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Finding Mr. Christmas Season 2 Episode 1 · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Look, this is a Lumberjack fantasy come true. This is
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  Speaker 1: a bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. Today we are
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  Speaker 1: kicking off our reviews of Finding Mister Christmas season two
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  Speaker 1: with Season two Episode one, The Search for Mister Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: This episode originally premiered on the Hallmark Channel on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: October twenty seventh, and is currently available to stream on
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark Plus. Keep up with us on Instagram on TikTok.
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  Speaker 1: We are Girls Gone Hamark. I gotta tell you we
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  Speaker 1: were popping off on both platforms. Yes, we last a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days. Yeah, having a really good time over
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  Speaker 1: on Instagram, turn it out content engaging with Yeah, Hallmark viewers,
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  Speaker 1: it's a good time. I love it. We also have
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of Instagram, we had been saying we're gonna make
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  Speaker 1: a smuucho meter. Yeah, yeah, and we did. It makes
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  Speaker 1: me happy. It makes me happy too. I saw, I
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  Speaker 1: saw you said like I spend a lot of time
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  Speaker 1: on this. Please go give it some love. I love
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  Speaker 1: this Muto meter. It's like a little bit out of
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  Speaker 1: rhythm for us. So when you always like throw it
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  Speaker 1: in there at the end about like what's your yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm smoutchro meter ready rating, and I'm always like, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think about it when I'm like watching the movie.
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  Speaker 1: You tell me either. It's hard to top Wren Christy.
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  Speaker 1: I know we had some early it's that maybe the
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  Speaker 1: front runner for the entire season we shall see, maybe
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  Speaker 1: the one to beat. Well, let's stop Finding Mister Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Season one, episode one with a little synopsis. Host johnat
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  Speaker 1: been It and Judge Melissa Peterman kick off the hunt
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  Speaker 1: for Hallmark's next leading man as ten new Hunks reinvent Santa,
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  Speaker 1: then brave a ski slope meet cute with Janelle Perish
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  Speaker 1: where spills still the scene. We're gonna drop some first
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  Speaker 1: impressions of this episode, Wendy, what was your first impression
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  Speaker 1: of season two finding Mister Christmas? These men are two
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  Speaker 1: pretty for Basic Cable. I'm the smoking hot right and
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  Speaker 1: I cannot want to compare like this year to last year,
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  Speaker 1: but like fire casting great job, guys. Well, let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you my first impression and then I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk really quickly about the casting. Okay, my first impression
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  Speaker 1: is this season, it seems like muscles are a main character.
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  Speaker 1: They certainly are. I don't hate it. You know, here's
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  Speaker 1: what I was thinking about, really different casting wise. Last
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  Speaker 1: season when they were casting, we talked to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the guys and they were like, we didn't know
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  Speaker 1: what we were being cast for. We just knew we
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  Speaker 1: were being cast for a reality show. They had kind
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  Speaker 1: of a basic idea, right because the show didn't exist
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  Speaker 1: and so they couldn't talk about it. Well, this year,
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  Speaker 1: the show's out there and so they were casting very
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  Speaker 1: specifically for this show, and so a lot of really
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  Speaker 1: great guys in that cast. But I feel like this
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  Speaker 1: year's cast is a little more dialed in. They understand
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  Speaker 1: the assignment. And speaking of the cast, why don't we
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  Speaker 1: talk about the men of Mister Christmas season? Sure? Thing
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  Speaker 1: first into the house is Craig. Craig comes in solo,
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  Speaker 1: and I love that he like walks in the house.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, hello, nobody's there, cricket, Hello, Hello Hello. What
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  Speaker 1: I find is really funny is he's carrying football the
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  Speaker 1: entire time through this entire opening scene. Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 1: it was a choice that I didn't fully understand because
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  Speaker 1: to me, I'm like, sending the football guy with the football.
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  Speaker 1: It was a prop that got has something to do
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  Speaker 1: with their hands. I understand that. Yeah, I didn't quite understand.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to talk later about the festive face
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  Speaker 1: off because the character he brought to that was completely different.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe that was by design of the guy that
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  Speaker 1: walked in like the all American guy with the football. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so I was like, who's Craig. Who's Craig.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who Craig is. I gotta tell you.
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  Speaker 1: I loved when he's looking at the mantle of stockings
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  Speaker 1: and he goes Craig, and I was like, who are
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  Speaker 1: you saying that too? But I loved it. I loved
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  Speaker 1: it so much. Yeah, two guys roll in together. Next
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  Speaker 1: we have Robbie and Drake, and I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you notice, but they are driving a red pickup track.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed I did notice. It's like, nice touch, nice touch there, Drake. Drake.
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  Speaker 1: This hair won't stop. I can't. All I can think
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  Speaker 1: about is the hair on Drake, and he knows it
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  Speaker 1: lean in. I mean, he's like, gotta thank my mama
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  Speaker 1: for my hair. He's got great hair. I do love that.
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  Speaker 1: Drake's opening line is it's so much bigger than I
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  Speaker 1: thought it would be, and that's gonna be the meme
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  Speaker 1: of the season. Yeah, you know, Drake to me seems
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  Speaker 1: very young. I don't know how old he is, but
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  Speaker 1: he seems much younger than the rest of the guys.
