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Love on the Danube: Love Song · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey friends, we are back with it another OnCore episode
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  Speaker 1: of Girls Gone Hallmark. This time it's the Love on
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  Speaker 1: the Danube series of movies. These originally aired back in
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  Speaker 1: fall of twenty twenty four on Hallmark Plus and that's
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  Speaker 1: when we review them, but we are re airing our
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  Speaker 1: reviews in honor of their premiere on the Hallmark Channel.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy. This is a Bramble Jam podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark movie fan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Wendy and I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're discussing Love on the Danube love Song, which
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  Speaker 1: is exclusively streaming on Hallmark Plus. You can hang out
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  Speaker 2: talking about all things Hallmark and it's like at a
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  Speaker 2: fever pitch right now with all of the new content
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  Speaker 2: coming out from.
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark, and we suspect next week shit's gonna go wild.
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark Plus. Next week, I think I know what's coming.
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  Speaker 1: Christmas announcements. I think so too, if history holds. You
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  Speaker 1: email us Girls Gone Hallmark at gmail dot com. And
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  Speaker 1: we do have some feedback to share. Based on this
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  Speaker 1: week's review of Chicken Sister's Episode one, I erroneously stated
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  Speaker 1: that this was Wendy Maleck's first appearance on the Hallmark Channel.
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  Speaker 3: It is not.
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  Speaker 1: She appeared in the series Darrow and Darrow. She also
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  Speaker 1: appeared in The Father Christmas Series, which is a a
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  Speaker 1: series of movies that stars Nile Mater and Aaron Craco.
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  Speaker 1: She also appeared in a mystery called After All These Years,
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  Speaker 1: which was a standalone mystery. And we did receive multiple messages,
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  Speaker 1: probably more than we've ever received about any single piece
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  Speaker 1: of content. I am very curious about Darrow and Darrow.
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Williams Paisley.
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  Speaker 3: Stars in that.
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  Speaker 1: I might have to give it a try. It might
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  Speaker 1: be like to me, it's like Law and Order hallmarkified.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I like that. I like that genre. But when
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  Speaker 2: did that show air?
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  Speaker 1: Not since we've been recording, so it might be a
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  Speaker 1: little dated, sure, but so's the West wing and I
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  Speaker 1: watched that with their poorly fitted suits and their flip phones.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's start with a synopsis of Love on
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  Speaker 1: the Danube Love Sarn fellow cruise passenger Sarah and Jack
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  Speaker 1: play matchmaker with their music loving widowed parents as they
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  Speaker 1: cruise down the Danube visiting European cities. Stars nasnine Contractor
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  Speaker 1: and Wes Brown would like to point out that this
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  Speaker 1: is part of a collection. I can see where some
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  Speaker 1: of the connection is going to come in, but these
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  Speaker 1: are standalone stories with a shared setting. And I am
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  Speaker 1: so dead set in calling this a trilogy. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why I hadn't.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want to call it a trilogy?
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  Speaker 2: No, I had originally read from Hallmark source that called
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  Speaker 2: it a collection, and then they started calling it a trilogy.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason why I don't want to call it
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  Speaker 2: a trilogy is because these same lead actors do not
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  Speaker 2: appear in all the movies.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I hear you.
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  Speaker 1: We're not picking up where one story left off.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the wedding veil exactly.
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  Speaker 3: The groomsmen right right.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, whatever, they can call it whatever they want. That's
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  Speaker 2: my personal feeling on it.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, at the very least.
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  Speaker 1: It is a collection they are exclusively streaming on Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: Plus and the additional movies will continue to drop over
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  Speaker 1: the next two weeks. So let's jump into news and notes.
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  Speaker 1: Terry Ingram directed Love on the Danube Love Song. He
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  Speaker 1: has an impressive ninety four directing credits to his name
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  Speaker 1: and is well known for Hallmark hits like Winter and Veil,
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  Speaker 1: The Wedding Cottage, four of the six Wedding Veil movies,
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  Speaker 1: and the fan favorite Three Wise Men and a Baby.
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  Speaker 1: Ingram is also set to direct the highly anticipated sequel,
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  Speaker 1: Three Wiser Men and a Boy.
