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When I Said I Do (Lifetime) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Homework, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan,
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Speaker 1: and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy, I'm a
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Speaker 1: former Hallmark hater. And yeah, I said, this is a
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Speaker 1: Hallmark review podcast, but we're taking a little mini detour
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Speaker 1: over to Lifetime today because we are going to be
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Speaker 1: discussing when I said I Do, which originally aired on
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Speaker 1: Lifetime on Saturday, May twenty third, and I checked, it's
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Speaker 1: now streaming on Mylifetime dot com and I didn't have
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Speaker 1: to sign in or anything to watch it there. Oh
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Speaker 1: that's great. Yeah, I don't know if that's maybe it
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Speaker 1: streams there for a limited time. I'm not fully familiar
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Speaker 1: with the Lifetime streaming availability. If you like what we
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Speaker 1: to be reviewed, so if you so choose, you can
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Speaker 1: watch along with us. Yeah, you probably saw that this
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Speaker 1: was This review was supposed to drop earlier in the week,
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Speaker 1: but apologies. Life happens, y'all. I'm hanging by a threat
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Speaker 1: right now, but I have a feeling I have a
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Speaker 1: next two weeks, week and a half. I think so too.
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Speaker 1: It's five days. It's fine. Nobody is living or dying
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Speaker 1: on the availability of a podcast movie review, have it well?
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Speaker 1: I hope so. And I like to tell myself that,
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Speaker 1: And I know I tell you that too every once
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Speaker 1: in a while. But you put a little guilt on yourself. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I just you know, we have such loyal listeners, and
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Speaker 1: I don't want to disappoint anybody. So someone did ask.
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Speaker 1: for checking in. That's so nice that you're paying such
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Speaker 1: close attention. It's coming. You're gonna have a little Saturday bonus. Yay, yay.
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Speaker 1: Are you ready for synopsis? I am widowed K nine Handler.
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Speaker 1: Those are hard words to say altogether. First of all, anyway,
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Speaker 1: Ali rebuilt her life after her husband died on duty.
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Speaker 1: Devoted to her family and career, She's hesitant to love
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Speaker 1: again until meeting rescue specialist Sean, who has his own
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Speaker 1: painful past. Deaf and Brogren directed when I said I'd
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Speaker 1: his twenty fourth directing credit, and he previously helmed Hallmarks
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Valentine in twenty twenty three. This script was
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Speaker 1: written by Bart Barker, marking his twenty first writing credit.
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Speaker 1: Hey do you know this person? No relation? It's my
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Speaker 1: maiden name, folks. Sarah Drew stars as Ali. Fans will
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Speaker 1: recognize her from favorites like Guiding Emily, Branching Out and
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Speaker 1: Mistletoe Murders. Eric Johnson co stars as Sean. He's appeared
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Speaker 1: in the Hallmark movie Valentine ever After in twenty sixteen.
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Speaker 1: You know it just cursed me that Eric Johnson is
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Speaker 1: the name of Jessica Simpson's ex husband. Yes, no relation,
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Speaker 1: I'll s there merry. Clint and Lisa Black serve as
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Speaker 1: executive producers on the film. The script was reportedly inspired
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Speaker 1: by their hit song from nineteen ninety nine, when I
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Speaker 1: Say I Do I Have I know I added it here,
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Speaker 1: but can we get into some Clint and Lisa Black
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Speaker 1: fun facts please? You know I saw Clint Black in
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Speaker 1: concert at what was then the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim
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Speaker 1: in the nineties. Was he fantastic fan freak fantastic? This
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Speaker 1: song when I Say I Do was his thirteenth and
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Speaker 1: this is what this is what the Internet tells me,
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Speaker 1: his final Billboard Country number one single, Like, he hasn't
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Speaker 1: had a number one country single since nineteen ninety nine,
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Speaker 1: but he was kind of a man of the nineties.
