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Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, A Hallmark of You Podcast.
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Speaker 1: I'm Megan, and oh I messed up. Welcome to Girls
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Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark of You Podcast. I'm Megan and
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Speaker 1: I'm a longtime Homemark movie fan. I'm Wendy and I'm
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Speaker 1: a reformed Homewark movie fan. That's not the line. Sorry,
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Speaker 1: go ahead, Ken, Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, A Hallmark
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Speaker 1: of You Podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime Homemark
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Speaker 1: movie fan. And I'm Wendy and I'm a reformed Hallmark hater.
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Speaker 1: I wrote it in the notes for you. I know,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I remembered it, but yeah, my execution was
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Speaker 1: not great. I'm sorry. Today we're discussing a new release
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Speaker 1: from Hallmark, NAPA Ever After, which originally aired on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: August twenty sixth on the Hallmark Channel. If you want
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Speaker 1: Girl's Gone Hallmark Housekeeping. Let's update the people on our
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Speaker 1: schedule moving forward. Since this episode's dropping on a Thursday,
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Speaker 1: what's happening next? Tuesday, September fifth, we have our very
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Speaker 1: first fan favorite Fall Hallmark movie review, and we will
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Speaker 1: be reviewing Falling for you with one baby faced Tyler
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Speaker 1: Hines indeed throughout September and October. Yes, get all the
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Speaker 1: Fall movies. Yes. Thank you to the suggestions from our
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Speaker 1: friends over on Instagram who give us a line up
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Speaker 1: of movies they wanted to see us review. Yeah. I
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Speaker 1: haven't seen any of these movies. I'm sure you've seen
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Speaker 1: some of these. I'm sure they will seem familiar. I
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Speaker 1: forget until i'm watching them. The names are all very similar,
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Speaker 1: so until I'm watching and then I realized, oh, I
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Speaker 1: have seen this. And then on Thursdays, we will be
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Speaker 1: doing our new release reviews. Yes, two episodes every week,
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Speaker 1: two episodes from girls dot com work. We did these
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Speaker 1: fan favorite movies. Awesome were long. It was great on
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Speaker 1: a number of levels. One planning wise for us, it
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Speaker 1: made it a little bit easier, but it was fun.
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Speaker 1: To revisit these movies, and we got a lot of
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Speaker 1: great feedback because a lot of these movies are this
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Speaker 1: is someone's favorite movie or one of their favorites, so
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Speaker 1: that was really fun. We didn't love all of them,
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Speaker 1: so if you've missed an episode, go back. I apologize.
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Speaker 1: Actually I'm not sorry about what I said about Love
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Speaker 1: on the Sidelines, but every word. The fan favorite movie
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Speaker 1: reviews will continue beyond fall. We'll just be switching gears. Yeah, remember, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm so excited too. I'm so excited. I don't know
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Speaker 1: how I went from watching one Hallmark movie, no, actually
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Speaker 1: watching zero Hallmark movies to one and now I'm watching
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Speaker 1: two a week at least. Well it's been a minute.
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Speaker 1: But there are some Hallmark news and notes to discuss. Okay,
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Speaker 1: let's start with I think the big one, and that
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Speaker 1: is Wanya Lewis is stepping down as the CEO of
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Speaker 1: Hallmark Media. This was met with shock when it was
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Speaker 1: announced a few weeks ago. I will say I was shocked. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I think partly because her contribution to the network has
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Speaker 1: been so positive and so well received. I snicker because
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Speaker 1: some comments say otherwise, Sure there, but those comments are
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Speaker 1: not our people. They don't like us either. She took
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Speaker 1: over in the wake of Bill Abbott leaving the network,
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Speaker 1: and my biggest question was why, because it hasn't been
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Speaker 1: that long. It's only been a few years, and I think, oh,
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Speaker 1: the network has seen growth. Yes, there are those detractors
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Speaker 1: who feel like growth and inclusivity is a bad thing,
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Speaker 1: but by and large, she's done great things for the network.
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Speaker 1: And we got some answers this week as to why
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Speaker 1: she made that choice. This is not as juicy as
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Speaker 1: maybe I had hoped. No, she told the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
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Speaker 1: I guess that's their local newspaper. After three years on
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Speaker 1: a job, she feels she's all done. Oh sorry, she's
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Speaker 1: done all the things she set out to do and
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Speaker 1: fulfilled the mission given to her by her boss. Well
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Speaker 1: that's not actually it. And she didn't want to leave Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: I think that's the bigger pee. I think so she
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Speaker 1: she's like, she's got some roots and Atlanta didn't want
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Speaker 1: to move to la She was able to work remotely
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Speaker 1: because of the pandemic, but then once they started requiring
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Speaker 1: everyone back in the office, she didn't want to do that.
