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Listener Mailbag April #1 · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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Speaker 1: a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
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Speaker 1: Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. Today
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Speaker 1: They're back, Baby. We have our first official listener mailbag
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Speaker 1: episode post the Way Home, and y'all are the ones
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Speaker 1: who made this happen. So thank you so much for
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Speaker 1: your comments and emails letting us know your thoughts on
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Speaker 1: what's going on in the Hallmark world. And I want
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Speaker 1: to start it off strong because we received so many
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Speaker 1: comments from a variety of people after we discussed a
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Speaker 1: shirtless and Walker in The Reluctant Royal, and as I
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Speaker 1: was editing that clip, my mind was like, wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: we've seen shirtless people. Do we not recall shirtless Stephen?
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Speaker 1: Who's our I'll play that clip in a moment. But
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Speaker 1: to the many, many, many people who wrote in to
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Speaker 1: remind us that Andrew Walker himself was shirtless in a
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Speaker 1: recent movie in the opening of Three Wise Men and
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Speaker 1: a Baby, You're right. We knew that, and we knew
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Speaker 1: it so much that it ended up in our first
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Speaker 1: impressions of that episode, said in the countdown to Christmas
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Speaker 1: preview episode that this movie was a love letter to
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Speaker 1: Hallmark fans, and Hallmark confirmed that with their opening shot
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Speaker 1: of Andrew Walker shirtless. I mean that scene was so
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Speaker 1: funny from go was really funny, right, Oh yeah, I
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Speaker 1: know they know he's look at Yeah, I mean like
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Speaker 1: when he was doing his yoke opposes or whatever he
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Speaker 1: was doing. I'm like, the man is like forty two
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Speaker 1: years old. He looks hot, hotter than you know what.
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Speaker 1: And meanwhile, I am forty three and you know what
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Speaker 1: I did before recording this episode. I went to physical
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Speaker 1: therapy and when I came home and climbed the stairs
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Speaker 1: so I could walk into my closet to record this
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Speaker 1: episode that we're recording remotely because our children are home
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Speaker 1: from school. My legs were like jello after forty minutes
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Speaker 1: of wait, need to get our lives together, dude, so good,
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Speaker 1: I have the number of Andrew Walker's trainer please. Oh
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Speaker 1: my god. First of all, I'm so embarrassed. That was
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Speaker 1: for three wise men and a baby. Yeah. November third,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Oh boy, my apologies. Andrew Walker. Well,
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Speaker 1: we watch a lot of movies, so I can't remember
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Speaker 1: what are you apologizing for objectifying him that I forgot
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Speaker 1: that he was shirtless. Oh sure, shirt sure. I just
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Speaker 1: feel like I need to call us out a little bit. Sure,
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Speaker 1: let me play the clip of when Stephen Who's r
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Speaker 1: himself was shirtless in Jane Mysteries Too Much to Lose.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, it's me who should be afraid this time.
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Speaker 1: What was your first impression of too Much to Lose?
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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, but this is the weakest of the bunch. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I like your game show, Thank you. My first impression
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Speaker 1: is with Steve, who's our listening last week when we
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Speaker 1: said take your shirt up, listen. That as the only
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Speaker 1: highlight in this movie for me. Wow, this was the
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Speaker 1: what's the word? This was the cream of the crop
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Speaker 1: for me. I'm gonna call us out further because we
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Speaker 1: got another email from Melissa that says love your podcast
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Speaker 1: and look forward to it each week. In regards to
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Speaker 1: your comment about a shirtless Andrew Walker, Victor Webster was
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Speaker 1: shirtless in The Summer Villa when he dove into a
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Speaker 1: pool in France. That's the only other time I can
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Speaker 1: recall a shirtless character in a Hallmark movie. Take note, Melissa,
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Speaker 1: there are others apparently Are you ready for me to
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Speaker 1: point out that we knew that too? First impression? Is
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Speaker 1: this peak Victor Webster? Hod damn? Yeah? All I think
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Speaker 1: about is that pool scene. Sorry wo wowe sowie. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he looks great. Yeah, I'm so embarrassed. Not only did
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Speaker 1: we mention each and every one of those times in
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Speaker 1: an episode, it's in our first impression every single time. So,
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Speaker 1: oh my god. I think we know two things to
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Speaker 1: be true. One we are absolutely guilty of objectifying these
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Speaker 1: Hallmark actors, and two we have the memory of dish totally.
