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The Christmas Contest · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to a Girl's Gone Hallmark, a bonus
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Speaker 1: episode of Long Story Short podcast.
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Speaker 2: I'm Megan, I'm Windy, and today we have.
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Speaker 1: Reached the end of this week's marathon of Hallmark movie reviews,
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Speaker 1: and we are discussing the Christmas Contest from Hallmarks Mary
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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving weekend, part of their Countdown to Christmas series twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty one.
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Speaker 2: Who We're all happy that this is. I have a
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Speaker 2: lot of mixed feelings. We will get to it. Should
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Speaker 2: I hit you with the synopsis?
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Speaker 1: Sure? Okay.
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Speaker 2: Exes Laura and Ben compete in a Christmas contest to
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Speaker 2: win money for the charity of their choosing. The city
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Speaker 2: watches them battle and choose what is more important, victory
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Speaker 2: or love?
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Speaker 1: Okay? Can I go first? In news end note?
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Speaker 2: Heck yeah.
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Speaker 1: I found an article from Insider dot com which is
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Speaker 1: titled Christmas Contest gives Fuller House Fans an alternate ending,
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Speaker 1: and it made me laugh to think of this movie
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Speaker 1: as Fuller House fanfic. And then I read the article
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Speaker 1: and apparently that was intentional. Candace Cameron Beret was like
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Speaker 1: lots of people thought DJ and Matt should end up together.
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Speaker 1: I just fast forward through that Candace Cameron Beret and
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Speaker 1: John Brotherton were both on Fuller House. They dated on
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Speaker 1: the show. I believe they were engaged, and then Candace
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Speaker 1: Cameron Beret's character DJ Fuller does not marry Matt. Apparently
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Speaker 1: there are some DJ Matt stands in the world.
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Speaker 2: I maybe have only seen one or two seasons of
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Speaker 2: Fuller House. I remember that they were vets. They were
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Speaker 2: both veterinarians, and I do remember them like dating. But
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Speaker 2: then she got together with the high school ex boyfriend,
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Speaker 2: and that's who I thought she ended up with.
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Speaker 1: She ends up with Steve, but there's an ongoing thing
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Speaker 1: where there's a back and forth between Steve and Matt.
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Speaker 1: At one point she has to choose. They're like, you
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Speaker 1: need to choose. She does ultimately choose Steve. But yes,
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Speaker 1: they had a pretty serious relationship, but he's on the
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Speaker 1: entire series. He meets another woman and gets married. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's not his name, John.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what this d name is.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Matt on the show. Yes, he meets someone else.
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Speaker 1: They well, then I'm very happy that said Allan has
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Speaker 1: to say. Apparently this was intentional. She wanted to give
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Speaker 1: those DJ and Matt fans what they wanted. Okay, speaking
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Speaker 1: of Candace Cameron Bray, she has a holiday gift collection
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Speaker 1: for Hallmark products like pillows with slogans like dream Big
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Speaker 1: and Pray Harder.
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Speaker 2: Oh god, oh were those the pillows that were in
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Speaker 2: her apartment?
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Speaker 1: But I wondered, oh, yeah, because I thought the one
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Speaker 1: was like, I don't know if it said still, yeah.
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Speaker 2: That's what it said.
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Speaker 1: I have a note about that later. Okay. This was
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Speaker 1: Candace Cameron Bray's tenth Christmas movie for Homwerk and her
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Speaker 1: thirtieth movie overall for the Hallmark Channel, and she was
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Speaker 1: quoted as saying that she doesn't really worry about the
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Speaker 1: ratings so much because she just knows that her movies
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Speaker 1: are going to make her fans happy. But I have
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Speaker 1: to wonder that if she doesn't worry about the ratings
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Speaker 1: so much, because last year in twenty twenty, her movie
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Speaker 1: was not number one. It was a Christmas waltz. However,
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much we can trust the ratings
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Speaker 1: because would you like to guess what movie came in third?
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Speaker 2: That we were the Merry Thanksgiving weekend No. For twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty oh for twenty twenty. So first was a Christmas Waltz,
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Speaker 2: second was if I only had Christmas, and third was
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Speaker 2: that country Christmas one a timeless Christmas. Oh god, that
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Speaker 2: was so bad.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So the ratings only say so much, is what I'm
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Speaker 1: saying here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think that's terrible that she just like
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Speaker 2: rests on. Oh I don't care. I just want to
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Speaker 2: make fun content. My fans will love, but her fans
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Speaker 2: are over ghak family.
