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The Royal Nanny · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: and today we are discussing the Royal Nanny.
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  Speaker 2: Right of Hallmarks. Countdown to Chris. Did you hear the
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  Speaker 2: accent down there? Top them again? What does the Nanny do?
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  Speaker 1: Where are my sister Wives fans? We'd love to connect
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  Speaker 1: notes as well.
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  Speaker 2: We'd love to have you.
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  Speaker 1: It is a great engaged group of people and for
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  Speaker 1: even more of us. You may not know, but we
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  Speaker 1: have another podcast. It's called Long Story Short with Megan
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  Speaker 1: and Wendy, where we publish episodes every Tuesday. We'd love
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  Speaker 1: to have you be listeners over there as well. That's
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  Speaker 1: a women's lifestyle podcast. Okay, it sounds like a fancy
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  Speaker 1: name for it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Before we get into the Royal Nanny, let's let's do
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  Speaker 1: some general Hallmark news and notes, Okay, so many this week,
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  Speaker 1: so much?
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  Speaker 2: Just do you think?
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  Speaker 1: So?
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  Speaker 2: What do you want to start with?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I would like to start with the recommendation that
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  Speaker 1: everybody who is not currently following Tyler Hines on social
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  Speaker 1: pick Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: He's on TikTok too, but he.
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  Speaker 1: Is promoting the hell out of Three wise Men and
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  Speaker 1: a baby, and he's doing it in the most delightful,
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  Speaker 1: search trappy way possible. I love it, and I mean
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  Speaker 1: that with all the love in my heart. I'm enjoying
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  Speaker 1: every minute of it. And the Instagram algorithm knows that
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  Speaker 1: I'm enjoying every minute of it because it always pops
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  Speaker 1: to the top of my feed. It's fun to see
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  Speaker 1: these behind the scenes photos and quick video clips. The
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  Speaker 1: boys together, Andrew and Tyler and Paul just bring.
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  Speaker 2: Me a lot of joy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see how this movie could possibly not be
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  Speaker 1: enjoyable to watch, simply because I don't think it's possible
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  Speaker 1: for the three of them to be on screen and
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  Speaker 1: not have delightful chemistry. I can't imagine. So even if
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  Speaker 1: the plot sucks, which I don't think it's going to
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  Speaker 1: you because it's written next news and note co written
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  Speaker 1: by Paul Campbell, and Kimberly Sustad. I do think Paul
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  Speaker 1: Cambll's getting all the credit. Why because that's the only
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  Speaker 1: thing I've seen promoted. But I could have sworn I
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  Speaker 1: had heard that it was co written by Kimberly Sustad
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  Speaker 1: and then you this morning found a post by Kimberly
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  Speaker 1: Sestad who confirmed that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: She was like saying how great it was to work
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  Speaker 1: with them, and then Tyler was super complimentary to her,
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  Speaker 1: saying like, you know her voice, like the movie wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be what it is without her voice, which I think
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  Speaker 1: she's so funny. So I don't know what else she's written, though,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're newly Kimberly Susdad stands totally out here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I got a message that was like, how do you
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  Speaker 1: guys not know her? She's amazing. She was in Nine
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  Speaker 1: Lives of Kittens or whatever, where we're like, we're not
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  Speaker 1: watching that.
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  Speaker 2: Nine Lives of Kittens.
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  Speaker 1: So Kimberly Sestad has one writer credit, which is Christmas
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  Speaker 1: by Starlight from the twenty That's So Funny from the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty Countdown to Christmas series, which she co stars
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  Speaker 1: in with Paul Campbell and co wrote with Paul Campbell,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back and watch that. When her family's
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  Speaker 1: beloved cafe is slated for demolition, Anni vows to put
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  Speaker 1: a stop to before Christmas. I do think I've seen this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to rewatch. Yeah, I'm gonna go.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go look for it.
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  Speaker 2: What a delightful pair and they're just me.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they're just the new writing team.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Julie Sherman Wolf, Nina Wineman, Paul Campbell, and Kimberly Sestein. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we got some fing Gary Goldstein and Gary Goldstein, which
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  Speaker 1: brings us to Yeah. So Gary Goldstand wrote Lights Camera Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: which we reviewed last week and loved, and I kind
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  Speaker 1: of felt really bad because when I posted it on
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  Speaker 1: the Instagram, I was like, it's a near perfect movie,
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  Speaker 1: and then he reposted it and he's like, near perfect.
