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Holiday Touchdown- A Bills Love Story · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Did you enjoy seeing Tyler Hines and Hunter King? I
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Speaker 1: loved it. Made no sense, but I loved it. This
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Speaker 1: a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
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Speaker 1: Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. Today
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Speaker 1: we're discussing Holiday Touchdown, a Bill's Love Story, which originally
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Speaker 1: aired on Saturday, November twenty second and is currently available
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Speaker 1: Homemark dot com. Well, today we're talking a Bill's Love Story.
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Speaker 1: Let's start with a synopsis. Okay, let me just tell
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Speaker 1: you it was really long, and so I condensed it Okay,
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Speaker 1: it's still kind of long. Okay, like the list of
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Speaker 1: cast in this movie as well, but we'll get to
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Speaker 1: that in a second. The Quinn's and the de Luca's,
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Speaker 1: next door neighbors and lifelong members of Bill's Mafia, team
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Speaker 1: up when Morgan discovers her uncle has been receiving anonymous
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Speaker 1: Christmas gifts for more than sixty years. Morgan and Gabe
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Speaker 1: work together to uncover the mysterious benefactor, all while Gabe's
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Speaker 1: longtime crush on her quietly intensifies and she begins to
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Speaker 1: see him differently. Two. With Morgan's plan nearly falling apart,
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Speaker 1: Gabe uses his Buffalo Bill's connection to deliver a heartwarming
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Speaker 1: surprise that brings both families together for an unforgettable Christmas
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Speaker 1: Holiday touchdown. A Bill's Love Story was directed by Dustin Reiker.
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Speaker 1: This marks his thirtieth directing credit. His recent work includes
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Speaker 1: A Newport Christmas, along with Hallmark titles such as The
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Speaker 1: Christmas Quest, The Finish Line, and Where Are You Christmas.
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Speaker 1: The screenplay was written by Vanessa Morano and Danielle Morrow. Vanessa,
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Speaker 1: known for her role as April Nardini on Gilmore Girls,
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Speaker 1: makes her writing debut with this film. Danielle, an actor
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Speaker 1: with credits on multiple Nickelodeon series, is also making her
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Speaker 1: first screen writing appearance. Holland wrote in stars as Morgan.
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Speaker 2: We last saw.
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Speaker 1: Holland as Katie Minnetti Hanahan in the limited series Holidays.
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Speaker 1: This movie marks her forty first acting credit. Matthew Didario
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Speaker 1: stars as Gabe. This is Matthew's first Hallmark project, but
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Speaker 1: you might recognize him from his long run on the
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Speaker 1: series Shadow Hunters. Joe Pantaliano plays Morgan's uncle Tommy, with
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Speaker 1: one hundred sixty three acting credits. His resume runs deep,
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Speaker 1: including The Last of Us, The Goonies, and The Sopranos.
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Speaker 1: Tracy Pollen plays Morgan's mom, Joe Anne. She has thirty
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Speaker 1: two acting credits and is best known for her role
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Speaker 1: as Ellen Reid on Family Ties, where she starred opposite
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Speaker 1: her husband of thirty six years, actor Michael J. Fox.
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Speaker 1: Caroline Aaron plays Gabe's mom Ricky. Caroline is another actor
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Speaker 1: with an extensive resume. She's best known for her role
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Speaker 1: as Shirley Maisel on The Marvelous Missus Maizel. Steve Sharipa
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Speaker 1: plays Gabe's dad, Frank We last saw Steve and Sisterhood
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Speaker 1: inc From earlier this year. This role marks his eightieth
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Speaker 1: acting credit. Patty Myrin plays Morgan's sister Kathy. This is
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Speaker 1: her eleventh acting credit, and you might recognize her from
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Speaker 1: Homewark roles in Mystic Christmas and in Mary Measure. Patrick
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Speaker 1: mulvey plays Morgan's brother in law Jeremy. This appears to
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Speaker 1: be his first project for Homewark, but has in shows
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Speaker 1: like The Pit in Cis Hawaii and Magnum Pi. Abraham
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Speaker 1: Ben Ruby reprises his role as Santa Claus, a character
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Speaker 1: he also played in last year's Holiday Touchdown, A Chief's
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Speaker 1: Love Story. If he looks familiar, he portrayed Jerry on
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Speaker 1: Er for one hundred and thirty seven episodes. Eve Gordon
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Speaker 1: plays long lost love interest Mia, with ninety four acting credits.
