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Mystery on Mistletoe Lane · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 3: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark of You podcast.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark movie fan.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Wendy. I'm your former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 3: Oh not even for now. Added on it.
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  Speaker 4: Was a good weekend.
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  Speaker 3: It was a good weekend. Today we're discussing mystery on
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  Speaker 3: Mistletoe Lane, part of Hallmark's Miracles of Christmas series. If
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  Speaker 3: It is a great group. Lots of good conversation about
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  Speaker 3: this weekend's movies if you want to talk about that.
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  Speaker 3: More things to talk about. Big exciting news for not
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  Speaker 3: just the Hallmark universe, but entertainment fans across the world.
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  Speaker 3: Sag Aftra Studios and the AMPTP reached a tentative agreement
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  Speaker 3: and the one hundred and eighteen day strike, so they
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  Speaker 3: will be voting starting this week. The word is it
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  Speaker 3: is a landmark achievement for the union. In what I've
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  Speaker 3: seen shared, people are very happy with the outcome. My
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  Speaker 3: favorite part about all of this, though, is the second
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  Speaker 3: they reached the tendent agreement is that all of our
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  Speaker 3: Hallmark stars were finally able to share promos for what
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  Speaker 3: they've been working on, stuff that's already aired, stuff that's
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  Speaker 3: coming out. What a bummer to work so hard on
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  Speaker 3: something and then just have to sit on your hands
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  Speaker 3: when it comes out for real. So I love that
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  Speaker 3: they're excitedly sharing. We're getting some behind the scenes clips,
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  Speaker 3: we're getting some fun bonus content from our stars, and
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  Speaker 3: they're able to share the work that they've been creating.
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  Speaker 3: So check out Instagram, check out your favorite Hallmark stars,
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  Speaker 3: because odds are they're talking about what they're working on.
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  Speaker 4: It's almost a little overwhelming to me as a consumer
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  Speaker 4: on Instagram because like every actor is like posting about
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  Speaker 4: their projects and I was like, Wow, you really didn't
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  Speaker 4: realize how quiet it had been.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so listen to this.
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  Speaker 4: On November thirtieth, Benjamin Airs is launching a Romance Unit
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  Speaker 4: Versity pop up shop in Toronto, you know, to sell
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  Speaker 4: his Romance University merch. Yeah, and Laura Vandervoot and Britney
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  Speaker 4: Bristow will also be there in attendance to meet fans. Now,
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  Speaker 4: I gotta tell you, they came out with a Romance
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  Speaker 4: University Christmas hoodie that is real cute, but it's also
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  Speaker 4: sixty dollars. I mean I almost kind of wanted it,
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  Speaker 4: but I would only wear it during one time of
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  Speaker 4: the year, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, did you spend sixty dollars on a nineteen
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  Speaker 3: nine cardigan?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, shut up? Over there.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just saying I think sometimes we spend the money
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  Speaker 3: on fun things.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I agree they're really cute. Then on December second,
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  Speaker 4: Benjamin Heirs and a few of his friends are hosting
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  Speaker 4: a fan experience at Martini Town in Langley, British Columbia.
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  Speaker 4: So the event's call is like supposed to be like
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  Speaker 4: a fan experience, and it's called Martini Town, Mary and Bright,
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  Speaker 4: and it is being held at a city themed backlot
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  Speaker 4: where many of the Hallmark movies are filmed at. And
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  Speaker 4: there's going to be panel discussions with Benjamin, Paul Campbell,
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  Speaker 4: Kimberly Sustad, Victor Webster and a whole bunch of other people.
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  Speaker 4: And I thought this would be so fun to go
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  Speaker 4: to if it wasn't in Canada, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure it's still fun in Canada. Just geographically undesirable
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  Speaker 3: for us, I think, is what we're saying exactly. Canada
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  Speaker 3: shade not a yeah, yeah, I would totally go to
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  Speaker 3: this if it were in LA we would go in
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  Speaker 3: a hartbeat, absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Because I wanted to share that the Warner Brothers back
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  Speaker 4: Loot does something during the holiday season. They take the
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  Speaker 4: area where they filmed Gilmore Girls, and they recreate the
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  Speaker 4: town of Stars Hollow. I went last holiday season and
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  Speaker 4: really geeked out, like it was so fun to be
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  Speaker 4: in like this fictional town that you have watched for
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  Speaker 4: so many years. So I just think that's so cool.