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Speaker 1: Do you think that's really what it comes down to like,
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Speaker 1: She's like, I'm real comfortable. We're hearing at home sixties.
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Speaker 1: Why do I need to relocate? She's in her sixties.
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Speaker 1: You did it, but like, did you think we're going
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Speaker 1: to work from home forever? Maybe not, but I don't think.
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Speaker 1: I don't. I think it's less the work from home
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Speaker 1: than the relocating across the country. You've got roots, your
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Speaker 1: famili's here. I underst stan not wanting to pick up
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Speaker 1: and move. Yeah, somewhere else? Yeah, yeah, well, I will
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Speaker 1: tell you. I was on a Facebook page. I'm not
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Speaker 1: gonna I'm not gonna say which one, but the comments
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Speaker 1: about her leading were like, good riddance, good she's too woke.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, God, as if the next person is going
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Speaker 1: to revert to Bill Abbott great American family style. I
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Speaker 1: think Hallmark has seen this work for them, so I'm
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Speaker 1: looking forward to the new direction. Yeah yeah, Hey, did
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Speaker 1: you know Wes Brown? Didn't? I read yesterday that he is? Okay,
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Speaker 1: Wes Brown from haul Out the Holly, haul Out the
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Speaker 1: Holly two. That's is it called haul Out the Holly two.
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Speaker 1: I guess we'll find out. I don't know if it
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Speaker 1: has a different name than that. Anyway, he's releasing a
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Speaker 1: full length Christmas album on Christmas Day. Nope on Thanksgiving Day.
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Speaker 1: Oh better. I was like, that's too late. Yeah. Apparently
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Speaker 1: he is an accomplished jazz musician, and in twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: he released a special four song EP that included three
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Speaker 1: covers Holly Jolly Christmas, Have Yourself, A Merry Little Christmas,
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Speaker 1: and the Christmas Song, but also an original song called
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Speaker 1: snowed in with You. Have you listened? No, I haven't
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Speaker 1: wonder if he has like a Michael bublaze down. Let's
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Speaker 1: let's find out. I'm gonna do this song that has
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Speaker 1: the most listens and it's a song called Paradise. Okay,
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Speaker 1: afraid to say I'm into it. We're into it? Ooh.
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Speaker 1: This photo alongside his last Christmas He's in a babie.
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Speaker 1: This is real. Wowie's Howie Wes Brown's new biggest fan. Wow.
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Speaker 1: His voice is giving, like, oh, what's his name? He's
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Speaker 1: like married? He likes oh him, he might be married
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Speaker 1: to one are those rad pays a little bit? And
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Speaker 1: he is married to one of the Hallmark sisters, by
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Speaker 1: which she means the Williams sister. Doesn't he sound like
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Speaker 1: Brad Paisley a little bit. Yeah. I like that gravelly
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Speaker 1: voice was like a country vibe. I was expecting to
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Speaker 1: bring it. I will be downloading that streaming Thanksgiving Day
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Speaker 1: totally while you're decorating the tree. Thanks for being day,
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Speaker 1: my tree will have been here. I forgot. Wow, that
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Speaker 1: was an excellent news and note because that's good information,
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Speaker 1: and I've got more good news. Yeah. What Returning to
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Speaker 1: the Hallmark family, we have one Luke McFarland coming back.
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Speaker 1: He starred in the movie Bros. And on the Apple
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Speaker 1: TV series Platonic in his hiatus from Hallmark, and he's
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Speaker 1: coming back. He will start in a movie called Notes
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Speaker 1: of Autumn that also stars Ashley Williams, Marcus Rossner, and
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Speaker 1: Peter Portek, and he gets to be in a same
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Speaker 1: sec of romance in the movie. You might recall that
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Speaker 1: when he left, he said, I think I've told all
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Speaker 1: the stories Hallmark has for me to tell, and I
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Speaker 1: am glad that he's coming back and he gets to
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Speaker 1: be true to himself. Yes, because so he's not. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: which is not to say that people can't portray characters
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Speaker 1: who are different from them, but I think he was like,
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Speaker 1: I'm a little tired of being the straight white firefighter.
