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My Secret Valentine · 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 Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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Speaker 1: What was that Wendy versus Wendy? Honestly, it sounded the
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Speaker 1: same to me. I can't win. Okay, it sounded like Wendy.
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Speaker 1: On today's episode, we're discussing are we gonna fight? I
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Speaker 1: can't be mad and I have more than a person
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Speaker 1: mad at me. Nobody's mad. I know it is mad.
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Speaker 1: On today's episode, we are discussing My Secret Valentine, which
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Speaker 1: originally premiered on the Hallmark Channel in February twenty eighteen,
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Speaker 1: is currently available to stream on Hallmark Plus. It is
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Speaker 1: part of a lineup of Valentine movies we are doing
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Speaker 1: this month February on Girls Gone Homemark. Should we do
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Speaker 1: a quick rundown of the Valentine lineup for the listeners? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the vintage Valentine lineup? Heay, you like that? I loved it,
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Speaker 1: thank you? So. Of course, this week is My Secret Valentine.
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Speaker 1: Next week, on February twelfth is All Things Valentine, followed
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Speaker 1: by a Valentine's Match on February nineteenth, rounding it out
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Speaker 1: with the secret Ingredient on February twenty sixth. So we
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Speaker 1: have four Valentine movies this month for you throwback. Good
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Speaker 1: news is these are re airing on Hallmarks. I was
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Speaker 1: actually going to run through and do a quick reshare
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Speaker 1: on Instagram, so check that out of the dates when
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Speaker 1: those movies are airing, so you can set your DVRs.
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Speaker 1: So you should be following us Girls Got Hallmark on Instagram. Yeah. Hey,
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Speaker 1: we have a Facebook group. You know what what We
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Speaker 1: picked these movies alone, right, We didn't ask the Facebook community. No,
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Speaker 1: well no, however, we picked them from a Valentine's Day
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Speaker 1: post we have on Girls Gone Home and the movies
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Speaker 1: in that post were sourced from the Facebook groups. Atcha
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Speaker 1: them directly. This came from the Facebook got it? Well? Hey,
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Speaker 1: if you want to join our Facebook group, m M
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Speaker 1: we are. It's called Girls Gone Hallmark in Facebook groups.
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Speaker 1: We would love to have you over there, We really would.
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Speaker 1: This movie is called My Secret Valentine and I'd love
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Speaker 1: to hear a synopsis. A young woman takes advice from
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Speaker 1: the chalkboard notes that her mysterious house rental tenant leaves
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Speaker 1: when a slick sales rep arrives with plans to buy
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Speaker 1: her family's prized winery. My Secret Valentine was directed by
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Speaker 1: Bradley Walsh. Bradley currently has fifty two directing credits, which
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Speaker 1: include favorites like Twas the Date Before Christmas and Catch
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Speaker 1: Me if You clause. Carrie Friedel wrote the script. This
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Speaker 1: was her first writing credit and has gone on to
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Speaker 1: write only one more Hallmark project called Winter Love Story
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Speaker 1: from twenty nineteen, as well as the twenty twenty one
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Speaker 1: Netflix original movie After Life of the Party. That sounds
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Speaker 1: like something we might like. It had somebody in it.
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Speaker 1: I want to say, Victoria Justice. Oh wait, that's not her?
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Speaker 1: Is that her name? Have I seen that movie? After
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Speaker 1: Life of the Party? Who's in it? Victoria Justice? Wow?
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Speaker 1: A young female party planner unfortunately dies. Now she must
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Speaker 1: assist a specific selection of people who were in her
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Speaker 1: life in order to move herself to the above. She
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Speaker 1: review that movie. Should we review that? Pil do you
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Speaker 1: want to? I think I might watch it whether we
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Speaker 1: review it or not. So that sounds fun? Okay? All right?
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Speaker 1: Lazy Shavert stars as Chloe. We recently saw Lazy in
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Speaker 1: Lost in Paris. It was reported that Holiday ever after
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Speaker 1: a Disney wish come true just recently wrapped. This movie
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Speaker 1: was her twelfth Hallmark movie. Andrew Walker stars as Seth.
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Speaker 1: Andrew was really busy in twenty twenty five with five
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Speaker 1: Hallmark movies. It was just announced that he will start
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Speaker 1: in the forthcoming Kentucky Roses, a Kentucky Derby inspired movie.