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  Speaker 4: And what I read is Martini Town. That's what it's like,
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  Speaker 4: a backlot Martini Town. The name throws me because of
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  Speaker 4: Martini but red Bar.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, from December one through January first, fans are able
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  Speaker 4: to visit this backlot at Martini Town, and it's going
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  Speaker 4: to be all decked out for Christmas. I feel like
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  Speaker 4: you're in your own Hallmark movie.
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  Speaker 3: Like you're in your own Misslete Manner situation. Exactly. My goodness,
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  Speaker 3: so fun. Shall we chat mystery on Mistletoe Lane?
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  Speaker 4: Let's do it?
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  Speaker 3: It's here A synopsis, all right, New.
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  Speaker 4: To Town, Heidi Wick's and her kids discover a Christmas
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  Speaker 4: mystery in their historic home. Local handyman and historian David
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  Speaker 4: helps along the way, finding his own surprising connection. This
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  Speaker 4: movie stars Erica Sarah and Victor Webster.
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  Speaker 3: Alan Harmon directed. He has forty previous directing credits, plus
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  Speaker 3: another forty three assistant director credits. His last movie for
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  Speaker 3: Hallmark was Fourth Down in Love from earlier this year.
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  Speaker 3: He also directed Mingle All the Way You're Baking Me
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  Speaker 3: Crazy and Never Kiss a Man in a Christmas Sweater,
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  Speaker 3: among others. I'm not going to say anything else except
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  Speaker 3: I wonder why Wendy chose those three as the movies.
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  Speaker 3: He's also directed I've never seen Your Bacon Me Crez either,
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  Speaker 3: have I? That's the one of these things might not
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  Speaker 3: belong here in that Yeah, those.
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  Speaker 4: Other two movies have not been my favorite core So
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  Speaker 4: Mark Hefty wrote this script. He has seventeen writing credits,
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  Speaker 4: including submovies We Really Liked Here At Girls Gone, Hallmark,
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  Speaker 4: Unexpected Grace, A Dickens of a Holiday, My Christmas Family Tree,
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  Speaker 4: and Beverly Hill's Wedding. He's also the writer for the
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  Speaker 4: upcoming Nikki di Looach movie A World Record Christmas, which, btw,
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  Speaker 4: I saw commercial for this weekend and cried.
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  Speaker 3: I am shocked by that. A not a crier. I'm
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  Speaker 3: a crier. Whitey's not a crier. Also, BTW, rumor has
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  Speaker 3: it that that movie dropped early on the Hallmark Movies
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  Speaker 3: Now app So if you want to watch it now
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  Speaker 3: and not wait until this weekend. You can do so
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  Speaker 3: if you have Hallmark Movies app Victor Webster stars as
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  Speaker 3: David Avery. Webster has ninety acting credits, including the Wedding
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  Speaker 3: Veil Movies, Matchmaker Mysteries, A Christmas Cookie Catastrophe in which
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  Speaker 3: the movie poster creators did him dirty, and Summer Villa.
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  Speaker 3: He also played Mike in eleven episodes of Working Moms,
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  Speaker 3: which you can stream on Netflix. And let me tell you,
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  Speaker 3: if you only know Victor Webster from Hallmark, I suggest
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  Speaker 3: just give him watch his first appearance on Working Moms.
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  Speaker 3: It's a totally different side of him. He's an absolute jerk,
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  Speaker 3: but a real hot one.
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  Speaker 4: Mm hmm. Eric Is Sarah plays Heidi Wicks. She has
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  Speaker 4: fifty acting credits, including quite a bit of voice work.
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  Speaker 4: She's probably best known for a TV series called Eureka
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  Speaker 4: that ran from two thousand and six to twenty twelve
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  Speaker 4: on the Sci Fi channel You Know I didn't watch that.
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  Speaker 4: This appears to be her first Hallmark project.
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  Speaker 3: Juliette Hawk plays teen daughter Annie. She has seven previous
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  Speaker 3: acting credits, including a Winning Team and Christmas at the
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  Speaker 3: Golden Dragon for Hallmark. She also looks to have a
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  Speaker 3: small role in the Paul Campbell movie Magic in Mistletoone.
