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Santa Tell Me (Encore) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: This week we are airing encore episodes of some of
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Speaker 1: our most memorable movies and reviews from the past five years,
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Speaker 1: and our pick from twenty twenty four is Santa tell Me.
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Speaker 1: I feel like, if you've been listening to these reviews
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Speaker 1: all week long, these throwbacks, you've heard a real evolution
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Speaker 1: from Girls Gone Hallmark. I certainly hope you have. Over
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Speaker 1: five years of reviews, it still makes me uncomfortable that
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Speaker 1: we're reves re shared some of our early episodes. Sure. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: sometimes I see what people are listening to and I'm thinking, oh,
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Speaker 1: don't do that, don't go that far back in the archives.
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Speaker 1: But I think we're really in our lane with Santa
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Speaker 1: tell Me, don't you think? Absolutely? And I think also
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Speaker 1: Hallmark is really in their lane in this movie. This
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Speaker 1: was honestly kind of a surprise hit for me. And
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember, but your first impression
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Speaker 1: of this movie was do I need to watch when
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Speaker 1: Calls the Heart? Oh? No, I mean, Daniel, listen, guys
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Speaker 1: wo Awie s Howie. We hope you enjoy this throwback
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Speaker 1: review from Girls Gone Hallmark. This is a Bramble Jam podcast.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, A Hallmark Review Podcast. I'm
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Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm
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Speaker 1: a former Hallmark hater. Today we are discussing Santa Tell Me,
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Speaker 1: which originally premiered on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday, November ninth,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. You can hang out with us on
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Speaker 1: Come on over and talk about Hallmark movies. Though not
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Speaker 1: a lot, we haven't really been talking about these movies
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Speaker 1: that much. No, I haven't seen a lot of feedback.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna have to get that discussion. I'm curious what
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Speaker 1: everybody thought of these movies. You can always email us
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Speaker 1: your thoughts on these movies. We are Girls Got on
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Speaker 1: Hallmark at gmail dot com. You can ask questions, you
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Speaker 1: can let us know what you think of our opinions
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Speaker 1: of these reviews. We love to hear from you. We
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Speaker 1: do have some thoughts from an email from listener Mike
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Speaker 1: that we'll be sharing later in this episode. Wendy, I
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Speaker 1: hear you have some Hallmark news and notes. I do. Hey,
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Speaker 1: Sleepy Kitty pa is on blue Sky. Now, yeah, do
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Speaker 1: you have a Blue Sky account? I do. I just
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Speaker 1: joined last night. Did you have to wait? I kind
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Speaker 1: of say, like, at one point you had to get
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Speaker 1: an invite over there. That's how I got in. I
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Speaker 1: remember the days of social media like that, when you
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Speaker 1: had to wait for an invite. That's how Gmail used
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Speaker 1: to be. I had to get Email. Yes, when Email
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Speaker 1: first launched, you had to get an invite. My Gmail
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Speaker 1: account was from the invite only days. Interesting. Ah, yes,
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Speaker 1: And there was like a Gmail swap website where you
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Speaker 1: could post like what you would do for an invite.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't dirty. I was like, oh, I worked for
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Speaker 1: the MS Society at the time, Like, oh, make a
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Speaker 1: donation to the MS Society. I was like, my man
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Speaker 1: has MS. Here's your invite. Now remember when I can't
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Speaker 1: even remember these social media sites that I don't even
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Speaker 1: think it exists anymore. But sure, yeah, people would get
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Speaker 1: like ten invites when they joined. Well, Blue Sky was
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Speaker 1: the same way up until here. That's how I got in,
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Speaker 1: like six nine months ago. Oh no, I just joined
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Speaker 1: last night under a personal account. Maybe we need one
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Speaker 1: for girls gone Hallmark. Sure, I'll work on that anyway.
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Speaker 1: Back to Sleepy Kitty, PA reported that Hallmark Mystery continues
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Speaker 1: to struggle with ratings. The movie Five Gold Rings had
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Speaker 1: only five hundred and forty thousand live viewers during its
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Speaker 1: premiere on Thursday, November seventh. Yeah, while Santa tell Me
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Speaker 1: earned a twenty twenty four high for the network with
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Speaker 1: two point two five three million live viewers, Trivia at
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Speaker 1: Saint Nick's pulled in one point one zero two million
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Speaker 1: live viewers. I wish I could compare that to last year.
