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Champagne Problems (Netflix) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark. But today we are Girls
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  Speaker 2: Gone Netflix for a very special episode. I'm Megan and
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  Speaker 2: I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Windy, I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 2: On today's episode, we're reviewing Champagne Problems, which is currently
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  Speaker 2: available to stream on Netflix. Don't worry, our Hallmark content
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  Speaker 2: isn't going anywhere. We just wanted to expand a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: This season.
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  Speaker 1: Netflix has dropped a bunch of Christmas movies. Sure, and
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  Speaker 1: I watch a lot of Netflix, so of course it's
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  Speaker 1: it's like offered up to me. I'm like, Oh, what's
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  Speaker 1: this movie? Oh? What's this movie? Even today, Megan, and
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  Speaker 1: I know you don't want to hear this, but today
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  Speaker 1: I saw an add for something my Secret Santa or something. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, should we review? Yeah? And then
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  Speaker 1: I knew that was going to be your response, so
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  Speaker 1: I was like, no, look, do you want to We
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  Speaker 1: don't have time for it. Okay, we don't have time.
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  Speaker 1: But I did think the premise sounded real cute.
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  Speaker 2: I have seen talk of it. I haven't dug into
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  Speaker 2: any of the talk, but I've seen it across my
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  Speaker 1: I thought it looked good to me. I just we
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  Speaker 1: don't have room on the schedule for the rest of December.
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  Speaker 2: That's true, but although this is a Saturday drop, so
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  Speaker 2: it could be an additional Saturday drop.
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  Speaker 1: I feel super bad right now, because I know there's conton.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of context here that's missing. There was
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  Speaker 1: a previous episode recently where I was like, how long
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  Speaker 1: are we going to be reviewing podcasts for I'm fifty
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  Speaker 1: I know, but lately I've been like I feel like
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  Speaker 2: off our discussion of Champagne Problems with a synopsis.
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  Speaker 1: And executive travels to France to secure the acquisition of
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  Speaker 1: a renowned champagne brand before Christmas, but her plans are
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  Speaker 1: upended when she falls into a whirlwind romance with a
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  Speaker 1: charming Parisian, only to discover he's the founder's son.
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  Speaker 2: Champagne Problems was written and directed by Mark Stephen Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: This is Mark Stephen's ninth directing credit. Previous work includes
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  Speaker 2: the theatrical movies Daredevil and Win in Rome. As for writing.
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  Speaker 2: Mark Stephen has thirteen writing credits, including the nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 2: three movie Grumpy Old Men and its sequel Grumpier Old Men.
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  Speaker 2: Other screenplays include Jack Frost, Daredevil, and Electra Side note,
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  Speaker 2: did you know that I'm quite a big fan of
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  Speaker 2: the Grumpy Old Men franchise? Color me not surprised?
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  Speaker 1: Really? Shout out to Mark Stephen Johnson. Then he's got
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  Speaker 1: a new fan indeed. Minka Kelly stars as Sydney. Minka
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  Speaker 1: is probably best known for her breakout role as Lyla
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  Speaker 1: Garrity on the series Friday Night Lights. She has gone
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  Speaker 1: on to appear in Parenthood, Titans, Euphoria, and the Hellmark
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  Speaker 1: tear jerker The Beach House.
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  Speaker 2: Tom was Nica plays Henri. Tom is a French actor
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  Speaker 2: with nine acting credits, including Drops of God and Slow Horses,
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  Speaker 2: both from Apple TV plus.
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  Speaker 1: Tibau de Monte Labert plays Hugo Cassel. Tibo is another
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  Speaker 1: French actor with an impressive one hundred and eighteen acting credits.
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  Speaker 1: Some of his roles include the twenty twenty two movie
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  Speaker 1: All Quiet on the Western Front and the series The Tunnel.
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  Speaker 2: Sean Amsing plays Roberto. Sean has sixty five acting credits,
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  Speaker 2: with recent appearances in the series Family Law, Heyo and
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  Speaker 2: Blame the Accountant.