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Speaker 1: Can I go off script here a little bit? Oh sure?
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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about the Instagram story we
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Speaker 1: shared recently of a shirtless Luke McFarlane. Oh yeah, looking
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Speaker 1: fairy race. Yeah, figuring you might as well be on
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Speaker 1: brand here. He looks good. You cannot tell me. I agree.
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Speaker 1: That's not a pretty man. Have you watched the new show?
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Speaker 1: I have, and I really enjoyed it. It is so
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Speaker 1: good and it's fun to watch because you can tell
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Speaker 1: that he he's not just acting like a craftsman. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: like this is his passion. Yeah, so's he's like, look
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Speaker 1: at this cool toy I have. That's gonna engrave these
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Speaker 1: words into here. Yeah, I like it a lot. I
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Speaker 1: like it a lot. But we did receive a message
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Speaker 1: from a follower on our Instagram who was disappointed, not
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Speaker 1: at us, they were disappointed at Hallmark for that photo,
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Speaker 1: to which I replied, Hallmark didn't share this photo originally.
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Speaker 1: This wasn't from like the Hallmark brand. It was a
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Speaker 1: magazine cover featuring Luke MacFarlane, and Luke shared it and
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Speaker 1: I re shared that. The message went on and I'm
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Speaker 1: not going to get into the specifics about it, but
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Speaker 1: it was you can guess, Yeah, it was about I
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Speaker 1: don't think anybody listening who has listened to us for
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Speaker 1: more than one and a half minutes is surprised by
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Speaker 1: where we stand. But I think if you can guess
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Speaker 1: what this person's actual issue was, because it wasn't with
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Speaker 1: the fact that Luke McFarland was shirtless. As we've pointed out,
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Speaker 1: many Hallmark actors have been shirtless, and I kind of
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Speaker 1: don't imagine them sending these messages about and Andrew Walker
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Speaker 1: married to a lady with two kids. Yes, so just
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Speaker 1: read between the lines, man. I wish we had a
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Speaker 1: video podcast sometimes. Those are my thoughts on it. All right,
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Speaker 1: let's let's move on. We got an Instagram message from Era,
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Speaker 1: She writes, Okay, so I know this is the smallest detail,
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Speaker 1: but did anyone else notice that Noah's text to Alice
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Speaker 1: was in all caps? How rude? And given how their
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Speaker 1: relationship is already up in the air, that just seals
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Speaker 1: the deal that they should be over and done with
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Speaker 1: Team Max all the way. She's referring to the final
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Speaker 1: episode of The Way Home. Yeah, he's like, can we
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Speaker 1: get can we talk? Can we talk? Yeah? Did you
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Speaker 1: did you notice that? Ah? No, I did, And it
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Speaker 1: made me wonder because the only person I know the
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Speaker 1: people I know who texts in all caps other than
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Speaker 1: like my daughter when she's actually yelling something. Oh mg, mom, Yes,
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Speaker 1: an actual text I received as we were recording, to
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Speaker 1: which I pointed out, not a great way to send
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Speaker 1: a text when it's cool kid. Everything was fine, but
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Speaker 1: like my mother in lawt text like this, Oh interesting,
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Speaker 1: no punctuation, all caps. So I was like, Dido, who
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Speaker 1: in the props department was responsible for the creation of
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Speaker 1: this text? Yeah? And if there's actual intention behind it? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: And then I'm like, is Noah a time traveler? But
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Speaker 1: he would In my mind, I was like, is he
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Speaker 1: actually older? No? No, no, none of this makes any sense.
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Speaker 1: I noticed it too, and I also found it curious.
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Speaker 1: Wayne says, I'm so glad y'all are continuing these mailbag episodes,
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Speaker 1: largely because when I went through my sigin Sealed Delivered
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Speaker 1: Deep Dive and I was listening to your SSD review episodes,
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Speaker 1: I wish there was a way for me to talk
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Speaker 1: back in real time. So here's my quick view on SSD.
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Speaker 1: The Facebook group really came through with this suggestion. The
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Speaker 1: pilot reeled me in right away, but after going through
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Speaker 1: the episodes and experiencing the ups and downs, the Christmas
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Speaker 1: movie won me completely over and I was committed. I agree.