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Speaker 1: The conversation over there is should Hallmark Mystery still be
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Speaker 1: putting out new movies? New Christmas movies? Well, I guess
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Speaker 1: what I wonder is should they all be just down
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Speaker 1: the Hallmark channel? Yeah? Exactly. You think it's too much
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Speaker 1: for people to keep up with absolutely, especially with Hallmark Plus. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I do. Yeah. I think someone who's not like Hallmark
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Speaker 1: on the brain daily like you and I are, I'm like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I could break it down what the difference is. But
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Speaker 1: based on the number of questions we see, like when
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Speaker 1: is countdown to Christmas coming to Hallmark Plus, I think
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Speaker 1: maybe people need a more streamlined way to access these movies. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and I think there's a lot of competition on Thursday
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Speaker 1: nights too, because you got Thursday night football. Oh right now, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think I think it would be either eliminate. Well.
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Speaker 1: I also think that Thursday night drop is new like
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Speaker 1: in the past it was. Yeah, I don't think we
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Speaker 1: were getting Thursday night Hallmark Mystery drops. What did those
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Speaker 1: drop Sunday Fridays. I don't recall. I'd be lying if
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Speaker 1: I knew, but I feel like it was Friday, Saturday
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Speaker 1: Sunday split between the channels, and then sometimes we would
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Speaker 1: get like a Hallmark Mystery and a Hallmark Channel drop
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Speaker 1: on the same nights. Yeah. I feel bad for those
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Speaker 1: movies that are over there because they're just not getting
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Speaker 1: the eyeballs. Why I feel bad, I'm not saying they're stinkers.
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Speaker 1: I've enjoyed several of them this season, so there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of play there. I've also read some feedback that
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Speaker 1: viewers are not looking for heavier content. Some of those
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Speaker 1: movies are a little bit heavier in tone. I guess sure.
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Speaker 1: And I also think like maybe there's a I get
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Speaker 1: my Hamemark Mysteries branded Hallmark Mystery. But then I think
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Speaker 1: there's like a little bit of a mismatch with the
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Speaker 1: branding when you drop Miracles of Christmas over there. I
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Speaker 1: get wanting to separate Miracles of Christmas out, but I
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Speaker 1: think maybe people are like, what's happening on Hallmark Mystery?
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Speaker 1: I don't fully understand. Definitely, they'll they'll figure it out. Also,
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Speaker 1: in addition, there is the conversation of Hallmark should not
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Speaker 1: be dropping Christmas movies before November. What are your thoughts? Interesting?
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Speaker 1: If they're gonna do forty, you gotta drop them. Who's
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Speaker 1: those forty is the magic number? Though? Right? Are they
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Speaker 1: competing with themselves at this point? I think they are.
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Speaker 1: That's a good point. If you're gonna stick with that
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Speaker 1: forty number, if you've decided that's the number, you gotta
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Speaker 1: drop them early. Other way, it's too many. You're just
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Speaker 1: getting a barrage of movies coming out. I'm fine with
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Speaker 1: like a November first start, me too, Okay, moving on,
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Speaker 1: James Vaughn. You know who I'm talking about. Oh, this
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Speaker 1: is Jonathan Bennett's husband. He dropped a holiday EP of
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Speaker 1: all original holiday music on Tuesday, November eleventh, called Feels
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Speaker 1: Like Christmas. He will have an original song called Home
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Speaker 1: for the Holiday, featured in Seasons Greetings from Cherry Lane
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Speaker 1: on Hallmark Plus on December fifth. Now, hey, we got
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Speaker 1: a preview from mister James Vaughn on the Christmas Cruise
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Speaker 1: because he sang two songs he did. It was great
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Speaker 1: closing night. He's incredible, very talented. I'm so excited for him,
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Speaker 1: and I had read this article because Variety covered an
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Speaker 1: exclusive interview with him, huh from the cruise because Variety
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Speaker 1: was on the cruise anyway. He said that he and
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Speaker 1: I'm pair for He wanted to put out an album
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Speaker 1: of like original music that just makes you feel good,
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Speaker 1: and I just I love it. I'm how exciting that
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Speaker 1: it's going to be in a movie this year too.
