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When Love Springs · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Well, speaking of the towels, does anybody else work at
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  Speaker 1: this B and B besides Noah? Is he the chef
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  Speaker 1: and the bookkeeper and right the receptionist and housekeeping?
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  Speaker 2: Hey?
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  Speaker 1: Everyone, welcome to you Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Megan and I'm a lifelong Hallmark movie fan. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Wendy and for those who've been wondering, I'm the one
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  Speaker 1: with the witch cackle. You guys, you have to be
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  Speaker 1: in a Facebook group to know what we're talking about here,
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  Speaker 1: and you're really missing out if you're not there. Today.
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  Speaker 1: We're discussing When Love Springs, which originally aired on the
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark Channel on Saturday, May sixth. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: connect with us outside of the podcast, we'd love for
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  Speaker 1: talking about Hallmark Love. It such a fun place to be.
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  Speaker 1: Or if you want to email us at any time,
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  Speaker 1: it's Megan and Wendy at gmail dot com. Let's do
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  Speaker 1: some Hallmark news and notes First up, big news in
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  Speaker 1: the entertainment industry as a whole. The WGA, the Writers
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  Speaker 1: Guild of America, is on strike officially. We talked about
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  Speaker 1: that coming down the pipeline last week, and it officially happened.
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  Speaker 1: Some insight from some of our Hallmark writers. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: Nina Wine Minsmith commented that Hallmark among other networks, were
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  Speaker 1: stuckpiling scripts before the strike so they could keep working.
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  Speaker 1: I have a thought on that in a minute. And
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  Speaker 1: Julie Sherman, Wolf, friend of the show, says, twenty five
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  Speaker 1: years on the WGA, and I have never felt so
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  Speaker 1: strongly that this is the hill to die on, especially
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  Speaker 1: for younger writers. If we don't get this, it'll be
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  Speaker 1: impossible to make a living in the very near future.
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  Speaker 1: I want to make a comment on the stockpiling script thing. Please,
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  Speaker 1: do you, I know you watched Friday Night Lights. Do
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  Speaker 1: you recall season two of Friday Night Lights? That's the
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  Speaker 1: Landry Murders a Dude season. I don't recall off hand. Okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: Landry Murders a Dude in like defense of Tyra. Are
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  Speaker 1: you remembering this at all?
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  Speaker 2: This is right?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? Now that rings a bell in my mind. I
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  Speaker 1: knew that that had happened on that season. I knew
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  Speaker 1: that there was a writers strike that was involved by Hoops.
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  Speaker 1: I looked it up this morning to get a little
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  Speaker 1: more contacts and what happened on that show. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: there were only fifteen of twenty two episodes because they
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  Speaker 1: had fifteen episodes written after episode five is when the
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  Speaker 1: strike started, so there were no writers on staff. So
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  Speaker 1: they had ten episodes written but no writing staff. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the audience did not enjoy the Landry murder storyline, but
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  Speaker 1: with no writers on staff to course craw and change
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  Speaker 1: things around and make it work, they just had to
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  Speaker 1: follow it through. Many many viewers of Friday Night, It's
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  Speaker 1: considered season two to be like in an alternate timeline,
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  Speaker 1: like it's just such a bizarre you could completely lift
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  Speaker 1: it out of the show, with the exception of Tammy
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  Speaker 1: Taylor's postpartum experience, which I think was a great representation
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  Speaker 1: on television. Anyway, my comment is having scripts is not
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  Speaker 1: the be all end all without writers on staff during
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  Speaker 1: pre production and the production of these films, who can
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  Speaker 1: make changes on the fly or as necessary. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: about the stop piling though, does that mean then Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: was like, Hey, we need fifteen Christmas movies or twenty
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  Speaker 1: five Christmas movies, so let's start asking our writers to
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  Speaker 1: put those out in anticipation of the strike. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know the logistics or if they were just purchasing earlier
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  Speaker 1: than they might have been seeking them out, buying more
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  Speaker 1: ahead of time. I don't know. Obviously, Hallmark isn't talking
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  Speaker 1: about what they have ready to go for the countdown
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  Speaker 1: to Christmas season. We know several movies have been made.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the side of the writers in this. We
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  Speaker 1: want the outcome that they want. Yes, you know two things.