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Speaker 1: Thirteen number one's is a lot. I agree, But is
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Speaker 1: he not making music anymore? I don't listen the country music,
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Speaker 1: so I don't really know. I don't think he's putting
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Speaker 1: out new music. No made movie. They made a movie
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Speaker 1: about a twenty seven year old song, Fair, Fair Fair,
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Speaker 1: A great song, by the way, a great song and
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Speaker 1: one like I knew, like all the lyrics totally. As
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Speaker 1: soon as they started playing it, I belted it out. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I've been singing it for days because two my dogs
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Speaker 1: really appreciated it. God and my family's like shut up ready,
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Speaker 1: he he. I was gonna say, CO sang the song.
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Speaker 1: That's not the word, is it? CO performed? He duetted, duetted,
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Speaker 1: that's the word with his wife, Lisa Hartman Black. She
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Speaker 1: was a recording artist as well, but this was her
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Speaker 1: one and only number one song. This song did win
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Speaker 1: an Academy of Country Music Award award and had a
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Speaker 1: Grammy nomination, and Clinton wrote the song about his wife
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Speaker 1: eight years after they'd been married. Oh that's so nice.
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Speaker 1: I know she still loves her. I love it. I
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Speaker 1: love it. Hey, Wendy, what was your first impression of
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Speaker 1: when I said I do. I felt a little bit
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Speaker 1: duped because Lifetime has trained me to expect felonies and
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Speaker 1: not romance, so that's what I thought we were getting here.
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Speaker 1: I was under no such pretenses. And my first impression is,
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Speaker 1: no one does an emotional breakdown like Sarah Drew. I
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Speaker 1: have some thoughts about it. Oh, oh, you know on TikTok,
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Speaker 1: I often get served clips of television shows. That's not
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Speaker 1: really your TikTok algorithm, is it. No, it's not one
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Speaker 1: that I get often is Grey's Anatomy. And I did
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Speaker 1: recently get the April Kipner learns her baby has a
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Speaker 1: terminal illness in utero and watched her process that in
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Speaker 1: sixty second clips on TikTok. Did Sarah Drew ever wash
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Speaker 1: she ever nominated for her role on Grays? I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I wonder why she left the show
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Speaker 1: she killed off? I don't know. She she was not
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Speaker 1: killed off. No, she wanted to go make that Hallmark coin.
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Speaker 1: I can't imagine she's making more on homework than she
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Speaker 1: was on a what's the name of that? Showrunner, Shonda
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Speaker 1: ry thank you on a Shonda Rhyme's joint. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Sarah Drew was not individually nominated. However, she did receive
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Speaker 1: an Emmy nomination as director for The Gray's Anatomy B
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Speaker 1: Team digital spinoff series What Oh, I'm not shading her.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm shading that project. What the heck is that?
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Speaker 1: What year was that? Don't know? Don't know? Is that? Like?
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Speaker 1: Come on over to our YouTube channel for even more
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Speaker 1: Grey's Anatomy content. According to the aioverview, she left due
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Speaker 1: to creative reasons and a need to downsize the cast,
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Speaker 1: and the abrupt ending did blindside her character. Oh oh,
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Speaker 1: that's too bad or blindsided the actress. They do bring
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Speaker 1: her back, and she and Jackson reunited at the end
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Speaker 1: or not at the end, but in later seasons she leaves,
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Speaker 1: she gets married, and then later they get her back
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Speaker 1: together with her once you love Jackson? Got it? Spoiler
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Speaker 1: alert for not is this show even airing stuff? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: It is? Oh, guys, I remember watching the pilot for
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Speaker 1: Gray's Anatomy when I was thirty. I'm forty eight now.
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Speaker 1: Movie not If you don't listen to Adrian, you don't
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Speaker 1: know why that's funny. Tell me what you liked about
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Speaker 1: this movie. Well, I did enjoy Sarah Drew and Eric
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Speaker 1: Johnson quite a bit. I'm not familiar with Eric Johnson.
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Speaker 1: We might have watched that. No, we did not ever
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Speaker 1: watch that movie that Goes In because it was way
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Speaker 1: pre us, way pre Girl's Gone Hallmark. Maybe it sounds
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Speaker 1: familiar to me because we just did like a Valentine's
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Speaker 1: movie Deep Dive, earlier this year, and it probably came
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Speaker 1: across our radar Autumn reser Is He's co star that nice.