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Speaker 1: I'm excited for him me too. That's all I got
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Speaker 1: for Hallmark News. Let's hear a synopsis. A design show
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Speaker 1: host finds a letter from Santa promising to meet her
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Speaker 1: true love in man named Nick by Christmas Eve. Meeting
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Speaker 1: three Nicks complicates her search. Ryan Landells wrote and directed
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Speaker 1: Santa Tell Me. This is Ryan's eleventh writing and directing credit.
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Speaker 1: He also wrote and directed the upcoming movie Sugar Plumbed.
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Speaker 1: I Am Looking forward to that one me too, Janelle Parish,
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Speaker 1: isn't it right? Yeah? Is this his first Hallmark project? Though? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: these are his first two Hallmark projects. Wow, that's crazy,
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Speaker 1: considering like you've never written or directed for the network before,
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Speaker 1: and now you have two movies. Yeah, in one year,
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Speaker 1: in one season you hotly anticipated us as well. Interesting.
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Speaker 1: Aaron cracosars as Olivia. Aaron has seventeen acting credits, getting
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Speaker 1: her start on the show Army Wives. The rest of
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Speaker 1: her resume is almost entirely Hallmark, including one hundred and
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Speaker 1: twenty two episodes of When Calls the Heart. Daniel Lissing
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Speaker 1: plays Chris. Daniel has thirty two acting credits and was
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Speaker 1: in both When Calls the Heart and the spinoff, When
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Speaker 1: Hope Calls. Benjamin Airs, Christopher Russell and Kurt Zarka play
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Speaker 1: the Three Nicks. Benjamin can be seen in The Santa
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Speaker 1: Clas and Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane, both this holiday season.
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Speaker 1: Christopher Russell was most recently seen in a Costa Rican Wedding,
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Speaker 1: and Kurt is also in both The Santa Class and
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Speaker 1: Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane. Jess Brown plays Darcy just
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Speaker 1: as a Hallmark maybe with a one episode appearance on
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Speaker 1: Chesapeake Shores. Santa Tell Mey was filmed outside of Vancouver
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Speaker 1: in February twenty twenty four. Yeah, way back. This was
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Speaker 1: one of our first announcements. Yeah we know, really a
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Speaker 1: year of Jill Like, we are going to take a
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Speaker 1: quick break and come right back with our first impressions
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Speaker 1: of Santa tell me. It is time to share your
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Speaker 1: first impression, Santa tell me, Wendy. Mine is, Wait, do
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Speaker 1: I need to watch wood Calls of the Heart. I can't.
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Speaker 1: I can't. I'm just pretending like you didn't say that.
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Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting it. Mine is. Ryan Landells deserves a
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Speaker 1: prize forgetting the line. We should get a nickpick into
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Speaker 1: the movie. Oh my god, Oh my god. So wait
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Speaker 1: a second. I have watched this movie. I had to
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Speaker 1: watch it like three times. I fell asleep the first
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Speaker 1: time last night, I fell asleep again, and then I
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Speaker 1: watched the rest of it this morning and heard that line.
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Speaker 1: And I didn't know exactly what was said because I
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Speaker 1: was on my phone while I was in the shower.
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Speaker 1: And that is hilarious, so funny. It's when like they
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Speaker 1: all meet each other, right, Yes, it's from nick Cy.
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Speaker 1: We should get a Nick pick it's I laughed out loud.
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Speaker 1: That's freaking hilarious. Let's talk likes. Can I start by
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Speaker 1: telling you something. Yes. When we dropped our countdown to
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Speaker 1: Christmas preview episode, we received a message from correspondent Mike
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Speaker 1: who said, I'm making a prediction right now. In the
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Speaker 1: one where we all said that someone gets prophecied to
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Speaker 1: fall in love with a guy named Nick, you mentioned
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Speaker 1: it's also said that she gets closer to a coworker,
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Speaker 1: whereupon Wendy said, is his name Nick? I'm saying right
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Speaker 1: now that Nick will turn out to be that guy's
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Speaker 1: real first name, but he only goes by his middle name.
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Speaker 1: That's what we'll know I'm by, and that's what'll make
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Speaker 1: that prediction come true when at the end of the
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Speaker 1: movie we find out his name is Nick after all,
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Speaker 1: write it down and we'll see if I'm right. Then,
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Speaker 1: on Saturday, November ninth, as this movie is airing, we
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Speaker 1: get another message from Mike that simply says, Boom. I
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Speaker 1: haven't even seen the movie at this point, but I
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Speaker 1: knew exactly what he was talking about, and I love
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Speaker 1: a full circle moment. That's amazing, amazing. I don't recall
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Speaker 1: saying that line in our preview movie seven hundred episodes ago.