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  Speaker 1: I read an article in either Variety or Deadline yesterday
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  Speaker 1: that some studios are telling showrunners that even if you
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  Speaker 1: are a showrunner and you are also a writer, you
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  Speaker 1: may have to cross picket lines because as a showrunner
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  Speaker 1: you need to be on set. Yeah. I don't envy
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  Speaker 1: every other trade in all of this, because, on the
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  Speaker 1: one hand, outside of the executives, you have so many
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  Speaker 1: other crew who are counting on these shows and these
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  Speaker 1: movies to continue to get made. Right, there are so
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  Speaker 1: many people whose jobs are affected, And so what do
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  Speaker 1: you do as a showrunner in that position who wants
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  Speaker 1: to stand on the side of the writers, but also
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  Speaker 1: want to keep people employed. I don't envy the position
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  Speaker 1: people are put in right now. No, And I also
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  Speaker 1: read that the strike from seven to eight lasted one
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  Speaker 1: hundred days. We're at like a week a week now,
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  Speaker 1: I think seven days or something like that. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: just have a hard time believing it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a quick revolution, given makes what was happening ahead of time.
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  Speaker 1: So yikes, what else we got? I had a tweet
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  Speaker 1: from sleep Kitty pot hmm. She recently tweeted about a
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  Speaker 1: Rachel Lee Cook and Sam Paige movie. And if you're
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  Speaker 1: wondering who Sam Page is, that's Richard Hunter from The
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  Speaker 1: Bowl Type. Yes, I love Richard, I know, so cute.
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  Speaker 1: They're currently filming a movie called Rescuing Christmas in Duluth,
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota right now, And looking at the tweets a little
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  Speaker 1: bit closer, it looks like Rachel Lee Cook signed to
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  Speaker 1: deal with mar Vista, who I believe is like a
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  Speaker 1: production company, and they will like shop this movie to
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  Speaker 1: streaming outlets. I guess that's what they did last year
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  Speaker 1: they sold some movies to Hulu. So we're not sure
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  Speaker 1: if this is going to be a Hallmark movie, but
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  Speaker 1: you never know, considering the state of all things right now, sure,
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  Speaker 1: which is kind of weird. Rachel Lee Cook and Sam
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  Speaker 1: Page seems like it would be a Hallmark movie, Like
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine that as like a Hulu movie. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: not Hulu, but there were Discovery plus Christmas movies. There
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  Speaker 1: are so many services buying Christmas movies that in this vein,
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  Speaker 1: I think it could go any number of places. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: who knows? Who knows? Yeah, you got ratings? Yeah, so,
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  Speaker 1: last week's Hearts in the Game had one point five
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  Speaker 1: million live viewers, making it the third most watched cable
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  Speaker 1: program of the night, behind only basketball. As of the
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  Speaker 1: recording of this episode, we do not have ratings information
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  Speaker 1: for when Love Springs available. I have some Hallmark divorce news,
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  Speaker 1: kind of under the radar. People magazine announced on April
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  Speaker 1: tenth that Victor Webster filed four divorce from his wife
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  Speaker 1: of two years, Chantelle van Santon. They met in twenty
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  Speaker 1: seventeen on the set of the homework movie Love Blossoms.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of sad. I yes, I guess they got married
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  Speaker 1: during like twenty twenty. Like they had a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: like small ceremonies. I guess relationship ships aren't always meant
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  Speaker 1: to last. No, and not everybody wants the end of
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  Speaker 1: their relationship to be a headline. No. But I'm so
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  Speaker 1: kind of surprised that people pick this up. But I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how we missed it. I mean, Victor Webster, real,
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  Speaker 1: wowie s howie real nice to see back on the market. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: not that it matters to me at all. Let's hear
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  Speaker 1: a synopsis for When Love Springs Sure, A junior pr
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  Speaker 1: professional arrives at a quaint B and B for her
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  Speaker 1: parents vow renewal and runs into a former flame who
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  Speaker 1: broke her heart. Panicked and afraid of humiliation, she pretends
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  Speaker 1: the B and B owner is her new boyfriend. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: this is my new boyfriend. Be jealous, hy. This was
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  Speaker 1: filmed on location in Brisbane, Australia in December twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: Keeping in mind that is the Southern Hemisphere, so it
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  Speaker 1: would have been summer in Australia when this was filmed. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know a little behind the scenes here. Megan compiled
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  Speaker 1: the notes for this movie and I was like, this
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  Speaker 1: was filmed in Australia, Like I had no idea, but
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  Speaker 1: she's like, hey, Demi, everybody had an Australian accent, candn't
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  Speaker 1: you hear it? And yes, there were some weird words.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty much I'm summarizing, but yeah, everybody had kind of
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  Speaker 1: a weird American accent. Yes, Marianna and Fish plays Rory.