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Speaker 1: I thought they were real nice together, and like I
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Speaker 1: said in my first impression, my first impression I was
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Speaker 1: I was expecting like this guy to try to like
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Speaker 1: murder her. So so I halfway through, You're like, man,
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Speaker 1: he has not giving me sinister vibes at all, totally
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Speaker 1: all I've heard flags everywhere watching it with like my
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Speaker 1: arms crossed, like I'm disappointed at the entire time. And
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Speaker 1: then at one point I did text Meg and I
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Speaker 1: was like, Okay, this movie's not bad. But I did
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Speaker 1: believe that these two characters wanted to be together and
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Speaker 1: every time they were on screen together. They do have
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Speaker 1: a very nice chemistry. And I will say points to
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Speaker 1: Lifetime for remembering that adults in love occasionally do things.
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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, you know, they were like in bed
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Speaker 1: together one morning, whatever, Like, let's acknowledge that two attractive
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Speaker 1: adults have hormones and aren't just exchanging chaste kisses. Yes, exactly.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it ruined the movie by any means.
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Speaker 1: It still felt quote family friendly. Yes, in my opinion, Yes,
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Speaker 1: that was my first What do you have any comments
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Speaker 1: about these two? I really loved them too. Another dynamic
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Speaker 1: I liked in this movie was the parent child family dynamic.
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Speaker 1: So good. The scene in the hospital when Ali is
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Speaker 1: yelling at her dad innis so real, right, She's just
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Speaker 1: like so frustrated, and she's just like, sit down and
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Speaker 1: stay there and listen to the doctors. Do not add
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Speaker 1: anything else to my plate at this moment, please. It's
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Speaker 1: so real. And then later in the movie when she
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Speaker 1: finally gets her dad to agree to her son Benjamin
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Speaker 1: moving in to kind of help out, and she gets
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Speaker 1: him to agree under the guise of like it'll help
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Speaker 1: mom out. As she's leaving, she's like, I love you
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Speaker 1: and he's like I love you too. And it's just real.
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Speaker 1: You get frustrated with the people in your life and
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Speaker 1: you still it's okay at the end. I agree. These
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Speaker 1: were some of my favorite scenes between Ali and her dad.
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Speaker 1: You know, I think because of this stage of life
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Speaker 1: that weird and when your parents are still your parents
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Speaker 1: but you start to become like responsible for you a
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Speaker 1: little bit or like, you know, that role reversal sneaks
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Speaker 1: up on people. And I just thought Sarah Drew's character
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Speaker 1: of Ali, like this was a nice storyline to incorporate
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Speaker 1: in this movie. The woman has a lot of stuff
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Speaker 1: going on, a lot of things. Like we've said, what
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Speaker 1: we've wanted from Hallmark movies is characters have layered lives,
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Speaker 1: and this woman had a layered life. Absolutely, so it
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Speaker 1: was very realistic and it felt very real to me.
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Speaker 1: I think so too. And can I just say like
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Speaker 1: their dialogue was real good. It was mostly between like
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Speaker 1: Ali and her dad. They had a very nice, casual,
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Speaker 1: realistic dialogue like you're pissing me off right now, and
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Speaker 1: you're pissing me off and they would say stuff like
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Speaker 1: that to each other. Like this is very non hallmarky,
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Speaker 1: but also very kind of realistic as well. So I
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Speaker 1: just appreciated it a little like for me, loved the
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Speaker 1: daughter's gen z vocabulary vibes are potentially sus made me lol.
