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Haul Out the Holly · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: and today we are discussing Home Out the Holly from
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  Speaker 1: Hallmarks Countdown to Christmas twenty twenty two series.
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  Speaker 2: I have a question for you, Okay, I think when
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  Speaker 2: we did our preview episode of all these movies, I
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  Speaker 2: think you predicted that her character name was going to
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  Speaker 2: be Holly.
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  Speaker 1: So funny because as soon as you said that, I thought,
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  Speaker 1: what is her characters It's Emily. I'm going to search
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  Speaker 1: the transcript. No, I don't see anything in there.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 1: But what I did say, which is interesting, I said,
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  Speaker 1: have you seen Christmas with the Thanks? I have that
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  Speaker 1: this feels Christmas with the Cranks adjacent, and I had
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  Speaker 1: that feeling as I was watching this as she comes
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  Speaker 1: home and they're like peace.
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  Speaker 2: Uh So let's rewind a little bit. Hi, we're reviewing
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  Speaker 2: Haul Out the Holly. We're Megan A Wendy. You can
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  Speaker 2: email us at Megan and Windy at gmail dot com.
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  Speaker 1: You can find us on Instagram and on TikTok. We
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk.
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  Speaker 1: A little Hallmark news and notes. Okay, you dropped drop
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  Speaker 1: big news in our Facebook group this week.
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  Speaker 2: I did. I have this note here? While promoting this
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  Speaker 2: movie on Jimmy Fallon last week, Lacey Schebeyer announce said
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  Speaker 2: there will be three new The Wedding Veil movies in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, also starring Autumn Research.
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  Speaker 1: And Alie Sweeney.
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  Speaker 2: They will return excellent. So in the Facebook group, someone
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  Speaker 2: brought up a really good question and it was I
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  Speaker 2: wonder how they're gonna do that?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think? The question was like, what's the storyline
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  Speaker 1: going to be? Now?
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  Speaker 2: I think so? Okay, I hadn't given it much thought.
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  Speaker 2: I was just like, WHOA excited for three? Yeah? Three movies?
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  Speaker 1: They've all worn the veil.
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  Speaker 2: They've all married, they're all have worn the veil. Now
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  Speaker 2: what didn't they even give the veil back to? Like
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  Speaker 2: the family? I don't recall. But what are they gonna do?
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  Speaker 2: Are they going to fast forward? Is it going to
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  Speaker 2: be their children? Well? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know either. We are gonna have to tune
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  Speaker 1: in to find out.
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  Speaker 2: We will tune in. And what's crazy is that during
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  Speaker 2: this movie Haul Out the HOLLI, they had a commercial.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I didn't see it. Oh I know why.
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  Speaker 2: Because you watched it on Peacock, so they I watched
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  Speaker 2: it on Friendly and I has commercials and it had
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  Speaker 2: like clips of the other movie promoting, like the new
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  Speaker 2: Trilogy and it is premiering on January seventh.
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  Speaker 1: They've really kept that quiet because obviously they would have
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  Speaker 1: had to start production on that. I'm assuming unless they're
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  Speaker 1: just down to the wire and still in production on it.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know. You know how these movies go.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes, Well you know that we Young Girls go in
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark will be covering Wedding Veil Trilogy Part do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, how the heck are we gonna like?
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  Speaker 2: What are we gonna call this? I'm it's like Star
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  Speaker 2: Wars Star Wars, you know how there's like so many
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  Speaker 2: Star Wars movies now, but they'll have a name. But
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  Speaker 2: it's like pre Star Wars and I can't even figure
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  Speaker 2: it out, So we don't have a name. So the
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  Speaker 2: Wedding Veil movies have a name, right, so we'll have
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  Speaker 2: so the Wedding Veil, The Wedding Veil unveiled, the Wedding Veil.
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  Speaker 2: I can't even remember what they are.
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  Speaker 1: You that Eric maybe is, who's a surprise cameo in
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  Speaker 1: this movie. He plays Allen in this movie. He was
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  Speaker 1: in twelve sign fieled and delivered movies on the Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: Movies and Mysteries channel. So I believe in Hallmark and
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  Speaker 1: their ability to name a series. Remember Wedding March sixth, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: sealed with the kiss.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like the Weddingville semi colon whatever, it's called.
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  Speaker 2: Adventures and Babysitting. Yeah, got it.
