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The Chicken Sisters Season 2 Episode 8 (feat. Patrick Serrano) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to a Girls
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Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark, a Homewark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm
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Speaker 1: a long time Hallmark fan. Today we are reviewing the
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Speaker 1: season finale of season two of The Chicken Sisters, and
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Speaker 1: I have the absolute pleasure of being joined for this
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Speaker 1: episode by Patrick Serrano, host of the lifetime Uncorked podcast
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Speaker 1: alongside Dan and Bran of doc The Hallmark. Patrick, thank
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Speaker 1: you for being here today.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so excited. You know, you sent out the
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Speaker 2: request for for people to join, and I was like,
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Speaker 2: I gotta get on this because I had a ex
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Speaker 2: boyfriend text me like when Chicken Sister started and he
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Speaker 2: was like, hey, I know you're like homework and you
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Speaker 2: like Chicken. So do you watch a show?
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Speaker 1: So did you watch the first season of this show
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Speaker 1: when it was originally airing?
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Speaker 2: No, So here's the deal. I'm coming in cold to this.
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Speaker 2: So I just I just I was like, I had
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Speaker 2: him all recorded. I talked to my mom. I was like, Mom,
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Speaker 2: you watched the first season? Should I do it? And
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Speaker 2: She's like, oh, yeah, you should watch it. And I
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Speaker 2: just haven't had time. But they're all sitting in my
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Speaker 2: queue and I was like, really know what, I'm not
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Speaker 2: gonna binge it. I'm just gonna jump in, watch the
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Speaker 2: watch the finale, and take it as a finale, possibly
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Speaker 2: a series finale. Well we don't know yet, we don't know,
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Speaker 2: so yeah, I'm coming in like your friend who just
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Speaker 2: happened to come over while this was one and watch it?
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Speaker 1: Kind of like when my husband. My husband is a
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Speaker 1: big fan of Days of Our Lives and I haven't
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Speaker 1: watched that show since I was in high school. So
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Speaker 1: I walk in, I'm like, wait, what's going on with
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Speaker 1: and he's like you can't. He's like, you need to
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Speaker 1: watch it every day or not at all. So yes,
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Speaker 1: I'm very from being that person. So a little bit
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Speaker 1: more about you before we talk the Chicken sisters. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you talk Lifetime regularly. How did you get into that
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Speaker 1: lifetime reviewing life?
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Speaker 2: Oh goodness, I mean it's been like since birth, probably
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Speaker 2: you know, coming home from school watching the little tawdry
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Speaker 2: after school special, you know, type of murder, cheerleader murder. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: all the cautionary teen tales like don't be homeless and
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Speaker 2: go to Harvard or don't be fifteen and get pregnant. Yeah, yes, yes,
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Speaker 2: So a long time Lifetime watcher. And then I was
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Speaker 2: in Chicago working in storefront theater running with my friends
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Speaker 2: and we decided not to renew the least on the building.
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Speaker 2: We were like, okay, we've done the thing. So my
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Speaker 2: friend Drew took all the recording equipment because we weren't
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Speaker 2: going to do anything with it, and he started a
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Speaker 2: podcast network and he's like, you watch those Christmas movies right,
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Speaker 2: because I was writing like little on Facebook when Facebook
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Speaker 2: was a thing. I was writing like many many like
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Speaker 2: jokey synopsies about you know, I don't even remember. This
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Speaker 2: is probably twenty sixteen.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And then so we started a podcast there. I
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Speaker 2: was on his network, and then the boys found me
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Speaker 2: or they started their podcast. They reached out and they
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Speaker 2: were like, hey, you know about podcasts and you're talking
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Speaker 2: about the movies we want to talk about. How do
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Speaker 2: we do that? It's like, who are these people? They're
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Speaker 2: so crazy? Then they blew up and then they were like, hey,
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Speaker 2: come along the ride with me, and I was like, okay,
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Speaker 2: that's it.
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Speaker 1: Really well, we of course will leave links in our
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Speaker 1: show notes, but you can listen to Patrick on the
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Speaker 1: Lifetime Uncorked podcast hallmarking over there a little more salacious usually.
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Speaker 2: Though usually yeah, and I only do the Hamewark Christmas
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Speaker 2: ones because you gotta watch the Christmas ones. Sure, but
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Speaker 2: I do Lifetime Murder all year round.
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Speaker 1: All year round. I love it. I will say Murder
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Speaker 1: is more Wendy's vibe than Hallmark Christmas, so she'd be
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Speaker 1: all in on that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, the Lifetime is a little crazy with
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Speaker 2: They're they're really into the true crime right now. True
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Speaker 2: crime is like their bread and button.
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Speaker 1: Ripped from the headline situation.
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Speaker 2: So that gets tricky, tricky to talk about because you're like,
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Speaker 2: this really happened.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I'll talk about it respectfully without.
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Speaker 2: Ye and you now, which which is great. They have
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Speaker 2: the people that are actually like involved, Like Honey Boo
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Speaker 2: Boo was like narrating the Honey Boo Boo story.
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Speaker 1: Oh interesting.