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Speaker 1: Come on now, hey, once you're not number one, it's
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Speaker 1: really nice to not worry about being number one anymore. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So at one point in this movie, they eat something
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Speaker 1: called a chimney cake. Have you ever had a chimney cake?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 2: And I wrote that down. What is a chimney cake?
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Speaker 1: But it has a name that I cannot pronounce. But
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Speaker 1: it is a spit cake, like roasted over a spit,
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Speaker 1: you know, like on a It turns specific to the
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Speaker 1: Zechulas of Transylvania. Original popular originally popular in the Hungarian
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Speaker 1: speaking regions of Romania, more predominantly the Zeccally Land. It
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Speaker 1: became popular in both and it's looks quite good and
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Speaker 1: sometimes they have cinnamon, sugar or almonds on the outside.
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Speaker 1: But I would like to try a chimney cake.
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Speaker 2: It just looks like like a ho ho if you
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Speaker 2: were to eat the inside of a rolled up like pastry.
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Speaker 2: It was. It was if I turned out ho ho
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Speaker 2: sideways and dug it out and the whipped cream in it,
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Speaker 2: that would be a chocolate chimney cake to me.
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Speaker 1: I see, I see. I had to look up a
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Speaker 1: ho ho looks like which is my next note? A
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Speaker 1: ho ho looks like a eulog? Yes, yes, oh, not
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Speaker 1: a chimney cake that eulog.
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Speaker 2: Hold on, don't skip ahead.
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Speaker 1: No, I just would like to say we will talk
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Speaker 1: about the Eulog. But both this movie, the Christmas Contest,
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Speaker 1: and the movie we talked about yesterday, Christmas in Tahoe
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Speaker 1: featured a yule log. Have you ever had a yule log?
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Speaker 2: No? Have you have? What? They just? They seem very prominently.
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Speaker 2: They seem really hard to make. Yeah, you gotta roll
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Speaker 2: that kickup's break all over the place. If it's not
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Speaker 2: just quite right, yep, I'll stick to a ho ho.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: What was your first impression of this movie?
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Speaker 2: This was a real stinker.
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Speaker 1: WHOA Yeah, Okay, so we've talked about four movies this week.
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Speaker 1: If you had to rate them, in order, what would
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Speaker 1: they be? Of the four we've talked about.
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Speaker 2: Number one would be an Anne Expected Christmas. Number two,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Christmas in Tahoe because I like
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Speaker 2: the music. Then the Lacey Scheber movie, Oh there it
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Speaker 2: is again, and then The Stinker.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow. I would do a Unexpected Christmas, the Christmas Contest,
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Speaker 1: Christmas in Tahoe, Christmas at Castle Heart.
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Speaker 2: All right, girl, put those dukes up, Tell really why
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Speaker 2: you liked it?
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Speaker 1: Now that said, I think those last three are It's
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Speaker 1: a very slim margin, and Unexpected Christmas is the clear,
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Speaker 1: far and away winner. It is the only one of
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Speaker 1: these four that I would be interested in rewatching. It's
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Speaker 1: the only one I would say I actually liked, although
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Speaker 1: I would say the others were fine for me and
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Speaker 1: not terrible. Let's talk about what we liked. I love
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Speaker 1: a competition. I like the idea of a contest. I
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Speaker 1: think it makes it fun. We got to get through
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Speaker 1: the Christmas festivities somehow. Let's make it competitive. Do I
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Speaker 1: I think the contest activities sucked?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do. But I like the idea of a contest. Okay, fine,
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Speaker 2: that's fine. I like that too, But it's a movie
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Speaker 2: from a couple of years ago, A Cookie Cutter Christmas
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Speaker 2: that's about a baking competition. I liked that one so
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Speaker 2: much better than this one, because I am interested in
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Speaker 2: the competitive edge of a movie like this too. But
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Speaker 2: I just honestly, we'll get there. Okay, what else did
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Speaker 2: you like about it? Did you like anything? I did
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Speaker 2: like something? I liked BJ Harrison. Do you know that name?
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Speaker 1: She's Martha. Bj Harrison was in jingle Bell Bride last year,
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Speaker 1: and I remember she was Okay.
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Speaker 2: I think she was in jingle Bell Bred. She was
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Speaker 2: also a prominent character in the Netflix series Made m Aid,
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Speaker 2: which is excellent if you haven't seen it. So when
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Speaker 2: I saw that she was in this movie, I was
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Speaker 2: like yeah, And she was like such a side throw
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Speaker 2: away character.