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  Speaker 1: The Wedding Veil goes to London. Oh my goodness, don't
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  Speaker 1: ask me to name these movies. Well, among other things,
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  Speaker 1: we will be reviewing those in January. And we had
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  Speaker 1: recently been looking at our schedule through the holidays and
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  Speaker 1: we had said, oh, the first week back, we'll review
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  Speaker 1: the Hallmark movie. And Wendy was like, is there going
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  Speaker 1: to be a Hallmark movie first week back?
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  Speaker 2: There we go, here it is, And didn't they do
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  Speaker 2: this last year? Like the first one came out in
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  Speaker 2: January and then the next two came out in February.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be interesting to see.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know why they did that. That was
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  Speaker 2: a real dumb and I need to see it back
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  Speaker 2: to back to back.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, I agree. I hope that happens, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't I couldn't begin to speculate. All Right, I have
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  Speaker 1: a like a follow up on something we've been discussing,
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  Speaker 1: and that is I just want to say, you just
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  Speaker 1: mentioned I've been watching so many of these movies on Peacock.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a great viewing experience because the commercials are frontloaded.
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  Speaker 1: And twice I watched a Hallmark movie this weekend there
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  Speaker 1: were no commercials.
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  Speaker 2: First fast, but oh.
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  Speaker 1: There has been not even my one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: three seconds of commercially not I don't know, and I
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  Speaker 1: kept thinking, Oh, they're gonna get me, like it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: pop up. No, it was completely commercial free.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not complaining, but we are the fact that every
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  Speaker 1: time there's like a break where there's a commercial, I
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  Speaker 1: go to like reach for the remote and then I
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  Speaker 1: don't have to. Now we just had this discussion prior
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  Speaker 1: to recording. I still think if I had to pick
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  Speaker 1: one streaming service, I would pick Friendly simply because it is.
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  Speaker 1: What's the word I'm looking for. There's more options, the
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  Speaker 1: movies are there longer, it's got a DVR, all of
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  Speaker 1: those reasons, but for quick turnaround next day viewing, Peacock's
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  Speaker 1: got it on lock.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta tell you, like you know, these movies
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  Speaker 2: are only like an hour and twenty four minutes right
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  Speaker 2: from start to finish.
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  Speaker 1: Low right through them when you're not going through eight
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  Speaker 1: commercial breaks.
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  Speaker 2: I've watched fourteen movies this week or something, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I also wanted to say that I noticed that all
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  Speaker 1: six seasons of Chesapeake Shores are on Peacock. Yeah, they are.
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  Speaker 1: So when our new Chesapeake Shores review podcast drops in
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  Speaker 1: their own podcast? Can I give you my opinion in
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  Speaker 1: Girls Gone Homework?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so. I think that's the umbrella, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: because people are because it come on, guys, I know
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  Speaker 2: I vote with me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't disagree. All right, let's talk about Haul out
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  Speaker 1: the holly.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, do you use I will? When Emily unexpectedly
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  Speaker 2: spends the holidays alone at her parents' house, their HOA
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  Speaker 2: insists that she participate in its many Christmas festivities, starring
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  Speaker 2: Lacey Shavert, Wes Brown, Melissa Peterman, Ellen Travolta, and Steven Tobolowski.
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  Speaker 2: Question of Mark, Did I say it correctly?
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  Speaker 1: I think so? Okay, let's talk about news and notes
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  Speaker 1: for haul at.
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  Speaker 2: The holly Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have many, but go ahead. Well, this is
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  Speaker 1: Lacey's twelfth Christmas movie with the Hallmark channel of the
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark Umbrella, I should say, and her thirty third Hallmark movie. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: Go Lacey. This was filmed on location in Utah, and
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  Speaker 1: it is also set in Utah, which is kind of unusual.
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  Speaker 1: And Lazy mentioned that they were in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: a heat wave, which I think is kind of undant.
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  Speaker 1: When you say August in Utah, it was one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seven degrees Whenty and I went to Utah last summer.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I have a question. Okay, so this the filming
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  Speaker 2: production took place. Production of this movie took place July
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  Speaker 2: twenty fourth through September eleventh. I don't know when they
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  Speaker 2: filmed it. She yeah, she said August, August. When did
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  Speaker 2: we go? Because it was oh, it was June. It
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  Speaker 2: was so hot when we were miserably so if I
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  Speaker 2: had to wear a coat and a beanie during that time,
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  Speaker 2: I would have died. Yeah, I have a bone to pick. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it's some IMDb news. First of all, I do think
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  Speaker 2: IMDb is withholding reviews, posting reviews like user reviews of
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  Speaker 2: a lot of movies like twenty four forty Hours After.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's not my biggest beef. Here here's the beef.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the beef. Some of the reviews of this movie
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  Speaker 2: were trible, shocks tarrible. And I have a theory. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I have a theory. Okay, loyal Hallmark fan is.
