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A Winning Team · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: We have Emily, who's kind of like the female Roy Kent.
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  Speaker 2: Oh see, I actually like in Church you Jamie.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Megan and I'm a lifelong Hallmark movie fan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Wendy and I don't approve Chris Polaja's hair in
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  Speaker 2: this movie.
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  Speaker 1: Why come on today? We're discussing a winning team which
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  Speaker 1: originally aired on Saturday, March eighteenth on the Hallmark Channel.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to connect with us outside of the podcast,
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  Speaker 1: we'd love for you to follow us on Instagram. We
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  Speaker 1: are both at Girls Gone Hallmark and at Megan and Wendy.
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  Speaker 2: You can also email us anytime Megan and Wendy at
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  Speaker 2: gmail dot com, or pop into our Girls Gone Hallmark
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  Speaker 2: Facebook group. We're going to talk a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: about our Facebook group in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, tell me some Hallmark news.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, we've been hitting the Hallmark News tap
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  Speaker 2: quite a bit and there's not a whole lot coming
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  Speaker 2: out of their camp lately. I'm calling this section a
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark News and Notes plus a little housekeeping.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Springing to Love officially kicks off next week with a
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  Speaker 2: Tyler Hines movie called Picture of Her I mistaken.
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  Speaker 1: Lee said that that movie was this week on the
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  Speaker 1: of last week's episode. If anybody's like, what are you doing,
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  Speaker 1: that's what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, Well, we have the entire spring lineup on
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  Speaker 2: our website at meganowindy dot com. Are you looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to the Tyler Hines movie always? I'm telling you, if
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  Speaker 2: the man does not have a candy been hanging out
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  Speaker 2: of his mouth, I might revolt.
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  Speaker 1: Look, he can make a bad movie watchable absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Facebook group member and podcast listener Mike was talking about
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  Speaker 2: in the group how Heines always like greets friends or
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  Speaker 2: people like hello friends in the movies and how he
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  Speaker 2: really like it sees him in person one day wants
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  Speaker 2: him to say that to him.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's a great moment. Yeah, I was. I
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  Speaker 1: was thinking about it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you and I have talked about hopefully maybe
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  Speaker 2: going to Christmas Con this summer.
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  Speaker 1: Is it this summer? Right?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm going to say, like I think, listener Mike
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  Speaker 2: needs to come out.
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  Speaker 1: Let's have a girl's gone Hallmark med them Christmas Con.
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  Speaker 1: Let us know, yeah, and let's just try to get
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  Speaker 1: like picks with Hines and all that fun stuff. But
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  Speaker 1: you are looking forward to that movie. I am not
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  Speaker 1: about the movie. The previews are not leading me. They
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  Speaker 1: believe that the movie's gonna be like some mind blowing,
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  Speaker 1: groundbreaking Hallmark ou But I obviously we love Tyler Hines.
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  Speaker 1: Rhiannon Fish is new wish to me, but I think
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  Speaker 1: she'll do well. I think it's a nice pairing.
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  Speaker 2: That's funny you bring that up because base today's movie,
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about a winning team. I'm like, are they
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  Speaker 2: trying to introduce like newer newcomers with like seasoned actors.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's always the move, often the move. I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you, I don't really like it. Oh no, I
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  Speaker 1: like a fresh face, so do I.
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  Speaker 2: But I like familiar favorites as well, sure, which is
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  Speaker 2: why they bring them in.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, you're gonna watch this rhiannon Fish movie because
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  Speaker 1: it's got our boy, Candy Kane McGee.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about last week's Unexpected Grace. Last week's episode,
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  Speaker 2: the Friday Bonus episode, we did talk about the ratings
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  Speaker 2: for that movie and how it didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Fare very well.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I looked them up again, and I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if this.
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  Speaker 1: Is the what do they call it? Three plus Live
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  Speaker 1: plus three. The numbers that I.
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  Speaker 2: Came across are that it came in at number one
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  Speaker 2: oh six hour out of one point fifty.
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  Speaker 1: Keep in mind those rankings are not based on viewership,
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  Speaker 1: they're based on share of the demo. I have that
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  Speaker 1: number as well. Okay, zero point zero four. That's not good.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it was our most few show.
