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Home Turf · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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Speaker 1: a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
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Speaker 1: Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. Today
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Speaker 1: we're discussing the latest movie from the twenty twenty five
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Speaker 1: Fall Into Love lineup Home Turf, which originally aired on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: linked in our show notes. Let's talk Home Turf with
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Speaker 1: a synopsis. Cassidy is the president of a small college
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Speaker 1: whose life is thrown for loop when freshmen on the
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Speaker 1: football team move into her home. Can Logan, the handsome coach,
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Speaker 1: helps smooth things over. Home Turf is directed by a
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Speaker 1: homemark favorite, McLean Nelson, marking his eighteenth time I'm in
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Speaker 1: the director's chair and he's not done yet. Nelson is
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Speaker 1: also calling the shots on next week's premiere, Haul Out
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Speaker 1: the Halloween. Are you excited for that movie? So excited?
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Speaker 1: Are you? Yeah? I love the Hallo Out the movies,
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Speaker 1: and I know you do, But you don't love Halloween.
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Speaker 1: So no, But I'm okay with observing Halloween. It's not
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Speaker 1: gonna be scary Halloween. No. I know, I don't like
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Speaker 1: putting on a costume. Okay, Well I would be concerned
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Speaker 1: if you were putting on a costume and watching this movie,
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Speaker 1: as you should be. Okay. This script for Home Turf
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Speaker 1: comes from longtime writing duo Greg Rawson and Brian Sawyer.
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Speaker 1: Hallmark fans will recognize their names from favorites like Three Bid,
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Speaker 1: two Bath, One Ghost, The Santa Steak Out, The Perfect Catch,
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Speaker 1: and dozens more. Nikki Deloche plays Cassidy. This movie marks
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Speaker 1: Nikki's seventy sixth acting credit. She will start in the
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Speaker 1: upcoming A Grandual Opry Christmas, as well as two more
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Speaker 1: True Justice mysteries likely to premiere in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: Warren Christie plays Coach Logan. Warren has seventy acting credits
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Speaker 1: and last appeared on Hallmark opposite Nikki in last year's
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Speaker 1: Our Holiday Story. Warren will start in the upcoming A
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Speaker 1: Royal Montana Christmas, which kicks off the twenty twenty five
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Speaker 1: Countdown to Christmas season. Also noteworthy, Warren will play John
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Speaker 1: Edwards in the forthcoming reboot of Little House on the
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Speaker 1: Prairie coming soon to Netflix. Did you know anything about
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Speaker 1: this series? Nothing? Me neither until I was like digging in.
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Speaker 1: I was like, I might be interested in watching that.
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Speaker 1: Were you an original Little House on the Prairie watcher?
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Speaker 1: I did? I did enjoy it, yes, I mean I
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Speaker 1: couldn't tell you anything about it now. I just remember
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Speaker 1: watching it kind of like in reruns. I think, sure, yes,
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Speaker 1: I just remember like when sister Mary went blind. I
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Speaker 1: remember I remember that, and I think, like the mom
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Speaker 1: got attacked one time. I think, oh that I don't know. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I liked a little house in the prairie. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'm definitely watch a reboot at Me too. Timothy Thrillthhall
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Speaker 1: plays Donor Leo Farnsworth. According to IMDb, this is his
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Speaker 1: one and only acting credit. Are you surprised by that? Yes?
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Speaker 1: Did too? He looked familiar. I thought so too. And
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Speaker 1: then I'm putting the notes together, I was like, wait,
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Speaker 1: he has nothing. There's not one thing this is.
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Speaker 2: This is it?
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Speaker 1: That's bizarre. They mass they must have miscredited him. Don't
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Speaker 1: you think something is not right? Well, this is him.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold I'm gonna text you tell me if
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Speaker 1: you think this is him. This person that I'm looking
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Speaker 1: at with the same name. He is a professor at
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Speaker 1: BYU and he was the artistic director of the Seattle
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Speaker 1: Civic Light Opera before coming to BYU. So I wonder
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Speaker 1: was he somehow partnering with I see what you're putting down.