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  Speaker 3: Later this season, Logan Piers plays son Garrett. This is
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  Speaker 3: his first Hallmark movie. Oh. Mary Beth Manning plays Linda
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  Speaker 3: Sweet Linda. She has twenty one acting credits and this
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  Speaker 3: is her second Hallmark movie. She was previously in the
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  Speaker 3: TV movie Laker Girls starring Tinay Others in nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 3: and what episode of an ABC after school special called
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  Speaker 3: My Mother Was Never a Kid in nineteen eighty one?
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  Speaker 4: Are you familiar with this Laker Girls movie?
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  Speaker 3: Gosh, I don't know if my brain is mad manufacturing
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  Speaker 3: memories because I'm like envisioning Tinayethers in a cheerleading.
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  Speaker 4: But no, I don't think I am. Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 4: like Tina Yethers. I can't remember if she was blonde
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  Speaker 4: or brunette.
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  Speaker 3: I'm picturing blonde in this made up memory my brain
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  Speaker 3: is creating.
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  Speaker 4: And Tina Yeathers, of course was from family ties. She
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  Speaker 4: was the younger sister, right. Wow, this is pulling from
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  Speaker 4: the archives the eighties, a long time ago. Anyway. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: the movie is about her trying out for the Laker Girls,
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  Speaker 4: which is the dance cheer. They're a dance team for
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  Speaker 4: the Los Angeles Lakers. It's real terrible, but I was
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  Speaker 4: really into real terrible TV.
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  Speaker 3: Movies back then, So as you are now, as I
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  Speaker 3: am now.
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  Speaker 4: Fred Henderson plays Wallace. Henderson has a staggering one hundred
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  Speaker 4: and fifty three acting credits, including a ton of work
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  Speaker 4: for Hallmark. He will also be seen in the upcoming
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  Speaker 4: Christmas on Cherry Lane. Also also noteworthy, he recently appeared
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  Speaker 4: in a new horror movie What Keep Going called Totally Killer,
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  Speaker 4: which a good friend of mine who loves this genre
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  Speaker 4: of movies recommended.
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  Speaker 3: So that's so funny because people who listen to our
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  Speaker 3: Patreon will know that I watch a lot of movies
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  Speaker 3: via TikTok, Like TikTok shares scenes from a movie and
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  Speaker 3: I end up watching multiple scenes and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I've seen the movie. Well, this was one of them,
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  Speaker 3: And I actually have this in my watch list, even
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  Speaker 3: though I don't watch horror movies. The fact that it's
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  Speaker 3: like a throwback to the eighties, your mom's in high
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  Speaker 3: school situation. I kind of am intrigued by it.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I think I want to watch it.
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  Speaker 3: We should.
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  Speaker 4: This friend of mine said it was pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: So this movie was filmed in British Columbia, Canada from
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  Speaker 3: late August to early September twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 4: Are you ready, I'm gonna go. Yeah, knock knock, Who's there?
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  Speaker 4: Ho ho ho ho ho ho. Hold on to your
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  Speaker 4: hat because you might be surprised at what I've got
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  Speaker 4: to say about this movie.
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  Speaker 3: I love everything about what just happened. Well, I should
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  Speaker 3: have gone first because it's gonna be such a disappointment
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  Speaker 3: and it is simply welcome to Christmas mystery movies.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, yes, yes, yes, no, that's a good one. Okay, right,
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  Speaker 4: let's talk about what we liked.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I overall, can I just say I was
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  Speaker 3: pleasantly surprised by this movie.
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  Speaker 4: Me too.
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  Speaker 3: I found the experience as a whole to be really enjoyable.
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  Speaker 3: I just thought like, oh, this movie is like a
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  Speaker 3: warm hug of a movie to me. I liked all
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  Speaker 3: the parts, even though in the beginning I was like,
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  Speaker 3: oh no, oh no, it's not gonna go well. And
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  Speaker 3: then it really came together for me.
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  Speaker 4: You thought I wasn't gonna go well because David and
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  Speaker 4: Hidie you didn't get along.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It starts off with like ugh, who's the ebenezer who
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  Speaker 3: did this? And then you've got these kids who come
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  Speaker 3: in and that are kind of nasty, and I thought,
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  Speaker 3: oh no, and none of that really panned out the
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  Speaker 3: way I was worried it would.
