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A Season for Family · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 3: Welcome to Girlscott Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan
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  Speaker 3: and I'm a longtime Hallmark movie fan. I'm Wendy. I'm
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  Speaker 3: your former Hallmark hater. Today we're discussing a season for Family.
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  Speaker 3: You might notice that this did air a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 3: and fun. There are a lot of Hallmark podcasts to
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  Speaker 3: they share their point of view on movies, even if
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  Speaker 3: and chatting about your favorite movies.
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  Speaker 4: Heyks, so nice, that's so nice. Also, I want to say,
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  Speaker 4: we love having you here too.
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  Speaker 3: That is right, thank you for coming on over in
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  Speaker 3: the Hallmark World. Obviously they're not like Fast and Furious
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  Speaker 3: droppin' news this time of year. You know everyone's got
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  Speaker 3: their office notifications on. But on Christmas Day they are
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  Speaker 3: running a marathon of twenty twenty three movies, which works
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  Speaker 3: out to twelve movies in a twenty four hour period.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's some interesting choices. Would you like
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  Speaker 3: to hear what they are?
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  Speaker 4: I would love it?
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  Speaker 3: Starting at one oh one am with where are You Christmas?
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  Speaker 3: Good solid choice, I think I followed by our Christmas Mural.
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  Speaker 3: Then we ram back up with missed It Christmas?
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  Speaker 4: And then Christmas with a kiss? Do you think it's
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  Speaker 4: like one good one when not so good one?
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  Speaker 3: Well, then we go navigating Christmas, then we go everything Christmases,
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  Speaker 3: then we go magic and Mistletoe. Then we ramp back
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  Speaker 3: up with hal of the Holly lid up. Continue the
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  Speaker 3: fund with Christmas Island seven pm. In that primetime spot,
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  Speaker 3: we have a builtmore Christmas the feel good feels, continue
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  Speaker 3: with the Heidelberg Holiday and we round it out with
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  Speaker 3: some good old fashioned eye candy and flipping for Christmas.
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  Speaker 4: Ah interesting it slipping for Christmas on at like eleven
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  Speaker 4: PM ten eleven pm. Oh yeah, okay, so they put
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  Speaker 4: their their best performing movies in the biggest, most watched
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  Speaker 4: time slots. Well, them are an interesting choice to me,
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  Speaker 4: Oh for sure, for sure, not even some of my
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  Speaker 4: favorite movies there. I think there were better movies this
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  Speaker 4: season than what's on that lineup. I wanted to ask
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  Speaker 4: you on Christmas Day in the evening, do you sit
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  Speaker 4: down and watch TV movies? Usually we will.
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  Speaker 3: Our Christmas Day is more like lunch, Like we eat
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  Speaker 3: around two o'clock and so by five everyone's kind of
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  Speaker 3: cleared out. We will settle in and watch not.
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  Speaker 4: A homework movie though.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 4: I saw that the VIP packages for Christmas Con next
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  Speaker 4: December have sold out already in like four minutes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: something correctly crazy like that. You can still get tickets.
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  Speaker 3: All the tickets are still available for every day, so
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  Speaker 3: you just don't get the VIP access. Congratulations them on
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  Speaker 3: their success, because that's wild. I know VIP always sells
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  Speaker 3: out early. I think that's got to be the earliest
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  Speaker 3: it's ever happened.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's super cool, but I really wish they
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  Speaker 4: didn't do it in December. December is such a hard month,
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  Speaker 4: like I cannot travel to New Jersey in December. I
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  Speaker 4: can't do it. It is hard.
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  Speaker 3: They clearly don't seem to be struggling for it, so
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  Speaker 3: I know it looked like a good time and it
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  Speaker 3: got tons of coverage. I mean, they got a big
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  Speaker 3: spread in People magazine, and.
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  Speaker 4: It was really nice because some people in our Facebook
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  Speaker 4: group also like shared photos. Yes, it was like that
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  Speaker 4: looks so fun.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, we are going on the Hallmark Channel
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  Speaker 3: cruise next November, so.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna have some fun of our own. I'm very excited.
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  Speaker 4: And have you ever heard me get very excited about
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  Speaker 4: travel or a cruise. I'm looking forward to it me too.
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  Speaker 3: It's eleven months away, but I cannot wait. All right,
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  Speaker 3: let's hear a synopsis of a season for Family Sure.
