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Right in Front of Me · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a bonus episode
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Speaker 1: from Long Story Short the podcast.
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Speaker 2: I'm Megan, I'm Wendy, and I'm in a mood, and.
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Speaker 1: Today we're discussing right in front of me, the fifth
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Speaker 1: and final movie in Hallmarks Spring Fling series for twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty one. Sorry, and not a moment too soon.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I was really excited thinking that we were
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Speaker 2: gonna get next week off because I haven't seen any
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Speaker 2: big new announcement about the next set of movies.
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Speaker 1: But bam, they hit you with Hearts down Under.
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Speaker 2: Another freakin Busby movie or whatever.
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Speaker 1: Hallmark is notoriously difficult to figure out what movies are
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Speaker 1: coming next. They're not like Super Forthcoming with their lineup.
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Speaker 1: So right now we know that we have Hearts down
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Speaker 1: undercoming next week, and then we might have a break
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Speaker 1: for all of May. There's nothing in the app and
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Speaker 1: there's nothing on the website, and then Summer Nights begins
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Speaker 1: June fifth. Now that doesn't mean Hallmark's not gonna throw
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Speaker 1: some original programming at us in May that we don't
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Speaker 1: know about, but it is not currently on the website
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Speaker 1: or in the app. So that's what we know now.
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Speaker 1: I feel like.
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Speaker 2: They just wing it, like they're like, let's throw this
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Speaker 2: movie in here, now, let's let's see what sticks here.
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Speaker 2: You know, they're just.
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Speaker 1: Firing where they have a schedule and then things change.
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Speaker 1: I don't really we know that their production turnaround is
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Speaker 1: really tight, especially for some of these movies.
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Speaker 2: They're film like last month.
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Speaker 1: And then they just kind of put them together. So
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Speaker 1: maybe they don't want to announce it too far in
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Speaker 1: advance in case that falls apart. I don't know, but
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Speaker 1: I do know that it's not like we get a
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Speaker 1: lot of advanced notice for these things. So that's what
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Speaker 1: we know right now. What else we know is this
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Speaker 1: is a bonus episode of this podcast, which means this
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Speaker 1: is not our weekly episode, although this week there was
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Speaker 1: no main episode, but typically every other week in the
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Speaker 2: And this is where I usually say we love your emails.
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Speaker 2: You can email us at Megananwindy at gmail dot com.
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Speaker 2: But we got an email that has kind of chaff
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Speaker 2: my hide?
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Speaker 1: Is that your hood chapped?
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Speaker 2: Chapped? I got chaff? Yeah that's gross, but yeah, chat
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Speaker 2: my hide. So Megan, I'm gonna turn it over to you.
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Speaker 1: This email begins with a few comments after listening to
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Speaker 1: your review. Howth is not pronounced how rather it's pronounced
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Speaker 1: like hoth, which okay, fine, I'm not Irish, right The
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Speaker 1: sport they were playing is hurling with an H. And
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Speaker 1: then it goes on to discuss the phase Ireland was
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Speaker 1: in a Phase five lockdown. Anyone who would have had
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Speaker 1: to self isolate for a minimum of ten days, although
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Speaker 1: there was no check by authority. We did discuss that
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Speaker 1: we believed that Ireland had a quarantine in place, although
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Speaker 1: you could travel there provided you adhere to their quarantine rules.