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Speaker 1: That's interesting. Yes, I absolutely think this is him. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's a BYU. Professor. That is bizarre, Yes, very interesting,
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Speaker 1: huh he but he teaches that BYU. He teaches Yeah,
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Speaker 1: in the theater and Media arts department. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how the connection was made, but you
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Speaker 1: can see that there is a connection. Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 1: Hurry interesting, very very interesting. Jess del Vizzo plays Zoeess
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Speaker 1: has just ten acting credits, but did appear in both
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Speaker 1: sister swap movies back in twenty twenty one. Leith Wallschluger
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Speaker 1: plays Teddy fun Fact, this isn't his first football movie.
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Speaker 1: He appeared as Rob Gronkowski in three episodes of a
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Speaker 1: series called American Sports Story. Lewis Boki plays Nick. He
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Speaker 1: has fifteen acting credits and ten wa upcoming projects. This
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Speaker 1: was his first time on Hallmark. Holme Turf was filmed
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Speaker 1: in Utah during the first part of twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: I add here for a second, there were a lot
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Speaker 1: of people in this cast. Oh yeah, I did include everybody.
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Speaker 1: I just kind of included the ones who had like
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Speaker 1: bigger roles, sure other ones. So we're gonna take a
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Speaker 1: quick break and come right back with our first impressions. Hey, Wendy,
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Speaker 1: what was your first impression of Home Turf. Well, did
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Speaker 1: Oat Milk sponsor this movie? Because if not, somebody at
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Speaker 1: Hallmark missed a great opportunity. They were using that Kirkland
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Speaker 1: branded Oat Milk in this movie. I didn't notice that
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Speaker 1: they blocked out the Kirkland logo, but I'd recognize it anywhere.
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Speaker 1: I'd recognize comes in a box of six. Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: I'm an oat Milk girl, but that's not my preferred brand.
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Speaker 1: The only reason I like it is it becomes as mentioned,
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Speaker 1: comes in a box of six, and they are shelf stable,
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Speaker 1: so you can stuck up and not need refrigerator space.
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Speaker 1: Got it? Well, again, missed opportunity. My first impression is
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Speaker 1: who needs touchdowns? When Nicky's wardrobe is a ten out
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Speaker 1: of ten, I have some thought, Okay, we'll get to it. Okay,
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Speaker 1: it didn't. It didn't actually make my official notes, but
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Speaker 1: since you brought it up, I'm just there was this.
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Speaker 1: I agree with you. I thought all her outfits are great.
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Speaker 1: There was one shoe that I thought was like a
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Speaker 1: misstep intended there. I just was like, what, I don't
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Speaker 1: like that shoe? And now I've seen it like several
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Speaker 1: times throughout the movie. It was like a cream colored
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Speaker 1: like I don't know, I just I didn't like it. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I have more to say about her wardrobe in a minute,
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Speaker 1: but let's talk about all you legs for me. Look.
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Speaker 1: I like the premise. I like when Hallmark takes a
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Speaker 1: you know, an opposites attract familiar setup. We all know
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Speaker 1: how it's going to end up, but it gave us
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Speaker 1: in a fresh environment. I liked the college small town
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Speaker 1: college setting. Loved it. I thought it was believable. I
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Speaker 1: just it was. It worked for me. Maybe it's the
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Speaker 1: season of life we're in. Yeah, well, because like you
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Speaker 1: have a college student, I have like a soon to
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Speaker 1: be a college student. College football is on my TV
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Speaker 1: every weekend. Like it's just you know, it conjured up
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Speaker 1: in like the best feelings in the very best way.
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Speaker 1: I thought. I always love a college set story. Give
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Speaker 1: me a college or a boarding school and I am
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Speaker 1: in like sold And I think the vibes were vibing
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Speaker 1: like strong college vibes, the campus setting. I was trying
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Speaker 1: to figure out where they filmed it. I couldn't really
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Speaker 1: figure that out. Oh I saw something on Reddit. I
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Speaker 1: think they showed it is like a real school in
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Speaker 1: the Utah area. I will look for it and I
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Speaker 1: will add it to our show notes if anybody is interested.
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Speaker 1: There's not enough like Hallmark movies with college settings, are there? No?
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Speaker 1: They could use more. I would watch them all. I
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Speaker 1: think so too. There's that one movie where we reviewed
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Speaker 1: years ago, and I had Cameron Matheson in it, and
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Speaker 1: I had like the single mom who moved her daughter
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Speaker 1: into college, and he was like, I don't know a
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Speaker 1: professor or something, Kelly Wagner. I don't think that's her
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Speaker 1: last Kelly Rutherford. Oh why do I think her name's Wagner?
