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The Groomsmen Last Dance (Encore) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to a Girl's
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  Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm
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  Speaker 1: a longtime Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Wendy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're discussing The Groomsman Last Dance, the third and
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  Speaker 1: final movie in the Groomsman trilogy. You can catch our
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  Speaker 1: reviews of the previous two movies that have dropped recently.
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  Speaker 3: We do.
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  Speaker 1: Let's jump right into a synopsis for The Groomsman Last Dance.
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  Speaker 2: Jackson moves to Italy to be near his daughter, but
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  Speaker 2: a chance meeting with a cafe owner, Gabriella, and some
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  Speaker 2: Medalin friends may lead to a second chance at love.
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  Speaker 1: Ron Oliver returns as director. He also wrote the script
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  Speaker 1: for the third and final movie. He directed all three
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  Speaker 1: movies in the trilogy. If you want to watch a
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  Speaker 1: really good Roun Oliver movie, the time of my voice
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  Speaker 1: suggests that I don't think this is a really good
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  Speaker 1: round Oliver movie. I want to make that clear that
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  Speaker 1: that's not what I'm doing here. Check out Love at
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  Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving Day Parade. Tyler Hine is back in the
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  Speaker 1: lead role as Jackson for this one. And while we're
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  Speaker 1: halfway through the twenty twenty four Heinz season, that's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm calling it, There's still more to come. Look forward
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  Speaker 1: to Hines and three Wiserman and a Boy and Holiday Touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: a Chiefs love story coming in. Jonathan Bennett makes a
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  Speaker 1: return as Danny. If you haven't got the first two
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  Speaker 1: episodes of Finding Mister Christmas on Hallmark Plus yet, they
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  Speaker 1: are definitely worth the watch.
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  Speaker 2: It's a reality.
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  Speaker 1: Competition that's giving us all the holiday vibes we need
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: B J Britt returns as Doctor p and for anyone
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  Speaker 2: craving more of Bjay's holiday charm, you can check him
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  Speaker 2: out in last year's holiday movie on own called A
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  Speaker 2: Christmas Serenade. He's also known for roles in Unreal Being
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  Speaker 2: Mary Jane and Agents of Shield.
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  Speaker 1: Chloe Raphael plays Betty Jackson's daughter as previously mentioned, Chloe's
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  Speaker 1: and a ton of voice work with the children's animated
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  Speaker 1: series Thomas and Friends and Now We Know Lily Doddsworth
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  Speaker 1: Evans plays Elizabeth. That's Betty all grown up. She has
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  Speaker 1: seventeen acting credits with projects like Durracula, The Good Liar
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  Speaker 1: and the Art of Racing.
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  Speaker 2: In the Rain.
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  Speaker 1: Elena Rosconi plays Jackson's love interest, Gabriella. She's an Italian
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  Speaker 1: actress with six previous acting credits, including the American TV
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  Speaker 1: series The Catch from twenty sixteen. Her next project is
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  Speaker 1: called Rise of the Raven.
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  Speaker 2: Oliver Shaw plays Young Milo. He has just two other
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  Speaker 2: projects outside of the Groomsman trilogy, but can currently be
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  Speaker 2: seen in the series Disclaimer on Apple TV.
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  Speaker 1: Cosimofusco plays Lorenzo Cosimo has fifty nine acting credits, but
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  Speaker 1: most notably he played Paolo from Friends. Thank You to
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  Speaker 1: Girls Gone Hallmark Facebook group members for pointing out that
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  Speaker 1: tidbit to us, We're gonna take a quick break and
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  Speaker 1: come right back. It is time for first impressions. What
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  Speaker 1: is your first impression of the Groomsman Last Dance.
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of into a silver Fox Tyler Hines.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, a little flash forward moment.
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  Speaker 3: I liked it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was a full silver Fox, and I
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  Speaker 2: think if it did go there, it was like almost
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  Speaker 2: like a costume. I like the little the little little wisps,
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  Speaker 2: little brush of silver they put at his temples.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he and Danny both got the aging treatment in
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  Speaker 1: BJ's all, I still look good. My first impression is
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  Speaker 1: I spent this entire movie being so distracted by Alana
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  Speaker 1: Rasconi's perfect face. Oh she's beautiful, truly striking, totally striking beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: I read in an IMDb review that people didn't like
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  Speaker 1: her because she came off too hard in her in
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  Speaker 1: her portrayal of Gabriella. I was like, whatever, whatever, whatever, man,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk what we liked about the movie.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I want to ask you, of the three, how
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  Speaker 2: did you.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoy this installment?