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Speaker 1: For may question for you. I looked on the IMDb
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Speaker 1: because it's there, and his name is attached to the
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Speaker 1: project with a whole bunch of other people, but no
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Speaker 1: lead actress, not yet. I mean, I'm sure, come on,
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Speaker 1: of course there's gonna be a love story, I know,
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Speaker 1: but I'm like, is it a big surprise? Like? Who
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Speaker 1: is it? I don't know. Why aren't they promoting it together?
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Speaker 1: Good question? You know who? I would love for it
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Speaker 1: to be one Ashley Williams. Oh gosh, that would be amazing.
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Speaker 1: Those two have some real nice chemistry that I like,
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Speaker 1: Palka pal chemistry. You will, yeah. Peter McNeil plays Chloe's
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Speaker 1: dad Truman. To date, Peter has two hundred and fifteen
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Speaker 1: acting credits in over forty five episodes of Goodwitch in
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Speaker 1: the role of George. He recently appeared in the twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five theatrical release of Frankenstein. Tara Yellend appears as Leanne.
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Speaker 1: She has appeared in several Hallmark movies such as We
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Speaker 1: Met in December and well as Goodwitch. Cindy Samson plays
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Speaker 1: Seth's boss Taylor, with a fairly small role in this
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Speaker 1: Cindy ended up landing the lead role as Angie in
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Speaker 1: sixty episodes of Private Eyes. She's most recently appeared in
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Speaker 1: Sullivan's Crossing and is currently in pre production of the
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Speaker 1: reboot Private Eyzed West Coast. Let's take a quick break,
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna come right back with our first impressions.
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Speaker 1: Before we get to our first impressions, a little programming note,
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Speaker 1: just well, how the sausage gets made. Last night, my
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Speaker 1: friend said to me, I have a question. How come
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Speaker 1: podcasters say we're going to take a quick break and
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Speaker 1: we'll come right back, and then their music plays, and
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Speaker 1: then their music plays, and they come back, ah, and
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Speaker 1: there's nothing there. Uh huh. And I said, that's called
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Speaker 1: phil right, my friend, that's an ad spot that didn't
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Speaker 1: get filled. And because it is currently January, which is
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Speaker 1: the absolute four for advertising. There are a lot of
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Speaker 1: unfilled ad spots. She heard that happen on the West
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Speaker 1: Wing Weekly, which honestly made me feel pretty good because
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Speaker 1: she was like, I know, you guys do it, and
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Speaker 1: I wasn't sure why, and then I heard them do
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Speaker 1: it and she was like, it must be a thing.
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Speaker 1: So that's why. And ads, as we've discussed before, are
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Speaker 1: dynamically filled. Means what you hear and what I hear
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Speaker 1: will be different based on location and when you're listening.
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Speaker 1: And if you listen to the same episode six months apart,
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Speaker 1: you're going to get different ads. Yeah, so I just
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Speaker 1: thought I would share that little tidbit. I remember listening
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Speaker 1: to a podcast that I would regularly, and I was
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Speaker 1: always so excited when they didn't have like ad break,
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Speaker 1: like there was an ad break but no actual ads,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, we're right back into it.
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Speaker 1: So I wonder if if our listeners are sure they're like,
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Speaker 1: I don't have to skip this thirty seconds there. Yeah. Well, now, Wendy,
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Speaker 1: i'd love to hear your first impression of my secret Valentine. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know, earlier I was like, I'm not mad I'm
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Speaker 1: not mad. I am actually mad who picked this movie.
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Speaker 1: You're not mad at me, I'm mad at whoever picked
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Speaker 1: this movie. I don't know if it was me or
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Speaker 1: you or what. Wow. My first impression is this movie
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Speaker 1: should have been a Fall movie. Agree. Yeah, this movie
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Speaker 1: looks more like Fall than any Fall movie we've ever
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Speaker 1: seen it on Hollmark. I'll talk about it in a
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Speaker 1: little bit. You're right, because it's supposed to be organ
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Speaker 1: right in February. H Yeah, Yeah, I did like some things,
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Speaker 1: what about you? A few things? H There were a
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Speaker 1: few things. My favorite thing happened at almost close to
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Speaker 1: the top of the movie. The stress snacking at the
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Speaker 1: convenience store. They're both looking for something that yes on
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Speaker 1: very relatable and this If the whole movie was like that,
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Speaker 1: I would have loved this movie, the sweet, fun banter
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Speaker 1: parts of it exactly. If it was that tone for
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Speaker 1: an hour and twenty minutes, I would have been all in.
