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Finding Mr. Christmas Season 2, Episode 5 · 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. On
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Speaker 1: today's episode, we are discussing Find You Mister Christmas, Season two,
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Speaker 1: episode five, titled Christmas on main Street. Hey, if you're
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Speaker 1: It is a I mean Monday nights for us, it's
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Speaker 1: record this. Maybe we'll be up by the time this
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Speaker 1: episode drops. But I was thinking of you and like
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Speaker 1: profiling the guys. Let's do it. Let's do it. Maybe
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Speaker 1: Girls Gone Hallmark at gmail dot com say like, hey, Wendy,
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Speaker 1: I'd like to know more about Drake or whoever Angel Marcus.
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Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna do like a little deep dive
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Speaker 1: profile on the dudes. Give the people what they want
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Speaker 1: and start with Rustin. Fans aren't really into Rustin, aren't
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Speaker 1: they The real fan favorite. I'm not surprised. I think
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Speaker 1: I said that when I saw episode one, I was like,
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Speaker 1: he gives that Tyler Hines energy. Hmmm, and I think
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Speaker 1: I think fans enjoy that. I think you're right. Hey,
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Speaker 1: before we jump into our recap of Finding Mister Christmas
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Speaker 1: episode five, can I mention email we got from listener
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Speaker 1: Laura please do. She emailed us she's a new listener
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Speaker 1: of the podcast. Thank you, and since it's an email
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Speaker 1: and said, Hey, I thought you guys might want to
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Speaker 1: know this, but I am watching season four of Selling
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Speaker 1: the OC and who does she see in episode six
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Speaker 1: at the thirty minute mark, a shirtless Angel. Now you
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Speaker 1: are Selling the OC watcher. Yes, I was watching it
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Speaker 1: that day. I was watching it that day and when
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Speaker 1: I saw this email, I was like, wait, hold up,
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Speaker 1: I was not even at home. I pull up Netflix
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Speaker 1: because Selling the OC is on Netflix. I pull it
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Speaker 1: up on my phone. I'm actually on the episode that
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Speaker 1: she's referencing, episode six, but I hadn't got to the
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Speaker 1: thirty minute mark yet, so I was like, scrubbed it
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Speaker 1: a little bit. Sure enough, there he is. Now, what's
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Speaker 1: what's Angel doing in this episode? The agents from the
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Speaker 1: Real Estate group are at a dinner and they hire
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Speaker 1: like some shirtless waiters and he is one of the waiters.
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Speaker 1: Ah got it. Yeah, and he's in a lot of scenes.
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Speaker 1: The other guy don't know who he is, but definitely
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Speaker 1: Angel I was like, there he is. I can't believe
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Speaker 1: it it is. I hope he got paid for it.
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Speaker 1: Sure I did. I certainly hope. So I also would
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Speaker 1: like to follow up regarding Davy being a Hemsworth body double.
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Speaker 1: Oh okay, we did get intel that it is, in
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Speaker 1: fact true. It happened on a commercial, which is why
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Speaker 1: it's not on his IMDb, which I didn't know that
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Speaker 1: commercial work doesn't go on your IMDb. Someone did slide
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Speaker 1: into the DMS, someone who who knows things, and I
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Speaker 1: don't know if they want me to out them as
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Speaker 1: knowing things. So I'm not going to say who it is,
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Speaker 1: but someone connected enough with the show whose opinion I
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Speaker 1: trust got it.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 1: Let's kick off our discussion of the fifth episode of
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Speaker 1: My Name Mister Christmas with a synopsis. The Hunks roll
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Speaker 1: into giant plastic balls crashing through Christmas trees in a
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Speaker 1: wild festive face off, then with Hunter King as guest judge,
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Speaker 1: teams perform a neighborhood party scene that leads to a
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Speaker 1: dramatic elimination. Our episode opens with Marcus and Robbie having
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Speaker 1: a heart to heart around the fire pit outside. You
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Speaker 1: get a little deeper dive into Marcus's discussion about his
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Speaker 1: mom and as he's relating to Robbie about his stories
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Speaker 1: about his mom. It's a real sweet moment. And Christian, yes,
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Speaker 1: can I stop you there? We did learn, like in
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Speaker 1: a previous episode that Marcus's mom has cancer. Yeah, this
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Speaker 1: wasn't the first mention of it. I'm like, am I
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Speaker 1: going crazy?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, Marcus mentioned it a couple episodes ago. Okay, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: this was a nice sweet conversation between Robbie and Marcus. Robbie,
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Speaker 1: Marcus for sharing this with him, Buddy, I am crying. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I was like, Robbie is full like therapist mode I
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Speaker 1: that moment. I love Robbie so much. I know, I
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Speaker 1: love Robbie. Two guys, this is foreshadowing here. This episode
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Speaker 1: is full of spoilers in case that's unclear, So if
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Speaker 1: you don't want to hear it and click away now
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Speaker 1: because we're going to be talking about it. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: that was the moment that had my spidy senses tingling
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Speaker 1: a little bit. Oh really, Yeah, I feel like if
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Speaker 1: we're giving people, you know, sometimes it's just a nice
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Speaker 1: human interest story. But also sometimes, as we've discussed, if
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Speaker 1: we're centering someone up top, it means something good or
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Speaker 1: something bad. I know, I know, I know. I wish
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Speaker 1: they would really like dupe me sometimes. Yeah, me too,
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Speaker 1: me too. Just blindside me with an elimination. Don't give
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Speaker 1: me any clue of what's coming. I will say I
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Speaker 1: was a little blindsided by this elimination. But well, we'll
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Speaker 1: talk more about it. Sure, we've been talking a lot
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Speaker 1: about product placement on this podcast, as we've seen it
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Speaker 1: in the movies and the Balsom Hill ad before we
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Speaker 1: go inside the house. House was fast and furious, it
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Speaker 1: sure was. I we established early that we like to
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Speaker 1: call it Balsam Hill House. Yes, trademark, I mean, call us?
