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Adventures in Love and Birding · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a bramble jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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  Speaker 1: a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. Today
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  Speaker 1: we are reviewing Adventures in Love and Birding from Hallmarks
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  Speaker 1: Fallen to Love twenty twenty five lineup, which originally aired
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  Speaker 1: on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday, September twenty seventh, and
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  Speaker 1: it is hey, let's hear. A synopsis for Adventures in
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  Speaker 1: Love and Birding, A single mom agrees to be the
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  Speaker 1: partner of a bird enthusiast for a birding competition, but
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  Speaker 1: mis understands the assitement and tells everyone she's his new
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  Speaker 1: girlfriend instead of just his teammate. The Hallmark movie Adventures
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  Speaker 1: in Love and Birding is based on the novel Birding
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  Speaker 1: with Benefits by romance author Sarah T. Dub Did you
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  Speaker 1: read it? Did? I'm like, I remember you checking it
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  Speaker 1: out from the library. I read it. You read it?
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  Speaker 1: Did you enjoy I did. Would I like it? Or
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  Speaker 1: is it just spicy? You might like it? I like spicy. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's hell. A play was written by Nicole Baxter with
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  Speaker 1: twenty three writing credits. Nicole has been some of Hallmark's
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  Speaker 1: favorites like An Unexpected Valentine, Blind Date, book Club, We
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  Speaker 1: Wish You a Married Christmas, and the Presence of Love.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Robinson directed the movie. Michael has ninety three directing credits,
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  Speaker 1: which also included and Unexpected Valentine Holiday crashers, It Was
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  Speaker 1: Always You, and Mystery one oh one, An Education in Murder.
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  Speaker 1: Rachel Woston stars s Celeste. She has sixty seven acting
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  Speaker 1: credits and was last seen in Debbie Macomber's Joyful Missus
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  Speaker 1: Miracle during the twenty twenty four countdown to Christmas season.
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  Speaker 1: She's slated to star in the upcoming The More the Merrier,
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  Speaker 1: premiering during mary Thanksgiving weekend. Andrew Walker plays John with
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  Speaker 1: ninety acting credits. Andrew is booked and busy this holiday season.
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  Speaker 1: He will reunite with his on screen brothers in The
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  Speaker 1: Three Wisest Men in November, and then alongside Lazy Shabt
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  Speaker 1: and She's making a list in December. Busy, busy guy, busy, September, no, October, November. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you get it, busy, he said. May Stewart plays daughter
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  Speaker 1: Morgan with just a handful of acting credits. This is
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  Speaker 1: her very first appearance on Hallmark. Carmel Emmy plays ex Brina.
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  Speaker 1: Carmel has seventy three acting credits and was last seen
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  Speaker 1: on Hallmark in The Santa Class in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: I had forgotten that she was in that she's one
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  Speaker 1: of the Santas. Yeah, I had forgotten that too, But
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  Speaker 1: I can picture her now. Yeah that hair at curly, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's right here she has. Jason Trimpley plays Las Low.