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Speaker 2: They just did a Courtney stodd In one where Courtney
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Speaker 2: Stott and kind of got to reframe her her marriage
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Speaker 2: and like all that crazy stuff with her like coming
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Speaker 2: being a minor and like how that was problematic. You're like,
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Speaker 2: yeah it was, but at the time it was very
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Speaker 2: salacious and everybody wanted to talk about it, but she
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Speaker 2: was like, uh yeah, not my life. Yeah, this is
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Speaker 2: my life. Wow. She just wanted to sing. She just
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Speaker 2: wanted to be a singer.
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Speaker 1: We're going to get into the Chicken Sisters season, hopefully
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Speaker 1: not series finale because we are left on a cliffhanger, but.
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Speaker 2: A big cliffhanger, I know.
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Speaker 1: So we're going to kick it off and tell me
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Speaker 1: what your first impression of this episode was.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So I listened to a launcha episode before coming
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Speaker 2: on so I could get the kind of gist of
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Speaker 2: how the podcast work and what happened in the episode before,
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Speaker 2: because I was like, I at least need to know.
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Speaker 2: Sounds like there was a big storm, so we're getting
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Speaker 2: liked the aftermath of that, and it didn't really look
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Speaker 2: as like storm tattered as I thought it was going through.
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Speaker 2: In my imagination when you guys were describing it, I
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Speaker 2: was picturing I don't know what I was picturing, but
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Speaker 2: I guess my imagination ran wild on that. But this
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Speaker 2: was very homework version of a.
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Speaker 1: Really only that Mimi's restaurant was destroyed and everything else
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Speaker 1: remains standing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, my first impressions were like trying
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Speaker 2: to figure out who people were and everything, and I,
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Speaker 2: you know, quickly figured out, you know, Wendy Malik is
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Speaker 2: like the matriarch, and then there's her daughter, and then
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Speaker 2: her daughter's daughters and then the daughter's darter. So that's
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Speaker 2: where the sisters thing come in and got all that.
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Speaker 2: But my question to you is, why is everyone so
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Speaker 2: mean to Frank Junior? What did he do?
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Speaker 1: Oh? My goodness, Patrick, how much time do you have?
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Speaker 2: I was like, everybody is so mean to this man.
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Speaker 1: Up until this episode, I have been saying, all love
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Speaker 1: to James Cott, but Frank Junior is the worst, the worst,
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Speaker 1: the worst. Okay, season one, he he was a terrible
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Speaker 1: husband to Amanda. And the whole premise of season one
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Speaker 1: is there's this kitchen clash series and it's the two restaurants,
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Speaker 1: rival restaurants, fighting against each other, and Frank ultimately betrays
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Speaker 1: them in the end. And this season has been kind
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Speaker 1: of about the women reclaiming their lives from them men,
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Speaker 1: and Frank Juniors continued to be kind of terrible throughout,
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Speaker 1: and I've been saying all along, I don't want a
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Speaker 1: Frank Junior redemption story because I could feel like that's
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Speaker 1: where we were going. I'm like I don't want it.
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Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna surprise some people today because I
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Speaker 1: was pretty impressed with how it was handled, because I
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Speaker 1: was ready to just see Frank Junior right off into
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Speaker 1: the sunset. But okay, well we'll talk a little bit
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Speaker 1: more about him.
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Speaker 2: And he's the guy who who was in the chicken
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Speaker 2: shop or the chicken one of the chicken places, the
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Speaker 2: one that didn't get taken down by the storm with
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Speaker 2: the recipe, right, that was him.
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Speaker 1: That's him. Yeah, so that's part of the whole part
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Speaker 1: of the split. At the end of season one is
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Speaker 1: this dude bro podcast or Christian kind of comes in
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Speaker 1: and brings Frank under his wing to open this big franchise,
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Speaker 1: which is terrible because they.
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Speaker 2: Had they had the powdered gravy in the background was exactly,
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Speaker 2: that's the bad place. That's the bad place, exactly.
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Speaker 1: And Frank infuses it with what he knows, having worked
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Speaker 1: in the chicken restaurant that's actually good his entire life.
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Speaker 1: And now Christian wants to take that recipe from him,
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Speaker 1: and Frank obviously does not give him the real deal.
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Speaker 2: He is put in some fake ingredients.
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Speaker 1: Indeed, indeed, so I got to say, as far as
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Speaker 1: first impressions, for me, I really feel like this episode
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Speaker 1: tied this season up with such a nice bow. I
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Speaker 1: do have a couple little wishes about things that I
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Speaker 1: had hoped would happen, but for the most part, I
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Speaker 1: was so much of what we were hoping for came
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Speaker 1: to fruition in this episode. And we should start with
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Speaker 1: Frank Junior's turnaround. So you as a watcher saw a
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Speaker 1: coming in brand new kind of the surprise on people's
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Speaker 1: face over and over again when Frank Junior would come
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Speaker 1: in kindly and they're like, what's happening here? What's going
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Speaker 1: on here? I can't And I think did it come
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Speaker 1: off as like distrust when you're.
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Speaker 2: Watching that, it seemed to me like he obviously did
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Speaker 2: something like really bad, and because like the narrator was
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Speaker 2: dogging on him, like everybody was like, man, he sucks,
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Speaker 2: but then his actions were like totally going against that.
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Speaker 2: So for me, I was like, oh, he seems kind,
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Speaker 2: he seems not that bad. He seems like a nice guy.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I think they did a great job with
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Speaker 1: his story. And I the thing that I really like,
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Speaker 1: again I've been saying I don't want it. I don't
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Speaker 1: want it. They The one reason, and Alonzo touched on
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Speaker 1: this last week, the one reason I did want it
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Speaker 1: is he has a daughter, and you want that harmony.
