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February Listener Mailbag · 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 Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan
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  Speaker 2: and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 2: On today's episode, we're back with our Listener Mailback episode
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  Speaker 2: for February. Thanks to everyone who's sent in your listener
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  Speaker 2: emails and voicemails. The best way to reach us is
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  Speaker 2: via email at Hello at Girls Gonehollmark dot com, but
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  Speaker 2: you can also use our voicemail number, which is nine
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  Speaker 2: four nine three two nine eight zero nine zero. If
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  Speaker 2: you want to be featured on a future Listener Mailbag episode,
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  Speaker 2: We'd love to hear from you. And we say it
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  Speaker 2: every single time. No one answers that phone straight to voicemail.
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  Speaker 1: Straight to voicemail, and if if, if you record it
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, oh my god, I hated everything. I
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  Speaker 1: record call back and say hey, guys, don't play that
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  Speaker 1: or here's my thought again or whatever, it's it's totally fine.
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  Speaker 1: It's between you and I. Two. Hey, you like us,
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  Speaker 1: Megan and Wendy, we would love for you to come
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  Speaker 1: join us on Patreon. Patreon is a paid platform that
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  Speaker 1: keeps the lights on over here. We use that subscription
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  Speaker 1: money to pay for other things to make this project go.
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  Speaker 1: We would love to have you. Patreon dot com, slash
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  Speaker 1: Megan and Wendy. We do four new episodes a month
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  Speaker 1: there for five dollars. This month was a real doozy,
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  Speaker 1: Like we've recorded half of them already.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we are earning every bit of that money
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  Speaker 2: over there with the content we're dropping.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell, how long was that episode that you
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  Speaker 1: dropped today? It was.
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  Speaker 2: I edited it a little bit, so it was forty
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  Speaker 2: one minutes. Wow, it was fifty to start.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy, A little snippin' that's all my stuff. I
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  Speaker 1: get wordy, you do, yes, you know what is so
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  Speaker 1: funny too? Like I'm curious from the listeners if they
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  Speaker 1: can tell when we record together versus remotely. Ooh, you
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  Speaker 1: and I believe there's a different dynamic when we are
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  Speaker 1: sitting across the kitchen table from each other. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with that. I think we make better episodes
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  Speaker 1: when we do that. Sometimes stuff happens and we have
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  Speaker 1: to record remotely. But my whole point was that Patreon
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  Speaker 1: episode that we dropped today. We are in person together,
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  Speaker 1: and I just felt like you and I just were like,
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  Speaker 1: we had all this pinned to up stuff and we
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  Speaker 1: just let it fly.
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  Speaker 2: It's a release, man, it is a release. So you
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  Speaker 2: can give that a Listen Patreon dot com slash Megan
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  Speaker 2: and Wendy and.
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  Speaker 1: Your first week over there is free.
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  Speaker 2: You get a seven day free trial so you can
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  Speaker 2: into all the back content over there and see if
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  Speaker 2: that's something you want to stick around for for future months.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready to talk? Listen to mail back?
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  Speaker 2: I am up top. We have an email from Allison
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  Speaker 2: in regards to Ripple and our coverage. She says, was
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  Speaker 2: there a rating on Ripple? I assume it was a five?
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  Speaker 2: I was hoping to hear one.
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  Speaker 1: At the end. She goes on to.
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  Speaker 2: Say, this one was a hard one with reviews to
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  Speaker 2: listen to. I finished the series weeks ago and it
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  Speaker 2: was hard to remember all the details. Maybe if it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't at Christmas, two shows a week would have made sense.
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  Speaker 2: So let's start by rating Ripple.
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  Speaker 1: It was a five star.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely five star series for five star series.
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  Speaker 1: I agree.
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  Speaker 2: Now, let's talk the bts of recapping a series like this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: go ahead, we kind of gets in the weeds, right.
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  Speaker 1: This series dropped.
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  Speaker 2: All at once, all eight episodes. Obviously, we're not going
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  Speaker 2: to drop eight episodes of reviews in a row. It
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  Speaker 2: just doesn't timewise make sense. It doesn't work that way
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  Speaker 2: with our time.
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  Speaker 1: It would be impossible to watch eight episodes and then
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  Speaker 1: record eight episodes, like they're not enough hours in the day. No,
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  Speaker 1: it would have. It wouldn't have.