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  Speaker 2: The story is by Agnes Bristow and she teamed up
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  Speaker 2: with writer Andrea Canning to write the teleplay. Agnes Bristow
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  Speaker 2: is both a writer and busy producer. This is her
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  Speaker 2: sixth writing credit and has three movies in the works,
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  Speaker 2: including the next two Love on the Danube movies, as
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  Speaker 2: well as the upcoming The Chris Smiths Chocolate Tier starring
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  Speaker 2: her daughter Brittany Bristow and rumored co star Will Kemp.
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  Speaker 2: Andrea Canning's resume has a healthy mix of romance and
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  Speaker 2: drama for Hallmarks. She has written a merry Scottish Christmas,
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  Speaker 2: A Paris Proposal, and South Beach Love. This film marks
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  Speaker 2: her twenty fourth writing credit, and her twenty fifth and
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  Speaker 2: twenty six will be the next installments in the Danube series.
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  Speaker 1: Nasney and Contractor plays Sarah. She has an impressive fifty
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  Speaker 1: nine acting credits, including roles in Children, Ruin Everything, Charmed,
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  Speaker 1: and Freak Angels for Howmark. She co starred with Brennan
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  Speaker 1: Elliott in The Perfect Pairing in twenty twenty two, and
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  Speaker 1: is set to appear on the upcoming holidays. According to IMDb,
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  Speaker 1: Nosny will also appear in the four new The Love
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  Speaker 1: Club movies, set to premiere in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: Also, while I was doing news and notes today, I
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  Speaker 2: was picked up information from the official Hallmark press site. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and they spelled miss Contractor's name incorrectly. Like really, you
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  Speaker 2: gotta have somebody look over your press releases. Wes Brown
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  Speaker 2: plays Jack, and though he's a familiar face on Hallmark,
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  Speaker 2: I think we'd like to see him in some more movies.
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  Speaker 2: In twenty twenty three, he was seen in a cameo
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  Speaker 2: role in a Biltmore Christmas, as well as his reprised
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  Speaker 2: role as Jared in Haul Out the Holly Lit Up.
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  Speaker 2: This fall, Wes will team up with Aaron K. Hill
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  Speaker 2: and Autumn at Apple Hill, premiering on October fifth.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Wes is a real wowie zowie to me,
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  Speaker 1: and I think the first, maybe some of the only
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  Speaker 1: movies I've seen him in in a starring role were
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  Speaker 1: those Haul Out of the Holly movies where.
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  Speaker 3: He was so good.
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  Speaker 1: And I think one of the issues is that he
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  Speaker 1: definitely suffers from the yearbook photoification of Hallmark stars in
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  Speaker 1: his movie posters and they just do not do the
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  Speaker 1: man justice. Oh No, I think he's super hot. Pamela
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  Speaker 1: Sinha plays Mom Julia. This is Pamela's first project for Hallmark,
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  Speaker 1: though she is known for television appearances on Er, The Newsroom,
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  Speaker 1: Why the Last Man Man That is a two for
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  Speaker 1: this Week I Know, as well as starred in a
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty movie titled Happy Plays, which was an adaptation
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  Speaker 1: of a theatrical play that she wrote.
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  Speaker 2: David sam Martan plays Andre. This movie marks his tenth
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  Speaker 2: acting credit and first Hallmark project. He has also appeared
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  Speaker 2: in nearly thirty commercials from brands like BMW, Jersey, Mike's,
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  Speaker 2: and Home Depot, just to name a few. David is
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  Speaker 2: also an accomplished jazz saxophone player. Catherine Disher plays fellow
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  Speaker 2: cruiser Betty. Catherine is an award winning actor and voice
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  Speaker 2: actor with one hundred and thirty seven acting credits. Goodwitch
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  Speaker 2: fans may recognize her as she appeared in seventy six episodes,
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  Speaker 2: as well as movies like The Goodwitch's Mother and The
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  Speaker 2: Goodwitch's Destiny. She will reprise the role of Betty in
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  Speaker 2: the next two Danube movies and is tapped to play
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  Speaker 2: Maya in The Christmas Chocolateer this holiday season. Catherine Jerisdell
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  Speaker 2: plays Teddy, the Cruz director. She's probably best known for
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  Speaker 2: her role as Genevieve Delacroix on the Netflix series Bridgerton.