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Speaker 1: Should I trademark that? No? I actually in my recaps
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Speaker 1: that I write, I do put a little trademark. That's
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Speaker 1: hilarious because I think it's funny. But we make Balsam
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Speaker 1: Hill House merch or are we gonna get in trouble?
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Speaker 1: I don't we have a Girl's Gone Hallmark podcast. I
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Speaker 1: don't know know the patent rules or whatever trademark rules.
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Speaker 1: I kind of want to make a shirt that says
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Speaker 1: Balsam Hill House.
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Speaker 2: I know, I know.
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Speaker 1: So we head inside the house and everyone's like buzzing.
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Speaker 1: It's the usual, like how did you sleep last night?
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Speaker 1: And I can't believe that elimination, so on and so forth,
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Speaker 1: and Rustlin jokes. They're talking about like the day, like
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Speaker 1: what's ahead of them, and Rustin says something like he's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I want to get outside and sweat. So many jokes
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Speaker 1: about like getting the jitters out, and then we have
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Speaker 1: like Angel not it wasn't even a flashback, but he
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Speaker 1: talks about like his mister talent thing about like getting
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Speaker 1: the jitters out. And the only reason this lives in
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Speaker 1: my brain rent Free, by the way, is the getting
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Speaker 1: the jitters out thing is triggering some sort of like
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Speaker 1: children's show that I feel like I watched with my
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Speaker 1: daughter for years and years and years, and I don't
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Speaker 1: know what it is. Is it the Wiggles. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: We were not a Wiggles family. I can't recall, but
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Speaker 1: like for some reason that I was like, no, not
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Speaker 1: back to that again. Anyway, I thought this was an
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Speaker 1: interesting scene. This revealed a lot to me in this
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Speaker 1: in this scene here, because Robbie is trying to steer
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Speaker 1: the conversation about like what's everybody going to bring into
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Speaker 1: the day, and we hear from Craig, and Craig is like,
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Speaker 1: I need vulnerability, and he's he explains like he came
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Speaker 1: into the competition like I'm gonna come and swing in,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make bold choices. But now he thinks he
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Speaker 1: might need to like pivot and do something a little
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Speaker 1: bit different because Jonathan isn't seeing like what Craig can
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Speaker 1: bring to the table. I thought this was super interesting.
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Speaker 1: But then then Davey Davy admits he needs more confidence,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, whoa look in the mirror. Is
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Speaker 1: that what you said to yourself?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 1: But I was like, did Gabe leave the confidence behind.
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Speaker 2: Or like the lack of confidence behind for Davy to
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Speaker 2: pick up here, because what is happening right well, I
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Speaker 2: think Davey is getting really in his head about the
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Speaker 2: other guys Rustin.
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Speaker 1: Yes, he feels very threatened by Rusten. And what's interesting
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Speaker 1: to me my perception of Davy and Davey, feel free
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Speaker 1: to email or Damas to correct me. My perception of
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Speaker 1: Davy is that Davy came into this competition confident and
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Speaker 1: then got a little bit of the self comparison going,
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Speaker 1: and as opposed to letting himself stand on his own,
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Speaker 1: he's measuring himself up against the other guys. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: like imposter syndrome, right, Yes, Yeah, it's interesting to watch
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Speaker 1: because Davey is a fine piece of humanity or no,
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Speaker 1: that's not the word I want to use. He's a
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Speaker 1: fine pieces a he's fine plain insphal like, he's a
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Speaker 1: good looking man. And I think he can act too.
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Speaker 1: I think so too. And I also think it's really
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Speaker 1: important to note that Davy and Rustin do not need
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Speaker 1: to be mutually exclusive like they I understand this competition
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Speaker 1: only has one winner, but in the acting world, we
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Speaker 1: need a variety of people, and so they're not going
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Speaker 1: for the same stuff Davy and rust In. You know,
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Speaker 1: I wonder if Davy is worried about the perception people
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Speaker 1: have of him, because he's a very good looking model, right,
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Speaker 1: and so maybe the doubt is, oh, he probably can't act,
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Speaker 1: and so maybe that's what he is comparing himself like
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Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, I got this because I look good,
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Speaker 1: but now I have to prove to everybody that I
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Speaker 1: can act too. Were like, the deck is stacked against him,
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Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? Yes, I think he's
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Speaker 1: measuring his self worth up against these other guys. It's
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Speaker 1: wild to watch. Mm hmm. It's like a beautiful woman
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Speaker 1: being like, oh I'm not I'm not bad. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: festive face of time. Did you like Melissa's baton twirling
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Speaker 1: routine as the dudes enter, You know, I was like,
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Speaker 1: what is happening out here? In my mind, I imagine
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Speaker 1: like she's like, oh, look at this stick. Let me
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Speaker 1: put some garland on it. Hey, I'm gonna pretend like
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Speaker 1: I'm in a marching band, you know, Like, I'm sure
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Speaker 1: it wasn't like pre planned. M I just think she
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Speaker 1: just ran with it. It was cute. And then Jonathan's on
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Speaker 1: the bullhorn. I was like, whoa, that's just a lot
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Speaker 1: of a lot of energy. I'm dying to know, Like,
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Speaker 1: was this truly in the morning or was this in
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Speaker 1: the afternoon post Celsius, Yes, exactly.