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  Speaker 4: Maddie's adopted son Wesley has just one Christmas wish to
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  Speaker 4: meet his brother Cody, who was adopted into a different family.
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  Speaker 4: Cody's father, Paul, is a widower who is not ready
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  Speaker 4: to have the adoption conversation with his own son. However,
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  Speaker 4: circumstances bring the two brothers unknowingly together and they become
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  Speaker 4: fast friends. While sparks fly between Maddie and Paul, starring
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  Speaker 4: Stacy Farber and Brendan Penny.
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  Speaker 3: It's Time for News and Note. This movie was directed
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  Speaker 3: by Kevin Fair. He's a prolific Hallmark director, with forty
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  Speaker 3: three total directing credits, including the twenty twenty three Countdown
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  Speaker 3: to Christmas kickoff movie Checking It Twice a season.
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  Speaker 4: Poor Family was written by Steven Sessions. Stephen has twenty
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  Speaker 4: nine writing credits, including North to Home and A Winter
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  Speaker 4: Getaway for Hallmark. He's also written a number of renovation
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  Speaker 4: and home and garden style shows like House Hunters, Rate
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  Speaker 4: my Space, and Design on a Dime. I love those
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  Speaker 4: house renovation shows. I freaking love them.
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  Speaker 3: Brendon Penny plays Paul. Among his fifty seven acting credits
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  Speaker 3: include a swoon worthy performance in The Wedding Cottage. Earlier
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  Speaker 3: this year, he's been up a Hallmark Darling. He first
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  Speaker 3: appeared on the network in twenty fifteen in the Gourmet Detective.
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  Speaker 3: That was not a starring role for him, but since
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  Speaker 3: then he has appeared in multiple mouies per year on
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  Speaker 3: the channel, as well as a starring role in every
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  Speaker 3: season of the series Chesapeake Shores.
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  Speaker 4: Stacy Farber plays Maddie. Stacy became a star during her
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  Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty six run on de Grassi The
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  Speaker 4: Next Generation? Which Nickelodeon show? Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a Canadian show that maybe was picked
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  Speaker 3: up by Nickelodeon, But de Grossi's real Canadian.
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  Speaker 4: Oh. She went on to appear in two episodes of
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  Speaker 4: Unreal and making her Hallmark debut in Butler's in Love.
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  Speaker 4: She's also a regular on Virgin River. That's right.
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  Speaker 3: Benjamin Jacobson plays Wesley. He appeared on two episodes of
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  Speaker 3: the CW's Nancy Drew alongside Scott Wolf. I'm Drawing the
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  Speaker 3: Count and a Christmas six Degrees of Separation map in
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  Speaker 3: my Mind here Totally. He also appeared in a Fabled
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  Speaker 3: Holiday and Mystery on Mistletoe Lane as part of his
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  Speaker 3: seventeen acting credits.
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  Speaker 4: Was he the younger son on Mystery on Mistletoe Lane?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 3: He plays the young version of oh Oh.
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  Speaker 4: As Reel Dahlman plays Cody. He's a budding Hallmark darling
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  Speaker 4: with appearances in Sweet Carolina, Coyote Creek, Christmas, Time for
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  Speaker 4: them to come home for Christmas and we need a
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  Speaker 4: little Christmas. He has forty acting credits with seven upcoming projects,
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  Speaker 4: including the Hallmark series Holidaysed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, where is it? Where's Holidaysed? The people want to
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  Speaker 3: know I.
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  Speaker 4: Have an update.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I can't wait.
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  Speaker 4: You need to listen to our episode on of Round
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  Speaker 4: and Round.
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  Speaker 3: Come back for that episode next week. Edward Ruddle plays
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  Speaker 3: Jeremy I think my personal favorite title among his thirty
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  Speaker 3: four acting credits is single and Ready to Jingle. His
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  Speaker 3: first acting role was as beer luge Guy in the
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  Speaker 3: iconic movie Hot Tub Time Machine.
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  Speaker 4: I like that movie me too. It's been a minute
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  Speaker 4: since I've seen it, and I can't tell you anything
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  Speaker 4: about it. Just I remember enjoying it.
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  Speaker 3: I watched husband loves it and watches it annually.
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  Speaker 4: Cameron Bancroft plays Charles aka Joe Bradley from Beverly Hills
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  Speaker 4: nine O two one oh. He has ninety acting credits
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  Speaker 4: and is getting the Barbara Nevin Graham treatment from Hamewark.
