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Taking a Shot at Love · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a bonus episode from Long
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  Speaker 2: Story Short, the podcast. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy. We are
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  Speaker 2: the team behind Long Story Short. If you are new
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  Speaker 2: to us, Long Story Short is a website you can
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  Speaker 2: find us Bangan and Wendy dot com. We have regular
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  Speaker 2: episodes of our podcast every Tuesday, and Girls Gone Hallmark
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  Speaker 2: was born out of a project we did in November
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  Speaker 2: and December twenty twenty where Wendy, who had never seen
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  Speaker 2: a single Hallmark movie, decided she wanted to not only
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  Speaker 2: watch them but review them, and we had so much
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  Speaker 2: fun that we are continuing that. So now we are
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  Speaker 2: in January, and the January movie grouping is New Year,
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  Speaker 2: New Movies, which is the you bid his name for
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  Speaker 2: a collection of movies I've heard. I'll be honest, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to talk about that. Last year was Winterfest,
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  Speaker 2: much better name. But we have five movies that we'll
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  Speaker 2: be discussing this month, and our first up is Taking
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  Speaker 2: a Shot at Love. I'm so excited to be back
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  Speaker 2: with this series in January and to be continuing it
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  Speaker 2: throughout the year.
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  Speaker 1: Me too, I'm very excited. Oh good, Who am I?
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  Speaker 1: I truly don't know.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to find us outside the podcast, like
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  Speaker 2: discuss the movies with us there too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, totally, and don't forget we love your emails. So
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  Speaker 1: at Megananwindy at gmail dot com. We would love to
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  Speaker 1: hear your thoughts on these movies anytime.
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  Speaker 2: Are you a Megan watching these movies year round?
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  Speaker 1: Big fan? Are you a Wendy? Are you brand new?
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  Speaker 1: Let us know totally? All right? Ms Wendy, do you
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  Speaker 1: have a synopsis for us? I sure do. This comes
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  Speaker 1: from theofficial Hallmark Channel dot com website. Taking a shot
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  Speaker 1: at Love Jenna, a former professional dancer, uses ballet to
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  Speaker 1: help a hockey player get back on the ice. Stars
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  Speaker 1: Alexa Penna Vega and Luke McFarlane. Did I say his
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  Speaker 1: last name, right, McFarlane, Yes, you got it.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta trust in yourself. You always doubt your pronunciation.
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  Speaker 1: I do. That's like a super hang up of mine.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this movie is set in Hartford, Connecticut, but it
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  Speaker 2: was filmed in Canada.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually set in the town of Avon, Connecticut. Megan, Well,
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  Speaker 1: the article I read said Hartford, you don't remember like this,
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  Speaker 1: she it's the Avon Winterfest Ballet Show or whatever it's called. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's in the town of Avon, because what
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  Speaker 1: I read, writer Julie Wolf actually lives in the town Avon,
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  Speaker 1: Connecticut and wanted to get the town's small name to
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  Speaker 1: be heard in the public or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I heard that too, and I apologize. It's the county
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  Speaker 2: is Hartford, Avon is the town.
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  Speaker 1: So we're both correct there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I believed that this movie was filmed in
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  Speaker 2: the winter.
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  Speaker 1: Well I have a little bit of news on that. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: all right, it was filmed during Thanksgiving, so during the
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  Speaker 1: week before and the week of Thanksgiving, so it's definitely
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  Speaker 1: cold in Canada that week. I believe that it was cold.
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  Speaker 2: The skies were gray, her jackets were more puffy than fashion.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't the beautiful coats that uh Candice Cameron war Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they were function over form. Two notes here. One, The
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  Speaker 1: fact that this movie was filmed in November and is
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  Speaker 1: now on the screen in January is blowing my mind.
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  Speaker 1: What is the turnaround time typically on these Hallmark movies?
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  Speaker 1: Is it that short?
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  Speaker 2: Well, a lot of the movies we were watching in
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  Speaker 2: December were filmed in August and September, and they're just
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  Speaker 2: churning those out, which is why you'll notice if you
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  Speaker 2: use the Hallmark Movie Checklist app when they first launched
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  Speaker 2: their Countdown to Christmas movie listing. You know, if you
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  Speaker 2: look right now at the New Year New Movies lineup,
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  Speaker 2: only three of the five have actual images of the
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  Speaker 2: actors oh and two have like stocks photos. Oh. One
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  Speaker 2: is like a really blown out image of a candle,
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  Speaker 2: and one is a mug in front of snow like
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  Speaker 2: they have not even added in the official movie photos.
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  Speaker 1: So I do think these are.