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  Speaker 1: He appeared in a Maple Valley Christmas and Curious Caterer
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  Speaker 1: Dying for Chocolate both Sorry. Andrew Walker Wapuana Maria plays
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  Speaker 1: Bessie Ava with twenty eight acting credits. This isn't her
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  Speaker 1: first Hallmark project. She had previously appeared in the Christmas
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  Speaker 1: House from twenty twenty. Vinas Suit plays Linda v. This
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  Speaker 1: is her one hundred and ninety third acting credit. She's
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  Speaker 1: a series regular on Children Ruin Everything, and has also
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  Speaker 1: appeared in Virgin River, The Good Doctor, and A Million
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  Speaker 1: Little Things. Kurt Long plays Boss Chris. Kurt has sixty
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  Speaker 1: one acting credits and has appeared in Hallmark films like
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  Speaker 1: Reality Bites, A Hannah Swinson Mystery, Three Wiser Men and
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  Speaker 1: a Boy, and in Mary Measure. He's got that familiar face.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as I saw him on TV, I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I've seen him in something, but I can't put my
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  Speaker 1: finger on it. Emma Peterson and Lydia Campbell play Celeste's
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  Speaker 1: co workers. Both have appeared in many Hallmark movies like
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  Speaker 1: Wedding of a Lifetime and A Sprinkle of Deceit, A
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  Speaker 1: Hannah Swinson Mystery, respectably. Adventures in Love and Birding was
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  Speaker 1: filmed in Vancouver. We're going to take a quick break
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  Speaker 1: and come right back with our first impressions. Hey, Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: what was your first impression of Adventures in Love and Birding.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't expect a birding rom com to make me emotional,
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  Speaker 1: but the minute the slow version of Why Do Fools
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  Speaker 1: Fall In Love? Started, I was like, well, I guess
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  Speaker 1: I'm crying over some birdwatchers. My first impression is no
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  Speaker 1: wood chopsy needed. If you know you know this movie
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  Speaker 1: delivered the heat Uh, let's talk about it. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about it. Let's talk that scene Andrew takes off his shirt.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean I think that's the most like
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  Speaker 1: obvious heat worthy scene. I feel like, oh, I strongly
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  Speaker 1: just oh no, no, I have I That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: That's the most obvious. Like sure, I love that scene.
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  Speaker 1: The look on Rachel slash Celeste face, she is all
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  Speaker 1: of us. You need to add this moment to our
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  Speaker 1: shirtless Metal Hallmark compilation. Real, that's fun. I think I
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  Speaker 1: might have to work on that this afternoon. We have
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  Speaker 1: a whole episode where we put ourselves on blast for
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  Speaker 1: all the times we have called out the shirtless metal Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even remember. I just feel like that's just
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  Speaker 1: part of our it's a listener mail bag. Oh, I'll
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  Speaker 1: find it for you to link in the show notes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's right now, I remember, because it's always like
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  Speaker 1: like dory, like it's like a I forget that we
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  Speaker 1: talk about these things and then like, yeah, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: like a listener mail bag like put us on blast
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  Speaker 1: about we put ourselves on blast. We talked about how
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  Speaker 1: oh there's never any shirtless like oh shirtless Andrew Walker
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  Speaker 1: and then everyone was like, girls, this is not the
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  Speaker 1: first and then I dug into our archives and in fact,
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  Speaker 1: not only was it not the first time, but we
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  Speaker 1: call it out every single time we see it. Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, notably I said take your shirt off, Stephen,
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  Speaker 1: who's our in an episode. But yet these two fire
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  Speaker 1: your chemistry. Rachel Boston and Andrew Walker. I had to
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  Speaker 1: tell you, both of them have real strong Golden retriever
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  Speaker 1: energy and I was not expecting them to bring the
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  Speaker 1: heat the way that they did in this movie, and
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  Speaker 1: boy did they deliver. That's a good point. This movie
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  Speaker 1: is based on the book that is mildly spicy, and
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  Speaker 1: I the book, as we noted in our news and notes,
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  Speaker 1: is called Birding with Benefits, which has a strong implication there,
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  Speaker 1: and they do lean into the with benefits. That's an
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  Speaker 1: intentional choice that they make in the book. So I
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  Speaker 1: wondered how this was going to play on homework, and
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  Speaker 1: I have to say I was pleasantly surprised with the
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  Speaker 1: way they feel like they brought the heat in a
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark appropriate way and delivered that message. I agree with
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  Speaker 1: you the Bowling Alley scene. Loved the Bowling Alleys. Yeah, okay, wait,
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  Speaker 1: let me just back it up. Okay, but you're right,
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  Speaker 1: You're right. The Bowling Alley scene was great. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: These two were great together. They've never been in a
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  Speaker 1: movie together, right, Actually, they have been in a movie together.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming later, Okay, Okay. I liked him. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Rachel Boston wasn't fully like on my radar and till
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  Speaker 1: maybe when we watched Dating the Delaneys. Yeah. Oh, and
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  Speaker 1: she was fantastic on finding mister Christmas. I liked her