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  Speaker 4: We haven't seen him on the network since Cody Creek
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  Speaker 4: Christmas in twenty twenty one. Now I have a little
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  Speaker 4: addition here. Yeah, I had caught bits of this movie
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago and saw Cameron Bancroft, and it always like
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  Speaker 4: takes the air out of my sales when I see him.
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  Speaker 3: Could you consider him a contemporary even though he's a
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  Speaker 3: little older than we are.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, he's fifty six. I'm forty eight. Anyway, I snapped
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  Speaker 4: a picture of it, and I am very active on Reddit,
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  Speaker 4: including a Beverly Hills nine oh two win a group,
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  Speaker 4: and I dropped that picture in there and I was like, guys,
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  Speaker 4: this is Joe Bradley. And people did not believe me.
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  Speaker 4: They were like, no, way, that's not him. And I
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  Speaker 4: was like, yeah, it's totally him, Like he does Hallmark movies.
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  Speaker 4: This is him. This is him. That's wild that they
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  Speaker 4: didn't know that about him, I know. I was like,
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  Speaker 4: they're not really up on there nine oh two, one
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  Speaker 4: oh are they now?
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  Speaker 3: Jessica Sepos plays sister Taylor.
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  Speaker 4: This season.
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  Speaker 3: She also starred in Mistletoe Connection for up TV. It
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be a Hallmark resume without an appearance on Unreal,
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  Speaker 3: for which Jessica racked up four episodes among her twenty
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  Speaker 3: two total acting credits. You ready for first impressions?
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  Speaker 4: I am go ahead. I already leaned into it a
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  Speaker 4: little bit earlier. I die a little inside every time
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  Speaker 4: I see Cameron Mancroft playing a silver haired grandpa. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Silver fox. But I mean, does he have to be
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  Speaker 4: a grandpa every time? I know? Let me just tell you.
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  Speaker 4: I showed my husband last night because my husband watches
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  Speaker 4: or has watched him show him uh huh, And I
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  Speaker 4: was like, do you know who this is? And he
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  Speaker 4: guessed who it was, and I was like, the dude, now, okay,
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  Speaker 4: hear me out. I go, the dude needs to color
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  Speaker 4: his hair so he can play like roles that are
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  Speaker 4: more age appropriate for him. And my husband says, maybe
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  Speaker 4: this is how he's get the roles is because he
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  Speaker 4: has you know, gray silver hair, whereas like the competition's
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  Speaker 4: too stiff to play the younger roles. So yeah, he's
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  Speaker 4: gonna play the grandpa. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And he still looks fan frea fantastic, right, So you
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  Speaker 3: look at him and you're like, well, we'd rather have
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  Speaker 3: hot grandpa. You get that coin Joe Bradley, Well you.
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  Speaker 4: It was so funny because my husband goes, I hope
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  Speaker 4: I look like him at fifty six, right, I was like,
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  Speaker 4: I know, and side note, not that it matters, but
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  Speaker 4: I did look up his coaster in this movie. Laura Solstice,
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  Speaker 4: who we see in Hallmark a ton, Yeah, she is
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  Speaker 4: older than him. Yeah, yeah, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 4: I just wanted to No, casting's a funny thing.
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  Speaker 3: My first impression is Brendon Penny, put your glasses back on,
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  Speaker 3: because you're not seeing things very clearly.
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  Speaker 4: Ooh ooh, we might have a disagreement on our hands here.
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  Speaker 4: Let's get into what we liked. Okay, over all, I
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  Speaker 4: thought this movie was fairly enjoyable, enjoyable enough. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: did think it was fairly predictable, and I did find
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  Speaker 4: myself a little frustrated at the push and pull of
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  Speaker 4: telling the kids what was going on. Like I was like,
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  Speaker 4: does it have to be this complicated? Or is it
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  Speaker 4: this complicated? I don't know, so I was like frustrated
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  Speaker 4: watching it.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you that I found this pretty enjoyable
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  Speaker 3: to watch. I think I've said it before, but I
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  Speaker 3: think this season we're seeing a bigger mix than we
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  Speaker 3: ever have before of big swings and new changes mixed
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  Speaker 3: with classic Hallmark formulas. And I don't hate the Hallmark
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  Speaker 3: formula when it's done well. I think I'm okay with
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  Speaker 3: movies that are doing it the old way. When we
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  Speaker 3: get performances that make me care about the characters and
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  Speaker 3: in this case, I don't think the story was perfect,
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  Speaker 3: but I love steeing Stacy Farber again, and I think
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  Speaker 3: she's the standout role in this movie.