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  Speaker 2: I have a thought, Well, I was gonna talk about
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  Speaker 2: like the heated debate in our Facebook group, but what
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  Speaker 2: are you really mean towards This.
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  Speaker 1: Is a brief thought. I think this. Damn it, it
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  Speaker 1: is raining again. I can't handle it. Oh rain, it
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  Speaker 1: broke me fyday. Look, I love the rain. I hate summer.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not looking forward to summer at all at all.
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  Speaker 1: But there wasn't even supposed or rain today. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: sposed to rain yesterday. Every time I turned around, it
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  Speaker 1: is raining. I just Saturday. I'm not even an outdoors
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  Speaker 1: a person. It was so sunny and beautiful on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: that I sat outside like a lizard and I was
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  Speaker 1: like soaking it up because it was so nice, like
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  Speaker 1: the birds were chure. Okay, my husband he was complaining
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  Speaker 1: about the rain.
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  Speaker 2: Too, and I was like, dude, you want to move
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  Speaker 2: to potentially a cold weather, rainy state, and he's like,
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  Speaker 2: first of all, Gennifer has the most sunniest days. That
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  Speaker 2: is true, Okay, fine, and then he goes, second of all, I.
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  Speaker 1: Pay premium to live in southern California the rain every
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  Speaker 1: freaking week. That's true. I know. Someone was like, I
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  Speaker 1: pay high taxes to live here, and I want my
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  Speaker 1: money back. So my husband also would like to move
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  Speaker 1: to some place with quote seasons, and I think we're
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  Speaker 1: in season A Cole weeks ago he was like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know about moving somewhere where it's cold like this
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  Speaker 1: all the time. Back on track, I have a prediction
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  Speaker 1: based on absolutely nothing, and that is that this movie
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  Speaker 1: might be one of those slow burned movies that people
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  Speaker 1: turn to and they're like, that was a really lovely story.
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  Speaker 1: In our Facebook group, that happens a lot when we
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  Speaker 1: have a movie on a particular topic, people will share like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: here's other great portrays of this. That's why I love
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  Speaker 1: our group. Yeah. Yes, and I have obviously have not
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  Speaker 1: seen every homemark movie made. It's great to get those recommendations.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that might be what happens with this movie. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now let's talk about the hullabaloo as it were. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Say there was a pretty heated conversation about the premise
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  Speaker 2: of this movie or what happened in this movie in
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  Speaker 2: our Facebook group.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and did you have We'll tell everybody what it
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  Speaker 1: was about in a moment. But did you have those
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  Speaker 1: feelings watching this movie?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Not once.
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  Speaker 2: Was I pleased with what Noel did about not being fourthright,
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  Speaker 2: forthright about her daughter dying? Did she handle it not
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  Speaker 2: quite right?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: That was all messy, but no, I did not agree
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  Speaker 2: with the claims that were being made.
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  Speaker 1: There were some people who felt like Noel's behavior boarded
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  Speaker 1: on grooming. It made them really uncomfortable, and people felt
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  Speaker 1: really strongly that way, and then people felt really strongly
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  Speaker 1: the other way. Even I'm really highly suggestible. So if
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  Speaker 1: someone's like, actually I think this, I'll go, oh, that's
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  Speaker 1: a good idea. Yeah, same, That's what happened for me here.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like they righted the ship at the right moment.
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  Speaker 1: Was it weird when she was like she can stay
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  Speaker 1: here with me? It was weird And her dad was like,
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  Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen. He reacted appropriately too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I also don't think Noel was suggesting that
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  Speaker 2: Grace stay there so she could groom.
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  Speaker 1: Her for nefarious purpose. Yes, yes, I feel like she
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  Speaker 1: was developing this relationship in a motherly way. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: stand by I think this is a really beautiful movie.
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  Speaker 1: I agree.
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  Speaker 2: So if you guys want to see everything that went down,
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  Speaker 2: click our link in the show notes to join a
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  Speaker 2: Facebook group.
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  Speaker 1: One last bit of news and notes. This past weekend
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  Speaker 1: was Nineties Con, put on by the That's Entertainment Group,
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  Speaker 1: who also puts on Christmas Con twice a year, and
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  Speaker 1: among the many Nineties stars in attendance was Jody Sweeten
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  Speaker 1: along with some of her Full and Fuller House co stars,
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  Speaker 1: including Candace Cameron Beret. And there has been no outward
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  Speaker 1: statement of Jody and Candace saying like we're not friends
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  Speaker 1: with each other. But I like to read between the lines,
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  Speaker 1: and this has made some very public statements. And then
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  Speaker 1: Jody will counteract by not addressing Candace personally, but by
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  Speaker 1: posting content that is in contrast to yes CCB's beliefs.
