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My Christmas Family Tree · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, friends.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into this episode, we wanted to let
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  Speaker 2: you know what's happening here. This entire month will be
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  Speaker 2: Christmas in July on Girls Gone Hamewark, featuring some.
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  Speaker 1: Movies that we reviewed.
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  Speaker 3: But you've never heard. That's right. These reviews appeared exclusively
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  Speaker 3: on our Patreon account, but we dug them out from
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  Speaker 3: the vault and we're gonna celebrate Christmas in July. I
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  Speaker 3: gotta tell you, Megan, I'm a little bit concerned because
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what I said about these movies.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you should probably give these episodes a listen to.
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  Speaker 2: We hope you enjoy this month on Girls Gone Hamewark.
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  Speaker 2: As always joined us on our Facebook group to talk
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  Speaker 2: about these movies and these reviews.
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  Speaker 4: Enjoy the episode.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to a bonus episode of Girls Gone Hallmark.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Megan, I'm Wendy.
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  Speaker 2: And on today's bonus episode, we are discussing the title
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  Speaker 2: that I mess up every single time I say it
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  Speaker 2: out loud, and Hi, Christmas Family Tree.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I actually have I written down as
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  Speaker 3: my family and Christmas Tree.
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  Speaker 2: I know what is the title my Christmas Family Tree?
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  Speaker 3: Are you certain? No?
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  Speaker 2: Now that you say that, no, I don't know. I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at the app me too, my Christmas Family Tree.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, let me change mine. I know it is a
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  Speaker 3: difficult title. I was thinking about Open by Christmas, which
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  Speaker 3: is available to listen in our regular podcast feed. Open
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  Speaker 3: by Christmas had nothing to do with that movie. Like
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  Speaker 3: that title had nothing to do with that movie.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Like was she supposed to open the card by Christmas?
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't like a twenty years ago? Yeah, I give yes,
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  Speaker 2: it didn't make sense. Moving on, Do you have a synopsis?
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  Speaker 3: I do. When Vanessa receives the results from her family
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  Speaker 3: Tree DNA test, she discovers a family she didn't know
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  Speaker 3: existed and travels to their home for Christmas, starring Amy
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  Speaker 3: tea Garden, Andrew Walker and James Tupper.
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  Speaker 2: News and notes.
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  Speaker 3: I have very few, as do.
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  Speaker 2: I I mean, in fact, I wrote, blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: Filmed in Vancouver. Can we skip to the good part?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I That's basically what I have, and
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  Speaker 3: that it began shooting in August and wrapped in September,
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  Speaker 3: so it was hot when they filmed this one.
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  Speaker 2: I have one more note, and that is that Amy
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  Speaker 2: Teagarden is ten years younger than Andrew Walker. She's thirty
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  Speaker 2: two and he's forty two.
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  Speaker 3: And he's forty two years old. Yes, wow, and does
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  Speaker 3: not look forty two. He looks twenty five. Sorry, I'm
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  Speaker 3: an old lady.
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  Speaker 2: It felt like he almost felt more of a peer
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  Speaker 2: to her father in this movie than to her and
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  Speaker 2: the fact at one point I was like, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: is he the father's friend. No, his dad was the
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  Speaker 2: father's friend. So anyway, they are I think supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be the same age, but they are very much not. Well.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a lot of casting in these Hallmark movies.
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  Speaker 3: Is that, Like they're supposed to pretend to be the
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  Speaker 3: same age, right?
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  Speaker 2: I have one last thing before we do first impressions.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to read a review okay that I strongly
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  Speaker 2: disagree with.
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  Speaker 3: Ooh, let's hear it.
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  Speaker 2: My Christmas Family Tree was okay with a different storyline
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  Speaker 2: in the background of a gasp unwed mother, although she's
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  Speaker 2: never seen. They managed to throw every single one of
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  Speaker 2: their tiresome must haves, including skating children, singing in a
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  Speaker 2: Christmas pageant, seventeen million decorations, selecting and decorating the Tree
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  Speaker 2: family dinner, hot Cocoa by the gallon and falling in
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  Speaker 2: love in less than a week. The anvils raining down
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  Speaker 2: were enough to kill the viewer, and the premise was
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  Speaker 2: just beyond credible. The misunderstanding was just plain silly, tolerable,
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  Speaker 2: although I wouldn't watch it.
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  Speaker 1: Again, which.
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  Speaker 2: I don't disagree with her statement that all of those
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  Speaker 2: things are in the movie.