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  Speaker 4: Interesting, h she didn't leave that big of a mark
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  Speaker 4: on me. Okay, I'm trying to think back to Butler's
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  Speaker 4: in Love and I can't remember if I fully enjoyed
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  Speaker 4: that movie. I think you did. I don't remember if
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  Speaker 4: I loved it. She's a fine actor, stand out I
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  Speaker 4: don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm sorry, I'm not argue with you.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Hey, So, story wise, I thought I thought the
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  Speaker 4: impression that Maddie was really trying to pressure Paul into
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  Speaker 4: telling Cody about the adoption. Mmm, and I was like, lady,
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  Speaker 4: it's like, so not your place. But but but on
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  Speaker 4: the other hand, the agreement between Paul and his now
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  Speaker 4: passed on wife, you know, not wanting to tell Cody
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  Speaker 4: it needed to be reevaluated because who would have guessed
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  Speaker 4: Wesley would have come into this picture? Right? Yes, I
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  Speaker 4: have a lot to say about that, but not here.
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  Speaker 4: But yes, okay, all right. I think it was definitely
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  Speaker 4: a complicated situation. I just I don't really know what
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  Speaker 4: the perfect scenario is there. Do you think they ended
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  Speaker 4: on a perfect scenario. Okay, I mean, if we're here,
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  Speaker 4: we're here, here's all my wishes. Are we still keeping
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  Speaker 4: adoption a secret from kids? Because I think all of
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  Speaker 4: the research suggests this can be very damaging to children
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  Speaker 4: to do this. I mean, set aside the fact that
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  Speaker 4: this kid was born in the era of smartphones, so
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  Speaker 4: that there's not a single hospital photo, there's not a
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  Speaker 4: pregnancy photo like.
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  Speaker 3: Kids ask, like, tell me about when I was born?
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  Speaker 3: Are you making up stories? Are you brushing him off?
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  Speaker 3: This doesn't make sense to me. The resolution for me
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  Speaker 3: is sticky because you have these two boys who are brothers,
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  Speaker 3: who are in theory going to be in each other's
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  Speaker 3: lives now. But we end with I think I'm falling
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  Speaker 3: in love with you. It loses a point there for
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  Speaker 3: me immediately because she's been in town for a week.
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  Speaker 3: And if there ever was a case for thinking very.
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  Speaker 4: Cautiously, this is it.
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  Speaker 3: Because you burn hot and fast and things don't work out,
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  Speaker 3: and then you've got a mess as opposed to oh,
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  Speaker 3: we realized over time that we were better off as friends,
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  Speaker 3: but we want to still be there for our children.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of mess here that doesn't work for me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree. I absolutely agree to
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  Speaker 4: your point. I do think you're right that Paul Splash
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  Speaker 4: Brendan Penny needed to reevaluate his priorities, had why his
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  Speaker 4: wife had passed. There's I understand, there's like this loyalty
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  Speaker 4: to your spouse.
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  Speaker 3: But at some point, you're the parent. You and your
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  Speaker 3: wife could not have possibly predicted all of the future
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  Speaker 3: circumstances that we're going to confront you and your son.
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  Speaker 4: You need to adapt.
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  Speaker 3: You need to be the parent here and make decisions
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  Speaker 3: that make sense now.
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  Speaker 4: In that moment, I agree. I kind of felt for
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  Speaker 4: the guy because he did not see it coming right,
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  Speaker 4: and I didn't think it was fair to be on
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  Speaker 4: Maddie's timeline, you know, just because Wesley wanted to know.
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  Speaker 4: He knew he had this brother out there, he just
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  Speaker 4: wasn't ready to tell. He was put in a really unfair,
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  Speaker 4: sticky situation. But I agree with you that adoptions shouldn't
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  Speaker 4: be this big secret.
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  Speaker 3: I agree that he was put in a messy situation,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't envy that, and I don't think Maddie
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  Speaker 3: should get to make the decision. But I think the
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  Speaker 3: bigger issue for me here and of course everybody listening.
