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Listener Mailbag - May #2 · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark or Homework Review Podcast. I'm
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Speaker 2: Megan and I'm a longtime Homemark fan.
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Speaker 1: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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Speaker 2: We are back with another mail bag episode featuring your
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Speaker 2: emails and voicemails on all things Hallmark and Girls Gone Hallmark.
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Speaker 2: Before we dive into your messages, a quick reminder you
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Speaker 1: Hey, we have a Facebook group, Come give us a joint.
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Speaker 1: Oh you know what I really want to do here.
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Speaker 1: I would love to shout out our wonderful like Facebook
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Speaker 1: for a Facebook group, if you're still on Facebook and
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Speaker 1: you're looking for like minded people who love Hallmark, this
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Speaker 1: little corner of the Internet still, that's right, And.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of things that are throwbacks, we have a phone
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Speaker 2: number that you can call. You know you can email
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Speaker 2: us girls go on Homemark at gmail dot com.
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Speaker 1: But if you just love to talk.
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Speaker 2: Into the phone, you can leave us a message talk Hallmark,
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Speaker 2: ask questions. We've got a couple of voicemails to read today.
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Speaker 2: But that phone number is nine four nine three two.
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Speaker 1: Nine eight zero nine zero. What is the outgoing message? Say?
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Speaker 1: On there? It's those things like is it you on there?
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Speaker 1: Going like? Hi, you've reached Girls Gone Homemark. Leave us
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Speaker 1: a message. Oh cool, I've never called it. We would
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Speaker 1: be funny. I'm going to call it. Leave a voicemail. Okay, Hey,
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Speaker 1: this is your resident Hallmark hater calling. I'm curious to
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Speaker 1: hear the outgrowing message.
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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it's not highly produced, but I just
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Speaker 2: wanted people to be aware that they were calling the
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Speaker 2: right place.
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Speaker 1: Cool. Yeh, I would hope so, because what if it
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Speaker 1: just was deep? Yeah? Are the user you have called
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Speaker 1: is not available? Yeah? Their mailbox is full because we're
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Speaker 1: so highly popular. All right, let's jump into these messages
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Speaker 1: from our lovely listeners. Can I start please? Our first
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Speaker 1: is an email from Mandy regarding Winn Calls the Heart. Hi, ladies,
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Speaker 1: I was wondering if the show you were trying to
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Speaker 1: reference as a comparison to Winn Calls the Heart might
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Speaker 1: be Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman. I recently finished the nineties
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Speaker 1: series and noticed the similarities Boston raised Mikayla Quinn arriving
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Speaker 1: in a small country town, hoping to help people and
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Speaker 1: forming connections with interesting characters along the way. It's wild
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Speaker 1: to think Winn Calls the Heart has been part of
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Speaker 1: my life for over ten years. I love the seasons
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Speaker 1: that strike a good balance between drama and wholesome small
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Speaker 1: town charm. Looking forward to seeing Hallmark continue to create
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Speaker 1: create more high quality series in different settings, like The
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Speaker 1: Way Home, Mandy Well. If I might answer this, Doctor
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Speaker 1: Quinn medsin Woman was not the series I was thinking
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Speaker 1: of or was trying to reference when comparing Wind Calls
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Speaker 1: the Heart. Remember when I was like do trying to
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Speaker 1: describe I do, and I've never seen that series. Have
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Speaker 1: you watched Doctor Quinn? No?
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Speaker 2: Martha Quinn has the lady with the long hair, right,
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Speaker 2: Doctor Quinn?
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Speaker 1: Yes? And I believe Seymore okay with the long hair,
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Speaker 1: not Crystal Gale long hair, but long hair. Yes? Do
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Speaker 1: you even know who Crystal Gale is? Don't the country
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Speaker 1: singer who has like floor length hair. Oh I don't yet.
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Speaker 1: The no's no memory there, okay, and in a complete
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Speaker 1: one eighty Jane Seymour in the movie Wedding Crashers is
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Speaker 1: not your Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman. No, No, the mom
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Speaker 1: wild Yeah, that's who I think when I think of
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Speaker 1: Jane c. I don't even clock down any But speaking
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Speaker 1: of Doctor Quinn, we have another listener, Era, who I
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Speaker 1: believe just jumped into that series and has been talking
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Speaker 1: about it in our Hallmark Facebook group. Well, would you
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Speaker 1: like to hear a voice message from Era? Since you
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Speaker 1: just since you just brought it up for.