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  Speaker 1: a lot. I like them a lot in this. What
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  Speaker 1: I also liked is that they have like this grown
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  Speaker 1: up relationship mm hmm. I wasn't like a couple of
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  Speaker 1: like twenty year olds even like early thirty year olds
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  Speaker 1: like being messy, like. It felt very mature and I
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed that quite a bit. I love that, Yes, she
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  Speaker 1: has an ex husband in this, but like we never
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  Speaker 1: saw him, he was never part of like the equation
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  Speaker 1: at all, which feels very realistic. Yeah, loved that. Can
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  Speaker 1: I just say that I loved I didn't know how
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  Speaker 1: I would play, but I did love bird Watching as
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  Speaker 1: the backdrop to this. It was so well done. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was really well done. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: quirky enough, totally fun and fresh storyline, not too far
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  Speaker 1: out there or like, cause who hates birds? I know
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  Speaker 1: there's people who are afraid of birds, yes, like maybe,
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  Speaker 1: but me, like I do enjoy like a good I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't call myself a bird watcher, but I do. Like
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  Speaker 1: there's a reason the bird buddy is such a viral sensation.
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  Speaker 1: I have one in my backyard. I know, you know
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  Speaker 1: it's in fact, my mom gave one as a gift
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  Speaker 1: last year and they were back ordered, and they sent
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  Speaker 1: my mom a basically cardboard bird house that she could
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  Speaker 1: build and give as the gift, and she did build it.
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  Speaker 1: It was really cute, like a like a cutout that
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  Speaker 1: you just like pop together. And she did build it
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  Speaker 1: and give it as a gift and let them know,
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  Speaker 1: like it's on the way, but they're back ordered. You
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  Speaker 1: need what pray your backyard here? I think I would
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  Speaker 1: really like one. My parents have two cats that catch birds.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, we cannot have a bird buddy. We cannot
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  Speaker 1: entice the birds to our house. Yeah, but I would
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  Speaker 1: like a bird buddy. Maybe I'll put it on my
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  Speaker 1: Christmas list. It's really quite fun. I would love watching
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  Speaker 1: it I love it. I would be that person to'd
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  Speaker 1: be like, look at the new bird who came to
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  Speaker 1: my backyard. I have a Instagram highlight reel of the
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  Speaker 1: birds that are in my backyard. I mean it's funny
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  Speaker 1: because if you're not familiar with the bird buddy is
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a bird house that has a camera
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  Speaker 1: in it, and then you feel it the bird house
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  Speaker 1: with seed and then the birds come and eat and
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  Speaker 1: then they're sitting right in front of the camera and
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  Speaker 1: they're just like and you get like repeat bird visitors
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  Speaker 1: sometimes yeah, and then so they send you you could
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  Speaker 1: watch like a live stream of it, or they'll send
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  Speaker 1: you like clips like throughout the day, so like at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, I'll get like, look who
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  Speaker 1: visited your bird buddy today. It's like that, and then
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  Speaker 1: they name the birds. So it's usually like AI is
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  Speaker 1: like identifying like the burden. It'll be like the house
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  Speaker 1: finch came or the pigeon or the whatever. And it's
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  Speaker 1: like you can sometimes see like the same ones returning
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  Speaker 1: every single day, and then other times it's do you
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  Speaker 1: have it on a window? No? No, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: where I would hang it. Hang it. We installed Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So we had to set at my old house and
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  Speaker 1: we had we had a wood fence that we had
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  Speaker 1: installed it on. Here. You can't because you have a
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  Speaker 1: black wall situation, can't you get one of those posts
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  Speaker 1: that you like stake into the garden and hang it
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  Speaker 1: from that at our current house. Like, so we installed
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  Speaker 1: the post and then because that's what I had to
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  Speaker 1: do with my backyard ring camera that's so like obtrusive
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  Speaker 1: in my Yeah, we didn't. Yeah, there was no where
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  Speaker 1: to mount it. Ours is like a wood post that
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  Speaker 1: we like then drilled the bird buddy in nice and
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  Speaker 1: I just love it and I can see it from
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  Speaker 1: like my window inside the house. And then like you
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  Speaker 1: can position like this is not an ad Ford bird buddy,
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  Speaker 1: but if they want to call us, but you can
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  Speaker 1: position the house or the like the camera so like
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  Speaker 1: sometimes I don't want to like looking at like the
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  Speaker 1: side of my house, which is like boring, like if
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  Speaker 1: I want to position it to like a better view,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I just love it so much. It's
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  Speaker 1: so much fun. I think I would really enjoy a
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  Speaker 1: bird buddy. And I agree with you. I thought the
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  Speaker 1: birding it gave them a lot to do on screen.
