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3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1 Ghost · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 4: What's a two star? What's a three star? Beyond a rubric? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to do that, Okay, just pure vibes.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan,
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  Speaker 2: a longtime Hallmark movie fan.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Wendy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm your Hallmark no former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh. Today we're discussing three bed, two bath, one Ghost,
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  Speaker 2: which originally aired on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday, October seventh. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: can find us at Girls Gone Hallmark and Megan and Wendy.
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  Speaker 3: Come join Andrew Walker in our Facebook group. Hey, just joking.
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  Speaker 3: You know, people pretend they're these Hallmark stars, right. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if they're bots or what the situation.
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  Speaker 2: Fan accounts we have like seven Tyler Hines following us
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  Speaker 2: on TikTok.
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  Speaker 3: It's so funny anyway, Andrew Walker and I say that
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  Speaker 3: in quote requested to join our Girls Gone Hallmark Hallmark
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  Speaker 3: Facebook group.
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  Speaker 4: We denied him.
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  Speaker 3: But what was funny? What was funny is I shared
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  Speaker 3: something about it on Instagram yesterday and Andrew Walker himself
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  Speaker 3: laughed at it. He sent a little laugh emoji, so
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  Speaker 3: I love it. I thought that was funny. Anyway, we're
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  Speaker 3: Girls Gone Hallmark in Facebook groups.
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  Speaker 4: Come give us a join.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the fake account is such a problem that
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark at some point earlier this year put out a
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  Speaker 2: list of the official social media presences of all of
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  Speaker 2: their stars. Smart because I think some of these accounts
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  Speaker 2: are nefarious.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and I think their demographic could be easily targeted.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you know what I mean. Wink wink, nudge nudge.
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  Speaker 2: Not doing that people, Yeah, don't anyway, don't take advantage.
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  Speaker 2: Don't talk to.
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  Speaker 3: People in the dms if you think it's Tyler Hines,
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  Speaker 3: because it's not.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk some Hallmark news.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I have a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: TMZ reported that the Queen of Christmas, Lacey Shabert, recently
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  Speaker 3: reunited with Mean Girl co star Lindsay Lohan and Amanda
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  Speaker 3: Seafred to film a pepsi ad.
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  Speaker 2: That's fun.
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  Speaker 3: Me thinks it might be a super Bowl ad.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, do you think that's excellent thinking?
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  Speaker 4: Hmm, yeah, kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I'd get excited about that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, me too. I don't know why.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I like that movie, but I mean it
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  Speaker 3: has such cult status.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have these Super Bowl commercials. I'm like, I don't
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  Speaker 2: understand the reference. Like sometimes there are real niche nods
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  Speaker 2: to some like pop culture moment that I don't always understand.
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  Speaker 2: So that one I would, I would get it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a balm to my gen X heart.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I hear you.
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  Speaker 2: So we famously do not watch One Calls the Heart,
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  Speaker 2: mostly because we're so many seasons in at this point
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  Speaker 2: and our Hallmark plate is full. But we would be
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  Speaker 2: remiss in not discussing the current drama on that show.
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  Speaker 2: I cannot guarantee that the next two minutes will not
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  Speaker 2: contain spoilers, so tap ahead if you you have not
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  Speaker 2: watched this week's episode and you want to remain pure
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  Speaker 2: of heart in that way. But a little backstory. Aaron
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  Speaker 2: Craco plays Elizabeth on One Cause the Heart, and she's
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  Speaker 2: in the bit of a love triangle between her fiancee
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  Speaker 2: Lucas who's played by Chris McNally, and Mounty Nathan played
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  Speaker 2: by Kevin McGarry. Now I don't know if she and
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  Speaker 2: the MOUNTI ever had a relationship or if they just
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  Speaker 2: have these unrequited feelings. I don't actually know any of that,
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  Speaker 2: But there's a love triangle and she is engaged. And
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  Speaker 2: on this week's episode, Lucas Chris McNally, he's been like
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  Speaker 2: politically inclined and had an opportunity that she encouraged him
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  Speaker 2: to take, but ultimately was going to take him out
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  Speaker 2: of the town of Hope Valley and away from her,
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  Speaker 2: because she's not interested in leaving Hope Valley, because that's
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  Speaker 2: the whole center of the show, the heart of it,
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  Speaker 2: so to speak, and in her encouraging him to leave
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  Speaker 2: their relationship is effectively over. Now there is one more
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  Speaker 2: episode in this season, so who knows what's going to
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  Speaker 2: on happened, but the uproar was a wild I saw
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  Speaker 2: a post on Twitter of people saying they would never
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  Speaker 2: watch Hallmark again. I saw people saying they were deleting
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  Speaker 2: their fan accounts, like they have these Twitter accounts that
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  Speaker 2: are dedicated to when calls the Heart and one calls
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  Speaker 2: the Heart only, and they were deactivating those accounts. I
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  Speaker 2: am trying to think of a time when I've been
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  Speaker 2: so invested in a show where I said I will
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  Speaker 2: never watch this again because I feel victimized by the storyline.