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  Speaker 1: To me, though, they didn't ruin.
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  Speaker 2: The movie, which leads me to my first impression, which is, Wendy,
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  Speaker 2: please don't break my heart with your review of this movie.
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  Speaker 3: That's your first impression? Yes, okay, wait, I'll backing up,
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  Speaker 3: backing up. What do you disagree then, with that reviewer's
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  Speaker 3: statement of the movie.
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  Speaker 2: That all of those tropes made the movie unwatchable. I
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  Speaker 2: did not find that to be the case. Okay, if
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  Speaker 2: you enjoyed this movie.
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  Speaker 3: Fair, But what about her other stuff about what did
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  Speaker 3: it say at the end there about like after all
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  Speaker 3: the tropes, like it said something about like the.
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  Speaker 2: Premise was just to be on credible. The misunderstanding was
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  Speaker 2: plain silly. I would like to get to that and
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  Speaker 2: I will discuss that later. Okay, I thought maybe the
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  Speaker 2: flaws in this movie.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Okay, Fair, My first impression of this movie
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  Speaker 3: is that this one was special.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I actually was shocked that Hallmark would have two really
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  Speaker 3: good back to back movies. Like I thought, Open by
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  Speaker 3: Christmas was a really great movie, and then this one
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  Speaker 3: was a really great movie, and they aired you know,
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  Speaker 3: back to Friday and Saturday. So I was kind of
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  Speaker 3: surprised that these didn't hold their own like their own
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  Speaker 3: like Saturday night slot.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I liked it a lot. Well.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder what Hallmark considers the prime spot to be,
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  Speaker 2: because Alie Sweeney is a Hallmark Mainsday and she had
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  Speaker 2: the Friday night slot ahead of Amy t Garden. Although
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Walker might be kind of the draw for this one.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he's the pillar of this movie.
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  Speaker 1: So I take it back.
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  Speaker 2: I can see why they put it on a Saturday. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: what did you like about this movie?
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna reference Open by Christmas again. We talked on
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  Speaker 3: that review podcast episode that the opening was really cute,
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  Speaker 3: and I thought the opening to this movie was really
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  Speaker 3: cute too.
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  Speaker 2: Is that where she walks through the desks and delivers gifts.
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  Speaker 3: No, hold it, hold a minute, she is doing that,
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  Speaker 3: but it's just it's really cute. I was like, I
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  Speaker 3: can you hear the song? Yes, that is when she
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  Speaker 3: is delivering the presence, but it has like a cute,
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  Speaker 3: festive song. And the fourth is really cute and festive,
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  Speaker 3: so much better than some of the ones we've seen
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  Speaker 3: in the past. I agree.
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  Speaker 2: I think Andrew Walker is a true wowie zowie.
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  Speaker 3: I oh goree. And that's why I'm saying he's forty two.
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  Speaker 3: What rip it? Open that shirt, dude. I need to
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  Speaker 3: see that six pack because somebody's got one. I want
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  Speaker 3: to see him like dancing with the Stars or something.
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  Speaker 3: I am showing my grandma card. But he is so handsome,
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  Speaker 3: so so handsome.
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  Speaker 2: I have to say that Andrew Walker. I enjoyed him
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  Speaker 2: more in this movie than.
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  Speaker 3: I ever have before.
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  Speaker 1: I think, oh it really is.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I always enjoy it. I mean, he's very nice
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  Speaker 2: to look at, but this was this was a standout
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  Speaker 2: role for me.
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  Speaker 3: Well. I remember really loving The twenty seven Hour Day,
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  Speaker 3: but it wasn't about the romance that I liked. I
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  Speaker 3: just liked that the story was more about her, the
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  Speaker 3: lead who was in it. So yeah, I would say
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  Speaker 3: like he stood out for me in this movie as well,
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  Speaker 3: and now I'm wondering, do I need to go back
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  Speaker 3: and watch all these other movies that he's been in.
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  Speaker 3: Friendly app That's right, did you like? I really loved
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  Speaker 3: the family.
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  Speaker 2: I wrote this entire, loving, wonderful family.
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  Speaker 3: The mom was so welcoming and friendly. I loved that
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  Speaker 3: the older daughter was super age appropriate to the way
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  Speaker 3: that a teenager would talk, had the same attitude a
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  Speaker 3: teenager would have. The little girl was like sassy at
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  Speaker 3: times and thought she was perfect. The son was kind
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  Speaker 3: of a throwaway role, and I thought maybe they just
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  Speaker 3: needed him to be like the dog sitter for her,
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  Speaker 3: which is like another side storyline. I was like, why
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  Speaker 3: did they bring that dog? Like I didn't get it. Whatever,
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  Speaker 3: But I loved the family.
