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Holidazed Episode 8 (Encore) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark fan. I'm when Day, I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 1: Today we are discussing the finale of the Holidays series,
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  Speaker 1: airing exclusively on Hallmark Plus, episode eight. If you listened
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  Speaker 1: to our recap of episode seven, you know we changed
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  Speaker 1: up the style of our recaps a little bit, so
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  Speaker 1: we are not doing a scene by scene recap, but
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  Speaker 1: we're just gonna dive in and talk about everyone's resolution
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  Speaker 1: because this episode was pure chaos. Lots of people, lots
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  Speaker 1: of scenes. I mean shout out to director Stacy Harding
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  Speaker 1: for she did the first episode as well, I think
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  Speaker 1: one and two and this episode, so you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of moving pieces, hugely ambitious project. Yeah, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of let me, I'm curious what your overall thoughts on
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  Speaker 1: this series was. So overall, I did enjoy it. There
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  Speaker 1: was a lot going on. I think when I think
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  Speaker 1: about this series, I like that it was a huge swing.
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  Speaker 1: It was a lot of stories, a lot to bring
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  Speaker 1: back together. And when I think of it as a whole,
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  Speaker 1: episode one to episode eight and the way it's tied
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  Speaker 1: all together. I think it's really interesting storytelling. There were
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  Speaker 1: some weak moments for me, there were some moments that
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  Speaker 1: didn't land for me. There were some frustrating pieces to me,
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  Speaker 1: But overall, I liked this series. I know you have
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  Speaker 1: some different thoughts. No, I did not wildly different. I
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  Speaker 1: agree with you. I like how it all comes back together.
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  Speaker 1: I do agree that there were some weaker storylines, and
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  Speaker 1: I do think that they could have cut some some
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  Speaker 1: of the families, maybe just one of them. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna say who. But I like the big swing as well.
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't know, it's like highs and lows for
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  Speaker 1: me on this What I really enjoyed is that Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: took on a project that wasn't like a picture perfect project.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a picture perfect Christmas Like. They were like
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  Speaker 1: real issues, real issues, showing families that are dealing with
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  Speaker 1: real stuff. Not everybody is like, you know, celebrating a
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  Speaker 1: joyful season or whatever. There's like a lot of shi
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  Speaker 1: t happening alongside it being the holiday season. Yeah, everyone
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  Speaker 1: was going through it on Christmas Eve. Yeah, So I
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  Speaker 1: mean I kind of enjoyed all that. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. And then I was thinking, like, would
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  Speaker 1: they tackle this again with a different neighborhood, because when
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  Speaker 1: I was on IMDb, it shows like season one, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, would they do this again like
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  Speaker 1: a season two, different neighborhood, different stories? Yeah? Maybe are
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  Speaker 1: there that many stories that can be told? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder as a casual of your because I watched
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  Speaker 1: this taking notes on every episode, and even I found
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  Speaker 1: myself like, when Ian Harding comes back in episode eight,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, Josh almost forgot about you, you know?
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  Speaker 1: So I wonder as the casual viewer, was it hard
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  Speaker 1: to keep track of everybody? It's not complicated storyline telling
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  Speaker 1: you you can figure it out. But okay, so how
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  Speaker 1: do you want to do this? Do you want to
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  Speaker 1: talk through each family? Uh? Yeah, let's do that. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: What's interesting is Josh's parents aren't here? Are they? Nope?
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  Speaker 1: We don't see them at all in this episode. So
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  Speaker 1: you want to talk about Josh and Stacey and Sheriff Nora. Sure?