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  Speaker 2: I know my husband stopped watching Craye Anatomy when they
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  Speaker 2: killed off Derek spoiler alert from twenty ten. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: did Georgia Mallley double seven surprise death storyline is one
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  Speaker 2: of the tragedies that will live with many elder millennials
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  Speaker 2: and Gen xers our entire lives. But I thought it
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  Speaker 2: was wild, So I did a little bit of an
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  Speaker 2: Instagram stories poll last night. As of this morning, it
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  Speaker 2: is sixty percent Team Nathan the mounty forty percent Team Lucas.
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  Speaker 2: We did get a couple of messages saying I am
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  Speaker 2: so tired of this love triangle. And then in response
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  Speaker 2: to this poll, another listener and friend of the show,
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  Speaker 2: who I will allow to remain anonymous at this moment, said,
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  Speaker 2: you need to ask what people think of Elizabeth, which
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  Speaker 2: I thought they're some hot intel right, like are people
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  Speaker 2: over her? So it just a little slider. The average
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  Speaker 2: answer is like they're giving her like a sixty percent.
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  Speaker 2: They're not a single person has slid all the way
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  Speaker 2: to the right. There have been several giving her like
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  Speaker 2: a zero, like no slide at all.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, So.
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  Speaker 2: There people feel strongly about one calls the heart.
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  Speaker 3: Answer me this what are they pissed off about? Are
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  Speaker 3: they pissed off about the way the story's going or
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  Speaker 3: not going? Are they unhappy about McNally.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe leave the series?
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  Speaker 2: Or I think all of the above. Maybe they believe
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  Speaker 2: that it's not true to what the characters, what they
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  Speaker 2: believe they would do or should do, is Chris McNally leaving.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, there are clickbaity articles asking that question. There's
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  Speaker 2: no definitive answer. It's not like we know he's being
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  Speaker 2: written off the show or he wants to leave. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't think anybody knows for sure. What's gonna happen
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  Speaker 2: next week? Could we see a reversal? We don't know,
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  Speaker 2: but the Hallmark world is a buzz well.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry to miss it. Yes, we can't.
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  Speaker 2: We'll never understand for ourselves. But if you have strong
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  Speaker 2: feelings about when Calls the Heart and this particular love triangle,
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  Speaker 2: please send us an email Megan and Wendy at gmail
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  Speaker 2: dot com.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, all right, I have two more little news and notes, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: ma'am Brant dotty.
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  Speaker 4: Mm hmm, did I say it right?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's doughtree Ugh Brant.
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  Speaker 3: Gattrey and now that he and his wife Kimberly are
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  Speaker 3: expecting a second baby in early twenty twenty four, he
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  Speaker 3: will be next scene in this year's hardest to pronounce
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  Speaker 3: movie title Juad Noel Good Job on October twenty ninth.
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  Speaker 4: That's wild to me.
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  Speaker 2: I know these movies start October twentieth, but there's such
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  Speaker 2: a disconnect to me talking about Christmas movies in October.
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  Speaker 3: Still all these years in yeah, yeah, speaking of Christmas movies,
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  Speaker 3: there's the posters for these movies are starting, yes to emerge.
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  Speaker 3: Have you seen any that like Tickle Your Fancy?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the movie that features Jonathan Bennett. I hate the poster.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm so excited for the movie. The cast
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  Speaker 2: is killer. I hate the poster.
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  Speaker 3: You don't like the pose down the stairs.