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  Speaker 1: I'll take it, And I felt really kind of bad
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  Speaker 1: because I don't think it was a reflection of his
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  Speaker 1: writing of the script. I think it was whoever edited
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  Speaker 1: the movie. Yes, and to be fair, the limits of
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  Speaker 1: the time available to the editor. Yes, exactly. So one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorites of this season.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: In the News and notes for that episode I had
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  Speaker 1: talked about Gary had given and was given story credit
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  Speaker 1: for a nineteen ninety two I think Beverly Hills nine
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  Speaker 1: er two and zero. Well, him and I DMed a
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  Speaker 1: little bit and he shared that his story idea was
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  Speaker 1: that Brandon was going to be stalked by a girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: and that girlfriend was Emily Valentine.
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  Speaker 2: Emily Valentine. That's so exciting, I know, and then they
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  Speaker 2: reconnect when.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, anyway, Gary Goldstein is a delight.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's good, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of other Hallmark movies, last week we did talk
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  Speaker 1: about my love for The Ghosts of Christmas Always.
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  Speaker 2: You have since finished that movie.
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  Speaker 1: Finally finished it. I enjoyed it quite a bit good.
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  Speaker 1: I actually my heart like when spoiler alert when she
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  Speaker 1: gets hit by the car. I mean you don't see
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  Speaker 1: anything hostly, but you hear like this squealing of the
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  Speaker 1: brakes and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I just was like, she dies, and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: that is so sad.
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  Speaker 1: It was. It was a really good movie. It was
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  Speaker 1: a really good movie. I still think for me, Lights
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  Speaker 1: Camera Christmas edges it out. Yes, okay, a tiny bit,
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  Speaker 1: but it was a great movie.
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  Speaker 2: Cool.
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  Speaker 1: I liked it let's talk about some other Hallmark movies, dude.
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  Speaker 1: I watched many of them this weekend. Yes, none that
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  Speaker 1: were reviewing, Nope. And I want to say that today's
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  Speaker 1: movie is probably my least favorite of the ones I
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  Speaker 1: watched this weekend. Okay, I watched our Italian Christmas Memories,
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  Speaker 1: which had me in tears, uh huh, and Christmas at
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  Speaker 1: the Golden Dragon, which I thought was really good. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: two really good movies. I hope people are watching them.
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  Speaker 1: We will watch those this week. We watched in Mary
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  Speaker 1: Measure yesterday. I was kind of doing things in the
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  Speaker 1: kitchen and my husband had it on, so I, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like half watched, half listened. But I thought it was cute.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to make any of my top five
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  Speaker 1: lists for the season, but.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was a cute.
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  Speaker 1: Did they have like dueling a cappella groups or somethay? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and let me tell you, I thought it was cute,
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  Speaker 1: aside from the intense secondhand embarrassment I felt when they
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  Speaker 1: did like a hip hop Christmas song mash up at
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  Speaker 1: the end. I just want to crawl in my own skin.
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  Speaker 1: But Brandon Penny was in that, and I he kind
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  Speaker 1: of has this light clerk kent vibe it. It was nice,
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  Speaker 1: super into it when less thought okay, prompted by comment
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  Speaker 1: in our Facebook group. Yes, over the weekend, we welcome commentary.
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  Speaker 1: Let's have conversations in there. Yep. We have not been
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  Speaker 1: complementary to the GAP network. And which is the Great
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  Speaker 1: American Country? They call themselves Great American Country, they call
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  Speaker 1: themselves Great American Family. They don't have their act together.
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  Speaker 1: Their website's a mess, They change the titles of movies,
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  Speaker 1: they pull movies from their lineup.
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  Speaker 2: They are not okay over there. H huh.
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  Speaker 1: But the reason that we dislike them is not because
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  Speaker 1: they're stealing our Hallmark stars. We do not be grudge
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  Speaker 1: the success of any of our Hallmark stars. Luke McFarlane
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  Speaker 1: go on to bigger and better. We are here for it.