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Speaker 1: She's been in a ten of projects, including Don't Trust
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Speaker 1: the Bee in Apartment twenty three, Heart of Dixie and
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Speaker 1: Felicity Ugo. Chuck Wu appears as sal Joey Palestina as Vinnie,
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Speaker 1: Marian Torres as Trish, and Mary Stout as Cindy Klaus.
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Speaker 1: This marks the first Hallmark appearance for all four actors.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Walker appears as bartender at Barbail Tavern. Andrew expressed
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Speaker 1: that the Bills are his favorite NFL team. Tyler Hines
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Speaker 1: and Hunter King reprise their roles in a very small cameo.
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Speaker 1: There are many special appearances for members of the Bills
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Speaker 1: franchised throughout the movie, and a full list can be
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Speaker 1: found in our show notes and on our website at
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Speaker 1: Girls Gone Hallmark dot com. Hey, let's take a quick
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Speaker 1: break and come right back with our first impression of
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Speaker 1: a Bill's love Story. Hey, Wendy, what was your first
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Speaker 1: impression of Holiday Touchdown? Take two? Hey? I think I
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Speaker 1: accidentally joined Bill's Mafia? Did this movie kind of make
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Speaker 1: you wish that we had that sort of like sports community. Yes,
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Speaker 1: like we have plenty of professional sports teams, but it's
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Speaker 1: not like a community. No. Yeah, No, My first impression
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Speaker 1: is all hail Keith costumes for his masterful color story
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Speaker 1: in this movie. Yeah, we didn't mention him in our
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Speaker 1: about but a friend of the show, Keith Niel, sent
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Speaker 1: us the costuming for this one. Indeed, let us kick
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Speaker 1: off with our likes. Well, if I can be so blunt, please,
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Speaker 1: this was a shockingly delightful watch. Yes, I will. I'll
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Speaker 1: be honest, last year's version did not do a whole
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Speaker 1: lot for me, So I went in with kind of
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Speaker 1: like measured expectations, like very low expectations, and yet I
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Speaker 1: was very surprised how much I liked this movie.
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Speaker 2: I have to agree with you.
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Speaker 1: When the announcement came out, I was not that excited.
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Speaker 1: I was frustrated with last year's movie because it got
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Speaker 1: all of the promo, all of the press, all everywhere.
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Speaker 1: It was chief this and chiefs that. We haven't really
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Speaker 1: seen that with this movie so much. I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: been promoted, but certainly not to the expense of other
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Speaker 1: movies as far as I can tell. Yeah, but that
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Speaker 1: also kind of threw up a red flag for me.
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, no, what if it's terrible and
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Speaker 1: that's why they're not promoting it so hard. Sure, I
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Speaker 1: don't know well, and I think, in my opinion, it
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Speaker 1: had some things working against it. It had a unknown
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Speaker 1: to me lead male actor, we had new writers attached.
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Speaker 1: I just you know, it was the second in a
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Speaker 1: franchise that I.
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Speaker 2: Wasn't like super excited about.
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Speaker 1: So, like you, I went in with low expectations and
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Speaker 1: they were swiftly exceeded. So you liked it? Yes, and
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Speaker 1: what did you like? Speaking of that unknown actor, Matthew
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Speaker 1: de Dario, who I did not know prior to this movie,
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Speaker 1: is absolutely delightful and I thought he and Holland Rodent
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Speaker 1: were adorable together. Okay, let me unpack some stuff here. Okay,
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Speaker 1: Matthew de Dario, Hello. He gives a little bit of
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Speaker 1: like Adrian Grenier energy, kind of has the same younger look.
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Speaker 1: I'm not mad at it. I would gladly watch him
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Speaker 1: in another Hallmark movie. I really liked him a lot,
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Speaker 1: a lot, not just I think he looks the part.