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Speaker 1: And I love Luke McFarlane. I watched every second of Platonic.
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Speaker 1: Obviously Rose Byrne and Seth Rogan are the star stars
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Speaker 1: of that show, but he has a leading role. I
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Speaker 1: really loved them in that show. I just love Luke McFarlane.
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Speaker 1: I'm excited he's back. I'm surprised it's only been a
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Speaker 1: year since he left. Yeah, maybe they were like, this
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Speaker 1: is them, We're not just gonna throw you in around,
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Speaker 1: Like this is a great movie. This is a great
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Speaker 1: lineup to have. I think four stars working together. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why more people aren't talking about it.
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Speaker 1: I think they will be. I'm very excited. There's not
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Speaker 1: even a movie poster out for it yet. So, and
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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Marcus Rossner is real pretty to
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Speaker 1: look at you. So let's move on to ever After
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Speaker 1: with a synopsis. All Right, lawyer inherits a family vineyard.
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Speaker 1: While on sabbatical from work to restore the vineyard, she
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Speaker 1: finds a love like she's never known before. This was
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Speaker 1: directed by Alphonse Attatui. It's his twelfth directing credit and
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Speaker 1: his third Hallmark movie, which includes Holiday Heritage and a
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Speaker 1: Second Chance at Love. The script was co written by
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Speaker 1: Nina Wineman and Wendy Elle Jackson. I would say, Ellie
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Speaker 1: Ellie Jackson. Yeah. Wendy Ellie Jackson has five writing credits
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Speaker 1: and this is her first Hallmark movie. She serves as
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Speaker 1: CEO for Auburn Avenue Films. Nina Wineman has thirty one
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Speaker 1: writing credits, almost exclusively for the Hallmark Channel, including a
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Speaker 1: movie from our fall fan favorite lineup called Pumpkin Pie Wars.
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Speaker 1: Denise Boute plays Cassandra. She has sixty acting credits, although
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Speaker 1: this is her first Hallmark movie, but she has six
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Speaker 1: credits in twenty twenty three alone Wow with something Else
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Speaker 1: coming out later this year on Hallmark. No oh, this
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Speaker 1: is her first for Hallmark. I'd love to see her back.
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Speaker 1: Darlinge Cook plays Grandma's bestie Isabelle. She has forty seven
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Speaker 1: acting credits, including another Mahogany movie called Holiday Heritage. Colin
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Speaker 1: Lawrence speaking of firefighters, huh yeah, we need one to
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Speaker 1: put out the flames from this dude. Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: that's so funny. He plays wider Alec. He has one
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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty eight acting credits, including a starring role
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Speaker 1: in Virgin River, which is a Netflix show that many
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Speaker 1: Hallmark fans like. He's also well known in the Hallmark
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Speaker 1: world for his role in the Christmas in Evergreen movies,
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Speaker 1: among others. But this is his This is the best
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Speaker 1: thing he's ever done. So, I don't know if you remember,
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Speaker 1: but he was in the early rounds of our Dudes
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Speaker 1: of Hallmark brackets. Yeah, nobody had a fighting chance, I
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Speaker 1: know against mister Hines. I know, I know. Was it
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Speaker 1: Heines and Walker in the end? Yeah? What are you
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Speaker 1: gonna do? I really feel for a lot of the
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Speaker 1: people in that bracket, but there's just not enough winners.
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Speaker 1: Should we do another one and like take them out?
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Speaker 1: I don't that? Just that seems weird. A Heines free bracket.
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Speaker 1: Maybe the top four don't get to participate. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: give everyone else a chance. You can't play along because
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Speaker 1: you were in the top four the previous Like you
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Speaker 1: can't win two years in the year exactly. Maybe we'll
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Speaker 1: see you're disqualified for excessive hotness, okay. Selena Lucaint plays
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Speaker 1: Alex's daughter Mary in her very first acting credit. Tiffany
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Speaker 1: Yvonne Cox plays bestie Lena. With thirty acting credits, many
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Speaker 1: of them are guest spots on series. Now, what's your
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Speaker 1: note here? I think she's being criminally under used. She
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Speaker 1: was an actress, fantastic. I loved her. This was originally
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Speaker 1: titled First Kiss and it was filmed in Vancouver and
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Speaker 1: the Okanagan Falls, British Columbia area. And Finally See You
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Speaker 1: Later Ranch was used as the winery in this movie.