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  Speaker 2: I even wrote Grandma she gets her own bullet point.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, Grandma too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she was just so love I just thought they
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  Speaker 2: were so warm and wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: And the dad too. I'm not who wasn't James Tepper.
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember what his character name was, but like,
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  Speaker 3: he was just so like open and wanted to make
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  Speaker 3: it work. I just loved it. Loved the family.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really got the feels, as they say, from
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  Speaker 2: this family.
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  Speaker 1: I loved the giant Santa. It made me literally.
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  Speaker 2: Laugh out loud when they step back and the Santa's
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  Speaker 2: like as big as the house.
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  Speaker 3: That was so funny. That was really funny. I just
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  Speaker 3: thought the whole premise there was like the other Santa
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  Speaker 3: was like failing and they were like trying to keep
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  Speaker 3: it together with duct tape or whatever. And then she
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  Speaker 3: went out and got this like thoughtful gift because I
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  Speaker 3: think I think they were trying to weave that into
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  Speaker 3: the storyline, is that she was like this thoughtful gift giver,
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  Speaker 3: like with the opening scene how she's giving gifts to
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  Speaker 3: all the employees or whatever. And then like of course
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  Speaker 3: at the end when she gives like the Frankenstein gift
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  Speaker 3: to Andrew Walker's character, you know, yes, thought that.
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  Speaker 2: Was something that was really well executed in this movie.
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  Speaker 2: Or is her gift giving like someone put some real
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  Speaker 2: thought into what gifts she was going to give to
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  Speaker 2: these people?
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  Speaker 3: Right? Yeah? That big Santa was great. I was like,
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  Speaker 3: can I get one of those? I want a big
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  Speaker 3: Santa in front of my yard.
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  Speaker 1: You need the big giant Sanna.
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  Speaker 3: I what a big Santa? Where can I get one?
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  Speaker 3: That's like a car dealership? Sannah, you know, totally get
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  Speaker 3: to tie it to your roof to keep it in place. Right.
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  Speaker 2: The last thing I liked is when the father gave
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  Speaker 2: her the photo of her mom At the end, I cried,
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  Speaker 2: did you I did?
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  Speaker 3: I like, welled up a little bit but didn't cry cry.
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  Speaker 3: But yes, He's like, I think she has your eyes
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  Speaker 3: or you have her eyes or whatever. I was like,
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  Speaker 3: that's my mom. Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he found the picture so easily the second
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  Speaker 3: time he looked for it. You know, he didn't look
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  Speaker 3: that well the first time he was looking for it.
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  Speaker 3: I would have just solved the problems, you know, if
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  Speaker 3: he would have found that damn picture earlier. I just
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  Speaker 3: really like, I like the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what did you wish for?
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  Speaker 3: All right? Don't hate me?
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's okay.
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  Speaker 3: This movie needed less Christmas activities.
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  Speaker 1: I swear I.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't write that review. I swear I did it. But
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  Speaker 3: I think, like, you know, we have that Bengo card
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  Speaker 3: on our Instagram. I was like, we would have filled
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  Speaker 3: an entire Bingo card with this movie, because there was
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  Speaker 3: like there was cookie decorating, ice skating. Was there a
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  Speaker 3: Christmas show, pageant show, concerts or something, so many things,
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  Speaker 3: so many things, and then that makes me wonder, like
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  Speaker 3: when they put all that stuff into movies, like do
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  Speaker 3: they have just like a very small story? But I
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  Speaker 3: didn't think this was a small story, I hear you.
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  Speaker 2: I think for me, the reading some of those things
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  Speaker 2: worked is because they were trying. She was meeting this
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  Speaker 2: family for the first time, and so they needed traditional
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: family activities for her to participate in. Yeah, it was
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: all in the week leading up to Christmas at their home.
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  Speaker 2: So I do think they hit you over the head
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  Speaker 2: with it.
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  Speaker 1: For me, it worked.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I think that's like your utopia right right,
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  Speaker 3: Like a week full of just nothing else but Christmas
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  Speaker 3: activities to do, like no laundry, no cooking, dinner, no nothing.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: One thing I wished for was some resolution on the
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  Speaker 2: actual DNA mix up. I never saw them solve what
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  Speaker 2: the problem was.