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  Speaker 2: This movie had a very different tone for me.
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  Speaker 1: It was like a calmer wiser, almost more serious.
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  Speaker 2: In tone than the other movies.
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  Speaker 1: There are still some like they infuse the comedy, but
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  Speaker 1: I think it speaks to the fact that if you
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  Speaker 1: look at the way Tyler Hines does comedy as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to the way Jonathan Bennett does comedy, Tyler is more
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  Speaker 1: like in small expressions, He's his comedy is in like
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  Speaker 1: throwaway lines, where Jonathan Bennett does like a real good
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  Speaker 1: physical comedy. He's so expressive and man spent months on Broadway.
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  Speaker 1: So I liked this movie as the culmination to our
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  Speaker 1: three stories. If I'm gonna have to pick a favorite,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be Second Chances.
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  Speaker 2: Really, hmm, that is so interesting. I think it was
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  Speaker 2: the best of the three. Oh, but I do think
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  Speaker 2: you're right the tone was a little different than the
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  Speaker 2: other two, and I also think it stands out it
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  Speaker 2: honestly could have been like a solo movie. I totally agree.
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  Speaker 2: I think it has something to do with like the
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  Speaker 2: forward progression.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't this movie.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, although it starts out with some overlapping scenes, again,
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  Speaker 2: we have like progression in time, like almost a year's
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  Speaker 2: worth at least, right, So that's why I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I could see this as a standalone movie, but of
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  Speaker 2: course we have the Betty of it all, like that
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  Speaker 2: is the tie that brings them all the three together.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not suggesting it should have been a solo movie.
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  Speaker 2: I just talking about it, that's all, No, I hear you.
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  Speaker 1: And not only did we get like the solid year
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  Speaker 1: progression because obviously Betty has picked up, moved in, she's
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  Speaker 1: settled there, but we also get a fifteen twenty year
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  Speaker 1: flash forward because we are dealing with adult Betty at
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  Speaker 1: this point. I do like that they brought so many
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  Speaker 1: elements of this story full circle that we get the reveal,
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  Speaker 1: which I will have some issues with, but the Betty
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth runaway bride reveal, we get the storyline behind all
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  Speaker 1: of that.
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  Speaker 2: I really enjoyed this like exploration of father and daughter connection.
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  Speaker 2: And you and I had talked like off Mike about well,
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  Speaker 2: this is like kind of weird. Why is the why
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  Speaker 2: is Betty going away with the mom to Italy? Like
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  Speaker 2: why doesn't Jackson have any say in any of this?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 2: And learning that the mom worked in like military. I
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  Speaker 2: had asked you. I was like, does that change anything
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  Speaker 2: for you? It wasn't just like she was like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: picking up and moving to Italy with my daughter, and oh,
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  Speaker 2: well for you, dad, does it change for you or no?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I understand her motivation for needing to leave.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not yeah, I'm not trying to paint the mom
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  Speaker 1: with like a selfish brush here. Obviously I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: the information. We talked about this in last episode, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, welcome, she just gets to decide. I
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  Speaker 1: understand why the mom needs to leave. I think for
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  Speaker 1: the sake of time, we can't get too into the
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  Speaker 1: weeds in the movie right of the custody battle of
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  Speaker 1: it All. And perhaps obviously Jackson has a great relationship
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  Speaker 1: with Betty's mom, like they're friends. They seem to have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of love and respect for each other, and
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  Speaker 1: so maybe it's just that he was like, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to be the one to take her away from
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  Speaker 1: her mother, so I'll have to be the one who suffers.
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  Speaker 1: But I still think if you were going to dig
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  Speaker 1: into it, it'd be like, well, how come this super
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  Speaker 1: involved dad just has to lie down and take the
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  Speaker 1: fact that his daughter is moving away.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now I can see that also though, and of
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  Speaker 2: course I've made this whole narrative up in my head.
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  Speaker 2: Jackson has the means to travel and see her whenever
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  Speaker 2: he would like. And I can also see Jackson's character
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  Speaker 2: also being like, you know, a girl needs her mom
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. So of course we're not gonna like, we
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  Speaker 2: don't know the ins and outs of it, but whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I just it's an interesting way they did it.