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  Speaker 2: It would have been especially she's correct during Christmas. I
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  Speaker 2: definitely hear you about the challenge of the average viewer
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  Speaker 2: did binge this, They weren't watching it weekly as we're
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  Speaker 2: reviewing it weekly. We do have an email down the
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  Speaker 2: line in this episode where a listener is suggesting some
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  Speaker 2: shows that have come out because we have kind of
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  Speaker 2: expanded some of our reviews, and that also gets into
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  Speaker 2: the same situation of like those have already dropped, how
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  Speaker 2: does that work in terms of reviews?
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  Speaker 1: Are people really going to go back and listen?
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  Speaker 2: It's that's something that we have to think about, and
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  Speaker 2: when we're thinking about adding other series, I think that
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  Speaker 2: we probably will lean more on series that are dropping
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  Speaker 2: episodically m h than those that need to that are
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  Speaker 2: dropping all at once, right for the listening experience.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Because it's yeah, no, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: there is a part of me that really wants to
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  Speaker 1: do other things, like the way that I equit it.
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm like, oh man, we should review the Pit
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  Speaker 1: because it comes out episodically right week to week. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: we're not gonna go back and do that now because
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  Speaker 1: this is season two, and like, we're just not going
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  Speaker 1: to pick that up. Megan's raising her eyebrows.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yesterday you suggested we review The West Wing,
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  Speaker 2: which was one hundred and fifty six episodes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and so then you have that right, you know.
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  Speaker 1: We talked on Patreon a lot. My One of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite podcasts is Nobody's Listening Right with Andy and Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: and I had listened to an episode during the holiday
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  Speaker 1: time maybe and they were talking about they were joking
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  Speaker 1: about reviewing shows, and Andy goes, I can't remember what
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  Speaker 1: show it was, but it was a show that aired many, many,
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  Speaker 1: many many years, like twenty sixteen, like ten years ago,
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  Speaker 1: and he's like, oh yeah, because so many people are
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  Speaker 1: looking for reviews on a show that aired ten years ago.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, well, he has a point. We
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  Speaker 1: tried to do that. Last to the Party, Last to
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  Speaker 1: the Party, with a reality TV show that aired the
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  Speaker 1: first season many many years ago. Nobody's looking for that
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  Speaker 1: content today. Yeah, So when I think about The West Wing,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, maybe maybe there's people looking for that
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  Speaker 1: content today because that show such a has like such
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  Speaker 1: a marked moment in pop culture history. Those wing nuts
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  Speaker 1: are crazy. Oh they have a name. Yeah. Wow. So
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  Speaker 1: it's like a project by a project basis. I feel like, and.
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  Speaker 2: When I wish we were reviewing the pit, it's too late,
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  Speaker 2: but I do wish we were doing it when.
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  Speaker 1: Magg and I look at our calendar for like the
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  Speaker 1: month ahead, when we're planning, because this isn't just like
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  Speaker 1: a fly by the seat of your pants. We do
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  Speaker 1: actually content plan, of course, and we'll look ahead and
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what's dropping on Netflix, what can we review
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  Speaker 1: over there? How does it work with our schedule and
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  Speaker 1: maybe our listener's schedule, and so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of logistics going into it, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: and going back, I do wish we could have maybe
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  Speaker 1: maybe watched Olive Ruble and just had one review for it,
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  Speaker 1: but two or to a summary of it. But then
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that doesn't give it justice to the project.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get deep into the episode. You can't give
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  Speaker 1: like the writers or the directors or the actors like
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  Speaker 1: their flowers that they deserve for like.
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  Speaker 2: I know we did it that way, but I do
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  Speaker 2: recognize the challenge of listening to their reviews that way
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  Speaker 2: as a binging viewer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Our next email is from Francisco regarding the January movies.
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  Speaker 1: He says, Hey, make it a windy I did enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the movies this month, granted I watched two. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know when this is dated. This may have come in
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  Speaker 1: prior to missing the book did. I'm a big fan
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  Speaker 1: of Lacy and thought Last and Paradise was really good.
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  Speaker 1: I did like the prim and thought the chemistry was great.