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  Speaker 1: So when I saw her post from this weekend, she's wearing,
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  Speaker 1: among other things, a T shirt that says Levia, and she,
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  Speaker 1: in her caption says big thank you to Dylan mulvaney
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  Speaker 1: for my love yeah shirt. Now, Dylan mulvaney is a
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  Speaker 1: very public trans woman, and she has a fun follow
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  Speaker 1: on TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: M hm.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like a statement. I think so too. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a statement. I think it's a big middle finger. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: I do. And I tiptoed into the comments on Toty's
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  Speaker 1: Instagram posts and then I like backpedaled real quickly. I
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  Speaker 1: could not stay there for very long. Our understanding is
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  Speaker 1: they were in the same room together. They didn't really
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  Speaker 1: interact right like the two of us are doing. People
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  Speaker 1: read into those interactions obviously, we cannot know that happened.
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  Speaker 1: To think we're right.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's telling that there was not a photo
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  Speaker 2: taken of them together other than a full.
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  Speaker 1: Group shot where they are not next to each other.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and it appears that CCB had her right hand man,
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  Speaker 2: Andrea Barber, with her the entire time, which is it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of funny because Andrew Barber lives locally to us, She's.
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  Speaker 1: She's an Orange County lady. My opinion of her.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe is not fair because of who she associates with,
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  Speaker 2: I guess.
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  Speaker 1: She works for GUS. Yeah, I don't think it's unfair
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  Speaker 1: to suggest that perhaps she shares some of those opinions.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to suggest you stay off of CCB's Instagram,
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  Speaker 2: I am, because I went over there and it was
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  Speaker 2: just real bad.
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  Speaker 1: Well, speaking of getting fired up, yeah, let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: a winning team. Oh my god, that's her A synopsis
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  Speaker 1: all right.
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  Speaker 2: When pro soccer player Emily finds herself no longer in
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  Speaker 2: the game, she teams up with Ian, a laid back
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  Speaker 2: small town coach, to lead her niece's team to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Starring Nadia Hatta and Christopher Polaha, this.
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  Speaker 1: Movie was written by Ronnie Yuashiro. She has one and
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  Speaker 1: only writing credit. And I'd like to read you I
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  Speaker 1: caption from an Instagram post of hers if I may,
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  Speaker 1: he says, if you know me, then you know I've
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  Speaker 1: been pursuing this writing dream for more than two decades.
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  Speaker 1: Two decades. That is a long time, and truth be told,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't sure it would ever happen. So I'm extra
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  Speaker 1: proud that my first movie features both youth soccer and
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  Speaker 1: a badass Asian lead. Do things very close to my heart.
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  Speaker 1: Representation is important and I feel grateful I've played a
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  Speaker 1: small part in that. I just enjoyed that. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to share it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I looked at her LinkedIn because I was
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  Speaker 2: looking for.
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  Speaker 1: More information about who she was.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, and she did attend the University of Southern
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  Speaker 2: California like writing program for film and movies. Like she
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  Speaker 2: has been working on this for a long time, So
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  Speaker 2: like I'm proud of her, know her, but like I'm
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  Speaker 2: proud of her for finally getting the writing credit that.
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  Speaker 1: I felt the same feeling pride for.
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  Speaker 2: This movie stars obviously Christopher Polaha. He plays Ian. Everyone
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  Speaker 2: knows who Chris is, right. He was in last year's
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: We Wish You Had Married Christmas and movie we both
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  Speaker 2: really enjoyed, and had a cameo in Haul Out the Holly.
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  Speaker 2: He will start in the highly anticipated A Biltmore Christmas
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  Speaker 2: later this year. I'm actually really looking forward to that movie.
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  Speaker 2: I hope it doesn't let me down. And according to
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  Speaker 2: his IMDb, he has a ton of upcoming work, including
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  Speaker 2: Harlan Coben's Shelter, which I think might be a Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: Movie based on the book. Yeah, yeah, he's.