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Speaker 1: Talks a little bit about restraints for testing pandemicness. Is
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Speaker 1: this written by the Irish doctor fauci cause give me
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Speaker 1: a flip and break. Okay, go ahead, but here's what
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Speaker 1: I want to say, Like, typically, look, I like information
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Speaker 1: that we didn't know right, Like I'm not in Ireland,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how to print movies are being produced
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Speaker 1: in Ireland during a pandemic. Like, I like information, I
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Speaker 1: like the backstory, I like being like, give me the
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Speaker 1: give me the goods. Right. But I learned a lesson
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Speaker 1: on Instagram. Actually I learned to via podcast. And if
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Speaker 1: you follow Shavonda Gardner. First of all, she has this
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Speaker 1: absolutely beautiful feed. She's a decorator, a designer. Her house
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Speaker 1: is beautiful. Well the great I we will. But I
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Speaker 1: heard her on a podcast once where she discussed her
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Speaker 1: feelings about interacting with people, specifically in dms, because people
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Speaker 1: will drop into her DMS all the time and just
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Speaker 1: with like, and I'll say like link or where'd you
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Speaker 1: get it? Like, there's no conversation, there's no it's just
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Speaker 1: like transactional. It's right, give me information. And so she
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Speaker 1: went on to say how she had kind of taught Basically,
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Speaker 1: she's created these boundaries and put them in place and
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Speaker 1: has taught her followers how to interact. So if you
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Speaker 1: drop into her DMS with link, she'll respond with Hi,
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Speaker 1: good morning, how are you Like she demonstrates that conversation
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Speaker 1: And I honestly had never thought about that before and
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Speaker 1: it makes a lot of sense. And I try and
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Speaker 1: do that. I mean, you know, I don't think every
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Speaker 1: conversation needs to start with hi, Megan, right, Like you
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Speaker 1: have a relationship, you can just be responding to what
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Speaker 1: they're saying. But I do think there's something to be
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Speaker 1: said for like saying hello.
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Speaker 2: Like manners. Right, Okay, So remind the listeners how this
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Speaker 2: email started again.
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Speaker 1: It just has a few comments after listening to your review.
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Speaker 1: Not hey, ladies, not love the podcast, which you don't
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Speaker 1: have to say. You don't have to love the podcast.
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Speaker 1: That's okay, Hi.
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Speaker 2: Hello, Yeah, you're I feel like you're so restrained right now, Meghan,
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Speaker 2: Like I know you're like hung up on this person's
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Speaker 2: like greetings and salutations, but I think this person can
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Speaker 2: eat it because I'm not having it.
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Speaker 1: Prior to recording this, Wendy was like, I'm in the
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Speaker 1: mood and you're gonna have to bleep the podcast.
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Speaker 2: So you can go ahead and bleep that, but like seriously,
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Speaker 2: like I am so tired, Like like you said, give
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Speaker 2: us the information, give us the goods, greet us with
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Speaker 2: a hello, but don't come at us and say this
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Speaker 2: is how you do it, this is what's going on,
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Speaker 2: this is ann goodbye, Like I'm so tired of people
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Speaker 2: just thinking that they have the right to speak to
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Speaker 2: other people like that, especially online.
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Speaker 1: Right where you have no relationship.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, like, come on, Like the world is a crappy
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Speaker 2: place enough, let's like be a little bit nicer to
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Speaker 2: each other.
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Speaker 1: Like we do we want to interact with you. Don't
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Speaker 1: let this.
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Speaker 2: Gmail dot com. I tell you we read every single
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Speaker 2: one of them.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, this movie is right in front of me,
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Speaker 1: and Wendy, do you have a synopsis?
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Speaker 2: I do, right in front of me. Carly has a
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Speaker 2: second chance at romance with her college crush, but is
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Speaker 2: unable to impress him until her new friend Nick starts
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Speaker 2: giving her advice. Soon she learns who the right man
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Speaker 2: for her really is. Starring Janelle Parrish and Marco Grazzini.
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Speaker 2: I think that synops, this is not a true synopsis
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Speaker 2: of this movie.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean.
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Speaker 2: Her college crush, all right? Was she trying to impress him?
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Speaker 2: I don't think so, but okay, whatever.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's do some news and notes about this movie.
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Speaker 1: Go for it, okay. So of course it was filmed
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Speaker 1: in Vancouver. It was written by Julie Sherman Wolf And
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Speaker 1: if you have not heard our interview with her. We'll
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Speaker 1: leave a link to that in the show notes. Because
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Speaker 1: she was lovely.
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Speaker 2: We loved her.
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Speaker 1: New Year New Movies movie Taking a Shot at Love
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Speaker 1: that was the first movie of twenty twenty one, and
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Speaker 1: then we have a review of that as well. So
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Speaker 1: I was happy to kind of round out this series
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Speaker 1: with her movie.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was definitely looking forward to this movie because
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Speaker 2: I love her so much. I thought she was so nice.
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Speaker 2: She is now a Facebook friend of mine. As I'm
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Speaker 2: like dusting off the whatever on my shoulders, whatever the
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Speaker 2: kids say. Anyway, I was really looking forward to it
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Speaker 2: because I love the way she writes and I like
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Speaker 2: the line that she puts in there. So we'll talk
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Speaker 2: some more about that. But yes, Julie Sherman woof, you
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Speaker 2: should listen to our I'll drop a link to it
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Speaker 2: our podcast interview we did with her.