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  Speaker 2: She also played Megan Markle in eleven episodes of the
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  Speaker 2: series The Windsors. We will see Catherine reprise her role
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  Speaker 2: as Teddy in the next two Danube movies. Mark Holden
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  Speaker 2: plays the Captain. He has one hundred four acting credits,
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  Speaker 2: including movies like Final Destination and World War Z.
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  Speaker 1: He will also return in the next two Danube movies.
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  Speaker 2: Love on the Danube Love Song was filmed primarily in Budapest, Hungary.
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  Speaker 2: Back in November twenty twenty three. According to these cinemahallic
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  Speaker 2: dot com, for the first time in history, film crews
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  Speaker 2: were allowed to shoot inside the historic fourteenth century Saint
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  Speaker 2: Matthias Church. They also shot during night hours at the
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  Speaker 2: Gaillards Bath in Budapest.
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  Speaker 1: Fun fact, Hallmark Jenny, also known as Hallmark's Chief Fan Officer,
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  Speaker 1: had a cameo in the Vienna National Library reading room
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  Speaker 1: scene of this movie.
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  Speaker 3: She and her mom were.
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  Speaker 1: Guests of Hallmark and got to play an extra in
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  Speaker 1: all three movies.
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  Speaker 3: That's fun, I know.
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  Speaker 2: I messaged her, I was like, you got to go
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  Speaker 2: to Budapest. So she's like yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, that's really freaking cool. What was your
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  Speaker 1: first impression of love on the Danube Love Song?
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  Speaker 2: Well, as a child of the seventies and eighties, I'm
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  Speaker 2: into this love boat vibe.
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  Speaker 1: H oh. My first impression is I was really hoping
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  Speaker 1: we would get Will Will. I was really hoping we
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  Speaker 1: would get Wes Brown singing in this movie. It was
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  Speaker 1: a real bait and switch moment for me. What a miss?
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  Speaker 3: What a miss?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? So if listeners don't know Wes Brown has a
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  Speaker 2: country Christmas album, is that right? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Is it country he has like I think it's his
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  Speaker 1: Christmas album to me is more like my Michael Bouble adjacent.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, hold on, oh here he is twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: My kind of Christmas. It is not country, guys. It's
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  Speaker 2: like a sexy crooner in a textedo. Can I play
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  Speaker 2: a little snippet of it?
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  Speaker 3: Legally?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but who would know? Let's say, all right, I won't.
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  Speaker 2: I got the music police on me. Will it the
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  Speaker 2: link to his latest holiday album in our show notes?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Man, this is something I want to throw on and
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  Speaker 2: decorate the tree and make cookies too.
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  Speaker 1: It's also linked in our Love on the Danube collection
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  Speaker 1: post on Girls Got Hollwark dot com And all right,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk what we liked about Love on the Danube
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  Speaker 1: love song.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you didn't like this?
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, you're wrong?
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  Speaker 3: Can I tell you something?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: My first impression prior to watching these movies, like just
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  Speaker 1: the announcement of them, I had zero interest in what
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  Speaker 1: there was like nothing about it. I was like, hmm,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, that is how I felt. I
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  Speaker 1: was not excited. I thought these are like throwaway filler,
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  Speaker 1: bulk up the streamer movies Okay, I feel bad saying
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  Speaker 1: that because in the last few days we've gotten more
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  Speaker 1: eyes on our content from like Hallmark officials. But stick
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  Speaker 1: around for what I'm about to say, because my feeling
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  Speaker 1: after having watched this is that this is a very
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  Speaker 1: solid movie, super enjoyable to watch.
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  Speaker 3: Like all around.
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  Speaker 1: I was a huge fan of Wes and nas nine.
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  Speaker 1: Wes has some like when he's a brush and dust
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  Speaker 1: off her face when they're down in the Oh my god, underground.
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  Speaker 1: It just that these movies were really solid, obviously stunningly
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  Speaker 1: beautiful because they were shot out location. Total pleasant watches.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they're doing anything super special here, Like
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  Speaker 1: there's not like, oh my gosh, look at that amazing
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  Speaker 1: swing Hallmark took with these movies. But I think this
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  Speaker 1: is what Hallmark does really well.