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Speaker 1: I was definitely team Wendy when it came to thinking
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Speaker 1: the pageant storyline for Rita was overdone, and I think
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Speaker 1: the whole series should have ended with the first wedding.
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Speaker 1: Don't want to spoil it. The latest movie was not
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Speaker 1: for me at all. It just felt off. What are
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Speaker 1: you two hoping for with To the Moon and Back,
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Speaker 1: especially if there's a chance it might be the last
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Speaker 1: of the SSD movies. Well, I would like to say
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Speaker 1: that Hallmark has announced an air date for Science Healed,
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Speaker 1: Delivered to the Moon and Back on Hallmark. There was
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Speaker 1: a weird kerfuffle in like the Hallmark community about this movie.
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Speaker 1: A trailer was leaked. It was not a Hallmark trailer.
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Speaker 1: It was an Australian network. Yeah, an Australian Yes, an
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Speaker 1: Australian network. And then Australia announced an air date for
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Speaker 1: this movie. And then I wonder if Hallmark felt like, well,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be out there, we got to put
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Speaker 1: it out there, or if Hallmark already had it on
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Speaker 1: the books, but it will be airing here in the
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Speaker 1: States on Hallmark Channel, which is different. Yeah, not Mystery
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Speaker 1: on April twenty sixth. Yeah. Well April is such a
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Speaker 1: like miss miss smash of movies these and they remember
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Speaker 1: we talked about it that The nineteenth, the week before
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Speaker 1: is the it's called it's the Aaron Khill movie. I
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Speaker 1: can't remember what it's called right now, but it's a
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Speaker 1: day Spring it's a day Spring like Easter movie. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And then there was nothing on the calendar after that. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I let me take a deep breath. I don't want
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Speaker 1: the postables to get mad at me, but me thinks
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Speaker 1: that homework's just slide in this movie, in here quietly,
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Speaker 1: let's get it out there and move on, and to
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Speaker 1: move on. And it makes me sad because if this
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Speaker 1: is truly the last movie, it needs a proper goodbye. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because in the past, when A Taylor's Three Letters came out,
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Speaker 1: they were doing Facebook Live Yeah with the cast, they
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Speaker 1: were really promoting the movie. What am I hoping for
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Speaker 1: with this movie if it is to be the last,
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Speaker 1: I think we can. I think what we know for
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Speaker 1: sure that is, even if we're going to get more signed, sealed, delivered,
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Speaker 1: it's not going to be soon. I don't think anything's
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Speaker 1: currently being worked on, and so I would like a
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Speaker 1: fair amount of resolution. I don't want to feel like
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Speaker 1: our beloved Postables are floating out there with untied ends.
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Speaker 1: Are there untied ends? Well, we're going into this with
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Speaker 1: a lot of questions about there was a I believe
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Speaker 1: a foster situation or an adoption situation, and Shane's pregnant,
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Speaker 1: so we have some unknown things about babies and what's
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Speaker 1: going to happen there. And I just i'd like to
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Speaker 1: I'd like them to all be in a good place. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: me too. I gotta tell you as much as I
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Speaker 1: love that series. What I love most about it, and
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Speaker 1: this is no secret, I freaking love the relationship between
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Speaker 1: christ and Booth and Crystal Low. I could like watch
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Speaker 1: a series with just them too. Yeah, give me like
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Speaker 1: a mystery not a mystery series, because I think they're
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Speaker 1: so like fun and likable, like they need something kind
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Speaker 1: of like funny. Maybe that would be fun. I would
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Speaker 1: love it. Yeah, I like that idea. This next email
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Speaker 1: comes from Teandra regarding Mystery Island. She writes, just my
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Speaker 1: two cents one yes, do watch Knives Out even if
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Speaker 1: you don't like it. I think it will give context
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Speaker 1: for this genre of movie. Did you watch it yet?
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Speaker 1: Not yet, but I will okay. Number two, murder is
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Speaker 1: the point of this genre. Think Agatha Christie novels or
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Speaker 1: murder she wrote where so many people die in Cabot Cove.
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Speaker 1: There's a conspiracy theory that Jessica Fletcher is a serial killer. Wow,
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Speaker 1: that would be wild? Would it is? Number three A
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Speaker 1: bit of convolution with lots of side characters and ancillery
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Speaker 1: secrets and red herrings is also the point to keep
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Speaker 1: you guessing until the end and finally then at the end,
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Speaker 1: a meety Daniel MA, did I say it right? Yes?