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  Speaker 2: I know in my heart the movie will be far
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  Speaker 2: better than the poster leads me to believe. But if
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  Speaker 2: I were to judge a book by its cover and
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know any of those actors, I would skip it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, Now I'm not judging it by the cover.
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  Speaker 2: I know every single one of those actors, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, Wow, what about you.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't seen anything that has stood out. I will
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  Speaker 3: note that while I was watching this movie over the weekend,
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  Speaker 3: because I watched it live, Hallmark going in hard on
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  Speaker 3: a countdown to Christmas commercials?
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  Speaker 4: Right now?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, like that candy shop commercial?
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  Speaker 4: What candy shop commercial?
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  Speaker 2: The one with Nicki Deloache.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I've seen that one. You haven't seen
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  Speaker 4: that promo.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a it's a countdown to Christmas overall promo.
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  Speaker 2: It's not for anyone's particular movie. And I fast forwarded
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  Speaker 2: through it and we were watching it. My husband was,
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  Speaker 2: what are you doing skipping our Christmas commercials? And I
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  Speaker 2: was like, I've seen it eight hundred times at this point,
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  Speaker 2: do you need to see I mean, Nicky Diloch could
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  Speaker 2: not be cuter, But do you need to see again?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Interesting? Maybe I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: All I recall is Tyler Hines giving like a cheers
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  Speaker 3: from his movie Chris.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen that one.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Just like my body has like this like reaction though,
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  Speaker 3: and like the jingle bells are I'm not ready, it's
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  Speaker 3: too early.
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  Speaker 4: I'm freaking out a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you, I hear you. If you look
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  Speaker 2: at the Countdown to Christmas app, if you use that app,
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  Speaker 2: A shocking number of movies have images at this point
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  Speaker 2: in the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah that's interesting. Yeah, it's like stock image.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and there are, to be fair a fair number
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  Speaker 2: of these the where are you Christmas? Where Lindsay van
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  Speaker 2: Seka is in black and white?
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  Speaker 4: Have you seen it? I've seen it. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like they're just doing a little bit more.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna put a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of them on our Instagram stories and.
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  Speaker 3: Have people vote and see what it feels slighter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: coming soon, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Coming soon.
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  Speaker 4: Are you Ready to talk? Three Bet two Bath one Ghosts.
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  Speaker 3: I am synopsis first, right, Yeah, okay. A nineteen twenties
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  Speaker 3: ghost refuses to leave real estate agent Anna's new listed
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  Speaker 3: home worse.
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  Speaker 4: The spirit is.
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  Speaker 3: Convinced she cannot pass over until she gets Anna back
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  Speaker 3: together with her.
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  Speaker 2: Ex starring Julie Gonzalo, who plays Anna Jenkins. She recently
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  Speaker 2: appeared in a Girl's Gone Hallmark review of Pumpkin Pie Wars,
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  Speaker 2: in which we were a House Divided. She also appeared,
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  Speaker 2: among other things, in a movie called The Sweetest Heart
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  Speaker 2: alongside her now partner and co star in this movie
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  Speaker 2: one Chris McNally, Now, ray, I know there.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I know they're a real life couple.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they are married, that is my understanding
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  Speaker 2: as well. And if they are, it's not public knowledge.
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  Speaker 3: Right, They're like super private and they had a baby
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  Speaker 3: last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exciting.
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  Speaker 3: Chris McNally plays Elliott. Chris is known for his role
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  Speaker 3: as Lucas on Wind Calls the Heart. We obviously talked
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  Speaker 3: about him earlier. He has forty acting credits outside of Hallmark.
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  Speaker 3: He was seen in Greece, Rise of the Pink Ladies
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  Speaker 3: and Firefly Lane both.
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  Speaker 4: From twenty twenty three. Hey you didn't know that, did you?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't me neither. Madeline Arthur plays Ruby. She was
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  Speaker 2: also in the To All the Boys I've Loved Before trilogy,
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  Speaker 2: and this was one of those moments when someone appears
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  Speaker 2: on screen and you cannot go on until you know
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  Speaker 2: what you know their face from. And this is such
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  Speaker 2: a testament to the hair and makeup and costuming department
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  Speaker 2: because I never would have made the jump to her
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  Speaker 2: as Chris from the To All the Boys I've Loved
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  Speaker 2: Before series, But she's delightful on screen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't know she was in that trilogy of movies.