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Speaker 1: I thought, she Yeah, I would have been gonna arn
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Speaker 1: more with her.
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Speaker 2: I need her as a lead character in a movie.
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Speaker 1: When it comes to premises for throwing our two love
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Speaker 1: interests together, I think I prefer an ex lover scenario
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Speaker 1: to an enemy's to lover scenario simply because it makes
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Speaker 1: me believe in their ability to fall in love quickly
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Speaker 1: more than it does. Hey, I met you three days ago,
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Speaker 1: and now I'm calling you my soulmates.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. Well, but the problem is like they
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Speaker 2: hated each other. They didn't she hated him.
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Speaker 1: It was mad at him for breaking her heart.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so it's almost the same scenario as in
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Speaker 2: the Tyler Hines movie where you had Bethany joy Lynz
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Speaker 2: who was also hurt and angry at whatever his name
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Speaker 2: was in that movie. But CCB didn't pull it off
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Speaker 2: as good as Bethany joy Lynz did. I thought, I agree,
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Bethany Joey Lyndz was like
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Speaker 2: and she just was a better actress, like handling that
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Speaker 2: kind of like stuff, whereas like Candace Cameron was like
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Speaker 2: acted more annoyed than anything, and it just was I couldn't,
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Speaker 2: I didn't care. I didn't. I wasn't rooting for them
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Speaker 2: to get back together.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Candace Cameron Berat in the Christmas Contest or Candace
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Speaker 1: Cameron Bray in a Shoe ATTICX Christmas A shoe Attics
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Speaker 1: Christmas Get Me Too. The last thing I liked in
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Speaker 1: this movie was the scene with Lara and Ben lying
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Speaker 1: on the floor talking. I thought it was a sweet scene.
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Speaker 1: It felt real.
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Speaker 2: I enjoyed it when they were laying in front of
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Speaker 2: the fire talking on her pillows. Yeah, did you have
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Speaker 2: something to say about those pillows?
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Speaker 1: Well, it's in my did you see that? But we
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Speaker 1: can talk about it now. So she has a b
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Speaker 1: still pillow and it moves all around the house. It's
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Speaker 1: behind her all the time, and I understand that the
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Speaker 1: not so subtle message is that she's too busy and
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Speaker 1: she needs to reevaluate her life. However, be still is
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Speaker 1: a stupid message for a pillow, and I think they
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Speaker 1: could have found something with All is Calm to tie
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Speaker 1: it into the holiday theme, and I personally would have
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Speaker 1: enjoyed that better.
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Speaker 2: I like that you have such feelings about be still
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Speaker 2: being a stupid message on a pillow.
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Speaker 1: It's like putting sit down on a pillow.
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Speaker 2: You're funny. Meggan has the big feelings about these pillows.
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Speaker 1: Sorry, it's okay, It's time for what we wished for?
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Speaker 1: Can we talk about the elephant in her terrible hair?
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Speaker 1: The hair in this movie is so it's so bad.
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Speaker 1: Is a very pretty girl. I have enjoyed her hair
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Speaker 1: for years. I like how she has a different look,
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Speaker 1: a different hair look in every movie that she does.
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Speaker 1: It was a disaster in this movie. And I feel
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Speaker 1: like a jerk saying this because she's got good hair,
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Speaker 1: and she typically has great hair in her shows.
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Speaker 2: But what is she?
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Speaker 1: What happened?
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Speaker 2: I don't know because if you think about her cute
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Speaker 2: hair and a shoe Attex Christmas, like that cute bob,
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Speaker 2: like that angled bob, so adorable. This was so bad.
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Speaker 2: And I'm watching this movie and I'm like, okay, hear
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Speaker 2: me out. A woman of this age should not have
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Speaker 2: this long of hair. Now I'm saying this to a woman.
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Speaker 1: Youth age has this long of hair.
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Speaker 3: Yes, but it looks so much better on you. It
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Speaker 3: was tragic on her. It was so terrible. The color
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Speaker 3: was terrible. It was like stringy and awful. At some
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Speaker 3: point she had this pebble's ponytail up front.
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Speaker 2: It's so bad.
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Speaker 1: And then her mom gets the bad hair treatment when
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Speaker 1: they're about to do their song portion of the contest
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Speaker 1: and she has that weird half side high ponytail and
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Speaker 1: with a scrunchy and I understand, I think you could
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Speaker 1: have driven the gold message home in a different way
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Speaker 1: than the side half high ponytail on a woman who
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Speaker 1: is a senior citizen.
