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  Speaker 4: I'm Wendy. I'm your former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 3: Today we're discussing Holiday Hotline from Hallmark's Countdown to Christmas series.
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  Speaker 3: show note. Let's jump right into a holiday hotline with
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  Speaker 3: a synopsis.
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  Speaker 4: Sure After leaving London, Abby connects with an anonymous caller
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  Speaker 4: while working at a cooking hotline. The caller is single
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  Speaker 4: dad John, who Abby unknowing Lee has become smitten with
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  Speaker 4: in real life. Starring Emily Tennant and Niall Mader.
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  Speaker 3: Holiday Hotline was directed by Mark Jean is it Gene,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know? He has sixty four directing credits, including
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  Speaker 3: cult favorite The Nine Lives of Christmas, A Kids Met Christmas,
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  Speaker 3: and Eight Gifts of Hanukkah for Hallmark. This movie was
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  Speaker 3: written by Dwayne Poole and Julie Sherman woof. Dwayne sadly
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  Speaker 3: passed away earlier this year before he could finish writing
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  Speaker 3: this movie, and Julie Sherman wolf took over and saw
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  Speaker 3: it to completion. Dwayne has eighty one writing credits, including
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  Speaker 3: Winter and Veil and Next Stop Christmas And if I
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  Speaker 3: can add, I wanted to look up more about Dwayne Poole.
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  Speaker 3: There was a really nice write up about him and
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  Speaker 3: his career in Variety. I'm going to link that in
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  Speaker 3: our show notes.
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  Speaker 4: But what I didn't know is that Dwayne he worked
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  Speaker 4: with SidD and Marty Kroft on The Spurfs, Scooby Doo,
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  Speaker 4: Alvin and the Chipmunks. He also worked with Aaron Spelling
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  Speaker 4: on The Love Boat and Heart Heart. He had a
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  Speaker 4: very colorful career. Lo that yeah. Julie Shrman Wolfe has
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  Speaker 4: thirty six writing credits, which include the recent smash hit
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  Speaker 4: Field Day and last year's Hanakah on Rye and a
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  Speaker 4: Holiday Spectacular. She's one of our faves.
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  Speaker 3: Indeed, she is actress. Emily Tennant plays Abby. She has
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  Speaker 3: ninety three acting credits, including an appearance in the two
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  Speaker 3: thousand and seven movie Juno, a role in the Hallmark
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  Speaker 3: series Cedar Cove starring Andy McDowell, and recently a starring
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  Speaker 3: role in a movie either titled A Deadly Surrogacy or
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  Speaker 3: The Baby Swindler, depending on whether you look at the
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  Speaker 3: IMDb title or the movie poster. Oh interesting, it's one
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  Speaker 3: of those. U cast a spell on me.
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  Speaker 4: Indeed. Niall Maner plays Jack slash John with his surprise
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  Speaker 4: appearance in The Santa Summit. Nile's current total acting credits
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  Speaker 4: is fifty eight. This year, he was also in Family
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  Speaker 4: History Street Is Buried Past, and we're still waiting on
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  Speaker 4: news about getting another movie in that series, hopefully. Twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty four.
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  Speaker 3: Mala Vulk plays daughter Jessica. Mila has six acting credits,
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  Speaker 3: although she isn't yet credited on IMDb for this film.
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  Speaker 4: She's real cute.
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  Speaker 3: Get your people on that, Mala. This is her second
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  Speaker 3: Hallmark appearance. She was also in twenty twenty one's Crashing
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  Speaker 3: through the Snow, a Christmas in July feature that I
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  Speaker 3: don't think you watched, but I do think you would enjoy.
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  Speaker 4: Nice tip Hey. Holiday Hotline was filmed in Manitoba, Canada,
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  Speaker 4: mostly in Winnipeg, from September eighteenth to October ninth, twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty three, and the previous working title of this movie
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  Speaker 4: was called love Oh my goodness, love Birds. I don't
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  Speaker 4: like it. I like Holiday Hotline better, but I do
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  Speaker 4: love the bottom moment of Lovebirds. Not gonna lie, Not
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  Speaker 4: gonna lie.