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Speaker 1: It's nice to have like a dark haired kind of
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Speaker 1: We don't have a lot of dark haired dudes on Hallmark.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I know people are screaming at me.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure there are, but often. I actually liked his
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Speaker 1: acting a lot as well. Mm hmm. Holland I liked
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Speaker 1: as well too. Let me just say that I'm carrying
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Speaker 1: some Holland rode In baggage with me from holidaised Oh.
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Speaker 1: I hated her character so much on Holidays that I'm like,
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Speaker 1: wasn't excited to see her in this role, but I
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Speaker 1: very much enjoyed her in this role. Yeah, I've let
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Speaker 1: the unfortunate Katie Minetti Hanahan disaster.
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Speaker 2: I've left that in the past.
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Speaker 1: I at times I was like, ooh, that feels the
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Speaker 1: touch of that character here, like when she would get
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Speaker 1: a little bit spun up. But overall I.
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Speaker 2: Enjoyed her well.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of casting an ensemble, cast is not an easy
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Speaker 1: thing to do and make it work cohesively. And I
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Speaker 1: we had a very large ensemble with some very big names,
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Speaker 1: and I thought they worked incredibly well together, and they
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Speaker 1: formed a very believable family and family unit mm hmm.
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Speaker 1: I was particularly enamored with Joey Pants. Whe were you Yes?
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Speaker 1: I thought he gave a heartfelt and believable portrayal of
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Speaker 1: her uncle. I liked a lot of their scenes together
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Speaker 1: Morgan and uncles Tommy Uncle Tommy, particularly the catch scene
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Speaker 1: they have a little football tossing something. I love that scene.
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Speaker 1: He tells her having you two in my life changed
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Speaker 1: it for the better, because she's worried about like, did
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Speaker 1: we change you know, did we ruin your life? Essentially
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Speaker 1: by moving in with you and changing the course of
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Speaker 1: your life, And he says it changed it for the better.
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Speaker 1: And I loved his line, we worry so much about
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Speaker 1: what we might lose and not enough about taking a
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Speaker 1: chance and seeing what we might gain.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I thought it was really lovely.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because if you remember Tony Dance,
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Speaker 1: I was supposed to play this role originally, and then
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Speaker 1: he had to drop out of it and Joey Pants
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Speaker 1: took it over. I kept wondering, I'm like, how would
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Speaker 1: Tony Danza be in this role?
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Speaker 2: Joey Pants is great?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I thought he was great too, And I
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Speaker 1: did enjoy all those scenes. If I can circle back to,
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Speaker 1: like maybe the storyline that surrounds him this, I like
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Speaker 1: to call it mystery light.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't a mystery, but like you know, Gab and
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Speaker 1: Morgan are trying to find out who's sending all these gifts.
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Speaker 1: I was super drawn to this storyline.
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Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting. I thought it was compelling.
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Speaker 1: There was this one scene where they did a flashback,
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Speaker 1: which I was like, thank you for doing that. Instead
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Speaker 1: of just like telling us the story, we got to
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Speaker 1: see a flashback. I thought that was super done well overall,
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Speaker 1: color me stunned, but I thought the script was pretty
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Speaker 1: damn good. I did too, and I didn't feel like
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Speaker 1: we were It felt like we did justice to these
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Speaker 1: individuals stories.
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Speaker 2: That we were weaving.
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Speaker 1: The main story is kind of like a cross between
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Speaker 1: Gabe and Morgan's love story and then the Uncle Tommy mystery.
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Speaker 1: We have all these other small storylines. We have the
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Speaker 1: pregnant sister. We have the running gag with the high
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Speaker 1: cholesterol foods, right, We've got the sister's husband who's kind
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Speaker 1: of a dufus a little bit, right. But they were
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Speaker 1: all done justice and carried through like we were picking
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Speaker 1: up the threads at the appropriate moments. Yeah, I agree,
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of surprised first time writers. I'm impressed. I'm impressed.
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Speaker 2: Honestly.
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Speaker 1: There were some great lines too. Oh yeah, when they
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Speaker 1: go to meet Trish because they need some help locating Mia, right,
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Speaker 1: and she says social media stocking is an art, and
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Speaker 1: I'm Michael Angelo. I was like, what it felt very
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Speaker 1: relatable first, but I was like, that was so good.