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Speaker 1: You want him to be a good person for her,
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Speaker 1: at least if none of these other women. His mother
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Speaker 1: was still trying really hard to have a relationship with him,
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Speaker 1: And so I think he did take accountability and own
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Speaker 1: up for the stuff that he did and actually apologize
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Speaker 1: and then took it a step farther and built that
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Speaker 1: big improbable arch for the Weddy.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so uh, you know, and like when he
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Speaker 2: was with Sergio two, like how he was like being
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Speaker 2: cool with that and like he could tell, like, Amanda, Sergio,
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Speaker 2: we're getting together, and he was like, you know, not
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Speaker 2: encouraging it, but he was like trying to get to
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Speaker 2: know him a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly not stopping it. I mean he calls him bro.
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Speaker 1: The look on Sergio's face is my favorite in that moment.
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Speaker 1: And so yeah, I really appreciate the writing team here
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Speaker 1: making me believe in this redemption and not just feeling
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Speaker 1: like it was something we had to do to check
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Speaker 1: a box. So that's my biggest moment. What are somethings
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Speaker 1: you liked about this episode.
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Speaker 2: So I was so happy that it was the wedding
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Speaker 2: episode because I love a wedding. It was funny to
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Speaker 2: me that, you know, tornado comes through the town, the
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Speaker 2: town bands together not to fix the town, but to
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Speaker 2: put on the wedding. So that was that was great.
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Speaker 2: I was like, man, this town has their priorities in check.
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Speaker 2: They're not gonna let this chicken sister not have her wedding.
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Speaker 2: And it was like so like the decor was so
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Speaker 2: beautiful and like everything was so I kind of think,
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Speaker 2: like a mismatched like tablescape is so cool. Like I
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Speaker 2: loved how they were just like pulling on it must
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Speaker 2: because they were pulling all the random things out of
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Speaker 2: everyone's houses. Right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I wasn't like this plan. No, definitely not
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Speaker 1: the plan. They had this big, beautiful setup. It was
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Speaker 1: blown over by the tornado. It just felt so much
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Speaker 1: more personal, Like this felt like the way it always
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Speaker 1: should have been in this town.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So I love that, and I love I love
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Speaker 2: the archway that you mentioned with the purple flower so beautiful.
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Speaker 2: The wedding could have been longer for me. I could
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Speaker 2: have had like most of the episode be the wedding,
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Speaker 2: but that's okay. We had things to get to I understand,
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Speaker 2: but I was like so happy for the wedding to
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Speaker 2: be to be the episode that I was doing. And
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Speaker 2: oh my gosh, being ordained online so funny. That was hilarious. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: where they're like this is this really this easy, and
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Speaker 2: you're like, yeah, it actually is. Yeah, it was.
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Speaker 1: It was great. There's a really interesting scene in this movie.
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Speaker 1: It's the morning after the slumber party the breakfast, and
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Speaker 1: the breakfast scene is filmed in a single shot and
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Speaker 1: it's really well choreographed and they go through the entire
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Speaker 1: kitchen and all the characters are there, and I actually
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Speaker 1: rewound to see because I was like, did were there
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Speaker 1: any cuts? No, like straight through the kitchen, and I
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Speaker 1: just like the thought and choreography that is put into
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Speaker 1: that moment to make sure all the pieces come together
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Speaker 1: and everyone's passing the dishes. It was a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a departure from the kind of cinematography we see
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Speaker 1: in the show, and I call it was really well done.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, It's almost like a play when you do like
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Speaker 2: a long shot like that, because everybody has to be
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Speaker 2: like hitting exactly where they need to be. And like
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Speaker 2: you just rehearse it a bunch and then you kind
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Speaker 2: of do it, and yeah, it's a really cool effect.
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Speaker 2: So that's exciting that Hallmark is experimenting with different types
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Speaker 2: of camera work. And you know, speaks well of the
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Speaker 2: directors too that they can they're being backed up to
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Speaker 2: take the time to do that because it's not easy.
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Speaker 1: No, I agree, And I think the writing team on
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Speaker 1: the show is really interesting. I don't know if you know,
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Speaker 1: but it's a completely different showrunner from season one to
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Speaker 1: season two, and season two the showrunner as Aaron Gibson,
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Speaker 1: who is a comedy podcaster. She has a highly successful
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Speaker 1: podcast turned into a TV show, and a lot of
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Speaker 1: the writers are big in the comedy world as well,
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Speaker 1: and so I think they've really been trying to do
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Speaker 1: something really different with the show. It's definitely different from
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Speaker 1: the standard Hallmark stable of writers, and so I think
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Speaker 1: this show I don't think does very well on Hallmark unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: because I think it's interesting and I think they're trying
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Speaker 1: new things and I kind of wish more people would
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Speaker 1: give it a chance, especially I text Wendy's not here
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Speaker 1: because Wendy did not enjoy this show, and so I said,
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Speaker 1: let's try something different. But I texted her last night
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Speaker 1: I was like, the finale is genuinely so good, especially
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Speaker 1: because she had watched all the first season. I so
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Speaker 1: I think you.
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Speaker 2: Should, right, she give a watch, give it a chance.