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  Speaker 1: If they did, I missed it.
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  Speaker 2: But we realized that she is his daughter, So what
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: was the mix up? What was the problem? That loose
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: thread bothered me?
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: Well, this is what I was thinking. If she would
• 11:41
  Speaker 3: have been contacted by the DNA company, he would have
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: as well say like and.
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: Did you see that also contacted the father as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, of course they would have. Yeah, of course they
• 11:52
  Speaker 3: would have. But agree like you wanted some like final
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  Speaker 3: scientific say so that they were actually a match.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I wanted them to come back and be like, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: The mix up wasn't that you weren't his father. The
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: mix up was like in your ancestry, like you're actually
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: twenty seven percent Swedish or something like that. Oh what
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: because they never said they just said we mixed your
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  Speaker 2: results up. It doesn't say he's not your father. We
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: don't know exactly right, right, So, and I think they
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: intentionally left that open ended. But I do wish they
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  Speaker 2: And maybe this is a scene that got cut, but
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  Speaker 2: I do wish that maybe there's like while he's driving
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  Speaker 2: to her, there's a scene with him calling the DNA
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  Speaker 2: company to figure out what you know, and they say,
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: oh no, it was x y Z. And that's why
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: they never called him because it didn't affect him at all. Right,
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  Speaker 2: that makes so that's that's what I'm gonna tell myself.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe she's not one point five percent West African.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: What else did you wish for?
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: Well, again, don't hate me. Let's talk about Amy T.
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  Speaker 1: Garden.
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, now you know she was in the movie
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: that I probably hated most from twenty twenty one, which
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: was a New Year's Resolution. I thought she was in
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: Chasing Waterfalls.
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  Speaker 2: I No, whatever movie I hated that said was worse
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  Speaker 2: than Chasing Waterfalls.
• 13:12
  Speaker 3: It's the Hubian dance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe if I
• 13:16
  Speaker 3: rewatched a New Year's Resolution, I may not hate it
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  Speaker 3: as much.
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  Speaker 1: But to me, I think you should with the.
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  Speaker 2: Hindsight of some of the other twenty twenty stinkers in
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  Speaker 2: your mind, twenty twenty one stinkers. Anyway, I will stop
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  Speaker 2: interrupting it.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead, No, I mean that's fair because if you
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: look at it, like, we started with a handful of
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: Christmas movies when we started reviewing these, right, and then
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: we just moved straight into twenty twenty one, and that
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: was like the first non holiday Christmas movie, and I
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: was like, ugh, this is terrible. So maybe that's just
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: the stain it has left on me right now. Amy T.
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  Speaker 3: Garden Like, I loved her as Julie Taylor on Friday
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: Night Lights, Like she played the perfect teenager, angsty, moody cute.
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  Speaker 3: As an adult, how old is she you said thirty
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: two thirty. She's a cute girl next door to me,
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  Speaker 3: but like I feel like she is as exciting as
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: a piece of cardboard, Like she's just so blocked me.
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  Speaker 3: Like there was never one time in this movie where
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: I was like, she's adorable, Like she's so cute. I
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: get why everyone loves her, like I just didn't. I
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know. And on top of that,
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: I didn't feel any chemistry between her and Andrew Walker
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: like I didn't. There was no sparks there for me.
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: I think she's a good actress.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: I think she's cute. I think Andrew Walker was the
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: big star in this movie for me, But I don't
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: have the same aversion to Dorothy.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: Well, okay, I will make my mission. I will look
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: on the friendly app right now, non sponsored, and find
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: a new Year's resolution and try to watch her in
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: that movie again. Okay, did you think she and Andrew
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  Speaker 3: Walker had chemistry?
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  Speaker 2: I liked them together.
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: It was more to me of like friendship a confidant. Well,
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: you know what, I take that back. I was like,
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  Speaker 3: she needs a confidant while she had her best friend too,
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  Speaker 3: who was really adorable and sweet. That whole scene is
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: she comes to the house and he's like, are you
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  Speaker 3: the actual real daughter? Yeah? I just thought that was
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  Speaker 3: really funny. I thought that they were better as like
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  Speaker 3: conduit between the family. She needed like a connector between
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: like that family, and that was Andrew Walker. But I
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: will say, like at the inn when he comes in
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: and brings the Christmas tree, that was like really sweet.
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  Speaker 3: But then he said something like falling in love and I.