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Speaker 2: Please.
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Speaker 1: So their bestive face off challenge, they've got to get
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Speaker 1: into giant hamster balls and knocks down knock down six trees,
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Speaker 1: and time is of the essence. Whoever does it the
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Speaker 1: fastest will ultimately win the challenge. I have a question
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Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, have you ever been in one of
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Speaker 1: those like plastic hamster ball things? I have not, and
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Speaker 1: I have questions about it. I don't Is it hot
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Speaker 1: in there? Is it claustrophobic?
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Speaker 2: Like?
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Speaker 1: That's what if I could do it?
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Speaker 2: So?
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Speaker 1: You saw when they open them up that they deflated, right,
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Speaker 1: and then they use like a blower to refill them
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Speaker 1: with air? Uh huh? So is there not air coming
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Speaker 1: in or out? Or is the only air in there
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Speaker 1: the air that they start with. I don't know. I
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Speaker 1: don't want to try it though, know me either. They
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Speaker 1: made me a little bit nervous, super nervous. Here's my
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Speaker 1: other question about this challenge, because sometimes our festive face offs.
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Speaker 1: I have some sort of life lesson tied to it, right, Oh,
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Speaker 1: you know, some sort of something that might you know,
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Speaker 1: a metaphorative acting or like I said, a life lesson.
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Speaker 1: But I'm coming up empty. Oh I was gonna say,
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear what the metaphor? Yes, I agree,
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Speaker 1: I think This is pure silliness. Pure I think whoever
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Speaker 1: designed this challenge was like, you know what, let's just
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Speaker 1: put these guys in some balls and see them crush them. Shit,
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Speaker 1: let's make some people laugh. Yeah. I think that's all
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Speaker 1: it came down to. Yes. Agree. They're divided into two
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Speaker 1: groups of three, and our first group is Marcus and
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Speaker 1: Davy and Craig. And one thing you have to be
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Speaker 1: careful of is the ribbons are not visible from every
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Speaker 1: side of the tree. The trees are marked with the
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Speaker 1: color ribbon, and each guy has a color that they
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Speaker 1: have to knock down and you can't always see the color.
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Speaker 1: And Davy gives Marcus a point right up top, accidentally
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Speaker 1: knocking over one of his trees. Yeah, why wouldn't you
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Speaker 1: run around the other way to look for the I
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Speaker 1: mean maybe the life lesson is like slow down a
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Speaker 1: little bit. Maybe that is a life lesson. It is
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Speaker 1: pure chaos and the balls in the beginning, especially with
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Speaker 1: this early group. But it's like Marcus and dv are
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Speaker 1: off to an early lead, and then Craig makes a
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Speaker 1: comeback and then it's a three way tie and everybody
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Speaker 1: has five points, and then you just see Davy like
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Speaker 1: cruise in for the win. Davy Hamsworth. Davey takes the win.
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Speaker 1: Robbie Resting and Angel are group number two and they
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Speaker 1: have the advantage of having seen the first group, and
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Speaker 1: so Robbie is a man with a plan. Robbie is
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Speaker 1: the only man with a plan. Well, Angel takes off
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Speaker 1: sprinting and then just dumbles, which is humorous. I'm not
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Speaker 1: gonna lie. We have the same situation, like we get
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Speaker 1: to a three way tie of five and then Robbie,
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Speaker 1: when's the heat? Look at Robbie the robby, right, I know,
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Speaker 1: he's so good at these challenges. And then it comes
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Speaker 1: down to you know, they call them heats, and I
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Speaker 1: was like, wait a minute, are we gonna have Davy
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Speaker 1: and Robbie they do a final challenge against each other.
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Speaker 1: They should have I think so too, But ultimately it
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Speaker 1: just came down to whoever had the fastest time in
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Speaker 1: their heat, and Davy takes the win. I wonder if
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Speaker 1: they were like, we can't have Robbie winn again, so
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Speaker 1: why not? Though that's ridiculous. It's you know, if Robbie
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Speaker 1: spoiler alert, if Robbie would have won, no, it wouldn't
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Speaker 1: have saved him because he could have still, in their eyes,
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Speaker 1: did poorly in the acting challenge and then could have
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Speaker 1: been eliminated. So if he won the festive face off,
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Speaker 1: it probably wouldn't have a say in the outcome. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Robbie says here at the end of the scene, he
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Speaker 1: says he'll put a feather in his cap for nearly winning.
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Speaker 1: But a feather is not an advantage in the Star
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Speaker 1: Quality Challenge. Indeed, Now Davy's advantage. What do you think
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Speaker 1: of Davy's advantage? He gets to watch the other actors
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Speaker 1: performing and hear Jonathan and Melissa's feedback. I think it's
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Speaker 1: a huge advantage, and Davy is so smart. We'll get
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Speaker 1: to it. But he does sit there, he takes all
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Speaker 1: the notes, then he shares with the class so they
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Speaker 1: can all get on the same page to win, because
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Speaker 1: you're gonna win as a team challenge. So I think
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Speaker 1: his advantages is a really good one. I wish they
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Speaker 1: would have showed more of it, because we've been talking
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Speaker 1: for weeks. I'm like, as a non actor, I would
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Speaker 1: love to hear the notes of like what could be
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Speaker 1: better in a scene? Well, and I will talk about it,
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Speaker 1: but you know, their notes were different. From mine and
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Speaker 1: so Davy had the advantage of knowing what they were
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Speaker 1: looking for. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, let's get into
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Speaker 1: the star Quality Challenge because I have a lot of thoughts.