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Speaker 1: Tone was rough. Okay. I think Lacy and Andrew are
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Speaker 1: really good together. Don't worry. I have lots of things
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Speaker 1: to say about the character of Chloe, but I do
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Speaker 1: think the two of them. Comparing this to She's making
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Speaker 1: a list I liked the two of them more in
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Speaker 1: this movie. My brain just went. I forgot that they
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Speaker 1: were in making a listic I forgot that these we
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Speaker 1: just watched a movie with these two in it because
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Speaker 1: it was it was fine. I liked that movie. I
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Speaker 1: liked the movie, but I did not think they had
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Speaker 1: I thought they had real, like brotherly chemistry. Kind of
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Speaker 1: the same here too, I thought. Honestly, I thought it
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Speaker 1: was better. Their kiss at the end was much more
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Speaker 1: than Andrew walker vibe for me. I think the two
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Speaker 1: of them them, they're both good at what they do.
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Speaker 1: They're both real natural on camera. I thought Lacey was
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Speaker 1: very smiling in this movie. I didn't know itice. She
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Speaker 1: looked like she was having a good time. She's an actor. Well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean she was. I can pretend to look like
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Speaker 1: I'm having a good time too. Is that what you
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Speaker 1: do every single time you sit at this kitchen table? No? Stop,
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Speaker 1: you can hear it in my voice, I'm having a
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Speaker 1: good time. Maybe you're an actress. Far from it, babe.
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Speaker 1: Look here's my thoughts. I know you hated this movie.
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Speaker 1: I didn't hate this movie. I actually thought it was fine.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was very twenty eighteen. I thought the
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Speaker 1: reason why when we announced this line up, everyone's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: a lot of these movies I watch every year, And
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Speaker 1: I think the reason why people might have had affection
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Speaker 1: for this movie is twenty eighteen. This might have been
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Speaker 1: what Hallmark was doing. This might have been the top
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Speaker 1: of Hallmarks game. You got two of their best in
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Speaker 1: a The production value is not bad, Like, the scenery
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Speaker 1: is real nice. It looks like I mean, it is
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Speaker 1: on an actual winery. Pretty Yeah, yes, they used they're
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Speaker 1: in the vineyards. It felt authentic, like a lot of
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Speaker 1: that was working for me. And it's it's very formulaic
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Speaker 1: and trophy. So we'll get into all of that. But
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Speaker 1: I did not hate this movie. I did, however, fall
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Speaker 1: asleep about seventeen times. I was also watching at eleven
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Speaker 1: thirty pm. That's past mamas bedtime. I watched it while
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Speaker 1: folding laundry. Oh and one of those. Yeah, I do
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Speaker 1: have some other things I like. Okay, I wasn't drawn
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Speaker 1: to but appreciated the father daughter relationship. I thought it
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Speaker 1: felt real, believable because Peter McNeil is so good, right,
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Speaker 1: and also maybe it's just the stage I am at
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Speaker 1: live or like I have parents who are considering retiring
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Speaker 1: from things, and like, you know, like this dad and
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Speaker 1: Donner obviously like love each other. They have experience his
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Speaker 1: grief because you know, his wife, her mom has passed
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Speaker 1: and the dad is ready to, like, you know, sunset
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Speaker 1: this career that he's had. Can you blame him? His
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Speaker 1: daughter is living somewhere else and has a full on
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Speaker 1: career somewhere else. Maybe he's like, I don't she doesn't
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Speaker 1: want to do the winery. She doesn't want to do this.
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Speaker 1: All signs pointed that she doesn't want to do that exactly.
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Speaker 1: But you know, could it have been solved with a
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Speaker 1: little bit of communication, Yes, does the father owe her
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Speaker 1: daughter that? No, like my dad, my dad has a
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Speaker 1: family business that he's leaving soon. He doesn't come to
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Speaker 1: me say, hey, do you want to take it over?
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Speaker 1: Because I got my own wife, right, that's yours to sell,
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Speaker 1: yours to have bond for exactly. I liked their relationship.