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Speaker 3: Sure, all right, payning getting Wendy. This message is from Era,
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Speaker 3: So this is probably this sound like super random if
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Speaker 3: someone is not in the Faithbook group and didn't see
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Speaker 3: the pros that I had said that I was looking
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Speaker 3: for like a nostalgic show to watch. So I just
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Speaker 3: wanted to let you guys know I've been watching Doctor
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Speaker 3: Quinn Medicine Woman. And I know I'm like extremely like
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Speaker 3: decade late today, but I love like five or six
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Speaker 3: when this show came out in the early nineties, though
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Speaker 3: I never watched it until now. So I am currently
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Speaker 3: on episode eleven and of seven Morning, and I just
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Speaker 3: got to say that this might be like one of
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Speaker 3: the best shows I have ever watched. I am loving
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Speaker 3: it so much. Like the nineties nostalgia is so like
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Speaker 3: strong for me right now. I am so into like
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Speaker 3: watching nineties stuff though I mean, I know it's not
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Speaker 3: set in the nineties, but like, nineties shows are totally
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Speaker 3: my jam right now. So if you GOLs have any
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Speaker 3: recommendations of from really good shows from the nineties, that
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Speaker 3: is what I'm looking for right now. So I would
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Speaker 3: love any recommendations four from nineties shows.
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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, have you seen nine O two one? Oh?
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Speaker 1: That wasn't where I was gonna go. First of all,
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Speaker 1: when she's like, I was like five or six and
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Speaker 1: the five or six in the early nineties, I graduated
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Speaker 1: from high school in nineteen ninety three, so I waited
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Speaker 1: to make the girl feel old made a pace when
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Speaker 1: she said she was a young child in the early nineties.
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Speaker 1: But that's okay. I have a ton of nineties recommendations,
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Speaker 1: like shows from the nineties. Should I share them here?
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, yes, please, I have some too, But yes, okay,
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Speaker 1: First of all, my so called life was a grown
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Speaker 1: one season show. Jordan Catalano can Still Get It Hot,
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Speaker 1: Damn love that show. Party of Five was also a
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Speaker 1: great show, kind of in the vein of family drama
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Speaker 1: and baby That's how Shabert Baby Lacey Shabert. I completely
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Speaker 1: forgot Felicity. I just did a rewatch that show. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I loved it. Felicity was really good. Buffy the Vampire
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Speaker 1: Slayer was a really great show as well, Like impeccable
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Speaker 1: writing on that show. Lots of comedy and kind of
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Speaker 1: a weird sort of you know, vampire setting. Okay, what
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Speaker 1: else is coming to mind? What else do you have?
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Speaker 1: Dawson's Creek. Dawson's Creek very good. Also, notice it's leaving.
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Speaker 1: I think it's on like Hulu or Netflix. It's streaming somewhere,
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Speaker 1: but is leaving expiring in the next few days. So
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Speaker 1: I don't know where else that's going to come up,
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Speaker 1: but it's you can still find it. It's probably just
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Speaker 1: changing streaming services. Now.
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Speaker 2: I saw the note that this show that I'm about
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Speaker 2: to say is getting a reboot.
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Speaker 1: That is the show Seventh Heaven. It will be executive
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Speaker 1: produced by Jessica Biele. No, it will not include I
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Speaker 1: forget members of that cast. Stephen call, Yeah, what did
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Speaker 1: he would? It's not good.
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Speaker 2: We're not going to get into it, but okay, I
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Speaker 2: think we can guarantee he won't be Involved's Beverally Mitchell
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Speaker 2: going to read? There's no information like it's it's very
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Speaker 2: early stages, but it has been greenlit for a reboot.
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Speaker 2: I mean Beverly Mitchell. She and I went to college together,
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Speaker 2: you know, as my pat on the same campus. We
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Speaker 2: were not friends, you guys.
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Speaker 1: Okay, if anybody has ever listened to our any of
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Speaker 1: our podcasts for any period of time, the number of
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Speaker 1: celebrity name drops Megan makes for who she went to
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Speaker 1: college with. It grows by the month. It's Beberly Mitchell
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Speaker 1: is a brand new one to me.
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Speaker 2: It is Beverly Mitchell's new. She's younger than me. Colin Hanks,
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Speaker 2: Busy Phillips, and Alicia Silverstone are the others.
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Speaker 1: Mindy Cohen also well, yes, but she did not go
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Speaker 1: to school together. She just went We went to the
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Speaker 1: same school, but I would go at the same time
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Speaker 1: at those other people. Megan went to college in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: If you haven't put that together yet, But yeah, wow,
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Speaker 1: freaks and Geeks is a show that I did not want,
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Speaker 1: but very popular in the nineties. Speaking of Busy Phillips, Yes,
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Speaker 1: it was good. I did a rewatch of that within
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Speaker 1: the last five years. I really enjoyed it.
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Speaker 2: Ally McBeal also another nineties show that was a little weird,
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Speaker 2: but I.
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Speaker 1: Really loved Ally McBeal. Not a fan, I liked it.
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Speaker 1: I mean Chugo, that's just Oh. Sports Night was a
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Speaker 1: great show. Oh it was a comedy Aaron Sortian Man
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Speaker 1: and Megan's favorite, The West Wing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I started in nineteen ninety nine, so it's barely nineties.