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  Speaker 1: And THEO. The episode does open up early on with
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  Speaker 1: him showing up at Sheriff Nora's house with the coffee
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  Speaker 1: or real early on Christmas morning, you know, like THEO
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  Speaker 1: is not even awake, so it must have been very
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  Speaker 1: early because children bounce out of bed with the sun
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  Speaker 1: to see what Santa has brought them. And she is
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  Speaker 1: still assembling his bike, which is a choice on Christmas
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  Speaker 1: morning to be still working totally. It's like a late
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  Speaker 1: night holiday at but there was no power, so maybe
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  Speaker 1: she needed to wait until there was some light. Tell me,
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  Speaker 1: how does Josh slip out of bed with girlfriend? Stacy
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  Speaker 1: is what her name? Yeah? I almost wondered if she
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  Speaker 1: was gone, and we were going to find that out,
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  Speaker 1: but not enough time has passed for her to be gone. No,
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  Speaker 1: and we see a whole thing with them later in
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  Speaker 1: the in the episode comes back into the episode. So
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  Speaker 1: he's just mysteriously gone for several hours on Christmas morning,
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  Speaker 1: helping another woman assemble a bike for her son. I
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  Speaker 1: mean Stacey, Well, let's get to it. Some feelings about that, right,
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  Speaker 1: because he clearly hasn't broken up with Stacy, like she's
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  Speaker 1: still here. Nora says, I thought you're going to Australia,
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  Speaker 1: and he's like our fight was canceled because of the storm,
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  Speaker 1: and she's like oh, he does say I'm glad to
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  Speaker 1: get to spend this more time with you. But he's
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  Speaker 1: still with Stacy, and he's like, seems to be like
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  Speaker 1: trying to get Sheriff Nora to admit, like there's something here,
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  Speaker 1: and she's like, you know, I's like pantsand dude, you're
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  Speaker 1: still with Stacy. Yeah, gotta I gotta protect my kid. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're not saying I'm staying here with you. You're not saying like,
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  Speaker 1: you're not saying it. She's all the same things are happening.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like high school. And she's like, you can't
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  Speaker 1: be here. It's too confusing for THEO. And did you
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  Speaker 1: see that moment? Though? They keep their scarves on in
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  Speaker 1: the house because there's no heat, and when Josh leaves,
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  Speaker 1: his scarf is tucked into his jacket the entire time.
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  Speaker 1: And when he leaves and he glances back in through
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  Speaker 1: the window and he sees Nora and THEO sharing their
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  Speaker 1: like good morning Christmas, hut, his scarf has escaped from
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  Speaker 1: his jacket all of a sudden, Oh, it's out interesting.
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  Speaker 1: We do later on see Josh and Stacy show up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: minette boiler. Yeah at the minute, can't even say their
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  Speaker 1: stupid name. Yeah, thete the Manette, Hannah hands save the
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  Speaker 1: day with their battery backup because they're the only ones
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  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood with power. So this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be the source of the neighborhood gathering. Yeah, they invite
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  Speaker 1: everybody over, and so Josh and Nora do run into
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  Speaker 1: each other there. Josh and Stacey arrive together and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, get out. Stacy like not the contractor. I
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  Speaker 1: like you, but please go home. Yeah. Well, and Josh
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  Speaker 1: to step the f up and be like this is
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  Speaker 1: not this is not happening here. But maybe because it's
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  Speaker 1: Christmas Day, like he doesn't want to be like Siya,
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  Speaker 1: but also it's Christmas Day, and he went over to
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  Speaker 1: Nora's house. I know, I know. How do they break up?
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  Speaker 1: They break up because THEO draws a picture for Josh
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  Speaker 1: and in this picture it's depicted like the perfect life
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. And Stacy confronts Josh and she's like,
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  Speaker 1: this is not perfect life, but this looks like you're
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  Speaker 1: perfect life and so peace. I'm out. Two things to
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  Speaker 1: say about that. One, when THEO shows Josh the picture
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  Speaker 1: and she's like, Stacy, this is you. She goes neat Oh, look, Stacey,
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  Speaker 1: she got kids. She hates kids. But the other thing
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  Speaker 1: about that is she's like when they break up, she goes, well,
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  Speaker 1: we're still great business partner, so I'll message you about
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  Speaker 1: that project. Like she's all business. That's all she cares
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  Speaker 1: about business. So she's like, have a great life. It
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  Speaker 1: was kind of I was glad that she wasn't like
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  Speaker 1: all heartbroken about it, Like she just was like, look,
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  Speaker 1: you and I don't want the same things, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go pursue what I want to do and you
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  Speaker 1: can stay here and have your small town life. Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk the Woods family because it's a quick short story.
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  Speaker 1: Lucy and Annie and Sylvie. Yeah, Lucy and Annie they
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  Speaker 1: go look for Aunt Sylvie. It's kind of wild to
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  Speaker 1: me that, like all this stuff was put on pause,
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  Speaker 1: but I guess it was storming out and they're not
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  Speaker 1: going to like go out in the big storm. And
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  Speaker 1: they don't have to look very far because they find
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  Speaker 1: Aunt Sylvie at the bakery. She slept in a blocking
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  Speaker 1: all night long and she was like, I was embarrassed,
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  Speaker 1: And Lucy says, I'm proud of you. And then the
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  Speaker 1: jukebox turns on. Yeah, this is the magical jukebox. This
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  Speaker 1: is the storyline. I feel that could have been cut.