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  Speaker 2: What's the word I'm looking for. I think these are
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  Speaker 2: just constantly in production. I think the turnaround time is quick,
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  Speaker 2: and it's so fast that they don't even have time
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  Speaker 2: to get the actual images up on the app.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: The same was true of Countdown to Christmas. If you
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  Speaker 2: opened the listing of Countdown to Christmas, there were many
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  Speaker 2: stock photos when they first launched, and throughout the season
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  Speaker 2: the images of the actors in the movies. The official
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  Speaker 2: images were at it. So I think they're just flying
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  Speaker 2: by the seat of their pants.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's nuts. Okay, now listen to this note. I
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  Speaker 1: also found this morning. So actress Alexa Pennavega was pregnant
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  Speaker 1: while shooting this movie.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, that makes so much sense because they gave her
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  Speaker 2: that big puffy jacket. But what doesn't make sense is
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  Speaker 2: she's always in dance clothes. She must not have been
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  Speaker 2: very pregnant.
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  Speaker 1: No, not very pregnant. Apparently she's due sometime this summer.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought she was Okay, So she was not
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  Speaker 2: showing because she was in like leggings and leotards.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but she had like a sweater wrap on in
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  Speaker 1: one of them. I mean, I don't think she was
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  Speaker 1: very pregnant, but still I don't think she was, Like
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  Speaker 1: she wasn't running around in like barely there leotards. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, perhaps they filmed some of those dance scenes earlier
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  Speaker 2: on and then that like opening scene where she's in
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  Speaker 2: like the big flowy sweater is one of the later
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  Speaker 2: filmed scenes.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting. Well, yeah, fun fact about Luke McFarlane.
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  Speaker 2: He is a new United States citizen and voted in
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  Speaker 2: his first election last year. I saw on his Instagram
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  Speaker 2: this morning. Is he a Canadian? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I believe so.
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  Speaker 2: He's also a twin Oh and he has a twin sister.
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  Speaker 2: And he is well known for his appearance in many,
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  Speaker 2: many Hallmark movies. He's definitely a Hallmark movie dude.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I know he was also in the show Brothers
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  Speaker 1: and Sisters, though I don't remember who he played in
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  Speaker 1: that show. I looked at his acting credits. He has
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  Speaker 1: like some shows outside of the Hallmark universe, but I
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  Speaker 1: can't nothing that like. I was like, oh, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: remember him. But he's nice on the eyes and I
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  Speaker 1: think he's a good actor.
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  Speaker 2: I thought both of the actors, the lead actors in
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  Speaker 2: this movie were very pretty, very nice to look at.
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  Speaker 2: Alexa Penevega is I wouldn't say best known for her
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  Speaker 2: Spy Kids appearances.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I saw that she was in that, But who
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  Speaker 1: did she play in Spy Kids? A child? Oh? I
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  Speaker 1: did not know that. I'm gonna have to go back
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  Speaker 1: and look. That's hilarious. Now. I do know that she
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  Speaker 1: is married to some musician from a band called Big
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  Speaker 1: Time Rush, which I don't know anything.
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  Speaker 2: Oh so, Big Time Rush is a Disney Channel band.
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  Speaker 2: I think, hold on, big Time Rush is a Nickelodeon band.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me. So they were formed in two thousand and
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  Speaker 2: nine and they starred in the television series Big Time
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  Speaker 2: Rush signed a record deal with Nick Records simultaneously with
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  Speaker 2: the TV series, and then they were eventually signed to
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  Speaker 2: Columbia Records. So they kind of have that very child
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  Speaker 2: star going on.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, hold on, I am looking up images from Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, she was that kid in Spy right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was two thousand and one, the first
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  Speaker 2: Spi Kids, which is twenty years ago, so you know
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  Speaker 2: she was ten or twelve at the time. But yes,
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  Speaker 2: Spy Kids feels like it was like three years ago.
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  Speaker 1: To me. That's blowing my mind. I actually thought she
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  Speaker 1: looks a little bit like Alyssa Milano.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think that's a fair comparison. And she's
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  Speaker 2: in several Hallmarks style movies, but I do think she
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  Speaker 2: is perhaps best known for Spy Kids. All right, now, overall,
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  Speaker 2: first impression of this movie, did you enjoy it?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I enjoyed it quite a bit, as did I.
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  Speaker 2: I found it very pleasant to watch, and in fact,
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  Speaker 2: normally I'm writing multiple notes about my problems with the movie,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't have a lot of those. I have
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  Speaker 2: a couple of things to say. But I just found
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  Speaker 2: it really enjoyable to watch, and I think it was also.
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  Speaker 1: A really nice break from Christmas content. I think so too.
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  Speaker 1: So here's my question. When we talked about the Christmas
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  Speaker 1: movies and the first movie that came out in the
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  Speaker 1: Countdown to Christmas series, you said was kind of a
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  Speaker 1: dud that they don't put like the big name, big
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  Speaker 1: movies until closer to the Christmas holiday. Now, does the
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  Speaker 1: same apply for this kind of content, the New Year,
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  Speaker 1: New movie content.