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Speaker 2: It's not streaming, which is like the saddest moment, saddest
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Speaker 2: thing of my life. I did buy the DVDs because
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Speaker 2: I had never seen it, but it's a lot of
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Speaker 2: works like get up and put in a DVD when
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Speaker 2: it like changes three four episodes. So I never watch
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Speaker 2: it because I'm like, I need it streaming, it's too much.
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Speaker 2: And then I'm like, because I don't, it's not tracking
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Speaker 2: on my streamer like my watch progress.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, what episode of my own I don't know?
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Speaker 1: It's too hard. Yeah. Yeah, So hopefully those were some
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Speaker 1: nineties suggestions for you raa thank you for that voicemail. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: if you guys have any other ones, please email us
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Speaker 1: or give us a call and we will share them
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Speaker 1: on the future episode. We have an email from Beverly.
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Speaker 2: She's sucking Rachel Boston in this email and says, Hi, gals,
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Speaker 2: I'm listening to your fan favorites from last month, and
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Speaker 2: I enjoyed them all. I especially loved Dating the Deliney's
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Speaker 2: as this is one of my favorite movies.
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Speaker 1: Like you both, I have.
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Speaker 2: Come to really love Rachel Boston pt tubs. There's gonna
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Speaker 2: be Rachel Boston news in our next Homemark Headlines episode.
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Speaker 2: I like the roles she has been given and she
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Speaker 2: plays them with what seems like great ease. I did
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Speaker 2: enjoy the puns and the dad jokes. You also talked
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Speaker 2: about Paul Campbell's character in his first movie. The character
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Speaker 2: name was Grindly.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Beverly.
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Speaker 2: I think I started to really appreciate him after I
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Speaker 2: watched that movie a few times. I do like Paul
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Speaker 2: a lot. Also, I look back to see if I
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Speaker 2: could find a review on The More Love Grows with
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Speaker 2: Ray and the Hattie Warren Christie. I could not find
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Speaker 2: it in my opinion, it is a great movie that
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Speaker 2: deals with the couple's separation, their daughters moved to college,
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Speaker 2: a new experience, owning a dog, her relationship with.
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Speaker 1: Her mom, etc. Man, I mean, do we need to
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Speaker 1: watch that? Like hmm.
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Speaker 2: If there are other fan favorites you may be reviewing
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Speaker 2: in the future, I would suggest this movie. You may
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Speaker 2: not have done it because it was originally shown on
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Speaker 2: Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. They did premiere it on the
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Speaker 2: Hallmark channel sometime after that also never because a man
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Speaker 2: in a Christmas htter. I really think you should give
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Speaker 2: it a try. I did like it a lot, and
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Speaker 2: I think you both would as well.
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Speaker 1: Spoiler we hated it originally, we did.
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Speaker 2: And it was also like this fourth movie we ever reviewed,
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Speaker 2: and so we were coming at it from a very
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Speaker 2: different place. I'm actually just looking to see when the
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Speaker 2: More Love Grows came out.
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Speaker 1: Oh, it was twenty twenty three. I wonder why we
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Speaker 1: skipped it because I don't know. Yeah, maybe because I
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Speaker 1: was on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. Perhaps Well, I will
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Speaker 1: say we have kind of a short running list right
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Speaker 1: now of fan favorites people are requested.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was in August of twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 2: and I think the reason we're going to do it.
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Speaker 1: Is because it's summer. Yeah. Our next email is from
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Speaker 1: Janice regarding Jesse Metcalf. I'm sure you've been buried with explanations,
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Speaker 1: but I'm going to still add mine. If you didn't know,
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Speaker 1: we reviewed the pilot episode of Chesapeake Shores. We came
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Speaker 1: away from it with a lot of questions because we
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Speaker 1: had learned that Jesse Metcalf did not stay throughout this
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Speaker 1: entire series. Yes, so here is the explanation. Jesse Metcalf
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Speaker 1: does leave the show and ends his relationship with Abby.
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Speaker 1: There were more than one love triangle thrown in their
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Speaker 1: path the last season Robert Buckley and then, in parentheses,
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Speaker 1: says Junior Janis is listener, Robert Buckley comes in and
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Speaker 1: becomes her love interest. The one thing that bugged me
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Speaker 1: was that Megan Ory was pregnant more than once during
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Speaker 1: the run of the show, but her character never was.
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Speaker 1: Her pregnancies always seemed to be in the later months
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Speaker 1: when filming, so she wore a lot of ponchos and
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Speaker 1: carried huge bags. They never hit it very well and
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Speaker 1: made it hard to suspend reality. And see her relationships
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Speaker 1: as terribly romantic. Gregory Harrison had a recurring role as
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Speaker 1: Treat William's brother. I watched all of Chesapeake Shores, and
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Speaker 1: I think I was annoyed by just every about Wait, sorry,
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Speaker 1: I watched all of Chesapeake Shores, and I think I
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Speaker 1: was annoyed by just about every character's behavior at least once.