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Speaker 1: Or wrap up is used to answer all of the
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Speaker 1: questions raised throughout listening from Kansas Teandra thoughts on Mystery Island.
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Speaker 1: I just don't think it was one of the better
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Speaker 1: mystery movies. But I have stated time and time again
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Speaker 1: that I'm not the right critic for some of these
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Speaker 1: movies simply because I don't think I super enjoy the genre.
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Speaker 1: But what I was saying, and what she's referencing is
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Speaker 1: I was like, look, I need to figure out if
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Speaker 1: it's the genre that I don't like or this particular execution.
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Speaker 1: I'm watching a new show on Netflix called The Residence,
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Speaker 1: which is like a comedy murder mystery, which I'm enjoying
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Speaker 1: the hell out of. I like it. I think you might.
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Speaker 1: It's certainly worth giving it one episode. It's a murder
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Speaker 1: mystery set in the White House. But I am going
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Speaker 1: to watch Knives out. I need to figure out do
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Speaker 1: I like this sort of thing or is it just
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Speaker 1: not for me? It may just not be for me.
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Speaker 1: That being said, I don't think Mystery Island, regardless, was
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Speaker 1: the most well executed of mysteries well, and I don't
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Speaker 1: think we're too off on our opinion because I think
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Speaker 1: some of our podcasting counterparts felt the same way. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: let's take a good break and we'll come right back
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Speaker 1: with more listener messages. Yeah yeah. We have an email
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Speaker 1: from Alison regarding Royal movies, also a little bit of
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Speaker 1: Mystery Island talk. She says, I tried hard to watch
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Speaker 1: Mystery Island from the first movie, just couldn't get into
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Speaker 1: it and turned it off by the second commercial. Seem
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Speaker 1: like a bad eighties movie. Can't believe they made three. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we haven't seen the third movie yet. There's a third
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Speaker 1: Mystery Island that is already made. Yes, ma'am, oh, I
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Speaker 1: was not aware. Allison goes on to say, I'm hit
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Speaker 1: or miss with Royal movies, but Royalish was so cute,
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Speaker 1: a different spin on Royal movies. Thank you my daughter. No, no,
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Speaker 1: I still think of like Meghan's like her. I gave
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Speaker 1: it four stars. I think Yeah, my reaction reaction was
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Speaker 1: so funny. My daughter would have loved the Princess. I
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Speaker 1: loved the two leads and the daughter too. Three Royal
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Speaker 1: movies in a row was a bit much, though. Hoping
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Speaker 1: for some good Spring movies. If you haven't listened to
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Speaker 1: a Royalist review. The last like two minutes are pure chaos.
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Speaker 1: Where we're reading the movie, the dogs chime in. It's
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Speaker 1: really funny. We even got a YouTube comment about it,
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Speaker 1: like thanks for the silliness in this episode. I really
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Speaker 1: needed it, So give those a listen. Our next email
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Speaker 1: is from Francisco, and I can't tell you how happy
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Speaker 1: this makes me because I thought Francisco was just the
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Speaker 1: way home listener. Yeah, that we've looped him in, I'm
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Speaker 1: very excited. He writes. First, Windy, how are you holding
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Speaker 1: up with Royal Months? Lol? I didn't hate Royal Month,
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Speaker 1: and I know going into it, I was like, I
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Speaker 1: don't want to do it, y'all. There was a Reddit
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Speaker 1: comment about it. There, there was you shoot it to
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Speaker 1: me how people were like, I'm so tired of girls
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Speaker 1: gone Hallmark complaining about the Royal movies. That's right, I
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Speaker 1: try to be real anonymous over there on Reddit. Well,
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Speaker 1: they don't still don't know who you are, true, but
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Speaker 1: we see you. We saw your comments, and we're not
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Speaker 1: whining about the Royal movies. But I was leading into
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Speaker 1: it because I historically don't enjoy a Royal themed movie.
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Speaker 1: I don't like mystery. It's okay to have things that
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Speaker 1: we like. Spoiler we do have a royal movie in
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Speaker 1: the fan favorite lineup for April. Uh huh. I loved it.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what have you all done to Wendy?