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  Speaker 1: There's only one reason that we're not fans of Great
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  Speaker 1: American Country slash Family, and it's because they're super hateful
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  Speaker 1: and bigoted. Yes, that's the bottom line, right. They were
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  Speaker 1: founded on the premise of family friendly, which they defined
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  Speaker 1: to mean no gay people and not really a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people of color, and probably not interracial relationships either.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what we're not cool with.
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  Speaker 1: And so when the actors go there, we're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it feels like you are saying they use the board
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  Speaker 1: that I do right and family friendly should not be
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  Speaker 1: a term that is weaponized to mean gay people are dangerous, right,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what we don't support. Yeah, there was a conversation,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm glad that it was had because I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad that it gave us the opportunity to say where
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  Speaker 1: we stand on it, right, and others who are in
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  Speaker 1: the group where they stand on it. But I think
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  Speaker 1: the original comment was like the poster was not excited
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  Speaker 1: about the what's the word non support of actors who
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  Speaker 1: left for Great American Family, And I think if you
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  Speaker 1: don't know the whole backstory, there's a lot of like
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  Speaker 1: great American Country, Great American family snark going around, and
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  Speaker 1: so if you don't know the back story, it just
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  Speaker 1: feels like, oh, CCB left and now there's sour grapes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's not really the case. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Although do you notice have you listened to Hallmark Channel
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  Speaker 1: Radio on Sirius at all a little bit? Do you
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  Speaker 1: know who the voice of the Hallmark Channel radio is?
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: I have no idea it's lazy Shbear. Hi, I'm Lacy
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  Speaker 1: Shbar and I'm the voice of Hallmark Channel Radio.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's lean of chrise. It's very clear
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  Speaker 2: who the new Queen of Christmas is.
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  Speaker 1: I think, honestly, that would have happened regardless, because she
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  Speaker 1: was edging out CCB as in, you know, pulling the
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  Speaker 1: viewers in. And yeah, yeah, so there's no sour grapes
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  Speaker 1: when actors leave. We are just all for inclusive programming
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  Speaker 1: and channels and actors that support that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and of sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Period t Let's talk The Royal Nanny, you guys. We
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  Speaker 1: let our Facebook group choose this movie for us. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they hate me. Well, let's start with the synopsis. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: here's the synopsis. Five Agent Claire goes undercover as the
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  Speaker 1: Royal Nanny and must overcome the challenges of her assignment,
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  Speaker 1: like resisting the charms of Prince Colin while keeping the
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  Speaker 1: family safe at Christmas. Stars a whole bunch of people.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to butcher their names.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, Rachel Scarston.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Janote, Greta Sacchi. Did I do it? This movie
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  Speaker 1: was filmed on location in Belgium, set in London. Set
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  Speaker 1: in London, yes, yes, And the quote Kensington Palace in
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  Speaker 1: this movie is Oudonk Castle, which is located on the
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  Speaker 1: outskirts of the Belgian city of Ghent, and there are
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  Speaker 1: rooms within this castle that are available as a bed
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  Speaker 1: and breakfast on Airbnb. All of the scenes of the
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  Speaker 1: Christmas Market were filmed at the Palace of Charles of
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  Speaker 1: Lorraine in their square in Brussels.
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  Speaker 2: Oh exciting. There's a number of.
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  Speaker 1: Belgian filming looks and I'll leave a link in the
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  Speaker 1: show notes to those because many of them I can't
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  Speaker 1: pronounce and I do not want to do the count
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  Speaker 1: dragged of Belgium a disservice by attempting to pronounce them. Gosh,
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  Speaker 1: we are at that Ireland movie and somebody emailed us
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  Speaker 1: and just was not kind about like the pronunciation. No,
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but I will say I love this article
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  Speaker 1: because we often have a hard time finding information about
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  Speaker 1: specific filming locations, and this breaks down where the fake
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  Speaker 1: Frogmore Palace is and where a number of these locations are.
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  Speaker 1: So if you are interested in Belgian filming locations, we
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  Speaker 1: will leave a link to that article in today's show notes.