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  Speaker 1: Lula Borg plays Auto. Flula is a German actor who
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  Speaker 1: has ninety six acting credits, with roles in The Rookie
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  Speaker 1: Ghosts and Pitch Perfect Bumper in Berlin. What it was
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  Speaker 1: a series? Oh? He was also a short Pitch Perfect too. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see his name on that one. Maybe I
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  Speaker 1: didn't scroll back that far.
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  Speaker 2: Also the classic Chipmunks movie Road Chip. We are big
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  Speaker 2: fans of the Chipmunks franchise in this house.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, we cannot be friends anymore.
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  Speaker 2: The Chipmunks, the squeak Will, Road Chip.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know how much I hate the Chipmunks?
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  Speaker 2: What is the cruise one called?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know and don't care, chip Wrecked? We love
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  Speaker 1: them all? God, we know this squeak Will. That's fun. No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like cartoons. I don't like the Chipmunks cartoon.
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  Speaker 2: It's live action, baby.
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  Speaker 1: Oh even it's a hijinks on hijinks on hyjiin No.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see where my were it comes from? Like
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  Speaker 1: my disdain for all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, of course it's a family favorite, all four of
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  Speaker 2: those movies. Anyway, Astrod Wetnoll appears as Brigitte Astrod is
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  Speaker 2: a Belgian actress known for her role as Sylvie on
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  Speaker 2: The Missing May of Courtier. Lily plays sister Skyler. She
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  Speaker 2: has just ten acting credits, though she has appeared in
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  Speaker 2: several series, including The Outpost, The Red King, and The
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  Speaker 2: Light in the Hall.
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  Speaker 1: Xavier Samuel plays colleague Ryan. Xavier has forty five acting
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  Speaker 1: credits and appeared in the twenty twenty two theatrical film
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  Speaker 1: All This.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take a quick break and we will come right
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  Speaker 2: back with our first impressions of Champagne Problems. Hey, Wendy,
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  Speaker 2: what was your first impression of Champagne Problems?
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  Speaker 1: This movie feels like a version of a Hallmark movie
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  Speaker 1: you'd catch if you only stayed up after midnight. And
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  Speaker 1: I mean that in the very best way. Dark. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark after dark.
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  Speaker 2: This movie, for me, sets up the rom and then
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  Speaker 2: hits us with the calm, and I am.
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  Speaker 1: Here for it. You think there was tons of calm
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  Speaker 1: in this? Roberto? Come on, well, no, Roberto, Definitely I
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  Speaker 1: loved Roberto. Yes, okay, let's talk about what we liked. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so many things. Are you surprised? I think you sound surprised.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit because a little bit, a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I kind of think, like in the Christmas movie,
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  Speaker 2: made for streaming, made for television world, like Hallmark is
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  Speaker 2: kind of the gold standard. A lot of the others
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  Speaker 2: don't always measure up.
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  Speaker 1: This fits right in. Yeah, but it's better than Hallmark, though,
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  Speaker 1: don't you think so.
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  Speaker 2: I thought there were a lot of great things about it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think there's anything particularly unique about the story
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  Speaker 2: same but I thought it was well executed.
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  Speaker 1: I agree. But it's funny that you look at it
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  Speaker 1: and you go, oh, it was I'm from your impression.
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  Speaker 1: You think it was heavy on comedy.
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  Speaker 2: Not heavy on comedy, but the opening, you know, twenty
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  Speaker 2: minutes are covered in romance, which I really liked. That's
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  Speaker 2: not my favorite thing, but I was kind of like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm all in on this Parisian romance.
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  Speaker 1: Give me more.
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  Speaker 2: These two beautiful people falling in love.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: And then the tone shifts and we get kind of
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  Speaker 2: a reverse slow Burn situation because they've already hooked up,
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  Speaker 2: but now there's a roadblock in their way, and we
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  Speaker 2: get all of these other characters thrown in, and we
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  Speaker 2: get the humor of Roberto and the humor. I think
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  Speaker 2: Auto brings a very different kind of humor to his role.
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  Speaker 2: And then we see Sydney and Henri trying to work
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  Speaker 2: their way back to each other. And I liked the romance.