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Speaker 1: What has happened? Okay, he writes, Okay. Even though I
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Speaker 1: am a fan of Andrew Walker, I was really there
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Speaker 1: for Emily de Raven. I am a fan of Lost
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Speaker 1: I just rewatched it last summer, and also a fan
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Speaker 1: of Once Upon a Time, but it was kind of
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Speaker 1: a letdown. I didn't think they had no chemistry, but
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Speaker 1: she seemed almost like a supporting character instead of a
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Speaker 1: co lead, and I didn't feel I was rooting for
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Speaker 1: them like in the movie Return to Office. That being said,
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Speaker 1: I felt the father son relationship was something I was
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Speaker 1: more interested in it ending successfully, and I liked its
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Speaker 1: gradual development. To wrap up the email, I thought you'd
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Speaker 1: mention this in your did you see that? Part? But
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Speaker 1: there was a scene at the end of the stables
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Speaker 1: where the Duke said to Johnny that some horse was
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Speaker 1: being given a cousin who'd fallen in love with an
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Speaker 1: American girl. Was that an Easter egg for a previous
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Speaker 1: Royal film and which one was that. I thought it
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Speaker 1: was a little interesting. Okay, so I'm guessing Francisco didn't
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Speaker 1: watch all three of these movies, correct, because that was
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Speaker 1: an Easter egg correct for Royal Ish. Yes, now, we
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Speaker 1: didn't mention this in Royalish, but I was a little
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Speaker 1: disappointed that Royalish did not include like it, there was
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Speaker 1: no follow through the first movie, the Royal we references
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Speaker 1: the next two, then the reluctant Royal references Royalish. They
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Speaker 1: reference the characters. Obviously, they're not referencing them as movies.
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Speaker 1: They're all tied together, and then nothing in Royalish. I
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Speaker 1: wanted something unless we missed it, but I don't think
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Speaker 1: there was any mentions this. Yeah, it's something that you
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Speaker 1: would wanted though, Yeah, tie together, but like, how give
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Speaker 1: me your pitch? I mean, I don't know. They're at
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Speaker 1: the end they're talking to is she gets her horse,
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Speaker 1: and she's like, oh wait, she gets the horse. Maybe
18:51
Speaker 1: they do mention it when she gets the horse that's
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Speaker 1: from the Duke of such and such. Maybe they do.
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Speaker 1: I I felt like it was less obvious in that moment.
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Speaker 1: I don't remember you know that, do you remember the
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Speaker 1: final scene where she gets the horse like they were like.
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Speaker 1: She was like, but Rose has a horse and he
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Speaker 1: was like, that's yours. Yeah, so maybe they do tie
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Speaker 1: it all together. But yes, that's the reference from the
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Speaker 1: Reluctant Royal Francisco. So we had an email from cl
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Speaker 1: about who Claire could be and theyreking about the way home. Yes, okay,
19:31
Speaker 1: I mean the season is over gone and forgotten. I know,
19:35
Speaker 1: I know. The first email in regards to who the
19:38
Speaker 1: identity of Claire could be on the way home says,
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Speaker 1: maybe Casey is Nick and Claire's daughter from the future.
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Speaker 1: We don't yet know how Claire fits in, but she
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Speaker 1: could be a Landry, maybe Colton's brother's child. So then
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Speaker 1: I responded, interesting thought, but either Nick or Claire would
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Speaker 1: need to be a Lander for that to fit. So
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Speaker 1: who's Claire the child of Colton's long lost brother? And
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Speaker 1: then cl responded The theory is Claire is Colton's brother's child.
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Speaker 1: She likely does not even know her connection to the
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Speaker 1: town at this point. At some point in the future,
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Speaker 1: Nick and Claire moved to Port Haven. Claire and her
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Speaker 1: future child, Casey, both with Landry blood, would then have
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Speaker 1: access to the pond. If I was writing the show,
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Speaker 1: this is Cel saying this. That is how I would
20:27
Speaker 1: have it all connect. Cel's a showrunner. I'm telling you,
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you. They're listening. So I found that to
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Speaker 1: be an interesting theory, and when we hadn't heard before,
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Speaker 1: which is why I thought it was important to include
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Speaker 1: it here, even though we are kind of like, you know,
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Speaker 1: wrapping up The Way Home. Yeah, but I think it's
20:47
Speaker 1: fun to still talk about theories because now I think
20:50
Speaker 1: everybody's doing probably like the real big fans are doing
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Speaker 1: like a full season rewatch again, trying to pick up
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Speaker 1: all the little clues along the way, and then they're
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Speaker 1: still the theories are still working overtime in their minds.