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Speaker 1: You're Yeah? We reviewed that movie with Eric from Hallmark
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Speaker 1: Mysteries and More. Yeah, exactly. I can't remember the name
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Speaker 1: of the movie right now, but neither can I. But yes,
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Speaker 1: that was a good one. Only that's the only movie
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Speaker 1: I can remember outside of Misery one on one that's
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Speaker 1: at a college setting. Yeah, and I love the college
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Speaker 1: setting of Mystery one on one too. Give us more
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Speaker 1: college movies, give us a whole college series. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: i'd be great. How great would it be if you did?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 1: Didn't they have that college one with the trivia last
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Speaker 1: year where she had to stick around? But that really
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Speaker 1: wasn't college set. Uh, but yeah, give us like stuck
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Speaker 1: on campus during which is what that story was, but
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Speaker 1: like lean into the college piece of it. Yeah, I agree, Okay, agree?
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Speaker 1: What else did you like? I really enjoyed Niki Deloche
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Speaker 1: and Warren Christie together. I thought they were a perfect match.
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Speaker 1: We talked about this last week too, because we had
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Speaker 1: an Andrew Walker movie last week, right, did we? Yes?
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Speaker 1: In the Brooding movie? Yes, and I was and I
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Speaker 1: was like, oh, it's so great to see Andrew working
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Speaker 1: with somebody who's not Nicki de Loche. Again this week,
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Speaker 1: It's so great to see Niaki Deloche working with somebody
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Speaker 1: who's not Andrew Walker. Like it, just like I liked
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Speaker 1: them together of course as Tom and Goldie, but I
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Speaker 1: liked them apart as well, Like I really liked her
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Speaker 1: with Warren Christy. I think she and Warren Christy have
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Speaker 1: a great chemistry. I think they have such like a
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Speaker 1: natural They feel such a great match. To me. I
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Speaker 1: thought so too. They had great cam machine. Now let
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Speaker 1: me ask you this. I was putting my notes together
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Speaker 1: this morning, and I was like, huh, was there ever
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Speaker 1: any mention for either of these two mature adults that
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Speaker 1: there was like they were divorced or they were anything.
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Speaker 1: I don't think so chronically single, nothing like that. Right, Well,
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Speaker 1: she was she was divorced because she had been. I'm
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Speaker 1: pretty sure she was divorced. She had been with that guy.
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Speaker 1: I thought. She said they got married at the end
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Speaker 1: of college, and their deal was like, that's right, that's right,
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Speaker 1: I'll support you through grad school and you'll support me.
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Speaker 1: And then he bounced, that's right. But it wasn't like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I'm single and sad. There was none of that, right.
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Speaker 1: I appreciated that. I liked it. I don't think it
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Speaker 1: needs to be part of every narrative, especially when we
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Speaker 1: have our leads are kind of, let's say, mature. I
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Speaker 1: kind of like the chaos in the house like a
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Speaker 1: little bit. I was like, you know, when there's uniforms
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Speaker 1: falling out of the pantry. Maybe we went like a
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Speaker 1: little bit too far, but you know, it's like front
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Speaker 1: House would make it Hallmark chaos were kind of fun,
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Speaker 1: over the top. But I thought also Nikki's golf heart
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Speaker 1: joy ride was a particular highlight. I mean, her just
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Speaker 1: running over people left and right. It was fun. I
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Speaker 1: enjoyed it. Okay, So I was worried. I was like,
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Speaker 1: this is gonna go to hygieninx for me. Yeah, but
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Speaker 1: they rained it in. It didn't. It got rained in.
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Speaker 1: There was that really funny scene where like the pantry
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Speaker 1: is stocked with protein powder. Yes, this is very relatable.
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Speaker 1: That was so funny. I don't know whoever thought about that,
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Speaker 1: but that was really really clever. I loved that. I
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Speaker 1: agree with you that Nikki's kind of like spinning out stuff.