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  Speaker 1: So oh no, sorry, go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: They're so used to like a romantic love story, right,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like the usual trope. They're all like that,
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  Speaker 2: all the sure of Yester Year. Right, this was definitely
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  Speaker 2: a rom calm? Is it too much calm for people?
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  Speaker 1: Well? Maybe? Spoiler alert. I freaking loved this movie, and
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  Speaker 1: I will think now is the time to tell you
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  Speaker 1: that I watched it with my husband, who's not a
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  Speaker 1: big Lacey should bear fan. But he watched it because
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  Speaker 1: I was watching it, and at the end I turned
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  Speaker 1: to him, expecting him to be like, I'm a changed man.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted him to jump on the couch Tom Cruise
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  Speaker 2: style and be like that was great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I said, what'd you think? He goes that
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  Speaker 1: was real bad.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe that.
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  Speaker 1: What.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's so funny.
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  Speaker 1: Truly shocked, truly truly shocked.
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  Speaker 2: What did he not like about it?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. He didn't elaborate. I just was so
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  Speaker 1: shook by his reaction. I wonder if you know you
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  Speaker 1: and I are not really fans of the silly. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't think this was silly.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think so either, dude. Loyal Hallmark fans want
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  Speaker 2: the silly, the hijinx. I hate it. I hate all
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  Speaker 2: that stuffs.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think, Oh no, I think we should
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: give Hallmark fans more credit, okay, because I think we're
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: here for bigger and better and more. I'm disappointed in
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  Speaker 1: the IMDb.
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  Speaker 2: Reviewer six point six out of ten.
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  Speaker 1: No, boo, that's a D.
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not a D movie too.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, I'm a little bit more about this movie
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: was written by Andy Sandberg, which is very close to
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  Speaker 1: Andy Samberg.
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  Speaker 2: I had to look that up. Actually, when I saw
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  Speaker 2: Andy Sandberg, I was like, wait, the guy from SNL
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  Speaker 2: wrote this movie. And then I looked it up. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, Nope, that's sam Berg.
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  Speaker 1: He has not done a lot of writing. He wrote
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  Speaker 1: five More Minutes and five More minutes moments like these,
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  Speaker 1: and I was expecting him to be this prolific writer
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: because the writing in this is so snappy. It's like,
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: did you ever hear the anecdote about Gilmore Girls that
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: a standard script is of an hour show is say
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  Speaker 1: eighty pages. I've made that up and there would be
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  Speaker 1: like one hundred and twenty because a dialogue was snappy. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I felt like that watching this, This must have been
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  Speaker 1: a longer script than normal because the dialogue was like
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  Speaker 1: coke choke, you know what.
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: Is so crazy? And I just remember now that you
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: mentioned Gilmore Girls. Now I remember watching this movie and saying,
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: this reminds me of an episode of Gilmore Girls. At
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  Speaker 2: the pace that it was asked.
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  Speaker 1: The pacing was incredible. Please write more movies, Andy Sandberg.
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  Speaker 1: This was also directed by McLean Nelson, who has directed
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  Speaker 1: nine previous Hallmark movies, including Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: In Did I watch that one?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: There's a Christmas in Vana moment later in this episode.
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  Speaker 2: I know what you're talking about.
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: Now. Melissa Peterman is an absolute star in this movie.
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: She plays Pamela, and I did at one point write
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  Speaker 1: my notes, what is up Pamela's ass? But she was
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: in Baby Daddy, she was in Young Sheldon, she was
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: Barberagane on Riba, and she and Reba will start in
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: a Lifetime movie together called The Hammer. They've apparently been
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: trying to get Riba rebooted, but it is not happening.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, The Hammer. Is this a Christmas movie?
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: No? No, it's I think like Murdery.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna do it The Hammer.
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  Speaker 1: And then Stephen Tobolowski. If you watch this and thought
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: where do I know Ned from, the answer is everywhere.