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Speaker 1: Regarding Jesse Metcalf, I think the Hallmark movie A Country
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Speaker 1: Wedding parentheses heavy review that you must Jesse Metcalf in
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Speaker 1: that movie put the teen characters he played in other
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Speaker 1: movies out of my mind. He grew up good Oh
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Speaker 1: I love he grew up a good do. Maybe we
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Speaker 1: need a country wedding as a Jesse Metcalf palate cleanser before.
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Speaker 1: I love that idea.
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Speaker 2: Oh hugeanis yes. Thank you for clarifying our many many questions.
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Speaker 2: I Hey, Jill emailed with a question about the Way
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Speaker 2: Home throwback. She says, I have a question about the
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Speaker 2: Way Home. As someone who has owned a farm, it
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Speaker 2: seems to me that Dell and Jacob don't really farm.
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Speaker 2: Farmers get up early, don't have much spare time, and
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Speaker 2: are super busy when it is harvest time. Del seems
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Speaker 2: to have time to make pottery, sell things at the market,
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Speaker 2: visit with friends, and canoodle with Sam and Jacob, pops
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Speaker 2: in the pond, and no one seems to mind the crops.
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Speaker 2: I don't even know what they are farming. What happened
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Speaker 2: to the small garden at the high schoolers developed that
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Speaker 2: was in the front yard? Did that go away? I
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Speaker 2: know we're supposed to suspend belief with this series. Perhaps
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Speaker 2: it's the same belief we suspend when Cat seems to
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Speaker 2: run a paper but doesn't really. I was wondering what
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Speaker 2: your thoughts were.
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Speaker 1: Good question. I don't know what they farm there, do you?
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Speaker 2: I think it's no, no, no, But I think this
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Speaker 2: is the same situation as how do the characters on
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Speaker 2: Friends have so much time to spend in a coffee shop?
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Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, yeah, because it's more interesting than watching them work.
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Speaker 1: Mm hmm, that's funny. That is gonna like really haunt
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Speaker 1: my brain about what they farm there.
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Speaker 2: I mean she's got bees, right, there's honey, but you
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Speaker 2: don't farm bees?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? No idea, no idea. If you guys know, give
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Speaker 1: us a phone call, please, Hey? Back to Chesapeake Shores.
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Speaker 1: As emails from Jamie, I found your podcast and started
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Speaker 1: listening consistently based on the Way Home reviews, I was
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Speaker 1: a loyal watcher, but not a deep diver. Took me
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Speaker 1: till season three to connect Alice to Alice in Wonderland. Lol.
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Speaker 1: Now I listened to most of your episodes most just
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Speaker 1: kid it I'm playing. I'm just kidding, Daviy. Now I
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Speaker 1: listened to most of your episodes. I have found some
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Speaker 1: new Hallmark movies based on the April review, so thank you.
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Speaker 1: I watched most of the original series on Hallmark, but
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Speaker 1: hate so much how they ruined the Chesapeake Shores series.
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Speaker 1: I read the books, so I came in with a
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Speaker 1: lot of preconceived notions. That was probably my first mistake.
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Speaker 1: The casting of Megan as Abby and Jesse as Trace
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Speaker 1: was doomed from the start, so I wasn't surprised that
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Speaker 1: they ended up not being endgame. In the first book
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Speaker 1: of the series, they resolve their issues and get together,
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Speaker 1: engaged or married I can't recall yet. In the TV series,
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Speaker 1: three seasons later, after so many starts and stops, they
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Speaker 1: break up. I understand having to slow play for TV,
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Speaker 1: but this was ridiculous. I beg of Hallmark to stop
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Speaker 1: buying books and turning them into series. They did the
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Speaker 1: same with theed Cove a little bit better but not great.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for your fun reviews. It's a nice break from
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Speaker 1: the true crime podcast. I also listened to, Hey, fellow
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Speaker 1: true crime podcast do you still still a lot of
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Speaker 1: true crime? When I have time? I enjoy it. It's
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Speaker 1: a palate cleanser for me. That's what I prefer to
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Speaker 1: watch and listen to. I'm sorry, not sorry, you don't
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Speaker 1: mean to be sorry. It's funny that it's a palate
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Speaker 1: cleanser to me. I'm like, I need a palate cleanser
17:19
Speaker 1: after true crime, Jamie. I need to know what true
17:23
Speaker 1: podcasts true crime podcasts you're into. Please email us back
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Speaker 1: attention Wendy. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Our next email is from Alison, also in regards to
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Speaker 2: Chesapeak Shores, who says, I recently had a long road
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Speaker 2: trip and enjoyed catching up on your recent podcasts. Really
17:38
Speaker 2: loving your take on The Chicken Sisters.
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Speaker 1: I don't have.
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Speaker 2: Homar plus, so I'm enjoying these and agree a lot
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Speaker 2: with your reviews. I think I like the show, but
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Speaker 2: at times I don't.