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  Speaker 1: We saw her most recently and a picture of her
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  Speaker 1: alongside King of Hallmark. Tyler Hines also been a handful
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  Speaker 1: of other Hallmark movies, including Nikki and Nora, Sister Sluice,
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  Speaker 1: and The Twenty seven Hour Day. And that is the
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  Speaker 1: point at which we end kind of our Hallmark connections.
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  Speaker 1: There's tons of Hallmark movies on the crew because this
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  Speaker 1: movie was an acquisition. I believe. It's directed by Joanne Bretchin.
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  Speaker 1: She has fifteen directing credits. This is her first for
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark and she was the director of the Australian TV
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  Speaker 1: series Miss Inc, which is a documentary about the Miss
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  Speaker 1: inc Australia pageant which celebrates tattooed women. Question for you,
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  Speaker 1: this movie wasn't in the original May lineup, was it?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't write that post. I wrote it. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: We're still in spring and to love though, right it
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  Speaker 1: was movie Spring into Love movie. I don't think it
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  Speaker 1: was originally slated, but I could be wrong. I just
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  Speaker 1: I'm purely going off of memory here and Next Up
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  Speaker 1: written by Ainsley Gordon, who has twelve writing credits and
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight acting credits. She both wrote and starred in
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  Speaker 1: Love on the Reef. Noah in this movie is played
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  Speaker 1: by James William o'haller, and he's a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a newbie actor as twenty five acting credits, although many
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  Speaker 1: of them are guest spots on sitcoms like Single Parents, Superstore,
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  Speaker 1: and The Mendi Project where he plays hot Man Number two.
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  Speaker 1: He was also a model on The Price Is Right. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so he's an Australian, but he was a model on
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  Speaker 1: the US Price Is Right? Yes, and Single Parents, in
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  Speaker 1: Superstore and The Mini Project are all US shows. So
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  Speaker 1: is he Australian or maybe like born in Australia but
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  Speaker 1: like works here in La I hear you typing? In
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourteen is when he moved to the United States.
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  Speaker 1: That's when he auditioned for The Price Is Right. And
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  Speaker 1: he was only the second male model on The Price
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  Speaker 1: Is Right. M that's a lot longer than I thought
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  Speaker 1: they've been doing that. I watched a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: Prices right in my elementary school home shit from school day.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't not as much lately. I was actually I
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  Speaker 1: used to learn that they even had male models. No
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  Speaker 1: more Barker's Beauties. Oh god, gross right mm hmmm. Kellen
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  Speaker 1: Colly plays Jason. He's even more of a newbie. He
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  Speaker 1: only has six acting credits, including two episodes of the
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  Speaker 1: Netflix series The let Down. Renee Herbert plays the sister Cleo,
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  Speaker 1: who also has six acting credits, although they are mostly
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  Speaker 1: music videos and short films. I just watched these movies
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  Speaker 1: and I look at their IMDBs and I'm like, is
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  Speaker 1: this going to be the launching point? Like this is
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  Speaker 1: the biggest thing she's done at this point? Is she
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a big star? I have some notes on
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  Speaker 1: her a little bit Laterki. Finally, Aaron Connor plays mom
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  Speaker 1: Lelah Richard. She has forty two acting credits, mostly Australian
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  Speaker 1: TV series, none of which we've heard of. No, I apologize,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with Australian TV. No. What's your first
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  Speaker 1: impression of When Love Springs? Is that polka dot dress
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  Speaker 1: iconic or what? Yes? I saw you put something out
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  Speaker 1: on our Our girl's gone a Hallmark Instagram about it,
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  Speaker 1: and it made me wonder. Pretty Women came out in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety, thirty three years ago, we're still talking about
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  Speaker 1: this dress. Yeah, what I need to know is why.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's such an obvious, iconic moment, right down
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  Speaker 1: to the hat. If she hadn't had the hat, it
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't necessarily have driven home that this is a homage
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  Speaker 1: to that dress. But I couldn't figure out why. Like
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  Speaker 1: when we had the Carrie Bradshaw outfit she was in Paris.