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: Man has two hundred and eighty acting credits, Wow, including
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: series like One Day at a Time, which you know,
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: I love, Silicon Valley. He was ned in Groundhog Day.
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  Speaker 1: He's a character actor. You've seen him in just about everything.
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  Speaker 1: I am thrilled that we got him in this movie.
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  Speaker 2: He is one of my favorites in this movie. Funny
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  Speaker 2: funny stuff from that guy.
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  Speaker 1: What was your first impression of Hall out the Holly?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I will spoiler alert. I like this maybe a
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  Speaker 2: lot too. Here's my first impression. I've never heard the
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  Speaker 2: word tableau before, and I have no idea what it
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  Speaker 2: means in regard to decorating a snowman.
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  Speaker 1: Please explain, Well, I think tableau is like a scene,
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  Speaker 1: like an overall.
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  Speaker 2: Like, is that what that means?
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I think it needs in my mind. Now,
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: let me google before I make an idiot at myself.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I've already made an idiot of myself.
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  Speaker 1: A group of models or motionless figures representing a scene, okay,
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  Speaker 1: from a story or from history.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So the snowmen were supposed to be like a scene. Yes, okay,
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  Speaker 2: they're supposed to tell us but they but they didn't
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  Speaker 2: really stick correct?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I never like it, played it and play out like that? Right?
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  Speaker 1: No? Okay, speaking of snowmen, some of them were very
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: clearly large Shire from balls.
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  Speaker 2: Please that is in my did you see that? We
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  Speaker 2: will talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: My first impression is homemark home run.
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  Speaker 2: I agree, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: I carry that baseball metaphor through to another review that
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: We're gonna do tomorrow. Okay, a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: different feeling there. What did you like about this movie?
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  Speaker 2: I liked the whole movie. I thought it was funny.
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  Speaker 2: I love the chemistry between Lacey and West Brown. I
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: found Wes Brown to be hilarious. Hilarious. And I would
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: like to also note that one of our Facebook members, Michelle,
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: she has a real thing for like guys and glasses.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: Oh uh huh. And so Wes Brown and his glasses
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: in this movie. Brendan Penny wore them and his movie
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: he was in this year. So Hallmark's bringing the sexy
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  Speaker 2: like sexy dad. Look.
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  Speaker 1: I was having thisscussion with another Hallmark reviewer on Instagram
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  Speaker 1: and I I.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: Said, I'm really enjoying Hallmark's Clark kent Era. Oh, totally
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  Speaker 2: good call. What did you like?
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: Well, like you, I loved this movie overall, was a
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  Speaker 1: joy to watch. I liked a lot of things about it.
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  Speaker 1: I loved the breakup scene in the beginning. I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was so well done. First of all, they get
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  Speaker 1: right to the drama. She doesn't sit around dealing with
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: his bullshit. She's like, I am tired of you, and
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: here is why, and that scene is amazing and he's hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: My husband did laugh out loud at his ridiculousness. So
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know what he's talking about hating this movie,
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  Speaker 1: but great scene. And then in the follow up where
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  Speaker 1: she's talking to her parents and the dad is silently
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  Speaker 1: cheering behind the mom off camera. Loved that.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh. The mom kind show with me crazy a
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  Speaker 2: little bit though, I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they were chilly.
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  Speaker 2: I liked the dad. The mom was a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a character, you know what I mean. Care caicture. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I agree, But I did like the dad, especially when
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  Speaker 2: he had like the secret orgy in it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I loved it. And then the follow up too,
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  Speaker 1: is the key back in the table?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that's good.
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  Speaker 1: Did you like the line? Is Christmas merely the longest
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  Speaker 1: to do list? Ever? I don't remember that line said
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  Speaker 1: during a voiceover in the very beginning, when Lacey is
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  Speaker 1: uh carrying a bunch of packages?
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh, Oh yeah, I can really you, guys, I'm
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: not really a big huge fan of Christmas. If you're
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: new to the Megan and Windy brand, this is Meghan's
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: favorite time of year.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Cue my rocky music.
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  Speaker 2: I really loved the setting. I loved the house, like
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  Speaker 2: I love the house so much. And hell, yes, she's
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  Speaker 2: gonna say yes to the gift of the house that
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: her parents are going to give her, Like why would
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  Speaker 2: you not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's clearly new construction in Utah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like we're supposed to believe that she grew up there.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: They did comment that her parents had renovated and that wow,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: you water Own's character had renovated his home, Like, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously he watched closely. I did not catch that.