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Speaker 1: I found enjoyable. But I am going to talk about
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Speaker 1: it in my wishes as well. We'll get there. I
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Speaker 1: want to talk about Nicki for a second. Yeah, in particular,
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Speaker 1: I think she deserves a lot of credit here for
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Speaker 1: delivering some of the dialogue. I thought the dialogue was
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Speaker 1: really good in this movie. Now I have seen on
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Speaker 1: Reddit some people were some people were not very kind
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Speaker 1: about the dialogue, like that it was very dry. I
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Speaker 1: thought it was fine and enjoyable, and there were several
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Speaker 1: times I thought Nikki like really like gave like certain
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Speaker 1: inflection or she did emoted with her face like that
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Speaker 1: really worked with the dialogue. There's one scene, it's a
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Speaker 1: total throwaway scene at the very top of the movie
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Speaker 1: and when she was she like sees the security guy
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Speaker 1: and she's like, oh, thanks for taking care of that
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Speaker 1: frat party last night, and he's like, oh, they were
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Speaker 1: playing Gaga, And I was just like, that's so cute.
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Speaker 1: This like total throwaway moment, but it was. It worked
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Speaker 1: for me. It felt very kind of pop cultury and relevant,
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Speaker 1: which I love when our Hallmark movies have a sprinkle
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Speaker 1: of that in it too. It worked for me. This
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Speaker 1: movie worked for me. It worked for me too. And
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Speaker 1: one thing I was paying attention. There's a moment where
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Speaker 1: she and Warren Christie's character are bantering back and forth.
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Speaker 1: And I think it's a combination of good acting and
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Speaker 1: good editing, because sometimes those edits where the cuts between
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Speaker 1: camera shots are going back and forth between dual perspectives,
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Speaker 1: sometimes those are shot in two takes right, like you'll
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Speaker 1: get a shot like looking over Nikki's shoulder while Warren
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Speaker 1: is speaking, and then you'll get another shot. And so
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Speaker 1: sometimes I find I used to think it was like
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Speaker 1: an issue with delivery of dialogue, but I actually think
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Speaker 1: it's an editing issue where the edits aren't made tight
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Speaker 1: enough to make that conversation pace feel natural. And it
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Speaker 1: was well done here where the edits were as quick
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Speaker 1: as the equipping back and forth. I really appreciated that.
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Speaker 1: You know, you and I love a rapid fire conversation,
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Speaker 1: and I like it when the dialogue keeps up. Did
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Speaker 1: that scene happen to be when they went out for
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Speaker 1: breakfast and he used his meal point to pay no?
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Speaker 1: But that was very funny? Yes, Oh my god, the
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Speaker 1: way I laughed, the way I laughed, and she just
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Speaker 1: was like, oh, like super like kind of annoyed by it. Yes,
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Speaker 1: that's where you took her. It was just it was
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Speaker 1: executed so nicely, I thought. I thought it was great too.
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Speaker 1: I loved the found family element that they put into this,
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Speaker 1: you know, like she just cares for these kids, which
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Speaker 1: I'm not surprised she's a college president. I'm sure any
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Speaker 1: any person in like a college administration or a professor
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Speaker 1: or whatever you see these kids as like your own, right,
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Speaker 1: I would hope that's the case. Say you think thea
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Speaker 1: at least care about them and their well being. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was nice to see her being maternal towards them, right,
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Speaker 1: And I like that she had this kind of arc
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Speaker 1: of like these kids are destroying my house too, Like
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Speaker 1: I love them, and we're going to get together every
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Speaker 1: Sunday night or whatever. Yeah, and fly in that kid's
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Speaker 1: family because he's homesick. Yes, I loved it, loved it,
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Speaker 1: loved it. The last thing I liked, I enjoyed. And
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Speaker 1: we talked about their Warren Christy and Nikki delicious chemistry.
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Speaker 1: They have this kiss and I was like, whoa Warren
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Speaker 1: delivers during the pop up concert? It was yeah, it
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Speaker 1: was good concert. Yes, Wow, what are we doing here?
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Speaker 1: There's nobody else here? Come on people, yeah, come on people.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, yeah, that kiss was h s GEMI
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Speaker 1: I thought, yeah, all the like face touching is perfection, perfection.