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Speaker 2: It was awful, awful.
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Speaker 1: Something went wrong. I don't know if they could not
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Speaker 1: get their normal hair people. I don't know if she
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Speaker 1: had bad extensions. I don't know what happened. It was
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Speaker 1: bad to the point of being distracting.
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Speaker 2: I absolutely agree the entire movie. My first note is
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Speaker 2: blonde extensions. Question to Mark like it was super distracting.
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Speaker 2: And I have.
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Speaker 1: Talked about temporary hair like she usually has a super
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Speaker 1: to the minute hairstyle.
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Speaker 2: Go ahead, I agree like it. I forgot what I
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Speaker 2: was going to say. I'm sorry, Oh, this is what
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Speaker 2: I was going to say. Sometimes I have such like
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Speaker 2: a visceral reaction to something I see on my TV,
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Speaker 2: like I don't want to punch that person in the face.
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Speaker 2: And this is how I felt about that hair was
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Speaker 2: so bad.
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Speaker 1: It was so bad, it really bad. Did you wish
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Speaker 1: for anything else?
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Speaker 2: I How old is her mom supposed to be?
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Speaker 1: That's confusing. She's retired, so she goes to the senior
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Speaker 1: side to make new friends. But are we supposed to
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Speaker 1: be believe that she's much younger than these other women
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Speaker 1: who she plays cards with? Because I was like, is
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Speaker 1: she a volunteer at the senior center? But it seems
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Speaker 1: like she visits the senior center as a senior. That's confused.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the same thing I wondered. I was like,
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Speaker 2: is she like running the senior center and she's just
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Speaker 2: playing cards with these ladies or she's part of this
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Speaker 2: this is where she goes to socialize. Just was weird.
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Speaker 2: It was weird because Senior Center to me, feels like
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Speaker 2: a much older age than women that were in this show. Weird.
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Speaker 2: I wish that the mom didn't put so much guilt
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Speaker 2: on I don't even know Candice CCB whatever her character's
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Speaker 2: name was. She made her feel so guilty about it,
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Speaker 2: and Lara's like, look, I'm busy, I'm a CEO of
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Speaker 2: a business.
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Speaker 1: I can't see like.
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Speaker 2: Being on the local TV program or whatever doing the
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Speaker 2: stupid contest for your Senior center. Like I got a job, lady.
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Speaker 2: She's too much guilt.
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Speaker 1: You it and then her mom's life just wanted you
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Speaker 1: to have this opportunity to oh get your Christmas spirit back,
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Speaker 1: that's what she wants. Yeah exactly, Okay, you meddled too much.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, get out. I wished that John Brotherton wasn't such
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Speaker 2: a f and dufis at the beginning of this movie,
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Speaker 2: like he transformed a little bit, but he was like
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Speaker 2: a real douchebag. I'm a beef jerky ex baseball player whatever.
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Speaker 2: He has these kids at a gym. They're in a room.
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Speaker 2: They're supposed to be practicing baseball. I don't in some room,
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Speaker 2: but like he so can't be bothered, and I'm like,
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Speaker 2: h you're so unlikable.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he transformed, but he talked so fast and to
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Speaker 1: that Also to that note, his assistant felt real put
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Speaker 1: out every single time he was asked to do something
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Speaker 1: by Ben, and my husband was like, dude, you just
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Speaker 1: do your job. Yeah, seriously, why are you being such
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Speaker 1: a dick?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Really, his assistant, it's your job to be his assistant.
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Speaker 2: There was a little bit of redemption when he like
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Speaker 2: the boy who like wasn't so into baseball but was
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Speaker 2: like into the other and like he sees that kid
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Speaker 2: and like that makes a connection or whatever. But yeah, overall,
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Speaker 2: I was like, ew, what makes you likable?
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Speaker 1: I wish that when they did their songs for the contest,
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Speaker 1: that they weren't singing a cappella. Give those people some
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Speaker 1: background music. They played basic Christmas carols. I'm sure you
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Speaker 1: can get some instrumental rights to some sort of Christmas
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Speaker 1: carol to play behind them and it would make them
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Speaker 1: sound not quite so terrible.
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Speaker 2: It was so bad of both of them, like the
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Speaker 2: kids singing with him and the terrible dancing and then
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Speaker 2: some background music and then their other terrible dancing. It
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Speaker 2: was bad. It was so bad it like made me
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Speaker 2: uncomfortable to watch me too. Awful.
