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Top Five Hallmark Movies of 2022 – Just One Kiss · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy.
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  Speaker 1: We hope you're enjoying a relaxing week time at home.
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  Speaker 1: We hope you're getting a bit of a break.
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  Speaker 2: This week. We're taking a break. We are counting down
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  Speaker 2: our top five Hallmark movies of the year. But these
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  Speaker 2: do not include Christmas Countdown to Christmas movies, just straight
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  Speaker 2: up regular Hallmark original movies.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, so we hope you'll re listen to some
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  Speaker 2: We'll be back in January with.
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  Speaker 1: Brand new episodes. Bye, hey, everybody, welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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  Speaker 1: a bonus episode of Long Story Short the podcast. I'm Megan,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Wendy, and today we're talking about Just One Kiss,
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  Speaker 1: which premiere premiered on Saturday, April second on the Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: Channel as part of Hallmark's Spring into Love lineup. Before
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  Speaker 1: we get into our thoughts on this movie, we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to invite you to join our brand new, just for
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  Speaker 1: and request to join.
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  Speaker 2: Or you can send us an email at Megananwindy at
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  Speaker 2: gmail dot com anytime with your thoughts on the movies,
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  Speaker 2: are our reviews, anything that's on your mind.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I've noticed, what is that we get
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  Speaker 1: emails sometimes for this type of podcast episode, our Hallmark episodes,
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  Speaker 1: and we get emails for our regular Twoday a Just
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  Speaker 1: Talking about Life podcast, and the Hallmark fans pull no punches.
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  Speaker 2: You think.
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  Speaker 3: They're very protective.
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  Speaker 1: Of their movies and their actors and their universe.
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  Speaker 3: And I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that you have very strong feelings for it.
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  Speaker 1: But it is a remarkable difference.
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  Speaker 2: It definitely is, and I'm not offended by it. Like
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  Speaker 2: everybody can have their opinion about it. I mean, but
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  Speaker 2: don't come with me like talking badly about you know,
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  Speaker 2: Hallmarks move towards diversity.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, the movies are too woke. Come out. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to remind listeners because some people are brand
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  Speaker 1: new to our podcast, and I wanted to take a
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  Speaker 1: quick second and remind them the provenance of this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: How this even started mm hmmm. Because people may think like,
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  Speaker 1: you're a Hallmark seasoned regular, I'm really not.
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  Speaker 3: I mean you are now.
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  Speaker 1: But this started because in October twenty twenty, Wendy had
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  Speaker 1: never seen a single Hallmark movie. And I would consider
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  Speaker 1: myself a Hallmark movie fan, but will admit that mostly
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  Speaker 1: that meant I was watching countdown to Christmas movies and
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  Speaker 1: not catching very many throughout the year. And so we
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  Speaker 1: started from a place of absolutely no Hallmark knowledge and
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  Speaker 1: like casual Hallmark watcher knowledge, and I have become I
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  Speaker 1: would say, quite well versed in the Hallmark universe.
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  Speaker 2: I mean quite well versed. Maybe not so much because
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  Speaker 2: we were talking specifically about an actor who was in
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  Speaker 2: a movie late last year and I was like, I
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  Speaker 2: can't even remember what movie that was. I can't even
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  Speaker 2: remember who the actor was, So I would consider myself
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  Speaker 2: like not versed at all.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, fair enough, okay, I'll talk about this movie. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: do you have a synopsis for Just One Kiss? I?
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  Speaker 2: Sure, do sparks fly between Professor Mia and lounge singer
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  Speaker 2: Tony through a series of chance encounters. Little do they
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  Speaker 2: know their mothers are scheming to set them up. Stars
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  Speaker 2: Krista Rodriguez and Santino Fontana.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about some news and notes about
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  Speaker 1: just one kiss.
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  Speaker 2: We give it to us.
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  Speaker 1: So, first of all, this was written by Nina Wyman,
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  Speaker 1: who is a prolific Hallmark writer. She's up there in
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  Speaker 1: terms of my favorite Hallmark writers. I will forgive her
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  Speaker 1: for never kiss a man on a Christmas letter because
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  Speaker 1: we did get Don't Go Break in My Heart last year.
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  Speaker 1: And also I think this movie is a gem, so
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  Speaker 1: they can all be.
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  Speaker 3: Hits out of the park.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, sure, of course. It was filmed in Vancouver, Canada,
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  Speaker 2: and the movie began filming on January twenty eighth. Whoa
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  Speaker 2: tight turnaround.
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  Speaker 1: There's Hallmark with their quick turnarounds. Did you think that
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  Speaker 1: some of the exterior shots had real movie set backlot
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  Speaker 1: vibes to you?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely? And I almost thought, like, are they filming this like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what is it? Universal Studios here right, Warner
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  Speaker 2: Brothers back line? Yes? Yes, I definitely thought that, like
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  Speaker 2: these are supposed to be the streets of New York,
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  Speaker 2: not the streets, but you know, like a New York
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  Speaker 2: neighborhood or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I don't know if there is some sort
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  Speaker 1: of lot situation somewhere in Vancouver that they use for
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  Speaker 1: some of these exterior shots, or if these are.