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Speaker 1: So I love to hear them continue to email us. Yes,
21:09
Speaker 1: there are a couple more the Way Home thoughts coming up.
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Speaker 1: And the next email is from Eric about Sam case
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Speaker 1: to Jacob Alice Parallel that we talked about this in
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Speaker 1: in the final mail backup. Yeah that's right, Eric, rights,
21:26
Speaker 1: my ladies thought to help continue the mail bag with
21:29
Speaker 1: the thought on the problem with the Sam case to
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Speaker 1: Elliott Alice Parallel. When Elliott took the phone call from
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Speaker 1: Kat in the first season, it was from it was
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Speaker 1: Alice that was missing. But when Sam took the phone
21:42
Speaker 1: call from Dell in the last episode, it was not
21:45
Speaker 1: Case that Dell was worried about. It was Jacob. Yeah,
21:51
Speaker 1: they're just pointing out it's not a perfect parallel, right,
21:53
Speaker 1: like right, which correct, it's not he does right, So
21:57
Speaker 1: the parallel isn't quite parallel, at least not in this
21:59
Speaker 1: in of course, there are other well discussed hints that
22:03
Speaker 1: Sam and Casey are connected. Who knows, maybe the parallel
22:07
Speaker 1: will end up being Elliott slash Alice to Sam slash Jacob. Also,
22:13
Speaker 1: my wife came up with a term for traveling back
22:16
Speaker 1: in time in non chronological order, as Alice did episodes ago. Backstitching.
22:24
Speaker 1: Apparently this is something that's done in knitting. Question mark
22:27
Speaker 1: might be a good term to use. Love the show,
22:32
Speaker 1: Eric and nowel in Iowa. Oh, this is my friend
22:35
Speaker 1: Eric in Iowa. Hi, go hawks backstitching. I do like
22:41
Speaker 1: that because that's what that felt like. I was like,
22:44
Speaker 1: Reryan Rewrye, you remember, Like that's literally like felt like
22:48
Speaker 1: how my brain was going. Do you have any thoughts
22:50
Speaker 1: on the Sam Casey connection and how it might play out?
22:57
Speaker 1: I don't there is a connection. I don't know what
23:00
Speaker 1: it is. I my gut tells me there's some Sam
23:04
Speaker 1: Jacob connection. I just find it odd that Jacob would
23:08
Speaker 1: be around Sam so much in this season and never
23:11
Speaker 1: say something to anybody, Given the amount of time they've
23:14
Speaker 1: spent hashing out all of their relationships and who knows
23:17
Speaker 1: who from when, that seems odd to me that Jacob
23:21
Speaker 1: never would have brought it out and I'd be like, Yo, Mom,
23:24
Speaker 1: I know Sam from that seems your XX. Yeah. So
23:30
Speaker 1: that that is my one little bump in that scene
23:34
Speaker 1: that I can't make it make sense. I can tell
23:37
Speaker 1: you what I need in season four is way more Casey.
23:42
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I need a full blown story arc ten
23:45
Speaker 1: episodes long. Yeah. We need Casey to be strongly involved
23:49
Speaker 1: in season four. I need to understand more about them,
23:51
Speaker 1: what their connection is to all of these people, what
23:53
Speaker 1: are they doing, why are they back in time? I
23:55
Speaker 1: need to know all of it. Yeah, me too. I
23:58
Speaker 1: gotta tell you I just saw on Facebook today in
24:02
Speaker 1: one of the big The Way Home face book groups.
24:07
Speaker 1: It was a picture. It was remember we talked about
24:10
Speaker 1: in that final episode where it looks like Casey's getting
24:14
Speaker 1: the baby off the Banks, and because it's only like
24:17
Speaker 1: a shot of their hair and we're like, oh, that
24:21
Speaker 1: looks like Casey's hair. Well, this person in the Facebook group,
24:25
Speaker 1: not our facebook group, showed another picture from Cat. I
24:29
Speaker 1: don't even know what seasons it's from. The jacket is similar,
24:33
Speaker 1: and I was like, Oh, I can't have it being
24:36
Speaker 1: Cat picking up this baby off the banks. I want
24:39
Speaker 1: it to be Casey. Agree, I do too, Okay, I
24:42
Speaker 1: don't want Cat involved in that scene. No, we need cats.