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Speaker 1: You might know Janelle Parrish from Pretty Little Liars? Were
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Speaker 1: you a Pretty Little Liar's Watcher? I know, yes, ma'am,
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Speaker 1: Yes I was. I've seen I was not. I've seen
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Speaker 1: a few episodes and I didn't stick with it.
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Speaker 2: I will say, I will say I didn't finish out
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Speaker 2: the series. I watched like the first three seasons of it.
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Speaker 2: I like her. I like her.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Marco Gazzini has starred in several Hallmark movies.
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Speaker 1: And that's all I got for news and notes. Do
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Speaker 1: you have anything else?
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Speaker 2: Zero things? Okay, Well, let's do first impressions and you
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Speaker 2: go first. I felt that Right in front of Me
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Speaker 2: was a solid movie. Not my favorite of the bunch,
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Speaker 2: but a solid movie.
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Speaker 1: It would have been nearly impossible for me to have
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Speaker 1: liked this movie more than I liked as luck would
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Speaker 1: have it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what it's called. I love how you like
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Speaker 2: forget from week to week with the what the heck
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Speaker 2: these movies are called?
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Speaker 1: I knew it was something lucky. It would have been
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Speaker 1: nearly impossible. Look there had That movie had so many
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Speaker 1: things going for it that I loved it so much.
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Speaker 1: But this, I agree, was a solid movie. I think
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Speaker 1: it takes a solid second place among all of the
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Speaker 1: Spring Fling movies for me.
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Speaker 2: Oh good, good, good, good good.
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Speaker 1: All right, what did you like about this movie? Well?
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Speaker 2: I really love the lead actors. I especially loved the
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Speaker 2: guy that played Nick, Marco Grazzini. Is that how you
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Speaker 2: say his last name Grazzini? Grazzini? If it's not please
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Speaker 2: email us unless know how to pronounce.
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Speaker 1: That, Just say high first.
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Speaker 2: Anyhow, I really loved him. I thought he was like
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Speaker 2: natural and super likable, and I like the way they
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Speaker 2: played off each other. I especially liked it wasn't you
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Speaker 2: know I hate you, you hate me, Now we like
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Speaker 2: each other. It started out as like this nice organic
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Speaker 2: relationship and him trying to help her, blah blah blah whatever.
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Speaker 2: So I liked that. I love the clothing. I really
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Speaker 2: love whoever Hallmark style or not that whoever Hallmark hires
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Speaker 2: to do the costuming on these movies. I love, like,
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Speaker 2: please come and pick some clothes out for me. I
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Speaker 2: love it, love it, I love it. Always so cute,
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Speaker 2: she always looked so darling. I loved it. And the
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Speaker 2: very last thing I liked is at the very end
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Speaker 2: when they kissed, she was the one who like went
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Speaker 2: in for the kiss. It wasn't like she was waiting
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Speaker 2: for him to kiss her. I kind I don't know
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Speaker 2: if I ever really noticed that in any of the
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Speaker 2: other movies, but in this one, maybe because the height
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Speaker 2: difference was so noticeable. He's much taller than she is.
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Speaker 2: She's tiny, so maybe like her reaching up to him,
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Speaker 2: like I was like, Oh, she's going for it. I
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Speaker 2: like it. Okay, what about you would you like about
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Speaker 2: this movie?
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Speaker 1: I loved the food and the presentation of the food.
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Speaker 1: There was so much attention to detail paid to that
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Speaker 1: and I loved it. I loved the tiny little fork.
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Speaker 1: I thought that was beautiful. I thought the sets were beautiful.