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  Speaker 2: Not listed on the like IMDb as like a main character.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh, but you know IMDb is hit or.
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  Speaker 1: Miss unreliable in its accuracy. Yeah. This was directed by
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  Speaker 1: Jason Ferrokawa, who has thirteen directing credits, including A Magical
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  Speaker 1: Christmas Village. But he has worked as an assistant director
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  Speaker 1: on seventy one Wow projects, including Pachenko on Apple TV,
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  Speaker 1: plus The Simone Bio Story and tons of Hallmarks, so
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  Speaker 1: he's been in the directing gig for quite a while.
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  Speaker 2: Nadia had to places three time World Cut soccer champion Emily.
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  Speaker 2: According to her IMDb, She's best known for her role
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  Speaker 2: in a series called Away on Netflix, and this is
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  Speaker 2: her first Hallmark movie. I'd also like to note that
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  Speaker 2: she was a VJ at MTV Asia at one time.
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  Speaker 1: What Yeah. Marct House plays Coach Avala in this movie.
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  Speaker 1: She has one hundred to two acting credits Wow a
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  Speaker 1: broad range things like Monster High and Ivy and Bean,
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  Speaker 1: but also Hallmark movies like Christmas and Evergreen Bells Are Ringing,
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  Speaker 1: Cranberry Christmas, Picture Perfect Mysteries. She was in some episodes
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  Speaker 1: of Chesapeake Shores. I mean, she has just been working
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  Speaker 1: a real standout performance for me in this movie. She
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  Speaker 1: was the coach, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, did you recognize a deal Zadi?
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  Speaker 1: I did.
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  Speaker 2: He's been in a ton of stuff and he's always
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  Speaker 2: like the friend of role in these Hallmark movies.
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  Speaker 1: Justice for a Dill.
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you it's time the man. He's a lead
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  Speaker 2: role and I think he's pretty dang cute too.
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  Speaker 1: Nicki Garcia plays Eva. She has only a handful of
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  Speaker 1: acting credits, including an uncredited roll in the Hallmark movie
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  Speaker 1: Five More Minutes, and I hope that this is just
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  Speaker 1: the beginning for her. She was really cute. I liked
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  Speaker 1: her too.
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  Speaker 2: This was filmed in Vancouver during wintertime, which made this
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  Speaker 2: spring movie hard to film, especially the outdoor soccer scenes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is like Snowy, the second movie in a row.
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  Speaker 1: We've got epic snowstorms impacting filming. Let's move on to
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  Speaker 1: first impressions. I'm gonna let you go first, fresh genre,
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  Speaker 1: fresh cast, stale tropes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I put typical Hallmark fair with a dash of
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  Speaker 2: ted Lasso.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have that ted Lasso. I'm gonna sort of
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  Speaker 1: run into what I liked with that, Okay, because I
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  Speaker 1: liked the soccer. I think that's a fresh take on
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  Speaker 1: a genre, on a storyline. We're not in an old
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  Speaker 1: town candy shop. We're not small down. I liked it,
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  Speaker 1: and I think the timing is is great. Had last
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  Speaker 1: of Season three launch last week. We have Emily, who's
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: kind of like the female Roy Kent.
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  Speaker 2: Oh see, I actually like in urchy Jamie Okay, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like because he's so aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that's so crouchy. I think it's a good
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  Speaker 1: amalgamation of those two. Now, obviously I'm not the soccer
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  Speaker 1: one of the two of us. You live a much
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  Speaker 1: more soccer life than I do, so I'm sure you
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  Speaker 1: have some thoughts. I haven't been the soccer game since
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  Speaker 1: since I was in high school.
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  Speaker 2: I have lots of thoughts. What did you like about
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  Speaker 2: this movie? Other than the soccer genre, I.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Thought there was some real snappy dialogue in this. I agree, agree,
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  Speaker 1: loved a nod to the Swifties. The timing again excellent.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: The airs tour kicked off on Friday night. I just
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  Speaker 1: thought it was really fresh dialogue.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they used words I wrote this down sus yeah,
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  Speaker 2: low key yeah. And then when coach Ian tells the
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: girls to stay off TikTok, I was like, wow, Wow, yep.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if that went over the heads of some
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  Speaker 2: of maybe the more mature viewers of Hallmark. Yeah, maybe
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say shout out for the Asian American casting
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  Speaker 2: throughout this movie. Yeah, I love when Homemark has a
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  Speaker 2: nice diverse cast and we're not it's a movie not
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: about like a Chinese.
