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Game of Love · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Don't really love to play board games, with the exception
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Speaker 1: of Yachtzi, which I really love.
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Speaker 2: You should try Quicks similar to Yatzi.
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Speaker 1: Why game, But I rule at Yachtzi.
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Speaker 3: So you'd probably rule at Quicks too.
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Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast.
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Speaker 2: I'm Megan and I'm a lifelong Hallmark movie fan.
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Speaker 1: I'm Wendy and apparently I laugh out loud at astronomy jokes.
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Speaker 2: Today we're discussing Game of Love, which is not officially
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Speaker 2: part of All Marks Springing to Love line up. If
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Speaker 2: you want to connect with us outside of the podcast,
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Speaker 2: we'd love for you to follow us on Instagram. We
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Speaker 2: are both at Girls Gone Hallmark and at Megan and Wendy.
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Speaker 1: You can also jump into our Facebook group also Girls
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Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark. I haven't I've been a little mi i
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Speaker 1: a over there lately just because I've been busy with
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Speaker 1: like personal real life stuff. So I got I gotta
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Speaker 1: pop back in there today just to see what's happening
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Speaker 1: with the with the people over there. Check in a second.
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Speaker 2: Some new members over the weekend.
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Speaker 1: Oh nice, nice, nice, Welcome.
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Speaker 2: Let's jump into some news and notes about Hallmark in.
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Speaker 1: General m I'll go first. Hallmark announced their April movies,
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Speaker 1: which when Megan shared this news with me, she says,
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Speaker 1: there's seven new movies and I'm like, what in April
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Speaker 1: five on the Hallmark Channel two on Movies and Mysteries.
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Speaker 1: We have a blog post all about it. She wrote
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Speaker 1: a beautiful blog post with all the details on our website,
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Speaker 1: Meganwity dot com. I will also leave a link in
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Speaker 1: the show notes. Standouts from this list I'm gonna say,
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Speaker 1: is the Aaron crackout Brennan Penny joint Brendan.
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Speaker 2: I agree?
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Speaker 1: What did I call him?
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Speaker 2: Brennan?
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Speaker 1: H See? I told you I get confused there. Brennan Brendan,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. He wore the sexy
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Speaker 1: Clark Kent glasses in his movie this year last year.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, in his show Choir movie. I in fact, in
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Speaker 2: our blog post, I put our thoughts after every episode
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Speaker 2: and I said, we hope we're two things in this movie.
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Speaker 2: One Brendan Penny and glasses.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I no kidding, I don't.
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Speaker 2: You'll have to read the blog post for the second
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Speaker 2: thing we hope for.
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Speaker 1: Perfect I'll have to read it as well. I'll get it.
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Speaker 2: We have a new multi picture deal. Heather Hemmons, who
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Speaker 2: is starring in a movie called Pinch of Portugal in
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Speaker 2: the Spring into Love lineup, has signed a multi picture
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Speaker 2: deal with Hallmark. She was previously in Caribbean Summer.
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Speaker 1: I don't I don't remember her. I don't remember that
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Speaker 1: movie and I don't remember her. I'm sure if I
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Speaker 1: googled her right now and saw a photo, I would
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Speaker 1: know who she is, but I just can't remember right now.
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Speaker 1: It was announced that the Aurora Tea Guarden franchise is
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Speaker 1: returning to the Hallmark Channel. It will be prequel starring
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Speaker 1: Skyler Samuels, who was recently in the Gappy Potito movie
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Speaker 1: on Lifetime. She will be playing the younger version of
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Speaker 1: the Candace Cameron role. I know you had a tweet
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Speaker 1: from Sleepy Kitty Paw. What did it say? So?
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Speaker 2: The tweet says. Also of note, Candace Cameron Brewery publicly
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Speaker 2: expressed interest in taking Aura t Guard into Great American Family.