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Speaker 2: I love that the comedy people are coming in because
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Speaker 2: you know, comedy like takes a lot of work, and
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Speaker 2: you know it seems like so off the cuff, but
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Speaker 2: it's actually so like precise. That wedding planner she walks
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Speaker 2: up on the wedding site and just like screams bloody murder.
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Speaker 2: That was hilarious. I like rewound that three times, so
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Speaker 2: I was like, is this really happening? This is great. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Rickay Bernard is such a gem. I love her as
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Speaker 1: Sabrina in the show.
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Speaker 2: It's so funny some of that.
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Speaker 1: One of the small threads I love is Gruster, who
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Speaker 1: is her romantic interest. He was in season one, there
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Speaker 1: was kind of a flirtation, and he only has been
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Speaker 1: back for one episode of season two. But I love
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Speaker 1: that we see like it's hinted. We didn't see them
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Speaker 1: in the Tornado episode. He came out back the episode
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Speaker 1: before that, and Alonzo and I were thinking like, well,
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Speaker 1: happened with Sabrina and Gruster. It kind of hints that
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Speaker 1: maybe they were sheltering in place together or something is
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Speaker 1: going on there. He calls her sweetheart. It was a
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Speaker 1: nice little moment. Nice to see them close the loop
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Speaker 1: on that a little bit, give us some closure, knowing
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Speaker 1: that maybe they'll have something going forward. Oh.
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Speaker 2: I was definitely shipping them. I was into that for sure.
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Speaker 2: And the teenage daughter also being like, oh Mom, what's
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Speaker 2: happening here? Like that relationship with the mom and the
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Speaker 2: teenage daughter to like talk about, like, oh you have
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Speaker 2: a hot boyfriend. Mom like that? Yes, great.
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Speaker 1: Both moms have that moment with their daughters, and the
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Speaker 1: daughters I like, are both fully supportive and on board
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Speaker 1: with these new relations.
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Speaker 2: That's awesome to be able to have that type of
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Speaker 2: conversation with your teenage you know, daughter, mother daughter. That's great. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I loved that, And as the mother of a teenager,
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Speaker 1: I can only dream that we have that sort of relationship. Ah.
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Speaker 1: A couple other things that I think are worth pointing
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Speaker 1: out in this episode. We get closure on the train
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Speaker 1: finally stopping in town. This is something we were visiting
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Speaker 1: every single episode. The broke Well two things. The broken
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Speaker 1: train arm was a cause of conflict about the entire season,
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Speaker 1: and they do finally get it fixed, all thanks to
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Speaker 1: Nancy finding her voice. And then the very end of
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Speaker 1: the episode, we learn the train is stopping in Marynac.
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Speaker 1: The train has not stopped in Marynac for many, many
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Speaker 1: years and Alonso I hope he appreciated this moment because
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Speaker 1: he was saying, last week we have this kitchen clash exposure,
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Speaker 1: and so they were hoping this is going to bring
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Speaker 1: all these new people to town. It was so great
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Speaker 1: for their restaurants, and we didn't really see that come
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Speaker 1: to Fruition, and now we finally get that right in
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Speaker 1: the closing moments of this episode, so everything it's all
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Speaker 1: coming together.
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Speaker 2: That's when all the French people came into the restaurant, exactly.
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Speaker 1: Amanda out and she sees this huge line of people
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Speaker 1: because the train finally stops in town.
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Speaker 2: I got it, okay cool.
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Speaker 1: I had also suspected that Nancy was going to run
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Speaker 1: for mayor and she is. I feel very proud of
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Speaker 1: myself for guessing that one. That's going to be great
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Speaker 1: for season three if we get it.
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Speaker 2: Right. And then it would be her rival who would
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Speaker 2: be her rival mayor, well.
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Speaker 1: The current mayor probably who was played by Lachlan Monroe,
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Speaker 1: who you probably know because he's been in a billion things.
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Speaker 1: You'd definitely recognize his face. But he kind of fell
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Speaker 1: down on the job this season, and so she had
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Speaker 1: to step in and so hopefully she boots him on
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Speaker 1: out of there. A big vibe of this season has
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Speaker 1: been these women finding their voice and stepping into their power.
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Speaker 1: So it's definitely a matriarchy, as you mentioned. And finally,
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Speaker 1: Nancy and Gus, former rivals now best friends, both on
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Speaker 1: their first flight ever together traveling to Italy. I thought
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Speaker 1: it was great.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to see that show. Can we get
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Speaker 2: like a summer in Italy?
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Speaker 1: Yeah right, I'm envisioning it like Real Housewifestyle. What's the
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Speaker 1: one where they go to crappy Oh, crappy Lake, That's
17:38
Speaker 1: the one i'ming. Oh nice, you have a Bravo watcher.
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Speaker 2: I'm not a Bravo watcher, but sometimes I watch Andy
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Speaker 2: Cohen on the Late night Oh yeah, I like the
17:49
Speaker 2: celebrity interviews. You know. I want to be one of
17:52
Speaker 2: those the bar boys whatever those boys are called. The Yeah,
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Speaker 2: let's do it together. Yeah, we'll do it together. You
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Speaker 2: pour the drinks, so now like prep the ice or
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Speaker 2: something perfect.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't have any idea how to make
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Speaker 1: most cocktails, but we'll have a good time back there,
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Speaker 1: right Or anything else you liked about this episode?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just good, good vibes, like even the
18:17
Speaker 2: stuff that was more not spooky, but you know, like
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Speaker 2: the recipe stuff could have been. Like I was feeling
18:24
Speaker 2: a little tension there. I was like, oh no, is
18:25
Speaker 2: he going to give away the recipe? Like it was
18:27
Speaker 2: kind of stressed me out. And then I saw him
18:29
Speaker 2: put the put the fake ingredients. I was like, Okay, Okay,
18:33
Speaker 2: he's cool. He's cool. Yeah, it was good. I thought
18:36
Speaker 2: it was a good season finale.