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  Speaker 2: I liked the warmth, you know, the scene between Hugo
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  Speaker 2: and Sydney where he's kind of bearing his soul to her,
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  Speaker 2: and Hugo and Henri where he apologizes to him for
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  Speaker 2: not being there.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of heart in this movie. Thanks for listening, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: There's so much more to talk about. Tell me what
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  Speaker 1: you liked. Okay, for me, first of all, I'm watching
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  Speaker 1: the throw a Hallmark lens obviously, right, so I'm bringing
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  Speaker 1: that baggage into it maybe going forward if we do
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  Speaker 1: other movies I like, won't like watch it through that lens.
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  Speaker 1: But with that said, I thought this was a little
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  Speaker 1: more grown up than what we would get with a
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  Speaker 1: typical Hallmark romance, especially the we spent the night together.
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  Speaker 1: It really reminded me of the recent we met in December,
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  Speaker 1: same sort of kind of outlay. They our couple meets
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  Speaker 1: each together, they have a wonderful night together. This movie
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  Speaker 1: just took it one step further, and I didn't hate it.
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  Speaker 1: I like, I liked all that. Yeah, I loved Mika Kelly.
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  Speaker 1: She's so good. She is so good. I recently started
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  Speaker 1: rewatching Friday Night Lights and I had remembered, like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: she's really good. She's a great actor. I loved her
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  Speaker 1: in this. I thought that that, you know, she makes
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  Speaker 1: the big emotional moments feel earned. She's very as her character.
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  Speaker 1: She's very good at her job, Like I'm invested in,
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  Speaker 1: like what her role is going out to this champagne farm.
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  Speaker 1: I know that's vineyard, you know what I mean? I
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  Speaker 1: do anyway, But I actually my biggest takeaway was when
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  Speaker 1: she and on re meet in the bookstore. I love
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  Speaker 1: this hole, Like he doesn't work, there's situation. I loved
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  Speaker 1: all of that, And I love this night that they
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  Speaker 1: spin together doing all these things, Like it's very much like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: there is something believable magnetism happening between these two people,
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  Speaker 1: not just like a one night hook, not just a
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  Speaker 1: chance encounter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really I agree. It builds so nicely from
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  Speaker 2: the bookstore. I loved that I don't work here moment,
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  Speaker 2: But I also first of all loved the bookstore. Would
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  Speaker 2: like to go there and just live in there and
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  Speaker 2: love a bookstore. I also loved Sydney's tiny wingwoman. We
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  Speaker 2: have this little old lady Henri is speaking French to
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  Speaker 2: Sydney and she doesn't understand, but he's just telling her
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  Speaker 2: like I would just like to spend more time with you,
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  Speaker 2: and the woman in the books are just kind of
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  Speaker 2: gives her a thumbs up, like go for it. She
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  Speaker 2: understood him, and Sydney did it. I thought it was
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  Speaker 2: such a cute, little little romcom detail there. The comedy.
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  Speaker 2: Roberto is the comedic heart of this movie and is
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  Speaker 2: an absolutely necessary peace. He just every line turned my
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  Speaker 2: troubles into bubbles and he's like my body is more
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  Speaker 2: bouncy Castle than Temple, and like he's it's pure chaos.
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  Speaker 2: I just love him so much. Yeah, I enjoyed his
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  Speaker 2: character a lot. It's just completely unseerious energy that he has.
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  Speaker 2: I also I really love flu Laborg as a character actor.
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  Speaker 2: As mentioned, he's in Pitch Perfect, He's in that ridiculous
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  Speaker 2: Chick Chipmunks movie. He has a darker comedy to his character.
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  Speaker 2: He's unintentionally funny and he tells his crumpoo stories and
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  Speaker 2: I really just always enjoy him on screen. Roberto's Zatti
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  Speaker 2: Claus moment. Look to your point about Hallmark after Dark,
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  Speaker 2: He's like, I'm gonna go try and make the naughty
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  Speaker 2: list and all those instagrams. He's like, oh, I discovered
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  Speaker 2: Zatti Claus's OnlyFans account.
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  Speaker 1: Great, very good. I mean, Hallmark could get away with
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  Speaker 1: that too. I just totally chose not to. They just
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  Speaker 1: choose not too. Yeah, it walks, It walks a line.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing offensive about this movie. It's not like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't watch it with my kids.