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  Speaker 1: It gave them a purpose out in the world beautiful
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  Speaker 1: filming locations when they were walking through parks and bird watching,
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  Speaker 1: and I actually thought that the well, I have two
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  Speaker 1: things to say. One, they did a birding montage, a
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  Speaker 1: bird watching montage, and they put the bird names on screen.
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  Speaker 1: I loved that. I thought that was great. I also
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  Speaker 1: thought that when they had shots of birds, they made
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  Speaker 1: it not look like obvious be roll when it was
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  Speaker 1: very obviously b roll. It didn't feel like we're cutting
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  Speaker 1: away to a weird It was well done. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: thought so too. I thought so too. Here are a
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  Speaker 1: couple things that I really liked. I liked They're so
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  Speaker 1: silly too. Celeste shopping spree. Like when she's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: all my stuff came, how in a birding gear like Amazon.
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  Speaker 1: She just opened the box. It was like a vest
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  Speaker 1: and a bucket hat and binoculars. Yes, she just ordered
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  Speaker 1: all that shit from Amazon. I just thought it was
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  Speaker 1: so fun. She's like, oh, that book is on its
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  Speaker 1: way to me, and she has her like don't bother me,
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  Speaker 1: I'm birding shirt. Loved it, loved it. Thought that was
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  Speaker 1: really funny. Yeah, fun little like gag. And then then
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  Speaker 1: she buys one for John. Real cute. Yes, I loved it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then back to that scene where he puts a
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  Speaker 1: shirt on. Yes, it was just so great where Rachel
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  Speaker 1: Watson like just looks at him like she's like sneaking
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  Speaker 1: the peak of him, like shirtless. I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm into it when they first all Trivia night, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk about it in a second. But like when
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  Speaker 1: they show up and she's like in neutrals, like she
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  Speaker 1: rolls in like she's like, I'm just gonna you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's like a sneak attack, right, and he's wearing the
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  Speaker 1: purple shirt and they have this whole conversation about it
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  Speaker 1: so great, I'm attracting a mate. And then it circles
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  Speaker 1: back to the end of the date, like she references
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  Speaker 1: it again like that you're glad you wore that shirt
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  Speaker 1: now or like whatever. I just thought it was so good,
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  Speaker 1: so so good the trivia night. I live for a
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  Speaker 1: good competition. This is how you do trivia. Yes, talked
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  Speaker 1: about it. I don't remember what movie it was, but
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  Speaker 1: he loves fall in Order. Yeah, this is how you
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  Speaker 1: do tribute though. It was funny, like the pace was
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  Speaker 1: real fast in the trivia and she's like typing in
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  Speaker 1: the answers to her thing, and then like the lady's
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  Speaker 1: literally reading the answer like as she's typing. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: slow it down here in a second. But that's a
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  Speaker 1: me issue. But I loved all that. The dancing scene
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  Speaker 1: when they're at the party and he's like, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: know how to dance, and he was like, let's do
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  Speaker 1: the electric slide and they both go into it. Fun,
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  Speaker 1: They're so fun fun. Me. I just was like cringing
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  Speaker 1: a little, like, oh, I know, I I'm just cringing
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  Speaker 1: as a viewer because I was like, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to see them like dance fast to slow music. But
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  Speaker 1: like this whole thing worked with the electric slide and
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  Speaker 1: he was like, oh I got moves or I don't
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  Speaker 1: know whatever it was. And then it goes into the
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  Speaker 1: slow song and this is I get all teary because
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  Speaker 1: it's like why do birds whatever it's at, why do
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  Speaker 1: fools fall in love? But that was a great version
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  Speaker 1: of that song. It was a great version. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I loved it. I do have some problems with that scene. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: interesting to talk about it in the Wishes, But I
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  Speaker 1: loved I loved all that, like we got some hair tucking,
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  Speaker 1: which is like, that's all you gotta do, and we've
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  Speaker 1: been saying it for a whole year, Like, if you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna shoot your shot, all you gotta do is just
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  Speaker 1: move that hair out right. Girl's face, guy's face, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. There's one scene too where he like
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  Speaker 1: grabs her hand like when they're there when they're birding,
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  Speaker 1: very early on in their relationship. Real cute, good stuff,
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  Speaker 1: good stuff. And the final thing that I really really
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  Speaker 1: loved this is probably just a me thing because it
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  Speaker 1: was so relatable, but the god her going off to
