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Falling into Place · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark Review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 1: On today's episode, we're discussing Falling Into Place, which originally
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  Speaker 1: aired on the Hallmark channel on Saturday, September 12th, 2026,
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  Speaker 1: and is now streaming on Hallmark Plus.
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  Speaker 2: And friends, you're going to want to be.
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  Speaker 1: Bookmarking girlsgonehallmark.com because the Hallmark news is going to be
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  Speaker 1: dropping fast and furious. The website is chock full of information.
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  Speaker 1: We have information about all the movies that are coming out,
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  Speaker 1: plus all of our podcast show notes, deep dives into
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  Speaker 1: the actors. The Countdown to Christmas lineup comes out this week.
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  Speaker 1: It may be out by the time this episode airs.
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  Speaker 2: I doubt it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it'll come out a little later in the week,
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  Speaker 1: but it is coming.
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  Speaker 2: So you're going to hear the full lineup. Apparently there
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  Speaker 2: are 34 movies. Oh, my goodness. That may include Christmas
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  Speaker 2: in July. I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 1: But, you know, don't freak out till we see the list.
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  Speaker 2: Don't freak out till we see the list. Don't freak
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  Speaker 2: out till we see the list. My guess is we're
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  Speaker 2: going to have far fewer series than we had last year.
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  Speaker 2: All we know about is Mistletoe Murders. I know. I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to that. Totally.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just, I'm antsy. I want to see the list.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see what we're working with. I want
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  Speaker 1: to make a plan. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready. You are ready. I want to talk about
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  Speaker 2: the book club. Oh. Listener Shannon from Australia said, Sent
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  Speaker 2: us a message and she's like, hey, would you guys
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  Speaker 2: do this book for book club? The name escapes me
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  Speaker 2: right now, Megan. What's it called?
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  Speaker 1: Her Night at the Museum, which is the book that
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  Speaker 1: A Night to Remember is based on. And I have
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  Speaker 1: to stop and think about the book movie titles every
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  Speaker 1: single time.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but we have a Facebook group for that. And
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  Speaker 2: if you want to jump in.
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  Speaker 1: It is separate from our main Girls Gone Hallmark Facebook group.
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  Speaker 1: And if you were part of the Paris is always
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  Speaker 1: a good idea book club, we're doing it a little
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  Speaker 1: bit differently. Paris is always a good idea. We broke
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  Speaker 1: down into three different discussion segments. We're just going to
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  Speaker 1: be doing one discussion for this book. And it's the
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday before the movie airs. So there's still time to
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  Speaker 1: get in on that, join the conversation. And we're definitely
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  Speaker 1: going to do at least one for the countdown to
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  Speaker 1: Christmas season. And I'm thinking it'll be Christmas in Blue
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  Speaker 1: Dog Valley, which I think is the Andrew Walker... Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Cahill movie.
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  Speaker 2: You're just pulling from memory here. I think.
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  Speaker 1: Am I completely making that up? I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: fact check it at all. I mean, I will after
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  Speaker 1: this episode, but not right now.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. No, I love it. I downloaded the night book. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And somebody had told us it was real spicy. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And I started listening to it while I'm driving and
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  Speaker 2: something real spicy was said. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: It like literally was like 40 seconds in. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: holy crap.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wow. I was like, what's Hallmark going to do here?
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  Speaker 1: They're just going to really tame it down.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: That's to be expected. Look, as we recall, Birding with
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  Speaker 1: Benefits became Adventures in Birding. Birding with Benefits had some
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  Speaker 1: spice to it. So I have heard some feedback about
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  Speaker 1: this book. Slog was the word I read.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Another viewer said, another listener said this was a
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  Speaker 2: DNF for them. I did not finish. Oh, really? So. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's too bad. I have, I've heard, I've heard a
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  Speaker 2: variety of. feedback.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, it is spicy. Yes, we are reading it. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we are discussing it. So we will leave a link
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  Speaker 1: to the Girls Gone Hallmark.
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  Speaker 2: Book club and you can join at any time for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Let's hear a synopsis for falling into place. Kaya returns
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  Speaker 2: home for her town's fall festival as well as her
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  Speaker 2: high school reunion and spends the week with her childhood
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  Speaker 2: best friend James to complete their unfinished fall bucket list.
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  Speaker 1: Angie Nolan directed Falling Into Place, marking her Hallmark directorial debut.