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Speaker 1: Hey, O Tame Wendy. I was super excited to hear
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Speaker 1: you did Chesta Peak Shores. I love the books too.
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Speaker 1: I would love to see you guys review a season
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Speaker 1: over an episode or two. Way too much to do
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Speaker 1: all of them and spread them out over the year,
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Speaker 1: but was very taken aback by the talk on Jesse Metcalf.
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Speaker 1: I love him in this series and the mystery movies
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Speaker 1: he did, plus some non Hallmark I hope you love
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Speaker 1: him too if you watch this series more. I never
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Speaker 1: really watched Desperate Housewives though. Desperate Housewives another show from
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Speaker 1: the nineties era. Yeah nineties, maybe that was the early
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Speaker 1: two thousands, but still yeah, I don't remember, but yes,
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Speaker 1: from that era. Check it out. Yeah, I get a
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Speaker 1: lot of Desperate Housewives clips fed to me on TikTok random.
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Speaker 2: Yeah you, for some reason, you don't get television clips
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Speaker 2: on TikTok.
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Speaker 1: The problem is why I will thanks for thanks for
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Speaker 1: mentioning it. My problem is as soon as you watch
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Speaker 1: one forget about it, you're gonna no. I get like
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Speaker 1: daddy TikTok's over what's his name? Noah Wiley on oh yes,
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Speaker 1: yes edits people have made about him. I don't hate it.
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Speaker 1: I like Noah Wiley as.
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Speaker 2: Well, so Hey, I wanted to address something that Allison says.
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Speaker 2: She says, I would love to see you guys review
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Speaker 2: a season over an episode or two. So after we
19:08
Speaker 2: did our first impression episode of Chesapeak Schores, a lot
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Speaker 2: of people were like, we would love to see you
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Speaker 2: do this series, and I was like, this, fifty five episodes,
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Speaker 2: it's a big commitment. However, several people were like, hey,
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Speaker 2: you don't have to do an episode for every episode
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Speaker 2: of the show, and a couple people were like, just
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Speaker 2: do like like they said, two episodes per season, so
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Speaker 2: like first half, second half.
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Speaker 1: So I would can be convinced to do that when
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Speaker 1: this is some inside baseball. When the format is different,
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Speaker 1: like when you're trying to put together like a show
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Speaker 1: notes or a review and the format is breaks from
19:52
Speaker 1: our typical it gets hard to get started. You feel
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Speaker 1: me Megan on that.
19:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, but couldn't the format be the same. You're just
20:01
Speaker 2: combining five I don't know that the format needs to change.
20:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, just combining all of your thoughts from five episodes. Okay,
20:10
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't hate it. It's not gonna happen
20:13
Speaker 1: until twenty twenty six. I'm telling you right now. I
20:16
Speaker 1: can see what is avalanching towards us, and it's not
20:19
Speaker 1: gonna happen until twenty twenty six. Yeah, you guys, So
20:23
Speaker 1: this again also behind the scenes for summer. We already
20:27
Speaker 1: have our summer planned in terms of what we're going
20:29
Speaker 1: to review and like new series and new movies, right,
20:34
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna get into fall and Christmas, and
20:39
Speaker 1: it's there's no extra time to do any extra reviews basically,
20:44
Speaker 1: So then that leads us to January, where it's kind
20:47
Speaker 1: of lighter on Hallmark. So perhaps maybe that's where we
20:50
Speaker 1: can do it. Perhaps I don't hate it like a
20:54
Speaker 1: Chesapeaks January, yeah, or chest Peaks summer, even it's not going, yes, summer,
21:01
Speaker 1: it's it's not going anywhere.
21:04
Speaker 2: And if you really want to get in the weeds,
21:06
Speaker 2: there's gonna be stuff that's coming during the holiday season
21:08
Speaker 2: that we're not able to cover that may fall in January.
21:11
Speaker 2: So who knows what twenty twenty six holds, But if
21:15
Speaker 2: you have opinions on that coverage, send them our way, girls,
21:19
Speaker 2: go one Hallmark at gmail dot com.
21:23
Speaker 1: Another email regarding Chesapeake Shores from Christine, she writes, love
21:28
Speaker 1: the new mailbag episode this morning and I was thrilled
21:30
Speaker 1: to hear your reactions to Chesapeake Shores. It was by
21:33
Speaker 1: far my favorite series on Hallmark until The Way Home started.
21:37
Speaker 1: Now they're both at the top of my list for
21:39
Speaker 1: different reasons. Maybe it's because I missed my dad and
21:42
Speaker 1: now treat Williams too, but Mixed Relationship with his kids
21:45
Speaker 1: really hit me in the fields. In my opinion, both
21:48
Speaker 1: shows have some stronger seasons and storylines, and then they
21:52
Speaker 1: both take some occasional dips too. Consider this my plea.
