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The Love Club: Nicole’s Pen Pal · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is like the baby's breath of movies. It's like
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  Speaker 1: a filler flower popped into the schedule.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallwork, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a lifelong Hallmark movie fan.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Wendy and these are the kinds of movies that
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  Speaker 3: make me want to quit podcasting.
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  Speaker 1: This week's episode is all about the love Club colon
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  Speaker 1: Nicole's pen pal. If you want to connect with us
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been a little absent on our Instagram page
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  Speaker 3: for a couple weeks now, just because you know.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to our long story short episode on Thursday for
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  Speaker 1: an update on our lives.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Girls Gone Hallmark on Instagram, or you can jump
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  Speaker 3: into our Facebook group is also Girls Gone Hallmark and.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate your emails. Once again, life's win a little
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  Speaker 1: bit weird. You can hear it in my voice. You
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  Speaker 1: can't see Wendy's boot, but we are hobbled in more
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  Speaker 1: ways than one. Around here is before we jump into
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  Speaker 1: our thoughts on Nicole's Pennpow. Let's talk about a Hallmark.
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  Speaker 3: Is there anything new coming out?
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  Speaker 1: I've got a couple things to tell you about.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me one is not so much.
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  Speaker 1: Breaking news as it is confirmation of news that we
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  Speaker 1: were already aware of, and that is Hallmark itself has
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  Speaker 1: confirmed the return of the Murder She Baked series starring
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  Speaker 1: Allison Sweeney and Cameron Matheson, and it will return with
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  Speaker 1: a movie based on the novel Carrot Cake Murder, to
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  Speaker 1: air later this year. Can I ask you, what's that
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  Speaker 1: face that you're making?
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  Speaker 3: It's just funny that it takes Crown Media or Hallmark
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  Speaker 3: Media like days weeks to confirm something when like the
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  Speaker 3: Hallmark fandom has already basically confirmed it.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that's intentional? Like, let's get them talking,
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  Speaker 1: let's get them thinking they've got some scoop, and then
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  Speaker 1: we'll come in.
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  Speaker 3: Well maybe you know their new recent hires. If that's
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  Speaker 3: the game plan, then yes, I would say yes, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Also, in addition to the movies that we know are
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  Speaker 1: coming in March, Hallmark has announced in April, on Easter Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: they will air a faith based movie. It starts Amanda
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  Speaker 1: shol and Carlo Marx and it will be called the
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  Speaker 1: Blessing Bracelets.
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  Speaker 3: Well, two thoughts here, Amanda schol and My one of
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  Speaker 3: my most favorite movies ever, Center Stage and Carlos Marx
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  Speaker 3: super Hot from It's Just Carlo Carlo Sorry, Carlo Mark
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  Speaker 3: from The Wedding Bill. Oh right, he's real, he posts, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he's got a first trap photos on this India sack.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing, there's one of his like must hair. Did
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  Speaker 1: we have this conversation on the podcast where we shared
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  Speaker 1: that a listener had messaged us that we think hallmarks
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  Speaker 1: She says, we agree. We've said essentially the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: The Hallmark sometimes gives like the yearbook photo treatment to
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  Speaker 1: yess actors. Yes, and that's definitely Carlo Marx definitely has
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  Speaker 1: the high school yearbook photo treatment. Yeah, this is a
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  Speaker 1: case where Instagram is greater than Hallmark correct as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to Instagram versus reality. Yes, we love our Facebook group members,
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  Speaker 1: and Mike from our Facebook group sent us the message
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  Speaker 1: early this morning saying that he's like, gag stole your
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  Speaker 1: idea and they've got their like Christmas movie bracket up.
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  Speaker 2: On screen it out right now?
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  Speaker 3: Is March?
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  Speaker 1: Who cares about your Christmas movie bracket March.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, thanks Mike. I feel like we need to just
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  Speaker 3: give Mike our phone numbers so he can just text
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  Speaker 3: us because he's.