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Speaker 1: I thought he should have been given a little bit
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Speaker 1: more grace in terms of the decision making of his
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Speaker 1: own future planning. But the character played by Peter McNeil,
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Speaker 1: I think Peter McNeil always grounds the movies that he's
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Speaker 1: in plays these really believable, both the other figures in
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Speaker 1: a lot of different elements. Yeah, this movie is obviously
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Speaker 1: You've Got Mail, which, yes, and where is also a
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Speaker 1: remake of Shop around the Corner. I mean, fortunately for
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Speaker 1: the Hallmark people. I'm a fan of You've Got Mail.
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Speaker 1: But when we get into this and like it's almost
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Speaker 1: like seene By scene remakes in some ways. Oh really
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Speaker 1: the scene where they're supposed to meet at the restaurant
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Speaker 1: and Seth shows up, realizes who Chloe is. He's in
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Speaker 1: the No, she doesn't. He kind of antagged. That's very
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Speaker 1: much straight out if You've Got Mail. The very end
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Speaker 1: where her line is, I was really hoping it was
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Speaker 1: you all along, Meg Ryan says to Tom Hanks. I
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Speaker 1: was hoping it would be you, you know. I mean
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Speaker 1: there are these moments there. They're business rivals. It's it's
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Speaker 1: I like that story, but it has been told before.
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Speaker 1: That's not a wish. I don't know why it's here.
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Speaker 1: Did you love out loud when Andrew Walker did his
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Speaker 1: Texas Oil Barren impression? No, I don't want actually even
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Speaker 1: remember it. She's trying to sell wine to that fancy restaurant.
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Speaker 1: Who's always shining. Oh yes, and he comes in he's like,
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Speaker 1: this is the only one I'll drink me and my
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Speaker 1: real rich oil frame. That was okay, I forgive my accent.
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Speaker 1: I didn't lol, But yes, I do remember it now
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Speaker 1: and it was kind of funny. It was kind of funny.
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Speaker 1: There was a scene towards the end where Chloe confronts Seth.
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Speaker 1: It was she her dad had explained like, oh, I
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Speaker 1: why didn't you tell me I stigned the contracts this morning? No? No, no,
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Speaker 1: And then like Seth comes up and he's like, what
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Speaker 1: are you talking about? Like, I'm going to talk a
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Speaker 1: little bit more about that scene and my wishes, But
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Speaker 1: what I liked in particular about that scene is Chloe
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Speaker 1: kind of like unleashes on him and she's literally her
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Speaker 1: eyes are all welled up like it's a I was like, Oh,
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Speaker 1: she handled like the emotional beat of that scene really well,
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Speaker 1: Like it was super believable to me. Nice. I have
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Speaker 1: one small like and that is I really appreciate that
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Speaker 1: they read their chalkboard notes out loud, because we are
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Speaker 1: in a day and age of text messages on screen,
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Speaker 1: and those are handled in a variety of different ways.
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Speaker 1: And if you don't have them being read out loud
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Speaker 1: or put in very large letters on the screen, I
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Speaker 1: got no idea what's happening. Yeah, sometimes I have to
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Speaker 1: pause and walk up to my television to read them,
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Speaker 1: and I don't like that experience. I have a thought
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Speaker 1: about the chalkboard. I'm going to talk about it, and
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Speaker 1: to just see that. Okay, anything else, You're like, hmmmm,
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Speaker 1: let's talk wishes. I simply do not believe that they
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Speaker 1: could go all of this time without realizing who is
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Speaker 1: staying in the cottage the end, it's on their property.
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Speaker 1: Where does she think he's staying? You're right, You're right.
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Speaker 1: The handyman mystery is not a mystery. No. I was
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Speaker 1: truly baffled. I was. I'm watching this, I'm like, what
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Speaker 1: am I missing? Like they don't know who they're what? What? What?
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Speaker 1: And the way like this movie handled, like the intrigue
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Speaker 1: of it all is like Scooby Doo level to me,
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Speaker 1: Like this it was not a mystery. No, And they
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Speaker 1: like go on there Bobo VR and they're like trying
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Speaker 1: to source. They're like, well, look here's our photo and
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Speaker 1: here's his sunset photo and he uses this crypt what
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Speaker 1: are we doing. It's on their property. There is absolutely
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Speaker 1: no chance she doesn't know who's staying there. Excuse me,
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Speaker 1: She's going into the home while there is a tenant there. Repeatedly,
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Speaker 1: you can't do that. Well, he had called to ask
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Speaker 1: for repairs. Fine, okay, fine, that's that's But at one
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Speaker 1: point she comes in and she's like, hello, hello, Hello,
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Speaker 1: you're not here. I'm entering your I don't know. I
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Speaker 1: just it was just weird. How do you not know?