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  Speaker 1: That's an outfit that Carrie Bradshaw wore in Paris. That
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  Speaker 1: makes sense. Maybe because in Pretty Woman she played his
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  Speaker 1: did she play his fake girlfriend at that polo event?
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  Speaker 1: I just think it's a stretch. I'm just very curious
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  Speaker 1: what the motivation was for you. Although it was was
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  Speaker 1: a fun moment, my first impression is the best part
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  Speaker 1: of this movie is playing spot that Australian accent. Yeah, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't mean I ruined that earlier for you didn't
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  Speaker 1: ruin any of it. Okay, let's talk about what you
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  Speaker 1: liked about this movie, because I'm sensing you didn't like it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not my favorite Hallmark movie ever, but I watched
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  Speaker 1: Horse movies this week, so I liked that Ryann and
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  Speaker 1: Fish gets to show off some comedy here. I think
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  Speaker 1: I like her more in a comedy role than in
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  Speaker 1: the peer romance role. Hmmm, interesting take. Let me preface
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  Speaker 1: this with saying that I think she sometimes leans very
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  Speaker 1: hard into that baby voice, which drives me absolutely Banana's.
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  Speaker 1: But she is Rhann and Fish becoming one of my
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  Speaker 1: favorites to watch. I think she's very enjoyable on screen.
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  Speaker 1: I agree at one, I think she's stunning. Two, I
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  Speaker 1: think she's a good actor. Despite I read a lot
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  Speaker 1: of criticism that people that she was too over the
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  Speaker 1: top at the beginning of this movie, she didn't really
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  Speaker 1: bother me. That style didn't bother me with this in
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  Speaker 1: this movie. No, what else did you like? I loved
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  Speaker 1: Sister Cleo. Yeah, talk about another stunning face. Like these
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  Speaker 1: girls were so beautiful together. And I'm kind of hoping
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  Speaker 1: this does become a launching pad for her. However, I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking it's probably not going to be. We will never
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  Speaker 1: see her on Hallmark again because she is an Australian
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  Speaker 1: actress who's only done a small cuple little things, and
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  Speaker 1: since this was filmed in Australia, it was acquired by Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: Right that was She's making the big move. I liked
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  Speaker 1: Melody the Boss because she's played by Francesca Savage, and
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  Speaker 1: I think one of the things this movie does, perhaps
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  Speaker 1: not very well, but there are so many Hallmark tropes
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  Speaker 1: in this movie, and she is the mean Hallmark boss
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  Speaker 1: to a te I just think she was like, this
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  Speaker 1: is my role, I'm gonna lean into it. She made
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  Speaker 1: me uncomfortable when she was yelling at her. I really
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  Speaker 1: liked her, you know who. I really liked Aaron Connor,
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  Speaker 1: who plays Leilah Richards, the mom Rory's mom. And I
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  Speaker 1: hope someday i'm cool like her because I'd probably lose
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  Speaker 1: my shit if my kid told me she wasn't going
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  Speaker 1: to be there for my wedding wedding bow renewal. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: she played it so cool, non reactive, supportive. I would
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  Speaker 1: have been like, what you know, yeah, it would have
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  Speaker 1: been a scene. Agree. She reminded me so much of
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  Speaker 1: a childhood friend's mother. Her name's Judy, is a friend
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  Speaker 1: of my mom's. Also. I just was like, oh, they're
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  Speaker 1: just the same kind of cool. Nothing really ruffles their
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  Speaker 1: feather's mom. I wish I was like that same. There's
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  Speaker 1: a funny moment to me when Jason arrives at the
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  Speaker 1: B and B and his new girlfriend walks in the surprise,
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  Speaker 1: and it's so goofy, but they do this SlowMo reaction
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  Speaker 1: over Rhiannon fish Rory's face and you can see in
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  Speaker 1: the background Noah making this like wow like reacting to
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  Speaker 1: her reaction of it. It's goofy, but it's real fun
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  Speaker 1: I didn't notice that, but that's funny. That is funny.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned tropes and that this movie had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them. I'm gonna tell you I don't hate the