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  Speaker 2: I agree. I didn't think I would be into this
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  Speaker 2: movie as much as I was. Now in retrospect, now
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  Speaker 2: that Hallmark Plus has launched and I have seen the
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  Speaker 2: first episode of The Chicken Sisters and I have watched
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: an episode of Celebrations with Lacy Shavert, I'm like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: I see you, Hallmark Plus, Like you're not just like
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  Speaker 2: throwing crap at the streamer to see you know what's
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  Speaker 2: gonna stick or a filler, like there is some solid
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  Speaker 2: content there. I think traditional Hallmark fans who only have
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  Speaker 2: cable TV or only getting the Homework channel are.
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  Speaker 3: Most other ways.
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  Speaker 2: They would love this movie and they're gonna have to
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  Speaker 2: wait for it to come to the Homework Channel. I
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  Speaker 2: think if I could share here a quick little story,
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  Speaker 2: my in laws go on these river cruises quite a bit. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: have been on this one to Budapest, and I never
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  Speaker 2: really like fully understood what they look like because in
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  Speaker 2: my mind, a cruise is a big cruise ship, right,
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  Speaker 2: even though I've never been on a cruise ship either,
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  Speaker 2: Like that's what my mind was. I was like, how
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  Speaker 2: is this big cruise ship on the river? I don't
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  Speaker 2: get it? But now now I see, and now I'm
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  Speaker 2: kind of into it. Now I kind of want to
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  Speaker 2: go on my own trip. Oh I want to do
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  Speaker 2: a river cruise so badly. They're really expensive, but I
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  Speaker 2: think it would be I think it would be a
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  Speaker 2: super cool way to see so many of these places.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm really curious how accurate it seems to me,
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  Speaker 2: Like when you're on a big cruise, it's like a
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  Speaker 2: big production to like pull into port get off.
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  Speaker 1: To me, this seems like so much easier, Like you
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  Speaker 1: just right in the middle of the city. They're just
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  Speaker 1: kind of hanging out there for the day and you
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  Speaker 1: get off to go for a run, you come back,
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  Speaker 1: you get off, go to dinner, come back. It just
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  Speaker 1: seems like a really cool way to see parts of Europe.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that there's other European river cruises, but
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  Speaker 1: I was like, would your husband sooner die than go
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  Speaker 1: on one of these?
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  Speaker 2: No, he totally would because he loves European history, so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: super into it. Like he would be shook if I said, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I think we should go on one of these river
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  Speaker 2: cruises next year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you need to be wait out my computer.
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  Speaker 2: Order it up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you need to wait two years.
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  Speaker 2: Why two years.
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  Speaker 3: Because I don't think your daughter wants to go.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, she doesn't want to go. Yeah, we'll just
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  Speaker 2: do the empty nest thing. Yes, we'll just turn into
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  Speaker 2: my in laws.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you're not.
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  Speaker 1: Behold into the school schedule.
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  Speaker 2: What I was also wondering too, is like how much access,
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  Speaker 2: Like how often can you get on and off this
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  Speaker 2: boat and go do these things? Like if we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: go shopping, or we're gonna go see a show, or
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna go out to dinner, or just walk around,
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  Speaker 2: Like can you just hop on and off while it's
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  Speaker 2: docked there?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you definitely can hop on and off. It's
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  Speaker 1: just a matter of like how long are they spending
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  Speaker 1: in these places because the cities are relatively close together,
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  Speaker 1: so it's like, you know, when you're on a cruise,
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  Speaker 1: they'll tell you like we're docking at eight and you
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  Speaker 1: need to be back on board by five, or we're
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  Speaker 1: leaving without you. I'm sure it's very similar and you
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  Speaker 1: can come and go as you please, but just based
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  Speaker 1: on like the sizes of these ships, it's just so
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  Speaker 1: much easier to just walk on and off throughout the day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, with all that said, I am excited for
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  Speaker 2: this collection or trilogy of movies because when you have
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  Speaker 2: like the Creuse or the boat being the central spot
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  Speaker 2: with a rotating door of Hallmark actors, it's kind of brilliant.
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  Speaker 3: No Oh, I think it's so cool.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know if you've read the synopsis for
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  Speaker 1: the upcoming but one of them is like a rom
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  Speaker 1: com Stars cruise.
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  Speaker 2: I was like money.
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  Speaker 1: Are they just riffing on the Hallmark.
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  Speaker 3: Cruise coming up?