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  Speaker 1: I think her movies are good nine out of ten times,
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  Speaker 1: and this was one such movie. The setting was beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: and honestly, I was surprised by the pirates that were there.
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  Speaker 1: I of course wasn't expecting the resort either. I have
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  Speaker 1: to stay as a dog lover. When he ran away,
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  Speaker 1: I kept thinking what about Johnny us too? Francisco? Also,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with Wendy. Hey, I love when Lacey does
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  Speaker 1: comedic work. Can I just pause there for a second,
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  Speaker 1: because Francisco goes on he's gonna talk about something else
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  Speaker 1: that isn't related to this movie. I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about Lacey for a second.
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  Speaker 2: Huh.
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  Speaker 1: Dropped our review of My Secret Valentine yesterday. Yeah, starring
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  Speaker 1: Lacy Shabert and Andrew Walker. That is not a role
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  Speaker 1: I like her in. I like the comedic me doo
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  Speaker 1: Lacey Shabert. That's I think that's what I prefer, sure
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  Speaker 1: me to haul out the Halloween. She was super funny,
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  Speaker 1: and I remember watching that laughing out loud and being like,
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  Speaker 1: that's the roles I want to see her in. Lost
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  Speaker 1: in Paradise was in the same vein for sure. I
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  Speaker 1: wish she would do more comedy. I mean, Gretchen Wieners.
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  Speaker 2: I was just thinking, Gretchen Wieners is the ultimate comedic role. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: girls got comedic chops. She's not always like this sweet
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  Speaker 2: like Earnest or like the sullen Salinger child. Yeah, yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Francisco goes on to write the other one I watched
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  Speaker 1: was Caught by Love. It was good. As a nineties kid.
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  Speaker 1: I've been a fan of Rachel since that iconic movie.
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  Speaker 1: She's all that. I think her work on Hallmark is
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  Speaker 1: great and she has awesome comedic timing. This one totally
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  Speaker 1: employed it as well as I've seen her in all
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  Speaker 1: the Christmas movies. Here, I will say I did enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the plot, but I'll say the end was well done.
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  Speaker 1: In most movies you'll see one of the leads to
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  Speaker 1: alter their life. Here they don't. You don't see Annie
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  Speaker 1: give up her dreams of going to law school or
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  Speaker 1: Jake give up his business. And an ending like that
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  Speaker 1: is okay. Overall, kudos to both movies. I really liked
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  Speaker 1: Caught by Love as well. Yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was a solid movie. When I was
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  Speaker 2: thinking while listening to this, listening to you read Francisco's
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  Speaker 2: email terribly.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, No, not where I was going.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, it's very interesting to me
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  Speaker 2: because I think there's a big split of our listeners
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  Speaker 2: who have no idea which one of us is which, Oh,
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: go ahead, And so when he said I agree with Wendy.
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  Speaker 2: I find it interesting when some people know who's who
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: and I think some people absolutely do not. Oh interesting,
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: I could be wrong way and email us hello at
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: Girlcomehollmark dot com. Do you know the difference does it
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: matter to you, like, do you care? I think we
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: have similar ish voices for people who don't know, but
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: I also think we have different vibes.
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, mag it's a nine and I'm a five. Guys,
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: if you know what that means. Wendy's all in on
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  Speaker 1: her Enneagram number. These days.
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: We're gonna start an Aneagram podcast day coming soon.
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  Speaker 1: If you guys only knew. Yeah, that's funny. I wonder.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if people can tell the difference between our voices.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I can sure we do have feb here.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you this.
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  Speaker 2: The editing software that I use it, it transcribes our
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  Speaker 2: podcast and then I you can edit like on the
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  Speaker 2: waveform and on the written transcription, and it will also
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  Speaker 2: identify speakers. I never do that because there's not a
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  Speaker 2: reason for me to do it with the way I
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  Speaker 2: use it, except on rare occasion I do do it,
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  Speaker 2: and it does not always it gets it wrong. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it'll it will it'll identify like three speakers, Oh, or
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't or sometimes it doesn't always know who's who are.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't always separate They're like, this is a third
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  Speaker 1: person screeching.
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  Speaker 2: So when it does that, the way it does identify speakers.