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Speaker 2: While I'm obviously not privy to contract details, it's often
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Speaker 2: the case that if the rights holder in this case, Hallmark,
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Speaker 2: stops making content featuring the character, they can lose those rights,
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Speaker 2: which this prevents and look, we don't know behind the scenes,
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Speaker 2: but I like to invent these stories in my head.
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Speaker 2: And I feel like Collwork's like, hah, you can't have it.
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Speaker 2: We're making it better.
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Speaker 1: I mean, who's gonna watch it at ghak anyway?
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Speaker 2: Right, there is a reply to this tweet from account
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Speaker 2: at Thurston Romance and it says I look forward to
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Speaker 2: her new legally distinct borealist coffee garden mystery. I've laughed
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Speaker 2: about it like eight times.
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Speaker 1: Well.
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Speaker 2: Our final bit of Hallmark news, Marita Grabiac, who is
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Speaker 2: a director, a prolific Hallmark director, is set to make
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Speaker 2: a third winter Castle movie. Now we reviewed Maybe It's
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Speaker 2: Cold Inside, featuring that ice Castle hat out. Apparently there's
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Speaker 2: a twenty eighteen movie called Winter Castle, also set in
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Speaker 2: that same hotel, also written both most movies are written
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Speaker 2: by Barbara Kimlica. Both are directed by Maurita Grabiac. There
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Speaker 2: is a third movie. These are not technically sequels, like
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Speaker 2: the storylines don't tie in, just the settings do. The
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Speaker 2: third movie is going to be called winter Castle Romance,
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Speaker 2: also directed by Marita Grabiac. No word on the writer
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Speaker 2: publicly yet, although I'm gonna assume that it's Barbara Kimlico
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Speaker 2: once again. However, it is being filmed in Ottawa, not
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Speaker 2: in Quebec.
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Speaker 1: So what's the attraction with this ice castle? Nonsense? I
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Speaker 1: don't know. I'm just there's no way. I know. We
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Speaker 1: talked about it two freakin years ago, and I have
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Speaker 1: this visual of laying in bed in the ice castle
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Speaker 1: and having it melt and drip on my face all night.
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Speaker 2: There's just mean if it melts on you, that's a
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Speaker 2: big problem.
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Speaker 1: I just would never wait is the plumbing situation in there?
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Speaker 1: Is there a bathroom? Do I have to go into
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Speaker 1: an outhouse? I just am I sleeping on furniture? Or
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Speaker 1: am I sleeping on like an ice bed? Nice?
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Speaker 2: Everything's made out.
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Speaker 1: Don't want to do any of that?
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Speaker 2: Oh joy in that?
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Speaker 1: Get out of here? Who is doing that? No? Thank you?
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Speaker 1: All right?
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Speaker 2: That wraps our Hallmark News and notes. Let's hear a
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Speaker 2: synopsis for a game of love.
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Speaker 1: Sure thing, it's a long one too, so buckle up, folks. Audrey,
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Speaker 1: a creative board game designer, and matthew, a research driven
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Speaker 1: marketing consultant, are tasked with creating a new game to
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Speaker 1: help players find romance. Given just weeks to deliver the project.
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Speaker 1: The pair find that they have very different approaches. However,
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Speaker 1: as they try to work together, they discover something they
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Speaker 1: have in common. They each have a lot to learn
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Speaker 1: about love. Starring Kimberly Sustead and Brooks Starnel.
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Speaker 2: This movie was filmed in Vancouver and the Maple Ridge area,
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Speaker 2: and there's some actual filming locations which include Jim's Pizza,
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Speaker 2: the Chameleon Cafe, and the Act Theater which make their
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Speaker 2: way into this movie.
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Speaker 1: I like that it was like you could see that
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Speaker 1: it was clearly cold, and this movie like I'm shout
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Speaker 1: out to the wardrobe department for brookstar now because I
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Speaker 1: thought he looked delicious in every scene, like these nice
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Speaker 1: coats and scarves and beanies and just thank you very much.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of Briggs Darnel, he plays Matthew. We last seen
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Speaker 1: him in Holiday Heritage during last year's countown to Christmas.