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  Speaker 1: Our unofficial intern. I sounds very detailed thoughts via email
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  Speaker 1: after every movie, and I really love it, especially a
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  Speaker 1: movie like this one. Yeah, yeah, let's talk about a
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  Speaker 1: synopsis for the Love Club.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So it's kind of confusing because listeners may or may
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  Speaker 3: not know this is this movie is from a four
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  Speaker 3: part series.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, can we print a retraction right now?
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: So in a past episode, I said that this was
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  Speaker 1: part of a four part series and that all of
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  Speaker 1: these movies had already been created, but I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: when they'd be airing. And a fellow podcaster to your
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark reached out and was like, hey, dummies. No, she
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  Speaker 1: was lovely and kind. I added the dummies myself. I
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  Speaker 1: do appreciate this kind of feedback and pointed out that
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  Speaker 1: those movies actually already have been aired on the Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: Movies now.
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  Speaker 3: App Yeah, they're available now if you want to watch them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it sounds like Hallmark's just gonna air one of them
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  Speaker 3: on the main channel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is like the Baby's breath of movies. It's
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  Speaker 1: like a filler flower popped into the.
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  Speaker 3: Schedule one hundred percent. Okay, So do you want this
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  Speaker 3: synopsis like the overall? Like?
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  Speaker 2: No, just this movie? Okay? Freshly engaged? First of all?
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  Speaker 2: Who says freshly engaged?
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  Speaker 3: Freshly engaged interior designer Nicole still wonders if the one
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  Speaker 3: she's meant to be with is her mystery college pen
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  Speaker 3: pal whose letters she has kept all these years.
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  Speaker 1: I really need video for this episode so you can
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  Speaker 1: truly get the depth of our disdain for this movie. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk news and notes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I already said before. This is a four part
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  Speaker 3: movie series. In addition to Nicole's Penpal, we have Sydney's Journey,
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  Speaker 3: Lauren's Dream, and Terras Tune, which all sounds like an
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  Speaker 3: American girl book.
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  Speaker 2: Yes that's not.
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  Speaker 1: Nice. Of course, this movie does star Britney Bristow, who
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  Speaker 1: has been in other Hallmark movies like A Tale of
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  Speaker 1: Love of Her first starring Hallmark role was in A
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  Speaker 1: Holiday Date.
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  Speaker 3: I've never seen her in any Hallmark movie. I've been
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  Speaker 3: watching Hallmark movies now for two years.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna tell you right now. I think Britney
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  Speaker 1: Bristow and Marcus Rossner were served crap on a cracker.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, I this was a serious disservice to these
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  Speaker 1: two actors.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's before we gena.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm just gonna say because I don't want the
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  Speaker 3: haters to dm us. We know the hard work that
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  Speaker 3: goes into these movies and the money that is spent.
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  Speaker 3: We recognize all of that.
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  Speaker 1: Point. I think these actors deserved better in this movie.
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  Speaker 1: I'm knowledging the actors.
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  Speaker 4: I agree with you, You're right, Okay, I just don't
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  Speaker 4: the haters that come for us about how we are
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  Speaker 4: mean to Hallmark people who make these movies.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, this was someone's job. Someone's spent their time creating me.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, guess what, There's a lot of jobs I do
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  Speaker 3: that I'm not great at either. So these were Shawn
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  Speaker 3: in Ontario, Canada. M I mean, no surprise there. Jill
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  Speaker 3: Carter directed. She has nineteen directing credits, including a couple
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  Speaker 3: episodes of our one of our favorite TV shows ever.
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  Speaker 2: The Bold Type.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, that's so funny that you say that, because do
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  Speaker 1: you think the movie posters for these movies look like
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  Speaker 1: Bold Type promos?
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  Speaker 3: It did feel very contemporary it didn't feel like a
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  Speaker 3: Hallmark It felt very like Yeah, sex in the City Light.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like it was very reminiscent of the Bold
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  Speaker 1: type in their imaging for this movie. Hey, A standard
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  Speaker 1: performance in this movie for me comes from Tyler Murray,
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  Speaker 1: who plays Roy the Bartender. This is his first Hallmark movie,
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  Speaker 1: although he does have thirty seven additional acting credits. Dare
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  Speaker 1: I say it justice for Tyler?