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Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break and we're going to come
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Speaker 1: back and talk about the star Quality Challenge. Before we
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Speaker 1: talk star Quality Challenge, I just want to make a note.
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Speaker 1: We have another break for bro time before and they're
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Speaker 1: out tossing the football, and we have more time for
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Speaker 1: these because we have fewer guys, so it takes less
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Speaker 1: time to get through the challenges. And then this particular
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Speaker 1: star Quality Challenge is done in teams, so we only
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Speaker 1: have two scenes as opposed to six individual scenes, so
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Speaker 1: we have more time to fill in this episode where
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Speaker 1: you like, Okay, I get it. You all played sports.
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Speaker 1: Sports can really keep a kid out of trouble. Thank
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Speaker 1: you for the Saturday Evening special. Well, let's talk star Quality.
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Speaker 1: They arrive on set, which I can't fully Are they
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Speaker 1: still outside of Balsam Hill House or are they somewhere else?
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Speaker 1: It seems like they're outside of Balsam Hill House to me, yes,
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Speaker 1: because the guys are the other team is waiting inside.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I didn't even clock that you're right they were,
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Speaker 1: So Jonathan sets up that they're doing like a neighborhood
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Speaker 1: block party snow shall I wonder who came up with
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Speaker 1: that snow shall I like that he had explained it
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Speaker 1: to Melissamilis is like, yeah, I got it. I love
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Speaker 1: Malasa Melassa Peterman. I love her so much. What they're
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Speaker 1: the challenges. It's going to be two teams of three
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Speaker 1: with the same script, and they are asked to make
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Speaker 1: their own choices energy collaboration. They have to work as
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Speaker 1: a team, but they also have to you know, kind
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Speaker 1: of stand out a little bit and also direct the
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Speaker 1: scene as well. Yes, and cast the scene correct. Our
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Speaker 1: special Hallmark celebrity guest is Hunter King, and let's be honest,
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Speaker 1: Robbie is the only one who knows who Hunter King is. Yes, Honestly,
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Speaker 1: this scene was so telling because Jonathan is listing the
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Speaker 1: movies she's been in and Robbie's like, is it Hunter King?
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Speaker 1: As opposed to Jonathan saying it's Hunter King, and they
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Speaker 1: all react like, oh my gosh, she's my favorite. Robbie knows. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: He's like, oh Holiday touchdown, Yeah, it's Hunter King.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: They talk a little bit about working in a team
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Speaker 1: and what it's like to be in a scene. And
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Speaker 1: I love how Melissa's like, look, I have the tendency
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Speaker 1: to steal the scene, and there's a good time to
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Speaker 1: know when that's called for and when it's not. But
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Speaker 1: I love that she knows who she is for sure,
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Speaker 1: for sure, Well she's a comedian actress, right, Yeah, she's
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Speaker 1: a star, and she does have a tendency to steal
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Speaker 1: the scene. I'm telling you, I think I need to
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Speaker 1: watch Happiest Place that she's on with Reba. Maybe do
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Speaker 1: you watch that show?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 1: I think I might watch it in all my free time. Maybe. So.
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Speaker 1: Team one is Robbie, Restin and Marcus and Team two
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Speaker 1: is Angel, Davy and Craig. And I gotta tell you,
19:41
Speaker 1: almost immediately Team one with Robbie, Restin and Marcus, it's
19:45
Speaker 1: too many cooks in the kitchen. Robbie and Russen are
19:49
Speaker 1: jousting a little bit on like directing the scene, and
19:53
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I got the same feeling. Remember
19:58
Speaker 1: back in the early episode, the Slingshot episode, when Drake
20:02
Speaker 1: was like, I'm gonna be the slingshot shooter because I
20:04
Speaker 1: can do it. Blah blah blah blah, it's my childhood
20:06
Speaker 1: dream whatever. And then Russin just like swoops in and
20:09
Speaker 1: I was like, I'll do it, and Drakes like okay.
20:12
Speaker 1: Kind of the same energy here. You know, it seemed
20:15
Speaker 1: to me Robbie seemed frustrated. To me, it seemed like
20:19
Speaker 1: he wasn't being heard. He had some ideas, and it
20:22
Speaker 1: seemed like Robbie felt like he was being run over
20:26
Speaker 1: a little bit in the process. That was my perception.
20:30
Speaker 1: I think so too. I think so too. Russin does
20:34
Speaker 1: a talking head and he's like, I have a good
20:35
Speaker 1: understanding of how this scene should roll. But then when
20:38
Speaker 1: Hunter's like, so, who's directing the scene? Russen's like, oh,
20:41
Speaker 1: everybody contributed. Like Russen's is playing like it was a
20:45
Speaker 1: team effort, but I think he was driving this train. Well,
20:48
Speaker 1: that brings up a good question because I'm thinking about
20:51
Speaker 1: other reality TV shows, and you know when you have
20:54
Speaker 1: to put somebody in like the pole position and if
20:57
Speaker 1: you lose, they might go home, right, So do you
21:02
Speaker 1: think Russen was kind of like stepping into this director position?