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  Speaker 3: I thought.
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  Speaker 1: Towards the end of the movie, we learned that Jackson
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  Speaker 1: blames himself for the demise of his marriage because he
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  Speaker 1: was a workaholic, Like he was so focused on like
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  Speaker 1: making the next dollar, and so perhaps, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: know that he's still carrying that with him because he's like,
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  Speaker 1: I am not going to be good at a relationship.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps he blames himself enough that he's like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: get to make these decisions about Betty's life because I
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  Speaker 1: already ruined it once in his house.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, interesting, But back to my original point, I like,
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  Speaker 2: I like the story they're telling in between like fathers
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  Speaker 2: and daughters, because if we see it between like Betty
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  Speaker 2: and Jackson, but we also see it with Gabrielle and
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  Speaker 2: her dad too. You know that it's important that daughters
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  Speaker 2: have stable men in their life to kind of role
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  Speaker 2: model what love is and sure steam and yeah, anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I just thought it was a nice narrative, one we
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  Speaker 2: don't typically see on Hallmark. And I don't think, like,
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  Speaker 2: looking at this movie, like people are going to really
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  Speaker 2: come away from from it with like, oh that whole
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  Speaker 2: point of the movie.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it's because I have.
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  Speaker 2: My own teenage daughter that I'm like and have my
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  Speaker 2: own like father daughter things. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like what
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  Speaker 2: have we been saying for weeks? And we like we
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  Speaker 2: want to see ourselves in these So that's what I'm
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  Speaker 2: taking away from it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's definitely layered. I think they
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  Speaker 1: did a nice job of not making the father daughter's
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  Speaker 1: story secondary. Betty's storyline is strong throughout all three movies,
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  Speaker 1: even when Jackson's storyline isn't the one who is featured.
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  Speaker 1: They did a really nice job of making it clear
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  Speaker 1: that she's in their lives that like it's Uncle Pete
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  Speaker 1: and Uncle Danny, and these men have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: affection for their friend's daughter and they take their role
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  Speaker 1: in her life seriously, because it all comes together in
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  Speaker 1: this movie, right, We would be less invested in her
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  Speaker 1: future marriage if we didn't have all of this other backstory.
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  Speaker 1: So I think they do a good job of building
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  Speaker 1: all of these layers in the movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too. I think so too. Here's
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  Speaker 2: something else I really liked. I have really enjoyed seeing
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  Speaker 2: Tyler Hines and this against It's not even truly against type.
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  Speaker 2: It's just that he's like this single sexy, involved dad
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  Speaker 2: rather than the single sexy Lithario. I don't know, not
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  Speaker 2: that he plays that role, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Though he's not the single sexy guy looking for romance.
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  Speaker 2: It's like he it adds another layer to his character
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  Speaker 2: being like dad, which I really find appealing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I like. I like the differences we
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  Speaker 1: got in our three guys and the way that they're
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  Speaker 1: approaching romance and their roadblocks were all so different, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's necessarily super easy to do. They
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  Speaker 1: made them different without making them caricatures of relationships. I
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  Speaker 1: think it made sense for obviously it made sense for
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  Speaker 1: Tyler's movie to anchor this series. But I think they
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  Speaker 1: did a really nice job of building the momentum and
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  Speaker 1: building these movies on each other. It's I believe Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: Bennett recently said how long they were on location. I
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  Speaker 1: kind of feel like it was like three months maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like it was a long time because
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: remember it was all happening during summertime, and we were like,
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: what are they really?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what's happening?
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  Speaker 2: Like they were sending out all these like cryptic things
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  Speaker 2: that we were doing there in Greece.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just a mad a murder board style directorial setup.
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  Speaker 1: Or you're trying to figure out all of the different
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  Speaker 1: stories that you need to tell in the individual movies
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  Speaker 1: and all of the ways you need to support them
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  Speaker 1: and make them make sense and not leave pieces hanging.