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Speaker 1: I have something else to say about the sets. Yes,
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Speaker 1: there was the sets where they were the spaces were beautiful,
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Speaker 1: lots of fresh flowers, which I really liked. I also
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Speaker 1: loved Carly's wardrobe. And one thing I really liked is
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Speaker 1: that Matt, who was her college crush. I thought they
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Speaker 1: could have really he could have turned out to be
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Speaker 1: like a jerk, right, It could have been like, oh,
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Speaker 1: why do I have these memories of him? He's actually
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Speaker 1: a jerk? And he wasn't it just he wasn't the
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Speaker 1: guy for her. And I read Julie Sherman Wolf was
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Speaker 1: tweeting along with the premiere of this movie, and I
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Speaker 1: read some of her tweets and she said that it
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Speaker 1: was really important to her that he wasn't a cat,
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Speaker 1: that he you know, it's someone can be not right
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Speaker 1: for you and they don't have to be a bad guy,
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Speaker 1: and I liked that choice that I just wasn't the
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Speaker 1: guy for her. So that's what I liked about this movie.
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Speaker 2: I have a thought about the food. It was very
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Speaker 2: I've been watching the new season of Top Chef on
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Speaker 2: brav and I thought that the food styling in this
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Speaker 2: movie was very like high end. It reminded me of
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Speaker 2: like watching Top Chef when they present these beautiful dishes. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: that was that was fun to watch. And we have
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Speaker 2: a friend, a close friend, who's a food stylist. I
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Speaker 2: would love like. I wonder if they hire food stylists
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Speaker 2: for for movies they must write.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure whether they did for this one, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but certainly movies have food stylists.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Anyway, total side note, All right, what did you
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Speaker 2: wish for in this movie? The one thing that I
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Speaker 2: really wished for in this movie is Carly. I'm tired
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Speaker 2: of the narrative that women have to be more right.
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Speaker 2: So here she is, she's this great stylist. There are
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Speaker 2: obvious tons of professional stylists out there that make a
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Speaker 2: crap ton of money. So she's this like great stylist,
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Speaker 2: blah blah blah whatever. Why does she have to now
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Speaker 2: become a designer. It's like, why why, I agree? I
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Speaker 2: hate that, Like, oh, now you have to be more?
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Speaker 2: Why can't she just be content and good at what
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Speaker 2: she does? Right, And she's booked for a year, right,
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Speaker 2: So it was not a necessary element of the story.
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Speaker 2: I thought the overall, she has a successful career, and
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Speaker 2: I didn't feel like they sold it to me that
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Speaker 2: she really wanted more, Like she seemed very happy in
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Speaker 2: the job. It was just like they felt like they
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Speaker 2: needed I think they could have had all of those
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Speaker 2: elements of her kind of coming in to save the
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Speaker 2: day with the bride'smaid's dresses and her altering her own dress,
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Speaker 2: Like those could have been fun little elements without them
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Speaker 2: leading to.
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Speaker 1: A career change, right, you know. And her friend could
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Speaker 1: have said, you know, like you have such a talent.
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Speaker 1: She could have said, I know, that's just you know,
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Speaker 1: I enjoy that, but my heart's in styling. I think
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Speaker 1: you could have done those things without needing her, Like
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Speaker 1: you said, to be more.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, what did you wish for?
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Speaker 1: I well, I have a couple of very small wishes.
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Speaker 1: One I wished for some different scenery. We spend the
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Speaker 1: first half of the movie at least like in one room.
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Speaker 1: Like they're in that hotel lobby and it's like the
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Speaker 1: cocktail hour, and like like every scene happens in that
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Speaker 1: one room.
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Speaker 2: Was the actual wedding ceremony in that room too?
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Speaker 1: It seemed like it. Yeah, and you know, I get it.
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Speaker 1: There's more in the final section that I'll talk about.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was a pretty room. It was a
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Speaker 1: beautiful room, and I liked that when they were in
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Speaker 1: the hotel there was always something happening in the background.
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Speaker 1: Granted it wasn't a huge cast. It was always like
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Speaker 1: members of this tiny, little wedding party. But I did
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Speaker 1: like that there were things going on in the background,
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Speaker 1: which we don't always get. Sometimes we just get like
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Speaker 1: a real tight shot of a corner and there's no
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Speaker 1: need to include the other people. But I just wished
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Speaker 1: for a little bit of a variation.
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Speaker 2: The girl who played the bride looked very familiar, and
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Speaker 2: I could not put my thumb on it. Where she
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Speaker 2: what she's from? Did she look familiar to you at all?
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Speaker 1: Nope?
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Speaker 2: Shall we IMDb it? Sure we can do. The other
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Speaker 2: thing is the other gal who played one of the bridesmaids.
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Speaker 2: She is She has been in so many movies this year.