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  Speaker 1: There's like an earnest like kind of sweet boy about strong,
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  Speaker 1: golden retriever energy and admittedly so which I loved. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we love the self awareness. I have high hopes for Drake.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's talk Robbie. Robbie broke my heart immediately. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was cute. He's like I knew if I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to stay up late, all I had to do
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  Speaker 1: was say, like, mom, you want to watch a Hallmark movie.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's smart, right, I just love it. That's
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  Speaker 1: real sweet. I'm telling you, at my very core, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I want to roast on all these guys, right, like
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  Speaker 1: I love to poke fun. So Sara's kind of hard.
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  Speaker 1: It's very difficult. Don't show me childhood pictures of sweet
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  Speaker 1: Robbie on a carousel. I can't bring my cold heart
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  Speaker 1: to like I was mean no, And I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you that I was very surprised by how moved I
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  Speaker 1: was by these guys immediately, Like the fact that I
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  Speaker 1: was almost in tears at the end of this episode
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  Speaker 1: says a lot about these guys. Can I just add
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  Speaker 1: one more thing about Robbie please? I'm watching him through
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  Speaker 1: this entire episode, and I'm like, who does he remind
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  Speaker 1: me of? He looks like somebody so familiar. It's the
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  Speaker 1: striking blue eyes. And finally it dawns on me, it's
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  Speaker 1: brat packer Andrew McCarthy, like early days, pretty and pink,
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  Speaker 1: that era of Andrew McCarthy. I love, I love Andrew McCarthy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, is that a reference you think Robbie
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  Speaker 1: himself would get. I don't think so. Right. Was he
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  Speaker 1: even born Robbie was probably born in the nineties. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god. And when you say that out loud, it
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  Speaker 1: makes me feel like old creeper on the Internet of
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  Speaker 1: the late nineties. Oh goodness. All right. Next up, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of hair, Angel walks in and he and Drake immediately
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  Speaker 1: connect over their their long flowing, voluminous hair. Actually it
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  Speaker 1: was kind of sweet. I like seeing when the guys
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  Speaker 1: grow out a little bit with each other. We learned
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  Speaker 1: Angels from Venezuela. He moved to the United States at
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  Speaker 1: age fifteen, and he says Hallmark movies are a part
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  Speaker 1: of his holiday traditions. I did read an Entertainment Weekly
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  Speaker 1: article introducing the guys, and Angel also said that he
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  Speaker 1: extensively studied season one of Finding Mister Christmas to smart
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  Speaker 1: them into this show. Smart Angel. I gotta say, I
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  Speaker 1: loved like his personal photos with him and his girlfriend
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  Speaker 1: and around the tree, and they're like in matching, like
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  Speaker 1: very sexy hot Christmas pajamas. Not might she be any
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  Speaker 1: more beautiful? Good? I know, I'm like, okay, but god,
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  Speaker 1: I loved it so much, and I gotta tell you
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  Speaker 1: part of me. I love an immigration story. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: let's go, bro. I'm very excited for Angel, very excited.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I got the double duo again, Davy and Gabriel. Look,
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  Speaker 1: this is a Lumberjack fantasy come true. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how two men can be so freaking gorgeous. I'm speechless.
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  Speaker 1: I'm speechless yet even the guys when they walk in
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  Speaker 1: the house, are like, do you think he like melts
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  Speaker 1: a little inside? You go, oh, that's my competition, right.
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  Speaker 1: I just imagine Davy walking into the house and you're
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  Speaker 1: anybody else. Every single one of these men is beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: and you go, oh no, talk about like all American, tall, blonde, chiseled,
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  Speaker 1: and then he drops I'm a new dad, and I'm like, ha,
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  Speaker 1: like just come on, And then Gabriel smile. Gabriel. You know, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna probably talk about Gabriel a lot later on
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  Speaker 1: in this episode. I have a feeling but Gabriel's eyes
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  Speaker 1: and smile are so mesmerizing to me. He has the
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  Speaker 1: sweetest face. I cannot get over. I just I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: he would not appreciate being called adorable by a forty
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  Speaker 1: six year old woman, but there's something about him that
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  Speaker 1: is just so sweet. How big fan of Gabriel? Me too,
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  Speaker 1: Me too, Gabriel. Also, he does say like I'm brand
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  Speaker 1: new to acting, and I do think like the way
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  Speaker 1: it's edited again, all this is editing. But we see
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  Speaker 1: the guys all looking around at each other and they
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  Speaker 1: all kind of like make like a little Yike's face. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Like oh no, They were like, he's hot, but is
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  Speaker 1: he gonna be a competition? I was like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: be nice, I know, like sweet Gabriel. Yeah, yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 1: They are followed by Jake, who we learn is a
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  Speaker 1: former professional football player who he also does not have
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  Speaker 1: any acting experience. He's looking to make a career pivot.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like Jake was so vulnerable and explaining football
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  Speaker 1: was my life. It's not my life anymore. I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: for my next thing. I'm trying to find something and
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  Speaker 1: it's admirable, right yes, and to admit, like I'm he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't use these words, but to me, the message was
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  Speaker 1: like I'm a little bit lost. Like I knew who
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  Speaker 1: I was when I played football. I identified myself that way.
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  Speaker 1: Now who am I trying to figure that out? Also?