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Speaker 1: And then there was all these little jabs from Gabes
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Speaker 1: like co workers or Santa his friends when they were
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Speaker 1: like giving him a hard time about his crush on Morgan.
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Speaker 1: All of it, I thought it was really good, the
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Speaker 1: stuff with the sister and her saying like I'm following
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Speaker 1: these influencers. Yep, Morgan reacting to it, like, I thought
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Speaker 1: it was really funny. I thought the light way that
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Speaker 1: they turned that Trish moment into like a Godfather.
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Speaker 2: No, oh my god.
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Speaker 1: Yep, great, like it's done with a real light touch,
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Speaker 1: but it's great. Yeah, I agree. Which is kind of
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Speaker 1: funny too because they they said the line and I
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Speaker 1: don't know what it is from the Godfather, but it's
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Speaker 1: like here on the day of my whatever. They use
12:47
Speaker 1: that in Gilmore Girls too, and only because I've seen
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Speaker 1: Gilmore Girls so many times and our writer appeared in
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Speaker 1: Gilmore Girls. I don't know. I don't believe like she
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Speaker 1: was in during that season, but she could have been. Yeah,
13:01
Speaker 1: I'd be curious to know if she's a fan of
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Speaker 1: the show of Gilmore Girls.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just because she was on it.
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Speaker 1: Did she April Nardini? Now I understand she was on it,
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Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean she watched. Did she watch the
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Speaker 1: other seasons? You know?
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Speaker 2: Is she like I smell Snow? I don't know, I
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Speaker 2: don't know.
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Speaker 1: Does she also think that the April Nardini storyline is
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Speaker 1: a little bit bs and that people really hate that character.
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Speaker 1: I mean that they think April Nardini ruined the show
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Speaker 1: and Anna Nardini her mother was a trash bag with
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Speaker 1: never telling Luke. Okay, I know, I know, I mean,
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Speaker 1: we could have our own Gilmore Girls podcast here. We
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Speaker 1: know a lot about it.
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Speaker 2: But we've discussed it.
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Speaker 1: I know, I know.
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Speaker 2: We panicked at the idea of the number of episodes
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Speaker 2: it would take.
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Speaker 1: It's a lot of episodes, it certainly is. Let's get
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Speaker 1: back to Bill's Okay, you talked about a big cast.
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Speaker 1: The cameos were also very fun in this I thought
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Speaker 1: I kind of loved Andrew Walker as just this bartender.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he barely any lines and it's totally fine.
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Speaker 1: I remember when this movie got announced and everyone was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: Andrew Walker is going to be the lead, Andrew Walker
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Speaker 1: is going to be the lead, and then he ends
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Speaker 1: up with like this tiny little cameo part in it.
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Speaker 1: Do you remember, of course, Yeah, So it was fun
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Speaker 1: to see him in there. He has the best lines
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Speaker 1: in the movie, which was what. At the end of
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Speaker 1: her date, he says, wherever you met him, go there less. Yes,
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Speaker 1: you're right, you're right, you're right. Yeah, that date was funny.
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, did you enjoy seeing
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Speaker 1: Tyler Hines and Hunter King?
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Speaker 2: I loved it?
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Speaker 1: Made no sense, but I left it. And the only
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Speaker 1: reason because like, Tyler works in football, so maybe like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's maybe for playing the Bills and he knows it
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Speaker 1: was cute though, Can we have a reindeer? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I thought I was happy to see them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought that was cute.
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Speaker 2: And then all the.
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Speaker 1: Bills players, I loved it. I only recognized one of them,
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Speaker 1: but I'm sure like the Bill's fans who are watching
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Speaker 1: this were probably pretty stoked. Yeah. It didn't do a
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Speaker 1: lot for me, but you could tell the moments where
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Speaker 1: there was someone significant on screen, and I was like,
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Speaker 1: I bet someone's really excited about that moment right there. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And it's cool too because I was looking at the
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Speaker 1: cast list and if it's like a big range over
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Speaker 1: who's who a history of the franchise. Yeah, so that's
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Speaker 1: pretty cool.