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Speaker 1: Prior that, he was in Advice to Love buy in
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Speaker 1: a Winter Getaway.
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Speaker 2: You know, I noted that we here at Girls Gone
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Speaker 2: Homework first saw him in a Winter Getaway and I
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Speaker 2: feel like it's only been up for Brooks Darnell since then.
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Speaker 1: I agree, and I have a lot more to say
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Speaker 1: about him a little bit later.
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Speaker 2: Okay. This movie was directed by Jason Bork. He has
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Speaker 2: fifty three directing credits, including quite recently A Fair Bit
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Speaker 2: of Hallmark, My Christmas Family Tree and a Tale of
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Speaker 2: Two Christmases.
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Speaker 1: Back to Kimberly sessaid, of course, she plays Audrey. We
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Speaker 1: last seen her, we last seen her, we last saw her.
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Speaker 2: What is it?
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Speaker 1: What's the right?
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Speaker 2: We saw you wouldn't say, we see just dropped? We
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Speaker 2: saw we.
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Speaker 1: Last saw her in Lights Camera Christmas, which was one
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Speaker 1: of my favorites from last year, as well as a
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Speaker 1: cameo and three Wiseman and Baby, which she of course
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Speaker 1: co wrote with mister Paul Campbell.
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Speaker 2: She is currently writing two movies, both Ways with Who
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Speaker 2: and a non Christmas movie. Please, mister Paul Campbell.
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Speaker 1: She's writing two movies with Paul Campbell right now. Yes, ma'am, oh,
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Speaker 1: this makes me so excited. Okay, where did you find
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Speaker 1: that information? Because Sleepy Kitty Pop, thank you.
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Speaker 2: There was an interview actually with Kimberly Sestad where she
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Speaker 2: mentioned those two things that Sleepy Kitty Pop posted about.
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Speaker 1: I love it. I love them as a writing team.
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Speaker 2: So do I. The story credit for this movie goes
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Speaker 2: to Samantha Herman, who also is credited as a writer
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Speaker 2: on a Fabled Holiday or Italian Christmas Memories, A Christmas
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Speaker 2: Tree in Colorado, and Angel Paul's a Novel Holiday, to
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Speaker 2: name just a handful.
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Speaker 1: It's so funny because I remember I hated a Fable Holiday,
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Speaker 1: but I loved our Italian Christmas Memories.
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Speaker 2: Is I think, oh, a fabled Holiday? I was, yeah, that's.
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Speaker 1: The Ryan Paidy movie.
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Speaker 2: The Brook Doors Say movie. I in my mind, I
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Speaker 2: could not remember. I was conflating it with a dickens
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Speaker 2: of a holiday. Another movie you did not enjoy.
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Speaker 1: That also starred Brooke Deorsay.
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Speaker 2: Right on the writing team as well, we have Blake
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Speaker 2: Silver and Joey Elkins. They get the telepreak play credit.
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Speaker 2: They both co wrote Autumn in the City and Unlocking Christmas.
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Speaker 1: I saw that Joey Elkins is a staff writer for
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Speaker 1: Outer Banks, which is like a huge Netflix hit series,
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Speaker 1: so that's exciting.
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Speaker 2: I would just like to say that the board Game
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Speaker 2: Cafe is an actual board game cafe. It is called
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Speaker 2: the Boardwalk Cafe and Games, and for just six dollars,
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Speaker 2: you can play an unlimited number of games.
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Speaker 1: That would be a terrible day for me.
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Speaker 2: I love it, I love it.
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Speaker 1: I really spoiler alert, don't really love to play board games,
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Speaker 1: with the exception of Yachtzi, which I really love, and
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Speaker 1: that's Quicks.
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Speaker 2: You should try Quicks similar to Yai.
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Speaker 1: Why game Why Oh? I like Left Right Center too,
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Speaker 1: but that's not a board game though, So you.
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Speaker 2: Should try Quicks. You would like it. Okay, It's fun,
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Speaker 2: a little bit of strategy.