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Speaker 1: It's your first impression on this movie? Okay, how about
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Speaker 1: you go first? Oh? My first impression is the Mahogany
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Speaker 1: line might be Hallmark's best way of telling big stories. Dude,
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Speaker 1: I have something about this is so crazy you said that.
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Speaker 1: I have some notes about that. I have my melts
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Speaker 1: about that. I love when that happens. My first impression is,
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Speaker 1: give me any movie with a nineties R and B song? Oh, Like, yes,
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Speaker 1: are you impressed that I knew that? By the way,
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Speaker 1: I am impressed that you knew that. This was like
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Speaker 1: a high school jam for me. I love the song.
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Speaker 1: And while watching this movie where they're like out and
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Speaker 1: the song comes on and the guy's like, that's my
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Speaker 1: jam and gets up to dance. Yeah, it was such
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Speaker 1: a great scene. Yeah, I just freaking loved it. They're like,
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Speaker 1: we're going to a nineties night out. I'm like, I
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Speaker 1: want to go to a nineties night out. Let's do it.
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Speaker 1: Will they play nineties hip hop and R and B
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Speaker 1: for me? Obviously? I would love it. I need to
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Speaker 1: relive my high school days. Do you know that my
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Speaker 1: thirtiethhigh school reunion is next month? Are you going? I
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Speaker 1: don't think so. Maybe I don't know. I haven't gotten
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Speaker 1: to any of them, not in zero neither have I. No,
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Speaker 1: I'm not really interested. So many mean girls that I
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Speaker 1: graduated with. Yeah, I know, I know it's not about them,
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Speaker 1: It's more about me on why I don't want to go? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: me too, So I don't know. Hey, would you like
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Speaker 1: about this movie? Okay? So it goes with your first impression.
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Speaker 1: And I feel like the Mahogany branded movies are more
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Speaker 1: interesting than your typical homework fair. I think the stories
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Speaker 1: are deeper and they're far more relevant. So something that
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Speaker 1: I often complain about that Hallmark does is they try
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Speaker 1: and do too much in a movie. And my complaint
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Speaker 1: about that. Sometimes I like it because keep me interested,
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Speaker 1: keep me invested, But often I feel like it's not
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Speaker 1: done well and we don't get to fully realize a
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Speaker 1: lot of these storylines. Yeah, and I'm reminded of unthinkably
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Speaker 1: good things. Another movie that I think did a lot
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Speaker 1: and did it well. And I think telling these stories
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Speaker 1: well doesn't mean you bring them all to a conclusion.
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Speaker 1: I don't needed you to have wrapped up every detail
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Speaker 1: of every storyline, but I want to feel like, if
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Speaker 1: you're going to introduce a story to me, like you've
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Speaker 1: given that story some consideration, like it's not just a
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Speaker 1: throwaway moment. And I think this movie did that really well.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot going on. She's grappling with taking over
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Speaker 1: the vineyard versus her career as a lawyer. Alec is
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Speaker 1: grappling with moving on after losing his wife. She's got
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Speaker 1: family issues with her relationship with her grandmother and her
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Speaker 1: mother and her father. There's a lot going on, and
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Speaker 1: I think they gave the appropriate amount of weight to
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Speaker 1: those stories that made me feel invested in them. I
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Speaker 1: thought they did a good job. I agree. I think
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Speaker 1: I think they do these movies better. I don't know why. Well,
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Speaker 1: I was wondering why too, what is it who's the
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Speaker 1: production team behind Mahogany Because they're doing a good job. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I agree, I agree in that vein. I feel like
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Speaker 1: the interactions amongst the girlfriends, yes, is noteworthy because I
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Speaker 1: feel like their chemistry was like effortless supportive, and I
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Speaker 1: think Mahogany movies in particular, we see that repeated quite
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Speaker 1: a bit. I don't feel like we see that in
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Speaker 1: non Mahogany movies, like we don't see core girlfriends with
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Speaker 1: the exception of the wedding veil. That's what comes to mind,
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Speaker 1: like really there for each other. Yeah, the girlfriend relationship
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Speaker 1: I think was given as much weight as the romantic
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Speaker 1: relationship in this movie, which is good because the romantic
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Speaker 1: relationship is new, right, she needs to have those relationship
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Speaker 1: are still very much important to her. There still are
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Speaker 1: her foundation. Yeah. Yeah. I liked the Isabelle character her
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Speaker 1: grandmother's best friend. I think it tied her relationship to
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Speaker 1: her grandmother. It was a nice way to keep her
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Speaker 1: grandmother present in the story even though she had passed.