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Speaker 2: Pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: And also cameo, I love that the same Santa is used. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I love that this Santa exists within the Holiday Touchdown universe.
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Speaker 1: I thought that was great, which leads me to believe
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Speaker 1: there'll be another one. I hope, So I actually kind
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Speaker 1: of hope. So this one was done well. Speaking of cameos,
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Speaker 1: if I may, we had heard that Jake from Finding
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Speaker 1: Mister Christmas was going to be in this movie. Mm hmm.
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Speaker 1: And I watched the movie and then I got to
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Speaker 1: the end and I realized, oh no, I didn't see Jake,
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Speaker 1: and so I scrubbed back to the movie and I.
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Speaker 2: Still didn't see Jake.
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Speaker 1: So I messaged Jake and he says I was in
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Speaker 1: two scenes for a total of probably one second combined.
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Speaker 1: He was in the Elm Street Bakery. He's sitting behind
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Speaker 1: the bills players.
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Speaker 2: I think you see a glimpse of me as the.
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Speaker 1: Couple is walking out, and he is a background shopper
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Speaker 1: at Viddler's the second time they are in the store.
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Speaker 1: So it's a finding mister Jake finding mister Jake indeed,
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Speaker 1: but he's there, so that's very fun.
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Speaker 2: That's fun.
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Speaker 1: Can I talk a second about Viddler's? Oh yeah, why
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Speaker 1: is this the five and dime of my dreams?
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Speaker 2: I googled it. I was like, does this exist? And
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Speaker 2: of course it does.
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Speaker 1: Did you start following them on Instagram?
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Speaker 2: I probably should do it for my personal account.
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Speaker 1: Had not from Girls Gone Hallmark, but just whatever. I
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Speaker 1: don't know. I love the idea of this, like vintage
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Speaker 1: five and dime star, like put that into my veins.
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Speaker 1: I love the warm, nostalgic neighborhood ye feel it gives
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Speaker 1: h all local flavor in this movie. Biddlers and then
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Speaker 1: a lot of food. We get the peanut stick, which
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Speaker 1: I had to look up what it is because I
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Speaker 1: couldn't quite tell same. It's like a like a doughnut
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Speaker 1: for the listeners, dipped in a glaze, rolled in chopped peanuts, and.
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Speaker 2: A beef on weck. Did you know what a beef
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Speaker 2: on weck is?
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Speaker 1: I don't. It is a thinly sliced roast beef sandwich
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Speaker 1: piled on a coumel wek roll, which is a kaiser
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Speaker 1: style role I often dipped in Aju. I'm down for that.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: I just thought they did a really nice job of
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Speaker 1: infusing all of these bits of Buffalo into the movie. Totally, totally.
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Speaker 1: You know what else I really liked about this movie
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Speaker 1: was the stadium subplot that it was their life last
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Speaker 1: year in the stadium. Yes, and so this is news
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Speaker 1: to me. I like googled, Yes it's true, Like they
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Speaker 1: are currently building a new stadium, and I mean obviously
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Speaker 1: we saw the shots, like you can see the new
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Speaker 1: stadium being built almost in the parking lot of the
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Speaker 1: old stadium. R right. I just thought it was I'm like,
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Speaker 1: who came up with that idea? Like? Was that just
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Speaker 1: a like supplemental story after it was written? You know, like, oh, hey,
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Speaker 1: by the way, we're building this new stadium, let's let's
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Speaker 1: make Gabe be part of that project. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but I liked it and I got
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Speaker 1: like overly emotional when Gabe is like at work and
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Speaker 1: he's talking to his team about like, be proud of
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Speaker 1: what we built. My grandfather both wrote built the original
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Speaker 1: high Mark and like I feel him when I go
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Speaker 1: there and blah blah blah whatever. I was like, this
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Speaker 1: is so good question about that scene. I watched it twice.
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Speaker 1: Do you think that all of those employees are actual
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Speaker 1: employees or background actors? That is a good question. I
19:03
Speaker 1: don't know. You should go back and rewatch it because
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Speaker 1: it was very interesting to me when I was watching it,
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Speaker 1: because something about that scene, I was like, I feel
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Speaker 1: like I should be noticing something here now. They could
19:14
Speaker 1: just be day player actors. I do know that this
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Speaker 1: movie had a huge stable of background actors. Obviously we
19:21
Speaker 1: have all those crowd scenes and they had a call
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Speaker 1: for background actors. I just wondered something about that scene.