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  Speaker 1: This wee star is Rachel Scarston. She was also in
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: the Hallmark movie Marry Me at Christmas with Trevor Donovan
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen. Sorry, Sam standard Trevor Donovan. I'm not
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: a fan. I'm not a Donna fan. That's what he
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: no legit, that's what he calls his fans, or they
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: call himself. And he was on Dancing with the Stars
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and he's like a show
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: out to the Donna fans and I was like, oh God,
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: I want to die. And it's not because he's over
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: at GAF. It's just because I think he's a weird dude. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The only note I hear I have about Rachel I
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: haven't seen her in anything other than Fifty Shades of Gray.
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: I don't remember her. I don't remember a lot of
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: details of that movie. I'm a little ashamed of you
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: even admit that.
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I've read all the books, but
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen the movie.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: But I have no idea who she plays in that movie.
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: I liked her, I liked her. Yeah, Greta Sachi plays missus,
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: miss Lansberry or Scary Poppins, whatever you want to call her.
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: Why are you laughing? Because that's a great nickname.
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: It is. I remember her as Harrison Ford's side piece
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: in the nineteen nineties movie Presumed Innocence, which is a
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: great movie. It's usually on HBO. Okay, I recently watched it,
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: but like within the last couple of years. I remember
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: like coming home after school drop off and I was like, oh,
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: this is not I'm gonna sit here for two hours
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: and watch this movie. It's a good movie. It's a
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: real done it Okay. And I don't think I think
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: she's the one who gets killed. I can't remember, to
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  Speaker 1: be honest. Okay, Anyway, it's a good movie. You should
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  Speaker 1: watch it.
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  Speaker 2: But I haven't seen her.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I was so familiar with her name, but
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen her in anything since that movie. And
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: she has done definitely been working with lots of stuff,
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: Lots and lots of stuff. Dan Janott plays Colin, who's
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  Speaker 1: not new to Hallmark. He was on twenty five episodes
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  Speaker 1: of The Good Witch, in addition to some other Hallmark movies.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, we hear long story short.
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  Speaker 1: Know him best as Ryan Decker aka Pinstripe from The
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: Bold Type. Yeah, Megan texted me, she's like Pinstripe and
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know what you're talking about. Well,
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: he's in this movie. He's in this movie, a high
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: point of this movie. This movie was written by Brooke Durham,
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  Speaker 1: who also wrote Hidden Gems. Among her fourteen acting credits.
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: Brooke Durham has fourteen acting credits acting credits. What has
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  Speaker 1: she been in writing credits? I'm sorry, okay, Yeah, So,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, she wrote Hidden Gems, which starred Hunter King,
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  Speaker 1: who just signed a multi picture.
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  Speaker 2: Deal with The Channel.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: Is Hunter King the sister of Yes, Joey King from
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: that Kissing Wood series.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Oh they look very similar. They look like sisters. Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: very similar.
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  Speaker 2: I like, is that the same? It's not the same.
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  Speaker 2: I really liked her in Hidden Gems. I really liked
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  Speaker 2: her cool.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad she's coming to the Channel. Movie was
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  Speaker 1: directed by Jonathan Wright, who also directed Jolly Goood Christmas
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  Speaker 1: with Will Kemp.
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  Speaker 2: We will leave a link to our.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Review for that movie. Also Christmas Ceo from last year.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: I Believe It's that one again, right, real phone toy
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: phone Yep, yep, Goodwitch and Mix Up in the Mediterranean.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: He also directed Angel Falls on novel Holiday which is
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: a Jen Lily joint that. Oddly enough, my husband and
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: I watched this past weekend. Is it any good? You know?
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: Not really a fan of gen I thought it was cute.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: Actually that's all I got for news and notes me too.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: Let's move on to first impressions. Go ahead. If the
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: kids can set up so many pranks, someone's not doing
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: their job. Ah, what are you got?
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: This is like Kevin McAllister Saves the Royals? Oh?
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Interesting? Interesting? Do you think people are getting the Kevin McAllister.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: That's a home alone reference? Yeah, I get it.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: I get you all right.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: You guys give up? Are you thirsty for more?
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: You guys watch that? Maybe way too much? Have you
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: watched it this holiday season yet?
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  Speaker 2: Not yet?
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  Speaker 1: It's on the list though, yes always, Thank god guys.