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  Speaker 1: I just it doesn't make it. It doesn't add to
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  Speaker 1: the overall narrative to me at all. I also don't
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  Speaker 1: like the Annie Max storyline. Oh you don't. No, I
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  Speaker 1: hate kids, so I don't hate kids, but I it
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  Speaker 1: just was silly to me. I just didn't care about
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  Speaker 1: Sylvie and the sister. I can't even tell you what
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  Speaker 1: the sister's name is. Annie. No, that's the daughter. What's
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  Speaker 1: her name? Sylvie? The sister Lucy? Yeah, I just it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't work for me. That's the silky is the curly
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  Speaker 1: haired sister? I know? Okay? So, and then what's with
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  Speaker 1: the magical jukebox? They're like, Joy's here, Mom's here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I do feel like the thing that made all of
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  Speaker 1: this storytelling possible was we just had to like let
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  Speaker 1: some things be untold and unsaid, which led to confusion.
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  Speaker 1: Like I think the Joy storyline is one of those
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  Speaker 1: where I was like, there's so much more information there
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  Speaker 1: that we don't have, And I get that that's how
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  Speaker 1: it works in like a big giant ensemble like this,
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  Speaker 1: but I was like, why do they call her Joy?
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  Speaker 1: And why I don't want is going on. Yeah, there
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  Speaker 1: were like limitations in their storytelling there, maybe because it's
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  Speaker 1: forty five minutes and they couldn't get everything in, but
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  Speaker 1: like take the coal factor out in. Yeah, not everybody
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  Speaker 1: needed a romance. Yeah, Cole comes to the house at
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  Speaker 1: the party. Yeah, Sylvie invited Cole to the party and
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  Speaker 1: they like decided, like Lucy asks Cole on a date. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The end, the end, that's over. Annie and Max also
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  Speaker 1: do resolve their storyline, like Annie goes to talk to
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  Speaker 1: Max and she's like, I'm really sorry and he was like,
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  Speaker 1: I like you too, smooch. Let's play video games. Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: We have the Lewin family and we have a repeat
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  Speaker 1: of an earlier scene, but this time with the ladies.
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  Speaker 1: In the original Lewin episode, Robert and Evan run into
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  Speaker 1: each other in the morning in the hallway with like
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  Speaker 1: the yeah wow western Yeah. This time we have Gail
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  Speaker 1: and Linda running into each other in the hallway. But
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  Speaker 1: it is quickly revealed that Gaylee and Robert did not
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  Speaker 1: sleep on in the same bed. It was yes, Gayle says,
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  Speaker 1: Robert slept on the couch like a gentleman. Oh I
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  Speaker 1: miss that part. I did think it was I was like, whoa,
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  Speaker 1: she spent the night and on Christmas Eve as well. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I okay, I totally missed that Robert slept on the
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  Speaker 1: couch because I was like, whoa, this is a sharp
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  Speaker 1: left turn here, Hamewark. Yes, it's obvious Linda wants to
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  Speaker 1: be back with Robert very clear. At the party, there's
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  Speaker 1: some awkwardness, like Robert and Linda are reminis sing and
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  Speaker 1: Evan kind of like scooches in between them and realizes
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  Speaker 1: what's going on. This is when Evan breaks up with
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  Speaker 1: Linda really in the nicest way possible. Yeah, he sees
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  Speaker 1: that there is a connection between Robert. It was really nice. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: He's like, it's very obvious YouTube belong together. When he leaves,
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  Speaker 1: he's like, now I'm gonna go be gaale. I'm just kidding.
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  Speaker 1: I did think it was kind of sad. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: where's Evan gonna go for Christmas? Back home? I guess
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  Speaker 1: back home. There's not really any resolution as I recall
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  Speaker 1: it with like Jennifer and Mike. Are they even at
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  Speaker 1: the party? I think so. I did not think they
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  Speaker 1: were even there. Maybe they're they're hanging out with Josh's parents.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, we don't get any resolution. We no no
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  Speaker 1: final closure with like Mike's like job situation and and
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  Speaker 1: growing apart nothing. Maybe that's intentional. Maybe it's like even
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  Speaker 1: when there's resolution, it's not always perfect, Like we can't
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  Speaker 1: solve every problem in forty five minutes. This next, Katie
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  Speaker 1: and Gabby. Okay, so the Camarinas show up after some resistance. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Connie makes Chuck go invite them posts and he's like,
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  Speaker 1: hell no, we're not going over there, and they like
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  Speaker 1: meet at the fence line and they offer a Christmas
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  Speaker 1: truth like they're frigging at war. It was nice. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, that's good. Go over swallow your pride, have
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  Speaker 1: some family cheer. Yeah. So Katie goes to Gabby and
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: she asks about Kevin, and again I said this one
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  Speaker 1: hundred times, the tone of the Katie storyline is different
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  Speaker 1: here because Gabby's like, Kevin's gonna come around just like
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  Speaker 1: I did. Like Gabby is still in like Katie for
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  Speaker 1: giveness lands. Yeah, and Katie's like, I got some advice
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  Speaker 1: for your audition video, and I actually think it's great advice.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it was great advice too. I think
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  Speaker 1: it comes together really well. She was like, you need
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  Speaker 1: to show what the holidays are really like, Like what
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: they want to see is are you dynamic on camera?