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  Speaker 1: Nolan is a participant in Hallmark's Make Her Mark program,
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  Speaker 1: an initiative designed to support and develop emerging female directors.
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  Speaker 2: Ansley Gordon wrote the script. Her other Hallmark projects include
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  Speaker 2: the recent Aussie at Heart and Love Under the Mistletoe.
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  Speaker 1: Alvina August stars as Kaya. Alvina has 28 acting credits
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  Speaker 1: with roles in Tracker and Zoe's Extraordinary Playlist. Her last
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  Speaker 1: time on Hallmark was in 2022 in the movie A
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  Speaker 1: Second Chance at Love.
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  Speaker 2: Nathan Witt stars as James. Nathan was recently part of
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  Speaker 2: Texas Two-Step, as well as all four of the unwrapping
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  Speaker 2: Christmas movies from 2024. Stephanie Bennett appears as friend Harper.
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  Speaker 2: Stephanie has appeared in several Hallmark favorites like The Nine
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  Speaker 2: Kittens of Christmas and Hearts Around the Table.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think Stephanie Bennett should be a lead?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. I think so, too. She's always playing bestie. Was
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  Speaker 2: she really pregnant in this role? I'd buy it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: me too. BJ Harrison plays Gigi with 153 acting credits.
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  Speaker 2: We last saw BJ in Texas Two-Step and I'll Be
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  Speaker 2: Seeing You.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Gustafson plays Ben. Hallmark fans will recognize Jeff from
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  Speaker 1: his longtime role as Norman in the beloved Signed, Sealed,
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  Speaker 1: Delivered franchise, which also marked his most recent Hallmark appearance
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  Speaker 1: in 2025. Hey, Wendy, what was your first impression of
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  Speaker 1: Falling Into Place?
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  Speaker 2: If you're the Hallmark viewer who says, I don't care
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  Speaker 2: what happens. Just give me sweaters, pumpkins, and fall vibes. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: This is your Super Bowl. Hey, we have similar vibes.
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  Speaker 3: Mine is.
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  Speaker 1: It only took four movies. But finally, the fall vibes
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  Speaker 1: we have been waiting all season four have arrived.
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  Speaker 2: Did your husband watch this with you? No, not yet.
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  Speaker 2: Because we watched it before it aired. So he's going
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  Speaker 2: to watch it this weekend. It's going to hit all
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  Speaker 2: his vibe check marks. Yeah. Check boxes. Yeah. Yeah. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean? He's like, is it really fall?
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  Speaker 1: And I said, oh boy, is it?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, can we talk about that? I think we might
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  Speaker 2: have different takes on it. Really?
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  Speaker 1: Well, mine's positive.
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  Speaker 2: So is mine.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good. You know, if the assignment was fall, mission accomplished.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Great job. It looks like fall. We got a
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  Speaker 2: fall festival. We got cider donuts, scarecrows, flowers, even though like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lot of faux fall.
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  Speaker 2: Faux, faux fall.
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  Speaker 1: I'm okay with that, though, because I think I'd rather
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  Speaker 1: this level of faux fall than another Fall Into Love
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  Speaker 1: 2026 movie that shall remain at this moment where it
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  Speaker 1: was really phoned in. Like, let's put a sprig of
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  Speaker 1: fall leaves in this tree and call it fall so
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  Speaker 1: that there's a hint of fall in the background. I think,
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  Speaker 1: not to beat a dead horse here, but it is
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  Speaker 1: Fall Into Love, and I was happy with to see.
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  Speaker 2: Them bring us the fall. I got to tell you,
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  Speaker 2: while watching, I was like, you know what? I really
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  Speaker 2: want to turn down the AC and grab a blanket
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  Speaker 2: and turn on a pumpkin scented candle and drink me
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  Speaker 2: a pumpkin spice latte. Like it was, I was like, ready.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, let's go to Trader Joe's and get those
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  Speaker 1: apple cider donuts, baby.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. So it did what it needed to do. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This movie earns its place in the fall into love lineup.
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  Speaker 2: Though when they're at the apple orchard. Yeah. Are those?
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  Speaker 1: That's what an apple orchard looks like.
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  Speaker 2: I've never been apple picking.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it looks like.
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  Speaker 2: Like those bright red apples like that right there. Those
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  Speaker 2: weren't fake. I don't know about the apples themselves, but
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  Speaker 2: the orchard, like it's at eye level.
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  Speaker 1: It's not big.