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  Speaker 3: I'm speaking as not a parent who has adopted or
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  Speaker 3: has children who have been adopted. So again, take this
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  Speaker 3: with a jan Green AsSalt. Once the boys were in
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  Speaker 3: each other's lives, regardless of what Maddie wanted, I think
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  Speaker 3: it became about is it fair now that this lie
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  Speaker 3: has compounded? Okay, now I've never told you that you're adopted,
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  Speaker 3: and now I know that this boy is your biological brother,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm going to continue the lie, which also involves
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  Speaker 3: keeping that from you too.
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  Speaker 4: It's sticky, it's massy. Yeah, I think they need like
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  Speaker 4: a therapist in this situation.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody in this they immediately need therapy.
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  Speaker 4: Piggybacking on that, I did think it was sweet when
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  Speaker 4: the boys learned that they were siblings. It was like
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  Speaker 4: heavy on the cheese, but it was cute, Like I
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  Speaker 4: was happy for them me too. When you're that age,
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  Speaker 4: you like want your best friend to be your brother
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  Speaker 4: or sister. So that was super cool. I thought that
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  Speaker 4: was cute. That was cute. Here's another thing that I liked.
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  Speaker 4: When Paul realizes who Maddie is and he's like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: start at the beginning and I was like, thank god
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  Speaker 4: that she goes through the whole story now, because I
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  Speaker 4: was like, if we would have just jumped in, like
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  Speaker 4: as a viewer, I had been like, what the hell
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  Speaker 4: is happening? Oh is this even possible? Right? Yeah, So
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad that, like they took us through that whole
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  Speaker 4: situation of her telling him, and now we all have
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: a better understanding of what we're dealing with. Yeah, great point.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: I liked that Cody was constantly putting Paul his father
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: in his place, with lines like you said, that's great,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: but your face doesn't seem like you mean it, and
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: then later pointing out.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: He's like, I'm a kid, but I have ears, Like
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: if you guys have not exactly been subtle about the
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: fact that I'm adopted. I just liked that Paul blew
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: this up into a very big deal, which of course
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: it was, and his kid was like, dude, just just
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: talk to me like another just put a pit in
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: that note there for a second. It's in my digit
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: see that. All right? Do you have any other wishes
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: because I have a few. Let's get into it. Go ahead, Okay,
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: So I wish Paul wasn't such a hot mess like
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: his business. He's like completely distracted and then organized, and
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: he's like saying stuff like, oh, Susan used to handle
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: all this stuff. I'm like, dude, get it together, like
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: you are a single parent, now get your life in order.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: But moreover, I hated that he was like on the
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: brink of losing his business, Like why pile all these
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: terrible things onto this one man. Did we have to
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: have him losing his business in this movie too? Is
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: that just a check box for Hallmark?
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: I think it gives him the impetus to want to
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: leave town when things don't work out. And I had
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: mixed feelings about that because on the one hand, I
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: can only imagine being the solitary breadwinner for your child.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Your business is failing, so you're going to take any
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: opportunity that comes your way, Like I see this job,
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: I'm going to take it. I know it's going to
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: be a paycheck without considering all of the other factors
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: at play. At the other hand, I was like, just
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: sit down and take a breath and think for a
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: minute before you hop on a plane and move your
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: kid away from the only life he's ever known.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Seriously, I just I hate what it feels like, oh,
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: we're gonna throw this other like roadblock into the way.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: I just felt like he was making so many decisions
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: from a real place of anxiety, which I could understand
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: relate to, but at the same time, as a viewer,
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: I was like, just please take a breath. He finds
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: out that he's not gonna be able to work at
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: the hotel, and he kind of blows things up with Maddie.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, dude, just chill seriously. Now. I
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: know he had a sister that was great, But they
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: never said anything about his parents, right or his former
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: in laws either, Like there's got to be family in
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: town that he could talk to.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: They mentioned his parents, but I don't think they live there. Okay,
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: he just has the sister, and I think the sister
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: was a good grounding force for him. She was like, Okay,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: we love you and we support you. We loved your wife,
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: but it's okay for you to make decisions for your
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: family as they work now.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: Right. Okay, here's another wish I have, and uh, you're
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: not going to be surprised. I wish the kids would
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: have been more like kids. Oh yeah, they're like a
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: little too smart. I would like they are like little
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: boring adults in kids' bodies, like two of the most
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: well behaved kids of all time.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was always happy. I always excited about whatever
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: the next plan is, not like.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Oh do I have to go to ski school today?
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Mom?