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  Speaker 4: Mm hmm agree, I uh want to agree with you.
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  Speaker 4: I really enjoyed this movie. Yeah, I personally thought it
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  Speaker 4: was It was the fun hunt for the clues uh
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  Speaker 4: huh led by the kids in this movie that really
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  Speaker 4: reeled me in.
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  Speaker 3: Are you pleasantly surprised by the children's roles in this movie?
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  Speaker 4: I thought they were super enjoyable.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: The storyline was pretty straightforward, but it was kind of
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  Speaker 4: delightful too, and it kept me entertained from the beginning
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  Speaker 4: to the end. I did not fall asleep. But with
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  Speaker 4: that said, I was less interested in like the backstory
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  Speaker 4: of Mistletoe Manner and the attempt to revive the town's
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  Speaker 4: historical society. But it was all tied together nice at
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  Speaker 4: the end.
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  Speaker 3: So that's interesting you say that, because my thoughts were
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  Speaker 3: I thought the event of the house came together quite
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  Speaker 3: well at the end. But I spent a lot of
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  Speaker 3: time watching this movie second guessing the desire to like
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  Speaker 3: revive mistletoe manner. I was like, who cares, what are
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  Speaker 3: you gonna do? Slap some lights on this house? That
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  Speaker 3: they turned it into a whole event I really enjoyed.
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  Speaker 3: I have thoughts on the timing of that event, of course,
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  Speaker 3: but they've got story time and they've got you know,
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  Speaker 3: hot chocolate and all these other things happening. I thought
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  Speaker 3: it came together well. But I agree with you this
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  Speaker 3: whole like, oh, mistletoe manner. What's special about mistletoe manner?
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  Speaker 3: They didn't have me throughout on that.
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  Speaker 4: I agree, I agree.
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  Speaker 3: I want to talk about some of the stars of
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  Speaker 3: this movie. Yes, please, Erica Sarah and her delightful voice.
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  Speaker 3: I loved her voice. I just thought more of that, please,
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  Speaker 3: I loved it. I saw in your notes that she
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  Speaker 3: does do some voice work, and I think that's perfect
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  Speaker 3: for her. I just found her voice really interesting to
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  Speaker 3: listen to.
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  Speaker 4: I agree. Let me tell you for a second. I
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  Speaker 4: was on Reddit last night and people were talking about
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  Speaker 4: this movie. A lot of people didn't really like it
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  Speaker 4: because they thought it was gonna be like a murdery
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  Speaker 4: Christmas movie. Uh huh. I just don't think Homework's.
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  Speaker 3: Ready to go there yet.
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  Speaker 4: But a lot of people were saying that Erica Sarah's
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  Speaker 4: voice was too gravelly and annoying, and I disagree.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I it's like straight up misogyny. Anytime someone says
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  Speaker 3: they don't like someone's voice, it's always a woman. It's
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  Speaker 3: always a woman. No one's like, I don't like that
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  Speaker 3: man's voice. Nobody always says that except for you about
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  Speaker 3: the Ford truck guy.
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  Speaker 4: I have no idea what you're referring to a Ford
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  Speaker 4: truck guy.
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  Speaker 3: Hold on, give me a minute. Batman Martless, Oh, I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure it's circuiting. What is his name? Man the lego host?
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  Speaker 4: Is this a freaking name?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: I can't stand his voice.
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  Speaker 3: Bateman will s hay, thank you and will wow fans.
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  Speaker 3: I love his voice. But again, nobody ever says that
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  Speaker 3: about men's voice. Typically. So go Pound sand Ready users
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  Speaker 3: our other star of this movie. I found Victor Webster
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  Speaker 3: as warm and dreamy as ever. I just found me
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  Speaker 3: such a comforting presence. Like I just was imagining this
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  Speaker 3: single mom moving to this town, having to start fresh
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  Speaker 3: new job. She's moved her kids, they're not really happy.
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  Speaker 3: She's got this whole house to set up, and incomes
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  Speaker 3: Victor Webster to save the day in just this like
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  Speaker 3: quietly strong way.
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  Speaker 4: That's really interesting that you say that, because there is
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  Speaker 4: this certain, like muchiesmo that I like about him. I
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  Speaker 4: find I'm very drawn to huh. And I remember, specifically
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  Speaker 4: in one of the Wedding Veil movies, there was this
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  Speaker 4: whole like scene where he likes up for Ali Sweeney.