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  Speaker 2: I would say no, because at this point they're just
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  Speaker 2: trying to hold on to their Christmas viewership. They get
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  Speaker 2: a huge surge of viewers for the holidays, and I
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  Speaker 2: think it peters out. So I think at this point
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  Speaker 2: they're trying to do whatever they can. I think a
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  Speaker 2: lot of their non Christmas movies are great, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't think placement. I don't think it matters so much.
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  Speaker 2: Now that we're into January.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you it was appointment TV for us again.
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  Speaker 1: My husband and I sat and watched it on the
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  Speaker 1: couch together. I really enjoyed it. I really really enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 1: I would stop and watch it again if I saw
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  Speaker 1: it on the guide, Yeah, I would do. I would
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  Speaker 1: have it on in the background. I enjoyed it that
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  Speaker 1: it was very visually pleasing to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Her house was beautiful, obviously, the people in it were beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: One thing I really liked is that the dancers in
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  Speaker 2: her dance studio were actually dancing, and they were enjoyable
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  Speaker 2: to watch. I liked that they showed, you know, all
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  Speaker 2: the way through the dance. It wasn't like they were
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  Speaker 2: just doing real close ups on a dancer's.
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  Speaker 1: Face to give you the impression that they were dancing.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't I have something to say about the hockey.
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  Speaker 2: But I really enjoyed that. And they showed their final
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  Speaker 2: dance performance. And sometimes that's the kind of thing that
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  Speaker 2: you'll just maybe see them like standing off stage, or
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  Speaker 2: you'll see a couple little bits of it. But I
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  Speaker 2: really thought that they did a good job showing the
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  Speaker 2: dance and making it a part of the show, and
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  Speaker 2: if she's a dance teacher and the central part of
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  Speaker 2: the plot is this big dance performance. I thought it
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  Speaker 2: was great that they had them actually dancing in the movie.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So with that said, let's talk about what we
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  Speaker 1: liked with a shot taking a shot at love. So
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  Speaker 1: you liked that the dancers were actually dancing. I really
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  Speaker 1: really enjoyed that boy, Felix. He was a dancer. I
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  Speaker 1: thought he was a great dancer. I thought he was
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  Speaker 1: a good actor. And what I liked best is that
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  Speaker 1: he was passionate about dancing but also really wanted to
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  Speaker 1: learn how to play almost says Soccer. He almost he
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  Speaker 1: really wanted to learn how to play hockey, and that
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  Speaker 1: these adults rallied around him to, you know, show him
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  Speaker 1: he could do both. I loved it, loved it, loved it.
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  Speaker 1: I loved when Felix shows.
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  Speaker 2: Up for the first time and he recognizes Coop and
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  Speaker 2: Ryan walks over to and he's like, don't tell anybody
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  Speaker 2: who saw and Felix is like, why, what's wrong with dance?
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  Speaker 2: And I really like that he, you know, owned the
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  Speaker 2: fact that he liked dance.
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  Speaker 1: In addition to liking hockey.
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  Speaker 2: And one thing I was watching the Instagram review of
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  Speaker 2: a fellow Hallmark fan her account his Hallmarks the Spot,
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  Speaker 2: and one thing she said was that there were points
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  Speaker 2: in the movie where I think we were supposed to
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  Speaker 2: believe that Luke McFarlane's character, Ryan Cooper was a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a bad guy, right, Like, there were multiple scenes
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  Speaker 2: and he couldn't commit to it, Like, he was just
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  Speaker 2: such a good guy. There was no point at which
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  Speaker 2: you felt annoyed with him, because even in the moments
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  Speaker 2: where he was kind of supposed to be annoying, he
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  Speaker 2: turned it around so quickly that you just couldn't help
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  Speaker 2: but like him. So I enjoyed that scene.
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  Speaker 1: Right So, like when he gets to Jenna's house and
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  Speaker 1: he mistakenly thinks that's his accommodations. You know, he did
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  Speaker 1: come off as a little put out when he had
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  Speaker 1: to go to like the guest house or whatever, but
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  Speaker 1: he was still likable, and that's what I enjoyed about
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  Speaker 1: his character. I agree talking about Ryan and his like
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  Speaker 1: bad boy persona. He was so nice to the kids,
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  Speaker 1: Like he was nice to the kids that were waiting
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  Speaker 1: for him outside the hockey rink signing autographs. He was
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  Speaker 1: nice to the ballet kids. I just thought he was
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  Speaker 1: a super nice guy. In general. I thought that they
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  Speaker 1: had a decent amount of chemistry between the two. What
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  Speaker 1: did you think about the chemistry between the two of them.
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  Speaker 2: I believed chemistry. I enjoyed them. I was rooting for
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  Speaker 2: them as a couple.
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  Speaker 1: And what I.