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  Speaker 2: The local orchards here, like you can, that's what it
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  Speaker 2: looks like. But are they like red apples that are
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  Speaker 2: just like hanging there, ready to go? They were shiny.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I feel like they're not. Well, they're not
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  Speaker 2: shiny because they're growing on a tree. Like grocery store
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  Speaker 2: apples are not from nature.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So they may have, I honestly didn't notice the apples themselves. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: But the trees were accurate. They may have, they may
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  Speaker 1: have planted some apples because of course apple season is
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  Speaker 1: short and I don't know when this was filmed and.
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  Speaker 2: If it was filmed. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Prior to this time of year, which I assume it
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  Speaker 1: was not filmed in 2025, probably the orchard was not blooming.
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  Speaker 2: So you think those are potentially fake? Full apple.
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  Speaker 1: But it did seem like a real apple orchard.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Tell me what else you liked.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm happy to see Nathan Witt in a leading
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  Speaker 1: role here. Loved him in Texas Two-Step and he has
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  Speaker 1: this million watt smile that is so endearing on screen.
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  Speaker 1: He has several moments in this movie where he's just
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  Speaker 1: so charming. There's a moment where he goes, I see
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  Speaker 1: you missed me too. And he does like finger guns
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  Speaker 1: and he's just... a sweetheart. And it comes through on
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  Speaker 1: screen and there's no conflict. And that goes to the
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  Speaker 1: storytelling here too. Like there's no enemies to lovers. I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't buy it.
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  Speaker 2: If there was, because he's just a good guy.
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  Speaker 1: After Texas Two-Step, I was like.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, why isn't Nathan Witt in the leading role here?
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  Speaker 2: Why wasn't he?
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  Speaker 1: No shade to Brandon Penny. Loved Brandon Penny in Texas Two-Step,
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  Speaker 1: bringing the heat, but happy to see him as the lead.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too. I agree with you. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: Charming and funny and nice to look at. This is
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  Speaker 2: sort of a... I don't think the material was that exciting. No.
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  Speaker 2: I think he was doing some of the heavy lifting
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  Speaker 2: in the charm department. Absolutely. Really sell me on James
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  Speaker 2: and this situationship and... Whatever. You can see where this
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  Speaker 2: is going, guys, for me personally.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about B.J. Harrison because I always have
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  Speaker 1: a B.J. Harrison moment on my screen. And this was
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  Speaker 1: no exception for me when Gigi opens the door. It's
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  Speaker 1: just like a warm hug on screen. And I particularly
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  Speaker 1: liked that her character was warm and supportive and she
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  Speaker 1: offers advice that guides Kaya to make her own choices
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  Speaker 1: without offering judgment on her choices.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: She says things like, if it doesn't light you up,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's not for you.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm doing that little clap. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's very much of it's not a hell.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's a no. Yeah, totally. And I appreciated that.
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  Speaker 1: She does like lightly give Kaya some shit about being
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  Speaker 1: on her phone a lot for work, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: a through line. She's not really guilting her into making
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  Speaker 1: a choice about changing her job. She's just trying to
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  Speaker 1: kind of gently steer her towards what she really wants.
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  Speaker 1: And I love that in the character. I thought that
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  Speaker 1: character was really well written. I had a really great dialogue,
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  Speaker 1: great advice. Like you said, it was like this steering,
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  Speaker 1: not like this judgy advice giver.
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  Speaker 2: I loved all that. Here's my concern. Is B.J. Harrison being,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to say typecast, but she falls into
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  Speaker 2: the category that Barbara Niven falls into or there's like...
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  Speaker 2: Laura Soltis. Or Laura Soltis. That's a great, another great example. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What would you want?
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  Speaker 2: Would you want B.J. Harrison in a lead role? Are
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  Speaker 2: you afraid that, like, do you want her to have
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  Speaker 2: her second chance romance? No.
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  Speaker 1: I did love her in I'll Be Seeing You.
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  Speaker 2: Great. I loved seeing this, like... female friendship dynamic in
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  Speaker 2: that movie.