18:38
Speaker 1: And the vowels, I have to say, the vowels are
18:40
Speaker 1: very sweet, very touching. May really has been struggling with
18:46
Speaker 1: you know, the men in this town leave and she's like,
18:49
Speaker 1: that's the Mimies curse, like the men always leave. And
18:52
Speaker 1: she last episode, if you heard Alonzo and I talk
18:55
Speaker 1: about it, she was like, I think that's me. I
18:58
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna be the one who runs. And so
19:00
Speaker 1: seeing them have this great moment, I feel like she
19:02
Speaker 1: and Jay are absolutely meant to be together. So I
19:05
Speaker 1: thought their vows were beautiful.
19:09
Speaker 2: I want to talk about her dress, but I think
19:11
Speaker 2: I wait for this.
19:12
Speaker 1: Let's talk about her dress.
19:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, that dress, the yellow like that was passed down
19:17
Speaker 2: from her. That's her grandma, right.
19:20
Speaker 1: That's her mom.
19:21
Speaker 2: Oh, her mom. So that the dress like was so modern.
19:26
Speaker 2: I was like, we're doing sleeveless in like, you know,
19:30
Speaker 2: the seventies. That's pretty. That's a little ahead of the curve,
19:33
Speaker 2: so very trendy.
19:34
Speaker 1: I also wondered it looks like because Gus had held
19:37
Speaker 1: it up earlier, and I was like, is that the
19:39
Speaker 1: same dress? Because I was like, did they have time
19:41
Speaker 1: to alter the sleeves? It felt like it wasn't exactly
19:43
Speaker 1: the same dress.
19:44
Speaker 2: It just okay, maybe they did.
19:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's pretend like it's exactly the same dress.
19:49
Speaker 2: Right, because the cut of the dress was more I mean,
19:52
Speaker 2: it could have been eighties, I guess sure, but I'm like,
19:55
Speaker 2: in the seventies they were not doing sleeveless. They had
19:58
Speaker 2: those big floppy you know, they had like the silk sleeve. Yeah.
20:05
Speaker 2: Well I thought it was a pretty dressed.
20:08
Speaker 1: And not white. Yeah, she has you know, may Is.
20:11
Speaker 1: She's from New York. She's very like when season one
20:15
Speaker 1: her New York apartment is sleek and beautiful, and so
20:19
Speaker 1: that's kind of the vibe of the original wedding. That's
20:22
Speaker 1: kind of the vibe of her original wedding dress. I
20:25
Speaker 1: hated and this whole transition into our wishes when Amanda
20:29
Speaker 1: puts her hair up into that bun, I'm fine with
20:30
Speaker 1: a bun. It was terrible. I mean it was like
20:33
Speaker 1: something I would do. As I'm sitting here with me,
20:35
Speaker 1: I was like, please give her a better wedding day hairstyle.
20:38
Speaker 1: So I was thrilled when she steps out of that car,
20:42
Speaker 1: she's in the yellow dress and her hair, I mean it.
20:44
Speaker 2: Looks like her. Yeah, that's what you want on your
20:47
Speaker 2: wedding day. You want to look.
20:48
Speaker 1: Exactly, you want to look like yourself. Yeah. I was like,
20:51
Speaker 1: that bun is tragic. Get that off of her head.
20:56
Speaker 1: Did you have any wishes as you were watching this episode.
21:00
Speaker 2: Well, of course I wish for more shirtless hunks in
21:03
Speaker 2: any TV movie. We didn't get any of those, and
21:07
Speaker 2: how we could have worked that and maybe we could
21:09
Speaker 2: have had like the grooms room where the grooms are
21:12
Speaker 2: getting ready, but we didn't really get like again, the
21:16
Speaker 2: wedding was like very fast, so we had other things
21:19
Speaker 2: to work on. I understand we could have had Frank
21:24
Speaker 2: Junior climbing the tree with no shirt on, right, I mean, yeah.
21:28
Speaker 1: Give us a little James Contracts action. I'll take it, right.
21:31
Speaker 2: Just those are my things and then no otherwise, Like
21:37
Speaker 2: I think that.
21:39
Speaker 1: Wait what was the question and things you wished for
21:41
Speaker 1: in this episode?
21:42
Speaker 2: Oh right, okay, yeah, I think that's it.
21:46
Speaker 1: I have two really big wishes.
21:48
Speaker 2: One.
21:49
Speaker 1: Jake Foy was a staple in the series in season one.
21:52
Speaker 1: He does not come back as Kenneth in season two.
21:55
Speaker 1: I had hoped that he'd come back for the wedding.
21:58
Speaker 1: The beginning of the season, it's set up by his
22:01
Speaker 1: husband that he's out of town because his sister just
22:03
Speaker 1: had a baby and he'll be gone for a couple weeks,
22:05
Speaker 1: and so in my mind, I'm like, I'm sure he's
22:08
Speaker 1: off doing another project, but they're surely going to bring
22:10
Speaker 1: him back for the finale. He's one of May's best
22:12
Speaker 1: friends from their childhood.