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  Speaker 2: It'll play a clip and so I'll be like, that's me.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll type Megan, and then it'll play another clip
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  Speaker 2: and I'll type Wendy. And then as I'm scrolling through,
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  Speaker 2: it'll say it's Megan and it's not. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: well it's not perfect, which is fine, it's it's an
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  Speaker 2: AI system that's doing that. But also then it makes
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  Speaker 2: me think if it sounds that similar there or it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter. It was just a self reflective thought.
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  Speaker 1: I had the other thing too. I wonder if you know,
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  Speaker 1: I say some things that you wouldn't necessarily say, or
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  Speaker 1: vice versa, and are you worried People are like, oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, Meghan said XYZ and it was actually me No,
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  Speaker 1: are you worried about that? No? No, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: we say anything that's like too offensive. I got I
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  Speaker 1: hope not.
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  Speaker 2: Wendy's the one who likes basketball, y'all, and Meghan likes
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  Speaker 2: the West Wing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I.
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  Speaker 2: I had the big annoying dog.
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  Speaker 1: You're so funny, you know. I just had like a thought,
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  Speaker 1: I wish we were like making vlogs and people could
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: see like what our day looks like when we do this, well,
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: let's do that. Should we do? You wanna recording? Blog?
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: Folks weigh in, Hello at Girls Gone Hallmark dot Com.
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: Is that right? Correct? Okay, Okay, we're doing it. We're
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: doing it next week. Someone recently just asked us if
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  Speaker 1: we have a YouTube channel, which we do, and I
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  Speaker 1: can't stop thinking about that. Really, Look, there's only so
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  Speaker 1: many hours in the day. And Megan's like, she's melting
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  Speaker 1: in her chair right now. Because Megan is tasked with
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  Speaker 1: the editing. She has all the editing skills. She edits
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  Speaker 1: our podcast. She has edited every video we've ever made,
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  Speaker 1: every clip that goes on Instagram. Here's what I'm thinking.
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  Speaker 1: And she's like, I don't want to do that.
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's actually not true.
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: Sometimes these listener meal bag episodes just become like tangents.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you like that, because that's what we're doing here.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what I am always up for the next big idea,
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  Speaker 2: always always I do not have to be talked into it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, that's gonna be the next thing.
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  Speaker 2: This is why we work well together. Guys, go ahead,
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  Speaker 2: Because Wendy is an ideas person. I am not an
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  Speaker 2: ideas person, like if I have a task, I can execute.
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  Speaker 1: Not really a big thinker, don't see. I don't think
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: that's a I'm not a big thinker.
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  Speaker 2: No, I think I'm smart. I don't think I generally
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  Speaker 2: have big ideas. I'm an executor. I think that's where
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: my strength is. Okay, I'm not bashing myself. Everyone has strengths. However,
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  Speaker 2: I walk a line because, especially coming out of Q four,
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  Speaker 2: you were like, we need a break, we need to focus,
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  Speaker 2: we need a streamline, we need balance on our own.
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  Speaker 1: And that's my script every year after I understand.
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  Speaker 2: And I felt that way too, So I've been trying
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  Speaker 2: to be like, yeah, let's keep the schedule manageable.
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  Speaker 1: And then we keep being like, oh, we got this
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  Speaker 1: big idea and this big idea and this big idea.
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  Speaker 2: And let's make blogs, like I'd love to make vlogs.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to be doing video content. I'm recording you
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  Speaker 2: next week when you walk up to my house. Excellent,
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  Speaker 2: let's do it, let's do it, let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think that side of us appeals to people,
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: and maybe I'm wrong. We'll find out. Like I think
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: I kind of want to see like the behind the
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: scenes of Like I'm not talking about an hour long vlog.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about like a TikTok reels style vlog.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's do that day in the life. Yeah, let's
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  Speaker 1: do that. Let's do it because we can put those
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube too. Shorts as shorts.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. We have an email from Paula who sent in
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  Speaker 2: some ideas about some Hallmark adjacent review ideas for us
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  Speaker 2: to tackle. Paula says, I was thinking of some Netflix
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  Speaker 2: product you can influence.
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  Speaker 1: No, we just like both cocked our head at influence.