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  Speaker 1: the yes and Celeste is like, yeah, I'm just trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out like who I am now? And yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, man, that like hit me right in
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  Speaker 1: the totally yeah good, Yeah, I agree, And you hit
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  Speaker 1: all the notes that I loved. In addition to her
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  Speaker 1: dealing with a kid going off to college, as my
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  Speaker 1: own college kid was home for the first time this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: I like that she's telling stories of women we can
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  Speaker 1: relate to. She's a divorced mom child going to college.
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  Speaker 1: Her child is making different choices than she had expected
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  Speaker 1: her too, which is really interesting and Wenny and I
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  Speaker 1: were just talking about how that's not in our control anymore.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to make their own life choices really small like,
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  Speaker 1: but I love celeste wardrobe, starting with her butter yellow
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  Speaker 1: blazer up top, ending with like that burnt orange, real
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  Speaker 1: cute dress she wore at the end. Really enjoyed what
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  Speaker 1: she was wearing. I like that she wore too. To
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  Speaker 1: the post, Oh me too, the pleated skirt. Cute, cute, cute.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not wishes? Well, okay, I do have a few,
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  Speaker 1: not many, but I did think kind of the some
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  Speaker 1: of the supporting cast is a little unlikable. Oh I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at you the two teachers. My wishes say, there
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  Speaker 1: are some true villains in this movie. Yeah, so tell
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: me about this because is the in the book? Are
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: the coworker not the coworkers? But like these other side
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: characters do they have a bigger role. I think they're
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: the same, but they're just as unlikable. It's the same
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: thing where she feels compelled to keep up the fake
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: dating side of things because her coworkers are like pitying
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: her and constantly trying to set her up. I hated
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: that storyline, like I appreciate that. She finally tells them
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: to mind their own damn business at the end, but like,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: what are we doing this woman who clearly has a
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: full life. She loves her job, she loves her daughter. Okay,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: so she's divorced. Leave her alone. Like what. I hated
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: their meddling and pushiness and they're like like the wicked
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: stepsisters looking over her shoulder. And she finally brings some
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: guy and like, well, he's she's more into him than
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: he is to her. Oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: whole scene at the bowling alley. Yeah, gross. I just
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: didn't like them, but that scene was great. Thought how
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: John overhears it and he's like, oh comes to her rescue. Yeah,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: hold my beer? So good. And Brina is also terrible.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: She's terrible in the book as well. She's a villain,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: super unlikable. She has the audacity to be the cheater
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: and then also be judging John's life choices. Yeah, it
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: goes a little deeper in the book because in the book,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: John's kind of semi unemployed. He doesn't have this conservation
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: job and he's a talented woodworker but really wants to
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: start his own bird watching business as does this guy
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: brooding for beginners and she doesn't really support that. It's brien,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: it's not big enough for her, And so he had
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: kind of been beaten down by that and didn't feel
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: like it was a worthy enough dream or that he
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: had the ability to get it off the ground. So
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I think that's important context here because to me, the
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: movie read like, Okay, he has like this stable job,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: but he didn't reach this like level of like academia
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: that like Grena wanted him to, and then therefore ended
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: up kind of like in a place where like he
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: wasn't like super happy. And I get that he wanted
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: to have this birding business, but also I didn't really
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: understand like why I had to be like this all
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: or nothing, this like dire situation. Like to me, you
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: could have this side hustle birding business on the weekend,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: like yeah, just to get it off the ground and
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: then it get ruined to something else and great, But
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: it's not like I have to quit my job so
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I can launch this business. Well yeah, And they're like
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: you need money to launch your own birding business. No,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: you don't like create an Instagram account and be like
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: let's do a free bird washing session for publicity and
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: get people talking like you're doing it anyway, right, Yeah,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: that felt a little flat for me that point. Yeah.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Also back to the coworkers. Loved Celes bestI avas she
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: was great. I thought she was like fun. They had