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  Speaker 3: What's your first impression of this movie?
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  Speaker 4: Well, like Taylor Swift says, you chase two girls, you
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  Speaker 4: lose the one. Oh oh, look at you.
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  Speaker 3: I want to invent a reason to call the Butterball
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  Speaker 3: hotline because they seem delightful. I want to say good.
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  Speaker 4: I should just for shits and giggles, just to see
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  Speaker 4: what happens. I read a review of this movie in
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  Speaker 4: which they were like, seems pretty unlikely that you'd have
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  Speaker 4: a hotline that only runs between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Not
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  Speaker 4: a very sustainable business practice. And I wanted to email
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  Speaker 4: this and be like, ma'am, this is very much a
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  Speaker 4: thing that exists, run by Brahaf, the biggest turkey company
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  Speaker 4: in the world. Oh that's crazy. Like I just feel
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  Speaker 4: like it's a no one. Yes, I mean so funny president.
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  Speaker 4: And I called on an episode of The West Wing.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, another West Wing reference. He pretended to
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  Speaker 4: be Joe bethersent in from Fargo, North Dakota. You scare
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  Speaker 4: me with your West Wing. I just saw I saw
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  Speaker 4: the clip on Instagram the other day.
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  Speaker 3: It came up, so, oh, wait a minute, are you
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  Speaker 3: watching The West Wing on Instagram? No, but occasionally I
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  Speaker 3: do follow it Instagram and clout I think it's called Sorcanisms,
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  Speaker 3: and they post clips from.
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  Speaker 4: Aaron Sorkin written shows quite often the West Wing.
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  Speaker 3: And it was Thanksgiving, so of course they posted the
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  Speaker 3: butterleball turkey moment.
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  Speaker 4: Ah.
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  Speaker 3: All right, okay, let's talk about what we liked about
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  Speaker 3: this movie.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, do you want to go first? Sure? Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Athavail, who we didn't mention in News and Notes. He
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  Speaker 3: plays Roger. He's back. We saw him as Dasher in
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  Speaker 3: The Santa Summit. He is, for me, the supporting actor
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  Speaker 3: to beat this holiday season. He's really bringing it in
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  Speaker 3: these roles that don't necessarily call for someone to bring
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  Speaker 3: it right, like the call center leader.
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  Speaker 4: It's fine, doesn't make or break the movie, but with
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  Speaker 4: him in that role, it's someone I look forward to.
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  Speaker 4: I agree he was great in The Santa Summit too,
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  Speaker 4: but also, can I correct you for a second, what
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  Speaker 4: did I do? His last name is pronounced a tubla.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, how do you know that? How do
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  Speaker 4: you know? Are you calling me out? I am mark
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  Speaker 4: his day in history. It is Tuesday and November twenty eighth,
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  Speaker 4: and only because I went onto his IMDb and on
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  Speaker 4: his bio it says pronounce a toublay. It's like spelled out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, Eric, I apologize, Nile. We used to
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  Speaker 3: ruin your name too, so when you know better, you
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  Speaker 3: do better.
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  Speaker 4: You were just waiting with that one in your pocket
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  Speaker 4: this whole time for me to step in it. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not trying to come for you at all. Like this
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  Speaker 4: is my Mount Everest, you know that, right, like saying
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  Speaker 4: these mens I.
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  Speaker 1: Do I do?
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  Speaker 4: I take the correction and Eric a tublay I will
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  Speaker 4: remember it forever. Can I tell you one more thing?
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  Speaker 4: I liked yes to redeem myself.
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  Speaker 3: I loved the way they staged the calls. It was
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  Speaker 3: the number one thing, particularly with John slash Jack and
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  Speaker 3: Abby slash Peggy in the room together. But they did
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  Speaker 3: it not just with the two of them. They did
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  Speaker 3: it in a number of ways, with the caller and
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  Speaker 3: the helper in.
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  Speaker 4: The same room. Yes, uh huh.