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Exactly mine, w'd be like, I don't know anybody. I
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: don't want to go. You know, yes, it's cold.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: It was hard.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: I felt they were always so like Chipper and excited
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: for the season. I was just like, get out of here.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: I have a one more Paul Brendan question, he tells
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Maddie when she tells him like I'm gonna stay. I'm
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: going to be the GM at the hotel. His first
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: reaction is, I never would have agreed to the boys
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: being friends if I knew you were staying.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's weird. Right.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: First, while that's not a train, you can control a
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: lot and be you're so protective of this little secret
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: that you have that's not child centered thinking. We're not
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: thinking about what's best for Cody here. You're just like, Wow,
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: this is making life, my life so much harder, and
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: I'm forced to confront things that I am not ready
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: to confront.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: And therefore I.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Am angry with you, and then the next night I
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: am falling in love with you.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yikes, Cody, I mean talk about therapy they need.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: There's a guy on TikTok you guys, I'm gonna share
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: it and our girls got Hallmark Instagram stories. He's the
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: red Flag guy and so he stitches red like when
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: guys are exhibiting red flag behavior, and he comes running
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: through with a giant, physical red flag. It's the best
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: thing you've ever seen. Check out our Instagram stories today.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: Exciting. Are you ready for? Did you see that? I
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: am First of all, we've seen that's hotel space before
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: in other Hallmark movies. I think maybe Cody Creek Christmas
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: and right in front of me are the two that
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: come to top of them. Real nice. Did you even
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: realize I didn't clock that same big fireplace? They have
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: that weird kitchen situation inside of the exposed kitchen pana.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: It's weird.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Hey, did you notice there's a scene where Paul and
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Maddie are in the kitchen looking at snowman cookies and
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: those Snowman cookies look actually homemade instead of like perfect
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: bakery snowmen.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: I was impressed. Yeah, that was good. I wonder who
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: did that? Some people I was like bacon cookies for
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: a movie that I'm working on right now. There are
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: worse jobs. What was up with the many bowling balls?
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: And I'm asking you because I'm hoping you can give
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: me a.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Oh answer to that. It is called candle pin bowling.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Candle pin bowling is primarily played in Canada and New England.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: But yes, that is a totally different thought.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: It was very weird. But also they don't have regular,
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: regular bowling. They don't have bowling like what we know.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: I'm going to be in Canada. I'm sure they have both.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: I like the idea of throwing the smaller ball me too,
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: That's exactly what I thought.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: I'm like, that's so much less embarrassing than the giant
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: ball you're heaving down the lane.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: And I'm telling you, like, my body hurts the next
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: day after bowling, like you throwing that big ten pound
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: ball down. No, I don't want to do that. I
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: would much rather throw like a softball size ball down.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Then, yes, I find bowling to be humiliating. And I
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: say this as a parent of a child who bowls competitively.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I had to bowl with him. Last year and it
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: was the most embarrassing hour of my life.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Did you make them put the gutters up for you? No? Way? No,
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: he was a champion. Oh yeah, I play like a champion.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Those are called the bumpers, that's what they're called, the
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: bumpers for the gutters. Right. Yeah? Did you happen to
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: catch the writing on the letter to Santa? No? Okay?
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: How old did you do? You think these boys are ten?
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: At least ten because the ones older right, because they're okay?
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: This letter to Santa was written like it was written
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: by a preschooler, and PlayStation was like spelled all wrong,
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: like like a backwards as it was. Yes, it was
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: that bad. And then we are to think Cody wrote
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: this letter and like two scenes later, he's like figures
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: out he's adopted, but he can't write PlayStation, Like what
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: what emotional maturity to say? You have said that's great,
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: but it doesn't seem like that's great, but spells s
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: h u N at the end of PlayStation Exactly. I
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: think that's exactly how it was. I was like, come on, people,
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: this is bad.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: What did you write a season for family?
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: I gave it three stars? Hey, the three point twenty
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: five stars. Look at you.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: I think all season long, you have rated these movies
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: higher than me, most of them. Does that just make
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: me a hater? Then I don't know. A rating system
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: is meaningless. By the way, all vibes, all vibes.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to this episode of Girls Gone Homework.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Believe it or not.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: We still have two more weeks of holiday movie reviews
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: coming at you before we kick off new movies in January,
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: plus a brand new throwback series in January. We did
• 26:35
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• 26:39
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• 26:41
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• 26:45
  Speaker 4: Thanks for listening. We'll see you next time. Goodbye bye,
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