21:06
Speaker 1: But like when the time came when Hunter asks like, oh,
21:10
Speaker 1: who's you know running the show? And he's like, Oh,
21:13
Speaker 1: it's a team effort. Do you think he's trying to
21:16
Speaker 1: protect himself here or do you think he was just
21:19
Speaker 1: playing nice? Like they Oh, we are a team effort.
21:22
Speaker 1: I got the impression that the vibe of this show
21:25
Speaker 1: is as much about the relationships between the guys as
21:28
Speaker 1: it is about winning the competition, and Rustin knows that,
21:31
Speaker 1: and so I think, in my opinion, he knows that
21:34
Speaker 1: it's smart to play as a team. Yeah. The idea
21:38
Speaker 1: that he didn't want to take the fall for their loss, though,
21:41
Speaker 1: is an interesting one that wasn't my initial impression. Got it.
21:46
Speaker 1: It does seem like they're a little more collaborative when
21:47
Speaker 1: they're working with Hunter. They talk about the scene together.
21:51
Speaker 1: Marcus suggests a little nose nuzzling scene at one point
21:55
Speaker 1: and says, if you're comfortable with that, And what I
21:58
Speaker 1: liked is behind them, Jonathan's like, yes, like he's liking
22:01
Speaker 1: that Marcus is making the suggestion and adding moments to
22:04
Speaker 1: the scene like when Jonathan gets hyped. Me too. What's
22:08
Speaker 1: interesting to me is it's thinking about it. To me,
22:11
Speaker 1: it seems like, oh, the boyfriend role is the better role.
22:14
Speaker 1: Before we knew anything, because he gets to interact more
22:17
Speaker 1: with Hunter. Yeah, but the reality is the boyfriend has
22:22
Speaker 1: fewer lines and is I think the harder role to
22:26
Speaker 1: play because everyone's kind of making fun of him. He's
22:29
Speaker 1: kind of the odd man out, and so I think
22:31
Speaker 1: Marcus and Angel, who both play the boyfriend, have a
22:34
Speaker 1: bigger challenge in front of them. It's the character like
22:37
Speaker 1: the least in the scene. I'm sorry to say, Oh same,
22:40
Speaker 1: I agree. I absolutely agree. Well, let me tell you
22:43
Speaker 1: when they finally get into the scene and they're doing
22:45
Speaker 1: it for me, I thought Robbie and Rustin were lively
22:51
Speaker 1: and fun to watch. Behind the scenes, you can hear
22:54
Speaker 1: Jonathan saying that like he wants Robbie and Rustin to
22:57
Speaker 1: feel more like brothers. I don't know what that means,
23:00
Speaker 1: because I thought it was believable. I thought they were great.
23:04
Speaker 1: I thought Robbie of the three was the best in
23:07
Speaker 1: this scene. Jonathan does say he feels like they're overacting.
23:13
Speaker 1: That was not my take. Yes, yeah, I didn't. I
23:18
Speaker 1: hard disagree. Yeah, Robbie was animated in his reactions, but
23:22
Speaker 1: it didn't feel theatrical to me. I feel like Jonathan
23:27
Speaker 1: has a very expressive face too when he acts and
23:29
Speaker 1: so as someone who knows absolutely nothing about anything, did
23:33
Speaker 1: not feel like they were overacting. I really liked Robbie.
23:37
Speaker 1: But it is interesting because since Jonathan saw the creation
23:41
Speaker 1: of the scene from start to finish, we'll talk more
23:43
Speaker 1: about it, but I wonder how much of the creation
23:46
Speaker 1: was influencing his feelings about the actual scene itself. Oh. Interesting.
23:51
Speaker 1: One thing I really liked about these is there's a
23:54
Speaker 1: clear distinction between when they're rehearsing and when they're recording
23:57
Speaker 1: the scene. Like you can see the the actual scene
24:01
Speaker 1: itself changes, like did you see like the black bars
24:04
Speaker 1: kind of come down and it's like a little more
24:06
Speaker 1: of a widescreen setup, wow filming, So it's like you're
24:10
Speaker 1: watching the scene as opposed to watching them film the scene.
24:14
Speaker 1: I didn't notice that. I really liked it. So it's like,
24:18
Speaker 1: while we do cut away to Jonathan and Melissa and Davie,
24:21
Speaker 1: it's like we're watching the scene happen, and this is
24:24
Speaker 1: the first time it feels like that to me. Ah. Also,
24:28
Speaker 1: there's a lot going on. They have props, there are
24:30
Speaker 1: background actors, there's a lot they gotta do. There's a
24:32
Speaker 1: lot of dialogue that they have to put together in
24:34
Speaker 1: a really short period of time and a little bit
24:37
Speaker 1: of improv yeah, because, like if you recall, the challenge
24:42
Speaker 1: was for them to like make it uniquely their own.
24:46
Speaker 1: So a lot of things going on. So the Team
24:49
Speaker 1: two is up, and as you said, Davey takes the
24:52
Speaker 1: feedback from Jonathan and takes it to his team and
24:54
Speaker 1: he's like, we got to bring that brotherly energy that
24:57
Speaker 1: Jonathan felt was missing from the first scene. Did you
25:00
Speaker 1: think there was brotherly energy missing from those two? No,
25:03
Speaker 1: I've gotten Robbie. No, I thought they were. Now I
25:06
Speaker 1: will say I do think Davy and Craig did it better.