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  Speaker 1: But it is interesting now we have like two guys
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  Speaker 1: who who have told us they have no acting experience. Right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm scared to watch that roll out? Yeah. Can I
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  Speaker 1: just talk about Jake for just a hot second. M
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  Speaker 1: When he's talking about he doesn't have any acting experience,
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  Speaker 1: and he's like, that's gonna be my sneaky surprise. And
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  Speaker 1: then we see like Instagram photos of Jake who literally,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I've seen so many abs on a
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  Speaker 1: person before. I was like, sir, that's your sneaky surprise. Yeah, woa.
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  Speaker 1: Also side note, I was preparing for this episode yesterday
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  Speaker 1: and I took a screenshot of one of the guys
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  Speaker 1: and I asked it, hold on, Oh, I took a
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  Speaker 1: screenshot of one of the guys. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: admit who. And I was going to text you this
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  Speaker 1: picture and I wrote, this guy is so f being hot,
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  Speaker 1: and then realize I almost sent it to my husband almost.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe he appreciates a good looking man. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my goodness. I had had a lot of explaining you,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, he thinks I'm just watching Hallmark upstairs.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't know. He doesn't know what kind of Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching. Our incomes logan. I feel like we didn't
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  Speaker 1: get a lot of logan, Like I don't think they
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  Speaker 1: rushed the logan intro. But the guys do compliment his
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  Speaker 1: gal and he's like, I'm made of myself. So's he's
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  Speaker 1: a crafty fellow. He knits? Yeah, oh nits. That's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I was considered. I thought maybe he cut them off.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, you think he cut the fingers off
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  Speaker 1: of a pre made pair of gloves and then considered
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  Speaker 1: that making them. I would Oh, I did not get
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  Speaker 1: that well logan weigh in girls on home or at
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  Speaker 1: gmail dot com. I got the impression that he had
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  Speaker 1: crafted them out. So ya logan. We didn't get a
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  Speaker 1: lot of logan. No, And I don't know if I
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  Speaker 1: even got enough to make a well rounded not in
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  Speaker 1: this introduction. I just think, Yeah, next step comes in
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  Speaker 1: who I called the rockstar who was going to steal
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  Speaker 1: Christmas Rustin, like justin with an R. Those are his words.
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  Speaker 1: You never heard the name Rustin before. I kind of
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  Speaker 1: like it. Yeah, he comes in with his bad boy energy. Look,
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  Speaker 1: the ladies who watch Hallmark love a bad boy, do
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  Speaker 1: they not? His name is Tyler Hines indeed, and a
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  Speaker 1: bad boy with a heart of gold. Mm hmm. And
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  Speaker 1: when I saw Rustin, I was like, Oh, Rustin's going
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  Speaker 1: to give Tyler a run for his money. I if
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  Speaker 1: this was a vote in show, I think Rustin would
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  Speaker 1: run away with him. That's interesting. Now, because of filming constraints,
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  Speaker 1: obviously they wouldn't. That couldn't happen. But I would love
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  Speaker 1: to see the version of the show where fans were
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  Speaker 1: voting mm yeah. Well, followed by Rustin, we have Marcus.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus comes in Clock's Gabriel and he's like, we look
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  Speaker 1: like we could be brothers, which just made me laugh.
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  Speaker 1: We don't learn a lot about Marcus either when he
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  Speaker 1: comes in. But this is my least favorite part of
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  Speaker 1: this episode because Rustin points at Marcus, points at the
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  Speaker 1: mantle and goes last one in, first one to go, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want don't Why are you doing that? Because
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  Speaker 1: the vibe of this show is so like, yes, we
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  Speaker 1: all want to win, but they really do seem to
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  Speaker 1: develop these friendships and root for each other and get
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  Speaker 1: excited for each other throughout the episode, and so right
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  Speaker 1: off the bat to put that competitive energy out there,
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  Speaker 1: I did not love it. I'm going to be fully honest.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to talk about your early faves after
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  Speaker 1: these intros? Based on looks alone, I gotta tell you
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  Speaker 1: Rustin is probably my early fave, But now I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like the things that you just said about him,
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  Speaker 1: So not the things you said, but what he said. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I caught that. Oh yeah, but he's
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  Speaker 1: an early fave. Davy is really something else. Drake. I
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  Speaker 1: love a long haired dude. I think that's why Rust
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  Speaker 1: and Drake stand out to me the most. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: was really charmed by Robbie when he came in. I
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  Speaker 1: just thought he was real sweet. I am not typically
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  Speaker 1: drawn to the bad boys. Well, I think Robbie is
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  Speaker 1: the exact opposite of that. And I just can't get
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  Speaker 1: over that little face on Gabriel. So are those your
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  Speaker 1: like number ones? Yeah, I mean there are guys that
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to see more from. Yeah, why don't we
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  Speaker 1: take a quick break and we're gonna come right back
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  Speaker 1: with our Festive face Off Challenge. We're back. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about how this show is set up. So every episode
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get a festive face off challenge, some
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  Speaker 1: silly holiday based activity whose main purpose is to grant
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  Speaker 1: the winner an advantage to use in the second challenge
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  Speaker 1: of the day. Right, This is very common in like
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  Speaker 1: real reality competition shows. Survivor I think does something like this,
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  Speaker 1: Sure Survivor, Well, they do a Yeah, they do a
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  Speaker 1: reward challenge, basically a reward challenge. Yeah, because the winner
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  Speaker 1: gets an advantage and that like big next, Big competition. Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: then The star Quality Challenge is designed to test their
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  Speaker 1: abilities as actors and all the things that the encounters,
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  Speaker 1: so their acting challenges and modeling challenges and other sorts
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  Speaker 1: of performance based challenges in these star Quality moments. So
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  Speaker 1: our first festive face off challenge. Let's talk about JB
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  Speaker 1: for a second. Oh my gosh, I lovingly call him JB.