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Speaker 2: It's funny how sometimes she has a much larger role
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Speaker 2: and then she has a much smaller role. I wonder,
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Speaker 2: is she just like a secondary actor, Like she's never
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Speaker 2: had like a lead role in any of the movies
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Speaker 2: we've watched. Has she not?
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Speaker 1: That I recall? I do know who you're talking about. Okay.
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Speaker 1: The bride is played by an actress named Claire Philip Howe. Oh.
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Speaker 1: She was in on the Twelfth Date of Christmas with
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Speaker 1: our buddy Tyler Hines.
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Speaker 2: I loved that movie. I don't remember what she was
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Speaker 2: what she played in that movie, but maybe that's just
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Speaker 2: where I recognize her.
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Speaker 1: Her name was Shannon in the movie. I don't remember either,
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Speaker 1: but perhaps that's what we remember her from. And I
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Speaker 1: agree that that other actress isn't a lot she Alexander.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's her. She was definitely in that time travel
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Speaker 2: movie with her. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: She's been in something else too. This year.
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Speaker 1: She was in Love Lights Hanukkah. She was in a
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Speaker 1: Timeless Christmas and I think that's all that we've watched.
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Speaker 1: But she has and several Hallmark movie credits, and actually
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Speaker 1: the third Brides may look familiar to me as well,
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Speaker 1: and her name is Mercedes Dai La Cruz. She's also
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Speaker 1: been in some other Hallmark movies, including a lone Star
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Speaker 1: Christmas that also starred Mark Eny. Yeah, another small, tiny
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Speaker 1: little wish to your point about her wardrobe. She was
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Speaker 1: going on a relaxing weekend away and the entire time
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Speaker 1: she's dressed like she's going to work. Even her date
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Speaker 1: outfit looks like something you would wear to thee. I
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Speaker 1: loved her wedding dress. I thought that was beautiful, but
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Speaker 1: I thought, really, you're not gonna bring you don't need
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Speaker 1: to be in joggers. But even people who dress up
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Speaker 1: for work and who were in fashion can dress casually
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Speaker 1: and look nice.
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Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 1: I just thought, don't you want to be a little more.
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Speaker 1: I thought she looked great, I mean her, I loved
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Speaker 1: her dresses, but I thought she looked corporate a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Maybe she thought she was going out with I mean,
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Speaker 2: she wasn't really wearing stuff that was like hitting the town,
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Speaker 2: but like because she was supposed to be there with
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Speaker 2: her friend, who like was absent most of the time.
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Speaker 2: But maybe they were supposed to like, oh my god,
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Speaker 2: I'm like reading too much into this freaking backstory. It
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Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Yes, I agree that her too corporate.
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Speaker 1: Okay, tiver uh roadblocks in the way of our movie couple.
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Speaker 1: And there's kind of really only one big one here, Okay,
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Speaker 1: go ahead, Well, and that is that Carly starts out
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Speaker 1: pursuing Matt and Nick is helping her in the pursuit
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Speaker 1: of Matt.
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Speaker 2: Oh that's not mine, but okay, I agree that, right,
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Speaker 2: what's you as yours? Nick got a big fat nope
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Speaker 2: from getting an investor. You know, that's not like a
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Speaker 2: roadblock to their relationship, but like it's a roadblock to
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Speaker 2: the story of like him moving on and pursuing his
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Speaker 2: own dreams of becoming a whatever, a head chef or whatever.
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Speaker 1: I think you're right that it is a roadblock to
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Speaker 1: their relationship. And I actually strongly disliked that moment where
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Speaker 1: he gets the no. He tells her, he gets the
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Speaker 1: know she's about to have the conversation about the fact
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Speaker 1: that she has feelings for him, and he doesn't want
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Speaker 1: to have the conversation because he's but hurt about getting rejected.
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Speaker 2: Well, he would. You would be a little devastated too,
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Speaker 2: I guess, right if you got it told no about something,
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Speaker 2: but like.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't even want to be around her anymore. I
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Speaker 1: would be devastated too, but the alone now our relationship
19:03
Speaker 1: can't happen either, because I'm a big baby. Look. I
19:07
Speaker 1: had a college boyfriend who had a bad day and
19:08
Speaker 1: broke up with me simply because he had a bad day,
19:11
Speaker 1: and then like a week later was like, oh, that
19:13
Speaker 1: was a mistake, and I was like, too freaking bad dude, because.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, did you tell him to eat it?