22:14
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that he wasn't there.
22:15
Speaker 1: He was very missed. We see Patrick in the background
22:19
Speaker 1: in some of the set up scenes, but he's not
22:21
Speaker 1: even really highlighted in the wedding, and Kenneth doesn't make
22:25
Speaker 1: it back. Jake four, you were missed.
22:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if you're the best friend from childhood,
22:31
Speaker 2: you gotta be.
22:31
Speaker 1: There, right. And the other storyline, now, this is something
22:36
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have picked up on in this episode. But
22:40
Speaker 1: Frankie who's the daughter of Amanda and Frankie Junior, and Lindsay,
22:44
Speaker 1: who is Sabrina's daughter, there has been some hinting at
22:48
Speaker 1: some romantic tension between these two. They've never acknowledged it.
22:52
Speaker 1: I think there are some people who don't believe that
22:54
Speaker 1: it's there. But I am shipping these two big time.
22:58
Speaker 1: They are moving to New York together. I do think
23:00
Speaker 1: it's completely wild that Amanda says, text me when you
23:03
Speaker 1: find an apartment in New York. Her child, who never
23:07
Speaker 1: left the town of Marynac is supposed to go off
23:09
Speaker 1: to New York as an eighteen year old and figure
23:11
Speaker 1: out the New York apartment scene. Seems yike wild to me,
23:15
Speaker 1: But text me when you find an apartment. But they're
23:17
Speaker 1: gonna live together, so that sets us up for, you know,
23:20
Speaker 1: some future storylines if we get a season three. I
23:24
Speaker 1: would have liked a little bit of a moment that
23:26
Speaker 1: hints at we're heading somewhere with these two. We didn't
23:31
Speaker 1: get it. I don't know if they're moving away from it.
23:34
Speaker 1: You know, they're playing it real safe. But I still
23:37
Speaker 1: am shipping Lindsay and Frankie.
23:40
Speaker 2: Okay, well, that's interesting that it was even there too.
23:42
Speaker 1: I sider, yes, I fully believe there. I mean, I
23:47
Speaker 1: need someone on TikTok to create a compilation of those
23:50
Speaker 1: moments between the two of them set to some dramatic
23:53
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift song.
23:54
Speaker 2: Please right, and you really do find yourself in college.
23:58
Speaker 2: That's when you're like, you know, yes, same thing, and
24:00
Speaker 2: that's what college is for, so not just with your sexuality,
24:04
Speaker 2: like with everything. So sure, it seems seems like a
24:07
Speaker 2: natural progression for them to explore that. That would be fun.
24:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, we shall see. Well it's time for any Did
24:17
Speaker 1: you see that moments moments that made you say what
24:20
Speaker 1: is happening here? Or something you loved hit me?
24:24
Speaker 2: Okay, So we had a really nice wedding montage that
24:27
Speaker 2: I liked a lot. That was really fun when they
24:31
Speaker 2: when they were searching like the wreckage of the storm,
24:33
Speaker 2: of the of the Chicken Hut, what is that it's
24:36
Speaker 2: called Yeah, yeah, mabies meemies. When they did the thing
24:40
Speaker 2: with the flowers and they handed the flower around there,
24:44
Speaker 2: they said, like one thing they were thankful for that
24:47
Speaker 2: was that was very nice.
24:49
Speaker 1: That was very nice.
24:50
Speaker 2: I like that, And and I was like, is this Thanksgiving?
24:54
Speaker 2: Why are we Why are we doing this? But yeah,
24:56
Speaker 2: I guess they needed to get out their feelings about
24:59
Speaker 2: you know, growing up there and some good writing in character,
25:04
Speaker 2: like you know, they really thought back to like these
25:06
Speaker 2: characters like being in that growing up in that environment.
25:10
Speaker 2: So yeah, I really felt that. And then well we
25:15
Speaker 2: have to talk about the tree, the climbing the tree.
25:18
Speaker 1: Tree. Can you believe they made Frank Junior after all
25:22
Speaker 1: of that fall out of that tree? No, highly dramatic.
25:27
Speaker 1: I mean I love it.
25:30
Speaker 2: He put out that big ladder that was like a
25:32
Speaker 2: fireman's ladder, wasn't it. That was huge?
25:36
Speaker 1: Well, I was like, what are we doing trimming this tree?
25:38
Speaker 1: Like I call somebody just and don't get on a
25:41
Speaker 1: ladder like that by yourself, Frank Junior.
25:44
Speaker 2: No, somebody has to hold the bottom. And you know
25:47
Speaker 2: he had that hook saw that was like out of
25:49
Speaker 2: a horror movie. I would never I mean I don't
25:53
Speaker 2: even know. I've never even seen that tool before.
25:56
Speaker 1: It was like Clark Griswolds hanging Christmas lights. I was like,
25:58
Speaker 1: this is not going to end well as soon as
26:00
Speaker 1: I saw that ladder.
26:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and and like he's for sure dead right,
26:07
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't. I mean it seems they
26:11
Speaker 2: left it open. They left it open, but.