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  Speaker 1: That is our friend, Like he's our friend exactly, JB
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  Speaker 1: and MP Man. The guy has so much energy, so
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  Speaker 1: much energy, and you know what I can't get past.
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  Speaker 1: His eyebrows are perfection. I wonder if he does like
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  Speaker 1: a thread situation. Oh, I'm gonna spake closer attention to
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  Speaker 1: his eyebrows. You've never noticed are just so good? No,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't. Anyway, he just will now bust in with
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  Speaker 1: all this energy and hype. And I think that's why
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  Speaker 1: he's like the perfect I mean, I know this show
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  Speaker 1: is his baby, but he's also the perfect host of
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  Speaker 1: it because he's he's he is the hype man, right,
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  Speaker 1: he is the hype man. Look, I think I think
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  Speaker 1: this show isn't for everybody. I've seen people who are
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  Speaker 1: not all in on this show. I am all in
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  Speaker 1: on this show. When I turn this on. I texted you,
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  Speaker 1: I've told you multiple times. I just love this show.
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  Speaker 1: It just brings me joy. And when we get the
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  Speaker 1: first can I get a ho ho ho of the season,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, did you shout ho handah? Yeah, I'm ho
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  Speaker 1: ho ho ing right back at it from the couch. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: me too. Yeah, I'm so. The world is such a mess.
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  Speaker 1: It is so joyfilled and happy. And to watch people
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  Speaker 1: just creating this show just for the purpose of having fun.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you could go deeper, you could be like,
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  Speaker 1: this is a career opportunity for you guys, and of
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  Speaker 1: course it is, but the net result of this show
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  Speaker 1: is just fun for the viewer. Yeah, and I am
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  Speaker 1: all in. Yeah, I'm all in. Give me the peppermint twizz,
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  Speaker 1: give me every Christmas metaphor in the land, and give
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  Speaker 1: me some hot sandus. Okay, so let's talk about the Santas.
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  Speaker 1: They're Santa personas, theyre's Santa personas. At first, we've got
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  Speaker 1: Robbie and he's Santa for the pause. Yeah, yeah, he's
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  Speaker 1: got a tail, he's got ears, and he says Merry
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  Speaker 1: Christmas to all who don't bite. Yeah, I'm into it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm into it too. Look, the thing is here. What
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  Speaker 1: the guys needed to do is whatever they picked, they
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  Speaker 1: just needed to go all in. You didn't need to
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  Speaker 1: have the most unique take. You just needed to lean in.
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  Speaker 1: You needed to be dynamic on stage. You needed to
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  Speaker 1: have an angle. And Melissa's like, I think it's criminal
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  Speaker 1: that there's not a sand for dogs. Me too, me too,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I gotta shout out the guys. I wonder
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  Speaker 1: how much time they did have to like brainstorm there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously on they were cold. Thirty minutes. That's
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  Speaker 1: what Jonathan says, You've got thirty minutes to complete this challenge.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we see. I'm just wondering if like they
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  Speaker 1: knew going into because that's what I'm saying is like,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: that's impressive. If somebody said, Wendy, you need to make
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: a missus clause and lean into the persona. I got
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: to process that. I told her I need three days
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: and chatgy Betita like helped me come up with some ideas. Right,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: So I'm impressed with what they came up with. A
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: thousand percent agree with you and I love dogs, so yay, Robbie.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I thought it was great. Out of the gate. I
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: thought Robbie was great out of the gate. Next up
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: the heartbreaker Gabriel. He panicked. It's like watching a slow
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: car crash and I just want to hug this man.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I know, here's what I really wanted. The first of all,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Melissa and Jonathan were lovely and encouraging, and Melisa was like,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: it's okay, like she was trying to draw things out
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: of him. This is what I This is what I
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: wish I could have said to Gabriel in that moment,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: and then later on in this episode also is just
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: say something. What was he penguin Santa or something? Yeah,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: because he was from Wyoming where it's cold. He was
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: trying to embody the cold weather and he had the
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: pengu and I think he went in with like an
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: idea of what he wanted to say, and then that
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: flew out of his head. As I can totally understand,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: have you heard me on this podcast, I'll like talk
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: and then like word salad comes out. So I would
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: have panic so totally. But in that moment, it's like,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: forget where you were going to say and just say something,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Just say anything. Yeah, it hurt me to watch. It
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: was hard to see Rustin's next rockstar Santa. Admittedly I
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: was like thinking of merch ideas during this moment. I
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: was like, I'm into rock star Santa. I just oh,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm into rockstar Santa. Okay, But then he says,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: my heart is big, but inside I'm a star and
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: he's wearing a heart with a star in the middle
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: of it. Well, you see, I think I'm just was
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: like in a haze glitter and just sad hair what yeah,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I missed that as well. It's okay to be like
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I'm a star, right, because like you can tell yourself
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: these things, right, that's right, you gotta tell yourself. But
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: maybe those are inside voices and not like baby, I'm
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: a you know. Yeah. He then sings. He sings to Melissa, Well,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: he's a musician. I've got a great voice. And if
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: we even talked about that earlier, he is a musician,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: So lean into that. I love that he sings into
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: a like a Santa Spatula. Am I'm remembering that correctly? Okay? Yeah, look,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: let the people know who you are. Lean into your persona.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: And he was great on stage. He was dynamic and
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: he commanded the space. So I will give him that
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Logan's Wizards Anta. He comes out in full wizard regalia.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I'm not into it, Okay, are you not into it?