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  Speaker 1: That was fantastic. I would love to see more roles
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 2: I would love to see movies made for mature women
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  Speaker 2: that are at the center of the storytelling.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think what I'll Be Seeing You does that
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  Speaker 1: this movie doesn't is that it really fleshes out the
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  Speaker 1: supporting characters and gives them their own identities. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about that more in my wishes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Okay. But do I think no, I just think
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  Speaker 2: she's she's the go to actress for this role, just
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  Speaker 2: like Barbara Nevin is just like Laura Solstice is this
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  Speaker 2: kind of mature maternal figure. And it's not that I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to see B.J. Harrison. It's just like, are
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  Speaker 2: there any other women out there that could audition for
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  Speaker 2: this role? It's not a negative. I hear what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. Like, do we have a
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  Speaker 1: deep bench of mature actors? And I think the answer
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  Speaker 1: is no.
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  Speaker 2: I think the answer is no. And I know they're
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  Speaker 2: out there. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then such a hard thing to say too, because
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  Speaker 1: we say that about Barbara Niven too, but I'm always
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  Speaker 1: happy to see Barbara Niven on my screen. I'm always
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  Speaker 1: happy to see BJ Harrison on my screen, but yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Where are our actors of a certain age?
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  Speaker 1: Well, while I'm running down the cast, I, Jeff Gustafson,
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  Speaker 1: when he comes on screen, I texted Wendy in all caps.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Norman, what a delight.
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  Speaker 2: So glad I got to see him in this. I
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  Speaker 2: noticed that one of the producers was Linda Lisa Hader,
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  Speaker 2: who directed a ton of the SSD movies. And I thought, oh,
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  Speaker 2: maybe that's the connection here. Why Jeff's in this or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: But Gosh, it made me miss Signed, Sealed, Delivered. Truly,
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  Speaker 2: it did. And I thought, maybe I need to do
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  Speaker 2: a rewatch of some of those. I thought so too.
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  Speaker 2: And I have been.
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  Speaker 1: Feeling like rewatchy. I haven't actually done any rewatch, but
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  Speaker 1: I have been building a list of Hallmark Fall titles
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  Speaker 1: that I'd like to rewatch. I'm going to actually publish
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  Speaker 1: it on Instagram because I'm feeling like I need to
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  Speaker 1: lean into some of those cozy moments. Like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Gilmore Girls, everyone calls a fall rewatch. But what are
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  Speaker 1: our Hallmark fall rewatches? Keep an eye on Girls Gone
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited. I got some ideas. I'm excited to see
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  Speaker 2: your list. And of course, Hall of the Halloween is
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  Speaker 2: on there, but it's not. It's some obvious ones, but
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  Speaker 2: some are more vibey. Give me a name right now.
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  Speaker 2: Providence Falls. Really?
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the perfect fall rewatch.
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  Speaker 2: Was that last year? That was last year we watched that.
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  Speaker 2: A little moody. Mm-hmm. Got it. Got it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, okay.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I just gave away my whole list. That's
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  Speaker 2: not your whole list. I'm dying to see the rest
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  Speaker 2: of it. I have one last wish. Mm-hmm. Like.
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  Speaker 1: You're right.
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  Speaker 2: One last.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry for jumping ahead. I have one last like.
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  Speaker 2: I do think there is a good message buried underneath
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  Speaker 2: all of this movie. Oh, me too. Yes. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we have our main Kaya who has reached this place
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  Speaker 2: in adulthood that, you know, is... I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: say hashtag no fun, but she's business, right? You know,
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  Speaker 2: she's like tied to her phone. She doesn't want to
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  Speaker 2: miss a phone call from her boss. There's a corner
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  Speaker 2: office potentially waiting for her trope that drives me absolutely bonkers.
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  Speaker 2: I do love that we get Gigi telling her like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you've kind of lost your spark a little bit. Like,
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  Speaker 2: where's that girl? You know, and there she is. So
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  Speaker 2: the message there is, to me is like adulthood becomes
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  Speaker 2: a game of like being productive and responsible.
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  Speaker 1: And like we start to lose the fun in adulthood.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. And so I liked that message. Do I like
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  Speaker 2: the execution of it with the bucket list? No, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about it in my wishes, but I
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  Speaker 2: like the message, especially someone like me who I I
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  Speaker 2: really feel like I lack a lot of joy and
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  Speaker 2: fun in my everyday life and feel very productive. And
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  Speaker 2: I just want to talk about the schedule and what's
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  Speaker 2: next and what are we doing and have my plan.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Take the moment for like just vibing out in that.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking about?
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  Speaker 1: That is so hard because last night my daughter comes
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  Speaker 1: downstairs and I'm sitting in my office working and it's
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  Speaker 1: nighttime and she's like, I just needed a brain break
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  Speaker 1: from studying. And I am such a to-do list oriented
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  Speaker 1: person that I'm like, oh, she's in front of me. Like,
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  Speaker 1: let me run down.