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  Speaker 3: I knew she played May and Devil in Ohio, which
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  Speaker 3: is a Netflix show.
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  Speaker 4: I think.
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  Speaker 3: She was also in that series you liked called Blockbuster.
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  Speaker 2: I did not enjoy that series.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I'm sorry that series you watched called Blockbuster.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to like it because I love a soothing sitcom.
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 2: I watched the first couple of episodes. I couldn't finish it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to love it.
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  Speaker 4: Did not.
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  Speaker 3: The story is by Greg Rosson and Brian Sawyer. The
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  Speaker 3: teleplay was written by both Greg ross and Brian.
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  Speaker 2: Sawyer and Juwa Botkin, Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 3: Greg Rossen has written a ton of Homemark movies, including
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  Speaker 3: recently The Professional Bridesmaid, The Winter Palace, The Santa Steakout,
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  Speaker 3: and so many more. In fact, his IMDb reads like
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  Speaker 3: he's only written Hallmark movies.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I did a little bit of a deep dive
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  Speaker 2: because Greg ross and Brian Sawyer are co writers and
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  Speaker 2: they share thirty eight writing credits. Brian Sawyer has exactly
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  Speaker 2: one writing credit not shared by Greg, which is text
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  Speaker 2: The Passive Aggressive Gunslinger, and these do endod a lot
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  Speaker 2: of Hallmark.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so interesting to me. Juwa Botchan one of
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  Speaker 3: our favorite Homewark writers. Oh, she's one of my favorite
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  Speaker 3: Homewark writers. I don't want to speak for you, but
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  Speaker 3: her next Hallmark film is that Tyler Hines movie Never
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  Speaker 3: Been Christed.
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  Speaker 2: This was directed by Kevin Fair, who has forty two
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  Speaker 2: directing credits tons of Hallmark including Girls Gone Hallmark, Fave
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  Speaker 2: Taken a Shot at Love.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Man, that's from the early days, early days for us. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: this movie was filmed from June twelfth to June thirtieth
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three. The Rural Estate used is known
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  Speaker 3: as copper Stone Manchan. It's located in Langley. Other television
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  Speaker 3: shows like Riverdale, Bates Motel, Supernatural have all used this
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  Speaker 3: property film. Yeah, it's a real house.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed, as of the recording of this episode, this movie
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  Speaker 2: has a seven point four out of ten rating on IMDb,
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  Speaker 2: which is an incredibly high rating for a Hallmark movie.
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  Speaker 2: If it can break into the sevens, that's a great
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  Speaker 2: rating in the Hallmark world.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that's because this was unlike many other
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  Speaker 3: Hallmark movies.
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  Speaker 2: I think yes, the departure from form. I also think
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  Speaker 2: that it is one of the I would call this
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  Speaker 2: like new Hallmark, right, Like this is current day, moving
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  Speaker 2: forward Hallmark, but without the hot button issues that some
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  Speaker 2: of the trolls come out against.
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  Speaker 3: Mmm.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting, So it managed to be like forward thinking but cautiously.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, yes, let's talk first impressions. My first impression
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  Speaker 2: is this ghost breaks all the ghost rules.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, gonna have to hear more about that. Okay, mine
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  Speaker 3: was this is nothing like I imagined it would be.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I was expecting like a ghosty hyjiinks.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: There were some ghosty hygienks some, but it didn't rely
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  Speaker 2: heavily on it. So anyway, we'll talk more about that.
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  Speaker 3: All right, What did you like? Well, okay, we'll just
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  Speaker 3: get right into it. I was truly expecting something else,
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, Ghost and Hyjinks.
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  Speaker 2: Don't watch the CBS series Ghosts lots of that. It's
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  Speaker 2: a great adaptation, but you'd.
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  Speaker 3: Hate it, you know, like Hyjinks is like my nemesis.
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  Speaker 4: Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: What's the Superman Kryptonite?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but what we got was a really lovely story
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  Speaker 3: about friendship and two women helping each other.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was great.
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  Speaker 2: I agree this movie. I have to say the title
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  Speaker 2: of this movie made me nervous, like I was just
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  Speaker 2: worried that it was gonna be silly, maybe a throwaway
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  Speaker 2: wedged in right before countdown to Christmas. It's, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: one of the best movies of the year, maybe the best.