21:56
Speaker 1: I'd love to see you review Chesapeake Shores all the
21:59
Speaker 1: way through at some point in the future when it
22:02
Speaker 1: fits in the schedule, maybe after all your kids are
22:05
Speaker 1: in college. That's that is three years from now. Can
22:10
Speaker 1: you wait that long? I hope you'll keep watching it
22:13
Speaker 1: when time permits, because it is really a warm hug
22:15
Speaker 1: that tugs at your heartstrings with stunning scenery. Wow. I
22:21
Speaker 1: wonder if Christine is a listener of her other stuff,
22:24
Speaker 1: how does she know our kids are going to college?
22:27
Speaker 2: Because it's all I can talk about, not on Hallmark,
22:31
Speaker 2: though maybe I don't know.
22:35
Speaker 1: I think we've mentioned it. I think we've mentioned our
22:38
Speaker 1: phase of life. Oh boy, I still had a.
22:41
Speaker 2: Younger one we got I got three more years. The
22:45
Speaker 2: nest is out around.
22:47
Speaker 1: I got one more year. But it's funny to me
22:50
Speaker 1: and I have to always go back to when we
22:53
Speaker 1: did this. I mean, we've been doing homework for many
22:56
Speaker 1: years now, but I remember pitching Chesapeake Shores in the
22:59
Speaker 1: summer and we asked the fans like our listeners, who
23:03
Speaker 1: weigh in, and it was like, nah, don't do it.
23:06
Speaker 1: It is a complete role reversal happening here. I know,
23:09
Speaker 1: I know. I asked this question on Instagram recently. Do
23:12
Speaker 1: you recall because you said that I dropped it in
23:17
Speaker 1: our stories? This story says what's the interest level in
23:21
Speaker 1: the Chest's pictures recap series? And you know it like
23:23
Speaker 1: averages it.
23:24
Speaker 2: So the average answer is like seventy percent.
23:27
Speaker 1: Okay. When you look at the responses, there's a there's
23:32
Speaker 1: a ton of all the way to the rights, and
23:34
Speaker 1: then there's a few absolutely nothing mm hmmm, and then
23:39
Speaker 1: like a couple like somewhere in the middle. But there
23:42
Speaker 1: definitely is quite a bit of interest who are like
23:45
Speaker 1: hard agree fully in favor. I think of a series
23:51
Speaker 1: of a recap okay, I mean I don't hate it.
23:54
Speaker 1: I enjoyed the show. It's just a numbers game.
23:57
Speaker 2: It's just even if we're only recapping, even if we're
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Speaker 2: only producing ten twelve episodes of the series, we are
24:03
Speaker 2: still it's still tof.
24:04
Speaker 1: You have episodes to watch. That's a lot of time. Yeah,
24:09
Speaker 1: so it's on the list. Consider it on the list. Yes.
24:14
Speaker 2: Paula emailed she's got thoughts on chessbea Stores, and Love
24:17
Speaker 2: in the Clouds, and she says, great podcast.
24:20
Speaker 1: Again.
24:20
Speaker 2: I watched about fifteen minutes and couldn't go on. She's
24:22
Speaker 2: talking love in the Clouds there. I thought I'd wait
24:24
Speaker 2: for your review and see if I should go back
24:25
Speaker 2: and finish.
24:26
Speaker 1: No pressure. Thank you for saving me that time.
24:30
Speaker 2: The storyline about the retired father struck close to home
24:33
Speaker 2: and could be a good subject for a movie. I'm
24:36
Speaker 2: involuntarily retired and I hate it. There's just too much
24:39
Speaker 2: time to fill.
24:40
Speaker 1: I end up getting into debates with podcasters. Hey, she says.
24:45
Speaker 2: I used to watch Passions when I was an options
24:48
Speaker 2: trader on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. There was a clerk
24:50
Speaker 2: who had a small TV in her booth that faced
24:52
Speaker 2: the trading crowd. Great for slow summer days. It was
24:55
Speaker 2: a weird show. The we're all kinds of supernatural characters,
24:58
Speaker 2: including a doll that turned into a boy. The bad
25:00
Speaker 2: guy wore an ascot. That's not why I enjoyed work.
25:04
Speaker 1: Though, creepy m That's what I remember about Passions is
25:09
Speaker 1: that weird doll boy. I don't remember that about well.
25:12
Speaker 1: I wasn't even familiar with that show, but it was
25:15
Speaker 1: kind of supernatural now kind of I feel like, yeah,
25:19
Speaker 1: like the commercials were their commercials for it. Sure, that's
25:23
Speaker 1: the only way I know about it. I didn't watch ith. Yeah,
25:28
Speaker 1: I have. I have a note to Unlove in the Clouds.
25:30
Speaker 1: There was a funny comment in our Facebook group that
25:35
Speaker 1: that said that perhaps we oversold Love in the Clouds,
25:38
Speaker 1: and I was like, over sold a movie. I gave
25:40
Speaker 1: one star too. I laughed out loud, I said, hilarious.