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  Speaker 2: And I had some school related things to talk to
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  Speaker 2: her about.
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  Speaker 1: And she just looked at me. She goes, that was
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  Speaker 1: not a break. And she walked out of the room.
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  Speaker 2: Like she answered my questions, but she was like, she
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  Speaker 2: came down here just to hang for a few minutes.
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  Speaker 1: And she was not, she's like, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Sense the tone lady.
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  Speaker 1: And I felt so, I was like a little bit amusing,
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  Speaker 1: but then I felt bad, but that is who I am.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think you and I thrive in that kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: here's what, what makes us feel in control.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, that's going to make me feel good
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  Speaker 1: to feel like I've accomplished getting this information that I need.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Like this is a conversation that we need.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Similarly, when it comes to the messaging of this movie,
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of talk about the next right step.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: And they contrast that with the idea that her commitment
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: to her job has cost her the ability to do
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: some of the things that she wanted to do. And
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: for me, I think an important message, which is going
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: to sound like a negative, but is you cannot have
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: it all. And I think trying to have it all
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: is to be in pursuit of disappointment. Because I do
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: think there has to be a compromise. There has to be,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: in this case, she needed to change directions in her
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: job in order to have the joy in her life
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: and the relationships in her life that she wanted. And
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: so I like the idea of the next right thing
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: is I don't have it all figured out. I just
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: need to know in the immortal words of Chad Bartlett,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: what's next.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: And I liked that messaging.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Finally, I do think Overall, this movie does a perfectly
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: fine job of executing the classic Hallmark fall movie, strong
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: fall vibes, strong sense of fall activities, a friends to
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: more romance that you can root for. It's far preferable
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: to when he's making a face, enemies to lovers, or
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I think for me, this lifelong friendship turning into more
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: in an 84 minute format is easier to root for
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: than an enemies to lovers, than a new romance believable
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: in the span of a week.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: I would agree with that.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Let us take a break and come back to talk
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: about our wishes. Hey, Wendy, what did you wish for? Unfortunately,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: I have a long list. Here's my big wish.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Kaya and James both have people in their corner. But
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: as we go down the line, they're increasingly one-dimensional. And
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: we start with Gigi, who I think is the character
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: who's most fleshed out. We know that she had a
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: role in raising Kaya. We know that it's time for
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: her to move on to her next right thing and
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: find her community and dig into retirement. But then we
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: move down to Harper, who.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Bestie. Pregnant Bestie. Pregnant Bestie.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: We know she has a husband.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: We know she has a daughter.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: We know she was the high school class president. But
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: we don't really have a sense of who she is,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: what's going on with her. We just have these kind of.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Identifiers. And then, uh, worst of them all is Ben
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: played by Jeff Gustafson. We know that he's James's friend
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: and coworker and they support each other and he rides
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: hard for the, rides hard for the James and Kaya romance,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: but we don't know anything about who he is.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: And I, I, your point about BJ Harrison and I'll
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: be seeing you it makes it perfectly because in that case,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: she is a supporting character, but she has this very
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: strong backstory and this very, you're rooting for her.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: You're invested in her. You care about what she's doing.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: She's not simply a mirror for the other characters. And
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: if we're going to introduce these people, I want to
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: care about them. And I don't simply want them to
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: be a person with whom our lead character exchanges dialogue.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Got it. I agree, especially good point. On the character
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: of Ben, really know nothing about him. Nothing.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: He doesn't exist outside of his relationship with James in
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: this movie.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Disappointing.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Let's dig into your wishes.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Okay. Tropes on tropes on tropes on tropes. Sure. We
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: knew this going in because we even like talked about it.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: it in our fall preview. We did. Movie. This one
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: almost feels like, you know, it's a, it's a walking
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: bingo card.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: And I can buy some of it. It was like,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: we're going to sell the childhood home. Yeah. We're trying
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: to do this bucket list. We're... It was so many things.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: So many, so many things. And then it was the
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: unfinished bucket list from the teenage years that I was like, yikes.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: You liked it? It didn't bother me. It felt too
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: juvenile to me. And we have.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Two adults who are like, oh, I can't believe it's
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: our 20 year.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: This puts them in almost 40. Yeah. Yeah. And they're
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: trying to finish this bucket list that they made as teenagers.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Why are we committing to finishing this list? One, that's
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: what I really didn't understand. Like, why are we trying
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: to capture this moment in time? Yes.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: This is from the person who recently made a list
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: of things.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: To create more whimsy in my life because I am
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: no fun. So yes. Yeah. Yeah. But I wouldn't go back.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I think adult Wendy, Wendy in 2026 is so much
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: different than Wendy in 1993. Same.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I don't think I would be in pursuit of the
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: same things.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Sure. Yeah. I hear that. I do hear that. I
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: think it would... Here's my critique. I think it would
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: have been better if they used this bucket list as
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: a starting point. And then you start to realize like, oh,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: my teenage self or my adult self doesn't want the
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: same things I wanted as my teenage self. Well, here's
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: actually what I think. I think you're right about that.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: But I think when you look at the bucket list
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: items that they're completing, the bucket list kind of was written...