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  Speaker 1: And this was a huge project and I genuinely think
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  Speaker 1: this was a big hit.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder when they're gonna move this over to linear cable.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah people can the other people can watch it, so
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  Speaker 2: non Hallmark Plus subscribers can watch it. Yeah. My feeling
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  Speaker 2: is that it's going to be a minute before they
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  Speaker 2: do that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they really want to use this as a
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  Speaker 1: huge draw to the Hallmark Plus and they are Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: Plus has this you earn points like with Hallmark dot com,
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  Speaker 1: like for buying stuff. I think you can all use
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: in store. I don't really know. I haven't actually been
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: set up my account that way. But if you watch
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  Speaker 1: all three of these movies, you do get a five
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  Speaker 1: dollars credit to a Hallmark store.
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  Speaker 2: How does that work?
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  Speaker 3: Do you know?
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  Speaker 1: I have absolutely no idea. Well or just knows because
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: you link your Hallmark Plus account with your other account.
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  Speaker 1: But what's very right, but you do your own points.
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  Speaker 1: They are really trying to build out the experience on
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  Speaker 1: the app.
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  Speaker 2: In a totally non sponsored plug here. I recently went
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  Speaker 2: into my local Hallmark store and I gotta tell you,
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  Speaker 2: their ornaments were popping. They were oh my gosh this year.
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  Speaker 2: Me too.
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  Speaker 1: We were in there yesterday because we went to the
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  Speaker 1: mall and they had some did you see the Lacy bear?
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  Speaker 2: I did? I did, Okay, go ahead, what'd you see?
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  Speaker 1: We were just mostly looking at the ornaments, although they
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: did have like a Hallmark channel knockoff Stanley Tumblr and
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: it was like my to do list, watch Chrystals movies,
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: watch Chrystals movies, watch Christmas movies.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, that's real cute. We need that.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: You're like, am I gonna need this for the crews.
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  Speaker 2: And they have some really nice plush blankets. I say,
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  Speaker 2: like my homemark watching blanket or whatever. Their stuff is nice.
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  Speaker 3: It is nice.
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  Speaker 2: And hey if also if you're a Gilmore Girls fan,
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  Speaker 2: they have some really cute Gilmore Girls themed ornaments this
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: year too.
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  Speaker 1: I love their ornaments so much. And it's like, we're
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  Speaker 1: real weird about the kind of ornaments that are allowed
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  Speaker 1: to go on your tree.
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  Speaker 2: And the ornaments on your tree.
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  Speaker 1: No, we have a we have multiple trees, so those
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: go on our bedroom tree, all those like themed ornaments.
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  Speaker 1: But they had some really cute Every year they just
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  Speaker 1: come out. There's some funny Christmas vacation ornaments. They're really fun.
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  Speaker 2: My husband and I went to the Hallmark sort. It
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: feels like it was months ago, but ever since then,
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  Speaker 2: like these boxes keep showing up on our front porch
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  Speaker 2: address to him and they have like the purple Hallmark
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: like packaging on it. And I was like, hey, thanks
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: for keeping me in business, because you know, I feel
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: like I'm somewhat associated. Our podcast is somewhat associated. So funny,
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: what is he ordering?
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  Speaker 3: I have no idea. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: He hasn't showed me there, so I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: they're for me or I mean, I have no idea.
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  Speaker 3: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's very exciting, report book. I will in Anothery're like,
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  Speaker 1: I just got to say the location was stunning. It
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  Speaker 1: was absolutely gorgeous. I know they weren't in Italy while
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  Speaker 1: filming this, but.
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  Speaker 2: Where was beautiful? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because they only filmed in Greece in Bulgaria, so
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  Speaker 1: this must have been you know, Bulgaria stands in as
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  Speaker 1: faux Friends and apparently fo Italy as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to tell you. There were a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things. I liked how this movie was executed, and
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  Speaker 2: we did talk a little bit about it already, but
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  Speaker 2: the overlapping scenes at the beginning I really like. I
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  Speaker 2: like how we revisit that and like we're like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: now we're starting something else. I think that's cool. I
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  Speaker 2: loved the whole throwback to the video game in this movie.
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  Speaker 2: Will Milo explains like he was MLB and it wasn't Danny.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that was very clever.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I need to go watch that scene
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  Speaker 1: again where she's like, oh MLB Danny.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I'm trying to remember what Jonathan Bennet's
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  Speaker 2: face was like that, yes, exactly, Yeah, my financials by
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  Speaker 2: the way, before I was married MLB.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, Oh, that's interesting. That tracks the baseball ho just kidding.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. And the use this is what I really liked.