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  Speaker 2: I need to look back over what we've seen. I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was fantastic, particularly the two female leads. Look,
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  Speaker 2: Julie Goanzale can act circles around all of her co
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  Speaker 2: stars in every movie she's in. But Madeline Arthur. My
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  Speaker 2: notes say, Madeline Arthur, Madeline Arthur. Madeline Arthur is such
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  Speaker 2: a star in this movie as Ruby. I loved her
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  Speaker 2: so much.
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  Speaker 4: I agree.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, I think she might be one and done for
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  Speaker 3: homework to think she was like two type cast. No,
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  Speaker 3: I just think like she's on the I don't think
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  Speaker 3: like Hallmark is going to be her playground.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a good point, I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean, which is unfortunate because I remember there was another Gallon.
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember her name, but she was in one
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  Speaker 3: of the Wedding Bil movies and I thought she was
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  Speaker 3: such a standout too, And haven't seen her in anything
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: else either. You know, I just feel like some of
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: these actors who may just be taking a job because
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: they need a job, but really outshine.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Right, Like Hallmark had those waivers so they were able
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: to take this job.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know. She was great though,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: she's great.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: She's great. I really like the other cast too.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: I thought Chris McNally was great. I don't think i've
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: ever I can't recall a movie i've watched him in.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Well, we did watch The Sweetest Heart over the weekend
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: because it came on right after this movie and we
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: were out of town. So what do you do when
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: you don't have all your apps. You watch live TV.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I did not watch the whole thing, but I enjoy
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: him on screen. And I do believe that's the movie
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: in which these two actors met.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Oh they were both in that movie.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: They were in that movie together.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Yes, Oh that's nice.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I enjoyed him on screen. I can see why
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: people are drawn to him, and one calls the heart
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: you know who.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: I didn't like in this movie though, and I'm just
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: gonna throw it here. I did not care for the
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: dad character or the other Metaline Terence day agent Terrence.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: I just like, get out of here with your like
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: toxic masculinity.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Terrence sucks, and he's supposed to suck. I'm not
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: sure the dad's supposed to suck and he does. Anyway,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: he does suck.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: It's the way he treats his daughter.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: To me, like he's like, oh, like he's very dismissive
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: of her and then like gives her this big.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Job and then takes it away because she can't handle it.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: But like, based on what he's wanting her to fail,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: it feels like he basically has decided that she doesn't
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: have it to do this job. Yes, he wants her
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: to prove herself to him, but already in the back
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: of his mind is thinking, Eh, it's not really gonna work,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Like I'm gonna have to swoop in, and I've got
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Terence on the.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Back burner if you can't hack it.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just hated that and Terence. Like the whole
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: scene where oh, it was such a cute scene where
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: she's like dancing, she's dancing with Ruby. Obviously Terrence doesn't
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: see Ruby and he like films her with his phone.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: He's like, oh, she's nuts or whatever. I was like,
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: because a girl can't dance alone in a room.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, she's having a good time.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Stop that, which just I hated the two other dudes.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: And sure, and there are some moments like when she's
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: having a conversation with the ghost in a restaurant that
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: might strike you as odd, but dancing no.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: The writing was really fresh in the movie. And it's
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: no surprise to me that Joabatkin was a writer on
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: this movie. We've pointed out before she's known for writing
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: complicated relationships and this is absolutely true to form. I
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: loved lines like women can be whatever they want, like
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: president of the United States, not that yet.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: I just loved it.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: I have another favorite line, Okay, can I share it.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: It's when Anna asks Ruby to go on a drive
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: to see the twenty twenties and Ruby says, as long
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: as it's wait, let me say, as long as it's
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: still a joyous era of pac dance Hall celebrating national
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: unity and drinking from a collective punch bowl.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: And Anna makes this face like, Okay, I just thought
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: it was so funny. I agree.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: I loved the nineteen twenties party scene at the beginning
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: of the movie.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, especially the dancing.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: And the music. I just loved it. I was wondering
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: if there were like a choreographer that worked on this
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: who helped do those dance scenes, or if that was
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: something that they like just did on the fly or what.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Well, speaking of the dancing, my husband has a Christmas book.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: It's like a picture a gas station with a boutique,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm talking about, with like you would
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: find it there and it's got like fun facts about