19:21
Speaker 1: I should have, because I was like, I'm not going
19:23
Speaker 1: to be the girl that you on and then come
19:27
Speaker 1: back to when like, oh I'm in a better mood. Now.
19:30
Speaker 1: That's not how relationships work. So I didn't love that,
19:34
Speaker 1: although I'm sure I would have been like crabby abby
19:37
Speaker 1: about it too.
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Speaker 2: It's okay, you don't have to take it down in
19:40
Speaker 2: the person that you're in a relationship with or.
19:43
Speaker 1: Like about to be like that's exciting. I don't know exactly, great, right, Okay,
19:49
Speaker 1: all right, I have something very exciting for Did.
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Speaker 2: You see that I'm looking forward to this? If you guys, well,
19:54
Speaker 2: we didn't tell you, but Megan sent me a text
19:56
Speaker 2: and she's like, hey, I'm gonna throw you a curveball.
19:58
Speaker 2: So I'm waiting for it, Megan.
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Speaker 1: Let's not overhype it, because Okay, here's what's going to happen.
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Speaker 1: I mentioned previously in the episode that Julie Sherman wolf
20:06
Speaker 1: was live tweeting along with this movie, and as I
20:08
Speaker 1: was reading her tweets, I realized that a number of
20:10
Speaker 1: things that we would discuss in a did you see
20:12
Speaker 1: that moment were answered by her. So I thought we
20:15
Speaker 1: would do kind of a did you see that with
20:17
Speaker 1: Julie Sherman Wolfe's reaction to that moment that she anticipated
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Speaker 1: people would be having did you see that? Moments about
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Speaker 1: are you into it?
20:24
Speaker 2: I'm into it? Yes.
20:26
Speaker 1: The first did you do that? Moment? And these are
20:28
Speaker 1: not in chronological order. These are just in the order
20:30
Speaker 1: in which I've written them down, is Carly alters the
20:35
Speaker 1: dress she's going to wear to the wedding, and all
20:37
Speaker 1: of a sudden she has a mini sewing machine and
20:40
Speaker 1: all of these sewing supplies. And the question is where
20:43
Speaker 1: on vacation did she get these supplies? The answer is
20:48
Speaker 1: that was in a scene that was cut from the movie.
20:52
Speaker 2: I wonder where they cut that, because I just thought
20:54
Speaker 2: it was necessary to time have her run out. But
20:58
Speaker 2: that's those are my favorite parts. Throw a good music
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Speaker 2: on and make it a freaking montage where she's making
21:04
Speaker 2: a dress and getting all the supplies and doing all
21:06
Speaker 2: that fun stuff. That's what I love.
21:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, give us a shopping montage. Did you
21:11
Speaker 1: notice they made some moores indoors?
21:13
Speaker 2: I did?
21:15
Speaker 1: Did you wonder? Why?
21:17
Speaker 2: No? Because I have made some moores indoors too, Let
21:20
Speaker 2: have I.
21:20
Speaker 1: But it's typically like a fire pit situation, especially in
21:22
Speaker 1: a Hallmark movie. They love a good fire pit situation. Unfortunately,
21:27
Speaker 1: during this week, the weather was terrible in Vancouver, and
21:30
Speaker 1: then we're not able to have their outdoor some more situation.
21:33
Speaker 2: Terrible like what snow or cold or I'm guessing just
21:37
Speaker 2: bad elements.
21:39
Speaker 1: All I read was terrible, but I'm guessing it was
21:42
Speaker 1: pretty cold. That answers that question, which also leads me
21:45
Speaker 1: to believe that perhaps the weather is a factor and
21:48
Speaker 1: why much of this movie takes place in one indoor space,
21:52
Speaker 1: Like they didn't have an outdoor cocktail party, and they
21:54
Speaker 1: didn't have them running into each other on the grounds
21:56
Speaker 1: of the hotel. Everything's in the lobby.
21:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, can we talk about that lobby for a second, Yeah,
22:03
Speaker 2: to me, it looked like they were just in a
22:06
Speaker 2: really big home, some sort of chalet or something, because
22:10
Speaker 2: the lobby quote unquote was like always in front of
22:13
Speaker 2: this like huge fireplace, right, and what I was very confused.