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  Speaker 2: The use of Elizabeth slash Betty to tell the entire
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  Speaker 2: story and how those relationships and her life shaped her
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  Speaker 2: own perspective on love. I thought was really smart. I
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  Speaker 2: really enjoyed it, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was a really interesting take to take
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  Speaker 1: these movies, take these stories which are cinematic, and not
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  Speaker 1: every romance it's like that, right, Like if I look
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  Speaker 1: at mine, there's no like big conflict and major resolution
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  Speaker 1: before I got married. And I thought it was really
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  Speaker 1: interesting for a company that makes movies about love and
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  Speaker 1: about sweeping love stories to tell these three really beautiful
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  Speaker 1: stories and then to put one of their main characters
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  Speaker 1: in position to be like, wait, does that make my
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  Speaker 1: personal love story less powerful? I just thought it was
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  Speaker 1: really interesting and have her come to the realization like
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: our story is just as special.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Every story matters it totally. Every story does matter. And
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: while you were talking about that, I was thinking about
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: all the entertainment we have consumed over our lifetime, right
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: watching like soap operas or watching reality TV or watching
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: teen drama. Sometimes you've become so invested and you think,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: like that mirrors what real life should look like, and
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: it doesn't always, But that doesn't make your own experience
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: less less than you know, so you're right, it's super
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: interesting that a company that gives us all these big
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: stories was like, no, it's okay, your story is as
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: equally as important. I have a few more likes, okay.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: I enjoyed Gabriella as Tyler's love interests. I like that
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: she was a strong woman and like firm in her
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: beliefs on things. I'm not sure if I cared a
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: lot about like her storyline storyline getting like the parents'
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: restaurants to like, yeah, be bigger and better like but
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: I can see like they needed it to show some
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: sort of like parialism between like her relationship with her dad.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: But I liked Gabriella a lot, and I also liked
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: her mom, who I thought had several funny moments. There
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: was an up and down look she did with Jackson,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: like when she she meets Gabrielle's American friend for the
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: first time. That was really funny, and she had this
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: other this really funny line I thought was really great
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: about this is before I did I realized that the
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: mom and dad were divorced. But she's like, I don't
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: talk to your dad and he doesn't talk to me,
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: and everybody lives happily ever after. Yes, it's totally in
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: my notes too, we have an agreement, we don't talk.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I loved that. I laughed out loud. And let's talk
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: about the dance scene at festival. Oh my gosh, so steamy.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: I thought so too. I wrote spicy and sensual and
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: it was just not just a dance, but it was
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: a dance.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: There was nothing like.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Inappropriate inappropriate about it, but I thought it was really nice.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if you saw this yesterday, but
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: on our Instagram reels, I posted what that scene reminded
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: me of. And it's a movie called Swingers. It's from
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: the late nineties. Have you ever seen that movie? Yeah?
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: But I think you posted in stories, But yes, I
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: have seen Storyvie. Yes, that's where it was. It was
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: on Instagram somewhere. Swingers is one of my all time
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: favorite movies. And when I saw this scene in the
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Groomsman yesterday. It instantly reminded me of that. Danny and
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Pete are like on the side, like there's our boy,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: you know, they were so excited for him. I loved it.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: I just loved it so much. And at the end
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: they're like doubled it be. It was just was really funny.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: It reminded me of our conversation with Jeff Beasley where
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: we talked about how like we love infusing comedy into
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: these moments that you know he sometimes directs like real
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: straightforward like a day Spring, or like Miracle and Bethlehem
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: that are you know, more serious in tone, but like
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: finds the humor. And I think it was such a
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: nice balance in this moment, like it made.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: It more watchable.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: They weren't trying to make it this like deeply HBO
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: moment when you've got Danny and Pete on the side,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: like I didn't know his hips could move like that.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: It was a great balance in that moment. I agree,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Did you like anything else? I'm tapped out?