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  Speaker 1: So I like that they've taken like a couple different
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  Speaker 1: ideas here. I think it's super smart to like set
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: the settings, set some of the main characters, keep Katherine
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  Speaker 1: Disher coming for three movies. I actually really loved Katherine Disher.
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  Speaker 1: She's a familiar face. I watched many seasons of The
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  Speaker 1: Good Witch with my daughter where she plays the mayor
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  Speaker 1: in that show. I just really enjoyed her and I
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  Speaker 1: loved her. I'm a cruise person, so I've been on
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  Speaker 1: a lot of cruises and there's always people like this.
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  Speaker 3: Who you know.
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  Speaker 1: In her case, she was basically living on this ship.
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  Speaker 1: On our last cruise, there was a woman She's like,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even bring my husband this time. I just
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  Speaker 1: came by myself and she made friends with everybody, and
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  Speaker 1: if someone was having a birthday at the pool, she's
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  Speaker 1: like buying them drinks.
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  Speaker 3: And she knew everybody that.
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  Speaker 1: Was in our little area where we were hanging out
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  Speaker 1: the whole time. And a cruise person can really relate
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  Speaker 1: to the Betty Stevenson character. And I think she like
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  Speaker 1: just kind of popped in to offer some nice little
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  Speaker 1: wisdom every now and then.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought it was good. I liked it. You
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  Speaker 2: know what too, I think there's a lot to play
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  Speaker 2: with hair, Like you could do romance, you can do mystery,
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  Speaker 2: even mystery. They don't even have to keep it in
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  Speaker 2: the like somebody falls in love every single time.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, with different directors.
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  Speaker 2: It just could be. There's so much possibility here. What
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  Speaker 2: else did you like?
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  Speaker 1: Julia kind of felt like her career was never fully realized,
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  Speaker 1: and Sarah feels like it was her fault, like she
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  Speaker 1: held her mom back, and I loved the moment where
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  Speaker 1: her mom was like, no, no, no, You're the best.
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  Speaker 3: Thing I ever did.
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  Speaker 1: I would never take any of that back. And I
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  Speaker 1: was singing the same thing, like my life is different
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  Speaker 1: because I had children, and my career trajectory is different
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  Speaker 1: because I had children.
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  Speaker 3: But I would never trade I don't. There's no blame.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not like, oh, wish I didn't have these.
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  Speaker 1: Dumb kids to get in the way, Like kids ruin everything.
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  Speaker 1: I just I realized it's coming from a place of
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: like I'm going to spend the next twelve months crying
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: because one of my children is leaving the nest. But
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I thought it was a nice moment for Sarah to
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: get to have with her mom where she was able
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: to let go of the little bit of guilt she
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: was feeling that maybe mom didn't have the career she
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: felt she deserved.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that feels bad, Like I didn't want how sad
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: that she she like shouldered that forever and thought it
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: was her fault. You know, Yeah, I doubt our kids
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: think that.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: No, our children are teenagers, so I don't think they
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: have that level of self awareness.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: No, but another twenty years at least.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, at least.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: I love the whole switcheroo, the reverse parent trap. Yeah,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I love that they like mentioned that twice. I thought
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: it was very funny. I liked that they did it
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: to Sarah and Jack. Obviously Sarah and Jack had a
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: lot in common, but they were most concerned with, you know,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: hooking their parents up then seeking out love themselves. I
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: like the way that this story was handled in terms
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: of like, hey, we want to set our parents up,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: but oh, look at us, we have a lot in
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: common too, And then the parents were really like, we're
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: not in that place yet, so let's turn our focus
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: back on you guys.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: It was clever I enjoyed it, and I really liked
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: that they just allow the parents to just end at like, hey,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: we made a friend, we made a connection, we had
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: a good time, yus.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I mean that's what you want. I mean if I
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: was in this scenario, I I my parent was alone,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: I would want them to meet people. I wouldn't necessarily
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: be like, oh, here's your next spouse, right, I would
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: be like, let's meet some people, make some friends and friends. Yeah,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: you want them to have a full life as well.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: So I love that. Like Sarah and Jack, there was
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: like no hygiinks with it. It just was like, okay,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: like that's it, you know. Yeah.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I love Jack slim when he's talking about his dad
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: and he's like she wants them to go to the
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: bats and he's like his idea of relaxing is floating
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: down the river with a koozie.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Loved it. Yeah, I thought that was good too. Speaking
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: of Jack and his dad, I cried during the scene
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: in the library when they present him. Yeah, I mean
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I felt like it was a little bit contribed, but
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: the moment that Jack and his dad have after the