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Speaker 1: I'm shocked that you don't remember every single thing you said. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and we had to talk about forty movies and that one.
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Speaker 1: Oh it was a two part or two Yeah, I recall.
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Speaker 1: I don't recall saying that anyway, Thanks, Mike, No, we
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Speaker 1: can talk like thanks for making us laugh. Aaron Craco
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Speaker 1: And did I say her name right? M I really
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Speaker 1: enjoyed her. I kind of get the feeling that a
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Speaker 1: lot of people don't enjoy her as an actor on
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Speaker 1: homework really well, so I wrote some feedback that she
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Speaker 1: has like RBF, so do I. I actually don't get
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Speaker 1: that vibe from her at all either, at all. I
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Speaker 1: really liked her. Of course, we don't watch wind Calls
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Speaker 1: of the Heart, so she's in very little outside of
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Speaker 1: wind Calls to the Heart. She was, of course in
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Speaker 1: Blind Date Book Club, Blind Date Book Club, that's what
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Speaker 1: it was called a movie. We both really enjoyed it.
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Speaker 1: And was it her in that Livie with Brendon Penny.
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Speaker 1: Brendan Penny was not in that movie. Robert Buckley, not Junior.
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Speaker 1: You do not know what I'm talking about. That's not
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Speaker 1: what I said. I said, was it her in that
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Speaker 1: movie with Brendan Penny? Oh? I thought you were asking
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Speaker 1: me because I just mentioned Blind Date book Club. I know
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Speaker 1: Robert Buckley, not juniors in Blind Date book Club. I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about the ball movie. Yeah, is that her? It's her? She? Look?
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Speaker 1: That was not this year, The Wedding car No. Twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three, but she was delightful. She hasn't been in
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Speaker 1: a Christmas movie that you and I have reviewed. She
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Speaker 1: was in It was Always You, a movie that we
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Speaker 1: do need to revisit. We said recently we would revisit
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Speaker 1: that one since I dogged on it. But uh, she
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Speaker 1: hasn't been and a ton of movies. I mean she
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Speaker 1: was in one in twenty twenty four, one in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three, one in twenty twenty one, ooh in twenty nineteen. Wow. No,
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Speaker 1: she has been in eleven. However, many series of one
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Speaker 1: calls the Heart, so she's been acting on the network.
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Speaker 1: Every time I see her, I find her more and
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Speaker 1: more delightful. I thought The Wedding Cottage was such a
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Speaker 1: cute movie. I thought Blind Day book Club was charming
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Speaker 1: as hell. And this movie, there's a reason why. On
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Speaker 1: that movie poster, she's right up front and the four
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Speaker 1: dudes are lined up behind her. She's the absolute star.
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Speaker 1: I'm making a face right now because I'm going to
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Speaker 1: talk about the movie poster in my wishes, I have
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Speaker 1: not seen that particular movie poster. Oh I'm looking at
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Speaker 1: it right now. Okay, we're gonna get there. Okay, I
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Speaker 1: agree with you. I think she's damned delightful. I loved
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Speaker 1: her comedic timing. She has some great, really funny lines.
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Speaker 1: She delivered them really well. She's a pro. If anybody
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Speaker 1: wants to their pearls, please fast forward sixty seconds. She
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Speaker 1: was given like real horny vibes in this movie because
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Speaker 1: of all her dates. No, not because of her dates.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of lines that are She's just given
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Speaker 1: me like she was looking for some love, okay in
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Speaker 1: a good way, like and now all the wrong places.
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Speaker 1: There's a line like my sister absolutely loves what you
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Speaker 1: can do with your hands. Oh that was hilarious. Did
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Speaker 1: you see Christopher Russell's face in that? Yes? I laughed
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Speaker 1: out loud. Yeah. Uh. I thought the script was really good.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of great lines, I thought it was well rounded.
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Speaker 1: It had it had like classic Hallmark tropes, but didn't
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Speaker 1: lean too hard into them. I don't think like it
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Speaker 1: didn't rely on the trope to be the whole movie. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I love the physical comedy, the way I cackled, cackled
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Speaker 1: when she and Benjamin Errs are on that date and
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Speaker 1: the cork hits him in the face. I laughed so hard.