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  Speaker 3: I enjoyed him. He was a nice He.
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  Speaker 1: Has the best line in the entire movie, which is
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  Speaker 1: is did you have to pick the best looking guy
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  Speaker 1: in town for this ruse?
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's funny, It's great. He's talking about the yoga guy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Any more news and notes, my dear, I mean, let's
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  Speaker 1: not forget our fellow lead actor Marcus Ross. Yes, he
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  Speaker 1: has fifty acting credits from Hallmark, including Romance to the Rescue.
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  Speaker 1: He is also in one episode of the new series
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  Speaker 1: of Sex Life. He has three movies currently coming up,
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  Speaker 1: Finding Mister Wright, Team Bride, and Christmas in Maple Hills,
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  Speaker 1: which feels suspiciously like a Hallmark joint.
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  Speaker 3: You think just that's you think they would have like
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  Speaker 3: named a twenty twenty three Christmas movie already that's not
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  Speaker 3: the Biltmore one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. I think they've named a number of them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but we don't know any of them yet. I
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  Speaker 3: guess we'll just have to wait and see.
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  Speaker 1: We will have to wait and see.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about what we like.
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  Speaker 1: No, man, we need to do a first impression.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you're right, it's been a minute since we've done
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  Speaker 3: one of these.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: My first impression is in all caps, she was engaged.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I have thoughts on that. My first impression is
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  Speaker 3: this maybe had one redeeming storyline one, tell me, okay one.
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  Speaker 1: I assume that's in your likes it sure is?
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  Speaker 3: Did you want to go first about likes? Yea, sure,
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  Speaker 3: let's talk about that one. We'll just segue right in there.
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  Speaker 3: The one redeeming storyline that I liked is when Nicole
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  Speaker 3: finds the actual writer of the letters. Yeah, and he
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  Speaker 3: tells her like he was going through his own shit
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  Speaker 3: when he wrote those letters. And then we find out
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  Speaker 3: that he isn't the same sex couple and it all
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  Speaker 3: makes sense now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was working through some of his own things.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And that was it was.
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  Speaker 3: It felt very refreshing to me on the Hallmark Channel.
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  Speaker 3: If I were to watch this on anything else, I
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  Speaker 3: would have been like whatever, but like it was sure
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  Speaker 3: it was a nice, nice little surprise. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So unfortunately for me, the likes section of this episode
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  Speaker 1: is pretty spare. But what I did like is the
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  Speaker 1: origin story of their friendship.
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  Speaker 2: Agree.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was great. Metoop. I like the way
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  Speaker 1: these women came together.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, I have that in my likes as well.
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  Speaker 1: And I think much like the wedding veil, one of
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  Speaker 1: the things we liked about that was the relationship of
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  Speaker 1: the friends. I like that. I like that we've got
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  Speaker 1: these friends.
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  Speaker 2: Who like show up for each other. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I like that they're constant throughout the movie. They're there,
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  Speaker 1: and I was much more invested in their relationship than
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  Speaker 1: I was in the main love story in this movie.
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  Speaker 1: And also, may I say, for continuity's sake, I love
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  Speaker 1: their selfie that they took an actual, real selfie. I'm
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  Speaker 1: surprised you didn't pull it out at the New Year's
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  Speaker 1: Eve party, they're sitting outside, they take a phoe. I
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  Speaker 1: see it and it later gets printed into a photo printed.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, you took my other like I mean I had one.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I like their friendship to you and that
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  Speaker 3: I had a lot of potential, Yes, a lot of potential.
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  Speaker 3: I agree, all right, this very likely could have been
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  Speaker 3: the shortest like segment of a movie ever.
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  Speaker 1: I think perhaps I did wrote and I mentioned earlier.
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  Speaker 1: I like Britney Bristow and Marcus Rossner, and I actually
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  Speaker 1: liked them on screen together. If I could have just
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  Speaker 1: gotten past all of the other stuff that this movie
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  Speaker 1: had working against it, I think that's a real shame,
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  Speaker 1: because I do think they had chemistry together. I find
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  Speaker 1: them both very enjoyable to watch on screen. I just
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  Speaker 1: think they were dealta a bad hand.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you think their agent should have said, let's pass
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  Speaker 3: on this one.