24:45
Speaker 1: Cats done enough. I need Casey. I need Casey to
24:49
Speaker 1: be strongly involved in the actions were exploring in season four.
24:54
Speaker 1: Another message from Era, who said, thought i'd send some
24:57
Speaker 1: thoughts for a future mailbag episode on Royal Ish. I
25:01
Speaker 1: actually really loved this movie. Other than Hallmark, my other
25:04
Speaker 1: big interest is Disneyland and theme parks. I actually listened
25:07
Speaker 1: to a lot of theme park podcasts and follow a
25:10
Speaker 1: lot of theme park influencers. So seeing the meshing of
25:13
Speaker 1: my two loves was so heartwarming for me. Was it
25:16
Speaker 1: a super low budget version of Disneyland? Sure, but it
25:18
Speaker 1: was so charming. Plus, the actress who played Princess Rose
25:22
Speaker 1: really brings this movie together. She's really quite an impressive actor. Already.
25:26
Speaker 1: Plus her mom is in the Girl's Gone Hallmark group.
25:28
Speaker 1: How cool is that. The icing on the cake of
25:31
Speaker 1: this movie was when they danced to Once Upon a
25:33
Speaker 1: Dream and when he came back to surprise her at
25:35
Speaker 1: the end. Such a sweet moment and a wonderful song choice.
25:38
Speaker 1: Definitely all the feels for me. You know how I
25:42
Speaker 1: feel about Disneyland, So okay, actually that's not true, Wendy
25:49
Speaker 1: when it's also a former Disneyland hater, because do you
25:51
Speaker 1: remember when you had your Disneyland pass and you were like,
25:53
Speaker 1: I actually really like it here, and we went several
25:56
Speaker 1: times and we were all out on the merge. Yes,
25:59
Speaker 1: you're right. I enjoying moments of Disneyland is I don't
26:03
Speaker 1: get into the fairy princess stuff Like that's not for me.
26:07
Speaker 1: And I think that reins into like the royal stuff.
26:10
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I do. I
26:13
Speaker 1: like Disneyland. I like I like getting treats at Disneyland. Sure,
26:18
Speaker 1: I don't like watching like families who are supposed to
26:20
Speaker 1: be having the best time of their lives like screaming
26:22
Speaker 1: at each other because their freaking mind. Yeah that's not
26:25
Speaker 1: funny either, And I don't like the long lines. That's
26:29
Speaker 1: why when you have a pass and you can just
26:31
Speaker 1: go for like a couple of hours and not feel
26:33
Speaker 1: like you have to make the most of your time
26:36
Speaker 1: and get your money's worth all of that. Yes, yeah,
26:40
Speaker 1: those days of passes are long gone for me. It's
26:44
Speaker 1: too expensive. Mm hmm. Anyway, I know you love Disneyland.
26:49
Speaker 1: What's your favorite treat from Disneyland? A caramel apple? Really?
26:55
Speaker 1: I like a tiggertail. It's like marshmallow with the care
27:00
Speaker 1: and then chocolate on top. Camel apples are super messy,
27:03
Speaker 1: you know, because they have chocolate on them too, So
27:05
Speaker 1: I like them at home. I like to take it
27:07
Speaker 1: at home and enjoy it too. I also like the
27:10
Speaker 1: churro toffee. I hate churros, you know that. Yeah, but
27:14
Speaker 1: there's no actual churro. It's just a cinnamon sugar, white
27:18
Speaker 1: chocolate toffee. It's a delic Oh. I can get down
27:21
Speaker 1: with that. Yeah. There's no fried action. Yeah, and that's
27:24
Speaker 1: what I don't like is the fried part of it.
27:26
Speaker 1: It's like a toffee dipped in white chocolate with cinnamon
27:29
Speaker 1: sugar is delish. I also like a corn dog, as
27:33
Speaker 1: do I. Now, listen this isn't. I'm gonna share it here.
27:37
Speaker 1: I was recently in Denver. We went to a Denver
27:39
Speaker 1: Nuggets game and guess what they sold there? Corn dog nuggets.