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  Speaker 2: Liked is that they clearly had a connection throughout. And
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't the sort of movie where their enemies throughout
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  Speaker 2: the movie and then they come together in the last
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  Speaker 2: five minutes. They clearly liked each other. They clearly enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: each other's company. And I like when the movies give
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  Speaker 2: us that glimpse because I don't believe it when you've
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  Speaker 2: got enemy, enemy, enemy enemy, Oh we've got to wrap
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  Speaker 2: it up all of a sudden, we're in love. I
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  Speaker 2: liked that they showed us their chemistry, and they showed
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  Speaker 2: us their connection. And of course, you know, they had
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  Speaker 2: roadblocks in their way, which I don't actually think we're
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  Speaker 2: roadblocks at all, but we can talk about that later.
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  Speaker 2: But I feel like they built up their connection throughout
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  Speaker 2: the movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was a little bit worried in the kind
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  Speaker 1: of beginning scenes when she was like annoyed with him
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, and I thought, Oh, no, are we doing this?
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  Speaker 1: But I agreed. They kind of like put that to
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  Speaker 1: the side and they had some cute banter. They really
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  Speaker 1: liked each other's company. They started hanging out together more,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, which then leads me to at the very
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  Speaker 1: end when he comes out to spoiler alert to Jenna's
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  Speaker 1: showcase and he comes out to like introduce her or
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  Speaker 1: the dance or whatever, and I thought, I really like
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  Speaker 1: this guy. He's like humbled and charismatic. I just loved him.
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  Speaker 1: I loved him so much.
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  Speaker 2: Well, my favorite line is when he shows up and
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  Speaker 2: before he goes on stage and he said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I need to talk to you, and she says, I
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  Speaker 2: thought we said everything that needed to be said, and
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: he said, we didn't say anything that needed to be said.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought that was such a perfect call out
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  Speaker 2: of the fact that they never had a conversation about
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  Speaker 2: how easy it would have been for them to continue
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  Speaker 2: this relationship. You know, she just assumes that him going
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: back to his hockey team means that everything is over,
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: and he points out a hockey's not year round, and
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  Speaker 2: be you know, I can travel, I can you know
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  Speaker 2: you don't. Connecticut and New York are not that far apart,
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  Speaker 2: so we can still continue this relationship. I loved that line. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: me too.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I have a couple few little scenes. They probably
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  Speaker 1: didn't mean anything to you, but they were so cute
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  Speaker 1: to me. One was when they went ice skating together.
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  Speaker 1: It was just the two of them, and I thought, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna do a little ice dancing. In my favorite
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: episode of Beverly Hills nine o two and zero, when
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Brandon meets the she an ice skater you don't remember,
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  Speaker 1: I think she's an ice skater and he plays hockey
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  Speaker 1: and they go and do a little time of your
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  Speaker 1: life out on them. Oh yeah, on the ice rink.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, this is it, this is what's happening.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't. They didn't do any ice dancing. They
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: actually did a cute little like playing around and shooting
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: pucks and stuff like that. Totally loved it. Totally thought
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  Speaker 1: that it was an adorable date. I also really liked
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  Speaker 1: that they talked about getting coffee and like their little
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  Speaker 1: town center or whatever, that there was coffee carts all
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  Speaker 1: over town Center, and I was like, man, I really
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  Speaker 1: wish we had something like that, a little coffee cart action.
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  Speaker 1: I could just walk down to my local center and
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  Speaker 1: grab a coffee at a coffee cart and make me
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  Speaker 1: want to hang out. Do you remember that part at all?
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  Speaker 1: I do. I didn't feel that. I mean, there's coffee
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  Speaker 1: on every corner. I guess the cart part is it's
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  Speaker 1: so much more charming. It is charming. Yeah, yes, I know.
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  Speaker 2: But how much time do you spend just walking around enjoying,
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  Speaker 2: like seeing what there is to see? Which is not
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  Speaker 2: to say that we shouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: I just I just don't. Well, you and I don't
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  Speaker 1: live in small towns, and I think if we lived
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: in a small town that had like a one main
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  Speaker 1: street with no chain coffee places, that sure, if we
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: lived in Stars Hollow or Eggs, Connecticut, exactly, we would.
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  Speaker 1: My husband even said, you want to start a coffee
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  Speaker 1: cart business, and I was like, yes, I do. Let's do.
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  Speaker 2: My husband once to move to a small town start
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  Speaker 2: an ice cream shop, so you guys can run a
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  Speaker 2: coffee card and we'll run the ice cream shop.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll just have our own Hallmark movie. I freaking
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  Speaker 1: love it. Let's do it, Okay. One final scene that
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  Speaker 1: I thought was so adorable is when she took him
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: to task on the air hockey game. Yes, that was cute.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I liked that. I loved it. It just that that
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: stuff just supported like the fun, hangout, banter relationship that
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: they were building. Agree Agreeded loved it. Is there anything
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: else that you liked about this movie? I think that
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: covers it. Okay, I have one last thing. Tell me.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: The thing I don't love about the Christmas movies is
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: like the holiday hijinks. This right, there's no hyjinks. No,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: there were no hyjiinkes. I love it. I loved it. Yeah,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: it felt like real life.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Yes, like that opening scene where she's just like making
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: coffee and it's not a hot chocolate with ninety seven.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Marshmallows, and it's not right.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: It's just her life obviously her life was So you
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: saw that Hooga Farms saw it?