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Our 16 year olds like.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Get the secret apple cider donut recipe and bake apple
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: cider donuts. That feels like a very adult thing to do.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Make Mr.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Winters. Is that his name? Yeah.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Make Mr. Winters smile. Win King and Queen of the
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Harvest Festival, whatever it is. That it to me felt like.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: They were written, build a scarecrow. It just didn't feel
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: like these were the 16-year-old bucket list ideas.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: They didn't seem authentic to what a teenager would write down. No,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, it felt very natural for them to be
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: doing these things as an adult. So it almost was
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: like they... Of course, this bucket list was created for
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: this movie. So it just feels.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: maybe too obvious that it was created for this movie.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Like I think, I think, and maybe I'm wrong, but
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I think you're looking at it from the perspective of like,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I don't want to do the stuff I wanted to
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: do when I was 16. And I'm looking at it
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: from the perspective of, I don't, with that in mind,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I don't think that really these were on their 16
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: year old bucket list. Like kids are probably more fun
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: than this.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Like what I think is fun. What I think is
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: fun is not the same thing as what my kid
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: thinks is fun.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I have a 16 year old. She's not going to
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: think any of this is fun.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. This bucket list thing didn't really... It didn't land
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: for you. You weren't excited about it. I'm not excited
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: watching these two adults pursue completion of this bucket list. No. What?
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Is there something you would have rather them do? I
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: don't know. Yeah. It just wasn't landing for you. This particular.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: No, I just feel like there's so many other movies
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: that are better, better executed, better storytelling.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, I, I, I, I do agree with that. Look,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I thought this movie, like I said, in my likes,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: I thought it was perfectly fine. Like I think it
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: fits really into the classic Hallmark fall movie, fall activities.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: They kiss at the end, sweet little romance. trope of
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: it all. But you're right. I don't think this movie
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: is pushing the envelope or doing anything surprising. I know.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Sometimes I know there's the viewer who just loves the escapism,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: who loves the comfort watch. But for me, I feel
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: like my expectations are high from week to week because
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I have seen some exceptional movies at this point. Mm-hmm.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: in our Hallmark career. And so that's, that's the, where
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: the bar is at for me. And when we get
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: a movie of this caliber, you know, I, the hater
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: kind of like comes out in me a little bit. Right.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: You don't want those exceptional movies to be the exception.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: You want them to be the rule.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Moving on this movie, please stop telling
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: me about the relationship I'm supposed to be watching this
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: movie relied so heavily on exposition. There were numerous conversations of,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: remember when we did this and then you did this
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: and then that happened and then this happened? Remember when
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: we did this and I was like, oh, my God. Like,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you fix that. I'm not a
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: writer for movie movies, nor am I a director. And
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: I don't mean to like shit on anybody's art. I'm
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: truly at coming as like just like a viewer who
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: wants more. Right. And I don't know how they would
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: have done it. You know, they're trying to establish that
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: they have this long history together and, you know, whatever.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: But it was not working for me. It was not working.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: And some of their dialogue felt very transactional. I thought
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Kaya and James had their dialogue to me was reading
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: it off the page until the very end. It was
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: the very end scene that I was like, oh, there's
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: this couple that I can root for. But it was
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: not until the final scene.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: So I know that you haven't listened to our interview
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: with Alvina August and Nathan Witt, but Alvina said in
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: that interview, I asked about the scene. What scene was
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: the one where they felt their characters went from friends
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: to something more? And they talk about the dinner slash
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: fire pit scene, which I think is obviously the right
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: answer there. But what Alvina said was that they were
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: able to have some input in that scene. And She,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to put words in her mouth, but
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: she said, you know, at some point having all that
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: dialogue feels a little bit stiff. And she wasn't saying
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: that the writing was stiff, but I think she was
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: acknowledging that if you're going to have this relationship. appear
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: to become more it can't happen purely on the basis
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: of dialogue which is why they added in that dance
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: moment and that was probably my favorite scene well and
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: she even says in the interview she's like that dance
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: is like a staple in black weddings and so it