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  Speaker 3: I thought about this a lot now, it does make
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  Speaker 3: more of an impact to have them side by side visually.
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  Speaker 3: It builds the relationship. But it's also easier to film
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  Speaker 3: it that way than it is to film two different
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  Speaker 3: sides of a conversation. When you have a movie that
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  Speaker 3: is twenty percent phone call, you don't want a pause
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  Speaker 3: in the wrong place. You want an actual conversation happening
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  Speaker 3: back and forth. So I think there's both of those
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  Speaker 3: elements at play here. So I will agree with you.
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  Speaker 3: This was a highlight for the movie for me when
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  Speaker 3: we get to see the Turkey disasters happening while Emily
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  Speaker 3: is fielding the calls. I just thought it was a
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  Speaker 3: very smart way to pull the viewer into the emergency
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  Speaker 3: of the situation and what they're doing at the holiday hotline.
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  Speaker 4: Uh huh. It was brilliant. And like you said, when
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  Speaker 4: we have Jack and Peggy on the phone together, that
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  Speaker 4: it's shot in the same space, I think a back
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  Speaker 4: and forth would have been too much, Like you said,
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  Speaker 4: like a pause or whatever, it could just go all wrong.
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  Speaker 4: But I was really impressed that these two actors are
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  Speaker 4: working together in the same scene, in the same space,
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  Speaker 4: but they're never engaging in eye contacts. It was really good.
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  Speaker 4: It was really really good. I was super impressed. Tell
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  Speaker 4: me some things you liked about this movie? So like
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  Speaker 4: a merry Scottish Christmas. I had seen criticism about this
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  Speaker 4: movie before even watching it because of just our schedule.
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  Speaker 4: I really enjoyed this movie. I thought the premise was
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  Speaker 4: super clever, a butterball hotline. Has anybody touched that in
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  Speaker 4: a movie before? No, like ever, certainly not to this extent.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was so funny. I love dial Mater
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  Speaker 4: in this role. He was like tender and soft, he
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  Speaker 4: was like this nice, loving dad. I thought Emily Tenett
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  Speaker 4: was great. Like what was there not to like about
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  Speaker 4: this movie? It was? It was a great movie. I thought,
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  Speaker 4: I agree with you. And I saw some criticism too
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  Speaker 4: prior to watching it, and don't really agree with much
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  Speaker 4: of it. Can I tell you that I saw a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people say they thought Emily's accent was terrible
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  Speaker 4: and either I don't know a good British accent. I
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  Speaker 4: didn't find it grating or distracting at all. I agree,
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  Speaker 4: I agree. Actually I didn't even know if she was.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not familiar with her as an actor, so I
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  Speaker 4: didn't know if she was actually British, So I mean
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  Speaker 4: call me naive, stupid, uncultured, uncultured. I thought she did great.
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  Speaker 4: Me too, I thought she did great. I loved the
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  Speaker 4: neighbor Margaret, and she was played by Marina Steveson Kerr.
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  Speaker 4: She was also in last year's We Wish You Had
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  Speaker 4: Married Christmas. I don't remember her, but she was just
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  Speaker 4: kooky enough that it didn't feel HIJINXY. And she has
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  Speaker 4: this one line when she's helping Emily with the suitcases
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  Speaker 4: and she goes, I'm what my grandkids call ripped, and
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  Speaker 4: I laughed out loud, laugh out loud. I just thought
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  Speaker 4: it was so funny. I remember that line, and I
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  Speaker 4: remember as soon as she said it, I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: as they're walking up. This is the problem with reviewing
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  Speaker 4: movies is my brain was like, oh, this suitcase is empty.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, of course they are.
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  Speaker 3: Why would you put stuff in the suitcase in a movie?
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  Speaker 3: But unlike an empty coffee cup, the suitcases didn't lift
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  Speaker 3: as if they were empty.
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  Speaker 4: Did you notice that? No? No, I was.