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  Speaker 1: They don't really care about the recipe that you're making.
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  Speaker 1: So we've watched enough Food Network TV to know this,
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  Speaker 1: are you interesting to watch? And so they end up
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: filming this like walk and talk of her talking about
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  Speaker 1: which is so ridiculous because you guys, if you've ever
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  Speaker 1: tried to like record something with your phone and there's
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: eight hundred people around crashing into a oh loud, forget it,
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: forget it, But I do love Gabby's like video pitch yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and Katie helps her make it and it was great. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I actually think it's very beautiful. And then of course
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  Speaker 1: Kevin swoops in. This is a really sweet moment because
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  Speaker 1: Katie's like, we're going to have to come up with
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  Speaker 1: a new nickname for you, and from the behind you
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  Speaker 1: hear Kevin say, sister, yeah, that was nice too. Kevin
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  Speaker 1: returns the and I thought it was really cute. He
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: was like, should I propose again? And she's like the
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  Speaker 1: answer is still the same, she's not giving me. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's just character grow crazy, Katie, Yes, in two days, Sure,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just telling you I think the
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  Speaker 1: vibe is different and maybe it's direction. Oh interesting, hot
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  Speaker 1: take there, quick take. I want to talk about Josh's parents.
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  Speaker 1: He has a moment that where he references them. He's like,
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  Speaker 1: inspired by Hey, he wants to build them a master
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  Speaker 1: suite at their forever home. He's like, I don't need
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  Speaker 1: to move them out, I just need to make their
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  Speaker 1: current home livable forever, So we'll build them a downstairs
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  Speaker 1: primary bedroom. That's what prompts Stacy's breakup. So his parents
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  Speaker 1: get a little tiny bit of acknowledgment. Yes, Mike and
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  Speaker 1: Jennifer Asarah nothing. The big storyline here is the Linn family.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I was really frustrated watching this. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So we know from the end of the lin episode
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  Speaker 1: that Grandma saw Marcus and Ted kissing and she had
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: like that shocked look on her face. But they come
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  Speaker 1: into the party and she's like, you gotta get married today,
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm not feeling I could di tomorrow. She's pushing
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  Speaker 1: for Ella and Marcus to get married. Yes, and Wally
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  Speaker 1: is an ordained minister, so he's going to do it
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  Speaker 1: right there in front of everybody on Christmas day with
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  Speaker 1: no marriage license, and I'm like in my notes, I'm
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  Speaker 1: like nine, I must be actually punking them this time.
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  Speaker 1: We do have another revisit of the a closet scene,
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  Speaker 1: and they got no solutions. They're like, what are we
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  Speaker 1: gonna do? What a yamic do? Let's not worry about
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  Speaker 1: the truth, Let's figure out how we're going to get
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  Speaker 1: out of this. Yeah, there's a quick aside where Grandma
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: realizes that Connie's waiting on some test results and she
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: calls in the favor because Grandma's aid Boss Biach, she's
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  Speaker 1: got somebody on the line, and she's like, I got it.
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  Speaker 1: I got deep pockets, baby. But Ted's like, look, enough
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  Speaker 1: of this. I'm gonna tell Grandma. I'm gonna tell her.
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  Speaker 1: And Nina was like, I know, dear, you broke my
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: heart by lying to me. This is a moment that
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  Speaker 1: is unclear to me. At what point did she know?
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  Speaker 1: Did she know all along and she was punking them
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  Speaker 1: with all the crazy wedding prep that she made them
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  Speaker 1: go through, or because then what explains her like shocked
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  Speaker 1: face through the window, yes, yeah yeah, or did she
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  Speaker 1: just know since the night before? But I kind of
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  Speaker 1: feel like this is mean like, you broke my heart.