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Speaker 1: I want to circle back to my wardrobe comment before
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Speaker 1: we move on to wishes because listener Mackie, who also
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Speaker 1: happens to be Facebook group moderator. Mackie sent us an
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Speaker 1: email about the costume designer on this movie, whose name
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Speaker 1: is Audrey Nelson. She happens to be the sister of
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Speaker 1: director McLean Nelson. This is her first credit as a
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Speaker 1: lead costume designer. Mackie's comment was, Nikki looks so stylish
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Speaker 1: in the previews for this movie. I think Audrey has
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Speaker 1: great potential to fall in the footsteps of other celebrated
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Speaker 1: costume designers like Keith Nielsen. I'm nice. I thought NICKI
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Speaker 1: looked great. I loved her blazers, I loved her coats.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad this was filmed in March and Utah when
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Speaker 1: it is cold and she wasn't sweating it out in August.
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Speaker 1: I agree, I just didn't like those I didn't clock
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Speaker 1: the shoes. I did not clock the shoes. Let's stop wishes, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I have a few, and I mentioned it earlier. I
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Speaker 1: thought Cassidy's personality early on in this movie leaned too
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Speaker 1: far into this rigid, hyper controlling woman who just needs
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Speaker 1: to loosen up a little bit. I don't. This is
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Speaker 1: a stereotype I don't like or appreciate, and I think
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Speaker 1: homework leans into it a lot. Yeah. My comment was
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Speaker 1: that this college president needs to learn a little resiliency,
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Speaker 1: because that is your life is putting out fires, and
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Speaker 1: I felt like she couldn't handle even the slightest bit
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Speaker 1: of inconvenience. Now, having obviously football players moved in to
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Speaker 1: your house is the other end of that, but I
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Speaker 1: just felt like there was no give at first, and
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Speaker 1: I needed her to, you know, we were teaching our
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Speaker 1: kids to be resilient. She needed to learn the same thing. Interesting,
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Speaker 1: that's interesting. I agree with you there, I just give
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Speaker 1: me something more to understand why her character was this
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Speaker 1: type a country because she's learned that she can't count
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Speaker 1: on anybody else. Oh, you're right, it is there, it
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Speaker 1: is Okay, Well that makes sense. But I still didn't
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Speaker 1: like it. I just don't like when you know, she
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Speaker 1: looks like the bad guy. Yeah, for sure, I I
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Speaker 1: don't disagree. I didn't love a lot of the contention
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Speaker 1: that we saw between her and coach Logan, Like I
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Speaker 1: felt like in the beginning he was like, just relax,
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Speaker 1: go with the flow that vibe, which like nothing ratchets
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Speaker 1: up my blood pressure faster than someone telling me to
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Speaker 1: relax or calm down or just be cool, go with
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Speaker 1: the flow. Like you can't just go with the flow,
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Speaker 1: like somebody has to make the flow. And so I
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Speaker 1: didn't love that she was the one who had to
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Speaker 1: be like, okay, we need you need to listen to
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Speaker 1: me here, like this isn't gonna work the way you
19:43
Speaker 1: think it's gonna work. And I think she came up
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Speaker 1: with a very reasonable yes option that they would be
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Speaker 1: like housed off off campus or whatever. Look, I want
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Speaker 1: to talk about my my obsession with TikTok. I see
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Speaker 1: lots and lots of videos of like college kids like
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Speaker 1: getting you know, broken broken pipes or whatever and being
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Speaker 1: flooded out of their dorm rooms and then the school
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Speaker 1: has to make other accommodations for them, Like it happens right,
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Speaker 1: My college had a housing shortage one year and there
20:15
Speaker 1: were freshmen living in the hotel across the street. Like
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Speaker 1: they literally turned the hotel into dorms. This is not
20:21
Speaker 1: all that unusual. Yeah, I don't think it's. Well, okay,
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Speaker 1: let me get to my next point then, which really
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Speaker 1: bothered me is the space that they used, that unused
20:31
Speaker 1: space that they were going to transform into like the
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Speaker 1: formal four. Oh yeah, put some beds in there, exactly.
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Speaker 1: I was like, why didn't we use this space? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Uh huh yeah, and maybe they didn't have like showers,
20:45
Speaker 1: but these are also student athletes who probably have access
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Speaker 1: to gyms with for sure a locker room, locker rooms,
20:52
Speaker 1: yeah exactly, Yes, but there was your solution, but no
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Speaker 1: had to move into the president's house. Yeah exactly. I
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Speaker 1: was wondering, like this time exists in this because there's
21:06
Speaker 1: all these deadlines, right, it's football season. They're also trying
21:11
Speaker 1: to pitch this donor and also have this formal dance.