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Christmas through the years, and apparently in nineteen twenty three,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: according to this gas station boutique Christmas book, that is
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: the origin of the Charleston in nineteen twenty three and
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: kind of launched like the flapper dancing craze. Oh and
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: so as it starts, he goes, oh, yeah, this in
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: the back of his mind, I wonder if this is
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: to celebrate thee hundredth anniversary of the Charleston and then
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: they kind of it's from this it's set in nineteen
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: twenty three. I just thought it was so funny that
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: there was that tie in there. Yeah, and on another note,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: I mentioned this ghost breaks the rules. Look, ghosts classical
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: are stuck in the clothing in which they died in Okay, Yeah,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: she can change her clothes. She can also manipulate physical objects,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: which I find wild. I'm willing to let all of
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: that go because I think it makes the movie more
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: interesting to have her constantly like fresh faced and in
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: a new outfit and putting makeup on Julie Gonzala, which
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: doesn't make any sense because she's a ghost who can
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: touch things but not people. Anyway, I love that scene,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: by the way, I did too, and I loved her
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: many many outfits, and I think it adds to the
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: movie to just let nebulous ghost rules go.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because who made those rules, right? I don't know
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: who says a ghost can't move something correct. I love
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: that scene where she's putting the makeup on her. There
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: was something so tender about it. I just I just
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: thought it was so sweet. One more scene I really
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: liked was the slow dance between Anna and Elliot, and
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: I really felt the chemistry between them.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Obviously they're a real life.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Couple, but I was quite moved by Elliott's like reluctance
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: to like go there again with Anna?
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Ah so good?
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Do you think it works in their favor that they're
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: playing a couple that has history as opposed to a
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: couple meeting and falling in love.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: That's an interesting question because can we moved on to
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: wish to Yeah, I kind of wish that they weren't
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: ex fiancees.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Oh you wanted them to be like new love?
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: I can't pinpoint why exactly other than like, I don't
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: believe this because ex fiances feels very messy, you know
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: what I mean? And they did have some baggage, but
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: it was a little unclear of like what exactly happened,
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: and so I think maybe it would have been better if,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: like they had just met, like maybe she hired him
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: to work on the house or something. Like that, but
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: then that changes the whole.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Trajectory of the story.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree that it didn't seem like there was
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: some big blow up that ended their relationship. I almost
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: believed it more, though, because I think that's real that
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: relationships when they're not being nurtured fall apart. And it
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: seemed like they had a conversation where she apologized for
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: not really putting in the effort that was needed, and
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: he later does too. I think that I don't know,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: it felt real to me that that could happen, that
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: these two people weren't really on the same page because
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: they were just living life and not really focused on
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: each other's needs.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: But do you think they accomplished that by the end
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: of the movie.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: It's so hard because if they had just to me,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: the better relationship in this movie is, of course Anna
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: and Ruby. I'm more interesting in that friendship. So the
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: idea of them just having met and maybe starting a romance,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: in my mind, I'm like, uh, they don't need to
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: fall in love over the course of the two weeks
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: in order to get this house ready for the open house.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: On the other hand, the bigger relationship is Anna and Ruby,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: so maybe it's Okay, if we have, I would be
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: okay with that love story.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, their relationship was secondary to me.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Though I agree. I agree.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: So I don't have a lot of wishes for this movie,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: but I have a tangentially related wish. I've mentioned this
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: movie before. It is called The Spirit of Christmas. It
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: stars Jen Lily. It is about an old house that
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: she I'm fuzzy on the details. It's been several years,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: but she has to get this house ready to sell
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: and it is also haunted.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Of course she falls in love with this ghost. And
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: my wish is for either you to watch it on
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: your own or for us to consider our future review
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: of this movie post holiday season because our schedule is packed,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: because I think we really need to talk about this movie. Well,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: it's a classic.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: There's so many there's so many problems with just the
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: synopsis of it.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: How do you fall in love with a ghost?
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Like? What kind of future do you?
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Well, that's how the movie ends.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: That's the wild part.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: I kind of understand, Like the friendship between Anna and Ruby, Yes,
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: like she's trying to get her to pass on.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Yes, you know what I mean?