26:13
Speaker 1: They certainly left it open. And I you know, it's
26:16
Speaker 1: funny because again I was saying, I don't want a
26:18
Speaker 1: Frank Junior redemption story, and then after this, I was like, Okay,
26:21
Speaker 1: I'm okay with Frank Junior being around. And just when
26:26
Speaker 1: they made me like him, they're gonna rip him away
26:28
Speaker 1: from us. Maybe I'm gonna need.
26:30
Speaker 2: To see what could happen with him next.
26:32
Speaker 1: I mean, it's true, it's true. Well, yeah, he's he's
26:36
Speaker 1: served his purpose and that's the show. We'll see, we'll see.
26:41
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean we didn't get the shot of like
26:44
Speaker 2: the body, you know, like the the crime scene body,
26:48
Speaker 2: so there's hope, there's hope.
26:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, we get a call from you know, the hospital
26:52
Speaker 1: and not the medical examiner, so I guess that's bad hurt.
26:57
Speaker 2: True, Yeah, Oh, that's very true.
27:01
Speaker 1: My biggest digit to that moment. Shawna, our girl Shauna
27:04
Speaker 1: played by Caitlyn Howden, one of my absolute favorites. Speaking
27:07
Speaker 1: of comedy, I mean, Caitlyn Howden does a bunch of improv.
27:10
Speaker 1: She has a comedy podcast. She's a delight on this show.
27:14
Speaker 1: When she bursts into Amy's in tears, it was great.
27:18
Speaker 1: But my favorite is the big reveal that she's secretly
27:22
Speaker 1: the author of the smut series Queen of the Cowboys.
27:24
Speaker 1: They've this has been a series. It's made an appearance
27:27
Speaker 1: throughout this season. Everyone's reading, you know, these smutty cowboy books.
27:32
Speaker 1: And the fact that this is the spicy novel that
27:36
Speaker 1: she has secretly published under a pen name. Shawna is
27:39
Speaker 1: kind of a jack of all trade. She's a renaissance woman.
27:41
Speaker 1: She's the one responsible for the Chicken Sisters franchise, and
27:46
Speaker 1: so of course she's kind of connection that's gonna help
27:48
Speaker 1: Amanda publish her book the way that she wants to
27:51
Speaker 1: do it. Loved it. I thought that reveal was pitch perfect.
27:54
Speaker 1: She's like, I'm a hit on book talk. Loved it.
27:58
Speaker 2: Oh, and that Chicken Sister book was so cute with
28:01
Speaker 2: the Chicken Sisters being chickens with the hair. Oh my god,
28:04
Speaker 2: I loved it so cute.
28:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, finally coming to fruition, we get you know, she's
28:10
Speaker 1: had these she's I mean, that's finally getting to express herself.
28:13
Speaker 1: This has been a long running storyline. She's had this
28:16
Speaker 1: kind of like artistic side hustle that's never really been
28:19
Speaker 1: a just side no hustle, and so yeah, getting to
28:23
Speaker 1: publish that is real great. I love those little chickens.
28:27
Speaker 2: I really would like I would buy that book.
28:30
Speaker 1: Totally me too. I was like, it looks like a
28:32
Speaker 1: Calvin and Hobbs, like they even like published it, and
28:34
Speaker 1: like that's what a comic book looks like. Great. Yeah, Well,
28:38
Speaker 1: is there a character who you really loved in this
28:41
Speaker 1: episode who stood out to you?
28:44
Speaker 2: So aside from the main characters, there's the guy who
28:47
Speaker 2: comes in from the city and like it is so rude.
28:51
Speaker 2: I I love that guy. That guy was hilarious. He
28:55
Speaker 2: was like, very very rude though incredibly like the city,
28:59
Speaker 2: your typical city person coming into the country.
29:02
Speaker 1: Talking the publisher.
29:03
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, the publisher. I've seen him in some
29:07
Speaker 2: other like Lifetime movies, Like he's like a Canadian auctor,
29:10
Speaker 2: I guess and he's always playing these type of big
29:14
Speaker 2: jerky yeah, so I loved him coming in and just
29:19
Speaker 2: her name is Amanda, right, the cartoonist, and she's like, actually, no,
29:24
Speaker 2: that's a how I'm going to roll around here, like
29:27
Speaker 2: we're not doing this book with you. So they sat
29:30
Speaker 2: up really good. So he was really fun for me
29:32
Speaker 2: to watch and then see her play off of him
29:34
Speaker 2: and be like, ah, and then you see that she's like,
29:37
Speaker 2: you know, yes, a strong woman, a business owner taking
29:40
Speaker 2: her creative passion and turning into a business that's hard
29:43
Speaker 2: to do so and people always want to tell you
29:45
Speaker 2: what to do when you're a creative coming.
29:48
Speaker 1: Height like you couldn't possibly understand creativity and business at
29:51
Speaker 1: the same time, right, Yeah, you know that seems so
29:54
Speaker 1: funny because his female coworker is like trying to put
29:57
Speaker 1: the brakes on and trying to cover for him and
29:58
Speaker 1: trying to like and just completely fails because she had
30:02
Speaker 1: gotten the balls rolling with Amanda in a previous episode.
30:06
Speaker 1: And then this guy comes in and just fully tanks
30:08
Speaker 1: the deal.
30:09
Speaker 2: Was totally kind of funny to watch, and she's.