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Speaker 1: She kind of played that like surrogate grandmother to her,
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Speaker 1: which I really liked. And I liked her character much
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Speaker 1: like the movie reviewed last week where I said the
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Speaker 1: characters surprised me. They didn't do things in the way
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Speaker 1: I've been conditioned to expect them today. She was very
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Speaker 1: much willing to let Cassandra come to her own conclusions.
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Speaker 1: As much as she knew how important the vineyard was
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Speaker 1: to her grandmother, as much as it was important to her,
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Speaker 1: she let Cassie figure it out. Yeah, she wasn't afraid
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Speaker 1: to remind her of how important it was to her grandmother,
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Speaker 1: or that maybe this was the place she was supposed
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Speaker 1: to be. But there wasn't that thing that we see
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Speaker 1: in Hallmark that I think the dad did. This is
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Speaker 1: what's expected of you, right, and this is the right choice, right.
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Speaker 1: And I liked it. I liked it too. Hello to
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Speaker 1: a shirtless Colin. Oh my, oh my god. It was
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Speaker 1: such a quick, tiny little scene. But her watching out
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Speaker 1: over the vineyard looking at him while he is shirtless
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Speaker 1: working out there, working in the vineyard, I thought was
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Speaker 1: quite funny. She's like, this is just a beautiful view.
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Speaker 1: Larn Lawrence, let's talk about it. It has always been
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Speaker 1: a wowie's awe for me. But in the Evergreen movies,
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Speaker 1: he's real milk toast. I enjoy him, but his character
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Speaker 1: is just kind of there. And I again talk about
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Speaker 1: criminally under used. In the final Evergreen movie, he only
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Speaker 1: appears via zoom, like he must have been somewhere else
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Speaker 1: and couldn't meet COVID requirements to come back and film,
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Speaker 1: And it is such a shame they had to wrap
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Speaker 1: up his storyline with Holly Robinson Pete's character. But in
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Speaker 1: this movie he brings the heat. And I don't just
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Speaker 1: mean yes, that shirtless moment's great. There's so many moments
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Speaker 1: where he's just like bringing the wowie es awey. But
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Speaker 1: also when he's like, I got you, I will always
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Speaker 1: be here for you. That's my next note. How much
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Speaker 1: do I want someone to say to me, I know
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Speaker 1: I got you? Megan, when he tells her like how
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Speaker 1: he's feeling towards her, it was like no misunderstanding, very vulnerable.
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Speaker 1: It was such a nice moment. Yes, I really enjoy him.
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Speaker 1: He needs to be in more movies. To be clear,
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Speaker 1: he works quite a bit. It is one hundred and
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Speaker 1: thirty eight acting okay, but he's not like a ton
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Speaker 1: of homework movies. He's not like a lead dude. Also,
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Speaker 1: he does have that lead role in Virgin River, which
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Speaker 1: has five season Okay, I don't watch that show. Are
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Speaker 1: you shocked? No? On a light, don't out loved Cassie's
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Speaker 1: wardrobe even when she's in her pajama nice but fully
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Speaker 1: coordinated outfits, and her friends are like, maybe you could
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Speaker 1: go get dressed, and I'm like, she looks great. I
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Speaker 1: have I thought so too. Hey, I didn't hate Mary
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Speaker 1: his daughter, I wondered, I enjoyed her. I don't like
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Speaker 1: kids in movies. She just was like so grown up
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Speaker 1: and sweet, not annoying. I was here for Mary. She's like,
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Speaker 1: why are you leaving? Are you ready to talk? What
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Speaker 1: you wish for? M M. I wish Alec hadn't financially
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Speaker 1: invested in the vineyard. Yeah, sticky, too quick. Your dad
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Speaker 1: came in. It makes a lot of sense for your dad,
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Speaker 1: who had this successful legal career, who was related to you,
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Speaker 1: who feels a lot of responsibility for the fact that
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Speaker 1: his daughter and his wife were taken away from the vineyard.