21:16
Speaker 1: But like their days are so long. I'm like, how
21:20
Speaker 1: many hours are in a day? Yeah, this the timing
21:22
Speaker 1: was weird to me. And then like she'd be in
21:24
Speaker 1: the office, and then she'd be at her home office,
21:27
Speaker 1: and then she would be you know, she had to
21:28
Speaker 1: walk to school all the time at yes, very same clothes,
21:32
Speaker 1: all in the same clothes. And then in the beginning
21:34
Speaker 1: they're like, well, we only have they're only living here
21:36
Speaker 1: for three days, which to me, I was like three
21:38
Speaker 1: days or five days or whatever, Like they can go
21:41
Speaker 1: stay in a hotel for five days, it's not the
21:42
Speaker 1: entire season, Like we're being ridiculous here. Two other wishes
21:47
Speaker 1: that I had was I didn't love I didn't love
21:50
Speaker 1: the conflict that happened. You know, Cassidy's mad that Logan
21:55
Speaker 1: doesn't make it back in time for the donor pitch, right,
21:58
Speaker 1: and I thought that she was overreact in a little
22:00
Speaker 1: bit because life happens. He wasn't being careless or disrespectful.
22:04
Speaker 1: He went to like his dad's like thing got caught
22:08
Speaker 1: up with like something didn't pick up the model in time,
22:12
Speaker 1: did not get back to the school in time, and
22:15
Speaker 1: I felt like, oh, this would have been like a
22:17
Speaker 1: good moment to realize, Okay, these are two like professionals
22:20
Speaker 1: who are both have crazy demands on them. But it
22:24
Speaker 1: was all this manufacturer like you have to get back
22:26
Speaker 1: in time and do this pitch or it's all going
22:28
Speaker 1: to fall apart. And he doesn't, and she's pissed, and
22:31
Speaker 1: I'm like, what this is? This is easily talked through. Yeah,
22:35
Speaker 1: So my feeling about that is I kind of liked
22:39
Speaker 1: the idea of you know, she makes that final speech
22:42
Speaker 1: in the end about not being a lone wolf but
22:44
Speaker 1: being part of a wolf pack, and I like that
22:46
Speaker 1: she brought it full circle because she had originally talked about,
22:50
Speaker 1: you know, like I learned when my husband left, like
22:53
Speaker 1: I can't haunt on anybody but myself. I thought it
22:56
Speaker 1: fell apart in the exact moment that you did when
22:58
Speaker 1: he doesn't make it back in time, and that one
23:00
Speaker 1: little slight is her realizing like I can't count on anybody,
23:04
Speaker 1: instead of her like backtracking to be like it was
23:08
Speaker 1: such a slim margin of era that we were going
23:09
Speaker 1: to be able to make this happen anyway, Like, dude
23:12
Speaker 1: built a model in forty eight hours, and this guy's
23:15
Speaker 1: maybe going to make it back in time to make
23:17
Speaker 1: it to the presentation, Like there was no build in
23:21
Speaker 1: for like a only in the best case scenario does
23:24
Speaker 1: this work out. She just went straight to like, you
23:26
Speaker 1: have failed me. I cannot count on anybody ever. Again,
23:30
Speaker 1: here's another problem I have, just a small one. It
23:33
Speaker 1: is such a bad idea for the president of the
23:35
Speaker 1: school to be romantically involved with the football coach, especially
23:39
Speaker 1: with all like the budgetary issues. Yes, exactly, this is
23:43
Speaker 1: a nightmareage. Yes, Oh this is bad. This is a
23:46
Speaker 1: bad idea. Uh huh uh huh. I don't disagree with
23:49
Speaker 1: you at all. The last wish I had is I
23:54
Speaker 1: don't understand. Explain to me, like I'm a child. How
23:58
Speaker 1: do they save the arts program by building a football stadium?
24:01
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it makes no sense to me. They're like,
24:05
Speaker 1: we can offer naming rights. You already named it after
24:07
Speaker 1: the Farnsworth Dude, Like we're calling it, yeah, Farnsworth Field. Okay,
24:11
Speaker 1: well now you can't call it State Farms Stadium. Like
24:13
Speaker 1: when we get to do there? Wow, how does this
24:18
Speaker 1: news stadium make money for the arts program? I don't understand. Yeah,
24:23
Speaker 1: I didn't understand it. But I also hated that, let's
24:28
Speaker 1: go down this road again, that the arts are you know, underfunded.