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  Speaker 1: I think that there's a lot going on in the
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  Speaker 1: creation of a movie, and I can't possibly know how
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  Speaker 1: much information they have when deciding on these movies.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think they just get the synopsis?
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  Speaker 1: Because I don't hate the storyline of the One That
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  Speaker 1: Got Away me neither, and I don't hate the storyline
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  Speaker 1: of you know, I've always I just have always wondered
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  Speaker 1: if this is all there is?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but there's a.
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  Speaker 1: Big piece that I can't get past in this.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's talk about it. We're moving towards it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about our wish and I wish that
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  Speaker 1: we would stop writing stories with infidelity at the heart
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  Speaker 1: of them. And this is not an accidental whoops, I
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  Speaker 1: fell in love with my interior designer movie. This is
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  Speaker 1: I am a woman who has just accepted a proposal.
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  Speaker 1: I am actively engaged. I create this incredibly elaborate ruse
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  Speaker 1: to go find this man who I think might be
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  Speaker 1: the love of my life. That's an affair, that's at
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  Speaker 1: the very least an emotional affair. That's a premeditated affair.
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  Speaker 1: This is not I accidentally stumbled and whoops, I'm in
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  Speaker 1: love with the coworker.
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  Speaker 2: She was actively seeking out a better option.
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  Speaker 1: And then goes on actual dates yes, with the not
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  Speaker 1: at home and another man, And so there was no
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  Speaker 1: need for the fiance to be in the picture. If
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  Speaker 1: you had taken him out of the picture immediately, if
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  Speaker 1: she had said at Thanksgiving, I'm sorry, I can't marry you,
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  Speaker 1: and her friends are going what's happening On paper? He's
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  Speaker 1: the perfect guy, and she says, you know, actually, I
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  Speaker 1: just it didn't feel right right. There's so much more
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  Speaker 1: in this movie that I can root for. I just
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  Speaker 1: can't get excited about a movie where she's on the
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  Speaker 1: phone lying to her fiance.
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  Speaker 2: I agree, And let me just.
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  Speaker 1: Say, can we please get the family friendly Hallmark crowd
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  Speaker 1: to come for a movie like this?
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  Speaker 2: Ah? Interesting, take Megan, because.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to tell me that a movie that
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  Speaker 1: features a monogamous same sex couple who are in a
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  Speaker 1: consensual relationship with each other is somehow more controversial than
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  Speaker 1: a woman who's actively seeking out a relationship while she's
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  Speaker 1: engaged to a man, I think you need to have
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  Speaker 1: a conversation with yourself about that. Thank you very well.
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  Speaker 3: Clap, thank you very well, said thank you. I absolutely agree.
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  Speaker 3: I wish that somebody, either like the writer or once
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  Speaker 3: the script goes to somebody else after that, takes a
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  Speaker 3: harder look at it and says, what's a way that
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  Speaker 3: we can make this better so that that infidelity is
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  Speaker 3: not at the heart of our story.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, I agree with you.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like that either.
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  Speaker 1: And we could have kept Warren in the storyline. We
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  Speaker 1: could have still had him saying like reach out too, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: talk to me, tell me what's going on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and her saying like it's They could have had conversations
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  Speaker 1: like you did everything right on paper, it should have
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  Speaker 1: made sense. I just I want to root for these couples,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why watch these movies, right, I want to
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  Speaker 1: I want a sweet little love story on my on
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  Speaker 1: my TV.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that Hallmark is worried about making a
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  Speaker 3: story telling or telling a story that is too complicated
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  Speaker 3: in terms of like that's too much like real life,
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  Speaker 3: so we don't want to go there, like meaning like
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  Speaker 3: she were to actually break things off with the fiance
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  Speaker 3: and then you know, like what.
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  Speaker 1: You've heard picked less complicated.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I understand, but like or maybe somebody at
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  Speaker 3: Homewark is thinking like, oh, it feels more salacious if she's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, cheating on her fiance.