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  Speaker 1: We Our first Christmas movie of the year is Yogi
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Bears First Christmas, which we watched last night. Is it
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  Speaker 1: a cartoon? Yes, it's a cartoon. How is a thirty
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  Speaker 1: minute cartoon? It's like two hours, whole feature link movie
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  Speaker 1: like cartoons. And now that my children are older, they're
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: watching and they're like, why is his scarf changing color?
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: It's red and now it's green. Thirty seconds later in
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: the same scene, where did Booboo come from?
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: Booboo's there?
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: Now, Boo Boo's not the whole time, my son, He's like,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: the continuity in this movie is terrible, but it's it's
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: a cartoon though, right when did that come out? O?
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  Speaker 2: It's old? Okay? So total side note? Is it?
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  Speaker 1: Like, do you feel a little uncomfortable? Like are there
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  Speaker 1: parts in it that are could be like slightly racist
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  Speaker 1: or like slice slightly inappropriate in a twenty twenty two lens?
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  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, you.
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  Speaker 1: Act like I'm watching it the carefully. I don't think
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Yogi Bear's First Christmas is problematic.
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  Speaker 2: Because I will tell you we've watched.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's rude off the Red Nose Reindeer where
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: it's like they look like pay Nation. Yeah yeah, yeah,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: super massagistic, like it's just I but I think it
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  Speaker 1: just was the time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I know.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Yoga Bear's First Christmas is not super like that. Like
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: the Jellystone Lodge is gonna get shut down because they're
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: gonna build a freeway and the owner is coming to
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: decide if she wants to sell to the developers.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Sounds like a Hallmark movie.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Anyway, what did we like about The Royal Nanny. Well,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: I have to tell you I fell asleep while watching it.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I tried to watch it four times, and then finally
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: in my third time, when I actually sat down to
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: watch it, that's when I fell asleep. And then I
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: had to wake up and then rewind the whole thing
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: and rewatch it again. So that tells you how much
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: I like this movie. But I will first say that
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed Rachel Scarston Scarston. I spilled her name around,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Harris says Scatston Scarceton. I thought she was pretty effortless
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: in her scenes. Like, I thought she was a good actor,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: with the exception of actually being like an m I
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: five agent.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Take your hand off your ear, dude.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: At the beginning, and she's like in the marketplace and
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: she's she's following a person.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: She's literally like two feet.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Behind her, like talking and I'm holding my hand up
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: to my ear. Guys, right now, she's like talking into
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: What is she talking into? Is she pressing the earpiece
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: so they can hear her? Why does she have to
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: have her hand to her ear.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: I don't that's a good question. I don't know she's
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: pressing it in so she can hear them better. I
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I don't, or maybe her microphone is like in her wrist.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't know. But it was just like, okay, whatever.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: And then there's a time when, like with the umbrella,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: and she's like fighting the guy.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: In the scenes where she's the agent.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Not that believable, but all the other scenes I liked.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: So I have to say that after sitting with this movie,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I don't hate it.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Really. Let me tell you how I watched it.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: I watched it on Peacock because I watched it just
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: like you know, a day after its release. It is
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: great when they frontload it with all the commercials, right,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: It's great because I have the ability to fast forward
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: through commercials on Friendly and on YouTube TV. However, it's
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: like one hundred and thirty seconds of commercials and then
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: it runs and you can tell where the commercial breaks
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: are supposed to be, and I kept like picking up
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the remote, but I didn't have to. I love it
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: just run straight through. It's an enjoyable experience. If you
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: have peacock, I recommend it watching it that way.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: I didn't.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I had hard time finding the Hallmark Hub like it
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: was not super obvious.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: It's not there. Interface is not great.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: No, Anyway, the viewing experience was enjoyable, and I will
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: continue to watch some movies that way.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Here's what I liked.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I like the idea of intrigue in a Hallmark movie.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: It's a little different, change things up a little bit.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: There's a plot to kidnap the royals. There are things
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: that I thought were silly about at the umbrella is silly.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: The fact that she like hooks the guy around his
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: ankle and there's like Vodevi'll like whoo.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: It's silly.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Yes, However, do I actually want her like with a gun?
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Do I want violence in my Hallmark movies?
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Not really?