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Speaker 1: I think it's fine for a father who you have
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Speaker 1: a relationship with to invest in your business. Now. Sure,
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Speaker 1: Alec had a lot of personal investment, but I thought
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Speaker 1: it was real sticky for her to immediately accept his offer,
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Speaker 1: like she took her dad's money. In the short term,
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Speaker 1: Let Alec be your partner. He knows how to run
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Speaker 1: this place. That is his investment. He knows way more
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Speaker 1: than you. You don't need his money, you need what
20:18
Speaker 1: he knows. You need his knowledge. Yeah, he could be
20:21
Speaker 1: your partner. Yeah, but don't take his money, don't take
20:24
Speaker 1: his savings. He's a single dad with a daughter. Yeah yeah,
20:28
Speaker 1: I know. Okay, So but make this make sense for me, please,
20:31
Speaker 1: Because Alec is a software app designer who spends his
20:36
Speaker 1: free time working in the vineyard. Yeah, maybe he like
20:40
Speaker 1: sold something and is just living off royalties from an
20:44
Speaker 1: app he sold. He's there a lot, yes, and for
20:49
Speaker 1: not to be paid, yeah, is I mean? I think
20:53
Speaker 1: was he being paid? I don't know. I don't know
20:55
Speaker 1: he was or not. I just assumed that he was
20:57
Speaker 1: like volunteering his time there. Well, he talked about how
21:00
Speaker 1: much her grandmother meant to him and how she was
21:05
Speaker 1: really important to him, and so I think he felt
21:08
Speaker 1: really connected to the vineyard like family. Well he really
21:11
Speaker 1: let it go to shit, didn't he. Oh No, I'm
21:14
Speaker 1: just saying everything was in disrepair there, like if he
21:18
Speaker 1: was there, I know, it takes money, and like you,
21:21
Speaker 1: I had taken lots of loans out. What he did
21:23
Speaker 1: when he could but to expect him to renovate the barn.
21:26
Speaker 1: That's not on him. I know, I know put their
21:29
Speaker 1: little gazebo where they were doing movies. Ad was like
21:32
Speaker 1: a storage shed. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
21:36
Speaker 1: I have another like make it make sense for me?
21:40
Speaker 1: Why would Cassandra's mom take away the daughter. It was
21:46
Speaker 1: like she was from the grandmother, like she was like
21:49
Speaker 1: punishing her. Yes, even this is what I didn't make sense.
21:52
Speaker 1: They moved away for the dad's career and never saw
21:56
Speaker 1: the grandmother. Why couldn't they beg an each other's life.
21:59
Speaker 1: I don't know, because when they leave, it's a very
22:03
Speaker 1: quick scene. We just see them leaving, and we don't
22:04
Speaker 1: really find out until later why they left. She doesn't
22:07
Speaker 1: even find out that her grandmother's passed until she gets
22:09
Speaker 1: a phone call from the lawyer handling her estate. It
22:13
Speaker 1: just seemed like there was so much love there. The
22:16
Speaker 1: grandmother hunted down the mother's artwork and purchased it anonymously.
22:20
Speaker 1: Why didn't they maintain a relationship. Why couldn't she visit?
22:25
Speaker 1: Plenty of families don't live near their grandparents and they
22:27
Speaker 1: still visit and have full relationships. It doesn't make sense
22:31
Speaker 1: to me. This is gonna be a sticking point for
22:33
Speaker 1: me again to love interest who bicker at the beginning,
22:38
Speaker 1: I stop doing that, like stop doing that. We are
22:42
Speaker 1: also Our next review is for falling for You, and
22:46
Speaker 1: spoiler alert, there's a lot of that. Sometimes this sort
22:50
Speaker 1: of bickering is done well in like a bantery sort
22:53
Speaker 1: of way, and sometimes it's in a mean spirited sort
22:56
Speaker 1: of way. Yea, And I think these two movies leaned
22:59
Speaker 1: a little heavily on one of the characters being a
23:02
Speaker 1: little mean spirited towards the other. Yeah, and in this
23:04
Speaker 1: case it was Cassie. I get that you're a strong,
23:07
Speaker 1: confident woman and you can do it on your own,
23:11
Speaker 1: but there was just a little bit of a snideness
23:15
Speaker 1: almost to the I don't need your help and the
23:19
Speaker 1: who are you aspect of it. I didn't love that, Yes,
23:24
Speaker 1: and I need you see them start to warm up
23:27
Speaker 1: to each other, and I did believe their passion for
23:29
Speaker 1: each other, and I did find their connection very genuine.