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  Speaker 1: fake boyfriend trope, and let me explain why. One of
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  Speaker 1: my all time favorite movies is a movie from nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty seven called Can't Buy Me Love, Oh Yes, where
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  Speaker 1: she hires Ronald, the next door neighbor to be her
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend in exchange for money for an outfit that she
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  Speaker 1: ruined that was belonged to her mom. Anyway, it's one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorites, and I just think that trope was
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  Speaker 1: imprinted on me at a very young age, so I
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  Speaker 1: don't hate it. When I see it in Hallmark movies today. No,
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  Speaker 1: I like the fake dating trope. However, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it was terribly well executed in this movie. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: There's not a lot of moments, Like all of their
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  Speaker 1: scenes are mostly just the two of them. There's very
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  Speaker 1: little time where they have to pretend to be together
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  Speaker 1: in front of other people. Right, So remember that movie,
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  Speaker 1: is it The Wedding Date? Has that real cute guy
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  Speaker 1: from my best friend's wedding and Mulroney, the redhead from
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  Speaker 1: Deborah Messing. Yes, and she hires him to be her
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  Speaker 1: fake boyfriend. Right, Yes, but they're in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: scenes like with big groups of people having to sell
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  Speaker 1: their relations Yes, that's kind of what I like in
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  Speaker 1: a fake dating, pretend boyfriend situation is those scenes where
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  Speaker 1: they have to pretend to be in a relationship, kind
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  Speaker 1: of the moments that lead them to like, oh, this
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  Speaker 1: feels supernatural. I actually like holding your hand and having
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  Speaker 1: these conversations with you. One last thing, I really liked
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  Speaker 1: Rory and Cleo's sister friendship. I just thought it was
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  Speaker 1: nice they had each other, they can confide in each other. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I liked it all right, ma'am. What'd you wish for?
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  Speaker 1: So for me a couple things and only a few things,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: which is funny because when I was like going through
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  Speaker 1: this movie, I was like, I didn't didn't really love
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  Speaker 1: it so much, but I'm not sure what I wished for,
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  Speaker 1: Like it it's not doesn't line up, like okay, the
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  Speaker 1: casting of the ex boyfriend Kellen Colly is how I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying his last name. He looked all of eighteen years old,
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  Speaker 1: like such a baby. I just thought he looked so young,
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  Speaker 1: so much younger than her and whatever like whatever. But
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  Speaker 1: I was like, he's supposed to be playing this like
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  Speaker 1: very busy business guy. Didn't sell it to you, No,
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  Speaker 1: it didn't sell it to me. And then I understand
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  Speaker 1: why they needed him to show up at the B
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  Speaker 1: and B to be the so the fake boyfriend line
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  Speaker 1: could like unfold right, But it was just dumb. It
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  Speaker 1: was just dumb, like it was a split decision that
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  Speaker 1: was not great on her behalf. And finally, in this
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  Speaker 1: little section, I feel like Rory the character is much
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  Speaker 1: more confident than to have to pretend like she's dating
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  Speaker 1: some innkeeper now, like there's no shame in being single,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Like why did she just like like she'd just be single. Well,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: that is my number one wish that Rory would have
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: had a little more self respect, because you do not
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: need a man to make yourself look good to this
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: man who dumped you. You are enough on your own.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: You don't need this random boyfriend. Right. And as we
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: saw it later on in the movie, when they had
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: like theirre like one on one like discussion after uh,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: what's his name? Jason? Jason after his girl leaves, right,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: him and Rory have this conversation and it was like, oh,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: we were just like too. You know, they were not
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: on the same page, right, So there was.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: No like, it wasn't like this bad breakup, right, It
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: just was like this relationship wasn't working out, So now
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: why are you feeling like so devastated?