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  Speaker 3: Specifically looking for and you know you know what I'm
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  Speaker 3: talking about. When they're flinging around a coffee cup, you
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  Speaker 3: can tell the difference between a paper cup that is
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  Speaker 3: empty and one that has substance to it. It's the
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  Speaker 3: same thing with a suitcase, right right, anyway, right right.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't hate all the silly turkey puns and jokes.
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  Speaker 3: I thought they leaned in hard and I was.
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  Speaker 4: Enjoying this silly movie.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it has heart, it has a story to tell,
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  Speaker 3: but ultimately it's about a turkey hotline. I would have
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  Speaker 3: been disappointed if they hadn't done.
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  Speaker 4: All of that. I agree.
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  Speaker 3: I agree, O Briner And sticking the turkey under the
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  Speaker 3: heating pad for the night, y'all. I am sure people
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: have done worse things to rapidly defrost their turkey, Like
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  Speaker 3: I don't think you understand the panic of realizing that
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  Speaker 3: your turkey is still frozen the night before you need
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  Speaker 3: to put it in the oven.
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  Speaker 4: Don't do that. By the way, cold water changed every hour.
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  Speaker 4: It is the way to do it. But nevertheless, you
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  Speaker 4: know what it was really cool is that this was
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  Speaker 4: like a Thanksgiving slash Christmas movie. Yes, this is one
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  Speaker 4: that you can watch before Thanksgiving and still not be like, uh,
• 13:06
  Speaker 4: it's a Christmas movie. Why are we watching it in November?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, And in fact, when I turned it on, my
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  Speaker 3: brain was like, Oh, this is a thanksget Knowing it's
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  Speaker 3: a Christmas movie, my brain was like, must be a
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  Speaker 3: Thanksgiving movie. They really thread that needle nicely having it
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  Speaker 3: run the full season. Yes, I want to say one
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  Speaker 3: more thing about the hot line. I think they could
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  Speaker 3: have gone two totally different directions with the way they
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  Speaker 3: played the hot line because you've got these people calling
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  Speaker 3: in with these outrageous questions, and I thought it was
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  Speaker 3: really funny because they a couple times are like, do
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  Speaker 3: not put your frozen turkey into a vat of boiling oil.
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  Speaker 3: But all of the workers at the hotline were lovely
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  Speaker 3: and kind to people calling in.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they might have been like.
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  Speaker 3: Firm about what not to do in a dangerous situation,
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  Speaker 3: but they weren't behind their scenes rolling their eyes at
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  Speaker 3: these people who didn't know what to do. It's like
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  Speaker 3: calling your mom for help or you know whoever you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna call when you need help in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 4: It felt like that. That's why I'm like, I want
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  Speaker 4: to call these people and have them hold my hand
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  Speaker 4: through whatever turkey related mishaps i'm having. You don't have
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  Speaker 4: turkey related mishaps. Turkey's actually not the hardest part of Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 4: It's pretty easy to make turkey. I think so too.
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  Speaker 4: But the hardest part about Thanksgiving is having all the
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  Speaker 4: stuff come together at one time. Agree.
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  Speaker 3: The worst part about a turkey, honestly for me is
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  Speaker 3: carving it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh interesting, It's just there's just so much and so
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  Speaker 4: many things.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, and nobody else in my house knows how to
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  Speaker 3: do it, so I always end up carving it.
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  Speaker 4: I hate it. I have one last liked here. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I had read some criticism that the conflict in this
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  Speaker 4: movie wasn't all that deep, and while I agree, because
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  Speaker 4: Jacket Jack slash John gets very upset at one point
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  Speaker 4: when he learns Peggy is Abby, and I didn't feel
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  Speaker 4: like it was deception. Was he making too big of
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  Speaker 4: a deal about it? I thought so. I thought so too.
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  Speaker 4: But I also thought it was kind of clever how
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  Speaker 4: Abby was feeling like she was being cheated on with Peggy, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and vice versa, even though she's the same person. And
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  Speaker 4: I think that shows more about what John what's his name?
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  Speaker 4: Is his name actually Jack or John? His name is John,
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  Speaker 4: but Jack is what he goes by because Jack is
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  Speaker 4: a nickname. For John. Okay, So I feel like that
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  Speaker 4: shows more about his character because he was like weighing
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  Speaker 4: his options who does he like better, Abby or Peggy?