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Speaker 1: But I rule at Yatzi, so you'd probably rule at
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Speaker 1: Quicks too. Okay, all right, let's talk about what we like.
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Speaker 2: No farkle, farkle you'd like?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So what is your first impression?
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Speaker 2: I like everything about this movie except for the game.
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Speaker 1: Okay, we might be on the same path here. Uh
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Speaker 1: my first impression is there's no wrong moves in a
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Speaker 1: Kimberly Sasad movie? Or is there?
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Speaker 3: Oh no?
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Speaker 1: Oh no?
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Speaker 2: Hey, I like what you did there, Thank you. What
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Speaker 2: did you like about this movie?
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Speaker 1: Okay? I liked the actors in this movie more than
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Speaker 1: I liked the movie. M Do you know what I'm
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Speaker 1: throwing down here? Yeah? Okay, first of all, let me
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Speaker 1: talk about Kimberly Sestet. I think she has excellent comedic
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Speaker 1: timing and I realized while watching this movie last night.
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Speaker 1: I watched the first half this morning, and I watched
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Speaker 1: the second half. I realized she reminds me a lot
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Speaker 1: of an actress named Bonnie Hunt. Do you know who
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Speaker 1: that is?
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Speaker 2: Love Bonnie Hunt?
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Speaker 1: Write her talk show I a little bit. It was
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Speaker 1: on in the It was like a daytime talk show, right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And the most memorable moment for me of her
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Speaker 2: talk show is she interviewed Jason Mesnik from the Bachelor,
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Speaker 2: who famously chose one girl, broke up with her, chose
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Speaker 2: and married another, and she took him to task on
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Speaker 2: her show. Right anyway, Yes, I love an adoor Bonnie
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Speaker 2: Hunts go on.
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Speaker 1: I just feel there's a lot of similarities between the
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Speaker 1: two actresses.
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Speaker 2: That's interesting.
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Speaker 1: There's like some dry comedy that they both have that
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Speaker 1: I really like. And to me, Kimberly Sessif could be
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Speaker 1: like a sitcom star, I think, and I don't want
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Speaker 1: to stereotype it, but I could totally see her in
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Speaker 1: a role where she's like the two pretty too funny
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Speaker 1: for the husband kind of role, you know what I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about.
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Speaker 2: I don't like the lea remeny, Yes.
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Speaker 1: Ma'am exactly. That's an exactly a queen style. That's exactly
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Speaker 1: what I was thinking. Yeah, yeah, I want more from her,
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Speaker 1: More movies written by her, more movies starring her. I
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Speaker 1: really enjoy her.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think because she's so multi talented, Like she's
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Speaker 2: both a fantastic actor and writer. It's like there's never
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Speaker 2: gonna be enough of either, because she's a human and
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Speaker 2: who has limits. Right, My notes say, Kimberly Sestad is
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Speaker 2: Hallmark perfection. And we often talk about our Facebook creup members,
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Speaker 2: and one Facebook group member in particular sends us a
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Speaker 2: weekly email after every movie with their thoughts. And I
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Speaker 2: love this email because it's so detailed and it's so thoughtful.
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Speaker 2: But the funniest thing is you may remember a conversation
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Speaker 2: in the group where we talked about how lots of
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Speaker 2: the dudes of Hallmark have like names for their fandoms,
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Speaker 2: like the Hyinees grew. Remember, Mike proposed that the ladies
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Speaker 2: of a Hallmark need one too, and he went first,
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Speaker 2: with fans of Kimberly Sestad being the Sustuds.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, I hashtag let's make it happen.
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Speaker 2: I love it so that was in last night's email,
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Speaker 2: and I've been laughing about it ever since.
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Speaker 1: That's fantastic. I think that should be a movement. Let's
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Speaker 1: do it, Okay, Okay, of course. I also want to
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Speaker 1: add my thoughts on Brooks Starnel. I really liked him,
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Speaker 1: truly enjoy him. He has a smile that I like.