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Because you're like the fantasy thing doesn't vibe for me?
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: That's one okay. I'm also not into the costume because
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I can't see you. Yes, I think that's an excellent point.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: So here's what I liked about it. First of all,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: as we talked about, we didn't learn a whole lot
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: about Logan up top. So I feel like now I'm
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: all in, Like I know who Logan is. Like, this
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: guy makes sense to me now. And when he comes out,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: here's what I liked. He went for it, like his
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: costume was detailed, it lit up, he had a story
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: to tell when he came up there. But I think
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: you're right, you've got to balance that with the whole
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: point is selling us you face, so we need to
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: see you as well. I agree. Davy's next, Davey comes
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: out again. Know who you are. Davey comes out and
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: he's mister liftmus He does a rhyme about lifting weights,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: but he's wearing a shirt and Davy, look, I love
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: a humble king, but let's be serious. Your shirt says
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: it's not a dadbod, it's a father figure. There is
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: no world in which Davy's rocking a dadbod. He makes
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: a dadbod comment later on in the episode. I mean
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: maybe in thirty years. No, I understand, but I also
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: think it's almost like rage bait, you know, okay, dad
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: bond because he looks like he looks he does double
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: duty here for me though, because he comes out and
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: he like does this like miming of like lifting weights.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Are you embarrassed a little bit? But no, I loved it.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I loved it. He's like, I'm mister liftmus I loved it.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: And then he shows that his suit has his son's
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: name on it because he's a brand new baby boy
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Sodo at home, and I was like, he's fire and ice.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: I think he knows how to get to the moms
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: who are watching. I know, Oh I all I could
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: think about was wanting to be lifted over him. I
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: want it to be the shoulder press that he was doing.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know, like the man is yeah, good looking,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: uh huh. Next up, Craig. Craig is Santini. I loved
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: this so much because he is the only one who
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: who created a character that was not what was presented, Like,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: he didn't lean into like I lift. So therefore on
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: mister Lyftomus, you know what I mean? Yes, I liked it.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: He had like a big Santa belly. But now that
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I say that, I need to see what we're working
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: with here, So don't hide the goods with a big
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: fake Santa belly. Oh, I see what you're saying, you know,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: But I did love the character of it all. Yeah,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: he's got the New York skyline made of ribbon on
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the back of the Santa suit. That was great, rapping
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: paper torch for the Statue of Liberty. He went all in,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: created a character. Loved it. Marcus comes in. Marcus is
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: another one I don't have a lot of information about.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I don't feel like I know who he is. Even
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: by the end of this episode, I can't even remember
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: what he came in as. He's super Sanna. He wants
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: to slay the day. Okay, it's fine. He's got a
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: lot of energy. Drake comes in and catwalks down and
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: he's got that Golden Retriever smile. You know. Drake's kind
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: of ring like a football jersey kind of that he
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: had added across to because he talks about faith and
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: family being important to him. And before he goes on,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: he says that he's worried that maybe he didn't do enough.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: It's not the biggest swing of the bunch. Do you
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: think he was like, my character is going My Santa
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: character is going to be like a high end fashion model.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Sure maybe maybe, but also trying to show a little
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: bit like who he was with his like faith and
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: well and for me, he had a strong presence when
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: he came out, and so that goes a long way
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: beyond the costume. Okay, Angel's next, and Angel is Santa Angel.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: He says, I'm here to bless anybody who's ever been
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: ignored or believed no words. I was very touch Yeah.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I think Jonathan almost cried I need some more backstory
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: there though, right where does that come from? Experience? Yeah?
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I would love to know more. I wish we could
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: have like dialed down into how do you come up
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: with that line? What was his motivation? Like, give give
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: me more backstory here? I loved that. And finally Jake
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: comes out, he's buff Sanna, and this is where he
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: starts to talk about his football injury that led to
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: him finding a new passion. He gives me strong Travis
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Kelce vibe totally, and I was like, Okay, there's a
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: space for that on Hallmark. I think, yeah, they've been
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: really leaning into those those football movies, you know, Like
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: I think there's like crossover there into like the football
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: stereotype guy for sure. So yeah, there's a space for him.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I don't hate it, but he's not the winner. Craig
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: as Santini wins the challenge? Are you surprised by I'm
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: not surprised. I thought he was certainly one of the
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: top three. I thought Robbie was great. Looking at this list,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I think Robbie, Rustin, and Craig, maybe Davy too. Honestly,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I thought most of them did pretty well. You know,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: it's funny. While I liked Santini, I thought maybe it
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: might have read a little cheesy m and so I
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: was kind of surprised. Craig one though, were you infessive
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: base off? Yeah? Interesting? And there's also you know, we
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: don't see their whole moment, right, I know that's interesting.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: We only see I would love give me a director's cut.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: With that, we head to the Star Quality Challenge. I
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: have a question for you. Yes, based on this first
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Star Quality Challenge alone, do you think we're leveling up
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the difficulty in terms of what we're asking our actors
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: to do. Certainly when you have to, you know, act
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: on skis and you've never skied before, you ever skied before?