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  Speaker 4: And she realized all of that. I thought that said
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  Speaker 4: more about him, even though like, you're gonna go for
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  Speaker 4: the person that you like more, right, obviously, but there
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  Speaker 4: was there was no actual real conflict. I agree that.
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  Speaker 4: I the conflict wasn't as big as it should have been,
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  Speaker 4: but it was interesting how it played out. I just
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  Speaker 4: like their are like separate, what's the word I'm looking
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  Speaker 4: for perspectives on it. Yeah, that's a really good point.
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  Speaker 4: So if we can move on to wish that's really
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  Speaker 4: my one. Oh okay, I'm sorry, don't I hate an
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  Speaker 4: easily solved misunderstanding.
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  Speaker 3: I like your perspective. I really did like seeing it
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  Speaker 3: from both sides. And he tells Abby I believe he
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  Speaker 3: has feelings for her, but then he goes to the
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  Speaker 3: hotline to thank Peggy for reopening his part, and she
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  Speaker 3: sees this, knowing that she's the same person that he
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  Speaker 3: has feelings for. I thought, oh, that's really awkward, right, Like,
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  Speaker 3: now are you cheating on in quotation Mark's Abby with Peggy?
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  Speaker 3: Although I thought his moment with Peggy was more like
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  Speaker 3: thank you for being there for me, as opposed to
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  Speaker 3: I'm falling in love with you. Do you understand what
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying. I felt okay with him going to Peggy
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  Speaker 3: at the hotline to give her the gifts to the
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  Speaker 3: Ornament as a thank you and kind of close out
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  Speaker 3: their relationship. And I thought he made the right choice
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  Speaker 3: in choosing the woman he actually knew and had met
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  Speaker 3: in the.
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  Speaker 4: Flesh, even though they're the same person.
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  Speaker 3: But I can't get over and it's small, but there
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  Speaker 3: were multiple times where they could have avoided this, and
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  Speaker 3: she had opportunity to tell him who she was.
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  Speaker 4: And I didn't think, like.
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  Speaker 3: You said, it was that big of a deal, like
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  Speaker 3: her saying actually because she realizes before he does, actually
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  Speaker 3: we're the same person. I didn't think it was that
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  Speaker 3: big of a deal. I don't think it's all that
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: odd that she was using an American accent. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's a funny plot point. Oh, the Americans don't want
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: to listen to a British person tell them how to
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  Speaker 3: cook their American Thanksgiving. I didn't think he needed to
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  Speaker 3: be all that fired up about it.
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  Speaker 4: Upset. Yeah, Well, because even when he first calls the hotline,
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  Speaker 4: his brother's like, why are you using Jack? And he's like,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know these people, so like.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he uses John and it's she even calls that
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  Speaker 3: whatever you told me your name was John.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, my name is John. People said like, oh.
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  Speaker 4: It felt like Sleepless in Seattle, right, which I liked
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: that where they you know, their relationship develops over the phone.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: It had a moment of you've got mail to me
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  Speaker 4: where Joe Fox knows who Kathleen Kelly is. He knows
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  Speaker 4: that he's the big bad guy who's about to put
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: her out of business, but she doesn't know who he is.
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  Speaker 4: When he comes into her store and she introduces herself
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: and he goes, just call me Joe, and like he
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: doesn't want to reveal himself. It was that moment like, oh,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to give my name away on this.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: You did the same thing, dude. Yeah, I agree. That
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  Speaker 4: doesn't ruin the movie for me.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't ruin the movie for me either. I get
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: frustrated in books and in movies when they have an
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: opportunity to solve the misunderstanding and only holding on to
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: the misunderstanding is what gives us a content flicked?
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  Speaker 4: All right, that's a can I talk about what I
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: wish for?
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  Speaker 2: Please?
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: It's just one Okay. I freaking love cottage cheese and fruit.