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Speaker 1: I'm the one who laughs during like when anybody falls down,
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Speaker 1: including myself, or America's Funny's Home videos. Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: I left my ass off. I love that kind of stuff,
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Speaker 1: and I thought they did so great. Or when she
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Speaker 1: hit that guy in the back of the head with
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Speaker 1: the snowball and gave him a cushion, I died. No,
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Speaker 1: really funny. The physical comedy is really great. I want
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Speaker 1: to call out a couple more actors in this movie.
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Speaker 1: First of all, I liked all three Nicks, and I
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Speaker 1: super love that we've got Olivia dating three dudes at once.
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Speaker 1: So fun. But I've really loved Benjamin Ayers. I know
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Speaker 1: you do. I'm sad that he's on the cruise and
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Speaker 1: we're not. Okay, let me tell you the rest of
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Speaker 1: my note. First of all, longtime girls on Hallmark fans
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Speaker 1: will not be surprised by this because I am a
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Speaker 1: I wrote, I am an heir's hid. I just coined
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Speaker 1: that term. I know. Oh he's like mister Romance University.
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Speaker 1: What do his fans Sandy is going to shoot English
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Speaker 1: breakfast tea out of her? I just got Air's head.
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Speaker 1: That hilarious. Yes, oh my god, thank you. I was
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Speaker 1: really proud of it. So a petition for that being
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Speaker 1: what the Airs fans call themselves. But I did write
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Speaker 1: that I am jealous of the Hallmark sale tours who
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Speaker 1: will get him on their ship, particularly because Benjamin Airs
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Speaker 1: has been all up in the Facebook groups trying to
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Speaker 1: figure out how he can really make this special for
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Speaker 1: the fans and like soliciting feedback and trying to figure
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Speaker 1: out like what's going on. I really appreciate that. So
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Speaker 1: I thought he was great. There's a moment where he
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Speaker 1: like shushes her with like her his finger right up
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Speaker 1: on her list. I yes, he's so good. He's so fun,
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Speaker 1: and I feel like Hallmark has let him be more
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Speaker 1: fun lately, like he doesn't have like his hair a
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Speaker 1: little wild air and it fits his personality. Uh more.
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Speaker 1: Actor shout outs, go ahead, Daniel listening, where have you
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Speaker 1: been hot. Damn. I mean, wowby's howie alert? I think
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Speaker 1: I texted Megan I was like, hello, Daniel listening? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I mean, why is he so freaking hot and not
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Speaker 1: in more charming too? Like I guess some wishes about
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Speaker 1: some of the romantic interactions in this movie, but like
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Speaker 1: stop relegating the man to when calls the heart Like
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Speaker 1: he's been in a few other things. He's been in
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Speaker 1: holiday movies for other networks, but please please bring him
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Speaker 1: back and recenter him. He was so good. So I'm curious.
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Speaker 1: Do the Hearties like him? I don't. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what this backstory is here. Well, ever, all the hardies
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Speaker 1: were excited to see the re union, is my understanding? Okay. Well,
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Speaker 1: and there was a lot of conversation about like the
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Speaker 1: two actors were not told ahead of time. That's weird.
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Speaker 1: I've saw that in some Facebook group, Like they showed
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Speaker 1: up to set and they're like, oh, hey, it's you.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how. I think it was like a
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Speaker 1: fun surprise. I don't know how late the surprise was
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Speaker 1: late on them. But could you imagine if you're if
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Speaker 1: you're the lead actor or actress in this movie and
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Speaker 1: they're being vague with you about who your co star is.
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Speaker 1: I'd be like, someone tell me what the f is happening? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure it was quite that devious, got it? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: So Daniel the same Hulu served me up a movie
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Speaker 1: this morning called Catering Christmas from twenty twenty two that
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Speaker 1: he is the star of. I was like, do I
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Speaker 1: need Do I need to No, I don't. I don't
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Speaker 1: need to watch that, But it was just a nice coincidence.