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Speaker 1: I was like, maybe these are actual Bills employees or
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Speaker 1: background actors. I don't know if anybody knows, let us know,
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Speaker 1: maybe Keith Costumes knows.
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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe see.
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Speaker 1: And finally, my last like was when they Gabe surprises them,
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Speaker 1: well actually gabes two surprises. I really liked when they
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Speaker 1: honor the service member. Loved it, loved that scene, loved it,
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Speaker 1: loved it so much, and then gave surprises them again.
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Speaker 1: They all get to get take their photo and then
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Speaker 1: like be on the field and play a game. And
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Speaker 1: I just loved all of it. They're so excited, you mean,
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Speaker 1: we get to go on the field. They're almost less
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Speaker 1: excited about the Bills franchise members there than they are
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Speaker 1: about the chance to go on their field. That tribute moment,
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Speaker 1: I just want to say that I feel like that
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Speaker 1: moment honors the military in a way.
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Speaker 2: I would have liked to have seen another movie this season.
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Speaker 1: That Shall Remain Nameless and the hero speech we get
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Speaker 1: from joey pants.
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Speaker 2: It's really lovely.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. One more production note. The way we have sportscasters
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Speaker 1: sports flavor discussion over the opening of the movie, over
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Speaker 1: Holland's getting ready moving throughout her day, and then we
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Speaker 1: have it later on going into the game.
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Speaker 2: I think it's just a.
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Speaker 1: Nice touch that adds a lot of depth to the
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Speaker 1: movie when we're talking about football.
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Speaker 2: I really enjoyed it. Agree me too.
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Speaker 1: I don't have any wishes, really, I have one. I
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Speaker 1: had such a one long list. Tell me what your
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Speaker 1: wishes are. Wish is why make Morgan a doctor? If
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Speaker 1: she never goes to work. The lady is never at work.
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Speaker 1: Make her an office manager at the hospital, a community liaison,
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Speaker 1: a fundraiser something, a doctor. She would have to be
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Speaker 1: there all the time. And she spent more time with Gabe.
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Speaker 1: You're not wrong there. At one point she was like,
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Speaker 1: I have to work early in the morning. I was like,
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Speaker 1: you really aren't at work very often, not at all.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you caught it. This is not
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Speaker 1: a digite that but her name is Morgan Quinn. She's
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Speaker 1: doctor Quinn. That's funny, that's medisine woman. I was like,
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Speaker 1: I wonder if that's on purpose.
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Speaker 2: That is funny. Let's talk to you to see that.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I have a few.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned peanut sticks already. That was on my digite
21:47
Speaker 1: that because I was like, what is a peanut stick?
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Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was a donut. I thought it
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Speaker 1: was like a dessert of something. But yeah, do they
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Speaker 1: have those on the West coast end? They're just called
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Speaker 1: something else?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: When I googled it, it was like a western New
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Speaker 1: York specialty. Yeah, so interesting. Do we have like a
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Speaker 1: New York deli here? I don't know where they would
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Speaker 1: have them?
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Speaker 2: Let me know. I have a question.
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Speaker 1: There was a chair in their home.
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Speaker 2: Is it un your Do you see the huts?
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Speaker 1: Their the chair up Morgan's mom house. Yes, I had
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Speaker 1: the exact same chair with the I was like the
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Speaker 1: eat cat fabric. I was like, I know that chair.
22:24
Speaker 1: Wendy's dog ate that chair. Yeah. I couldn't believe it
22:30
Speaker 1: when I saw it because we ended up throwing that
22:32
Speaker 1: chair away because the dog had chewed on the like
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Speaker 1: arm of it. She was a puppy. When we moved,
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Speaker 1: we got rid of it. But I was like, ah,
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Speaker 1: that's my old chair, and I miss it.
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Speaker 2: It's cute chair.
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Speaker 1: Funny that you you noticed that. He instantly recognized it.
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Speaker 1: I was like, did they have your chair?