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  Speaker 4: But I could have done without the blatant product placement
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  Speaker 4: in this movie. It was too many times, I know,
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  Speaker 4: takes me out of the moment and it makes me
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: feel like we're in a twenty seventeen Hallmark movie where
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: there's like a luberderm zoom in and mingle all the
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: way along of those lines. I had wondered if Twinings
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Tea was a sponsor because every time they show Emily
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: working at the hotline, she's holding her like British flag
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: mug right, and she's drinking tea. But it's the brand Twinings.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: I think it's called Twinings. Now I'm like having second thoughts, like,
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: what's it actually called Twinings? I don't know, Am I
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: saying it wrong? Niil matter a tula. They have a
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: tea called Gingerbread Joy. Maybe I need all that. I
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: don't know, but that is the brand tea wi n
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: I in gs And.
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  Speaker 3: I just thought it was interesting that one N one
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: N I would say it's twinings. Okay, it was interesting
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: that she was drinking that it is a United Kingdom
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: founded company. That was thoughtful use yes, so I wondered
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: if it was that to me?
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Is more clever, yes than like the zoom on Dalpa
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Daisy or let's talk about did you see that I
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: only have two?
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: I mean my Daisy Cottage cheese at was one. I
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: had three. Okay, they go to a Christmas kindle market.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Did you hear they mentioned it? Like, oh, we're going
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: to go to the Christmas Kindle market.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: That's the same market we went to in Denver, and
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: no shade to the Christmas Kindle market people, but I
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: was a steaming pile of disappointments. Wait a minute, it's
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: not the exact same. It's like that company puts together
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: markets in multiple cities. Yeah, that wasn't that great.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: It was all food stands and like dog CBD choos.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: I wanted like handmade ornaments and beautiful scarves and I
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: don't baked goods.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: I just went to a beautiful market in Boston recently. Yeah,
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: it was great. It was so much better than that
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Denver one. Yeah, did you notice how many Christmas trees
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: were in Jack John's house. I did not the downstairs.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: I was like, in the hallway there's two, and then
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: into the next room there's another one, and then in
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: the kitchen there's one. I was like, Oh, how many
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: do you have downstairs? Isn't that funny that he can't
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: maintain that level of decoration but dude can't cook a
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: turkey to maintain their holiday dinner tradition for his tire.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: I thought that exact thought. I thought, is he overdoing
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: the decorations because his wife is dead? You know, he
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: still wants to like have this whole like experience for
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: his daughter. Sure? Maybe? And another question, I have another
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: question for you. I saw this on Reddit. Actually, somebody's like,
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: I'm over the dead spouses. What do you think about that?
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: Can't he just be like a single dad? Can't he
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: just be a single dad who maybe never got married
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: or is divorced. Yeah, I mean, I think we live
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: in twenty twenty four almost. I think it's okay that
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: they're single parents out there who exist without a dead spouse.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: I agree, So Hallmark, make that change. Okay? I have
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: two more, little, two more little? Did you see that
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: one was a blue reference? Did you catch that Blue
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: is like a present day cartoon for kids. Yes, I've
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: never seen it, but I know it's very popular. Yes,
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: I just was surprised that it showed up in my
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Hallmark movie. The second thing is also surprised by the
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: nineteen ninety eight in sync hit Never Knew the Meaning
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: of Christmas? In my notes, I had to choozam it.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: I was like, is that in sync? And indeed it
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: was Megan's favorite justin Timberlake in her Hallmark movie. That's
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: a starcasm, folks. Yes, yes, all right, what did you
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: rate this movie? I gave it three point two five stars? Wow?
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Which I gave it four stars?
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Whoa?
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: You gave it more stars than a merry Scottish Christmas? Yes?
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: I did. Yeah, that's interesting. I think I maybe liked
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: it more than that too. You know, I think I
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: really enjoy rom coms. I like to laugh in my
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Hallmark movies. Yeah, me too, So I think that's why
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: those kind of movies get higher ratings from me.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Okay, hey, thanks for listening to this episode of Girls
• 23:39
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• 23:43
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• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Bye Ryu,