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Did you care it? Yes? I have something that I'm
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: going to put in the digital moment.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well it's I bumped on it right in the
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: very beginning, and my in my brain I thought, oh,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: it's like a home goods Like that's the kind of
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: thing you would find at home goods. And I honestly
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: bet that that's where they found it in like a
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: home decorps. Like, that's cute, right, and then she ties
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: it back in. She's like, oh, it's actually my family's
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: farm day and I was like.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: No, it's not.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: But I did like that, you know, it was just
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: a very shot of real life. Even though our friend
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: comes in. It's like, your life is like a coffee commercial.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: That was funny, daring out the window in your cozy clothes.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: But yes, I appreciate that the holidays have been wiped
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: from the movies.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's funny to hear you say that. I can
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: appreciate that the holidays have been wiped from the movies.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: You know, I am so done twenty twenty holidays. Bye.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I just okay. So let's move on to so a
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: news segment for us, it's called uh oh. So in
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: this segment, we are just looking at the potential roadblocks
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: to move the story forward. And the first one that
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I came up with was we got Jenna who lives
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: in Connecticut, and Ryan, who is currently playing for the
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: New York Rangers. They live in different states, but uh oh,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: can they not be in a relationship? Can they not
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: be in a long distance relationship. There are roads.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I am rereading the Babysitters Club series with my daughter,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: and for those in the know, the Baby Sitters Club
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: takes place in the fictional town of Stonybrook, Connecticut, and
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Stacy is from New York and often goes back to
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: New York for her doctor appointments and they drive there
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: for the weekend. So even the casual Babysitters Club reader
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: knows that it.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Is a quick drive. Yeah, is it? I just And
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: here's the the other thing too, is like, he plays
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: for this professional team, fine, but he doesn't have to
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: live in New York in the off season. He can
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: come back to Avon, Connecticut and live with her there.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: He's traveling most of the time.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. They don't even point out that he doesn't have
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: to live there until the final scene of them maybe.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, that was a little bit frustrated to me. Okay,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I have another uh oh, Okay, there's a mysterious person
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: taking video of Ryan as he's out on the ice.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Uh oh. He gets called back to the team before
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Jenna's big dance finale.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I feel like they built that up to
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: be this big nefarious thing, right, Like they show the
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: guy filming, and I was like, what's gonna happen here?
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Because what's wrong with what he's doing?
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Right? And then he gets called up.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: And they can't even have a conversation where she says like, hey,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: I'll call you. It's just over, like she's done, like the.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Chemistry's gone, it's over there.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I don't This is my biggest complaint about movies like
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: this is when they don't have the conversation that needs
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: to be had, you know. Okay, so we don't have
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: it all figured out. I'll call you tomorrow, like, hey.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Maybe we can get together this weekend. Like to her,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: she's like, it's over.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: And that's why I do appreciate he was like, we
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: didn't say anything that needed to be said.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, totally. Okay.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Next, let's talk about things we wished were different about
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: this movie. And I know you have a big list,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: So why don't you go first, Wendy.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, it's a big list, but it mostly has to
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: do with Jenna's storyline. Yes, it was a little all
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: over the place without much explanation. So first that the
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: studio competition, She's losing students to a computer studio. There's
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: like some shady moms happening, but like that doesn't pan
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: out to be like anything.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: What the thing I didn't like about that was just
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: as she was a bad business woman in that sense.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know a single dance studio that doesn't have
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: a competitive team aspect to it. That's where they make
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: their big money. And you can still be the competitive
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: dance teacher who teaches for the love of dance. You know,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: they did their performance in the end and those kids
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: still enjoyed dance. You can still instill the love of
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: dance while also having the competition aspect. And also, if
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: that's the one thing that's going to keep you in business,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: You need to pivot if that's what's going to keep
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: you in business.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And I think she gets lucky here because she
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: gets saved because she doesn't end up having to do
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: that because she becomes like, oh, I'm going to be
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: a sports rehabber, but is or she's going to, you know,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: teach these classes for athletes, which okay, fine, but really,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: if you think realistically, I'm going to teach a agility
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: for athletes class in my dance studio, what one a week?
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, what's the demand for that really gonna be?