22:56
Speaker 2: Another? Did to see that? Ice bikes? Have you ever
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Speaker 2: seen ice bikes? I don't even know what you're talking.
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Speaker 1: When they went at the ice skating rink, they had
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Speaker 1: bikes that you could sit on and pisce ice bikes? Yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: I've never seen that before. Yes, I did. It sound
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Speaker 1: like I was saying spikes ice bicycles. I was like,
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Speaker 1: I could get behind this pieauce. I cannot ice skate
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Speaker 1: to save my life, but perhaps I could ice bike.
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Speaker 2: It looks fun hot.
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Speaker 1: Did the wheels actually turn on the like the tires
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Speaker 1: turn on the ice? It makes it go. I don't
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Speaker 1: know the physics of it, but I do like the
23:30
Speaker 1: idea of sitting down and having less opportunity to break
23:37
Speaker 1: a wrist up? You and me both? Yeah? Yeah, I
23:42
Speaker 1: have one last Did you see that? And I'm sure
23:43
Speaker 1: you have it too? The Five Gold Rings now playing
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Speaker 1: on the movie Marquis, a Holland rode In movie from
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Speaker 1: last year. Multiple times yep, yep. I was like, once
23:54
Speaker 1: is enough, but multiple times? Yeah, they should have changed
23:58
Speaker 1: it out and put like a different one up there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, holidays.
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't know whatever it's that would have
24:04
Speaker 1: been funny. Yeah, I did notice it time for him
24:08
Speaker 1: to come home for Christmas. Yeah exactly, because that did
24:12
Speaker 1: have the same feel like they're on this quest to
24:14
Speaker 1: find this person. And wasn't Tyler Hines on that meme?
24:17
Speaker 2: Is her?
24:18
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly? I have one more? Did you see that? Okay?
24:22
Speaker 1: And during the game scene where we see the Bills playing,
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Speaker 1: they're playing like a no name opponent. Oh interesting, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I was like, who are they playing? Who are they playing?
24:34
Speaker 1: They're just like in like these white uniforms. They don't
24:38
Speaker 1: say like they're playing. That's so funny. I didn't even
24:41
Speaker 1: know Chargers. If the Chargers even play the Bills, I
24:43
Speaker 1: don't know, well, because it was filmed in June, right,
24:45
Speaker 1: so they're like probably just to both sides or Bills
24:49
Speaker 1: players out there, no idea. I don't know if that
24:53
Speaker 1: was like stock footage from from a another some like
24:56
Speaker 1: an actual game game. It couldn't have been, because then
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Speaker 1: they would have had they would have ORMs on. Yeah,
25:02
Speaker 1: so I don't know. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know either, but you.
25:06
Speaker 1: Know that's funny because it was filmed in June. But
25:08
Speaker 1: that end scene, they're all wet. Yes, I did notice that.
25:14
Speaker 1: So was it raining or was it the fake snow
25:18
Speaker 1: make What was happening there? I don't know, huh, because
25:22
Speaker 1: like Holland's.
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Speaker 2: Hair was wet and wavy and interesting. Okay, yep.
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Speaker 1: And they were wet at the game, Joey the on
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Speaker 1: field presentation, they were kind of wet.
25:32
Speaker 2: I wonder if it was raining all right?
25:35
Speaker 1: That was that was definitely green screen though, right on
25:38
Speaker 1: the field green.
25:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't think.
25:41
Speaker 1: I think the crowd, yes, I don't think there was
25:44
Speaker 1: a full stadium in that moment, got it. But they
25:47
Speaker 1: were outside for sure. I mean they seemed like they
25:49
Speaker 1: were actually on the field, just not in the middle
25:53
Speaker 1: of a game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
25:55
Speaker 1: Hey, what did you rate A Bill's Love Story? I'm
25:59
Speaker 1: shock more than anybody. I gave it four point twenty
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Speaker 1: five stars. I give it four and a half stars.
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Speaker 1: What's happening? I loved it.
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Speaker 2: I loved it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I really liked it too. I'm like, I wonder
26:11
Speaker 1: if my husband would watch this simply because it's a
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Speaker 1: football movie. Yeah, yeah, be his gateway. I don't know. Well,
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