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: gift has been presented to him, like he's like, thank you, son,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I love you son or whatever. I just was like, oh,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I thought it was quite touching. And I have a
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: couple more things. I figured we'd have this big moment
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: at the end when Julia the mom steps into the
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: spotlight right center slag. But for me, the scene I
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: loved is when she sings that duet with Betty and
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Sarah's playing the piano. I just thought it was so good.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: It was so entertaining. Yeah, and damn can she sing.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: She can sing? And Betty too. The actress dep is Betty.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: I can't remember her name off hannd you just said
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: it Caine, No, No, Catherine Disher. Yeah, she can sing too.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was fun.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I just thought that was super fun. I wish there
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: was more people around who have like enjoyed it. It
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: feels like they were in some like back haul on
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: the cruise ship playing this piano and singing.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: But I needed a few more background actors to fill
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: out how full the ship would have actually been.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Right, I agree too. One final thing I really liked,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: and you kind of mentioned it earlier, But the site
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: we have talked about this over the years when we
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: review movies, is like, we don't want the destination to overtake.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Like the story of the movie, I thought the scenes
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: from Hungary were beautiful, and yeah, I just I enjoyed
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: that we had this like European non royal destination. Yes, yes,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: you know. Plus it's the homeland of my dogs, so
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: I would love to go there.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Somebody, well, hey, yes, these shows are Hungarian.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: They are.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: That's very interesting. Let's talk wishes. Okay, I first of
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: all have a confession to make, and that it's a
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: head to look up a map to see where the
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Danube River runs. Okay, didn't know that. Second, I'm going
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: to be annoying, and I'm just gonna say, like it's
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: it's okay. If you value your career more than having
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: a family, that's a fine choice to make too. I
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: was kind of annoyed with a couple things with that
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: part of the story, with her working too much and
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: like her mom being annoyed that, like Sarah was on
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: her phone and she was like, can you put that away?
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: My hang up on it is that, Like, well, obviously.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Her work was important and even though she's on a vacation,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: sometimes you have to do what you have to do.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: But also she was on a vacation, so I feel like.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I know, I feel really torn about that. I don't
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: know if you've seen like sometimes in the Facebook group
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: for the Hallmark crews, people are like, oh, how's the WiFi.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Other people are like, don't use Wi Fi. Disconnect for
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: a week, and it's like okay.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: People have like.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Different things that are important and different reasons they might
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: want to have access to Wi Fi. I think, if
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: you're on vacation with your mom, like yes, making an
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: effort to focus on that, but the trip was more
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: like her mom was going to do this job and
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: this was when the time was, and so she went,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: but she still had to work during that time, et cetera. Anyway,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: we're in the weeds. I wish that Julia had some
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: more confidence in that shopping scene. She references more than
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: once about that outfit being for someone younger, and I
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: thought she was incredibly chic, like a woman who has
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: who can like rock that heavy eyeliner like she does.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: She can pull off knee high boots and a skirt
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: and you know, yes, I.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Was like, why are we? Why are we? You're telling
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: us that she is not confident when she clearly looks
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: confident to me. No, she had spent her entire career
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: on stage, but she was so afraid to like move
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: into center stage. And I just that doesn't I mean,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: I've never been an actor or anything like that, So
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know if there's where the two things can exist,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: being like comfortable on stage but not but not the lead.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. I can't speak to that either. I
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: don't know either.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: But obviously she was incredibly talented, and maybe just from
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: years and years of being in the ensemble, she had
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: convinced herself like that's where I'm belong Well, speaking of ensemble,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: they said in this movie, and it was so grating
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: to me, they said, oh, she was just in the
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: chorus at least three times.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Take just out of it first of all, and stop dismissing.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Like the roles that she played. Go see a musical
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: without the chorus. It's pretty freaking boring. Like go see
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Hamilton without all of those background actors, like making those
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: dances what they are, isn't the same show.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: I have one more wish. I wish there was more
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: stuff on the boat. I know they did a lot
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: of stuff like in the city, but to me, there
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: wasn't an enough stuff on the boat.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lounge, a bar, restaurant, yeah, exactly, one of
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: them like doing trivia and bingo, playing the slot machines.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, me too. I have so many did you
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: see that?