24:35
Speaker 1: What movie was it? It was those? It was those,
24:39
Speaker 1: the four movies. They had the same thing that arts
24:43
Speaker 1: were being cut from their school. Do you know what
24:45
Speaker 1: I'm talking about? The table movies? Yeah, around the table hearts,
24:49
Speaker 1: around the table movies. Yeah, exactly. Like part of me
24:53
Speaker 1: like gets it. I'm like, Okay, it does need to
24:56
Speaker 1: be talked about, but also like I oh, I can't
25:01
Speaker 1: get like that excited over it. Like I'm not getting
25:03
Speaker 1: that worked up over it. And they have this like
25:06
Speaker 1: whole scene where they have this sort of like pop
25:10
Speaker 1: up on campus and arts pop up. They have like
25:14
Speaker 1: two home service gosh, embarrassing, welcome everybody. I was like,
25:18
Speaker 1: there's nobody there, what's happening? What is this thing that
25:20
Speaker 1: they have going on? There's like eight people standing around.
25:24
Speaker 1: So silly, so silly, so silly. But that's all I have.
25:27
Speaker 1: Her wishes. Let's talk to you. Just see that. I
25:30
Speaker 1: have a few. God, I have so many things to say.
25:32
Speaker 1: Let's hear it. Oh my gosh, I'm excited to hear yours.
25:36
Speaker 1: One is there is a September calendar in the kitchen,
25:39
Speaker 1: hanging in Cassidy's kitchen, And I hate it when, like
25:44
Speaker 1: Hallmark time stamps, they're like that, first of all, this
25:47
Speaker 1: is October. Like I know, I know when they made
25:50
Speaker 1: this movie they didn't know exactly when was going to
25:52
Speaker 1: come out. It just needs it to be fall. It's okay, Yeah,
25:54
Speaker 1: I don't need it. I don't need a September calendar
25:57
Speaker 1: to tell me it's fall. Sure, I know it's fall
25:59
Speaker 1: because college football is happening. Yes, anyway, that's one of mine.
26:03
Speaker 1: Tell me one of yours. Oh my god, I have
26:04
Speaker 1: so many. Uh, I have a couple. Did you hear that's? Oh?
26:07
Speaker 1: First up, open up, rip Van Wilder when she's banging
26:10
Speaker 1: on the door, Rip Van Wilder's a great line, laughed
26:13
Speaker 1: out loud. Huh, I did not catch it, so funny,
26:17
Speaker 1: Like do you understand the joke? I don't. Rip Van
26:20
Speaker 1: Winkle is like Sleeps Forever. And then Van Wilder is
26:24
Speaker 1: that movie with Ryan Reynolds where he's like the college bozo.
26:28
Speaker 1: I loved it, a movie my husband loves, which is
26:31
Speaker 1: why I have seen it. Wait with Ryan Reynolds, you
26:34
Speaker 1: mean you mean wait the guy that was in he
26:37
Speaker 1: just recently passed Val Kilmer. Val Kilmer in Van Wilder.
26:42
Speaker 1: He was in a movie similar to that, which feels
26:45
Speaker 1: like a movie your husband would watch. Hold on, real genius.
26:48
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. I don't know why
26:50
Speaker 1: am I thinking? Like, man, okay, whatever, all right, never mind. Yeah,
26:54
Speaker 1: Van Wilder is Ryan Reynolds and Tara Reid. He's like
26:57
Speaker 1: a the eighth year senior. Anyway, it was a funny line,
27:00
Speaker 1: quick throwaway. Also one of the football players as he's
27:04
Speaker 1: like excusing himself, He's like, I'm gonna go pop and
27:06
Speaker 1: lock it with the guys. Yeah, I got that here
27:08
Speaker 1: of that and another, did you hear that there's a
27:11
Speaker 1: discussion of the college transfer portal, which I wondered if
27:14
Speaker 1: you clocked because I only know about because of you,
27:17
Speaker 1: and then our friend who is a college basketball coach didn't.