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  Speaker 1: Restaurant or.
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  Speaker 2: Chinese New Year or whatever. Like it's not even like addressed,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? I like it.
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  Speaker 1: I thought those exact same thoughts. I was looking at
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  Speaker 1: IMDb while you were talking because I was curious about something.
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  Speaker 1: And this has a whole host of executive producers, but
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: one of whom is Jua Batkina. Do you recall what
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  Speaker 1: I have said about the kind of story Juabatcin likes
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  Speaker 1: to write family drama. She likes to write complicated relationships.
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  Speaker 1: This is rated for real out but she was a producer.
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  Speaker 1: She was not a writer on this. But I thought
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  Speaker 1: toward the end of this movie, we had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of gems, and a lot of them came from Emily's brother.
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  Speaker 1: And first she's talking to him about how you know
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  Speaker 1: she and Ian like how disappointed he was that she
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  Speaker 1: was leaving. And she's like, what does he think I
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  Speaker 1: was gonna do? Like I had to go back to
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  Speaker 1: my team, and he says maybe he thought he was
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  Speaker 1: the team too, like his marriage had ended because his
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  Speaker 1: wife wasn't willing, Like she could either be a wife
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: or she could be a doctor, she couldn't be both.
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  Speaker 1: And now here he is in this same situation. Again.
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  Speaker 1: I have some thoughts about how he behaved, but I
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  Speaker 1: thought that was really interesting. Maybe he thought he was
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  Speaker 1: the team too, because then the brother says, it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to be either soccer or us, Like, let's get
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  Speaker 1: to the point where you find a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: in your life. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So that's one of the through lines that I liked
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  Speaker 2: about this movie is you can have your something, but
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  Speaker 2: you're something doesn't have.
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  Speaker 1: To be your everything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Great, and I enjoy that, Like you could love
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  Speaker 2: soccer and acting, they still have fun doing both, Like
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I thought that was a good message. Or for Emily,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: like exploring hobbies outside of like she was just so
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: consumed with soccer and training and this is who I am.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: So I did enjoy that through line.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: However, I did think.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: That there was some weird guilty feelings. Sure, I'm going
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: to talk more about that, Okay, in our next section.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: I gotta say that Christopher Paulaja continues to impress me.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: And there were some scenes in this movie where I
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: thought he had They were wonderful, heartfelt scenes, like I
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: truly believe he's such a good actor. I didn't love
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it now. I didn't love the script.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I thought it was kind of boring the story. The story,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: and I think he deserves a meteor role. But like,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: for example, when him and Emily are in the kitchen
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: and he's telling the story of why he and his
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: ex broke up, like I felt it was very enjoyable
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: to watch, Like he just I don't. I just find
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: him to be a very good actor. Yeah, I think
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: this was a miscast for him though.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Oh interesting.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I felt like this was a good movie for a newcomer,
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: but not a good.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Movie for like a seasoned vet. Okay, Okay, those are
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: my opinions.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: That's fine, and put the tamber judge meme up. Let's
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: talk what we wished for. Okay, again, I thought the
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: movie was pretty boring overall. Okay, I kept like looking
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: at the clock to see, like when it was gonna
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: be over.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: I'll terrible saying that I didn't love it. That's okay.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I wished for, among other things, less ropes course both
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: more soccer. I feel like Hallmark must have some agreement
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: with this ropes course, like we will use you as
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: a set piece and X amount of our movies because
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: there are so many ropes courses in Hallmark movies. I
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: get it. Like the team building, the connection, I get it.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: There was too much going on. If you're gonna make
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: a soccer movie, have fun with the soccer part of it.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Get more involved with the team, have a rivalry with
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: another team, get into the relationships with the players, get
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: more into that you're gonna make a soccer movie. Make
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: a soccer movie. Yes, I agree with that. Absolutely. We
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: had enough externally going on with Emily and her relationship
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: with Ava and Ava exploring other interests, and Emily's team
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: back home and Ian with his business development while also