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Speaker 1: I just thought it was great and fun. I liked
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Speaker 1: this is a little like for me. I liked that
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Speaker 1: Ali was still grieving the death of her husband and
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Speaker 1: it wasn't treated like a problem that needed to be
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Speaker 1: solved before she could move on in a new relation. Like,
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Speaker 1: she still shows up for her job, she still shows
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Speaker 1: up in parenting, she still shows up with decision making
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Speaker 1: and helping her parents. Like, I appreciated that while she
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Speaker 1: was still grieving, life still went on. Yeah, it's just
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Speaker 1: something she needs to live alongside. Exactly, I have one
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Speaker 1: last like that is going to turn into like a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a conversation piece if I may. Yes,
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Speaker 1: So I really enjoyed the search and rescue profession O
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Speaker 1: me too. So on Hallmark we get stories with bakers
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Speaker 1: and and owners and Christmas tree farm people. I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure we well, I don't want to say never, but
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Speaker 1: search and rescue teams I know we get the occasional
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Speaker 1: like first Responder movie, but search and rescue question mark.
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Speaker 1: I can't nothing's clicking off hand right right now? Email
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Speaker 1: us at Hello at Girls Gone hamewark if I am
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Speaker 1: missing something in the resume of Hollmark. But let me
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Speaker 1: get on. I enjoyed the energy that setting gave to
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Speaker 1: the AAOV. Yeah, I liked it. But then it started
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Speaker 1: to get me thinking about first responders in a way
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Speaker 1: that I've never really given any thought to it. Huh.
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Speaker 1: I was wondering about the spouses and families of first responders.
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Speaker 1: Are they just white knuckling every shift that their loved
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Speaker 1: one goes on, like every late night call, every rescue mission. Like,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I could live in that heightened
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Speaker 1: state of fear that something might happen. Yeah, no, the same,
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Speaker 1: I feel the same. That would be really hard for
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Speaker 1: me to You need a good team behind you to
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Speaker 1: be able to do it well. Totally. So I'm so curious,
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Speaker 1: Like if any of our listens, we don't have to
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Speaker 1: read anything on air or whatever, but I'm so just curious. So,
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Speaker 1: like what that process is. Oh, yeah, you are a
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Speaker 1: spouse or a first responder or in law enforcement, or
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Speaker 1: where how are you functioning during your day? You know,
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Speaker 1: this storyline of I can't be in a relationship with
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Speaker 1: someone who's putting their life on the line daily is
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Speaker 1: not new to me. I couldn't name a specific project,
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Speaker 1: but I do know that I've definitely read books where
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Speaker 1: this was the storyline. For whatever reason, this person had
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Speaker 1: lost a parent or just couldn't live with that fear
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Speaker 1: every day. And yeah, I think it certainly comes from
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Speaker 1: a real place. I'm going to go on and talk
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Speaker 1: about it more in my wishes. That's where I wanted
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Speaker 1: to leave my likes. Well, I want to say two things.
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Speaker 1: One on the search and rescue topic, I think you're
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Speaker 1: right that even outside of Hallmark, we don't get a
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Speaker 1: lot of search and rescue content, and there's so much
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Speaker 1: first responder I mean, how many police, hospital, firefighter frontline
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Speaker 1: shows are there? There's room in that market for a
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Speaker 1: search and rescue situation, and I'm sure there has been,
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Speaker 1: but it doesn't dominate the way some of these other
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Speaker 1: professions do. Agree. My last full like is as much
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Speaker 1: as I think I was supposed to find this movie
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Speaker 1: full of quote yucky love stuff, name that movie, I
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Speaker 1: cannot oh best friend's wedding. Oh, I think maybe some
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Speaker 1: have may have found this movie cheesy. I kind of
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Speaker 1: was in on the romance of it all. I was
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Speaker 1: in the mood to take that sort of content in.
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Speaker 1: I didn't find it cheesy. Have you seen reviews that
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Speaker 1: people thought it's cheesy. I haven't actually read a single review.
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Speaker 1: I just think sometimes when we get into the dramatized
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Speaker 1: love of it all, I don't know. Okay, so tell
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Speaker 1: me why you're on the fence. I want to talk
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Speaker 1: about the fight. Yes, let's talk about it. I can't
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Speaker 1: decide how I feel about Ali getting mad that Sean
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Speaker 1: didn't fight for her. Now, I thought on screen, it's
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Speaker 1: a great fight. I love the way they yell at
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Speaker 1: each other. It's fun to watch. But she told him
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Speaker 1: three times. First she doesn't need guys that she works with.