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Speaker 1: You don't see the guy come and go at all?
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Speaker 1: I thought it was weird that she kept going back
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Speaker 1: because I understand, like he called the it. This didn't
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Speaker 1: track for me. He apparently called for repairs, and Colie's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I'll go do it, not Leanne. So Colly goes over
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Speaker 1: there has that scene that you mentioned, kind of of repairs.
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Speaker 1: She leaves like a toolbox behind, but then she continues
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Speaker 1: to go back under the guise of fixing things, all
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Speaker 1: the while the handyman's also fixing things. Mm hmmm. I
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Speaker 1: don't understand why she needed to continue to return to
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Speaker 1: this home. Me neither got aside. This movie was so
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Speaker 1: slow to me. Did it feel slow to you? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because there's lots of like tinkering shots of him fixing
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Speaker 1: things and pouring wine and watching each other out the window. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it give me some snappy dialogue, please. I was thinking
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Speaker 1: the entire time. I was like, I am so glad
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Speaker 1: that in twenty twenty six, Homemark has kind of moved
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Speaker 1: away from this kind of movie. I mean, of course,
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Speaker 1: we have movies with heavy tropes and like et cetera,
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Speaker 1: et cetera, but this kind of like painfully slow. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they're doing it better. Yeah, it's not that I'm unwilling
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Speaker 1: to accept some slowed down storytelling, because we just reviewed
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Speaker 1: The Magic of Ordinary Day. Yes, and I really enjoyed
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Speaker 1: the pacing of that. It's that the pacing of that
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Speaker 1: made a lot of sense, but this did feel slow.
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Speaker 1: I also thought there was some trophy nonsense with Chloe
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Speaker 1: being so unnecessarily mean to Seth, who was just there
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Speaker 1: to do his job. And not only that, he takes
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Speaker 1: the note she says to him, we take this seriously. Yeah, like,
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Speaker 1: we're not just a business. This is who we are.
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Speaker 1: Seth gets his hands dirty, he learns every element of
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Speaker 1: the business, he studies the wine, he's pulling leaves. So
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Speaker 1: I don't really fully understand what they're doing. I think
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Speaker 1: they're pruning. Great, Okay, not a gardener. She just continued
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Speaker 1: to dig and dig and dig at him, and I
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Speaker 1: didn't think it was deserved. And if you do a
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Speaker 1: throwback to you've got mail the whole like Joe Fox,
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Speaker 1: Kathleen Kelly of it all, Joe Fox is kind of
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Speaker 1: mean to her. Joe Fox does put her out of business.
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Speaker 1: Joe Fox does his just call me Joe and like
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Speaker 1: keeps it whatever. He and his dad and his grandfather
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Speaker 1: are like the absolute worst. They would have been like
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Speaker 1: the ultimate, especially the dad and the grandfather would have
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Speaker 1: been like me tooed into oblivion. When she's kind of
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Speaker 1: mean to him, he deserves it. I didn't really feel
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Speaker 1: like Seth deserved it. Like he showed up Pear to
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Speaker 1: do a job. He did it well. He gave their
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Speaker 1: business the respect that it deserved. He offered them a
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Speaker 1: fair deal and was invited there by. Her father wasn't
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Speaker 1: an uninvited guest, wasn't trying to railroad them into something
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Speaker 1: that the actual owner of the business didn't want. Her
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Speaker 1: anger was misdirected. She should have been mad at her dad,
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Speaker 1: but honestly not mad at her dad. She was mad
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Speaker 1: at herself. I've done all of this work, and what
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Speaker 1: do I have to show for it? And then she's like, well,
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Speaker 1: instead of looking internally and figuring out how I can
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Speaker 1: make that better, I'm just gonna unload on all of
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Speaker 1: these people who do not deserve my rights exactly, exactly,
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Speaker 1: And one of my wishes is I wish she had
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Speaker 1: apologized she misjudged him time and time again, and then
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Speaker 1: ends up getting the guy anyway. At the end. The
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Speaker 1: one thing I hate about older Hallmark movies is just
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Speaker 1: I hate the formula. I hate. These are the types
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Speaker 1: of movies that made me a hater. Look, we have
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Speaker 1: said it time and time and time again. The enemy
19:23
Speaker 1: still lovers is so hard to do well because you
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Speaker 1: do not have the time in which to make me
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Speaker 1: believe that you have made the turn from enemies to lovers.