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: was very important for us to represent this relationship she's
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: like that's going to be a recognizable moment for viewers
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: watching this and so I hearing her say that hearing
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: you say like the dialogue felt very transactional and then
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I think I like that they were able to, that scene,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: that dance felt like a real moment. And maybe we
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: didn't get enough of those. I would agree 100%.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: We have been saying for years, especially this last two years,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: that we need more diversity in our homework movies. Yes.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: We finally get a movie with lead actors who are
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: people of color. And everyone else is white. No, I
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: hadn't noticed, but you're right.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: They're everyone else.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: You're right. What I needed from this movie is when
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: we're finally putting diverse leads front and center, I want
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: our actors getting that same rich... memorable material that we're
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: asking for. Now, you said, Alvina, she told you in
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: that interview that she got to bring in some of
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: like that dance. That's very like this moment that is
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: like woven in.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: I needed that throughout the entire movie.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: We need to acknowledge that there's not only a diversity
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: in actors, but there's a diversity in storytelling.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: And we're applying the exact same story. And maybe we
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: need to allow that There's can be more of a
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: richness in the story we're telling.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. I agree with you. Moving on. Finally.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Wait, we have a we have a listener. Who writes
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the most thoughtful emails. She's like a super hype girl
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: for us, but... Her last email was Texas Two-Step. Her
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: last email was Texas Two-Step.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Her name's Kia. Kia, we'd love to hear from you. Yeah, definitely.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Every time she writes in, I'm like, damn.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: It, that's so much better than what we said.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: I know. Any more wishes? No, I think that's it.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk Did You See That?
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Okay. I don't have any.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: You know what is so funny is I was listening
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: to one of our like fall rewind episodes that we
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: dropped recently and it had like true did you see
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: that's in it. And for me, like lately, I haven't
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: been able to spot like true. Did you see that?
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: They're not always there. They're not always there for me
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: in this one. I have two mostly questions. Okay. My
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: first one is the apple cider donuts. Yeah. Aren't they
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: typically fruity? fried? My stomach is growling.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I've had two different styles of apple cider donuts. One,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: like the mini ones that are like fried and like
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: shaken in a bag.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: And then we went to Vermont two years ago and
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: we had apple cider donuts from an apple farm and
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: they were baked like this.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: And it was actually kind of a dissimilar. Oh.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Because I want, they were good if you like a
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: baked donut.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But I want a fried donut.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Is a baked donut a real thing?
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: They were like this, like they had been baked. Were
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: they like a cupcake almost? Because.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: It was like a cake donut shake.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, when they were piping those donuts and I was like, wait,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: I thought you, I thought you piped that into the oil.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Into the fryer. Yeah. Yeah. I think perhaps they're made
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: different ways, but. It did make me want to go
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: to my local Trader Joe's and grab some apple cider donuts.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: They're delicious. They're delicious. Yeah, I might have to do
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: that on the way home. You want to drive to
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Oakland and visit the non-racist apple? Do you want to
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: do that for your birthday? No, it's a long drive.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: You're all, no, I don't want to do that. I'm sorry.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: It's a long drive.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I need it to feel like fall.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll just go to the Trader Joe's instead. Get
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: me a donut over there. I did buy some Pillsbury
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: pumpkin cinnamon rolls. That sounds delicious.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Who's going to eat that now that there's no child
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: in your house and your husband doesn't eat carbs?
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Me? A whole tube? Maybe. No, not a whole tube.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: You know what I've been craving? This is so off topic.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Cookie dough. I've been wanting cookie dough so badly because
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: I was recently in New York and my daughter and
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: I went to Mimi's, which is like a frozen yogurt
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: place that we waited in a 45 minute line to
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: get into the damn store for hours. self-serve yogurt but
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: the cookie dough was like it like you scooped oh
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: yum it wasn't like the little weird balls that you
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: get here like a golden spoon or whatever it was
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: like you scooped it out like my whole cup was
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: like cookie dough and a little bit of yeah it
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: was delicious.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Worth the 45 minute line.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: So funny. Here is my other, did you see that?