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Speaker 1: Then she needs to take things slow. Finally, she tells
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Speaker 1: him she's too much for him. She doesn't have anything
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Speaker 1: to offer him, and she pushes him away when her
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Speaker 1: dad's in the hospital and she feels like she's just
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Speaker 1: going to be taking more than she has to give. Right,
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Speaker 1: he listens to her and gives her the space that
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Speaker 1: she asks for, and then she shows up and she's like,
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Speaker 1: you didn't fight for me. He kissed yeah, yeah, And
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Speaker 1: I thought, great, fight right, And I love when she's
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Speaker 1: like I needed you. I just loved that scene so much.
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Speaker 1: And then the kiss that follows really was a great
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Speaker 1: smoochio mater moment for me. But where do you land
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Speaker 1: on that? Should he have fought for her or did
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Speaker 1: he do the right thing? I have a real problem
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Speaker 1: with women who who act like they don't or who
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Speaker 1: tell you they don't need you but secretly want you
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Speaker 1: to chase after them. Uh huh, fight for you, fight
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Speaker 1: for them. I don't like that. I don't like any
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Speaker 1: of that business at all. Either say I'm confused about
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Speaker 1: it and I don't know where I'm landing, or choose
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Speaker 1: one way or the other, like we cannot be together
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Speaker 1: or we are together. I it feels like a game
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Speaker 1: to me. I'm just I'm not into that at all. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I hear that. So when she was like I wanted
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Speaker 1: you to fight for me, I was like, oh, give me,
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Speaker 1: I'll break. I was arms folded across me, pissed watching
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Speaker 1: it well, because she was so good about setting her
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Speaker 1: boundaries in other ways, and then in this circumstance, she
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Speaker 1: doesn't communicate clearly, No, not at all, because the conversation,
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Speaker 1: the breakup conversation, could have been more the conversation that
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Speaker 1: they have in this moment where she's like, I feel
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Speaker 1: like I'm going to be a burden to you. They
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Speaker 1: could have skipped all of this, I agree, where he
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Speaker 1: could have just said, look, that's just how relationships work,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's ebb and flow, and sometimes you need
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Speaker 1: more than you can give and that's just the way
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Speaker 1: it goes. But they had to have the fight for
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Speaker 1: the dramatics of it all. Yeah, and this is where
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Speaker 1: like a roll my eyes sometimes, sure, because they feel
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Speaker 1: like checkboxes to me when they're writing a script. Mm hmmm. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So we're full on in wishes now, Yeah, I have
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Speaker 1: a few. I was annoyed with a couple things, the
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Speaker 1: pace of things in terms of like these two are
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Speaker 1: fully in love with each other. I just felt like
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Speaker 1: escalated very quickly when Sean goes out on his mission,
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Speaker 1: his search and rescue mission, and he's not in communication
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Speaker 1: for several hours and she's stressed out right, and he
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Speaker 1: comes first, thing he's got to do, I gotta go
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Speaker 1: see Ali, right, and she's pissed in this moment his
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Speaker 1: he proposes, how is that going to make the situation
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Speaker 1: any better? Well, he proposes and says, I'll quit my job.
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Speaker 1: I know. But I'm like, bro, I know, say you'll
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Speaker 1: quit the job first. And then it just was I
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Speaker 1: was like, proposing does not change anything. It does not
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Speaker 1: change anything. And then he's like, I'm gonna quit my
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Speaker 1: job for you, and you know, grand gesture kind of
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Speaker 1: liked it. He's fighting for her, right, yes, because if
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Speaker 1: she doesn't want him to be in danger all the time,
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Speaker 1: he's I feel like this gesture he's showing I'm fighting
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Speaker 1: for the relationship. Of course, that unravels because it's not
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Speaker 1: who he is, Like he's you know, designed to be
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Speaker 1: this search and rescue guy, and her mom lays it
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Speaker 1: on a little bit thick for her in terms of that,
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Speaker 1: you know, well, with good reason, I think I agree
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Speaker 1: to you, Like I don't think a person should, you know,
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Speaker 1: I do not. I can't go either way. I don't
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Speaker 1: think a person should walk away from their job just
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Speaker 1: to satisfy their partner. There's got to be some sort
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Speaker 1: of work around here. And in the end, he goes
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Speaker 1: back to his job, does he not? Oh yeah, so
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Speaker 1: where are we at? Okay, what's the work around? Like?