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Speaker 1: Any other likes. Yeah, I thought sister Jess Brown was
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Speaker 1: great too for a Hallmark News be that she was
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Speaker 1: a great co star in this. Some things which might
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Speaker 1: surprise you. I kind of liked the you know, mysterious letter,
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Speaker 1: the magical letter. Yeah, I completely skipped over that. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I think sometimes maybe I come off as wanting movies
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Speaker 1: that are like realistic, but there was something kind of
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Speaker 1: like sweet and magical about that part of the storyline
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Speaker 1: that I enjoyed. Yeah, in all capa I wrote, give
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Speaker 1: me all of the Magic. I kind of liked all
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Speaker 1: of that. What else I liked is I like a
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Speaker 1: home makeover show, and so I like that this was
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Speaker 1: infused into our movie, though they did not show a
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Speaker 1: ton of makeover. I don't think that house was in
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Speaker 1: that disrepair as they were trying to make it out
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Speaker 1: to be. But I did laugh a good part when
20:57
Speaker 1: she was banging the call like he's like, we're on
21:02
Speaker 1: a budget, so you got to take him down, diy yourself,
21:04
Speaker 1: and then the dry walls like fallen, and I said,
21:07
Speaker 1: I thought that was really funny. But I love a homemakeover,
21:10
Speaker 1: so show show it to me. We know when we
21:12
Speaker 1: meet the Knicks, like we're going to start getting the
21:14
Speaker 1: reveal about why they're not the right guys. But I
21:18
Speaker 1: thought that was handled so well, like when she first
21:21
Speaker 1: meets all three of them, they're all wonderful, they're all wonderful,
21:24
Speaker 1: and then they're never bad guys, Like none of them
21:26
Speaker 1: turn out to be. They're just not her guy and
21:28
Speaker 1: we can see why, but kind of the slow reveal
21:33
Speaker 1: as to what it is about them doesn't work for her.
21:36
Speaker 1: I really liked that. And just a couple other little things.
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Speaker 1: Nick Cy is giving Buddy the elf energy and the
21:44
Speaker 1: line about El's doing CrossFit made me oh that out loud.
21:47
Speaker 1: I was wondering. I was like, why is it nick A,
21:51
Speaker 1: B and C? And then I was like, oh, I
21:52
Speaker 1: get it, A, B and C. All right, check it
21:54
Speaker 1: off the list. Y. Yeah, I liked it. I liked it.
21:56
Speaker 1: I like it. I liked it. All right, let's let's
21:58
Speaker 1: move on to wishes if you're ready. Okay, Well, make
22:01
Speaker 1: it make sense. All of their stuff is still in
22:04
Speaker 1: the house that they have not owned in years and years,
22:07
Speaker 1: and they comment like, my parents looked everywhere for it.
22:10
Speaker 1: Did they look in the attic that they apparently forgot
22:11
Speaker 1: to completely pack up? Yes, and the no owners of
22:15
Speaker 1: the home just left all of your stuff stored in
22:18
Speaker 1: the completely pholatic. Yeah you know, I moved into this
22:21
Speaker 1: house in March and the former owner left a bunch
22:24
Speaker 1: of stuff which I promptly threw away. Yeah, goodbye. Yeah,
22:28
Speaker 1: you'll have to hear it. It's trash. Yeah. Much like
22:31
Speaker 1: Trivia at Saint Nick's, we get a movie with a
22:34
Speaker 1: female character who is a little bit meaner than she
22:36
Speaker 1: needs to be. Who what are you talking about, Olivia? Yes,
22:43
Speaker 1: get out. You just admitted that you watched this movie
22:47
Speaker 1: with one eye all three times. She was not mean.
22:51
Speaker 1: I can't remember her character name. In Trivia, Celess was
22:56
Speaker 1: a downright biatch. This chick, Olivia was not she just
23:02
Speaker 1: was focused on her job at hand. Yes, I agree,
23:07
Speaker 1: but she she steamrolls all over him in multiple situations.
23:12
Speaker 1: I disagree. Okay, I liked her. I'm just saying I
23:18
Speaker 1: don't think you watched closely about she was more likable
23:21
Speaker 1: than Celeste. I think Aaron Craco is super likable, which
23:25
Speaker 1: makes a lot of it forgivable. But like when she
23:27
Speaker 1: hops into that uber who doesn't confirm they're on the
23:30
Speaker 1: right car, and you just start yapping about your new
23:33
Speaker 1: coworker and how much Yeah, because I mean that could
23:36
Speaker 1: be like a full you know, you just walk out
23:39
Speaker 1: to a car at the curb, human trafficking situation, I
23:42
Speaker 1: mean going to you gotta double check the light. You're like,
23:45
Speaker 1: wait and make sure for Olivia? Yep, what are your wishes? Okay?