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: So kind of enjoyed it, Okay. I don't want damge
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: not sweaty and with like a gash over his eye,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: like he's being tortured while he's being held hostage. Okay,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I need him in this break clean, little storage knit
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: where he's just sitting in the middle where it comes table,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: in his little chair, waiting to be rescued.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I have so many thoughts on that, but I will
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: wait for it.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, and did not.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was impressed that he's not an actual British person.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: His accent was great, right, The accent was pretty good.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I actually looked up because I was like, oh, was
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: he doing an American accent on the bow type.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: This whole prime and I wonder he's a Canadian. So No,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: he had a good accent.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this was not a reverse Will Kemp situation.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I think people sound better with a fake British accent
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: than a fake American accent, although Tom Holland has maybe
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: disproven that. Tom Holland maybe because my first introduction to
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: him was with.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: His American accent.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so, and your brain tells you that that's what
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: he sounds like. I didn't hate the kids in this movie.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: You know me, I have a history of not liking
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: child actors.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I thought they were kind of cute.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Actually, the little boy was real super cute, and the
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: daughter was fine. I just thought it was cute. And
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: that one scene where she's wearing the blow up reindeer
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: antlers on her head and like she's letting them throw
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: the rings at her. The whole scene was really cute
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: because everybody got in on it.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: It was fun. I liked it. I like the kids.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: She was real natural and that scene, She's like, what
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I get in on it? And you know you can
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: buy that on Amazon. I was thinking I might because
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I was like, should I bring that to Christmas? Ee?
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: You got? Yeah? Fun for all ages, that's all I got.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, finally for me, I did like Claire and I
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: and my nose says Pinstripe.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: I like them together. Hmm. I thought they were.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Like their flirtation was really good. I thought it wasn't
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and they did not like each other too a little bit,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: but it wasn't like so obvious that I was like, uh,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: they hate each other and then now they like care
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: for each Yeah, you know.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: He was just like I just want to have fun.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I don't really need a babysit are looking over my
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: shoulder while I'm hanging out with.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: My right but I did it did the story did
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: make me think. I was like, is he the bad guy?
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Like? I did stop to think, like, I mean, they
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: said it in the movie too, Like she was like
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: are we looking him to protect him? Or is he
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: the enemy or whatever? And I thought, oh, that'd be
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: a real twist if he was the bad guy. M
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: But anyway, Okay, what'd you wish for? Well, I did
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: not find the plot that interesting.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Okay, here's I think.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I was so expecting a Christmas movie and you didn't
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: really get on No, so it like kind of blindsided
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: me a little bit of like, oh, this is like
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: a espionage treason type ALIAS want to be I don't whatever.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I just was not expecting it. So I think that's
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: what made me not like it.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know. I don't know. Okay, I feel
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: bad about it.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Don't feel bad about your feelings.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Feel your feeling.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I think this should have been a Hallmark Movies and
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Mysteries movie. Well, yeah, why is the mystery not on
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Hallmark Movies?
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: And I don't understand?
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: And I think that our Italian Christmas memory should have
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: been one on the Hallmark channel.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how did they decide that? I don't know. I
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: don't know. I only have.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: One wish, and it's that I understood or had any
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: idea why they were after the royals simply because they're royal.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: They just want to get them. What did they want
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: them for? I don't know.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: And Meg and I had like talked as we were
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: putting together our notes for this episode.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: We're like, what happened? Who was the bay? Who was
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: the bad guys?
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: I believe it's someone on calling security team. I think
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: that's what we discovered.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I just I don't know.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I don't like movie like royal movies. I have no
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: interest in the royal family or even pretend royal families.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: I like royals. My husband didn't watch this.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: He was like, I don't do royals, so oh really
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I thought about your husband this weekend because one of
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: the movies I watched they had a lot of blue ornaments,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, he would hate this. I
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: just want Christmas at the Golden Dragon. Okay, a lot
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: of blue ornaments in that? All right, good movie, though
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I liked it. I haven't did you see that?
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I really don't know. It's just the be roll of London.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Pretty certain's the same one we saw into like a Christmas.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Girl was like, oh there it is again, same establishing shots. Yeah, yeah,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: that holiday with the lights draping down the alleyway.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, I don't have did you see that? I
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: just have some question.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Let's hear, why did Colin wait until the party had
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: started to invite Claire to attend the party. Oh, like,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: she just don't have that dress. She was like, I
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: think I have something perfect for this event.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: You were being a nanny.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Why did you bring a formal dress that happens to
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: be perfect for a holiday party?