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like he kind of ghosts her, but it didn't
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: make any sense why she would be all that interested
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: in getting him back, right, And my other wish is
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: that she didn't go check on Jason, like she sees
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: him have this breakup, She's like, I need to go
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: check on him. Why wait, you you don't owe him
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: your time or soothing his broken her after he kind
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: of was like as far as we could tell ghosted
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: her after this one year relationship, and then when they
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: have this conversation, he's just this kind of like nice
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: guy to her. And I was like, wait a minute,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: where did that guy come from? Because that's not the
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: guy we saw walking in to the B and B
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: who didn't even remember that she was going to be
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: there for her parents' anniversary party. Mm hmm. I thought
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: that was odd, but heally, who cares if their actual
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: anniversary is on a Monday have the party on a weekend.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Why were they trying to do it on the same day,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: like it had to be on a Monday because she
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: had to have a work conflict, which again didn't make
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: sense because this does not seem like the kind of
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: boss's going to have boundaries and care that she needs
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: you on a weekend. And second of all, they were like, oh,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: good thing is on a Monday because only ten people
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: can come. What's the business are Yeah? Hey, why did
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: she have to lie to her parents about having this
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: fake boyfriend too? Like that was dumb too. That's a
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: good point. Why wouldn't you just say, oh my gosh,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I freaked out when I saw Jason, and I pretended
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: like this guy was my boyfriend mm hm. And her
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: parents would probably have been very cool with that, right.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: They would have been like, you dummy and then laugh
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: at her. That would have been funnier to watch, Yes,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: like their reaction to her trying to like pretend like
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: she had this relationship with this dude anyway. Yes, So
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: you talked about Rory's boss, right, uh huh. I think
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: there was reason to be angry at Rory this boss
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: because Rory did keep missing deadlines, right, uh huh. But
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: on the other hand, everyone deserves time off, and you're
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: telling me that Rory didn't request the appropriate time off
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: for this like big event in her parents' lives. See,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I fully believe that she did, and her boss was like,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: too damn bad. I need you and I'm going to
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: make you work during this weekend. Okay. So then is
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: she not confident enough to like let her boss like
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: say like nope, well this is just all this, like, well,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: if you want to be an executive with this firm,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: then you need to do this, and blah blah blah blah. Yeah,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: it's too much eyes on the prize of wanting to
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: be a partner and taking the abuse and not standing
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: up to her because she feels like she's going to
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: miss out on her opportunity, when we kind of know
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: that she's already missed out on her opportunity because she
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: makes a comment about how long she's been there without
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: getting the promotion she's been looking for. I have a
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: giant list of digitsu. That's how about you? So do I? Okay,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: let's go, all right, you go first. First of all,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the basket of towels labeled towels. You know, I totally
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: did not see that. When she walks into her room,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: there is a basket with a sign on it that
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: says towels, and it is empty, which is why she
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: then goes back downstairs. Right then he gives her one towel.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: What oh yeah, what I need more than one towel, sir.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I need one for my body and one for my hair,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: and one for my face and one for the floor.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: What about one for my hands after I washed my
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I mean yes, at least at least a stack of
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: like two towels and a handtowel at a minimum, right, right, Well,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: speaking of the towels, does anybody else work at this
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: B and B besides Noah? Well, that's a great question,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: because correspondent Mike did send his nice little email and
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: one of the things he pointed out is the staff
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: situation is super weird because it seems like a big
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: enough operation that he'd need employees. But the only time
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: we ever see them is in relation to food service, Yes,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: and where are they the rest of the time? Bizarre? Yeah,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I did. I did note that. I was like, who
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: is mining the B and B because they say numerous
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: times like how slow it is, but there looks like
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: there's plenty of people in the background, like in the
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: dining scenes. Is he the chef and the bookkeeper and
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: right the receptionist and housekeeping? That was weird. And I
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: gotta tell you, like that whole thing where who puts
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: headphones on when you know that you have a guest coming?
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: We have guests checking in? Right? What else? You got
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Rory's desk in her office? There's not a single cord
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: under her desk not low Oh yeah, it was kind
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: of like out in the middle of the like open space, right, yeah,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: No lamp nothing, no, like, no, there's no plugs on
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: the floor that they're plugging into. Nope. When they were
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: making bouquets for the wedding. Yes, those are fake flowers,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: of course, yeah, so fake, Like she's holding it up
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: and I'm like looking at the back of a fake leaf.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I was like, no, ma'am, those are not from granny's garden. Yeah,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: and they picked the flowers like three days before the wedding.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Come on, why are they doing at the morning now? Seriously?
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Speaking of the wedding, why is she asking about available
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: party space upon arriving at the B and B where
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: they're there to hold a party. Have they handled this
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: ahead of time? Mm hmm, I know she's like, Oh, yeah,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna need like a space for like this small
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: gathering and ten chairs. Yeah, are you eating food after? Like?