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: great like dynamic and banter between each other. I loved
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: all that. But the two teachers, the two other teachers, well,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: was she a teacher. Yeah, she was a teacher at
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: the school there. That's my idea. One part of me
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: is like, I I get they have this big moment,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: so less tells that one like yo, like stfu about
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the like gossipine and like whatever. But then also I
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: felt like I didn't need like this whole teachable moment. Mmm.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I just was like it the payoff like wasn't as great.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I wish it would have been. I think I think
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the scene where John overhears them and then like basically
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: at the bowling alley like would have been enough. Like yeah,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I agree, but they just wouldn't butt out, And I
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: feel like she needed the moment to be like back
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: because they didn't back off at that point, right, They
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: just continue to meddle, and I just felt like they
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: needed someone to say to their faces. This she always
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: told one of them. So yeah, like it doesn't I mean, whatever,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: this is a minor point minor, minor minor the other thing,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Like I love a fake dating trope. I thought this
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: setup was a little bit clunky, Like I I misunderstood
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the assignment. I was like, wait, what's happening here? Maybe
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: just because like the I'm calling it rules, it wasn't rules,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: but the whole setup was a little bit happened so
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: fast that maybe I just didn't like catch what exactly
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: they were doing. Like why did the friends set Celeste
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: up with John? Okay, it might have been a blink
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: and you miss a moment because I read the book,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: it's set up a little bit differently, but basically the
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: premise is the same. Ava sends Celeste to be John's
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: bird watching partner. That's all she sends her to do. Yeah,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: but Ava's on the phone, Celeste's talking to her, and
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Eve's like, and I need to pretend to be his
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: girlfriend and She's like yes, but she's not talking to
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Celeste in that moment. So Celeste misunderstands the assignment. Ce
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Less thinks she needs to pretend to be his girlfriend.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: When in fact, she just needs to show up and
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: be his bird watching partner for the weekend. And so
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: she shows up, sees Brina there because she knows that
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: he's been dumped, and so she's like, I'm his partner partner,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: and so there's this whole misunderstanding at it. And then
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: they're like, well, now we got to follow through. Okay.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Now this is where it continues to get a little
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: bit clunky to me. These two are obviously vibing, but
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Celeste's running on this assumption that John is still hung
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: up on Brina, right and that he's not ready to
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: move on. But these two are obviously getting along. There's
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: obviously for flirtation, like a mutual attraction, et cetera, et cetera.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: They do have like a kiss, multiple yes. So when
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: we get to the party scene and they have this
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: slow dam I'm confused. Why Celeste, She's like, I need
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: it to end, Like I need to stop pretending, because
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: he says, we've been pretending all along. You have great
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: communication with this man. I know you've had tons of
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: moments of vulnerability already. Why can't you in this moment
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: be like are we pretending? Are we pretending? I kind
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: of thought. We were like, yeah, I mean, she's bringing
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the baggage. They both are carrying as baggage from their
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: relationship and her they don't spend a lot of time
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: on it, but in the book they do. Her husband
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: had an affair, so she's like, doesn't necessarily trust and
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: she and John have not communicated. Well, yes, they seem
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: to have great chemistry. Yes, but every kiss they've had
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: has been performative in her mind. Oh, I see, So
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I think perhaps there's this feeling of well, he's never said,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: you know, we're just showing up, and you know, they
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: kissed in front of Brina, and they kissed in front
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: of her coworkers, and every time they were doing it,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: in her mind they were trying to prove a point.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: But I agree, rather than walking away, the smart thing
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: would be like, Okay, are we still pretending we have
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: a real conversation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My last wish was
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: don't build this as a fall movie. This was not
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: a fall movie. I mean, just because they're walking in
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: the leaves, it's more fall than some of the other
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: nonsense we've seen. The time frame in the movie is