25:47
Speaker 1: It was Facebook member Sandy. It was very funny. That
25:51
Speaker 1: is funny. And we did get a message saying that
25:53
Speaker 1: our episode was more enjoyable than the movie. So I
25:55
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Skip the movie, listen to the podcast review
26:02
Speaker 1: of it. That's right, Hey, Brenda sent an email talking Hallmark.
26:07
Speaker 1: Plus she's had some first Impression series comments, so this
26:10
Speaker 1: one is a soapbox rant. In one of your.
26:13
Speaker 2: Episodes, you mentioned the awful technical end of the Hallmark
26:16
Speaker 2: Plus app. I truly do enjoy the tremendous amount of
26:19
Speaker 2: content to choose from, including older movies and series, and
26:23
Speaker 2: I like the way it's now organized, but oh dear god,
26:26
Speaker 2: the navigation issues have exponentially increased the cussin every time
26:29
Speaker 2: I use it. My Apple TV manages the streamers, and
26:33
Speaker 2: I forget that the Hallmark app isn't smart enough to
26:35
Speaker 2: rewind or forward without starting it at the beginning, thus
26:40
Speaker 2: the curse words flying. Surely, if Netflix, Prime and Hulu
26:45
Speaker 2: can do it, Hallmark can hire a programmer who can
26:47
Speaker 2: figure out how to fix the navigation on its app
26:51
Speaker 2: to pause.
26:52
Speaker 1: I agree, Brenda, I was gonna say, I so hard agree,
26:56
Speaker 1: as well as the amount of screaming I did the
26:59
Speaker 1: other day to get through freaking Kiki's fourth ingredient and
27:03
Speaker 1: having to like start it over a million times. Oh
27:06
Speaker 1: my god. Yeah, Michelle listener. Michelle sent us a video.
27:10
Speaker 1: She's like, I don't know what you guys are talking about.
27:11
Speaker 1: I can fast forward and rewind, and she sent me
27:13
Speaker 1: a video of her doing it. Now.
27:14
Speaker 2: She listens on a Roku, and she was, maybe the
27:18
Speaker 2: technology works better. The only way I can fast forward
27:21
Speaker 2: and rewind is if I open the Apple TV remote
27:24
Speaker 2: on my phone and use like the slider. But we
27:28
Speaker 2: can't do it any other way.
27:29
Speaker 1: And the other day my husband was watching a movie
27:31
Speaker 1: downstairs and he came up and like fired it up
27:34
Speaker 1: on the upstairs TV and he tried to remind and
27:36
Speaker 1: it went to the beginning. He's like, forget it. He's like,
27:37
Speaker 1: it's not even worth it. I'm not gonna finish it. Yeah,
27:39
Speaker 1: that was so annoying. So, yes, why can't they get
27:44
Speaker 1: it right? I don't understand. Are you telling me Hallmark
27:47
Speaker 1: does not have the money to put into the tech
27:51
Speaker 1: behind their app? Give me a break.
27:54
Speaker 2: I know, because I really agree with Brenda that I
27:56
Speaker 2: like so many other things about it, especially like they
27:59
Speaker 2: finally made this an app that people wanted where it's
28:02
Speaker 2: like next day content.
28:03
Speaker 1: They have all their content.
28:04
Speaker 2: They're like, if you don't have cable and you want Hallmark,
28:07
Speaker 2: this is the place to go in terms.
28:09
Speaker 1: Of what they have there. They're adding like syndicated content.
28:13
Speaker 1: I love it, but it's a pain to you. So
28:16
Speaker 1: I'm begging. I'm begging Hallmark please be fitting out up.
28:20
Speaker 1: They don't listen to this, but please fix the freaking
28:25
Speaker 1: tech side of it. Oh my god.
28:28
Speaker 2: Brenda goes on to say, regarding your first episode impression
28:30
Speaker 2: of a series, consider checking out Heartland. You'll never recap
28:33
Speaker 2: the whole series because they're a zillion episodes over I
28:36
Speaker 2: think seventeen seasons. It's a series about a ranching family
28:40
Speaker 2: that rescues rehomes and works with troubled horses. There are
28:43
Speaker 2: a lot of interesting characters and storylines. I've been watching
28:45
Speaker 2: it off and on through the years, and start watching
28:47
Speaker 2: the characters evolve an age, the main character being a
28:50
Speaker 2: teenager when it started in two thousand and seven, which
28:54
Speaker 2: is the year my oldest child was born, who will
28:57
Speaker 2: be an adult this month. So wow, and it's still going.
29:00
Speaker 2: I would be interested in your impression.