25:10
Speaker 1: They nail it, yes, but I do think that there
25:13
Speaker 1: was brotherly energy. I did think Robbie and Rustin were
25:16
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, given it back and forth. I
25:19
Speaker 1: mean every brother relationship is different, right, Yes, And like
25:24
Speaker 1: Craig and Davy were kind of more like the goofy,
25:27
Speaker 1: like ass slapping, I'm gonna give you a wedgie sort
25:31
Speaker 1: of brotherly relationship, and Robbie and Rusten were more alike,
25:36
Speaker 1: we're brothers, but we're really two different kinds of people. Yes,
25:40
Speaker 1: So for me, they both worked for me. They both
25:43
Speaker 1: worked too. Now my notes say like angel kind of
25:46
Speaker 1: slides into a directing role, and then I say, my
25:48
Speaker 1: early money is on Craig over Davy in this scene
25:52
Speaker 1: because why well, I got to say, Craig really starts
25:57
Speaker 1: to stand out to me in this scene. He one
26:01
Speaker 1: hundred percent is so natural, He's so funny. I think
26:06
Speaker 1: Davy does a good job. I think Craig does an
26:08
Speaker 1: incredible job. I'm like, I want to watch more of him.
26:13
Speaker 1: I am enjoying this banter. I'm not uncomfortable by it.
26:16
Speaker 1: They had kind of added some improv and some extra
26:18
Speaker 1: lines which I thought were great. I loved Craig. Craig
26:22
Speaker 1: choking on the cookie and it like you can see
26:25
Speaker 1: the spits of the cookie flying out of his mouth
26:28
Speaker 1: was so good. Yeah, that physical comedy was great. I
26:32
Speaker 1: was blown away by him. And up to this point,
26:35
Speaker 1: I have liked Craig as a person, and I have
26:38
Speaker 1: thought that he was humorous, but I have thought he
26:40
Speaker 1: was like walking that line of always doing too much
26:45
Speaker 1: and not so much. Now, yeah, you know that's right,
26:47
Speaker 1: because in when they did that photo shoot with the reindeer,
26:51
Speaker 1: and he was doing like silly, goofy like photo things
26:54
Speaker 1: and they weren't getting the photo It's like he's trying
26:56
Speaker 1: to take these big swings and they weren't landing, but
27:00
Speaker 1: in this sort of playground in this scene, he was
27:06
Speaker 1: so good and it really had me wondering because I
27:09
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, if Craig wins, if Craig becomes the
27:13
Speaker 1: winner of Finding Mister Christmas, I don't think I would
27:15
Speaker 1: want to watch him in like a romantic sort of
27:20
Speaker 1: You want him in the comm I need him in
27:23
Speaker 1: the commp I need him as Ted Cooper exactly. He's
27:26
Speaker 1: that guy to me anyway, I was. He totally caught
27:30
Speaker 1: me off guard. You know, I'm thinking about Craig and
27:33
Speaker 1: go back to episode one where he's Santini, right, like
27:36
Speaker 1: that was a big thing. He was the only person
27:38
Speaker 1: who created a character in that moment and it worked
27:40
Speaker 1: for him. Right, So he's like, I have to keep
27:43
Speaker 1: doing this, I have to keep doing more. And then
27:46
Speaker 1: I think he was like, I've done too much. And
27:48
Speaker 1: so I feel like now he has swung back into
27:52
Speaker 1: who we need him to be in this episode. Yeah,
27:55
Speaker 1: I agree. Now, what did you think about Davy playing
27:59
Speaker 1: off of Craig, Because there was some commentary from Melissa
28:02
Speaker 1: that she thought Davey could have done more because Craig
28:05
Speaker 1: was giving so much. Yeah, I thought Craig was dominating
28:11
Speaker 1: the scene, and it felt more like Davey was reacting
28:15
Speaker 1: to him as opposed to giving it on the same level.
28:19
Speaker 1: Got it. I still thought Davey was good though. I
28:22
Speaker 1: thought Davey was good too, and I think I hope
28:25
Speaker 1: this was a confidence boost for him because They're scene
28:28
Speaker 1: overall really did go so well. I liked it.
28:32
Speaker 2: I liked it.