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I have, and I'm terrible. Skiing is not a skill
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: you can pick up in twenty minutes. Yeah, I am
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: kind of surprised. I'm trying to compare it to last year,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: and I don't remember a lot of the Star Quality
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: challenges other than like some acting challenges, there was an
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: ice skating one. Oh that Yeah, that's difficult if you
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: have never ice skated, So I mean maybe that's kind
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: of the same plane, Like you're doing something physical that
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: if you've never done before, you are at a disadvantage. Sure,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: so you've got to bring it in the acting part
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: of it, or just roll with whatever happened. I just
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: thought it was a real choice to make these guys
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: ski because skiing is not a thing that you could
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: just snap your fingers and pick up. In fact, I
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: think snowboarding is actually easier to pick up in a
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: couple minutes than skiing is. But here's here's a question
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: for you. If you're making a Hallmark movie and the
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: scene calls for skiing or snowboarding or ice skating, they're
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: not actually doing that. No, they just need to ski
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: in in that moment, right right. They're not also like
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: delivering a line or making like a meet cute or what.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: I think they would absolutely. I think this is the
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: kind of thing that could absolutely happen where you like
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: ski up and you're like, oh can I help you? Fine?
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: But I think if you were a director filming it,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: like you're gonna get like the best shot. So like
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: they'll do fourteen tape sure, or they'll have somebody come
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: in as like a body double and like ski their
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: way in and like do the big spray of snow
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So it just feels. So we're
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: in the mountains and we meet first of all. First
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: of all, Jonathan Melissa are in the most amazing Neon
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: ski suits. I loved it. They popped against the snow.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: I thought it was roughun choice meon. I love it.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: It was straight eighties. Yeah, ski's cool. You love it?
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I did love it, I really did. I Also I
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: didn't mention it, but the sweaters that Jonathan Melissa are
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: wearing in the festive face off. I did google Melissa's
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: It's from Bowden. It's so cute. Loved the colors. They're
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: joined by our first guest judge of the season, and
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: it's Janelle Parish. I love Janelle Parish. It's funny because
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Jonathan introduces her. He does his sugar Plumb from last year,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: which was a huge hit. Was it a huge hit?
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: It was a huge hit to me. You and I
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: we love that movie. I don't know in the Hallmark universe,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: but I feel like people liked that movie. I think
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: she's very popular on the network now. It was a
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: great get. I love that she was and she has
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: a ton of experience outside of Hallmark too, obviously, so
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I'm very excited. I did wonder, and I wondered this
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: last year or too. When the guys are like, Janelle
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Parish is here, I like, do they actually know who
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: that is? Yeah? Good question. I don't know. I always
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: wonder that too, Like are they frontloaded with that information?
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know. They're like, get excited, it's Janelle Parish.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: And when we say it's Janelle Parish, they're like, oh
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: my gosh, yeah, great question. So their assignment is they
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: got to do a skiing like you said, meet cute scene.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: And just like last season, this first acting challenge, there's
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: two guys acting alongside. That is another layer to how
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: difficult the challenge is. Yeah, and we'll see that really
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: only one of the pairs in the two guys interact
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: with each other. Because let me tell you, I'm not
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: an actor, but I've been in a professional setting with
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: somebody else when maybe you're like competing against, but you know,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: not so overtly competing against. I just kind of like
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: roll over, Oh, sure, me too. I'm not I'm not
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: gonna get I'm not gonna be the loudest in the group. No,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: that is not who I am. So if you put
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: me in a scene like this, I would just be like,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: take it away. You know, it's difficult. Craig's advantage from
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: the festive face off is that he gets to choose
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: the order and he chooses to go last. To love
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: that strategy, Yeah, it's the way to do it. It
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: gives you more practice skiing, more time to learn your lines,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: especially in a scene like this. And then they pair
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: up for this challenge and that kind of was awkward
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: to me, honestly, when they're like it was like giving
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: you know, school, you're trying a partner in the classroom,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: And I was like, gosh, yeah, because I feel like
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: angel was last to somebody, right, was it Angela and
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Davey who ended up parenting? Yeah? You know what we
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: didn't talk about early on. And I'm sorry to throw
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: this wrench into the conversation, but Gabriel and Davey know
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: each other. Oh yeah, they knew of each other, and
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: I believe they said they were roommates at one time.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: So going into a competition where you know somebody, don't
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: you feel like that's a little bit of an advantage. Yes,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: And then I wondered if the other guys felt threatened
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: by that, Yeah, because they clock it early? Is it
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: in this episode? I think it is. The guys are
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: talking in the scene and Davey says something about Gabriel
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: and they're like, wait, you guys know each other. Rustin
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: is like, wait, you guys know each other? Yeah? Now
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I get Rustin's feeling because if that were me and
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: I was solo in this house and I learned two
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: of the guys who also happened to be dropped dead
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: gorgeous models walking great alliance and their besties. So first up,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Davy Angel. Davey skis in first when he's laughing and
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I can imagine what you're laughing about. Goggle the entire time.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Even Jonathan and Melissa are like, kick the goggles off
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: and they're huge on his face. There's these mirrored ski
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: goggles and it was distracting. It's like that DJ that
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: wears like the you know, like that you're talking about
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: that wears like the helmet. Are you talking about DJ
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Lance Rock from Yogeba Gebba? No and not. I'm actually
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: talking about a legitimate DJ. It's daft Punk. Daft Punk.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: It's a duo, an electronic music duo named daft Punk.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: They were like those Okay, anyway, it was giving, it
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: was giving. I'm going to the moon. Yeah yeah, So
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: and these are the things you're like, does it matter what? Yeah?