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Speaker 1: Awful, That's all I have time for. Did you see that?
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Speaker 1: And I would like to start with some of the
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Speaker 1: nicknames that were given to the contestants, particularly Special Snowflake.
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Speaker 1: Do you think that is a dig at those dirty
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Speaker 1: liberals given what we know about CCB and her politics
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Speaker 1: and her brothers.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I did not even put that together. Yes,
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Speaker 2: I definitely think it was Special Snowflake. I might have
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Speaker 2: to go back. Did she have any think that made her? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: there was nothing. The other chick was like a Mother
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Speaker 2: Earth type momstay. Was there an NRA joke in this
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Speaker 2: movie too? I think there was. Did she say something
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Speaker 2: about Ted Nugit in this movie?
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Speaker 1: I really don't know.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna look for it. If that's the case,
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Speaker 2: that yuck, Special Snowflake. I think you're right. Let me
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Speaker 2: ask you who and where do you find blueprints for
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Speaker 2: a cake?
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Speaker 1: Oh? My gosh, Yeah, let's talk the ulogue. What the hell?
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Speaker 1: Why is it so big? Also? Why is it so big?
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Speaker 2: Oh? I wrote that, I go, how big is that
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Speaker 2: Yulog cake? A ulag cake is as big as like
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Speaker 2: your forearm. It's not as big as a six foot man.
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Speaker 1: It was so big. Yeah, and we have as mentioned
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Speaker 1: a yulog in the movie that we reviewed yesterday Christmas
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Speaker 1: in Tahoe. It like fits on a plate.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, how would she have put that in the oven?
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Speaker 1: Makes sense? And like it's multiple cakes rolled out assembled
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Speaker 1: to be a Eulog. This is too much.
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Speaker 2: It was too much. But when she fell into it,
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Speaker 2: I laughed out loud. I thought that was pretty damn funny.
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Speaker 2: I agree, I thought it was funny. Although there's absolutely
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Speaker 2: no reason she should have won over the beautifully decorated
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Speaker 2: gingerbread of the special Snowflake. Oh, one hundred percent, But
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Speaker 2: they had kicked under the curb.
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Speaker 1: Your cake was delicious, so we'll dismiss the fact that
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Speaker 1: your sweater threads were in the frosting, your terrible blonde
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Speaker 1: extensions were got a piece of hair gross.
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Speaker 2: Okay, when they were assembling the teams, he had all
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Speaker 2: those kids, and then they went to bake their things.
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Speaker 2: I was like, nobody wants four teenage kids on their team. Nope,
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Speaker 2: they do not.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, making intricate gingerbread No, no, terrible, nobody wants that.
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Speaker 2: It was they didn't make it?
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Speaker 1: Did I know? A friend of mine gave my daughter, well,
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Speaker 1: gave my kids. They're not gingerbread houses. They's sugar cookie houses.
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Speaker 1: But same thing. They're little beach houses. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you saw them on their counter, but she and
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Speaker 1: her friends sat down and don't they look terrible. Nobody's
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Speaker 1: good at that?
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Speaker 2: Good, not even me. And I love to take a
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Speaker 2: lot of time to do that, and that always turns
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Speaker 2: out terrible.
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Speaker 1: Same. We just need better supplies than come in. The
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Speaker 1: prepackaged had been on the shelf for a year. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think you have to make your own frosting for it. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And the trick to a gingerbread house is you glue
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Speaker 2: that thing together. You don't use the frosting to stick
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Speaker 2: it together. Wrong.
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Speaker 1: The frost house is you buy them pre assembled.
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Speaker 2: Okay, fair.
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Speaker 1: My husband went and gingerbread houses this year and they
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Speaker 1: didn't come preassembled, and I was like, what the hell
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Speaker 1: are these? I Am not doing this. It's hot.
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Speaker 2: Glue gun is your friend?
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Speaker 1: Yes?
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Speaker 2: Agree, because you guys don't eat them, do you?
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Speaker 1: God? No, No, they're disgusting. I know how hard is
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Speaker 1: a rock.
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Speaker 2: I will say in this baking scene, CCB had a
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Speaker 2: beautiful green dress that she was wearing, and they did
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Speaker 2: make like special note of the high heels several times,
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Speaker 2: and I was like, it's that like a wink and
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Speaker 2: a nod to her shoe Attics Christmas movie, and she's
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Speaker 2: like a real big fan of wearing high heels.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that it's necessarily a nod to that movie,
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Speaker 1: but she wears heels all the time. And in fact,
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Speaker 1: in If I Only Had You, is that what it's called?