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: kind of like still emotionally recovering from his divorce. Yeah,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: there's a lot.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, and a lot of like lots of
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: lots of storylines come in my way. So I needed
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Nadia Hatause character Emily.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: To be more likable. You need to calm down. I
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: just I needed to root for her.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: And I thought she was gruff and short and I
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: know it all and super competitive, and I was like, yeah,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't write with you kind of people,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like, I just needed her
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: to chill out a little bit. She had some moments
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: where I was like, I like the actress.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, she's fun to watch on screen,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: but her character when she slighte tackles Ian, I was like,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: she should have been punched in the face. That was
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: a ridiculous. There.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: You're not condoning violence against women.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I'm not, but there's no world in which that is
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: a reasonable action in a pickup soccer game. And she
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: would know better. She would know better. It's not like
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: I can't turn it off. Yeah. Yeah, you had to
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: worked too hard to like her and then root for
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: her relationship with Ian. That's I just, That's why I
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: didn't care.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: And I thought they had zero chemistry too, Like it
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: was a very like platonic relationship.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: To me, I thought, I thought, yeah, I thought they
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: made the chemistry work. I think Christopher Pola could have
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: chemistry with a paper bag so fine, like tuck her
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: little hair behind her, and I'm like, I'm in, I'm in.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you. That's it doesn't
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: take much shine. But I I didn't. I didn't. I
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: didn't love it.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Please don't come for me. But some of these soccer
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: scenes were like brutal to watch. And okay, so if
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: you remember last week in Unexpected Grace, I talked about
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: basketball defense, yeah, and before I was a basketball mom,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: I was a soccer mom. And I'm telling you, like
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: the swatting away of the ball when they kick it
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: on the goalie, Like, well, okay. And it's funny because
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: a listener of the pod, she goes by Peebee. She
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: messaged me on Instagram. She's like, I cannot wait to
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: hear what you guys have to say about this character Emily,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, I'm fifteen minutes in and
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: the soccer is killing me. And she's like, well, I
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: used to play soccer too, and then she goes, oh,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: by the way, she sends me this Instagram post that
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: the actress Nadia had posted and was talking about how
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: excited she was about this movie and how special it
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: was because she played competitive soccer when she was younger.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: And I was like, Yaykes because when she was taking
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: shots on goal, it looked like me taking shots on goal.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I've never played soccer at my.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Time, so I mean, I'm not expecting like World champion
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: soccer to happen out here.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: But does better soccer.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: It's a beautiful game. It's really fun to watch when
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: it's done correctly. And I'm going to say that a
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: show that we watch on Netflix. Never have I ever Oh,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: they do soccer well on that team. And you know why,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: I know that because my daughter's former trainer was hired
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: as like an extra to play soccer on that Like
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: they hire extras who actually know how to play sports.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: So anyway, those were really hard for me to watch.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: I feel like we're dancing around something right now.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: What say it? Is it? Woman on Woman Crime? Justice
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: For Chris Polaha's hair. It's terrible. Chris Polaha is one
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: of the most attractive men on the planet. Let me
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: just put it out there. I don't think the actors
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: in these movies are responsible for their own hair and makeup.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: I found it distracting. It was awful.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Somebody is mad at him? No, no, somebody messaged me
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: and they said I don't think you watched One.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Tree Hill, did you. No?
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: They said he's giving real Dan Scott vibes. So I
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: want you to google Dan Scott One Tree Hill and
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: you're gonna.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: See what she's talking about. Oh that's funny, it's not real,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: like center Part side sweep so bad.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Why did oh he's here Ford, he's such
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: a sexy man.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Why did you have to make him look like that?
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: It was a real choice. It was a real choice. Sorry.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Something that you mentioned to earlier that Okay, I'm talking aboud.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I did this dude want Emily to officially leave her
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: soccer career for him?