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Speaker 1: He has a swagger that I like. I found myself
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Speaker 1: in a deep dive on his Instagram today. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: as one does. And I see that he plays the guitar.
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Speaker 1: He's very creative. There's pictures of him taking pictures, like
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of into it. And I also saw too
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Speaker 1: that he's really into like his own personal style, which
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Speaker 1: I feel like we saw a little bit in this movie.
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, okay, are we infusing like the
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Speaker 1: real Brooks Darnell into this character? Like, I just enjoy that.
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Speaker 1: But there's one scene that really sticks out to me. Actually,
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Speaker 1: there's a couple scenes that stick out to me, but
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Speaker 1: there's this one scene where he is playing basketball with
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Speaker 1: his friend and they're talking about his previous relationship. Do
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Speaker 1: you remember the scene? It was short, it was very short,
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Speaker 1: and his friend goes, yeah, blah blah, bla bah and
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Speaker 1: he goes. His reply is, yeah, this ain't that. And
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Speaker 1: I really appreciated the aa ve in this scene, And
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Speaker 1: do you know what aa V means excellent? I'm glad
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Speaker 1: you do. It just made me feel like we were
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Speaker 1: not getting this like cardboard cutout of a character, Like
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Speaker 1: there was like a real person behind this character. And
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Speaker 1: I just I just liked it. It just made me
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Speaker 1: feel like Hallmark. This was a small step, another small
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Speaker 1: step for Hallmark.
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Speaker 2: Yeah that I love that take. And we've talked for
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Speaker 2: a long time about the hallmarkification of some actors, the
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Speaker 2: Hallmark versus reality, and I think that did not happen
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Speaker 2: with Brookstarnell here, like I loved his hair in this movie. Yes,
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Speaker 2: ma'am dreads and somewhat unrelated, but on the same task,
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Speaker 2: you posted a video to our Instagram stories on Girls
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Speaker 2: Gone Hallmark of John Brotherton Girl Is Romance University Gear
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Speaker 2: Dance into Snoop And first of all, that did things
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Speaker 2: to me. But second of all, I would like to
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Speaker 2: say that it's an weather actor that Hallmark has not hallmarkified.
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Speaker 2: And I wonder if some people you just can't really
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Speaker 2: take the hotness out of them. You should go look
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Speaker 2: at John Brotherton's Instagram. Yea if you haven't seen this video,
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Speaker 2: because it's something special.
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Speaker 1: I saw it this morning and I was like, I
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Speaker 1: am reposting this right away, and I watched it like
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Speaker 1: four times over because I was like, did I wow? Wow? Now?
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Speaker 1: I think we mentioned last week Brooks Darnell Wowie Zouie
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent right. Yes, I'm going to be posting
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Speaker 1: that on our Instagram later today as well. Yes.
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Speaker 2: So, speaking of the actors in this movie, I really
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Speaker 2: loved the Penny and Marshall team. Now. Penny is played
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Speaker 2: by Kristin Park, who is not credited on IMDb. She
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Speaker 2: was also recently in Sweeter Than Chocolate. Was played by
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Speaker 2: Edwin Perez, who was also in Just One Kiss and
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Speaker 2: Butler's in Love. He Alsen shows that I've loved like
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Speaker 2: Timeless and Not Tomorrow. But I loved the team of them.
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Speaker 2: I loved their role in this movie. I loved the
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Speaker 2: way their roles supported not only the plot but the
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Speaker 2: Kimberly Sastad's character Audrey. I thought that was great casting there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I enjoyed them too. And let's talk about the
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Speaker 1: casting for a second. Quite a bit of diverse casting
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Speaker 1: in this movie. I really liked that we haven't talked
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Speaker 1: about that in a minute.
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Speaker 2: No, we haven't done a diversity check in a minute.
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Speaker 2: And I think it almost speaks a little bit too
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Speaker 2: like the startup nature of this I think it's really
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Speaker 2: reflective of what a startup would look like there. And
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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's fair to call them a startup.