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Speaker 2: Last year?
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Speaker 1: What the hell is her movie called? Last year? It
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Speaker 1: was called I've Only Had Christmas. Yes, she has a
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Speaker 1: dancing scene and it's not great, and she even says
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Speaker 1: part of the reason it's not great is because she
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Speaker 1: refused to wear dance shoes. Sh wanted to wear the
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Speaker 1: stilettos she prefers to wear because she considers herself to
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Speaker 1: be short. So I think she just likes to wear
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Speaker 1: a heel. Wow, all right, did you see that Ben
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Speaker 1: gets a full house when they play poker?
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Speaker 3: Yes?
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Speaker 2: I thought that was quite funny.
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Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, me too. My kids kids called it out.
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Speaker 2: You let your kids watch this movie?
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Speaker 1: Let them.
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Speaker 2: I know it's g rated, I get it, but I'm
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Speaker 2: just surprised that they wanted to watch this movie.
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Speaker 1: To be fair, we usually watch a movie. Monday Night's
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Speaker 1: are Family Christmas movie Night, and I had been saying
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Speaker 1: all weekend, my husband wants to watch all of these
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Speaker 1: with me. And we had a busy weekend and I
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Speaker 1: was like, I gotta watch four movies this weekend, and
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Speaker 1: he kept being busy, and I was like, guess what.
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Speaker 1: Monday Family Movie Night is now a Hallmark Movie Night
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Speaker 1: because mommy has to watch a movie. So they were
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Speaker 1: fine with it because they enjoy Candice Cameron Bray, so
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Speaker 1: they were okay, but they are not going to watch
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Speaker 1: the rest of these with me.
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Speaker 2: Got it? Got it? I have a note here and
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Speaker 2: I don't know what it means because I can't remember.
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Speaker 2: All it is says is tabloid. Oh now, I remember,
21:03
Speaker 2: would two people that are from a city on a
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Speaker 2: city like competition thing? Make a tabloid because they get kissed.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know he's famous. Ish. I
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Speaker 1: think it's known that they're a tabloid. No, but might
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Speaker 1: it make the local news?
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Speaker 2: Sure? I don't know. I don't know. This movie was terrible.
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Speaker 2: What did you rate it?
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Speaker 1: I regret my ratings after giving it to them, but
21:31
Speaker 1: I rated at three stars.
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Speaker 2: No stop, this is a one point five when an
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Speaker 2: half stars. But it was such a stinker. It was terrible.
21:41
Speaker 2: I would take a shoot attics Christmas and last year's
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Speaker 2: if I only had Christmas over this any day. Wow.
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Speaker 2: It was awful, awful, and that hair did not help
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Speaker 2: it at all.
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Speaker 1: There was rough. Hey, if you stuck around for all
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Speaker 1: four episodes of Girls Called this Week, we appreciate you.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. We're gonna be back next week.
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Speaker 1: And the movies that are on this weekend. On Friday,
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Speaker 1: we have the Eight Gifts of Hanukkah, On Saturday, we
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Speaker 1: have a Very Merry Bridesmaid, and Sunday we have Sister Swap,
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Speaker 1: a Hometown Holiday, the first in the two Sister Swap movies, Wendy,
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Speaker 1: what are you looking forward to?
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Speaker 2: Only one? And it's gonna be that Swister Swap Sister Swap.
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Speaker 1: I am excited about Sister Swap as well, starring Ashley
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Speaker 1: Williams and Kimberly Williams Paisley. I'm really curious to see
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Speaker 1: how they pull this off.
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Speaker 2: I have a quick question, though, do you think we've peaked?
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Speaker 2: Do we think movies have peaked? It's gonna be terrible
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Speaker 2: from here on out?
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Speaker 1: I do not, because later this month we have Christmas
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Speaker 1: House too, deck those halls. We also have the Sister
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Speaker 1: Swap movies which have the potential to be fantastic, and
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Speaker 1: we have a Dickins of a Holiday starring you know,
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Speaker 1: I love our Brooke, do you or say so? No?
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Speaker 1: I think we've got some potential great movies coming.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Come back next week for that. And this is a
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Speaker 1: two episode day. We also have a mini episode featuring
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Speaker 1: one of our holiday gift guides, so we'll make sure
23:12
Speaker 1: you give that a listen as well. It's in the
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23:23
Speaker 1: great weekend, everybody.
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Speaker 2: Goodbye bye,