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  Speaker 4: I can't even remember what it was, but I was like, hello,
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  Speaker 4: I like that.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 4: I really enjoyed him in this movie. And I thought
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  Speaker 4: these two were like a nice sexy pair in a
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  Speaker 4: very non sexy movie.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, mm hmm. There was just something about him
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  Speaker 3: them together.
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  Speaker 4: I loved it.
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  Speaker 3: Finally, I like to say yay for Linda and Wallace.
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  Speaker 3: Oh and yeah that was sweet, Like he goes, I
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  Speaker 3: don't need a coffee.
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  Speaker 4: I just wanted to come say hi to you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh sweet Wallace.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah that's sweet. I guess like it was sweet. I
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  Speaker 4: mean those Wallace's storyline was. I mean, Linda was just
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  Speaker 4: like a side player here in this movie.
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  Speaker 3: I just loved Linda. Look, I like those supportive characters,
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  Speaker 3: like you're not on your own. She was on Heidie's
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  Speaker 3: side the whole time. I just like she had Heidie's back,
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  Speaker 3: and I really liked Linda. So speaking of the kids
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  Speaker 3: in this movie, mm hmmm.
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  Speaker 4: I thought Juliette Hawk knelled the MOPy but sweet teenage daughter.
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  Speaker 3: Hmmm.
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  Speaker 4: And Logan Pierce, who played the little brother, was really
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  Speaker 4: cute too. I thought they were believable as a brother
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  Speaker 4: sister pair. It was real cute how they were like
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  Speaker 4: working together to find the clues, and uh, I enjoyed them.
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  Speaker 3: I agree. They were a nice addition to this movie
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  Speaker 3: and not almost the most compelling storyline of the movie.
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  Speaker 4: Agree. Finally, I have some thoughts on Wallace played by
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  Speaker 4: Fred Henderson. There were some things like I really like,
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  Speaker 4: like how he was helping the kids and he was
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  Speaker 4: engaged in the hunt for the clues and giving them
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  Speaker 4: like a little bit of hints and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: But in contrast, there was no reason for him to
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  Speaker 4: keep this big secret from his adult son.
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  Speaker 1: None.
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  Speaker 4: It was simple, there was a reasonable explanation. There was
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  Speaker 4: no need to make it bigger than what it was.
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  Speaker 3: You would have thought there had been an actual murder
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  Speaker 3: in this house.
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  Speaker 1: Not.
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  Speaker 3: This was a place of sad memories for me. That's
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: all you needed to say.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Totally, Yeah, He's just like, leave it alone, David.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: It's like, well, what, yeah, are there bones buried in
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: the shed? Sir?
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Exactly exactly. I have one little scene that maye swoon
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: a little bit.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Oh and you.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Know the the movies on the Mystery Channel, Movies and Mysteries.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: It was like it escaped me for a second. They
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: don't typically make me swoon. But there was a scene
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: when David kisses Heidi's hand on a missilete. I was like,
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: that's that's all you gotta do, guys, that's it. It's
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: that simple, that simple.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Just watch this movie. Be like Victor Webster. It's that easy, y'all.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: All right, let's talk about what we wished for.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Okay, even though I loved the event at the house,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: they needed to change the timing. Nobody's coming to a
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: community event on Christmas Eve. No, nobody's gonna be there.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Nobody's bailing on their family plan to come to this
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: community event. They're just not And I don't fully understand
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: why Hallmark is so committed. I guess because it creates
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: this sense of urgency, like we got to get it
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: done by Christmas Eve. Well, how about we got to
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: get it done by December first, so we have a
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: full season to actually capitalize on this event. Right, how
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: is one night helping you? And then I think it
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: carries as much weight launching this on December first, and
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: then like, look what you're gonna have for this whole season?
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Right? I agree with you. Okay, I agree with you,
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: and tell us if we're wrong, because maybe you and
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: I are the only ones you do stuff with families
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: on Christmas Eve?