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  Speaker 1: Oh not even Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I like those little hints like yeah, give me a
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  Speaker 2: little more, give me. You know, we don't even see
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  Speaker 2: them go to bed together. We just see her wake
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  Speaker 2: up in his house and he's not even there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just like the hints of it, right exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I too liked the supporting characters. You didn't mention Jet
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about that She's scene. Oh yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I could feel your personal personal pain there. I liked
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  Speaker 1: all the characters. I thought I thought it was well
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  Speaker 1: balanced of like you know, your archetypes of villain's villain light. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed all of them. I like how that worked together.
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  Speaker 1: And I really liked Henri's dad too. You go yeah, Hugo.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he had some really great scenes, especially that
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  Speaker 1: one that he had with Sidney, you know, explaining a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about like what he's been going through. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I thought everybody really was enjoyable to watch in this.
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  Speaker 1: I like even the sister, Sidney's sister too, Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: the sister. I really loved Skyler like, I'm gonna just
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  Speaker 1: start saying to you like you're a Kelly Clarkson song.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a great line.
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  Speaker 2: A line and the fact that she's in soul cycle
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  Speaker 2: having a conversation and just drinking a frappuccino while everyone
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  Speaker 2: else is sweating it out around her.
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  Speaker 1: I really like her.
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  Speaker 2: And she's like, ah, I just need a loan till
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  Speaker 2: my influencer money comes in.
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  Speaker 1: Really funny.
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  Speaker 2: I like a resolution at the end. Henri gets his
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  Speaker 2: bookstore slash wine shop together. It's on the grounds of
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  Speaker 2: the chateau. Everyone gets what they want they you know,
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  Speaker 2: he gets to stay connected to his dad, Brigitte and
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  Speaker 2: Hugo get together.
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  Speaker 1: I just really liked it, and I liked that cute dog.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you're funny. I knew you were like that.
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  Speaker 2: There was a slow pan back when Sydney's leaving the
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  Speaker 2: house and the dog is in the hallway and they
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  Speaker 2: just pan backwards from the dog and.
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  Speaker 1: He's just he's just so bereft at her leaving. Did
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  Speaker 1: you like all the French in this movie? Oh? It
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  Speaker 1: is one of my did you see that's but I
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  Speaker 1: I did like all the French. I think it's important
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  Speaker 1: to know that this It makes the movie not the
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  Speaker 1: kind of movie you can watch with a second screen
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  Speaker 1: in your hand. Oh no, you need to watch and read.
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  Speaker 1: You have to read the subtitle.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, because there's a lot contained in the French.
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  Speaker 1: It reminded me a lot about like of Emily in Paris,
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  Speaker 1: because there's so much French in that as well. It
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  Speaker 1: brings a certain like authentic authenticity to it. And these
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  Speaker 1: people are not going to speak English to each other.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I enjoyed that. Do you have some wishes?
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  Speaker 1: I have a few. Okay. The corporate plot line feels
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  Speaker 1: a little paint by the numbers trophy, of course. I
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  Speaker 1: mean there's a ton of tropes in this in this movie,
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  Speaker 1: but the whole like her Company, is the bad guy,
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  Speaker 1: and we've seen this a lot of times. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: do like how she gives them the big like middle
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  Speaker 1: finger basically really and and tells, you know, she's developed
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  Speaker 1: these relationships and it wasn't just to nab Henri. It
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  Speaker 1: was like to help Hugo out that they had bad intentions.
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  Speaker 1: So I love that. I love that. What I didn't
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  Speaker 1: I didn't like or my wish. Of course, Henri hears
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  Speaker 1: a partial conversation between she and her co worker Ryan
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  Speaker 1: and gets the wrong message.
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  Speaker 2: Stick around till the end of the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: People, Yeah, yeah, walk in on the conversation, right, that's
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  Speaker 1: what the hell's happening here. Actually, the last little wish
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  Speaker 1: I have is, I know this is supposed to take
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  Speaker 1: place at Christmas time, it wasn't that Christmasy though, in
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  Speaker 1: my opinion, it could have happened at any time of
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  Speaker 1: the year. I don't know. Get hit me with a
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  Speaker 1: snowy scene or like something, give me something, give me
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  Speaker 1: something other than you know, with the Zatti Claus and
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  Speaker 1: that Festival of Lights moment, the carriage ride, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of it.