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  Speaker 1: I don't disagree. There's that intrigue there, and I just
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  Speaker 1: don't like it. It's I'm just as a viewer, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not excited about the lying. This is not an episode
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  Speaker 1: of you on Netflix where I'm rooting for the bad guy, right,
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  Speaker 1: That's not what we're about here. And I just the
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  Speaker 1: whole time, we're supposed to be rooting for her to
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  Speaker 1: find love, and I think it's really hard to root
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  Speaker 1: for someone who's treating someone else. So badly.
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  Speaker 3: I agree one wish I had and please this is
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  Speaker 3: not woe on woman crime here, but I do feel
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  Speaker 3: like we could have had a smarter lead character. And
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  Speaker 3: hear me when I say character, not actor. I just
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  Speaker 3: felt like she was like so naive and this like,
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  Speaker 3: let me search after this guy who wrote these letters
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  Speaker 3: and then got so upset because she wouldn't understand that
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  Speaker 3: he didn't actually write the letters because he had this
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  Speaker 3: he had dyslexia.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right? Like it?
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  Speaker 1: I hated this movie? Well, I think to your point,
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  Speaker 1: what this movie suffers from is an old Hallmark trope
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  Speaker 1: of miscommunication. When she finds out Josh wasn't the actual
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  Speaker 1: author of the letters, he very quickly he's like, no,
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  Speaker 1: but I did write those I did. Those were And
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  Speaker 1: they don't have a conversation, and it takes days before
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  Speaker 1: they get to the point where she finds out through
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  Speaker 1: this third party that those were his thoughts, those were
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  Speaker 1: his ideas. We could have gotten there in five minutes
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  Speaker 1: if these two characters would just have a conversation.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and let's talk about Josh for a second, dude, Like,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's got a track record of being a
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  Speaker 3: liar to no, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No lies on lies on lies in this movie bad
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  Speaker 1: that he then invents this alternate dude, Why he wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: just go to the actual person. Why wouldn't he because
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  Speaker 1: it actually makes a lot more sense in the storyline
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  Speaker 1: for him to go to the writer of these because
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  Speaker 1: that person's happily in a relationship. Clear that all up,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't the man you are looking for.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I know.
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  Speaker 3: The writer of this movie has written a ton of
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  Speaker 3: other movies, like over sixty writing credits, and I I'm
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  Speaker 3: here to say that I think Hallmark needs new writers
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  Speaker 3: with a fresher take on life. Oh interesting, I'm not slamming.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not slam I just think like some people who
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  Speaker 3: write for Hallmark fall back on this, like the Hallmark trope,
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  Speaker 3: like this is what we've always done. And I think
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  Speaker 3: that Hallmark is making leaps and bounds towards a different
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  Speaker 3: way of storytelling, and so let's all catch up, like,
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: let's all the movies catch up there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, for me, I actually think some of our writing
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: and this is really fresh and light, and I like
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: the way that the friendship storylines weave in.
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  Speaker 3: I just.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: This happens sometimes where there's one part of a movie
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: that I can't get past, and it overshadows the entire
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: movie for me. And again it's the infidelity storyline. And
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: so I think we're Josh to just have had his lie, like, oh,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: look she's here and this is my chance, and I
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: just need to get over this, get her, get this
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: other guy out of her system that would have maybe
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: not seen so egregious. Were we already not building this
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: precarious tower of life?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: And I also wonder, you know what comes first when
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the writer is writing this? Yes, like who's saying like,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: here's the story? Now you need to create a script
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  Speaker 1: out of this?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I did?
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  Speaker 1: Does all of the idea belong to the writer?
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  Speaker 3: Right? Okay, so let me let me correct this here.
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  Speaker 3: I did see on IMDb that there was a somebody
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: credited for this story idea and then there was a writer.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm not going to slam that writing. I think
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: maybe the original story idea is.
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  Speaker 1: Tired. Tired?
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  Speaker 3: Great? Yeah, send your emails to Megan and Wendy at
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: gmail dot com. I'm here for all right, did you
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: have any digit see that?