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the end of the school year, that is spring. The
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: time frame in the movie is September, like the end
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: of summer. Yeah it is, it's summer school. That was
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: summer school, yes, because her daughter's about to go to college. Okay,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: oh right, Okay. It makes me feel a little bit
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: better because at one point I was like, are we
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: at the end of spring because she's like telling her class,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: like prepping them, like I have a great summer. No,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: it's summer session. And they say in the movie, but
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: it's summer sessions. Okay, well they say it like once,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: and I okay, then that makes sense. But it's also
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: not fall if it's August. But still her daughter's about
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: to go to college. She's like weeks away from moving out. Okay,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: it's still not a fall movie. Yeah, the time is weird.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Timing is weird. But I did think the outdoor stuff,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: like I thought was very pretty. It's like funny, it's
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: like a Hallmark's Like, okay, we just like put it
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: outside then like people might think it's fall, yeah right
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: where there there are trees and therefore it's fall. Yeah yeah, yeah,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: yeah yeah. Do you have any more wishes? No, but
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: let's talk. Did you see that? Okay? I have a
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: few Okay. At one point they're outside, they're birding, and
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: there's all this like stuff floating in the air. And
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was like post production. It's
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: not leaves falling right right, but it was just like
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: stuff like almost like it was like fallen. Maybe it
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: was bizarre to me. Okay, it was bizarre to me.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I was like, are you trying to make it look
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: like fall but like these are not like fake. You know,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: we just saw a movie where there was like a
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: digital leave, digital beaf, but this wasn't here. It was
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: almost like, you know, like in Canva. Canva is like
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: a design website where it's like a Boca background like
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: with that like it was like that floating little like
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: orbs like light. Yes, I don't know. It just was
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: weird to me. Maybe it was just dusty in the woods.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: It could have been. It could have been. Also, was
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the owl digital? Like was that? AI? The who the owl?
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: When they see that? Oh? How the rare species there?
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: He was I didn't get the impression that any of
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: that was AI. Did you watch it on your phone
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: or did you watch it on a big screen TV?
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: On the TV? I just thought that was like it
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: restock nature photography. Oh maybe I mean that they weren't
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: shooting any of these birds in the movie. It was
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: all nature photography. It looked it was like too polished
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: to me, a little like I gotta tell you I live.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: I have this back road. It's not in the country,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: but like this back road, you know the highways I do.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: There's always like dead owls. Oh no, oh no, I
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: don't like that at all. I don't like that at all.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Always see them, Oh no, the saddest, most tragic thing.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: We have owls in our neighborhood. I hear them at night.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Who don't you kind of love that? Though? At my
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: old house, I used to hear this one all the time.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know where you're out outside. No,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I never see it, but I hear it. We ran
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: into two coyotes on our walk the other night. What Fortunately,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I just had my big dog with me, and my
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: big dog's bigger than a coyote. He heard me. We
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: were walking and this car pulls over and she's like, hey,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: there's two coyotes in that park in front of you.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: And I look up and sure enough, like you can
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: see them like their eyes. What was at night, and
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I was When I was leaving the house, I was thinking, like,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I don't. I was irritated. I'm like, I don't want
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: to be walking right now. It's dark. I don't want
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: to be walking right now. And then we just I
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: was like, and that's why I don't want to be
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: walking right now. And then I turned around and came home. Yeah,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: what do you do when you I don't know. We
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: just turned on and walk home. But then I was like,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't like like they're always there to
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: make loud noises and stuff to scare them off. I mean, yes,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: and fortunately one of my dogs is very big, which
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I think would help. Yeah, but I don't think they're
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: gonna But when there's multiples, that's the problem. Yeah, they
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: surround you like that Spider Man like situation. I can
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: picture the meme. Yeah, all right, do you have more?