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Speaker 1: What have we settled on? So everything you said the
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Speaker 1: timeline of their relationship feels so clunky to me. We
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Speaker 1: go from Sean calling into the radio show to ask
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Speaker 1: for advice to them having dinner together. I guess we're
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Speaker 1: meant to assume that he called and asked her out.
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Speaker 1: But what led her to change her mind about going
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Speaker 1: out with him? We don't see any of that. I
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Speaker 1: would like to have seen that, because it was a
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Speaker 1: sicking point for them. Then we get them on to
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Speaker 1: them and spending time together. They're flirting, they're smiling, They're
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Speaker 1: in a very relationshippy place, holding hands, and then he
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Speaker 1: asked her to be his girlfriend. She's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Speaker 1: I gotta take things slow. And I was like okay.
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Speaker 1: But then to the I quit my job for you, No,
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Speaker 1: I don't I agree with you that. I think it's
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Speaker 1: a it's a nice grand gesture, sure, but as soon
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Speaker 1: as he did it, I was like, I don't like that,
21:21
Speaker 1: because well, it's nice that he was willing to do
21:24
Speaker 1: it for the relationship. I feel like she had to
21:27
Speaker 1: know I can't ask you to say goodbye to this
21:30
Speaker 1: huge part of yourself. And I think for me, the
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Speaker 1: most glaring part of this is there's never any discussion
21:36
Speaker 1: of Allie leaving her job, and she puts herself in
21:39
Speaker 1: danger too, as evidenced by the end of this movie. Yeah,
21:42
Speaker 1: but Sean's not like spun up about her being at work.
21:46
Speaker 1: I agree, Ali's the one with the quote problem. I agree. However,
21:51
Speaker 1: it feels to me because Ali's children lost their father
21:54
Speaker 1: in an accident, not because of his job in an accident.
21:57
Speaker 1: But it seems to me like if she she's going
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Speaker 1: to take issue with her potentially losing someone else, why
22:05
Speaker 1: at no point is she like, I can't have my
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Speaker 1: children lose me. Why at no point is that a
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Speaker 1: thought or a discussion. I don't think a person who
22:13
Speaker 1: has a dangerous job should inherently be required to quit
22:16
Speaker 1: that job because they have children, because we need people
22:19
Speaker 1: to do these jobs and it is a huge sacrifice
22:22
Speaker 1: on the part of the families. But for someone like
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Speaker 1: her who was so intent on you can't have a
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Speaker 1: dangerous job because it scares me find it interesting that
22:31
Speaker 1: she never thinks about, like, well, what would it do
22:34
Speaker 1: to my kids they lost their second parent. Yeah, totally.
22:37
Speaker 1: Or I mean what about this? Maybe this is naive,
22:40
Speaker 1: but isn't there risk every day in losing somebody you loved. Sure,
22:44
Speaker 1: of course, anybody could get hit by a car or
22:46
Speaker 1: is not what happened to her husband. I can't in
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Speaker 1: a car accident. I don't remember exactly. I thought he
22:51
Speaker 1: died in the line of duty, but I don't. I
22:54
Speaker 1: don't remember. Oh, but I'm just saying like life is unpredictable.
22:58
Speaker 1: So the fact that she so can't function because he's
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Speaker 1: out on a job too much for me. Because you
23:09
Speaker 1: could get mauled by a dog in your front yard,
23:11
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I'm like, what, yeah, what
23:15
Speaker 1: It's like, I'm not going to go to X, Y,
23:18
Speaker 1: and Z locations because those events are dangerous. Well, it's
23:23
Speaker 1: dangerous to exist in the world. Yes, yeah, yeah exactly.