27:43
Speaker 1: Pickle dog. That sounds amazing. So it's a pickle uh huh,
27:48
Speaker 1: hollowed out and then they put hot and then they
27:52
Speaker 1: depry that in the corn mill. I could get down
27:55
Speaker 1: with that. I hate the thing. It was a tad
27:57
Speaker 1: juicy for me, but it was delicious, and everybody around
28:01
Speaker 1: me watched horrified. Oh I wouldn't wou I would have
28:06
Speaker 1: been all in on that. My entire family was like,
28:08
Speaker 1: that's disgusting. I was like, you were wrong. It's very good.
28:12
Speaker 1: During the holidays at the Jolly Holiday Bakery sells a
28:16
Speaker 1: Thanks Miss sandwich, which is like a turkey cranberry stuffing
28:19
Speaker 1: situation that it's delicious as well. Yeah, lots of good stuff. Yeah.
28:25
Speaker 1: I just like to go eat there mm hmm, just
28:28
Speaker 1: walk around and look at stuff. I don't really care
28:30
Speaker 1: about anything else. I like the rides, but I don't
28:32
Speaker 1: love waiting in line either. Oh. The only ride I
28:34
Speaker 1: like is that one we played though, buzz Lightyear one. Yeah,
28:38
Speaker 1: that's the best. And if I'm wrong, You can email
28:42
Speaker 1: us at Girls Gone Homework at gmail dot com. Our
28:44
Speaker 1: last email is from Jean. We watched the first Hearts
28:49
Speaker 1: Around the Table movie this weekend and absolutely loved the
28:53
Speaker 1: concept for intertwined movies centered around a diverse and proud
28:57
Speaker 1: foster family are so timely, you meek and powerful. The
29:01
Speaker 1: scenes with Angie talking to her foster kids bade us
29:04
Speaker 1: tear up every time, and we can't wait to see
29:06
Speaker 1: the character of Rory continue to grow. Gotta say though,
29:10
Speaker 1: in the end, we were on team Billionaire Brady and
29:15
Speaker 1: then in parentheses, says Tom because it's Brady from the
29:18
Speaker 1: way Home playing Tom, Yes, rather than Andrew. Tom was
29:23
Speaker 1: carrying down to earth and interesting, while Andrew was just
29:26
Speaker 1: too brooding and exercising all the time. When Andrew was
29:31
Speaker 1: hanging around while Jenna talked to Rory after he ran away,
29:35
Speaker 1: we were yelling, let them have a private moment. Why
29:40
Speaker 1: did he have to hang out in that scene? I
29:42
Speaker 1: hope that Sherry gets a better romance next week now, Megan, Yes,
29:47
Speaker 1: I saw you up and the Girls Gone Home Homework
29:49
Speaker 1: Facebook group, Yes asking about this movie because we are
29:52
Speaker 1: not reviewing. Yes, because I saw some comments positive about
30:00
Speaker 1: the first Hearts around the Table movie. Now, we're not
30:02
Speaker 1: reviewing this as a reminder, we're not not reviewing it
30:06
Speaker 1: because of the movie. We decided ahead of time that
30:09
Speaker 1: April was going to be a fan favorite month for
30:12
Speaker 1: planning purposes to work around our own schedules. Then they
30:15
Speaker 1: announced these movies, so I was just going to just
30:19
Speaker 1: skip them and pretend that they never happened. But then
30:21
Speaker 1: I saw positive comments, so I said, Yo, do I
30:23
Speaker 1: need to watch them. The overall feeling was that they
30:26
Speaker 1: were better than people anticipated that they would be. A
30:30
Speaker 1: lot of people kept saying it was better than the
30:32
Speaker 1: Unwrapping Christmas. It was better than I thought it would be.
30:36
Speaker 1: I wasn't seeing a lot of people saying this is
30:38
Speaker 1: a must see, can't miss Hallmark movie. But I do
30:42
Speaker 1: think people were pleasantly surprised by these Well, I'm super
30:45
Speaker 1: into a story about foster families, yes, and movies with
30:52
Speaker 1: diverse characters. Yes, So I may have to put on
30:56
Speaker 1: my list to watch. Yes, I think I'll check them out.
31:00
Speaker 1: And that's a wrap on our first official mail bag post,
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Speaker 1: The Way Home. Once again, these episodes can only happen
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