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I look like at the day of the party, like
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: they had some sort of like old timey record player
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: thing out there and flowers and chairs and all that.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Speaking of the wedding or vow renewal whatever, she is
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: wearing her shoulder purse while she is walking down the aisle.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't she have ditched that? And then she's in
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: this whole scene where she and Noah reunite and she's
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: still wearing it a purse. I know I have that, dude.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: She only drops it when they're dancing. Finally, Yes, I
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: was like, well, that's so terrible for like photos, and like, right,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I don't want to hear purse in my renewal photos
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: bag clunking around as you're trying to walk down the aisle. No,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: tossed it one of the ten guests. Seriously, curiously. I
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: did like their dresses though, OHI me too, Me too.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Oh every single dress that she wears is that same
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: exact Halter style, Like every single dress. Yeah. The opening
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: day of the movie is the longest day ever. She
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: has a yes, full day at the office. She drives
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: to the B and B. It is still light out.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: They have a full day there. It's many hours before
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: they have dinner, and she's in her suit the entire time. Yes, Yes,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I noticed that as well. I was like, how long
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: is this day? Because she got the last there's nobody
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: left in the office when she leaves, so it is nighttime. Yes,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: And I remember on the phone conversation with her parents,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: she's like, oh, you know, when I get out here
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I'm meeting Cleo. Yeah, hey,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Penny Traverse the travel writer. Did she come from another
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: time period? I'm like, what is she wearing? What is
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: this big hat and like dress? Like, you know, Megan
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: and I are a blogger, like that's how we started
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: out right, And sure have been invited to attend many
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: things for reviews. But this woman looked like she was
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: from another time period. Yeah, and I feel like if
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: she were going to attend, I guess he did invite her.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: But I feel like a travel writer usually goes in
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: a little less conspicuous because they want to have the
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: experience that the average guest is going to have, perhaps,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: like they don't want you to roll out the red
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: carpet because they want to know what it's like to
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: actually stay there. What do you don't do it for
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: me if you wouldn't do it for your guests. So
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I thought that whole thing was handled poorly. Yeah,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: and she just loved the place in like a whole
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: five minute, decided to write a glowing review. They put
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: up those old photos and boom, it's a hit. Oh
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: my god. Yes, I laughed out loud at the logo
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Cleo designed on Canva. Yes, I'm watching it and I
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: literally laughed out loud. My husband goes, did you just
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: laugh at that, and I go, yeah, because any bozo
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: can make that camba seriously, probably like the top one.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Speaking of the art in this movie, she makes him
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: a gallery wall and in one of the frames there's
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: like typed out letters that say our story and it
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: looks terrible and hello, you have a sister who is
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: an artist to have her create something, at least in Canva.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, my gosh, it's a total missed opportunity. It's
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: an ugly, ugly wall. Sorry, anything else, she says. She
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: takes her coffee black, and then she goes he's teasing her.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: She's like, I take it black with cream and sugar.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: That's not black coffee. Yeah. And finally, why does Noah
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: have the oldest cell phone ever? Oh? I didn't notice
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: no Nokia. No, it's not a smartphone. And it's bizarre.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: What was his Oh, he like used to live in
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: New York. He was like a business analyst or something
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: like that. Is that right? Or am I mixed movies? No,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: you're right. And then he, you know, found a slower,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: slower life, you know, running a B and B. That's
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: a nice, easy lifestyle. I will say the property that
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: they used, I don't know if it's like the I'm
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: talking about the physical house that they used as the
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: B and B. The exterior of it was gorgeous. I agree.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: And I also thought the location when they go for
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: a walk, and the pond and the waterfalls, all of
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: that was beautiful as well. Yeah, and which brings up
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: another question, like if he's the only dude working there,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: why are they taking these like long strolls on the property.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Who else is minding the business? That's a good question.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: And she was in heels and on their walk. Oh
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: my gosh, seriously, she know where she was going. He
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: just had come with me. But don't you think he
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: might have said, like, maybe you want to change your shoes,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: But no, she's got to have that pretty woman polka
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: dot dress moment. Well, speaking of that particular scene, she's
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: wearing these tragic white sandals, and I was like, I
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: haven't seen a white sandal in a really long time.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I really was like, am I out of touch? Because
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: sometimes the youth wears things. I'm like, Wow, I would
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: not have paid to that, Or are those truly the
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: white sandals I wore to my eighth grade promotion. Yes,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: that's what it felt like. But I do know that
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I am out of touch because I take my daughter's
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: shopping and everything I hold up. She makes a face
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: to the point I'm like a simple no, we'll do.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you you have to pick out the ugliest thing,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: and then they'll be like, oh my god, I like that.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: What did you rate when Love Springs two and a half? Oh? Exactly,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: me too. Okay, yeah, it was kind of of a movie.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: I like Three and a Fish if you didn't love
• 30:31
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• 30:34
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• 30:36
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