
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Speaker 3: Like just kidding, Yeah, did you see her face?
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Speaker 2: They're like, she loves pranks.
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Speaker 3: Nope, this is what I would have done. I would
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Speaker 3: have been I would I would end that relationship.
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Speaker 2: I would have gone home. I would have ended the relationship.
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Speaker 2: In my twenties, I probably would have just sat there.
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Speaker 2: But now, yeah, no, I'd be like, this is a
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Speaker 2: sign of things to come. Totally not funny, especially when
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Speaker 2: it's at someone else. There's a way to do a
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Speaker 2: prank that's harmless. This wasn't it.
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Speaker 3: No, I agree at HRTs, this is the family you're
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Speaker 3: marrying into. Yeah, Nope, nope, nope, nope, red flags runaway
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Speaker 3: bridegirl run. I would have been like, watch me run bye,
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Speaker 3: right out of your lives. Guys.
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Speaker 2: Yes, okay. If you go on IMDb or read it,
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Speaker 2: there are so many comments about how they did things incorrectly.
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Speaker 2: This IMDb comment says the uniform is so far from
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Speaker 2: a proper military, let alone US Marine Corps uniform, that
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Speaker 2: I had to leave the room until she changed. Oh,
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Speaker 2: stripes wrong wrong uniform, pants, no tie with jacket, wrong jacket,
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Speaker 2: The cover had no USMCM. Please please please represent and
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Speaker 2: honor our veterans with the proper attire That feels like
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Speaker 2: a fair ask, then listener Paula. I knew Paula would
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Speaker 2: ride in YOL. She commented on our first impression post
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Speaker 2: on Instagram, and since this is public, I'm going to
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Speaker 2: share it. She says. I apologize for bringing this up again,
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Speaker 2: but Rhann and Fish at the beginning of the movie
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Speaker 2: was wearing an army uniform and carrying a USMC bag
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Speaker 2: while calling ourselves a marine, which is at least consistent
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Speaker 2: since she called herself a soldier while being a marine.
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Speaker 2: She also had no insignia on her cover. I feel
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Speaker 2: bad for her demotion. She went from captain to sergeant.
19:36
Speaker 2: This is just ludicrous. At this point, she then goes
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Speaker 2: on to say there's more her Army rank insignia. It's
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Speaker 2: yellow not USMC. Red is upside down, and it's a
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Speaker 2: sergeant rank, not a staff sergeant. Both services have the
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Speaker 2: point facing up. Navy has the point down. Oh wow,
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Speaker 2: it feels like the bare minimum to me to do
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Speaker 2: this research. Yeah. The number of people who are commenting
19:59
Speaker 2: like Paya is x military.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: There's people on IMDb who are casual watchers. These aren't consultants.
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Speaker 2: If the average person who was in the military, of
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Speaker 2: which there are many many, many could have told you
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Speaker 2: what you were doing wrong. Yeah, it doesn't seem like
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Speaker 2: it would be that hard to get that memory.
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Speaker 3: Well, and Google exists too, But how if you're doing
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Speaker 3: a movie with such a heavy military influence you I
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Speaker 3: think you would go to an expert, a consultant. Hey,
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Speaker 3: let's get this one detail right because it matters to
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Speaker 3: the people who belong to these things, right. Yeah, I
20:39
Speaker 3: think that's sloppy work. I have one more.
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Speaker 2: Did you see that?
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Speaker 3: It's not that exciting, but they surprised Kelly with a
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Speaker 3: cake at the end that says like a Looha Kelly
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Speaker 3: on it. Legit stickers for the writing on the cake stickers,
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Speaker 3: sparkly stickers I would have got at my local craft store. Yeah, bad, bad.
21:03
Speaker 2: Who shuts down a party? Who shows up at a
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Speaker 2: random party for a returning service member and it's like
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Speaker 2: you're over fire code get out?
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Speaker 3: No, I know, get out dom.
21:12
Speaker 2: I also laughed, we almost have a thousand subscribers on
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Speaker 2: our YouTube channel and now I'm a restaurant worthy chef.
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Speaker 3: I did enjoy the silliness with that. Dad, as someone
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Speaker 3: who's made YouTube videos like the grind is hard, guys, so.
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Speaker 2: You respect us? I did, Okay, what did you rate
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Speaker 2: the Christmas Cup sadly two stars too. Thanks for listening
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Speaker 1: Goodbye, bye.
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