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  Speaker 2: Was like, ohka, no, I have something to say about that.
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  Speaker 2: That last scene, she apologizes and she's like, I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't say something. I was just falling in love
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: with this family. And when she said that, I said
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: out loud.
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  Speaker 1: Don't say and with you.
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  Speaker 2: And then he said.
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  Speaker 1: You're not the only one falling in.
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  Speaker 2: Love and I said, and my husband said, I had
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  Speaker 2: no Christmas spirits.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not about Christmas spirit and that's about like
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: it's been a week. Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't like that. I mean I think it's the obvious
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  Speaker 2: hallmark line in that moment. Yeah, when she says I
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  Speaker 2: was falling in love with this family, we never love
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  Speaker 2: the I'm in love with you after a week storyline.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Now I have a question for you though, before we
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: move on to did you see that? And how did
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: you feel about her keeping this secret from the family
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: longer than was necessary?
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Totally unfair, Like as soon as she found out, she
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: should have like had a conversation with the dad, you know, Yeah,
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: like she's an adult, Like it wasn't her fault that
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: there was a mix up, you know what I mean? Uh,
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: what about you?
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: No?
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: I did feel that way as well. But in that
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: moment when they're about to take the picture and she
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: finally tells them, I kind of could like I could
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: understand how someone without a family, which was interesting because
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: she said she had this family that fostered her, Like,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: why isn't she close to them anymore?
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: They did, they pass away. I don't know, but.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Would want to prolong that feeling, even though she knew
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: it was going to come to an end. But I
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: was frustrated multiple times because she had multiple opportunities, and
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: we have these hallmark moments where they're interrupted, and I
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: always get so frustrated because it is not that hard
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: to say no, I have something very important to say,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: and it's not about hot chocolate or any of the
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: don't need two people to clean up a hot chocolate spill.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, wait a second. That scene was so
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: funny to me because I was like, I would have
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: totally reacted like that dad, because the mohonk was running
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: in and she's like whatever the kid's name was, spill
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: lot of chocolate all over the rug and he's like,
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: h It's like that's me, that is me. I know.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: But why did she need Why couldn't she do it herself?
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Why did she Well, because maybe the child had like,
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: you know, a hot chocolate burn. I don't know, I
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: don't know.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, there were one too many interrupted moments where
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: she tries to have this conversation and it doesn't happen,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: and I got increasingly more frustrated that she didn't act
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: like an adult and say.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: No, this is important.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean she was in their home. There's right
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: tons of other moments where she could have said, hey,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: we need to talk, so yeah, yeah.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah it's time for Did you see that? And I
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: have possibly the most exciting did you see that? Of
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: any homework maybe we've ever done?
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: I'm is it going to be the same as mine?
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Is it?
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Did you see Tyler Hines serving them.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Pepperm egg dog.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: I did not.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm so excited that that why I have been
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: sitting on my hands waiting for this moment. I did
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: not want to discuss this movie because I needed to
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: know if you had seen that.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna look for it right now. In the movie,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: hold on, okay, wait it went scene?
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Is it?
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Like? Where's it?
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: While they're on their road trip and they stop at
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: a cafe for coffee, Well, they actually have peppermint eggnog.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: You could call me Chris. I'm gonna call you daddy,
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: just kidd sorry, so cross oh wait there, Oh my god,
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: we're the short hair. Hold on, We're gonna try to
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: take a screenshot.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Wowe is Awie Times too?
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: I did not even know that? Is crazy? Wow. That
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: makes me so excited. I can't believe that you even
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: noticed that. So exciting Yes with this? Wow?
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Yep? Wow is Awie Times too? Totally?
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Totally?
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Now mine is less exciting yours? Well, at the end,
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: when they are at what's her name, Maggie.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I don't even know there it is.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: I don't know what her name is. But they're at
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: her apartment and the family comes and they start singing
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Silent Night, which made me cry. Vanessa Night, Vanessa silent
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: night always makes me cry for some reason I don't know.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: But so they're Caroline and then they go upstairs and
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: the grandma has a bottle of wine and guess what
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: kind of wine it was?
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Homewark wine.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Yes, it was joy right on the label.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Oh that is funny, Yes, yes, yes yes.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Another one I have is when they are having a
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: snowball fight out in front of their house. Did you
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: notice like the snowballs never like broke up like when
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: they would throw it, like, because because I've only been
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: in the snow like a handful of times, and I
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: would think, like when you throw the snowball and it
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: hits somebody, it like falls apart right right. They were
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: like throwing these like balls, and I was like, are
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: they getting pelted with like these solid snowballs are.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Like like a softball thrown at you.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, I wonder what they were actually using
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: if it was just like shaved ice and then it
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: was all compacted together they were throwing them at each other.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know, did you notice? No? Not?