28:32
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. There was nobody that I was like, oh
28:34
Speaker 1: my gosh, that was terrible. Oh okay, that's interesting because
28:38
Speaker 1: we didn't talk about it. But I thought Marcus was
28:41
Speaker 1: kind of stiff in Team one. Well spoiler alert, I
28:46
Speaker 1: thought Marcus was the weakest, so did I. That being said,
28:52
Speaker 1: compared to some of the performances we've seen up to
28:54
Speaker 1: this point, I think we have made some good eliminations. Now,
28:59
Speaker 1: let me ask you about Angel. How did you think
29:01
Speaker 1: about his What did you think about his performance? I
29:04
Speaker 1: liked Angel more than Marcus, but I think this character
29:09
Speaker 1: that they were playing required them to supplicate themselves a
29:13
Speaker 1: little bit and be a little bit submissive to the brothers,
29:16
Speaker 1: and maybe it was the character I didn't connect with
29:20
Speaker 1: because they're like, oh, my cookies are terrible. Oh, I
29:23
Speaker 1: didn't love either of the boyfriend portrayals. I'm sorry. I
29:27
Speaker 1: agree now. Jonathan's feedback about Angel is he says Angel
29:33
Speaker 1: loses momentum in the scene, and I don't know exactly
29:37
Speaker 1: what that means, right, does he literally like Peter out
29:43
Speaker 1: on the line, or does he lose energy or I
29:48
Speaker 1: would like more explanation in terms of like what that
29:52
Speaker 1: means as an actor, But I don't know. A Hunter
29:55
Speaker 1: felt like Angel was a great team player. I like
29:59
Speaker 1: how they say came in hot in a good way
30:01
Speaker 1: in that scene. Yeah. But Hunter also said that she
30:05
Speaker 1: liked Marcus's boyfriend energy, but she thought his energy didn't
30:10
Speaker 1: match Robbie and Rustin's. Yeah, she wanted him to bring
30:12
Speaker 1: his energy up a little bit. And I have to
30:15
Speaker 1: agree with that. And Jonathan said he felt like the
30:18
Speaker 1: power struggle between Robby and Rusten came through on camera.
30:20
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not sure if I agree with that assessment.
30:23
Speaker 1: I disagree. I did write some notes to myself going
30:26
Speaker 1: into the elimination. I said I should go I know
30:29
Speaker 1: who I think should go home, but I have no
30:30
Speaker 1: idea which direction they're going and then I wrote my
30:33
Speaker 1: voters for Craig to win the challenge. This is before
30:35
Speaker 1: before I know, I was just like, I want to
30:37
Speaker 1: put it on paper and see what's gonna happen. And
30:41
Speaker 1: so who was your who did you think should go home?
30:43
Speaker 1: All apologies? I thought it was Marcus based on this
30:47
Speaker 1: scene alone. Yeah, me too. Let's take a quick break
30:50
Speaker 1: and we're gonna come right back with our eliminations. They're
31:00
Speaker 1: in the elimination cave, and I wonder if you notice,
31:03
Speaker 1: now this could just be editing Jonathan's describing what the
31:06
Speaker 1: winner brought to the challenge. They cut to Rust and smiling. Yes,
31:10
Speaker 1: I did see that, Yes I did, as if he
31:13
Speaker 1: thinks it's going to be him. Yeah, because this is
31:15
Speaker 1: interesting because Jonathan says he talks about basically the winner
31:19
Speaker 1: is somebody who played a brother. So we immediately eliminate
31:23
Speaker 1: Marcus and Angel from contention as a winner, right, and
31:27
Speaker 1: so then that leaves us the four guys. And then
31:30
Speaker 1: they show Rust in and he makes like this smile
31:33
Speaker 1: like he's got it right, didn't you think so? I
31:37
Speaker 1: that's yes. Now, could that have been from a different moment, Yes,
31:40
Speaker 1: of course it could have been but to me, it
31:43
Speaker 1: was like, oh, Rustin thought he had it in the back. Yeah,
31:46
Speaker 1: but Craig is the winner. Now Craig gets emotional with him.
31:50
Speaker 1: Were you surprised by this?
31:52
Speaker 2: Yes?
31:52
Speaker 1: Were you a little bit? So he talks about how
31:57
Speaker 1: he thought he was on his way out and now
32:00
Speaker 1: I think it's emotional and Craig's like, I've worked so
32:02
Speaker 1: hard so this morning, I thought, well, that's interesting because
32:08
Speaker 1: I don't have a good idea of a lot of
32:10
Speaker 1: these guys' resumes acting resumes. Craig on IMDb has eighteen
32:16
Speaker 1: acting credits. Now several of them are shorts. But he
32:19
Speaker 1: was in the series How I Met Your Father, He
32:22
Speaker 1: was in the series The Terminal List, in the series
32:25
Speaker 1: Rescue High Surf. So he's done some stuff, he's gotten
32:29
Speaker 1: some roles. Yes, I was very touched by Craig's emotion
32:34
Speaker 1: and I thought his win was very earned. Oh, definitely earned. Definitely.
32:39
Speaker 1: Angel and Davy are both marked as safe, and I
32:42
Speaker 1: wonder if they're marked as safe because they decided that
32:46
Speaker 1: Craig's whole team should win. Yeah, that's what I was wondering, Like,
32:50
Speaker 1: it wasn't clear if they were competing as a team right, right,
32:53
Speaker 1: So if you're the winning person, then your team is safe.
32:58
Speaker 1: It wasn't It wasn't clear. I think Angel and Davey
33:02
Speaker 1: are safe because of Craig's win. Yes, I agree. So
33:06
Speaker 1: the bottom three are then Marcus, Ruston and Robbie, and
33:10
Speaker 1: I wrote, oh no, and I like, I am like
33:12
Speaker 1: a stream of consciousness as is happening. I'm like, oh no,
33:14
Speaker 1: rest and Marcus and Robbie are on the bottom three,
33:16
Speaker 1: and I disagree with that. I find the next conversation
33:20
Speaker 1: very interesting. Go ahead. Jonathan asks them how they thought
33:25
Speaker 1: it went on set, and all three guys, I feel
33:30
Speaker 1: are doing damage control here and trying to suggest like,
33:34
Speaker 1: I think we listened to each other's ideas. I think
33:37
Speaker 1: we worked well as a team. I think we tried
33:39
Speaker 1: to hear what the other was saying. Nobody wanted to
33:41
Speaker 1: be like I thought. Rustin kind of overtook things like,
33:46
Speaker 1: I don't know, this is your this is your last pitch.