27:20
Speaker 1: But now get me started on it. I know the
27:22
Speaker 1: coach is like, now call it. Kids can transfer schools
27:26
Speaker 1: at any point and that messes up my program. So
27:29
Speaker 1: I thought it was a timely mention. What other did
27:32
Speaker 1: you see that? You have just some inconsistencies. During the
27:36
Speaker 1: breakfast scene that I talked about earlier, where he takes
27:39
Speaker 1: her out to the student cafe or whatever, I couldn't
27:43
Speaker 1: stop noticing Nikki has her fork in one hand and
27:46
Speaker 1: then it's gone, and then it's there again and it's gone.
27:49
Speaker 1: It's not like I mean, these are like rapid fire
27:50
Speaker 1: back and forth. Yeah, she's holding it, she's not. She's
27:53
Speaker 1: holding it, she's not. That's just one of those things
27:57
Speaker 1: that drives me crazy. Not everybody catches it. And the
28:01
Speaker 1: other is towards the end where they're making smoothies in
28:04
Speaker 1: the kitchen and they blend up the smoothie and then
28:07
Speaker 1: the next scene it's not blended. Yes, I did notice that,
28:11
Speaker 1: did you? Yeah? I love it. You can still see
28:14
Speaker 1: like the fruit sticking up out of the top yep. Yes.
28:16
Speaker 1: So on the way out of the locker room, there's
28:18
Speaker 1: a sign that says trust and it is very much
28:20
Speaker 1: written in the style of the Ted Lasso Believes sign
28:22
Speaker 1: with straight up blue tape around it on the wall.
28:25
Speaker 1: When they make the apology meals or like everybody made
28:28
Speaker 1: a meal from their hometown except one of the Dude's
28:31
Speaker 1: contribution to the apology meal is simply to say Antonio
28:34
Speaker 1: made flyun which, okay, there are no other cars on
28:38
Speaker 1: the road, but the Kappa Beta's parking her driveway every
28:40
Speaker 1: single day while not a single car is parked on
28:43
Speaker 1: the street. And finally, when they go grocery shopping in
28:48
Speaker 1: that tiny store, it makes no sense. First of all,
28:51
Speaker 1: the store is about the size of my living room.
28:54
Speaker 1: They talk about how the dudes eat a lot, but
28:55
Speaker 1: he buys like four single apples and places them loosely
28:58
Speaker 1: in the cart. I mean, it's like they staged a
29:01
Speaker 1: grocery store. There is no way that's either. Like maybe
29:05
Speaker 1: it's like a college mini mart. I could see it
29:07
Speaker 1: being that where they have like, you know, little things
29:10
Speaker 1: that you can grab and go, but it was not
29:13
Speaker 1: a full grocery store. I didn't even really clock that.
29:17
Speaker 1: I mean, you'd have it, you probably don't even need to.
29:21
Speaker 1: But he's like they eat so much, and then he's
29:23
Speaker 1: like apple, Apple, Apple. I'm like, there's five of them,
29:26
Speaker 1: and you bought three apples and you put them loosely
29:28
Speaker 1: in the cart, and there's eight things on the shelves
29:31
Speaker 1: in this store. What I also thought was funny too,
29:34
Speaker 1: is like these same five guys like kept showing up.
29:36
Speaker 1: I was like, this is not your whole football team, Like,
29:38
Speaker 1: where's the other forty five Yes, guys that play on
29:42
Speaker 1: your team and the other coaches you coach with. Yes,
29:46
Speaker 1: football practice was very small. Also, when they were like
29:50
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta have a chorch ar I'm like,
29:52
Speaker 1: they're here for five days? How often? Like you don't
29:55
Speaker 1: need to meal plan and grocery shop. These dudes are athletes,
29:58
Speaker 1: go eat on campus, they have a meal plan totally. Yeah,
30:01
Speaker 1: I'm like, why are they eating at her home? Yeah?
30:03
Speaker 1: What did you rate Home Turf? Well, it might surprise you,
30:08
Speaker 1: but I actually really liked it. I gave it four stars.
30:10
Speaker 1: I gave it four stars too that I feel like
30:13
Speaker 1: my list of wishes is pretty long, Like there are
30:16
Speaker 1: like a lot of things that I found wrong with it,
30:18
Speaker 1: but I enjoyed the vibe of it the most. Yeah,
30:22
Speaker 1: I agree. So, yeah, it was great. I didn't think
30:25
Speaker 1: it felt very like Fall, unless you're like football is
30:28
Speaker 1: synonymous with fall. But I did enjoy the movie. Yeah. Hey,
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