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Did to see that? I have one more? On Reddit
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: this morning and the author of the book was in
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: the Hallmark Reddit sub thread and wrote about like her
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: experience having a book made into a movie. She had
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: like no involvement whatsoever. Interesting, but she did write and
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: I thought this was interesting. She says, quote by and large.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: The birdie was very accurate, except there was a particularly
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: important misidentified bird. But what can you do. So I'm
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: guessing in that scene, yere either they were like pointing
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: out names of certain birds or that scene where they
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: had the names of the bird on the screen. But
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe she's an expert in birding. I'm guessing
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: you have to be. I think she knows quite a
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: bit about birds. So my digit se that's are not
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: digit see that's but they're just some things I'd like
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: to point out. First, Rachel Boston and Andrew Walker did
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: first appear together in an episode of Er in January
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: two thousand and eight. They played a military couple and
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: she is pregnant and it is not his because she
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: was sexually assaulted. It's a very heavy episode. Years later,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: they were in Lifetimes a Christmas in Tennessee. They started
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: together in that, and then this is the first time
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: they've been together on Hallmark Channel. So that's fun, super fun.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed them me too. I enjoyed them together. Wait,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I have a question, you know, because we get a
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: lot of like Andrew nicky right, like they work together
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: a lot. I think it's nice when you mix it
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: up a little bit. Of course, there's part of me
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: that like loves to see like two actors that have
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: great chemistry working. Yeah, but also like I like a
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: little of course I did too nice casting here one
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: tiny little moment. I love. You know, Rachel's a teacher.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I love when Andrew tells her she's scaring away the bird.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: She's like, oh, quiet, coyote, and like she that's the
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: fairy teacher thing. And since we're talking a lot about
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: the book, and we have, we have talked about some
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: of the differences, just because I feel like it. In
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: the book, Ava has a baby, she has like a newborn,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: and it is a very key component of her character,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: like she's struggling with who she is and who her
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: marriage is and all of this and light of the newborn.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Something had to go in order to make this movie
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: an hour and twenty minutes. But it kind of did
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: give Morgan more depth than like more dog parents. Oh interesting,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: not Morgan abe excuse me? Yeah, and Morgan her storyline
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: remains similar, but in the book she gives up on
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: her planned college, which is not Vau. It's Nau in
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: the book they actually use a real college name. Yeah, Nau,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: which I've heard really crazy things about. Actually have you.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I know nothing about it. But in the book they
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: live in Arizona. Oh so she's like staying local and
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: then she moves to her new plan is she's going
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: to move to LA to live with her girlfriend and
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: figure out her life there. Oh so it's a much
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: bigger change as opposed to like, I'm just going to
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: take the year to figure it out. Yeah. Like as
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: a parent, I don't know if I would be like yeah.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: And it's funny because a lot of the book reviews
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: are like Celeste is a terrible parent because Lessa is like,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: you're not doing that. Like she has a hard time
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: coming around to like accepting like that she's making this
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: big life change and people are like, she needs to
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: apologize to that. O kay, But I can understand Celesa's like,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: what do you mean You're just going to move to
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: LA and figure it out? Who's paying for that? Right?
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Not me? Right? I'm a jerk. Hey, what did you write?
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Love and Adventures and Birding? I gave it four point
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: twenty five stars, Thank it four and a half stars. Yeah,
• 31:53
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