33:49
Speaker 1: You should maybe throw people under the bus. But it's
33:51
Speaker 1: not that kind of show. It is not that kind
33:53
Speaker 1: of show. Marcus is told that he is safe, Rustin
33:55
Speaker 1: and Robbie are a bottom two. I mean, this is
33:58
Speaker 1: this is worst case scenario right here. Uh huh, and
34:03
Speaker 1: then Jonathan gets emotional and says that Robbie is the
34:05
Speaker 1: one going home. I want to talk about a few things.
34:09
Speaker 1: Go ahead. One. Robbie is an absolute angel here, he says,
34:14
Speaker 1: all I wanted was to make you proud. Angel. Sobbing
34:18
Speaker 1: in the background, Jonathan says, you make me proud, and
34:21
Speaker 1: you make our community proud. I loved everything about that
34:25
Speaker 1: moment and the way the two of them handled it. Yeah,
34:28
Speaker 1: I got choked up. Actually. But Jonathan talks about how
34:33
Speaker 1: Rustin and Robbie's disagreement going into the scene put them
34:37
Speaker 1: in this position. I disagree, and you disagree that they
34:41
Speaker 1: should have been in the position because of that. I
34:43
Speaker 1: think they're trying to play it more than what we
34:46
Speaker 1: saw right was there? More was their actual contention. I'm
34:51
Speaker 1: going back and forth because I'm like, Okay, of course,
34:54
Speaker 1: we don't want to cast someone who's going to be
34:56
Speaker 1: difficult on set. Of course, that's part of it. You
34:59
Speaker 1: want you want someone who's fun to work with. Okay,
35:04
Speaker 1: you know they're trying to figure out all the pieces.
35:07
Speaker 1: That's why we do the modeling challenge, because we got
35:08
Speaker 1: to get someone who understands how to work to a
35:10
Speaker 1: camera on all of that. That's why we do the
35:13
Speaker 1: press challenge, because these people need to be able to
35:15
Speaker 1: speak to the press and answer questions and promote the
35:17
Speaker 1: things they're in. But to me, I just and maybe
35:20
Speaker 1: it's because it affected Robbie, and I just love my Robbie,
35:24
Speaker 1: and I feel like his performance was stronger than some
35:27
Speaker 1: of the other performances who are sticking around. Yeah, I
35:31
Speaker 1: absolutely agree. I did touch base with Robbie the lobby
35:35
Speaker 1: who remains the sweetest, has the best attitude, and says
35:39
Speaker 1: he felt like he landed among the stars with this experience,
35:43
Speaker 1: which could he be any sweeter? No, I mean he
35:47
Speaker 1: says that at the end of the episode, and I
35:49
Speaker 1: feel like it's that kind of vulnerability that makes me
35:54
Speaker 1: tune in every week. Yeah, right. I love Robbie. I
35:59
Speaker 1: hate seeing him go home, and he wasn't even like
36:02
Speaker 1: one of my favorites from the beginning, but he has
36:05
Speaker 1: just so shown, you know when he has those like
36:08
Speaker 1: moments when he wins the challenges and he's like, these
36:10
Speaker 1: guys don't know how much it means to me, Like
36:12
Speaker 1: that I feel part of their brotherhood or like whatever.
36:16
Speaker 1: It's like he fully showed who he was and it
36:19
Speaker 1: just hurts my heart to see him not when. Yeah,
36:23
Speaker 1: I feel like Robbie, we've really gotten to know on
36:25
Speaker 1: a personal level. He's been so vulnerable and open and
36:28
Speaker 1: so I'm so connected with him and I have been
36:31
Speaker 1: rooting for Robbie since day one. So it hurts me
36:35
Speaker 1: to see him go home. And unlike last week's elimination,
36:40
Speaker 1: where I felt like it hurt me but it was
36:43
Speaker 1: the right choice, this one hurt me and I don't agree. Yeah,
36:47
Speaker 1: this one hurts and it doesn't make any sense to me. Yeah,
36:49
Speaker 1: because Robbie has done so well in the competition, not
36:53
Speaker 1: just in the festive face offs, but in the Star
36:55
Speaker 1: Quality challenges he won last week. Yeah, it does make
37:00
Speaker 1: any sense to me. It doesn't make any sense to me. Nope,
37:04
Speaker 1: it doesn't. I love this dumb show. Well, Hey, thank
37:10
Speaker 1: you for listening to this episode of Girls Gone Hallmark.
37:12
Speaker 1: We'd love to know your takes on who's going home
37:15
Speaker 1: each week? Do you agree? Who are you rooting for?
37:18
Speaker 1: Email us Girls Gone Hallmark at gmail dot com. I
37:23
Speaker 1: just want to ask you before we like sign off,
37:26
Speaker 1: who are you rooting for? Now that your number one
37:29
Speaker 1: guy is gone? You know, do you think might take it?
37:32
Speaker 1: Craig and Davey both really impressed me this week, but
37:35
Speaker 1: I think there's something undeniable about Rustin's appeal. Yeah, especially
37:41
Speaker 1: based on the fan reaction. Right same, I'm not ready. Well,
37:47
Speaker 1: thank you for listening to this episode of Girls Gone Homework.
37:50
Speaker 1: We'll be back next week with more thoughts on finding
37:52
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