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Is that going to be the one thing that saves
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: your studio? Obviously you can't be rehabbing athletes across.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: The country who don't live innwhere near you. You still
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: got a pivot. Yeah, Well, I think she thought, oh,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I got this connection with my cousin who's a sports manager,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: and now I can get all the athletes to come
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: my way to be a cash cow for her. I
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: don't know, it was just thought well thought out. I
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: don't run a competitive studio, lady, right, get the money
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: where the money is. Here's my other problem. She was
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: having problems paying the rent at her studio, and big
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: and beautiful, right, and she's got this gorgeous barn out
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: in the back where he COO does tell her at
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: one point, why don't you convert this to a studio
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: back here? And she then goes off to talk about
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: how they tried at one time to make it a
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: cider tasting room, but it's too old and historic and
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah. Whatever. Look, there are ways
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: around this. She could have converted the barn into a studio.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: But my point is she went on talking forever about
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: her dad's dream to make this cider tasting area in
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the barn, which made me kind of believe, like, is
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: she moving that way? Is she going to do that
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: in the future, And then that just was like nothing.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I did feel like the farm storyline was one that
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: we didn't get enough information about. They kind of like
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: threw it in every once in a while to give
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: her a little bit of backstory, but I didn't fully understand.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, wait, this is on farmland, but
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: you live in the middle of a residential neighborhood. I
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: didn't fully understand what was going on there.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, And my final missed opportunity in the Jenna storyline,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: she never fully really tells the story about why she
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: left the ballet company. It has something to do with
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: like a relationship gone wrong with her boss, Like what.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: So she was right in a relationship with the lead
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: guy who was in charge. She gets injured and while
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: she's out rehabbing, they replace her, and then he ends
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: up in a relationship the new prima ballerina. So I
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: mean that's kind of the whole story, like that she
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: was no longer of service to him. He was over her.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Is the way I understood it.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: When she's out of the spotlight, why is she hanging
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: her hat on? Some dude, aren't there a bunch of
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: other ballet companies that you can I mean, I don't
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: know anything about ballet, but isn't there another company you
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: can go work for? Yeah? I don't know.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Maybe she felt disillusioned by the fact that they dropped
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: her like a bad habit when she was injured. And
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: the interesting thing was her cousin in the very beginning,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: He's like, this is the same injury that you came
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: back from. You made a comeback, But did she really
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: actually ever make the comeback? She rehabbed and then opens
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: a dance studio, which is fine. She's clearly good at
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: her job and enjoys it very much. So everything else
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: on my list falls into the category of did you
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: see that?
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: And I have some things to talk about? This is
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: my most fun category that we do here on recaps.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I have quite a few, So let's see if we
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: have some overlappers. Go ahead, Okay.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: My first is there's no way that's him in the
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: opening hockey scene, because there's this guy is beautifully skating
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: down the ice, and then the up close shots are
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: like right any space. They found some bearded hockey player
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: who resembled Luke McFarlane to do all of the hockey shots,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: and then they got real tight on his face when
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: it was time for him to speak. I do not
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: believe that was him.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: They're like, Luke, sell it with your face that you're
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: playing here all nice.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: And then later in the movie, when he takes Felix skating,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: he has the friend, who's clearly a very good skater,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: get out there and teach him, and then he kind
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: of like hops on the ice for a quick little lap.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: When Jene gism the all clear, you're all clear for it.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I didn't believe. I didn't believe that.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Also, I was like, oh, how convenient that he has
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: to stay off the ice right now because he's not
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: a good skater.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, soa speaking of his character. So he plays for
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the New York Rangers, which is a real hockey team.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: And did you notice how much merch he wore throughout
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the entire movie. Now, listen, you know that we have
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: a professional sports athlete in my family. Yes, never have
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I seen this man wear anything from his team in
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: thirty years.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Well, was he being paid for it to be in
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: a movie, because I could imagine that if the Rangers
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: sponsored this movie, there must have been some sponsorship, otherwise
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: they would have done link.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: You know it's the Polar Bears, because.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: There's so much New York Rangers placement. Constantly, he constantly
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: has a sweatshirt on or a jacket on, and obviously
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: the jersey. They mentioned the team name.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Over and over again.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I fully believe there was an exchange of funds.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there had to have been, because in my experience
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: with professional athletes, they want to keep everything on the
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: down low. They don't want to be going to pick
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: up a hot sider where in their New York has
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: app whatever. So next for.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Me is, look, I know he's like a big fancy
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: hockey player, used to fancy accommodations. But I didn't believe
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: when he showed up at Jenna's house that he assumed
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: that the house was where he was staying. He had
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: been told he was staying in a guest house. There's
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: clearly he's like, oh, that's a garage. When she points
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: out his mistake, it doesn't look like a garage, it
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: looks like.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: A guest house.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's beautifully painted to match the house. The key
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: is in the wrong place. He walks in and he's
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: clearly in someone's home.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I did not buy that for a second.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: And then she comes home and he's shocked that she's
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: walked into his home.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Didn't buy it. I have so many problems with scene
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: because first of all, she tells him the key is
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: under the pot, right, So when he gets to her
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: home she live, he lifts up the mat and there's
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: a key under the mat. Who on God's green Earth
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: leaves a key to your home under the mat at
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: all times? Maybe in Avon, Connecticut you do. Yeah, if
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: you guys are familiar with Avon Connecticut. I want to
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: know what the safety is there, or like, what's the
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: crime there? Because if I can just leave your key
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: under the mat for any old Joe to walk on in, okay?