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  Speaker 1: Wat Okay. I gasped and cheered for the crisp plahaw
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  Speaker 1: cameo when he sounds screen. And I love that he's
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  Speaker 1: in more than one scene. It's not like he was
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: just in the neighborhood and popped by. I loved it. Yep,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: more of that.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love a cameo. I love when there's crossed over.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: It makes me I loved it last year when Andrew
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Walker and Tyler Hines did it in their movies. I
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: it's just it makes me laugh. We had Kimberly says
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: dad last week in the movie that she co wrote,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Like I feel like they're all well, they're not in
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Vancouver in this movie, but typically they're all in Vancouver somewhere,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: so it's like, hey, yeah, pop in.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Well, And I think what's really nice is it's a
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: real nice nod to the dedicated Hallmark viewer because most
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: people are going to miss that moment. The casual viewer
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: is not gonna have any idea it is right, and
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: so it just it's just an added little wink to
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: the real fan exactly. I really loved the scene where
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: the new neighborhood comes together and helps her decorate, because
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I knew that was coming because first of all, her
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: house had been decorated. Her parents put everything away because
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: there was a Christmas tree behind them in the phone call,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: and they start sliding it out of frame once she
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: they get off the phone, so I said, where'd the
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Christmas tree go? And then I realized they took it
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: away so that she would have to do it.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: See now, if I was her, I'd be like, yeah,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: I'm not doing that. I'm not kidding on the ladder
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: and putting lights on this house.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Right. But then the whole neighborhood comes down. I know.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I love that. I love when there's like a group
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: thing that happens like that.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: What I loved about that scene is at the very end,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: when she's about to plug in the lights. Was that
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: scene reminiscent for Anything of You?
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: For You Christmas vacation?
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: She plugging in the lights, everyone's standing around. If that
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: wasn't intentional, I will eat my hat because that absolutely
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: looks like that scene.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Can I pause here for a second with a full
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: side note? Have you watched Spirited yet?
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Okay. The greatest thing is having a in this movie.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: This is not a spoiler. They have a costume Christmas party, yes,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: And I'm watching it and my husband and my husband goes,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: do you know who that guy's dressed up as? And
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: I'm like no, and he goes the shitter's full and
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, that's hilarious.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: That was a great scene. All those costumes.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was not fun Yeah, that was so funny.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: And when Will Ferrel was like looking at the guy
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: in the elf costume, was like, you look stupid. I
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: loved how loud. I enjoyed that movie very much. If
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: you guys have Apple TV, watch it.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I liked it ten second. It's another one from the
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: perspective of the spirits much like ghosts of Christmas.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know me, I love a Scrooge.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: What is that a Christmas carold? Yeah? I was dickings
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: me too.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Me.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: They're lighting in the Christmas tree. It's like a week
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: before Christmas, and Lazy goes it's a week before Christmas,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: a little late in the season to light the tree,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: and I thought, yeah, yeah, yeah, Albark has heard our cry.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: They never really addressed that though. He was just like, yeah,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I know I've been busy or I've been like dealing
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: with stuff.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Or yeah, I almost wonder is that true?
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Is another moment to get her in on it? Oh yeah,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: maybe maybe hmm okay, okay, like anything else, No, I
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: just liked it.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah too, what did you wish for? So?
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Lacey can be kind of buttoned up, right, She's like
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: maybe the female to Ryan Pavey in terms of hear
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: me out, hear me out. And I like Ryan Pavey,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: by the way, but he can be a little reserved,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: and I feel like Lacey can be a little like, okay,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: a reserved, a prim and proper kind of like the
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: way she talks is very you know, I there's part
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: of me sometimes I want to see the character she
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: plays in Mean Girls, when she flips the f out
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: about wearing pants three days in a row or you
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: can't sit with us or whatever. She's always just even keeled.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: I wish for maybe a little bit more emotion from her. Okay,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I still love her. I still think she's the Queen
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: of Christmas. I will watch every one of her movies,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: even though last year's was a big stinker. I will
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: say though, there were some very organic moments that I
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: think they caught on film. And there was one scene
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: when her and Wes Brown were holding up coal to
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: their eyes and they were making fun of Pamela, and
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: he says something and you can just see on her
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: she drops the coal and just starts like cracking up.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, I wonder, like, give us
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: more of that. That's all I wished for, You know,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I didn't.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I didn't really have anything except I don't love a
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Christmas Day.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: CARNIVALA Oh my god, that's in my Did you see that?