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Why why did you do that?
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: And and and that the mom, the Princess Rose Yes,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: says like, oh, it's okay, I'll just call the night nanny.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I was like, night nanny.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: These aren't babies, Like.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Well, I guess they would need somebody to attend to
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: them if their mother was so unavailable like she was.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: But you know, but if they're at a party, they're
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: old enough to attend a party, and they were at
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: the party. No, they were at the party, and the
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: nan he is not expected to be their security. They
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: have their own security detail. So they're maybe eight and
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: twelve attending a party. They're not going to choke on
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: something or yeah exactly. Did you think it was weird
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: that she stood in line with him too and like
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: greeted people. M I thought the whole Christmas party was
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: weird because it was already like underway and then he
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: invites her and then they kind of like go back
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: to welcome people to the party.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Didn't make sense on Prince Colin.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: She's like, I'm gonna go upstairs and change like that
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: would have taken an hour at least, parlor hair and
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: all of that. Why was he hiding outside? He doesn't
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: like the attention? Right?
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Is that what his deal was? Oh?
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I did think in this scene. I know we're all
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: over the place here, but when she when they were
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: trying to nab that money guy for the charity or river,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: and she like told the story about like growing up
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: in a group home, and I was like, that kind
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: of got to me a little bit for her, And
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that she expressed those feelings to him as
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: as a child who grew up that way and what
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: the gifts meant to them. Yes, and I liked the
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: writing like a president Christmas.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Is not a luxury. Yeah, I know.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: I actually did get in my head going, okay, like
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go get smack I when we do this
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: every year anyway, But I was like, I'm gonna go
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: shopping for my gifts this year for the children's charities
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: my last did you see? That is more of a
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: come on? And that is at the end they're finally together,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: although they haven't kissed yet, and Rose is like.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: You're part of the family, and Colin will make it
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: officials soon.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: They've known there for two weeks, they haven't kissed yet.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Come on, you're royal. You know there's more that goes
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: into it.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Than there's a lot of vetting, Isn't it like they're
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: not just gonna have She's well, she would be a
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: princess or well not no, she would never be a princess.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Well whatever, she's gonna give up her job to now
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: be part of the royal family.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Pumped the breaks
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Princess Rose. I liked Princess Rose. I did too. I
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: did like her. What did you rate this movie?
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I gave it two and a half stars, mostly because
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: it was super un hallmarky like it just I just
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I also gave it two and a
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: half stars. Oh that's why I'm surprised. Two and a
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: half seems like a real high rating.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: For I don't like it.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Took a lot of shi t over my one star
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: on a Maple Valley Christmas?
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: So did you a little bit? People are hopping in
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: those girls? God of Hallmark TMS? Yes, me. Oh no,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Whny's gonna be patting her reviews from here on it.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I am not, I'm not, I'm not. I just it
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: was just okay, just I wanted a Christmas movie. I'm
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: in the mind frame of a Christmas movie.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: This was not it. No, you heard it here first,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Wendy wants a Christmas.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Was watching Diehard and people calling it a Christmas movie?
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Did you know what I mean?
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Sure?
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Great example. Okay, next week, Big Week, three Wise Men
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: and a baby.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Appointment TV watching, and we will also be I'm not
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: gonna be home and not airs that night. I'm gonna
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: be at the Lizzo concert. Guys, is it on Saturday night?
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Saturday night?
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: I'm guessing Saturday? Yeah, sorry, I'll watch it the next day.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: We are also.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Watching reviewing Inventing the Christmas Prince.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: It's a new addition to our calendar. It is.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know what we were thinking when we originally
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: put our calendar together, but I like Tia Tamara. I
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: don't know which one it is is Tamara. I don't
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: think Tia does Hallmark movie.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Oh she doesn't.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I think she works for another network, Lived Lifetime. Oh okay,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: we don't hate Lifetime over here. Oh, Jody Sweeten, I
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: record Mary Swist. Miss haven't watched it yet.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Not that good?
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: All right, well, thank you for listening to this episode
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• 29:11
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• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Goodbye bye,