23:27
Speaker 1: And my maybe final wish of this movie is that
23:32
Speaker 1: we kept just going back and forth over over like
23:36
Speaker 1: I love you, I can't do this, I want this. No,
23:37
Speaker 1: I can't do this. This changes everything? What Yeah? So
23:42
Speaker 1: I don't know if it would have this worked better
23:45
Speaker 1: as a series. No, No, yeah, I agree, I don't.
23:50
Speaker 1: I'm not asking for that either. I just maybe in
23:53
Speaker 1: like the eighty minutes or whatever it gets seventy five,
23:57
Speaker 1: how long an hour and a half movie. Maybe we
24:00
Speaker 1: could have cut some stuff. I don't know. Yeah, I agree,
24:03
Speaker 1: I agree. My other wishes go to don't turn the
24:07
Speaker 1: podcast off. But I'm not sure we needed the Clint
24:10
Speaker 1: and Lisa cameo, oh, I agree. I think it would
24:14
Speaker 1: have made now. It was cute. They were fun. I
24:17
Speaker 1: found Clint very charming in the way he was all
24:19
Speaker 1: in on their relationship. It was sweet, the way they
24:21
Speaker 1: talked to him. All that was fine. They did a
24:24
Speaker 1: great job. I'm just not sure that it was needed.
24:26
Speaker 1: And I think it also Rather than Sean a man
24:31
Speaker 1: who lives in the year twenty twenty six calling into
24:34
Speaker 1: a radio show, it was giving doctor Laura right, it
24:38
Speaker 1: was getting sleepless in Seattle a little bit. Why did
24:41
Speaker 1: he not just talk to his friend Brett played by
24:45
Speaker 1: Ronnie Road Junior. Why couldn't he have just said, man,
24:48
Speaker 1: this is why got going on. He could have just
24:50
Speaker 1: said ask her out, man, yeah, shoot your shot. That
24:53
Speaker 1: conversation seems so much more organic to me. And then
24:56
Speaker 1: they bring it back in like, oh, Clinton, Lisa sient, okay, whatever.
25:00
Speaker 1: You don't know where the flowers that your wedding came from? Yeah,
25:03
Speaker 1: where these flowers come from. Finally, this is also Clinton
25:07
Speaker 1: Lisa's shade, but it's not really I love this song.
25:10
Speaker 1: I said it earlier. Great song. The title does not
25:15
Speaker 1: relate to the title to the content of this movie
25:18
Speaker 1: at all. Oh tell me more. It has nothing to
25:20
Speaker 1: do with them getting married, true. I mean they get married.
25:24
Speaker 1: That's all what this movie's about. It's their commitment to
25:27
Speaker 1: each other. Sure, I suppose. I suppose great song, though
25:31
Speaker 1: let's talk. Did you see that? I really don't have
25:34
Speaker 1: one other than Grover was my favorite. Grover was great,
25:38
Speaker 1: although Grover does kind of disappear halfway through this movie,
25:40
Speaker 1: like there's no Grover for sixty percent of this movie.
25:44
Speaker 1: But when Grover's like standing over the area where she
25:46
Speaker 1: has fallen in, Grover's like, first of all, Growver is
25:49
Speaker 1: a girl, which is so funny. I love it. She's
25:51
Speaker 1: like whoof whoof Woofer? He's like, oh, is mama down there?
25:54
Speaker 1: You know? I was like, that was a dog lover.
25:56
Speaker 1: I was like, would my dog flipper it out for me?
26:00
Speaker 1: Like Lassie, tell somebody I'm here. Probably not hipper. My two,
26:05
Speaker 1: did you see that's our? The first rescue scene features
26:07
Speaker 1: a very prominent green scary when Sean goes to repel
26:11
Speaker 1: down to rescue the hikers that had fallen. And my
26:16
Speaker 1: second did you see that? Is simply a question. What's
26:18
Speaker 1: with Ali's mom and her little dog? Did you even notice? No? No,
26:22
Speaker 1: she carries a little purse dog around in her arms
26:24
Speaker 1: everywhere she go ever even realized, and that mom seems
26:28
Speaker 1: very like down to earth, like it was just funny.