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: But why wouldn't he have stayed in a hotel?
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: That's what I didn't understand the very beginning, In all caps,
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: I wrote, why is he staying in her guest house?
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: And why does she even have a guest house? Because
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: all of these people we saw the same thing and
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: never kiss a man in a Christmas letter, she has
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: a guest house that she doesn't rent out like she
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: uses for her own studio. But you're telling me there's
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: not a hotel in this town. There's not an airbnb.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: He has to stay in the home of the beautiful
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: ballet dancer.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: They did say that she rints it out during the
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: summer or whatever, so it's like a perfect place for
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: him to stay. But still, like a professional athlete is
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: going to stay in a hotel with very nice accommodations.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: He's not staying in some ladies, right.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: This is asshional relationship. They're not gonna even though you
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: know the cousin, they're still not going to have you
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: stay in her home. She's an employee. She's rehabbing the photo.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Talk to me, I don't remember a photo when they're
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: in the barn.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, he sees the photos of her and he goes,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: wait a minute, as if all of a sudden, he's
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: just realizing she was a ballerina, which he knew. Whips
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: out this photo he has on his phone, which there's
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: like six people in it. It's not a giant group,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: and they just happen to be in a photo together.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: It didn't occur to him going to work with this ballerina.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: He's staying in her home. It's not until he sees
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: a photo of her that it occurs to him. By
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: the way, we've already met and we have a photo
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: together that I'm carrying around on my phone my ex girlfriend, And.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I said to my husband, I go, oh, he just
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: so happens to pull that up on his phone, like
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: how old is this photo? And how is it still
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: on your phone?
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: He would have a had to scroll forever to find
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: the photo was right at the beginning of his relationship
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: with his ex. That was one of the most beautiful
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: dances I've ever seen. Give me a break. I mean, no,
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: it was not necessary to the story at all. Nope,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: didn't believe it.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: I agree. Okay. The other thing I didn't believe is
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: that Jenna's ballet shoes were perfectly pristine pink. Every ballet
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: dancer that I've ever seen in one of my best
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: friends growing up was a ballet dancer. Her shoes are
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: a wreck, they are worn in and so I was
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: annoyed by, like there was no reality in the condition
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: of her ballet shoes. Yes, how about the ice storm? Okay,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: so many thoughts on this ice storms of all if
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: you don't know, we live in southern California. We have
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: very few rainstorms, let alone ice storms. You might hail
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: for thirty seconds. Yeah, but the power goes out, and
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: she calls her friend in this dangerous ice storm to
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: come on over because it's a game night. Like do
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: they live next door? Like, don't send your friends out
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: to come over during this dangerous ice storm. But then
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: they do come over and they're dry as a bone,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: they're not wet at all. Well, and they wear She says,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: are you okay to walk home?
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: And they go, oh, yeah, we have our crampons, which, oh.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Thank you for bringing that up, because I said to
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: my husband, I said, what a What is a crampon?