22:19
Speaker 2: They showed like nick behind like cooking food behind like
22:23
Speaker 2: a bar type. It looked like it looked like a
22:26
Speaker 2: home kitchen, and there was like a regular refrigerator in
22:28
Speaker 2: the background. And so am I to believe like there's
22:31
Speaker 2: this weird little home kitchen in a lobby of a bar,
22:35
Speaker 2: I mean lobby of a hotel. It just was bizarre
22:38
Speaker 2: like this. When I watch these movies, I totally look
22:42
Speaker 2: at the backgrounds and even if they have like the
22:45
Speaker 2: scenes are really tight so you can't see what's going on.
22:48
Speaker 2: We all know what was that movie from the Winter
22:50
Speaker 2: movies that they it was a restaurant space that they
22:54
Speaker 2: turned into a hotel or something, So it wouldn't surprise
22:59
Speaker 2: me if this was not actually filmed at a hotel.
23:04
Speaker 1: Agree, I did not actually see any information about where
23:07
Speaker 1: that location was, but I agree that they took this
23:10
Speaker 1: one big space. It's kind of like this open floor
23:12
Speaker 1: plan house and they were like this is your kitchen,
23:14
Speaker 1: bar space, and this is your cocktail hour space, and
23:17
Speaker 1: this is your webing right space, all in one big space. Okay.
23:20
Speaker 1: The hot Wing scene. Yeah, did you enjoy the hot
23:23
Speaker 1: Wing scene? No?
23:25
Speaker 2: I didn't really care for it. I don't like hot
23:27
Speaker 2: Wings personally.
23:29
Speaker 1: Neither do I. I did like that Carly kind of
23:32
Speaker 1: owned Nick and Matt. But Julie Sherman Wolf has been
23:35
Speaker 1: trying to get that scene into a movie for years,
23:38
Speaker 1: and she was finally able to make it happen.
23:41
Speaker 2: Well, I wonder if Julie likes hot Wings. She must
23:44
Speaker 2: write she.
23:45
Speaker 1: Must or she just like had that idea and she
23:47
Speaker 1: was like, I'm gonna make it happen.
23:50
Speaker 2: That's funny.
23:51
Speaker 1: Okay. The tiny fork, uh huh? One I could relate
23:56
Speaker 1: to that. I like to enjoy my dessert. I do not,
23:58
Speaker 1: I like I would. Given an option, I would prefer
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Speaker 1: to take dessert home from a restaurant, have deserted home
24:04
Speaker 1: so I can enjoy it slowly. I resonated with that.
24:08
Speaker 2: Where does where does one get a tiny fork from?
24:11
Speaker 1: I don't know.
24:12
Speaker 2: We're not talking about like the salad fork, right, We're
24:16
Speaker 2: talking it's a tiny fork, and actually that is Julie
24:20
Speaker 2: Sherman Wolf's own personal quirk that she enjoys, and she
24:22
Speaker 2: posted the photo of her own tiny Fork and she
24:24
Speaker 2: like for dessert. Well, I will tell you that when
24:27
Speaker 2: at the end of the movie, when they show up
24:29
Speaker 2: at the Tiny Fork restaurant and they reveal, like that's
24:34
Speaker 2: the name of it, I let out an audible ah
24:38
Speaker 2: so sweet.
24:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like, coun't actually see that being a restaurant, Like,
24:43
Speaker 1: that's a cute name for a restaurant.
24:45
Speaker 2: I should have figured it out that that's what it
24:48
Speaker 2: was going to be called, But I thought that was adorable.
24:52
Speaker 1: Did we see did I just look away? How much
24:55
Speaker 1: time passed in between her leaving and coming back to the.
24:58
Speaker 2: I don't know if they showed like a three months Yeah, yeah,
25:01
Speaker 2: I don't. I can't recall if they did or not.
25:05
Speaker 1: We know time has passed because she goes home, she
25:07
Speaker 1: has sketches, she creates this whole line. She comes back
25:10
Speaker 1: for the launch of the line. I was just curious.
25:11
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously he had to create this whole restaurant.
25:14
Speaker 2: I know, how fast does that happen?
25:15
Speaker 1: And that's all I have for Did you see that?