23:34
Speaker 1: But you almost have to forget the first half of
23:36
Speaker 1: the movie in order to get there. I agree. Agree. Finally,
23:40
Speaker 1: the last thing, I thought the end wrapped up too quickly.
23:44
Speaker 1: We go from like Cassandra totally in the weeds, and
23:47
Speaker 1: then her dad paying for like your repairs, and that
23:50
Speaker 1: Alex I'm not saying Alex apostrophe es yes, his investment,
23:54
Speaker 1: and then boom they're married. Yeah. I think it should
23:57
Speaker 1: have just ended with her friend's wedding and they're all happy,
24:00
Speaker 1: and then that leaves us maybe open for future vineyard
24:04
Speaker 1: wedding for sure. They didn't need to get married for me, Like,
24:08
Speaker 1: I understand you're trying to sell the like now this
24:11
Speaker 1: is a wedding destination, but it would have sold it
24:14
Speaker 1: to me showing me her friend's beautiful wedding going off
24:17
Speaker 1: without a hitch, right, and they're you know, toasting with
24:20
Speaker 1: a glass of champagne. That's all I needed, I agree.
24:23
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to did you see that?
24:25
Speaker 1: I saw nothing? Nothing, not one thing. Okay, I have
24:28
Speaker 1: a small list. I think they used some green screen.
24:32
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure because seeing that it was without
24:35
Speaker 1: the window, Yeah, it's out the windows stuff, Like it
24:38
Speaker 1: just seemed so obvious to me. I was like, the yeah,
24:42
Speaker 1: like when they're at the vineyard, that all that exterior
24:45
Speaker 1: stuff is shot at the vineyard, but inside the house
24:47
Speaker 1: they're not using the home at the vineyard right exactly.
24:50
Speaker 1: So it was just this looked weird, and I think
24:53
Speaker 1: I watched this on a big TV, like a real
24:55
Speaker 1: big TV, so like it's just so glaringly obvious to me.
24:58
Speaker 1: The next thing, because Sandra with her AirPods dancing and vacuumine,
25:03
Speaker 1: I felt seen, Yeah, I felt like that's very much
25:05
Speaker 1: something I do at my own home. Yes, I just
25:07
Speaker 1: thought it was real cute scene Lena's fiance. It's when
25:12
Speaker 1: they go out to that nineties bar and they're getting
25:15
Speaker 1: ready to leave and Lena's like trying to get out
25:17
Speaker 1: of there, so Cassie and Alec can like hook up
25:20
Speaker 1: or whatever or whatever home have a moment, and then
25:23
Speaker 1: like the fiance comes running back and he's like, my
25:25
Speaker 1: car wone start. It was a brand new range Rover.
25:28
Speaker 1: I'm like, what okay too. Although range rovers are known
25:32
Speaker 1: for their they have issues, maintenance issues. Mary's birthday party,
25:37
Speaker 1: all the balloons, it was so pretty. I was thought
25:40
Speaker 1: those balloons are making such an impact in the scene. However,
25:43
Speaker 1: like they were giving out those smallbleless little cups of popcorn.
25:47
Speaker 1: These are I noticed the little popcorn. But it's a
25:52
Speaker 1: party I'm not like, you're sitting down to watch a movie.
25:54
Speaker 1: That's just one of your many snacks. I thought they
25:56
Speaker 1: were at the movie and I was like, what is
25:57
Speaker 1: that popcorn for a movie? I agree, it was like
26:00
Speaker 1: cup of popcorn that was not going to work for me,
26:02
Speaker 1: but yeah, as a snack kind of cute. And then
26:05
Speaker 1: I thought Cassandra's dad reminded me of Philip Binks, Oh,
26:08
Speaker 1: the dad from Fresh Prints of bel Air who has
26:11
Speaker 1: since passed. I didn't realize, but I thought, like, same
26:14
Speaker 1: kind of vibe. Theres actor, James Avery, that's it cool,
26:19
Speaker 1: nothing groundbreaking. What did you rate nap ever after? Okay,
26:24
Speaker 1: I gave it three point seventy five. And this is
26:26
Speaker 1: why I thought it was a mellow movie, not a
26:29
Speaker 1: ton of high drama or high tension. And him was
26:33
Speaker 1: very pretty to look at. I get it four stars.
26:35
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