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: The exact definition is a metal plate with spikes fixed
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: to a boot for walking on ice or rock climbing. Now,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: I do not please listeners from states where you have weather,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: correct me if I am wrong, But I do not
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: think these are meant for walking down the street in
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: an ice storm. They're for like rock climbing or mountain climbing,
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: not like go into.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Your friend's house for a game night. Did you know
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: what a crampon was before they said it? I knew
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: it was for mountain climbing.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: I couldn't I but I could not have given you
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: the exact definition. But oh my god, that's it's funny
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: in a nutshell. A crampon is a type of spiky
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: traction device that attaches to your footwear to help provide
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: gripp and stability while walking or climbing on ice and snow.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Ice climbing, glacier crossing, and snow hiking, they all require crampons.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: I mean these images, they're like heavy duty spikes. Just
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: not for one second, it's like snow tires for your feet.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Not for one second do I believe that people wear
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: them just to walk from house to house on an
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: ice worm. I think you stay your ass home and
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: then it's okay for them to walk home. But she's like,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: you couldn't possibly walk across.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: The r here's the okay, let us take this one
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: step further. Would they have the crampons on their feet
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: in her home or are they putting them on out
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: on the porch in the weather like it makes no
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: sense to me. No, you had mentioned earlier houga, the
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Danish word for cozy, So you know that I am
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: married to a Dane and We had a good laugh
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: about it because she went on talking about how it's
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: like a Danish No no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: no no. Her name is Jenna Wagner. Wagner is not
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: a Danish name. Now, sure, the Danes could have been
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: like on her mom's side, and then she married a Wagner,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: but like, why not just make her a Nielsen or
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: an Olsen or a whatever. Not Jenna Wagner is a
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: great continuity question I cannot answer for you. I don't
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: think they thought that all the way through, and they
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: didn't they need to hire someone like me to you.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: What happened was they found the sign in the home Goods.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: They thought this is perfect for one of our sets,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: and then they wrote the story backwards from that. I guarantee,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: if the writers are listening, confirm my suspicion.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, their sign could have said live, laugh, love
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: or whatever you know, go after your passion, or it
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: is my mission to find this sign now all right.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: My last comment, and you may have more, is about
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: the diversity in this movie, or perhaps the lack thereof. Okay,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: we discussed it in the Countdown to Christmas movies and
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: some movies did a better job than others, and we
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: have said that Hallwark appears to be trying, although they
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: are not there yet. And I would say this movie
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: fails the diversity test. There's one friend of color. She
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: has her best friend who is black, whose husband is
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: even white and super duper white. Like I would say,
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: this is a fail on the diversity scape.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was a little disappointed that we didn't see
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: any other people of color.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Dancers are all white, the kids in the movie all
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: of his hockey teammates, although hockey is a real white sport.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's true, but that's a fail for me.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, hopefully we see a little bit more diversity going forward,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: not in the lead actors. I'll tell you that, not
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: in the next five movies, correct, that's for sure. I'm
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: just going to end this one little note here in
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: this section of did you see That? And it has
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: to do with her friend's husband, the real white guy, Matt,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: that we were talking about. At one point. He says
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: that he almost was drafted to the NHL, but he
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: decided not to go that route because his dad died
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: and he needed to help save the family business. Why
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: are you not going going then to the NHL and
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: getting that NHL money to save your dad's business.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Right, This is not his dad was a real he's
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: a real estate attorney. This is not a store that
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: needs to be run. If the father passes away, he
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: just stops being a real estate There's no assets. I mean,
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: perhaps he needs the income, but you're right, if it's
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: the income that they.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Need, go to the NHL. That is a.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Storyline that did not hold up for me. And I
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: feel like if they wanted it to be I had
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: to go into the family business. They needed a better
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: storyline than real estate attorney.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Right. But then on top of it, his wife was
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: not aware of this because she said early on in
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: the movie like how she was really trying to get
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: her husband to get to watch some hockey with her
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: and this and that and whatever. And then it turns
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: out that he was once almost a professional hockey player
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: and this is the reason why he can't watch hockey
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: anymore because it's too hard for him. Like she like, what, right?
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: She doesn't make it sound like he has this history
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: with hockey and that's why he doesn't watch it. It's
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: just like he doesn't like it. I'm the hockey fan
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: in the house, and it turns out he has quite
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: the history.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: And yes, wait, I got one. I got okay, okay, okay,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, And I know this one is why you
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: didn't even bring it up. Blows my mind. But when
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: the power went out and they were falling asleep on
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: the couch and they had a million candles burning, Oh,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: you're falling asleep with a million candles? Yes, romantic looking,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: but not real. Yeah, not safe at all. So yeah,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: I was apparently bothered more by that than you.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Well, I will admit that I was double screening this movie,
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: so I was doing things on my phone while I
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: was watching. So looking all right, all right, all right,
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: all of that being said, let's rank this movie.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Are we doing four stars? We're sticking with our four stars.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: We're sticking to four stars. Best Hallmark movie we've ever
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: seen is a four star. For me, I have a
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: really hard time rating this because I've only seen Christmas movies,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: so I don't know how to place this, do you
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: know what I mean?
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Right, So I'll go first, just to give you something
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: to think about. So, okay, I think the only four
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: star movie we had was The Twelve Dates of Christmas
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: am I correct? And I am like you, hesitant to
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: give a movie four stars because I haven't seen the
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: rest of the New Year New movies. But for me,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: this is a solid three and a half stars, great movie.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Would absolutely watch again in spite of all of our complaints.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Really enjoyed it. I didn't find those things distracting while
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: I was watching. They were just fun to note and discuss.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Three and a half stars.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: I'm going to agree with you. Oh right, a half stars? Yeah, yeah.
• 40:49
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• 40:51
  Speaker 2: episode of Girls Gone Hallmark.
• 40:53
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• 40:54
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• 41:03
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• 41:07
  Speaker 2: which stars Amy t Guard and which Wendy has just
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: informed me is Julie Taylor from Friday Night Lights all
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: grown up. She's as cute as can be. I'm very
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: much looking forward to that. And Michael Rady is the
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: actor in that movie from Timeless and Unreal, which was
• 41:25
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• 41:29
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• 41:31
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• 41:35
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