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: It's a question. It's a question.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, hold on, I'll wait. I just I just don't.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I don't love that. It feels it feels disingenuous for
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: this town that loves Christmas. You love your neighbors so
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: much that you want to.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Hang out with them on Christmas Day.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: The parents rushing out of the house on Christmas morning
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: is my literal nightmare. Yeah, give me my coffee and
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: my Jammy's and a pile of wrapping paper and let's
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: just get into it fireplace on. I don't want to move. Yeah,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: get bundled up and get outside. We got work to do.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I don't want to do that, veto Okay.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I would like to point out that Megan very much
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: lives in a neighborhood that is I'll haul out the
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Holly neighborhood totally so. But you guys don't gather in
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: the street in the morning, and like.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: In the morning. Note now, when our kids were younger,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: late in the morning, everyone would kind of end up
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: playing out front. Yeah, and that'll still happen a little bit,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: but like my kids don't really play out front age.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: But yeah, there was definitely a phase where we'd all
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: kind of be out there in our pajamas, like you know,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: eleven twelve o'clock. But there was no setup, there was
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: no getting dressed, there was you know, it was come
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: as you are yes. Yeah, everyone's in Jammy's and slippers.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: It's cute. It's nice to be a part of a neighborhood.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: I think that's like that.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if you notice as you drove
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: down the street, but all the lights are up, like
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: draping across the street, not just the houses. But yeah
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: you missed the who had the cherry picker here.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Putting the lights at Oh yeah, oh my goodness.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Our kids helped this weekend. Everyone got in on it.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: We do live in that sort of street.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: There was that That was a big conversation at our
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Thanksgiving dinner actually about like lights that are draped from
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: house to house across the street. And one of the
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: guests at our Thanksgiving dinner said that that's completely illegal
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: because a fire truck can't go down the street because
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: it's too tall.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Well, a motor home drove under ours and all of
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the ups and FedEx trucks can get under them.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: I don't think a fire truck is taller than that.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think if there was an actual emergency through,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: do you think the fire trucks are like, there's lights,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: we can't get in there to save that barrel through?
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right. Our hy is notoriously rule oriented. They would
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: come for us, I think if we were breaking the law.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: But we win most spirited street. Oh god, guys every
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: year twenty years running. And the neighbor yesterday was like, hey,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: what day is that? There's like a judging weekend. He's like,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: we need to be out here with hot chocolate and
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: candy canes.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Oh a little waola to the people. Huh, just a
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: little boost of holiday spirit. Oh my goodness.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: We don't need it to win. There's no street in
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: this neighborhood that comes close, not one houses that are better,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: not one better street.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: I need your husband to dress up as shit is elfhole.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: He has a buddy, the elf Kazoo.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: He needs to wear it and get out there on
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: the street. Yeah, that's great idea, and you should just
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: suppose missus clause. How about that? Have you? Have you
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: watched a new The Clauses series, The Santa Clauses. I
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: am not, however my husband is because I saw it
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: come up on the TV and I said episode two
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, you're watching this without.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Me, and he's like, yeah, it's not that great, It's
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: oh it's it's I mean like we're watching because I'm
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: a big fan of the Santa Claus franchise except.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: For Tim Allan.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Well, yes, but except for Movies three, which is terrible.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: But you don't like Tim Allan. No, he's like a
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: hardcore Republican.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Someone said on Twitter that feel like it was
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: part of his contract that he got to like let
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: at least one conservative joke fly. He's like, we can't
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: say Merry Christmas every year.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Listen. So he was in that show I can't remember
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: what it was called now where he owned the sporting store,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: sporting goods store.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Man of the something.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Every week there was a conservative joke every single week,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: so I it would not man stand Last Man Standing. Yes,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: so it would, which I enjoyed, but it got old
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: real quick, so it would not surprise me. If he
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: had some sort of something.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: And they like go over like a lead balloon, I'm like,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: this isn't even funny, Like, you know, don't write your
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: own jokes. If you need to have that in there,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: surely there's a better joke you can make. It's fine.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: The reason I ask is missus Clause in that movie.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: She's like they're both kind of like feeling you know
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: a little at odds with being the Clauses, And oh,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: missus Claus doesn't even have a name. Look at my hair,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: look at how I dressed. I need an identity. He goes,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: your name's Carol. She goes, who knows that? Only you?