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  Speaker 2: I don't overestimate our reach here on Girls Gone Hallmark,
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  Speaker 2: but i'd love to. First of Nona As it stars
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  Speaker 2: Vince Vaughan, Linda Cardellini and some great older stars. Came
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  Speaker 2: out last year, very hallmarky I do believe you watched
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  Speaker 2: that one it yep. Yeah, I think that fits into
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  Speaker 2: the vein here. Nobody wants this Kristen Bell and Adam Brody,
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  Speaker 2: a sex podcaster and a rabbi date. It just writes
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  Speaker 2: itself to season seen it.
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  Speaker 1: I loved that series.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of these, especially the series like this,
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  Speaker 2: is going to fall into the trap of like you know,
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  Speaker 2: those came out. One came out about six months ago,
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  Speaker 2: this season before that, maybe a year year and a
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  Speaker 2: half before that. And so who's who's watching and wanting
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  Speaker 2: that content?
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: These are good recommendation for shows to watch those Somebody
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  Speaker 2: Somewhere on HBO. I love Somebody Somewhere on HBO.
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  Speaker 1: It would be really hard to talk about, Oh I
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  Speaker 1: don't I think maybe I've seen like the first or
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: second episode.
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  Speaker 2: It's about a queer community in Kansas that has an
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  Speaker 2: ensemble cast, and it's like nothing you've seen. You'll smile
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  Speaker 2: a lot. This could be a Hallmark movie in a
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  Speaker 2: we're accepting world. I think that's that's right. It does
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  Speaker 2: have a hallmark vibe. I bristle a little bit because
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: this is a show that sometimes when people are like
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  Speaker 2: I need like a are looking for shows that are
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  Speaker 2: easy to watch. And season one of the show does
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  Speaker 2: deal with the not pop culture club, but anyway, it
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: does deal with some heavier things and for me, I
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  Speaker 2: still cannot find the words. But it's not a show
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  Speaker 2: that is oh lighthearted, it's not like in some ways
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: it is, but it also like she's dealing with like
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: a parent, dealing with addiction, and there's there's some things
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: going on and it could be triggering for some people. Anyway,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: this is a lovely show. I don't know how I
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: would talk about it because not much happens. It's that
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: kind of show. Yeah, but it is a really lovely show.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: She said, do you consider theatrical releases? I have an
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Oldie Win a date with Tad Hamilton pure Hallmark tofer
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Grace and Jennifer Goodwin should be on Hallmark. I can't
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: explain why I like this movie. Those are all good
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: shows and movies. I would consider a theatrical release. I
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: think in terms of getting people to listen, that would
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: need to be a current theatrical release. Yeah, although I
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: do think it's easier to get people to watch an
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: old movie than it is to get them to watch
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: an entire.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Series if there's if there's access to it.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Correct, Yeah, of course, yeah streaming.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Would you like to hear a voicemail?
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Sure, we have a voicemail from Kathleen.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Hi, lady, my name is Kathleen are the I'm from
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: New Trichy and I want to let you know that
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: I love your podcast.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Found the Guys a couple of years ago.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: I had been the dyke of homework a year and
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: hurt the guy put them and I'm glad that you're
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: a part of the Brambletam family. Now you, lady, give
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: a different take than the dicta homework guy. I love
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: listening to both of you then, and I love listening
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: to all the different takes into a great job. I say,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Loundes Repple theory and I'm a field glader covering it
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: because they're not, so this is wonderful. I just wanted
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: to draw the connection.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: I watched them theory.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: I wanted to draw the connection that Aria drops that
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: rock in the first.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Episode which hits me on the head, and.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: That's what actually brings him to the hospital and how
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: he gets his cancer diagnosis. The Aria really it's responsible
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: for him finding out about the camp and also later
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: should need the terring and then it ends up with
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: hig mom and to give this to Claire act and
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: player fells that ring to get the money or he
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: kip with stement Aria and very much a part of
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Nate Bright. I just wanted to draw that connection. I
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: think it's important. I love live thing to you. I
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: mean that always agreeing, but I love listening take care. Yeah.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I think that's what we love about Ripple is all
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: those connections that you can draw and looking back and
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: seeing in some ways how these stories come full circle.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: And what's interesting about the Aria and Nate one is
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: they don't seem to be the most connected on the show, right,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Like they don't have They have affection for each other,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: but they don't have a particularly close relationship the way
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: some like Ellis and Walter or Walter and Tara right,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Nate and Chris right. But Aria has such a key
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: piece of Nate's story.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's a great show.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, you don't need to listen to all eight
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: of our recaps, but I would recommend giving that show
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: a watch.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I really hope they get a season two. We had
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: a messaged one of the EPs on it via Instagram,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: like any word, and she just was like, not yet,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: fingers crosses. So I hope. I hope me too. Our
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: next email is from Ginny and it's regarding the recent
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: movie Missing the Boat. She starts out by saying, thank
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: you so much for your shout out to Minnesota. I
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: got to tell Mark plus you kind of brighten the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: very difficult time we are living in and not only
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: did I find your podcast, but found your support. You
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: have no idea how much that means. Can we stop
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: there for a second?