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  Speaker 1: This really pisses me off because I feel like she
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  Speaker 1: forced him to be out. Yeah, she really put him
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  Speaker 1: in a terrible position. Yeah, she's like, I'm gonna pull
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  Speaker 1: all these hijinks to get you to give me information
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  Speaker 1: that you weren't ready to give. Yes, I hated everything
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  Speaker 1: about this. It made me mad. Actually, well, Marcus apologizes
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  Speaker 1: to her, but he also like it's kind of like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he just throws some therapist talk on her. He's like,
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  Speaker 1: you need to understand that, like you played a part
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  Speaker 1: in this too. Oh. I forgot to mention like when
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  Speaker 1: Linda and Robert get together, my notes bounce. Did you
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  Speaker 1: hear it? Yes? Okay, first of all, my notes say
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  Speaker 1: all State. Robert sends Evan off because something about him
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  Speaker 1: standing drive safe? Isn't that what he says? They are
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  Speaker 1: standing in the driveway and the guy's like getting in
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  Speaker 1: a car driving away. I'm like, this has got to
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  Speaker 1: be intentional, because in that moment I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is an all State commercial. But Linda and Robert
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  Speaker 1: there's a scene and I'm telling you, the music goes bounce,
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  Speaker 1: whoa wow, and then like you see them like you
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  Speaker 1: see clothes flying. But what they're actually looking for is
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: the gift that Robert got for her. It's like a
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: nice like give me some hints that stuff's happened, and
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  Speaker 1: nothing's happening, but I appreciated it. His gift to her
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  Speaker 1: is a trip to the Northern Knights. It's their second honeymoon.
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  Speaker 1: When did he have time to buy that? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe there's an eighth family on the street who happens
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: to be trashful agent. And the time that Evan leaves,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: because Robert's not going to buy his ex wife a
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  Speaker 1: trip to go see the Northern Lights unless he was
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  Speaker 1: buying it for Evan and Linda. Yeah, that is weird together,
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  Speaker 1: That is weird. No, it was a nice conclusion, though.
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy to see Robert and Linda back together. In
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  Speaker 1: the midst of all this dash of the Lama is gone.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Don't care. He has escaped all the way to the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Cameraina's house. Now that nine nine knows, Ted and Marcus
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: are like, let's get married. What are we waiting for?
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Everyone's here, even all these neighbors that we don't really
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: care that much about, But he cares about each other.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: They all hate each other, but like because of circumstance,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: nobody has power. They're all hanging out with each other. Yeah,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: so instead of just eating a bunch of appetizers, they're like,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: let's plan an entire wedding. Let's decorate this whole tent
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: and have everybody. I'd be like, I don't want to
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: do this this Christmas Day? Could we just like lounge
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: around and tet a cheeseball? I mean, like, where are
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: they getting all these this decotable lanterns and so many
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: matching chairs, big like bouquets. Yeah, they have like what
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: you would see at a wedding, like the table of
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: eight chairs. I was like, where did all these flowers
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: come from? I mean I just was like, uh and
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: again no marriage license, no marriage license, and no family
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: of Marcus there. No it is I know, I hear it.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: We talked about in the camera and episode how they
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: like flash on the sign of like no tree cutting. Right. Well,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: this is where that moment comes full circle because Sheriff
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Nora shows up and she's like someone cod to a
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: tree down. Of course, it could only be one of
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: these families, all all the people in this entire city.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: It's got to be one of them, and Josh is like,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: it's me. Wally performs a wedding ceremony. He talks about
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: holiday traditions, We bring a full circle. He talks about
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: even the unplanned moments can be lovely. Someone had a
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: confetti cannon chuck, and we get a kiss thee and
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: there's flashes of all the many connections made. These people
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: are just gonna go back to not talking to each
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: other and a giant neighborhood photo. Oh, we did not talk.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Connie got her results and it was nothing. Yeah. I
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: kind of was annoyed, like I don't want Connie to
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: be sick. But I was like, you don't tell your
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: entire family. I might not live to see next year
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: when you have no information. That's a real rollercoaster. What
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: you could be like. They're like, Mom's Elsie, No, no,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: it's no bigtail. Everybody tears. I just think it's perfectly
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: reasonable to be like, I'm waiting on some test retults
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and I'm stressed about it. Yeah, but I might not
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: be here next year. I know it's high drama, not necessary. Hey, friends,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: thank you for listening to this episode of Girls Gone Hallmark,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: a Bramble Jam podcast This wraps up our Holidazed marathon.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: We're hoping you are having a very happy new year.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: We will be back tomorrow with our top five holiday
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: movies from the Hallmark Juggernaut that was twenty twenty four.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Come back for that. We'll see you next time. Goodbye bye.
• 21:22
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• 21:25
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• 21:27
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• 21:30
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