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Speaker 1: It's done better in books typically because there's time, yeah, exactly,
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Speaker 1: in an hour and twenty minutes. You don't have the time.
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Speaker 1: It's not earned. At the end of this movie, when
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Speaker 1: she's like, I was hoping it would be really in
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Speaker 1: between what snipping at him and blaming him for what's
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Speaker 1: happening to the business. In Chloe's defense, I would have
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Speaker 1: if I put myself in Chloe's character, the character of Chloe,
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Speaker 1: I would not have trusted Seth either, because I didn't know, Like,
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Speaker 1: are you truly like catching feelings for me? Are you
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Speaker 1: just a motivated salesman playing the long game here? Like
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Speaker 1: you don't know right? They're trying to bring me over
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Speaker 1: to the good side. Yeah, it's almost impossible. Like I'm
20:15
Speaker 1: like not rooting for anybody in this movie. Huh, And
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Speaker 1: that makes the movie watching experience not fun for me?
20:22
Speaker 1: Are you ready for did you see that? Sure? Well?
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Speaker 1: I said it in my first impression. When Cley pulls
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Speaker 1: up to the winery for the first time, my first
20:29
Speaker 1: thought was it looks like fall, and it was. This
20:32
Speaker 1: was filmed in October and November twenty seventeen, and throughout
20:36
Speaker 1: the movie there are you know this is rural Oregon
20:40
Speaker 1: that it takes place there are I don't think it
20:43
Speaker 1: was filmed in Oregon. I'm sure it was filmed in Canada,
20:44
Speaker 1: but there are glimpses of these trees that are changing colors.
20:51
Speaker 1: It looked like fall. It's clearly cold while they're filming it.
20:55
Speaker 1: It's windy. I mean I guess February is cold. But
20:57
Speaker 1: also thank you to IMDb for pointing out that the
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Speaker 1: vines would neither have been in leaf or fruiting in February.
21:03
Speaker 1: Oh really? The grade harvest is late summer through fall.
21:08
Speaker 1: Oh interesting, Yes, and they don't start leafing until springs.
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Speaker 1: That's I'm like, you guys do some due diligence when
21:14
Speaker 1: you're making a ease movie. Why does this need to
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Speaker 1: be a Valentine movie? And what part of it, other
21:18
Speaker 1: than calling it my Secret Valentine, needed to be a
21:20
Speaker 1: Valentine movie? None of it? None of it, None of it.
21:24
Speaker 1: I want to touch on the chalkboard writing, oh please
21:28
Speaker 1: not his his typical dude block lettering hers was like
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Speaker 1: a cursive. Yeah. It was so sloppy to me that
21:36
Speaker 1: I could like, it's not easy to like write on
21:38
Speaker 1: a board. Former teacher, I'm looking at one who proditeboards. Okay,
21:42
Speaker 1: but still, and were you writing cursive? I don't. I
21:44
Speaker 1: can't remember what gradey weard not teaching. It was just
21:47
Speaker 1: so sloppy. Talk about like having to pause and read
21:51
Speaker 1: it because I couldn't read what it said. Sloppy. Do
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Speaker 1: you think she was doing it? I don't know. I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: Lisa Shiver if that's your pechet maybe, but I thought
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Speaker 1: I remember seeing her. I know they definitely showed her.
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Speaker 1: I just don't like in the act of writing. I
22:08
Speaker 1: just don't know if the end result was yeah, yeah,
22:11
Speaker 1: I don't know. The other did you see? That goes
22:14
Speaker 1: to my favorite scene when they meet in the convenience
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Speaker 1: store and they're talking about like popcorn and chocolate. They
22:19
Speaker 1: are not wrong, hair hot salty popcorn with any virgin
22:22
Speaker 1: of an eminem is an elite stack experience. Peanut butter eminem's.