25:17
Speaker 2: I have one or two? Okay? Did you notice, like
25:22
Speaker 2: how much these actors had to talk with food in
25:24
Speaker 2: their mouths. I mean, there's no way around it. You're
25:28
Speaker 2: eating a ton of food in this movie, so I
25:30
Speaker 2: guess there's no way around it. But like every single
25:33
Speaker 2: time they're like covering their face like as they chew
25:37
Speaker 2: or like, you know.
25:38
Speaker 1: Julie had something to say about that too, and oh
25:40
Speaker 1: did shed Talking with food in your mouth is never
25:43
Speaker 1: not funny. So that was her feeling about that.
25:45
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I also have one more and it's such
25:47
Speaker 2: a tiny little note here, but she had asked for
25:51
Speaker 2: when Nick was behind this kitchen bar in the hotel lobby,
25:55
Speaker 2: She'd asked for like a sparkling water with cherries, which
25:58
Speaker 2: I thought, ooh, that sounds the But he poured the
26:02
Speaker 2: sparkling water from a pitcher instead of like a what
26:06
Speaker 2: you would typically encounter at a you know, hotel bar
26:09
Speaker 2: is like a you know, one of those like soda
26:12
Speaker 2: machine guns or what you know.
26:13
Speaker 1: What you're talking about, right, Yeah, I was like.
26:15
Speaker 2: Why is there sparkling water in a picture? That is
26:17
Speaker 2: so bizarre? And there was no flat There was no
26:20
Speaker 2: ice in the drink either, which I thought was so
26:23
Speaker 2: bizarre too. But I'm into the sparkling water and Martino
26:27
Speaker 2: cherry thing. I may try that. That sounds delicious, doesn't it.
26:32
Speaker 1: Yeah? I like that. I like it's summer drink now.
26:35
Speaker 1: There were a lot of tweets during this movie that
26:38
Speaker 1: were like, I would let Nick made me anything I'm
26:41
Speaker 1: allergic to.
26:41
Speaker 2: There were a lot of the I find him very
26:47
Speaker 2: handsome and I haven't seen him in anything else, so
26:49
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed him.
26:51
Speaker 1: Agree, agree, all right, what's time for rating? Okay, Dock,
26:56
Speaker 1: what would you like to rate this movie? Well, I,
26:59
Speaker 1: like I said, it's a solid movie. I was really
27:02
Speaker 1: looking forward to this movie because I love Julie Sherman Wolf.
27:05
Speaker 1: I feel like she writes movies for me as a viewer,
27:09
Speaker 1: like I feel seen when I watch these movies for
27:12
Speaker 1: some reason. I don't know if it's just the line
27:14
Speaker 1: she use or she's just very hip. I don't know.
27:18
Speaker 2: Anyway, I was really looking forward to this movie. I
27:21
Speaker 2: give this movie three stars. It was a solid movie.
27:24
Speaker 1: This gets a three and a half stars for me,
27:26
Speaker 1: Like I said, it ranks number two. I don't know
27:28
Speaker 1: that I've given anything else at three and a half stars.
27:29
Speaker 1: I have to go back and look. I think maybe
27:31
Speaker 1: a three is my highest prior to as luck would
27:35
Speaker 1: have it, which was a four star movie for me. Right,
27:37
Speaker 1: I really really enjoyed this.
27:39
Speaker 2: I liked it too, and I like that it's one
27:42
Speaker 2: of those movies that can be played throughout the year.
27:47
Speaker 2: It's not like holiday specific, and.
27:49
Speaker 1: That's what I like too, especially since the entire thing
27:51
Speaker 1: is inside. Will we be reviewing Hearts down Under next week?
27:54
Speaker 2: Are we?
27:55
Speaker 1: I'm asking?
27:57
Speaker 2: I guess. I mean, first, thank Fall, I love Hey,
28:02
Speaker 2: give me the Australian outback. I'm into that. I'm into
28:07
Speaker 2: that Australian accent. I'm gonna have to rally for Sandy
28:11
Speaker 2: Busby though.
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Speaker 1: All Right, we've just done a long trip down what's
28:16
Speaker 1: coming from Hallmark? We do know that next is Heart's
28:19
Speaker 1: down Under. We get a couple others stand alone Hallmark
28:23
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28:28
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