26:31
Speaker 1: She's just always got this little dog in her arms. No,
26:33
Speaker 1: never moved. They didn't even like acknowledge the little dog.
26:36
Speaker 1: I don't remember little Chihuahua like dog. No idea. I'm
26:41
Speaker 1: going to ask you, huh, did you think it was
26:44
Speaker 1: when the girls, the daughter's prom date cancels on her
26:48
Speaker 1: and then Sean gets like the cadet or whatever to
26:52
Speaker 1: come take her to prom? Did you think that was weird?
26:55
Speaker 1: I mean yes, because he was kind of like older.
26:59
Speaker 1: It was he old. I know, he could be nineteen,
27:02
Speaker 1: I don't know, or in high school. Right, couldn't he
27:04
Speaker 1: be doing some sort of like I don't know? I thought, yeah,
27:07
Speaker 1: I thought it was weird. And also like, I don't
27:09
Speaker 1: want someone to like show up and pity date me
27:11
Speaker 1: to problem that I've never met before. They're like, thank
27:13
Speaker 1: you so much for doing this, thank you so much. Yeah,
27:16
Speaker 1: that would not make me feel good. Yeah, especially in
27:19
Speaker 1: this day and age, which I don't know if people know,
27:22
Speaker 1: but like, people can go to prom without dates. Lots
27:24
Speaker 1: of people do totally. They just go with a group
27:25
Speaker 1: of girlfriends. So, like, I get that it would be
27:29
Speaker 1: devastating to be a teenage girl and have your date
27:32
Speaker 1: bail on you. There are other options, I agree. Are
27:35
Speaker 1: you ready to rate this one? Yeah? What did you
27:37
Speaker 1: rate it? I gave it three stars? Oh? I give
27:40
Speaker 1: it three point seven five stars. Okay, you need more
27:43
Speaker 1: comedy or action or something. I need more murdery. When
27:49
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Lifetime, like I expect stolen babies or
27:53
Speaker 1: you know, stuff like that. Sure, don't babies? Huh? Are
27:58
Speaker 1: romances like do Lifetime? Does Lifetime make romance movies on
28:02
Speaker 1: the regular? I think so? I had no idea. I
28:07
Speaker 1: think so how it's like a ripped from the headlines
28:10
Speaker 1: kind of I think, sure, I think that's a lot
28:13
Speaker 1: of it. I think that's a lot of it. And
28:15
Speaker 1: that's why I was so excited. I was like, Oh,
28:16
Speaker 1: Sarah Drew doing something different. Nope, not really, but you
28:19
Speaker 1: know she's still great. She's still great. Wait were you
28:23
Speaker 1: going to have a comment on her dramatic moment? Oh
28:26
Speaker 1: I just didn't like it? Oh so over the top?
28:29
Speaker 1: I love it. I just love her. Okay, So I
28:32
Speaker 1: just clicked on a link for Lifetime upcoming movies. This
28:35
Speaker 1: is a weird IMDb list. It's not. Don't come for me.
28:38
Speaker 1: I don't even know when these are coming out, but
28:40
Speaker 1: this happens to be a list of ten upcoming movies.
28:43
Speaker 1: Some of them have already come out. But the DNA Murders,
28:46
Speaker 1: Sorority Wars, Buried by My Husband, Deadly House Party, Nanny's
28:50
Speaker 1: Deadly Secret, Yeah a song to Quelle four, Deadly Crush
28:53
Speaker 1: is deadly arrangement, deadly therapist, and the perfect step mother.
28:58
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think you were right to expect a
28:59
Speaker 1: little little more murder in our Do you want to
29:03
Speaker 1: review one of those? There's gonna be a Hallmark listener
29:08
Speaker 1: who likes that stuff too, like I do for sure. Yeah,
29:11
Speaker 1: Well we'll find a murdery Lifetime movie to do next.
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