22:26
Speaker 1: But the way that they're like making it out is
22:29
Speaker 1: like a cold bagged popcorn and like a Hershey bar,
22:33
Speaker 1: Like I mean, you might get the same result, but like, no,
22:36
Speaker 1: you need that hot salty meltiness. Yes, there is a
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Speaker 1: creator on TikTok. She was someone who was doing loaded
22:43
Speaker 1: waters for a while, so you may have seen her.
22:45
Speaker 1: She was doing She did loaded popcorn the other day.
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Speaker 1: She took the bag of microwave popcorn and after it popped,
22:51
Speaker 1: she's added butter because she was like, it needs more butter.
22:54
Speaker 1: She added flaky sea salt, and then she put granola
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Speaker 1: in it that had like little chocolate just a morning
23:00
Speaker 1: the lower bluff. Oh did she have the lower bleff?
23:02
Speaker 1: Did she have a baby like a year ago when
23:04
Speaker 1: she was doing the loaded watery Yeah, that's her. Oh
23:07
Speaker 1: she had a lower bluff. Yeah, great, lots of complications.
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Speaker 1: Oh she talked about it. Yeah, Oh I didn't know that?
23:13
Speaker 1: Is it? Laura Hoffman? Make me TikTok For anyone following,
23:16
Speaker 1: It's Lauren Hoffman zero on TikTok And yep, here's her
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Speaker 1: loaded popcorn video. I recommend it. Yeah, it sounded really
23:23
Speaker 1: good because I have pop like granola. Doesn't that sound good?
23:26
Speaker 1: Like a little bit? And the granola I have has
23:28
Speaker 1: like dark chocolate chunks in it, And I was like, oh,
23:30
Speaker 1: I'm doing that. That sounds amazing. It does sound and
23:33
Speaker 1: it kind of tricks my brain into thinking I'm eating
23:35
Speaker 1: like a healthy year snack. Well, popcorn has fiber in it. Anywhere?
23:40
Speaker 1: Did you see that? Yeah? A couple they have that.
23:43
Speaker 1: It is a cute scene. It's the wine festival competition
23:46
Speaker 1: where she's like, it's like a wine tasty competition, but
23:50
Speaker 1: excuse me, like she wins, she works for a wine
23:53
Speaker 1: or she doesn't work for a winery, but she's from
23:55
Speaker 1: the winery cloth, you know what I mean. I didn't
23:58
Speaker 1: think she should have been eligible to win. I just
24:00
Speaker 1: felt like there the purpose of this scene is to
24:03
Speaker 1: only show like some sort of like chemistry. Yeah, them
24:06
Speaker 1: being cute together? Yeah, exactly, like bobbed for apples. Oh
24:10
Speaker 1: could you even imagine Lacey Shaver coming up wet face
24:14
Speaker 1: and hair bobbing for apples? All right? Something else? Don't
24:17
Speaker 1: on the string eating? Okation? All right? My other did
24:21
Speaker 1: you see that? Is back to that scene where I
24:23
Speaker 1: thought Lacey was really good as Chloe with like the
24:25
Speaker 1: tears in her eyes. And this is when the contracts
24:29
Speaker 1: were signed and Seth like comes in, He's like, this
24:31
Speaker 1: is gonna be great for everyone. I'm like, read the room, dude,
24:35
Speaker 1: how are you not? Chloe is upset about it? Like
24:40
Speaker 1: you know, I went on a real journey yesterday while
24:44
Speaker 1: recording our Patreon episode about like oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
24:48
Speaker 1: you know since the tone bro exactly yeah, And so
24:53
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25:03
Speaker 1: has been spilled. Let's rte this movie. I gave it
25:07
Speaker 1: two and a half start. Oh look at that. So
25:11
Speaker 1: it's so funny. We have the same rating, but I
25:14
Speaker 1: hated it more well. I got real fired up in
25:17
Speaker 1: my wishes section, so you know, hopefully the rest of
25:21
Speaker 1: the month is what's the next movie? I don't know Valentine.
25:24
Speaker 1: Sometime tell me who's in it. The next movie is
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Speaker 1: All Things Valentine and it is Sampage and the redhead
25:37
Speaker 1: from Suits Donna from Suits. I can't think of her name.
25:40
Speaker 1: I can't clock the actress, but I like Sampage. All
25:44
Speaker 1: Things Valentine coming next week to Girls Cut Homemark. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I hope it's better. We'll be back next time with
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