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Maybe look, and I think also let me say that,
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: I think when you potentially are married or you're in
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: a partnership and you have multiple extended families to deal with,
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: that's when Christmas Eve between like my family and my
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: husband's family and all the grandparents, like we have to
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: do something on Christmas Eve, and we have to do
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: something on Christmas Day to satisfy all of those needs. Right,
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: But maybe some people are like looking around for something
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: to do Christmas Eve.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Maybe I need to know about it.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: M M.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: When I was told you earlier that I didn't like
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: love the whole backstory on mistletoe manner, and I think
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: this is why I would have cared more about the
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: history of the house. If we were given some sort
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: of visual backstory on it.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Maybe instead of just that like weird black and white print.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: There's that, and then Heidi and David are at the
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: library researching it and they're reading out loud about it,
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Like I think it would have been a better opportunity
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: to show us what it looked like. Or or when
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Wallace comes to town and he visits the house, do
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: you remember that he like walks upside the house and
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: he like.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: His flashback memories, give me a childhood memory something the
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: show how important the.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: House was to him or the community or something. Dress
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: the house up, make it look old timey something.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, yes, I would more. Yes, even take that
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: final end scene where it's dressed up and like cep
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: a tonate in Wallace's memory, Like that's good.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: That would work for me, exactly exactly.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: My next there's a bunch of questions. Okay, who moves
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: into a new house and doesn't explore it? That is
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: in my digite that Okay, I apologize.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: You don't have to apologize.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: How do are they? Like, Oh there's a carriage house,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Oh there's all of these things. The first thing I
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: do is I'm going to walk through that house. I'm
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: gonna learn how many rooms are there and what stuff
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: has been left behind. I'm not gonna constantly be surprised
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: by turning a corner and finding a giant nutcracker staring
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: at me like you, there is no chance I wouldn't
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: have gone in that carriage house. I would have been
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: able to just let it sit out there for days unopened.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Zero.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Yep, gotta know what's in it?
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Me too, well, I'll say, here's my digite that it
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: just goes nicely here when the power goes out, and
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: hiding the kids. I think they're in the base. Mm hmmm,
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: it's where that big nutcracker? Where is that? What are
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: we talking about?
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Unclear? In the house?
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: To me, where it is. The hallway they're walking down
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: is just filled with dusty cobwebs. I'm like, nobody cleaned
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: this house before you moved into it, right? It doesn't
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: make any sense to me?
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Anyway, do you want to go on with your questions?
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: My next question is why is this movie called Mystery
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: on Mistletoe Lane and not Mystery at Mistletoe manor?
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Very good question. I don't think they lived on Mistletoe Lane,
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: did they?
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Maybe they did, but there's nothing about the street. There's
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: no discussion of the street. We meet the neighbor across
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: the street, who happens to also be married to the mayor.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: I just thought the movie was poorly named Mystery at
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Mistletoe manor how hard. Maybe they had bigger plans for
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: the event and then production They're like, m gotta be
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: one house. We got the budget to decorate one house, y'all.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: And finally, how is the former director of the Historical
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Society available to basically be the co director of the
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Historical Society? Unpaid?
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah? I don't understand. Why did he leave the position?
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: That was never clear?
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Right, Well, he's gonna start his renovation business. Oh really,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: I'd like completely missed that. I think so, But he
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: doesn't appear to be doing much of that. Interesting.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: Here's the final thing I wished for.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Hmm.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: The threat of Heidi losing her job at the Historical
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Society based on the turnout at the hashtag tributary was
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: totally unnecessary, as was the town council meeting. I hear
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: a but.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: No, but no, I have additional information. Yes, I just
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: thought it.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Was dumb, like, here's an unwarranted obstacle that we're going
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: to place in your way to like jeopardize the potential
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: of Heidi and David maybe getting together. It just was nonsense.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's nonsense for the Hallmark Channel, but not
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: for movies and mysteries. Do you know what I mean?
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Well, well agree. I thought it was you're going
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: to hire this person and then give her two weeks
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: to make a difference.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: Come on, Yeah, And I don't even think there was
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: no assignment like you have to come turn the Historical
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Society around in two weeks before Christmas? Was there?
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: No, that was unclear. It was I think you're right,
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: this event didn't go well, therefore get fired. Also, at
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: the Historical Society town hall meeting, there are no less
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: than ten Christmas trees between the hallway and the interior
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: of the meeting. And you're telling me that this is
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: a town that's going to vote against her mistletone manner event.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, right now?
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: You ready for did you see that?