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Do you? I only have two? Well, go ahead, okay.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: The first one, did you see the room that Sarah
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: and Julia shared?
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, there's no way, there's no that's like the size
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: of the captain's quarters. I was honestly thinking, like, do
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: not get excited, Wendy, because our rooms are going to
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: be the size of their bathroom.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: I was like, this is not a real room. This
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: looks like a penthouse.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Sweet yes, Carlton hare, yeah, not on a boat.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: The second thing was shout out Emerald Cruises, Like, okay,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: we see that that's the cruise line that they were on.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: So I only knew the one that they Viking.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Did they take Viking?
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: They took Viking? Yeah, Emerald apparently so cool?
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Put on them? What did you do?
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: All? Right?
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: First of all, there's a scene where West and nasnine
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: are out on the outer rim of the ship and
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: they're like cruising down the river. It's obviously green screen
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: on the boat exterior, but at one point they pass
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: underneath the bridge and the lighting doesn't even change in
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: that moment. It's just like they're still perfectly lit, and
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: it was just noticeable.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Did you guys touch the strudal reference?
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: The apple strudel reference deserves out? And how she would
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: make it for her husband when he was alive.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I just can't see a movie where they say the
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: word strudel eight times in a span of ninety seconds
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: without thinking of our winter in veil brutal fast.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Well, you know who did winter and veil? Terry Ingram the.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Dry nice Paul. Okay, Next, you've heard people say like,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: my Roman Empire is blank? Right, yes, I thank you
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: for bringing that up. I had forgotten about that. So, like,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know when this happened. A year ago, maybe
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: someone came someone started talking about on the idea like
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: you know, men think about the Roman Empire at least
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: once a day, and it just became this thing. Women
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: were like asking their husbands like how often do you
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: think about the Roman Empire? And so many men were
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: like all the time. So then it became like, what's
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: your Roman Empire? What's the thing that you think about?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: And that's very much like an internet meme. Did you
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: know men think about the Roman Empire.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: And his response, of course he talks about the Roman Empire.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: It was hilarious and I think that it's really it
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: really shows like when this was written obviously, yeah, you
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: know it was filmed in November twenty twenty three.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: It was probably written.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Some time before that, but a pull from like pop
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: culture that was really big for.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: A minute, yes, and it has made its way into
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: the cultural conversation to the point now people without the
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: backstory all the time are posting like my Roman Empire
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: is like people still use that phrasing.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Finally, this is just going to be a me thing.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: However, if you are a fan of the movie Love Actually,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: there is a scene where Laura Lennie is hooking up
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: with the hottest guy you've ever seen and her brother
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: interrupts with the phone call and the first time she
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: answers the phone and it interrupts her moment, and then
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: he calls again and I cannot think of the character's name.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: He's just super hawk eye and glasses. It says, will
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: it change anything if you answer the phone? And she
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: says no, and she answers it anyway, And every time
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I see that movie, I want her to not pick
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: up the phone because you've been in love with this
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: guy for so long and he's here and he's naked,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: and it will not change anything. Now, flash forward to
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Love on the Daniebe Love song. Sarah and Jack are walking.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Her boss calls and Jack says, what's gonna help? And
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: if you don't answer, and she says, oh, she'll lock
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: me in a tower. And he goes, is that the
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: worst that could happen? And she's like, actually, that is
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: the worst that could happen.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna answer it.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: And I was like, Oh, this is the redemption Love
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Actually moment I've been waiting for my entire life.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: I notoriously don't like that movie. I know, if anybody
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: knows I'm a former Hallmark hater, probably can put two
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: and two together that Love Actually is not one of
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: my favorites. My point I was gonna make is I
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: hated that trope. You're gonna lose your job, Like I'm
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: over that trope. That's all. That's all I was gonna say.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Cool, what'd you rate this movie?
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I gave it three and a half stars, me too, precisely.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: All right, thank you for listening to this episode of
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Girls Gone Hallmark. I'll be back next week with so
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: many episodes y'all come back for all of that from us.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: We'll see you next time.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: Goodbye, bye.
• 31:08
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