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I have a question. And then I have a funny
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  Speaker 1: moment from an actor on this movie. Okay. My first
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  Speaker 1: question is is it inappropriate for a man to plan
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  Speaker 1: a massage as a first date?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Absolutely, Like, hello.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Consent, I'm not ready for you to be touching me.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: I don't I know.
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  Speaker 3: Why didn't she be like no, that's a terrible idea.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Like I know he's super hot, but yeah no, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's but I do not want a man that I'm
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: going on a date with to give me a misty.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: But in reality, that guy it was it was all
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: fake anyway. He wasn't like really into a hole, but
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: I think he kind of was.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I you think so?
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Yes, I think that's the point is that Josh hired
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: him to just get her out of get him out
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: of her system. And then the guy meets her and
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: he's like, well, I'm going to go for it. Because
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Josh gets really upset, He's like what are you doing,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Like you're not supposed to actually date her, and he's like, well,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I'm going to turn it off, Like this is these
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: are the skills that I have at my disposal. I'm
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: a masseuse who's super hot. We're going to use that.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, could you imagine if your spouse was a massuse?
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: How amazing would that be right?
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but if he's like, on our first day, please
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: lie down on this table and it make it, make it?
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: I'm out why, I mean, die me first at least right? Uh?
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: What was your other? What was your other?
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Brittany Bristow tweeted funny story. On the first take of
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: storming out of the spa, I accidentally ran my face
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: into the camera.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Oh that's funny. Yeah, I mean I feel very kismet
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: with her. I am one to run into things a lot.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: I only had one small did you see that? And
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: when I told Megan off Mic about it, She's like,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: but that's normal. There was like a fake ass fireplace,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: like it had like just a glow as the fire.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I've ever seen that before in
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: a movie.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I've seen it in a movie,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: but I've seen them like in furniture stores.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's what it was like, like if you were
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: in a furniture store.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I mean you can buy those for your home. Oh god, yeah,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: that's you don't have a chimney.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: The other the other thing, and this was this is
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: just me.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: The obese when they're like in college, I thought they
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: had like too much makeup on.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: They were too made up to be college students?
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Girl? Have you been on TikTok?
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: That's fair, It's absolutely fair.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: But just like because we wanted them to look younger,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: so I think they should have like I mean, I
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: know they tried with like her kids great and whatever. Yeah, whatever, fine, Okay,
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: I'm nitpicking at this point. Let's talk about what you
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: rated this movie.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: One star me too, same.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm so sorry this was not good.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I am very excited for next week's movie.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Did you see the commercials for it by Eartheny Peaks?
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Yes, sneak Peaks are good.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: I think I just dropped the F bomb quietly here,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Brooks Darnell.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Looks, Oh my gosh.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Right, uh, our listener in Canada please turn this down
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: because we might be screaming about the cast in this
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: next movie.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: What's it called?
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: It's called The Game of Love? Who wrote it? It's
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: giving me?
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's giving me that Tyler Hines movie. Bye.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: The script is by Joey Elkins and Blake Silver. I
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: have yet to see Kimberly Sestad in something that I
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: didn't immediately fall head over heels in love with her
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and then when I saw Brooks Darnell, who I have
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: enjoyed in the past on screen in this preview, I
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: was like, wowye lowiewie. So let me just say, very
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: excited this this movie, leaving it in the past, super
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: excited for Game of Love. But yes it is giving
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: me the twelve dates of Christmas.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: So next week hopefully we'll have a better review for you. Hey.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: So, currently behind the scenes in Girls Cone Hallwark, we
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: are discussing should we recap the show right? And uh,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you that one of us is leaning hard
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: against it, So we want to know what you think,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: take it, leave it? Do you want it? Do you not?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Are there enough recaps out there or are ours just
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: so good that you can't imagine not having it in
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: your podcast feed. Thank you for listening to this episode
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: of Girls Got Hallmark. We'll be back tomorrow with a
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: recap of the Way Home episode seven. Until then, happy watching,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: See you on our Facebook group.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Bye bye.