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: My name's missus Claus.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Anyway, So you don't want to dress up as Missus
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Clause because you want to have your own holiday. I
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: didn't be a powerful female.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, are you ready for did to see that?
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: I am? Can I go first?
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: They have the big Christmas tree lighting. The tree is
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: in the middle of the cul de sac. Yeah, come
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: on now, all around it?
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and stuff, Yeah, all those presents for I don't know,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: like bags with tissue paper.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: They had to like build a like a what is
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: that thing that you stand at, like the.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Riser?
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was on a riser with like a podium
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: in front of him, like we're in the neighborhood. Dude, Like,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: I just I didn't get it. I don't know, maybe
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: like I wasn't supposed to see that it was actually
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: in the cul de sac.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: No, but you can see it when she's standing on
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: her front porch. It's behind them. Yeah, she's talking what
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: is his name? She's talking with Brown.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: And name is not Max.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: His name is Jared. Okay, it's right behind them. It's
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: it's odd. It's an odd thing.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Thank you my opinion, Thank you for you're welcome.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Just a little one. Lacey turns on a
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Christmas movie. And she turns on Christmas and Vienna, which
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: is a Hallmark movie, and uh, it stars Brendon Elliott.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: And she goes, oh, I love this guy. She's been
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: in nine movies with Brendan Elliott.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Oh funny.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: So she said, you know, I knew when I was
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: watching a movie it had but she's.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Not in that movie, right, But the director of this
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: movie directed that movie. So he's like, heck, yeah, I'm
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: putting my movie in there. All right, we need to
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: talk about the snowman building contest. I was not looking
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: at snow I think I was looking at styrofoam or there.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: I mean the guy what's his name, ned, I don't
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: know what his was even made out of? Right, it
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: looked bizarre to me.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: A stick with three balls.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just weird.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: It was so weird.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Well lazy and Wes is like, there was something weird
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: happening with like the lighting, because when they like reached around,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: I'm like, is that like a green screened snowman in there?
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Their hands will it's funny, But yes, theirs did look
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: like at least had a rougher texture, like they had
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: put in the extra production value on their snowman snowperson
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: because but the rest of them they panned back and
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: they're like smooth balls.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Uh huh. And I was twelve. I'm sorry, I'm.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Just gonna move on past it and say that I
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: think they could have like sprayed some of that wall
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: texture stuff on them it.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Oh god, idea they could have done.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: But there were a lot of them. It was bad.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: And you know what's funny is when West gets hit
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: in the face with a snowball.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Yes, I was like, whoa.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: That looks like actual melty ice.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: I thought so too.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I impressed that wasn't fake snow.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: They couldn't get they were probably had like a shave
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: ice machine on the side, and they're like, here, throw
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: this at it. And I was watching that scene with
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: my husband and I looked at him, I go, God,
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: that would hurt right here in the square of your forehead.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: With a snowball, no thank.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: You, like in the face twice. I think I think
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: it happens.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: He's so pretty. Stop trying to hurt him.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Please, he was pretty in this movie.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: We did talk about this for a second, but I
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: was like, did all the neighbors get together on Christmas date?
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Where are all the other families coming? Like you have
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: people over on Christmas dairway.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: And they're like, I gotta go to a carnival. Yeah,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I gotta. I gotta go do my hot chocolate shift
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It was just weird to me, like stop it.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: You gotta have these things before the actual day. End
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: of story anything?
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Ready to read it?
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Five stars?
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: I gave it five stars to guess what what?
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I think it's better than three?
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Wise man, Nope, I don't think so. Nope, Nope, I
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: don't think so.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Said it meant I liked that movie.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I really had to give this thought because I went
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: and looked back at Lights Camera Christmas, which I really loved,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: and I gave it four more seven five stars, and
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: I was like, this was this better? And what I
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: could do is I could remember exactly why I gave
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: that movie four point seven five stars. Stars stools, so
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: and I couldn't like define anything that made this lesson five.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's by stars. Not better than the boys though,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: wow equally is good.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Okay. I do think Comark is bringing it this year.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Me too, I mean stepped it. I came up.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: I remember two movies that I liked from last year,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: like liked and would watch again. At this point, I
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: feel like I have five. Yeah, so I'm excited. Yeah,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: tomorrow we'll talk about it.
• 31:42
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• 31:44
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