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Me too, I have but one wish, Oh tell me
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I have too? Go ahead, Well look absolutely no shade
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: to Lily Dodsworth Evans, who is as cute as can be,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: but I'm having a hard time buying her as adult Bettie.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Same it's my same wish.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: As soon as you said like, their eyes are different,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh, their eyes are different.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Which they're both blue. I thought young Betties were brown
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: at first, but oh they are blue. They are blue,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: but they're dark blue. Lily Dodsworth Evans has striking light
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: blue eyes. Completely different, her eye shape, everything completely different.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just look. I know people change, their hair
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: can change. She could be straightening that curly hair.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: And who knows which actress came first. And there's a
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: lot of factors that are going into the production here.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: It's not just struggled with it a little bit.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: I understand. I did too.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I think it was a little bit of a miscast
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: in terms of consistency. But yeah, but both its actors
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: were great in their roles. I have one more, and
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: this is because I'm hashtag no fun. I don't need
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: to see the wedding dance again, the.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Whole, the whole.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: You know there, everybody's doing it at one time, like
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: a nineties rom com. You know they're going to do
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: it on the cruise right. Well on my notes I
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: put but please everybody know I will participate if it's
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: offered on the cruise.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Trying it too.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I was watching on a wave. I'm laughing so hard
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: because I had a do it. I had a similar thought.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I have not one rhythmic bone in my entire body,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: but I was like, maybe I could do this if
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: they teach it. It's like a line dance basically.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, and working to do it, and I'm gonna film it,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: so you guys need to watch.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: We'll need to have one of those themed cocktails ahead
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: of time. Yeah, they should do it up to the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Wednesday bar crawl.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Okay exactly. Maybe I say bar crawl will just turn
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: into you like this, You know what I mean? Okay,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: are you ready for dig You see that I am.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I also only have one, Oh I have I have
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: a couple. In Betty's wedding scene, they're flashing on, you know,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: the different characters, and at one point they flash on
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Zach played by Oxen Lincoln and seated next to him
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: as a young boy, and I thought to Danny and
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Zach have a baby.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: But then I don't, like, you know, the timeframe here.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: But then in the actual wedding.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: There is no child seated. I was like, maybe he
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: went chat with someone else. I don't know, but I
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: wondered if they were hinting at perhaps Danny and Zach
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: have a baby.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting. I noticed that there was a child
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: sitting next to the actress who played Betty's mom too. Yeah,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: me too. I was like, who's that baby? Not baby,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: but she was a young child, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Well why did you see that?
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: They're kind of all over the place.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: But since we're talking about Betty's wedding, there was no
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: dance floor. They were just dancing on the hotel carpet
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: in that ballroom. Mmmm, I don't like that feels interesting.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Pross Well, I don't know. Like a million people I've
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: been there before. They're not licking it. I know. Hey,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: wedding dan ant scene gets kind of crazy. You should
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: have saw mine. Like my father in law and his
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: fraternity brothers were on the floor doing like the worm
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: and stuff. Things get out of control, Okay, things get
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: out of control. H Milo's groomsman. Why why is it
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Danny and Pete? Why are they sitting up at the
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: head table. Milo does has no friends.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: I think that's the most neglected piece in all of
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: these movies is the wedding parties, other than obviously the
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: groomsmen there for each other. Like Chelsea her best friend
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: who she was in her wedding isn't in her wedding,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: and then Benny's friends. She's just got these two. In
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: my mind, they're like Anastasia and Drozlla, like the Wicked Stepsisters.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Like they don't and I'm not saying they're unattractive, they
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: just look miserable the entire time.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: And I was like, what's happening, Like yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: two more wishes. I swear Actress Lily Dosworth Evans has an.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I can swear it. I agree with you, And I
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: tried to look everywhere. I've never seen any of her
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: other projects, so I don't know how she speaks. But
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: somebody please tell me. Is she like a British actor?
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: I googled is Lily Dudsworth Evans British? I went to
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: her Instagram. She did have Instagram stories posted, but she
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: wasn't speaking in any of them. I tried to find
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: it too, and finally this this comes from our Facebook group.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: But I don't know if you noticed. I did see
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: somebody in heels walking on a cobblestone street and their
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: ankle turned just alone. No. In our Facebook group, somebody
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: was like, why do they always have women walking in
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: like heels or wedges or whatever on cobblestone streets? Team
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: tennis shoes. So yes, I totally saw that team tennis shoes.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Stresses me out. It makes my feet hurt. In solidarity, maam,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I'm a klutz, so me too. I'll break an ankle
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: in ten minutes and I have so yeah. Yes, in
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: tennis shoes, in.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Tennis shoes, no less, yep, yep. All right, what did
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: you rate the Groomsman Last Dance?
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: I gave it four stars.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: I gave it four and a half stars.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Cool, enjoyed.
• 27:23
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