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Sure?
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Should we address some things here?
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Sure we have made no secret of who we are,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: how we think, the kind of content we want to consume,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: the kind of people we want to be. We understand
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: that the podcast, both the content that we talk about
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: and the podcast itself, is very escapist, and we're happy
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: to be that, and every once in a while it's
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: kind of important for us to just remind people who
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: we are. I also think that there are plenty of
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: places for you to consume content. There are some people
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: who would prefer that the creators that they follow not
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: let pieces of themselves come through in that content, and
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: you can feel that way. But I also think when
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: we live in this world where we've so much of
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: the content that we consume is free via social media
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: or podcasts or whatever it may be, you know, you
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: have the choice to consume the content that you want
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: to consume, and those creators have the choice to make
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: those statements. It's important for us, I think, for our
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: listeners to know who the people behind this podcast are.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: While ninety nine percent of the time. We want this
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: just to be fun and escapists and talking about Luke
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: MacFarland taking his shirt off. I agree one hundred yes,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: that's where I stand too, Like that's I love having
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: a business partner that you and I are on the
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: same page about.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: That's this kind of stuff. If we would have recorded
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: this yesterday, I think I would have been like, real hot.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: We talked about our Facebook group all the time.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: We have worked really hard to curate a group over
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: there that is a place where come have all.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: The opinions you want about Hallmark movies.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: But there are certain types of speech that we're not
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: going to tolerate, and we've made it very clear. And
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: there are plenty of groups on the Internet that will
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: let you speak in horrible ways about other humans, and
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: we're not one of them. And so we actually had
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: an incident yesterday as we're recording this, and I part
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: of me wanted to come in real hot and fire
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: off all the reasons why this wasn't gonna work, and
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: the other party was like, no, that's just not the
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: group we are, and so you're no longer in the
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: group the end, and we've made we don't need to
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: continue to make the statement over and over again to
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: people who aren't interested in hearing.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly, nicely, said Megan.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: I hope let's hear from Jenny Simore.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: She goes on to say, I just watch Missing the
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Boat some of my notes dot dot dot two age
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: appropriate romances, followed by three exclamation points. Love that. I
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: love watching Christopher Balaha. He's a very fun actor to
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: watch with his timing and subtle nuances and facial expressions,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: the scenery. Talk about klgon take me away. I agree.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I wish we could have like a girl's gone homework
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: get away to southern Italy, even imagine the dream. She writes,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I've been to Italy twice, but next time I have
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: a new place to visit. But why, why, why didn't
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: they put some weights in the hem of that poor
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: woman's dress at the end of the movie. Is this
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: a digit see that I did not recognize?
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: It?
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Was it blowing up?
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: It was like a balloon and I totally noticed it,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: and I didn't put it in my digity that I
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: feel like that's romantic. It wasn't really blowing in the wind.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: It was just like a big like blue gotcha look
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: she's adorable. It's fine, but uh it was. It was
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: distracting in a sweet moment. I love her comment. It's
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: such an easy costume fix. It's what the Royals do.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I don't get it. They put like weights in the
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: hem of their dresses.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: So like in real life, so they don't blow up.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Oh I hate.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Dress isn't blown up around her knees.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Oh that's so interesting. I didn't know that.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: She also goes out to say, I want a Cornett
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: and a gelato right now.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: I just want to go to Italy.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Should I switch to Italian du a lingo?
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Ooh? I like that idea.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Also, I've been diving into a lot of Hallmark movies.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Why does everyone have to have a dead parent? Can't
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: there be a substantial person and make a connection with
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: someone without the pity?