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Speaker 2: They're a board game company, but like their offices really
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Speaker 2: give me that like startup feel. They really like have
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Speaker 2: leaned into the culture of the company, and I think
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Speaker 2: the makeup of the office staff reflects that as well.
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Speaker 1: A real we work like.
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Speaker 2: Vibe except hopefully not.
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Speaker 1: Okay, here's I have three more little things to talk about.
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Speaker 1: What I liked, Yeah, actually two. I like that there
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Speaker 1: was an obvious attraction between Audrey and Matthew, and that
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Speaker 1: it was identified like we knew that these two humans
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Speaker 1: were attracted to each other, that they had there was
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Speaker 1: something going on between them, and it wasn't like the
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Speaker 1: old trope that we get like one is a complete
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Speaker 1: buffoon and doesn't realize right that the other person likes them.
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Speaker 1: There's no like mystery behind it. Yes, we got chemistry
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Speaker 1: between these two people, And I just liked that that
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Speaker 1: there was no mistake.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was no contrived Oh I have no idea
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Speaker 2: that this other person clearly m I.
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Speaker 1: Mean, of course we had a little bit of like
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Speaker 1: she's resistant to him coming to board is different from ignorance.
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Speaker 1: I hate you, but now I love you. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: like a full hate, like there was some resistance, but
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Speaker 1: she wasn't. Like we got a better understanding of what
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Speaker 1: that resistance was about in the movie. So those are
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Speaker 1: my thoughts.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, not everybody liked this, but I liked the you've
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Speaker 2: got male moment, the they're playing this game together.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know Game of Girl and free Hugs. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I just liked that she didn't realize that this person
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Speaker 2: was in her corner the whole time.
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Speaker 1: M hmm. Like M.
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Speaker 2: I think it sent her the message that, like, this
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Speaker 2: isn't an accident, like this person is on your team.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's interesting. I didn't really enjoy that. I didn't
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Speaker 1: think it was necessary either, but I like how you
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Speaker 1: explain that I want to talk about this one scene
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Speaker 1: and it kind of righted the ship for me a
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Speaker 1: little bit. Okay, it was when they learned that the
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Speaker 1: game was getting dumped and Audrey sort of freaks out
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Speaker 1: right and she's like reverting back to her like closed
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Speaker 1: off self, and Matthew is standing in front of her,
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Speaker 1: pleading with her to let him be there for her.
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Speaker 1: And I just was like, oh, yes, like I love
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Speaker 1: that vulnerability in this scene. I just thought it was
21:05
Speaker 1: so good. Yeah, that's all I liked about this movie.
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Speaker 2: Though, Well, I think that's a lot.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I mean, my like to list is more than
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Speaker 1: my wished for list, But overall, we'll get there, you know.
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Speaker 2: I just want to say that, overall, I found this
21:26
Speaker 2: movie to be very watchable, and I think that is
21:29
Speaker 2: in large part due to the stars. I think they
21:33
Speaker 2: were tasked with a very hard thing and I'll talk
21:35
Speaker 2: about it in the wish, but to create something like
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Speaker 2: a board game, it's not an easy thing to do,
21:43
Speaker 2: and to have that be a key plot point of
21:46
Speaker 2: your movie, I think puts a lot of pressure on
21:50
Speaker 2: the movie. We're trying to make a movie, we're not
21:52
Speaker 2: trying to create a board game. But the success of
21:54
Speaker 2: the movie is kind of dependent on the success of
21:56
Speaker 2: the board game. And I think if you lean away
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Speaker 2: from that a little bit, that's where I really enjoyed
22:03
Speaker 2: the movie because okay, I'll talk about what I wish for,
22:05
Speaker 2: but that we'll get there. Why don't you go first?
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Speaker 2: What did you wish for?