30:12
Speaker 1: Like, he can be a little bit groff. I was like,
30:14
Speaker 1: you hate him, Just go ahead and say it because
30:16
Speaker 1: he's the worst too.
30:18
Speaker 2: That's okay, maybe you should find a new business partner
30:21
Speaker 2: After that, I'm sure they had a talk on the
30:23
Speaker 2: on the plane ride back and they were like, this
30:26
Speaker 2: isn't going to work out.
30:28
Speaker 1: I kind of like, because this show has had no
30:31
Speaker 1: shortage of terrible men, and so I like that, right
30:34
Speaker 1: on the heels of the Frank Junior redemption, you know,
30:37
Speaker 1: we kind of replaced him with this guy. I appreciated
30:40
Speaker 1: that we're not We're not done with terrible men. And
30:42
Speaker 1: Marynac Yeah.
30:44
Speaker 2: Very interesting kind of pov like the show has. So
30:50
Speaker 2: it's something you don't see often. So I think it's
30:52
Speaker 2: really actually refreshing to see that kind of like writing
30:55
Speaker 2: and just like the perceptive of like how men can
30:59
Speaker 2: be just the worst when they don't even realize that
31:03
Speaker 2: they're doing it, you know what I mean. Like the So, yeah,
31:07
Speaker 2: it was very interesting.
31:08
Speaker 1: This is gonna shock everyone. I mean maybe not after
31:10
Speaker 1: listening to this episode, but my feathered friend of the
31:14
Speaker 1: week is Frank freakin Junior. Look, I have was willing
31:20
Speaker 1: to accept that he was going to move on at
31:22
Speaker 1: the end of the season, but now that he may
31:25
Speaker 1: actually be moving on, I'm really going to miss him
31:28
Speaker 1: because I think James Cott played this episode with a
31:32
Speaker 1: ton of warmth and believability and sincerity, and I was
31:37
Speaker 1: very interested in seeing the ways in which he finally
31:40
Speaker 1: stepped up. And on a side note, the only reason
31:44
Speaker 1: I really wanted his redemption was for his daughter. And
31:46
Speaker 1: you could see in some of those scenes where he's
31:49
Speaker 1: connecting with his former mother in law and his mom
31:51
Speaker 1: and his ex wife how important that is to her
31:55
Speaker 1: or just standing in the background. So hats off to
31:58
Speaker 1: Frank Junior.
32:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, alrightp maybe I know, we don't know. Okay, I
32:06
Speaker 2: have a question. Okay, what does a feather a feathered friend?
32:10
Speaker 2: Where does that saying come from?
32:13
Speaker 1: Just ate it up simply because about the chicken sisters?
32:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is so funny as it is funny. I'm
32:21
Speaker 2: like this saying, I've never heard this, the orgin of this.
32:25
Speaker 2: How did this come to be?
32:27
Speaker 1: We were just you know, chicken puns abound.
32:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, maybe it's a Southern thing that I'm
32:33
Speaker 2: not aware.
32:33
Speaker 1: Of, just a weird girl's gone Hallmark thing.
32:37
Speaker 2: I love it. You guys are so creative and like, yes,
32:41
Speaker 2: that is such a girl's gone Hallmark thing for sure,
32:45
Speaker 2: we love a literation.
32:46
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. Having fun is allowed. Well, Patrick,
32:50
Speaker 1: this has been so much fun. Can you tell our
32:52
Speaker 1: listeners the best place is to find you outside of
32:54
Speaker 1: this episode?
32:56
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so you can follow me, Patrick Miguel is
33:01
Speaker 2: my personal social media or Lifetime on Court is if
33:05
Speaker 2: you want to follow Lifetime things, and you should. But
33:10
Speaker 2: you know, if you don't care about Lifetime or you
33:12
Speaker 2: don't have time for Lifetime, I understand. I also have
33:14
Speaker 2: a website, lifetimeoncourt dot com, where you can read my reviews,
33:18
Speaker 2: typos and all. Sorry about that, you know. I have
33:22
Speaker 2: Grammarly grammarly now, so that helps a little bit. But yeah,
33:26
Speaker 2: I don't have a proof reader, so it's all just
33:28
Speaker 2: whatever I'm writing in the moment. And I will be
33:30
Speaker 2: doing the Christmas movies, so that's exciting. The homework and
33:33
Speaker 2: the Lifetime. Lifetime hasn't announced any of their Christmas and
33:37
Speaker 2: they probably won't until like December. They're they're very on
33:43
Speaker 2: the fly. Like I had a friend of mine, Michael Divorzon.
33:48
Speaker 2: He's a writer and he knows Oprah, so I try
33:52
Speaker 2: to keep keep on his good side. I'm like, oh,
33:54
Speaker 2: you're you're friends with Oprah. The movie came out on Friday,
33:58
Speaker 2: and he messaged me on Tuesday and was like, hey,
34:00
Speaker 2: I just got worried that this movie's coming out. Can
34:02
Speaker 2: we do like an interview or something really quick? And
34:04
Speaker 2: I was like, no, I don't have time to do that.
34:06
Speaker 2: That's crazy. You just found out your movies being released
34:10
Speaker 2: like three days before it comes in. Yeah, incredible. But yeah,
34:14
Speaker 2: I'm around, So if you want to hang out, let
34:17
Speaker 2: me know if you know any single men. I'm single.
34:20
Speaker 2: I'm ready to mingle.
34:21
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34:25
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34:28
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