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: I am?
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Did you know there was a Nora Jones song in
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: this movie? No, didn't even hear it while they're ice skating.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: It's called Christmas Glow. And I only know that because
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Nora Jones herself posted about it on Twitter.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Did she record that song for this movie or is
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: it an old song?
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: Okay, speaking of music, I loved that old record player
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: a cabinet thing.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, someone in.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: My family had one at one point, because.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Like, it brings me a lot of joy to see it.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: I can't tell you who had one, but I know
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: someone had one, and I kind of wish I had
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: one for my house, Like, if I had room for it,
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: I think it'd be so cool.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Yes, I love that. By the way, Nora Jones Christmas
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Glow came out in twenty twenty one, so it was
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: not written for this movie. Got it one tiny? Did
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: you see that they're handing out flyers about their event,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: flyers and cookies to promote mistletoe manner, and then they
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: just all go skating And I was like, were they
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: just standing there in skates handing out flyers? And I
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: said that out loud to my husband's like, no, they
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: want to put on skates, And I was like, the
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: scene goes from them walking away directly onto the ice,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: so maybe they did go put on skates, but it
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: certainly seems like they were just booted up and ready
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: to go boot it up.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: That's funny. The scene where Heidi is putting out Christmas
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: decorations at their house. She hasn't unpacked anything else, but
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: she chooses to unpack the Christmas decord, which I think
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: she was doing because like the kids were coming and
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: she wanted to make it feel like homey and special
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: to them. But she has these existing shelves and like
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: just like the perfect box of Christmas decorations that just
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: fit perfectly right on all these shelves. Like, come on,
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: we all know, and he's a little finessing. You can't
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: just like put it up there and be done right.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: She had the perfect staging for every one of those shelves,
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: exactly exactly when they go out to the restaurant, he's
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: I don't know, they're she's picking up dinner and he's
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: eating chowder and they share a spoon to eat the chowder.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: And tell me why I'm so grossed out by that?
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Kids.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: I agree, that's a good point. I don't want to
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: eat off of anybody's soup spoon.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: No, that's like literally makes my stomach turn thinking about it.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Of course it did.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Although I was like, oh, I kind of want some chowder.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Well, who's going to Massachusetts this week? It's me and
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: you Met. I'm going to get some chowder. I have
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: two more. Did you see that? At least when Wallace
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: walks up to visit Mistletoe Manor, there is the most
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: offensive digital snow lined roof. It almost looks cartoonish so bad.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Did you see it?
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: I did. I almost rewound it but it did not.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: But yes, it.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Looked like a cartoon. I was like, well, what am
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: I looking at here? This is awful.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: It's August. It's like Disney Snow where they have like
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: the plastic tufts of snow over the castle.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Yes, that's exactly what it looked like exactly. And my
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: final did you see that? Heidi talks about this Christmas
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: tree being seen through the windows at the Historical Society
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: and it's going to draw people to come in. Well,
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: the night of their party, the windows are covered with
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: like sheer window coverings but still covered. I'm like, nobody
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: can see your awesome tree, but the drapes closed. If
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: you're trying to get people open your drapes.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Excellent point. Also, you alluded to it before, but during
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: the when the tribute tree takes off, Heidi shows up
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: and there's all these people there, and Linda's like, they
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: saw something called a hashtag. And once again, I am
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: begging you to ask one of the under twenty five
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: year olds on your production staff how to talk about
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: social media in a way that doesn't make you sound
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: like a boso.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Well even one of those kids could have been like yo, Linda,
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: they just want to dumb it down for the audience
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: set doesn't understand it.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but just they saw it on social media. They
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: saw something called a hashtag. They didn't see the hashtag.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: The hashtag is what made it go viral, but they didn't.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: It's all I'm saying. Sometimes you talk about niche things
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: and they drive me crazy.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: I know. Let's rate this bad Boy four point two
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: five stars.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: I gave it four stars. I thought it was a
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: great family movie, Like anybody could watch this, you know,
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: like the family could sit down and watch this cue movie.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: I agree. I think we are ramping up to some
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: stronger movies after a handful of misses this season so far.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: If Victor Webster is your favorite Hallmark dude, guess what
• 29:12
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• 29:15
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• 29:17
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• 29:21
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• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Come back for that. Thanks for listening. Goodbye bye