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Speaker 1: Well? I wanted less game talk. Okay, I am not
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Speaker 1: interested in knowing how the sausage is made. I that
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Speaker 1: whole I mean, the whole movie was them about about
22:24
Speaker 1: designing the board game, and I thought that was really
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Speaker 1: boring because I hate playing board games that I don't understand, right, Yeah,
22:33
Speaker 1: and this is what this was like. I felt very
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Speaker 1: seen when they had like the blind game playing and
22:40
Speaker 1: the people were like, we don't like this game, and
22:42
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm here for that, Like I that's
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Speaker 1: what I felt like. I just that all of that
22:50
Speaker 1: was not interesting to me.
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Speaker 2: That's very interesting to me, because look, I love board games.
22:59
Speaker 2: And there was a scene where Audrey goes to Matthew's
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Speaker 2: house and his brother and his brother's fiance are there
23:04
Speaker 2: and they play a game and Audrey's like, Okay, just
23:07
Speaker 2: let me explain it. I promise it'll all seem easy.
23:10
Speaker 2: And I don't like playing new board games because they
23:14
Speaker 2: feel so overwhelming to me.
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Speaker 1: Agree, I don't want to instructions.
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Speaker 2: I totally been that person, like we play board games
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Speaker 2: with people and I'm like, I swear, just like sit
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Speaker 2: with it for a minute and once you've done it,
23:27
Speaker 2: it's enjoyable. Like we're a board game family. We play
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Speaker 2: a lot of games, but that barrier to entry is
23:32
Speaker 2: a very real thing when you start talking about the
23:35
Speaker 2: rules and who does this and who.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
23:37
Speaker 2: I loved that that moment with her to your point, however,
23:45
Speaker 2: that I hadn't thought about there being less about the
23:47
Speaker 2: game because my wish is that the game were different,
23:53
Speaker 2: Like there's there's so many great pieces in this movie.
23:56
Speaker 2: I loved the love Guru storyline. I thought that was
23:59
Speaker 2: flawless and so well done. I love the idea of
24:01
Speaker 2: like learning about your partners love language. And I just
24:04
Speaker 2: don't think there's a board game that's going to make
24:06
Speaker 2: two people fall in love. And I al don't think
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Speaker 2: that that is a game that is a repeat player.
24:11
Speaker 2: Nol is like, oh look, we're in love?
24:14
Speaker 1: What what now?
24:15
Speaker 2: What now? Exactly Like I think there's a way to
24:19
Speaker 2: make a fun game about dating that you want to
24:23
Speaker 2: play like that has this funny theme. But I think
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Speaker 2: the board game with the and you can fall in
24:28
Speaker 2: love while doing it is a miss I agree, okay, okay,
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Speaker 2: anything else you wished for?
24:35
Speaker 1: No me neither.
24:36
Speaker 2: Okay, I only have one digit.
24:40
Speaker 1: See that me too, Let me hear yours.
24:43
Speaker 2: Well, I will say that this is not my digit,
24:46
Speaker 2: that this is a Facebook group digit. See that. And
24:49
Speaker 2: that is on one of the convo cards from the
24:51
Speaker 2: board game. They misspelled the word embarrassing, not once, but.
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Speaker 1: Why get out? I love that kind of stuff. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I love it. Eyes. That was great, Okay. Mine is
25:03
Speaker 1: a really small one. It's when Audrey and Matthew are
25:07
Speaker 1: on stage at the seminar and there's a voice over.
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Speaker 1: Matthew is speaking, but he has the microphone in his lap.
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Speaker 2: Oh whoops.
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Speaker 1: You know it's an editing thing. But I love that embarrassing.
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Speaker 2: I know that's a great one.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's too funny.
25:24
Speaker 2: Are you ready to rate this movie?
25:25
Speaker 1: I am.
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Speaker 2: I gave it three and a half stars.
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Speaker 1: I gave it three Okay, Hey, three feels generous for me,
25:32
Speaker 1: even though I'm telling you I love the actors, hate
25:35
Speaker 1: the storyline.
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Speaker 2: I don't think three stars is a bad rating. From
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Speaker 2: Girls Gote Hallmark. This week, We've got a lot for
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Speaker 2: you Tomorrow we have a recap of the Way Home,
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