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Okay? I put out on my notes and then I
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: took it out. Okay. I originally said, like I wish
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Emily hadn't been the one to uproot her life and
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: move back home. Right because going back to what the
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: brother said like he wanted to be a part of
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the team, and going back to my comment about my
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: first impression, how I feel like this is an old
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Hallmark trope we're dealing with, which is there's no communication.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: The point at which she says like, I'm going back
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: to my team, and he's like, basically fu not, Well,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I really feel like there's something here. Can we have
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: a conversation about how this could work, Like I could
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: be a pr real estate developer, sports complex dude anywhere.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Okay, but he gave his ex wife so much grace
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: and understanding when she wanted to pursue medicine. He's like,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: that's who she is. She's doing great there.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Why not the same for Emily? Well, but I don't
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: think that he didn't want her to pursue it. I
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: think she didn't want her to be gone. Well, dude,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: that's not your decision.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: This woman has worked her entire life to be on
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: a women's soccer team.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I hear you. I do hear you. And the only
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: reason I took like I wish Emily hadn't been the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: one to uproot her life is because her family is
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: here and it's really important for her to be there
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: for Ava. But also like Ava's fifteen, she's gonna like
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: go to college in a couple of years. Ava has
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: a dad.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that dad should not have said anything about
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: like you're a mother figure for it?
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, did say like it doesn't have to be
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: either or like you you can do bol right, Yeah, yeah,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I hear you.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, I just don't think a professional sports athlete
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: says to like the coach.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah really, I'm not.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: I'm ad living here. I don't think she said these words.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: But like I my heart's not into it. Trade me
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: to a different team.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I don't think that's how UH work.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: But okay, whatever, I hear you time for did you
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: see that you have a couple. Let me preface this
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: was saying, I am not talking about someone's skin here.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, do you hear it? Weight? When where this is going.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: At the beginning, at the top of the movie, during
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: the soccer scenes, the actress had a noticeable bump on
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: her forehead like literally look like she get her head
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: like yeah, like a hematoma on her forehead. And then
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: later on in the movie when she's like at the
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: soccer place again, the bump is still there. Like obviously
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: they shot the scenes like back to back. See that's
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: all I was pointing.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Out, Yeah, I probably got a big bump from taking
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: aheader incorrect thing like she a huge bomp. So that's what.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Let me be clear, I'm not talking about I don't
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: think you are. I hear you.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: I'm concerned she was could contested, you know.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: What I mean, and the continuity of the same. I'm
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: sharing something that we shared in our Facebook group, okay,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: because I appreciate the zoom in from you know who
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: it is Facebook member Mike. In a recent movie, there
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: were some home listings that were laughable. Yeah. Well, they
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: put a little more effort into these, and he did
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: us the good favor of screenshotting some of them and
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: the descriptions. For example, one says in the backyard there
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: is a river that is said to hold magical properties.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Maybe not, but it showed us have a nice kitchen
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: or gosh, close to nice schools, but not so close
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: that you can hear the noise of children. And there
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: are no ghosts here. Yep, not ghosts at all. That's
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: hilarious and finally, great light if being seen as your
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: bag man, I just bravo. So it had fun with that. Yeah,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: I love that very few people are going to ever
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: notice it, but we want you to know that your
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: work did not go unnoticed. Thank you, Mike.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: I would also like to point out in that same
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: scene means reading a newspaper and they show a photo
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: of a complex that he was going to buy, and
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Megan and I had to talk about this prior to recording.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: The photo is an actual Toka Soccer Center, and if
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: you're not in like the soccer like sphere world, you're
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: not gonna know what Toka is. It is a training
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: center for soccer. So I thought so unusual that they
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: actually this is what he wanted to pursue, and that
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: they actually put a Toka Center in the photo.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Yes, someone googled like sports facility and have fun. Yeah.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Nice wild.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Here's a little complaint. IMDb titled this movie as Winning
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Team when clearly their poster reads a waiting or a
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: winning team.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like, why did they do that? It's so annoying.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Get it together, people, you ready to read this? Yeah,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I'm making a bad face right now.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: If you say four stars, I'm going to two. Poin five.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I gave it two. Okay, I know it feels low.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I agree. It could have been really good.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: It just quite wasn't. Next Week, Big Week, we have
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: picture of her, the official Spring and to Love kickoff
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: starling Tyler Hines and Ran and Fish. We have the
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Way Home season finale and I'm not ready, And we
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: have the ride season premiere, a lot of stuff, four
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: brand new episodes from us, including our Long Story Short episode.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: If you're not listening to that podcast, you know it's
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Women's Midlife. It's a lot of fun over there.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: You're gonna get the same thing you get here. We
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: just don't talk about Hallmark.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Yes, right, you want to hang with us for another
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: forty five minutes, Hop on over Long Story Short with
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Megan and Wendy and we'll see you tomorrow. Goodbye. Fine,