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: It matters, because like, how can you connect with your
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: coastar have money Maker when they're just Janelle's just looking
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: back at her own face and your giant mirrored glasses, Like,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: aren't actors supposed to be connecting like with their eyes
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So when he finally takes it off,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: you're like, huh, phew, there he is. Then Schipitol Angel
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: swoops in. This is my favorite. He stumbles and he
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: was like, I was just knocked over by your beauty. Great,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: well done, great recovery, right, and I think this, I think.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: I think overall this pairing does fine. Janelle is great throughout.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: I really loved her and she quacks. Oh my god,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: it's so cute. I loved her so much in this.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: It was like last year too, when we saw Rachel
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Boston as a guest judge and she did a scene
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: over and over and over again, and I was like,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: oh my god, she's so good. I loved Janelle Parrish
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: like she was so freaking adorable in this. I agree,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I agree she connected with all of them. Next up
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Marcus and Robbie. Marcus comes in and I'm Marcus, I
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: think you're so handsome and you have this beautiful smile.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: We need more from him, but hey, I there's nothing
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: remarkable to me about Marcus's performance. He like kind of stumbles, recovered,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: looks great, does fine. Robbie comes in strong ski stop
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: mm hmm, almost a little snowspray. Yeah, Robbie was like
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: coaching March Marcus on some ski tips a lot ahead
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: of time. But Robbie, I laughed out loud, as someone
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: who messes up their words all the time. It totally
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: could have been me. I misspeak regularly. If you guys
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: didn't catch it. He calls her a beautiful jerk girl.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: I don't even know how it happened, Just like the
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: words just get like, yeah, you know, messed up in
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: your brain? Did they only get one take? Yeah? I
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: think yeah, oh boy. But other than that, other than
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: that line, I thought his delivery was good. I thought
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Robbie did great. Logan and Drake are up next. I
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: actually pretty much. I really liked Logan in this scene.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Logan's great. I still don't know anything about Logan. No,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I don't really know who he is. Oh, but he
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: was in terms of acting the most natural, smooth smooth. Yeah,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: I thought so too. I have been on skis before
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: and fallen down. It's very difficult to get back up.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: We all know the story about me falling off a
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: ski lift. Yes, I know, I don't on the snowboard.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Did you pinwheel with your snowboard at all? I don't
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: like skiing or snowboarding. It's not fun. But I was snowboarding.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: I was in Tahoe with my family, boy that I liked,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: who came on this trip with us. We got separated
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: getting on the ski lift. So I'm on the chair
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: by myself. Yeah, and I think maybe my brother was
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: in front of me and went the boy and I'm
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: we get to the top of the hill and you've
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: never been skiing, You like get to the top and
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: kind of like the mountain comes like right up underneath,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: and you like ski or snowboard down a little hill
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: to get off. Well, I hesitated, and the little mountain
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: like drops away from you, and then I panicked, and
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: so I jumped. But then you jumped from the from
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: the chair. Yeah, I mean it was only like a
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: like a several foot Driffall if you didn't jump, would
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: you just have I don't know that's riding around me.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Would or would they have stopped it? I don't know
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: what would have happened. But I panicked, Oh my god. Okay,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: but that's not the worst part because then I'm a
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: few minutes later snowboarding wh whosh. Then my snowboard catches
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: I flip completely backwards, like I am like impressed into
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: the snow. Oh my hat one direction, all my gloves,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: everything is off, God bless everything. This is pre the
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: year two thousand. This was not when helmets were in
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: ubiquity slopes. I mean I went down. The ski patrol
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: had to come and snowmobile me off the mountain because
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I sprained my wrists. Oh boy, I had to go
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: to the hospital. I had a concussion probably. Oh. My
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: mom had to take me to the hospital. Left my
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: brother and this dude and my dad scan all day.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Oh my god. And then I come back to the
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: mountain with my mom to pick everybody up. My arm
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: is in a sling and someone at the bottom, someone
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: in a uniform. He was like, oh, are you the
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: girl who fell off the lift? And I go yeah,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: And he goes, is that how you wreck your wrist?