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Just an observation, it's a good one.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Jitny.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Is Ginny a new Hallmark?
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: She just got Hallmark Plus. Well, welcome to the world
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: of tropes over on Hallmark. Just getting started, Ginny. Yeah,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I mean the dead parent is a recurring theme.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Lucky for you, we have over five hundred reviews for
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: you to dive into as you watch along.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: What's the matter. I don't know what a cornet is. Oh.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: A cornet is a traditional starched white head dress.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: No.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Cornetto is the quintessential Italian breakfast pastry and popular snack,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: often described as the Italian cousin to the French croissant.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Got it okay?
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Also, I said croissant with a fake French accent the
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: day and my daughter was like, don't do that.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Do a lingo, baby. I was like, I'm sorry, didn't
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: I embarrass you. It's called the croissant. She got mad,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: you know, she got mad girl and teenagers they know better.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: She's so much smarter than me. Of course, all that
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: life experience.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: You go upstairs and close her door behind her teenagers
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: are funny. I just want to add here, if you're listening,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: we have an interview with one mister Palaha coming next week,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: coming up. We spent at almost two hours with him today. Man,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: he gave some truths in this interview. Yeah, some things
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: are stuck with me. Yeah.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Our business model for twenty twenty six came out of
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: this interview.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Crossed it to a needle, point that on
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: a pillow or on it, put it in a frame.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Do I need to go to Newport needle Point, and
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: you know all the supplies kick my supplies.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe will they custom paint a canvas for me?
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure there's a diy out there to
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: how to do it yourself. I want to do it.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I want to needle point at myself, but
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I don't want to do the canvas myself. Have the
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: computer do it for you. The computer guys, somebody on Etsy,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I'm sure will do it for you.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I look all TikTok serves me up needle point content
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: all day long. It's a as you know, because I
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: know you bought needle Point for a gift. It's a
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: very expensive hobby, super expensive.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I'm like, how is this project one hundred dollars?
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: I know, I know, I don't like people are spending
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: a fortune, but I kind of want to try one.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: They just need like a small one to test it
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: out totally. You want to go to Newport needle Point
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: with me? I do?
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Okay, Mackie, She's part of the Megan and Wendy media
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: team these days, y'all. She emailed us regarding missing the boat.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: She says, Hi, Megan and Wendy in line with your
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: recent discussion about the waterfall in your review of Missing
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: the Boat. Christopher mentioned this in an interview on Homer,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Mysteries and.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: More that it was indeed fake.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Mackiw's the best. She sent an actual timestamp to the interview.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: I went and watched it and Chris is talking to
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Eric and he goes, yeah, I don't know, could you
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: tell it was fake? And I thought it was really
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: funny because you and I both called it out in
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: our Yeah. Eric was so nice about it.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: In the interview, but yeah, we could help.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it didn't take away from the movie for no,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: not at all. Well, let's wrap it up with this
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: final Instagram message. This is from Instagram follower Melissa, who says,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: since you guys are doing series and non Hallmark stuff,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: it would be fun to hear your thoughts on Heated
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Rivalry if you have HBO Max I. I have not
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: watched that show. I've watched like the first ten minutes,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: but it say show you need to watch when you're
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: home alone, not when you're like teenage children are walking
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: through the room. In my opinion, it's real sexy, guys. Yeah,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: I'm just not sure how much like bang In conversation
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: we can have here on Girls Cone Hallmark.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, did you hear how tongue ted I am right
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: now just the thought of it.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: I'm interested in watching it and like I'm so about
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: the cult following it has developed.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Like that's very exciting. What else can we add to
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the conversation about it. I don't know.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: I think that's true, Like I think there are heated
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: driverry podcasts out there that are doing the work better
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: than we would.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: But keep your suggestions coming.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: I know, I feel like we shot down a lot
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: of people. It's you gotta really thread the needle with
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: the content we're trying to figure out here. But I yes,
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: thank you for your suggestions. Definitely, thank you for all
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: of your input on this Listener Mailbag episode. Thank you
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: for going along with us on this ride this week.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: We will be back next week with a whole new
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: slate of Hallmark reviews and interviews.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: We'll see you next time. Goodbye bye.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: All right, friends, before we go, just a quick heads up,
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