23:51
Speaker 1: First of all, a life premiere on Christmas Eve. I know,
23:56
Speaker 1: stop it right now. Nobody is watching a homemakeover show
24:00
Speaker 1: the live premiere on Christmas Eve lives. That's the best part,
24:04
Speaker 1: I know. My second thing is I really enjoyed this,
24:08
Speaker 1: but I didn't quite understand it. But the the advent
24:11
Speaker 1: calendar transitions between like scenes, U huh did you notice that? Yeah?
24:16
Speaker 1: What does that have to do with the movie. Well,
24:19
Speaker 1: in the movie Christmas Vacation, it's do they do the
24:22
Speaker 1: same thing. It's just marking time. No. I enjoyed it,
24:25
Speaker 1: and I don't think there's any actual relevance to the
24:28
Speaker 1: Advent Calendar itself, as some of the little pictures showed
24:32
Speaker 1: like what they were doing in the movie, but there
24:37
Speaker 1: was no like setup of like, oh, we found our
24:41
Speaker 1: Advent calendar in our old family home or anything like that, right,
24:44
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I don't think it's anything like that.
24:46
Speaker 1: I think it's just a clever way to show the
24:48
Speaker 1: passage of time. Okay, My last wish goes back to
24:51
Speaker 1: the movie poster. Okay, the movie poster I saw shows
24:58
Speaker 1: our leads a Li and Chris. I didn't see the
25:04
Speaker 1: other three dudes on the poster at all, uh huh,
25:08
Speaker 1: and so I kind of thought, well, that's a little
25:10
Speaker 1: bit of a spoiler. We know who she ends up with.
25:14
Speaker 1: And my wish was I wish they had all of
25:17
Speaker 1: the guys on the poster. Poster that I am looking at,
25:19
Speaker 1: which is a poster on IMDb, shows Olivia standing in
25:23
Speaker 1: front of an envelope and coming out of the back
25:25
Speaker 1: of an envelope is a paper that shows the four dudes,
25:28
Speaker 1: all three Nicks and Nick. Perhaps, I don't know, maybe
25:32
Speaker 1: they were waiting to reveal those three additional co stars
25:35
Speaker 1: because they didn't report the other three dudes the stars
25:39
Speaker 1: until much closer, So maybe they were trying to keep
25:44
Speaker 1: that info. I like this poster with all four guys. Yeah.
25:48
Speaker 1: The poster I saw is Daniel Lessin and Aaron craik
25:51
Speaker 1: out and their face to face yeah, which is like
25:53
Speaker 1: a dead spoiler of here's her love interest. Sure. I
25:57
Speaker 1: really did enjoy that the three other men in this
26:02
Speaker 1: movie were not just and I don't mean to say
26:06
Speaker 1: just but randos. They were actual, like big game actors
26:10
Speaker 1: on the network. I think that's really cool. Me too,
26:13
Speaker 1: Me too, It's all I have. I have one. Did
26:16
Speaker 1: you see that? Go ahead? Why are there leaves in
26:19
Speaker 1: the house? Leaves? They open? The door of the house
26:22
Speaker 1: is full of leaves, as if it's been abandoned, but
26:25
Speaker 1: the rest of the state of the house does not
26:27
Speaker 1: suggest it is in very good condition. The walls are
26:29
Speaker 1: painted nicely, all the woodwork is very nice. They don't
26:33
Speaker 1: need to do any major renovations to this home. You
26:36
Speaker 1: and I have watched many episodes of Flip or Flop
26:39
Speaker 1: and have seen like some terrible property dated No, not
26:43
Speaker 1: at all. It's super nice. But there are leaves, like
26:46
Speaker 1: all down the hallway. You notice the leaves. Oh, you
26:49
Speaker 1: gotta go back and watch. No, but funny. I did
26:52
Speaker 1: notice the snow at the end, which was falling on them.
26:56
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell is this digital? Is this real? What's here?
27:01
Speaker 1: Is it a mix of? Like I was real snow,
27:04
Speaker 1: but it looked like digital. But then there was some
27:07
Speaker 1: falling on their hair, so I don't The only snow
27:09
Speaker 1: I saw falling on their hair that I noticed and
27:12
Speaker 1: paid attention to you was when they were in the sleigh. Oh,
27:15
Speaker 1: and that's inside and that's obviously a snow machine. It's
27:18
Speaker 1: just like when at the train station. Oh yeah, I
27:21
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