29:04
Speaker 1: Well, add it to the list. Our goal is to
29:06
Speaker 1: do all of the series that are on Homework plus
29:09
Speaker 1: at some point. Is it? That was the plus new
29:13
Speaker 1: news to me? We were going to do a first
29:15
Speaker 1: impression of all of them at some point. Okay, all right,
29:18
Speaker 1: we're doing Sue Thomas FBI. I'm nice, I am not
29:23
Speaker 1: looking forward to it, but we don't know when the
29:27
Speaker 1: next round of first impressions will be Yeah, but I
29:30
Speaker 1: do love this aeria it is it is kind of fun.
29:32
Speaker 1: It is fun. Yeah. Our next is was a DM
29:37
Speaker 1: from listener Michelle regarding Audrey Hepburn and Cole Valley. First,
29:42
Speaker 1: she says the name got changed from Coal Valley to
29:45
Speaker 1: Hope Valley after a mine accident where most of the
29:48
Speaker 1: men in the town died. The town didn't want to
29:51
Speaker 1: be known for coal anymore. Now they had hope to rebuild.
29:56
Speaker 1: It's nice. It's kind of weird though, right God, I mean, like,
29:59
Speaker 1: how much like tragedy can you put on this town?
30:02
Speaker 1: I think it's it's the accident that happens in the
30:04
Speaker 1: first episode is what she's referring to. Oh interesting, Okay,
30:07
Speaker 1: and then Michelle asks, Wendy, are you thinking of Audrey
30:10
Speaker 1: Hepburn and my fair lady Michelle, Yes, That's who I
30:14
Speaker 1: was thinking of, but it doesn't totally work for the
30:18
Speaker 1: comparison I was trying to make. Michelle also sent a
30:21
Speaker 1: voicemail on a completely unrelated note.
30:26
Speaker 4: Hey, Mega man Wady, I have a question about the
30:28
Speaker 4: Hallmark content lately.
30:31
Speaker 1: Do you think with the assistion of all of.
30:34
Speaker 4: The reality stows and the football movies and the court
30:38
Speaker 4: things movies.
30:39
Speaker 1: Do you think Hallmark is trying to reach.
30:42
Speaker 4: A lighter audience, like Wendy, former Hallmark hater by adding
30:47
Speaker 4: all of these additional pipe.
30:49
Speaker 1: Of shows and on the food side of that, do
30:53
Speaker 1: you feel Hallmark grade you, Lily, It's like a riddin all.
30:59
Speaker 4: I want Paullwark to gad reality is still good. I
31:01
Speaker 4: know how the movie's gonna end hardcore homemarking tours that
31:06
Speaker 4: go to Hamewark for that. I enjoy love the reality
31:10
Speaker 4: shows that are on here, but that's.
31:11
Speaker 1: Not what I go to Hallmark for. I was just
31:13
Speaker 1: curious on your thought, what do you think former Hallmark
31:17
Speaker 1: hater Wendy, Well, this is funny. Last year when they
31:24
Speaker 1: rebranded Hallmark Plus, I was like, of course I can
31:27
Speaker 1: from a business since I see what they're doing. They're
31:29
Speaker 1: trying to capture a bigger market, right the streamers. But
31:34
Speaker 1: then that kind of like busted and now they're like, Okay, well,
31:39
Speaker 1: maybe let's let's make some movies that appeal to other,
31:42
Speaker 1: like other people than our core Hallmark fans. I don't know.
31:46
Speaker 1: I kind of think they're just like throwing everything at
31:49
Speaker 1: the wall. To see like what sticks. Yes, I think
31:53
Speaker 1: they need a bigger audience, and I think that that's
31:57
Speaker 1: what they're trying to do to find it.
31:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think absolute the NFL crossover is, in my opinion,
32:02
Speaker 2: one hundred percent attempt to reach a larger audience. I
32:07
Speaker 2: think that's what the reality programming is doing. The question
32:11
Speaker 2: about do you think they're going to lose their hardcore viewers,
32:13
Speaker 2: My feeling is that as long as they're continuing their
32:18
Speaker 2: focus on, you know, those Saturday movies that are still
32:22
Speaker 2: in line with the Hallmark brand so to speak, I
32:25
Speaker 2: don't think they're going to lose those people. But I
32:27
Speaker 2: don't think the problem I think they're going to have
32:31
Speaker 2: is in business, you should have your ideal customer, right,
32:35
Speaker 2: you should be able to describe who your ideal customer is.
32:39
Speaker 1: And seems to me that if.
32:41
Speaker 2: You know who your ideal customer is, all of your
32:44
Speaker 2: products should serve that person. And at some point if
32:49
Speaker 2: you have multiple ideal customers, it might become challenging to
32:56
Speaker 2: focus your content.
32:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, like they're trying to convert a They're like they're
33:01
Speaker 1: trying to convert customers to their other programming. I just
33:04
Speaker 1: don't know if they can do it. I don't know.
33:07
Speaker 1: Should be interesting. All right. That's a wrap on this
33:12
Speaker 1: week's Mailbag episode.
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