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: So yes, of course, this movie is significantly better. I'm
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: not suggesting the Spirit of Christmas is in any way
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: a better movie. I'm saying you simply it's from twenty
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: fifteen starring Jen Lily. That's all you need to know.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: I mean her Cold Storm that was so hot. Oh, like,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen him in anything else.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm open to it sometime in the new year. Yes,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: I have one more wish. Yes, I needed more backstory, like,
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: for example, why did Anna and Elliott dissolve their business?
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: What was their business? Why did they call off their engagement?
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Ruby daed in a car crash on her twenty fifth birthday?
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: How was she chasing after Charlie? Why didn't Why didn't
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Anna's dad like Elliott? Like, I need a lot of
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: questions answered.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: I agree with all of that. And the Ruby storyline
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: with Charlie was so unclear to me because obviously you
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: see him arrive at her party, she sends him away
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: because of all the expectations of her family, and then
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: when you come to find out that they were engaged,
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: but hm, she sends him away but her family doesn't approve.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: I do feel like we could have gotten more out
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: of this movie.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: I think so too, especially with some of those little details.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, and maybe some like I didn't need quite as
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: much like Mantle repair scenes because something had to go. Also,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: just cut the dad out, completely cut that the dad
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: didn't even be there, that you could completely cut him out.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: I agree.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Sorry, Xavier's hotello, I apologize.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: Agree.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Do you have any did you see that? I only
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: have one.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: I'd like to talk about something, okay, and that is
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: the continued insistence on the part of Hallmark that men
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: age differently than women. Julie Cazallo is forty two m
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: The actor who plays her father, Xavier Sotello, is fifty
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: eight years old. Oh jeez, it's too much people.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: So you would prefer if they cast a more age
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: appropriate actor.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Someone in their sixties. Yes, that really bugs you, huh.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Always the second he came on the screen, I was like, well,
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: I'm looking this up.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: You're like, that guy's not old enough hit me with her?
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Did you see that? Okay?
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Anna arrives at the house and she sees Ruby dress up.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: This is where Ruby comments on Anna's less than fashionable outfit.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Do you remember the scene? Like, because Anna comes in,
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: She's like, oh you changed, and then Ruby's like this
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: is fashion or she says something like that, and then
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: she like, dis is whatever Anna's wearing. The next scene,
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: we see Anna is waxing the floors. This is before
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: the whole like feathers on the.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: Floor, uh huh.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: And Anna is wearing jeans and a T shirt. But
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: it's the same day because Ruby is still on her
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: same outfit. But then in the following scene, Anna's back
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: in her original outfit that Ruby made fun of. So
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: I just think like some scenes were out of sequence.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Films out of order.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: Yeeah. Yeah.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: But I thought Anna's outfits were real cute, like her
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: knee high black boots really darling, with her little skirts
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: so cute, yes, and then with her like jeans and
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: black shirt, with her cute little jacket and her tennis shoes.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: It was very much something I would wear, so I
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: very much liked it.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: I thought it was so funny when Ruby did her hair,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: She's like, there looks so much better. I'm like it,
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: you put a clip in it. It looks the same.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: You put a clip.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: What did you rate?
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: I gave this movie four stars.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Four point two five stars, rate two five.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: That's a new rating.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: It was almost at four and a half almost it
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: was great.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: What what what you said?
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: I'm all tingue tied.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: You said you thought this was maybe the best movie
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: of the year.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: The rating system is meaningless.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: It truly is.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: I feel like it's a four star. Yes, there's no
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: actual math involved here. Maybe one day, I maybe in
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, I will keep a note with all
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: of the ratings of all the movies, because what I
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: never do is think, oh, well I rated that movie
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: four stars, but this was so much better than that.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, maybe we should like designate, like what is
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: a one star.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: What's a two star? What's a three star? Beyond a rubric?
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Yes, I don't want to do that, Okay, just Pure Vibes.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: You can talk me into it. I don't want to
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: shoot your idea down.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: I'll consider this. Ratings are done on Pure Vibe.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 32:15
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• 32:19
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• 32:26
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• 32:29
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• 32:33
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• 32:37
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• 32:40
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• 32:43
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• 32:46
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• 32:50
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• 32:53
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