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: And it is another food related moment. Sweet potato fries
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: with toasted marshmallow and cinnamon sauce. Get in my belly
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: right now. Sounds incredible. I love that. Sounds incredible.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I'm like, that sounds like a sweet potato casserole, but...
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: In fry form.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Why? Does this exist here? I don't know.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: But I was like, can we make it?
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Like, can I buy? I have Crater Joe's sweet potato
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: fries in my freezer.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Is this something I could like make myself?
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Do you have an air fryer? No, but. I was
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: wondering if that's where you could put like a toasted potato.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Or you could throw some marshmallows on top of that.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: And you could definitely make a cinnamon, like, sauce. Because
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: you make cinnamon... No, you make a brown sugar. Well,
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: I feel like you could.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: If you baked them in the oven, you could maybe
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: toss marshmallows in for, like, 30 seconds at the end.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: And just, like, get them all melty.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: And then.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Might have to try that.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: I did also... Save a TikTok recipe for toasted marshmallow
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: coffee syrup. Oh, yum. I was like, that looks amazing.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: So we'll see if I follow through. I wondered, is
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: this like a regional thing?
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Or like, I've never heard of this. I haven't either,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: but my stomach is growling right now. And I thought
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: it sounded delicious in the moment.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Messy.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: But like maybe you need it with a fork.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Hell yeah. My only other little did you see that
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: movement moment was in that scene when she like spills
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: it on James. But it was like a full like
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: it was angled at him like right into him. I
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: was like, OK. Anyway. What do you got? This was
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: homework sponsored by Anthropic because the AI posters were prevalent.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: There's a moment where she's like downtown and they all
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: have their like vote for me for Harvest King. Those
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: are all the whole board is full of full of
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: AI posters. I'm 99% sure the like Hayride rules sign.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: It had that like very specific AI blocky font on it.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: And then there was like another sign, um, And the
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: throwback photos of them as teenagers. Yeah.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: You know, we're getting, finally, we're getting photos that look better,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: but you know that they were AI generated.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: That's how we're getting them.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: They're like, here, send them to prom. Send them to prom.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever seen the AI generated photos that are
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: like television couples photos? But so there's one of like
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Rory and Logan and it's like, make it look like
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: a blurry snapshot. And it's like Rory and Logan and
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: their daughter and just like selfie-ing on the street.
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  Speaker 2: It made me so sad. I haven't seen that, but
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: I have seen like Rory and Logan and a daughter
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: in the gazebo and it's terrible.
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  Speaker 1: No, this one looks like a blurry selfie.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Like it was actually, I was like, oh, that makes
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: me sad. They just look like so happy out and
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: about with this daughter of theirs. Honestly, the biggest, biggest
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: heartbreak of my life is that Rory and Logan don't
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: have to end up together. Oh no. In my mind,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: they're together. Oh, okay.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: And she's pregnant with his baby.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: They're together. Well, I know she's pregnant with his baby. Guys,
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: this was 10 years ago. I know.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I know she had his baby, but like, did she
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: just have to, like, is he the Christopher who just,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, I can't, it breaks my heart.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Think of them not together.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: He was at Decade Days. Did you see that? Yes,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, Logan. You know what I
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: read in the comments is like, we love Logan, but
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: we like, what's his name on that? On his... Oh,
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: The Resident. Yeah.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: God, he's so good on The Resident.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Well, we like that him better. His character name. I
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: can't remember. Conrad? I can't think of it either. I
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: think it is Conrad. Is that it? I think it
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: is Conrad. That's a great show. He's a great actor.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know why he's not in some more stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: What's he doing now? I don't want to... I was
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: going to say, I don't want him on Hallmark.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Maybe I would want him on Hallmark. I mean, I
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: would love him in a Hallmark. I don't think it's
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: going to happen.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I don't think so either. I think he.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Cbs series by himself you should watch him on the
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: good wife who's really good in that show okay we
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: need to rate this bad boy what did you rate
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: falling into place i i can't is that what it's
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: called no is it falling into place it's either i
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: in my mind i get it tied up with falling
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: into love and fall into pieces oh no anyway i've
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: fallen into pieces this is a totally different movie yes
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: i'm hovering around this three star i'm a three star.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: As well okay Thanks for listening to this episode of
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Girls Gone Hallmark. We'll be back next time with more
• 36:22
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• 36:36
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