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: And I was like, I'm just a bat snowboarder on
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: top of being a panic the girl who jumped off.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: The ski lift. That was the last time I snowboard,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: I imagine, all right, next up Gabriel and rest in Gabriel.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: He he you can't remember his lines, Like I feel
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: that pain to say something. What like, I don't know,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: I'm not quick like that either. I'm defending this man
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: so hard. I know, I just I could. I felt
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: like sick in my stomach for him in that moment
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: because I could feel that cold panic. Yeah, that is
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: coursing through your veins, poor dude. And then Rusten comes in.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Rustin comes in, He's like I got it, and then
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Gabriel's like trying to recover. He's like, no, that's okay,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: and Russen's like I'll take it from here. Yeah. It
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: kind of steps all over him a little bit. What
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: this this is now Rustin's turn? Right? For sure? Is
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Rustin supposed to be like, ok, I'm gonna give this
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: guy like another ten minutes to like figure it out,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: or like here I am and I'm gonna save my lines. Yeah, no,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: no blame to Rustin in this moment. I actually appreciated
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: that Gabriel like tried to take a little bit of
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: control back and just like at least have a moment there.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Then takes off his helmet. He's got that long hair.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: It kind of like shakes it out. I'm gonna do it,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: m rockstars, Hannah. He looks good. He does a nice job.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: He connects with her, charms the snowpants off of her. Finally,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: our final pairing is Craig and Jake. Jake goes first.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Jake also forgets his lines, but recovers a little bit
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: more quickly than Gabe does. She also walks away leaving
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: one ski.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I wish they would have shown it,
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: because you see that the ski is there, and I'm
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: just imagining him one ski on and then one foot
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: kind of like push push.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Just I love it. I just love that you see
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: the ski left behind. I really want the other camera
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: angle of Joe. Remember Jake, we love you so much,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: so much. I love Jaking so much. Guys, the writing
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: is on the wall. Okay, go ahead. Craig comes in.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Craig solid, He's smooth, he's great. He looks at her,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: he says something ulisses like, oh he put a little
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: flavor on that line. Love it. M hmm. I thought
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: he did a nice job, easy peasy. He's smart to
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: go last. Although I do think Marcus is the one
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: who said, I don't know, like you just have all
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: that time to get in your head. That is fair too,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: because you're watching all the guys do it. Yeah, so
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: I think there's something to be said for that. Let's
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: take a quick break and we're gonna come right back
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: and talk about the elimination ceremony. We're back in the
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: elimination cave. I love the elimination cave. Everyone looks so good.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Everybody's so sparkly and pretty. Yeah, Melissa's got a great
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: glittery dress. I love Janelle's dress. The dudes stroll in
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: nicely tailored suits. They announced at the end of the
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: challenge that we had a twist that in every pairing,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: one person would be safe and one person would be
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: in danger of being eliminated. You know, I had forgotten
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: about that because it didn't seem like they really they
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: should have paired the dudes up at during the elimination
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: challenge at that point, you know, so so step forward
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: and yeah, so there's more attention on, like which one's
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: gonna go home? Yeah, so we learn they announced the
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: winner of the challenge right up top. Were you surprised
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: that it is Rustin rock Star, Sanna, No, it wasn't
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: totally surprised. I think he did really well. I think
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: some of the other guys did really well too, So
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure, Like what put Rustin over the edge? Like,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: what was the tipping point that our judges thought he
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: was the winner? I mean I thought he did well.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: What about you? Yeah, I thought he did well too.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: I would agree with you. There were several performances that
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: I would have said could have won. I thought Angel's
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: choice to say you just knocked me over with your
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: beauty was a great one, because things are gonna happen.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: People trip, people fall, and it's what you do in
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: that moment to keep going. I also thought Logan and
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Craig were great. Robbie I actually thought his performance was good.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: It's just that flub of a line, and to me
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: it feels like a little bit unfair to put it
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: all on that, Like how often do people misspeak? Right?
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: So Logan, Angel, Craig, and Marcus are declared safe and
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: then that leaves Davy, Drake, Gabriel, Jake, and Robbie in
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: the bottom five. Yeah, they quickly give Davy and Robbie
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: their safety. Yes, they said they weren't the strongest performances,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: but you guys are safe. So our bottom three are Jake, Drake,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: and Gabriel, and the three of them just look like
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: they're all gonna burst into tears. I know this was
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: so hard to watch. Jonathan says. The camera loves Jake.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: He says, Drake has infectious energy and Gabriel has heart,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: and then we eliminate Jake. Bye, Jake, Jake, we hardly
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: knew you. Jonathan gets teery. He talks about brotherhood and
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: finding your purpose and he knows there's good things out
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: there for him, and Jake seems genuinely sad to be
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: going home. Do you think I'm not questioning Jabe here
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: at all? Do you think he's this emotionally invested in
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: these guys already that you get teary eyed when, like
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: the first guy goes home. I think he's invested in
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: their journey. I imagine coming at it from the this
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: is the job I know I was meant to have.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: And if you had that feeling about yourself and it
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: was just a matter of figuring out how to get there,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: and then you look at these guys who want that
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: same thing. Is there a part of you who's like,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: I know what it's like to know what I meant
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: to do but not be there yet totally? Yeah, you
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: can be super empathetic in that situation. Look, also, he's
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: a great actor, so who knows exactly. I buy it,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: I get emotions. I buy it too. I would I
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: would cry too, probably, sure if I just met this person. Sure,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: you know Robbie's plotting in a good way, in a
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: good way, because he's like I just was on the Yeah,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: I'm in the bottom was he in the he was
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: in the bottom five? Aren't you?
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: What do I gonna do? I gotta turn it around? Yeah,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: your brain is working here, like he's plotting his next
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: move in a good way, in a good way. Yeah.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Well that's a wrap on episode one of season two
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: of Finding Mister Christmas. We'll be recapping this series all
• 45:15
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