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  Speaker 2: Really, Yeah, so my wishes. Henri kind of takes Sydney
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  Speaker 2: down publicly in that pitch meeting, and it was such
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  Speaker 2: a sharp turn away from their encounter the night before.
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  Speaker 2: And it don't feel like we fully understand his motivation
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  Speaker 2: there because.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't lie to him.
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  Speaker 2: I understand that he has beef with her company and
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  Speaker 2: people who are in it, but he just comes so
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  Speaker 2: hard for her.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't like it. Yeah, I don't like that either.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: And I almost was like, is there a little bit
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: of fragile masculinity happening here? Because he came back and
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: she was gone. But then he finds out where she is.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: She had a meeting and so did he bet us.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: So anyway, the Ferris Wheel scene felt very green screens
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: to me.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Mmmm, that could be wrong. I didn't really notice. I
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: have a I have a I have a green screen moment,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: and I didn't see that, but not not in the
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Ferris Wheale scene. What I don't like about the fairs
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: whel scene is like the whole like, oh, we're stopping,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: We're just gonna say, dammit.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: You don't like it because that's scary to you? Yes, sure, yeah,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: I don't end by Ferris Wheel either. Finally, the plotline
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: about Henri not wanting to be CEO I feel like
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: it's just like you said, paint my numbers. I don't
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: feel like there's a ton of motivation behind it. I
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: do know that he and his father have some emotional issues,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: but the idea that he goes like, well, the company
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: is done because HENRII does not want to take it over.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Let's think outside the box. It's okay that our child
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: wants to move away from the family business. Yeah, exactly,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: it's time to talk. Did you see that a moment?
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I have just two small ones again. We just talked about.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: The green screen is when Henried drives off to find
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Sydney and he's like in the car, it's just bad bad.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Oh green screen. Interesting? Did you watch it on your phone? No?
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: I didn't.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I watched it on the TV. Oh yeah, I just
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: thought it was aggressive. I was like, oh, this happens
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: on Netflix too. Yeah. Yeah. Our lead our lead guy Tom.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: How do you say his last name? Again?
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: I said Woznika, but I do not claim to know
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: that that's correct.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Who plays on me looks a little bit like former
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: homework actor Ryan Pavey. Oh interesting, he's so hot though.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: He's very good looking. But I was like, is that
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Ryan Pavey, like at first when I saw like the
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: movie poster, Yeah, yeah it's not you know, my Digiti.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: That's are just a couple additional scenes that I would
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: like to call out. Thank you for the lactose intolerance representation.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: I felt very seen the tony gurgle, the straight up
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: fart on screen, her saying cheese hates me. Look dairy
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: betrays a lot of us, and it felt very surreal.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: I did accept When he's like, oh, you gotta get
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: dressed and go, I was like, I'm not getting on
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: that carriage. Gotta tell you what. Stay in high jammies.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Nope, not going anywhere. Yeah, is it unrealistic? Would you
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: have eaten the cheese? Wouldn't you have been like, look,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I can't. I have an allergy. I am sorry. Yeah,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: maybe it wouldn't, but I wouldn't.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: First of all, that cheese plate that they served her,
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: that's not realistic. Are they serving an enormous plate of
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: cheese for a single person?
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean it was a real dick move by
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Brigitte to do that, like honestly, but I think it
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: would be completely appropriate to be to opt out one hundred.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: He wouldn't have been offended.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: No, even Henri like, why didn't you say something? She
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: was like, well, I was trying to play ball. But yeah, yeah,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: real funny. I loved the line premature congratulations. I suffer
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: from premature congratulations.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Just made me laugh.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: And finally I left out loud when Henri comes out
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: to chase down Sydney and discovers that Philip has taken
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: his car.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Cut to Philip just.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Like flying down the lane, wind in his hair. I
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: thought it was funny, especially because it's a callback to earlier.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: He's like, you gotta take it out, you gotta feel
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: it move. What did you rate Champagne Problems out of
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: five stars?
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I give it four stars. I enjoyed you. I gave
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: it four stars as well.
• 22:03
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