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Did you notice during the Christmas pageant scene when the
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: daughter is singing away in a manger real Millie the
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Nilli vibes during that moment.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Yes, I did notice that too. It was bizarre, right, like.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: She's not singing that.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: No, Yeah, it was weird. I wonder what she was singing.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Do you think she was lip singing to that away
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: in a major song?
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Or was her just mouth just moving in there trying
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: to line up the sound?
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: No, I think she was singing away in a manger.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: That just wasn't her voice. Yeah, it was, and it
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: didn't perfectly line up.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I was saying, like, that's what was
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: weird about it to me, is like it didn't perfectly
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: line up. It looked really weird.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay. I have this house that's like fully decorated
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: for Christmas. Did you notice that the dining table has
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: a fusia tablecloth on it?
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: No?
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I did it right, pink.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: No, I didn't notice that's happening, Like why wouldn't it
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: be like a Christmas plat or something. Yes, No, one
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: didn't notice. They didn't notice that when Andrew Walker brings
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: the Christmas tree in at the end of the movie. Yes,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: they never really show it, like they show like parts
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: of it, And I was like, well, yeah, I wonder
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: how hard it is to get like a Christmas tree
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: in August?
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: And then I was like a wonder because it was
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: real green, and I was like it hadn't been spray
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: painted too it maybe it was fake. It just dawned
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: on me that it could have been a fake tree.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Totally could have been fake.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: It already had a stand on it. But you know
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Christmas trees, I.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Think where there's a will, there's a way, there's got
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: to be a Christmas tree farm. And they're just chopping
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: down one that's slightly small than it might normally be.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: I just was like, oh, they're not showing that tree
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: in full frame because it's not an actual Christmas tree. Garbage.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: And when they go to make Snowman, the daughter goes dad.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: They're called snow people.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Now, see that's what I'm talking about. The teenage daughter
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: was on point. She totally was.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: And that whole thing.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: We're like shopping for the dress and like, right, they
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: went shopped for a dress or am I make that
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: something else? Okay, they went and shopped for the dress,
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: and like she was excited about the dance and then
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: she danced three dances with this guy. I was like, Oh,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: that's just so cute.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: And I'm wondering, like too, if that felt special to Vanessa,
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: because like maybe she didn't get to like do all
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: that kind of stuff or you know, like have a
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: family celebrate around it, you know what I mean.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't have a little sister, but I
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: would imagine that would be fun if you have a
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: little sister to be able to give them that experience.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Then right, go ahead, right, Okay, there's just one last thing,
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: and I'm sure you probably caught it because they talked
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: about it at the end too. But like at the
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: very beginning when they first meet, he's like your mom, Trish,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: and she's like Patty, Patty, and like why wouldn't they
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: stop right there and be like wait, she went by
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Patty like I got it. It could be Patricia right.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: In that moment the first time she said I got it,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: And the dad doesn't get it until the final scene
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: right exactly was wait really but just had a different name. Yeah,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: and like he didn't even like pause, like he just
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: kept kept telling a story or whatever.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was that was just weird. I mean, like
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: that obviously is like the first like Red flag.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: In it, but.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: One that was easily solved.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: I don't know well.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: And also they're like, she didn't know she grew up
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: in provid So I was like, she was nine years old.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Nine year olds don't ask their parents like where they
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: grew up, right, that's the other thing. Yeah, I was
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: accept of their parents having lives outside of their own right,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: And she was nine and now she's in her thirties, Like,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: does she have memories of before age nine that are
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: like solid memories, you know, like right where her mom
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: lived at a certain time of her life or whatever. God, No,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: what did you rate this movie?
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: This was almost a perfect movie. Three point seven five stars.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Three point seven five stars for me too, my highest
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: rating so far.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: That's exciting. I would probably watch this one again. Oh
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: it's definitely like a throw on, Like I enjoyed it. Yeah,
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: I liked it. I liked it a lot. And I
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: was like, bravo too, Hallmark for having two really good movies.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: If you have any thoughts on our thoughts on these movies,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: give us an email. Megan and Wendy gmail dot com.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Have a great day, everybody, goodbye bye.