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  Speaker 3: All just exterior street street shots that.
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  Speaker 1: They're using, but specifically like outside when they're walking through
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  Speaker 1: the city. It felt very much like like a Luke's
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  Speaker 1: Diner on the back lot of the Warner Brothers studio situation.
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  Speaker 2: Totally. Totally.
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  Speaker 1: This was directed by Jeff Beasley, who is on a
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark movie directing tear. He directed movies recently like Love
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  Speaker 1: Strikes Twice and A Kiss Before Christmas, which was the
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  Speaker 1: Terry Hatcher movie. He had done a lot of TV producing,
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  Speaker 1: but for the last few years he's just been TV movie,
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  Speaker 1: TV movie, TV movie. He must work pretty much NonStop,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like lately.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, I was looking at the instagram of some of
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  Speaker 2: the actors in this movie and I saw that they
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  Speaker 2: had stayed at Sutton Place, which is a downtown Vancouver hotel.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm going to reference something that probably only Megan knows,
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  Speaker 2: but I was recently listening to the podcast Nobody's listening
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  Speaker 2: right with Elizabeth and Andy, and she was she's a
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  Speaker 2: she writes for that show A Million Little Lie, A
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  Speaker 2: Million Little Lies? No, is that what it's called?
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  Speaker 3: What's it called? A Million Little Things? That's it?
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  Speaker 2: Why did I think a Million Little Lies? Where did
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  Speaker 2: that come from?
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  Speaker 3: That's it?
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, she's a writer on that show. And she recently
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  Speaker 2: went to Canada, and she was telling the story that, like,
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  Speaker 2: if you're in entertainment and you are going to Vancouver
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  Speaker 2: for work, everybody says the Sutton. So I thought it
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  Speaker 2: was pretty funny that I saw that these other actors
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  Speaker 2: in a Hallmark movie were also staying at the Sutton.
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  Speaker 2: And hello, if you're like a huge fan and you
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  Speaker 2: want to go see some actors and some actresses go
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  Speaker 2: to the Sutton hotel in a very good yep.
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  Speaker 3: I bumped on that as well.
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  Speaker 1: And I wonder if I've seen that mentioned in other
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  Speaker 1: news bits about Hallmark movies and just not registered it
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  Speaker 1: because I hadn't. Just recently heard that hotel mentioned on
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  Speaker 1: a podcast that was like world's colliding.
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  Speaker 2: Right there, totally totally.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about Santino Fontana, one of the stars of
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  Speaker 1: this movie. He plays Tony. He is the voice of
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  Speaker 1: Hans and Frozen. Wendy knows him as the voice of
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  Speaker 1: Joe in the audiobook You but what I just learned
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  Speaker 1: he's also a Tony Award winner.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I thought for sure you had known that I did,
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  Speaker 2: don't you. Don't you You're very much up on the
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  Speaker 2: Tony Awards Broadway.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I enjoy a Broadway show. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: have the names of the Tony Award winners memorized. But
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  Speaker 1: he won for a role in TUTSI.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that I saw closed in like February twenty twentyis right.
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  Speaker 2: Like I was like, I wonder why that closed. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: I mean maybe it was at the end of the run.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's too early for it to have been
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  Speaker 1: COVID related.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too. Here's a side note. I
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  Speaker 2: was looking on IMDb and there were a ton of
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  Speaker 2: comments that criticized his voice for not being that good
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  Speaker 2: in this movie. And I was like, what, this is
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  Speaker 2: a Tony Award winning actor. Yeah, he's got the voice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought he was great, me too.
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  Speaker 2: Christa Rodriguez plays Mia. I learned that she is a
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  Speaker 2: real life breast cancer survivor and was diagnosed at thirty
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  Speaker 2: years old.
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  Speaker 3: I did not know that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she was also No One for being in the
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  Speaker 2: NBC show Smash with Catherine McPhee. Uh huh did you
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  Speaker 2: watch that show?
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  Speaker 3: I've seen a few episodes.
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  Speaker 2: She was also on Broadway in a course line in
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  Speaker 2: the Heights and the Adams Family. But she's an Orange
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  Speaker 2: County girl born here in the city of Orange and
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  Speaker 2: went to Osha High School, which is Orange County High
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  Speaker 2: School of the Arts.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, what fun information you found.
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  Speaker 2: I know. See, I tried to dig a little deeper
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  Speaker 2: this week.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to say that Mattie Pinocchio, Girls Gone Hamewark
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  Speaker 1: Fave is becoming the Where's Waldo of Hallmark movies?
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  Speaker 2: Seriously, right, And I'm still telling you justice for Maddie
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  Speaker 2: because the man needs a lead role in a movie.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred percent agree take him out of the best
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  Speaker 1: friend role, although I do think they are giving him
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  Speaker 1: things to do beyond just like funny one liners. I
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  Speaker 1: want him in a lead role.
• 9:59
  Speaker 2: I got one more tiny little news and note for you,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to get your opinion. Ada Taturo and
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  Speaker 2: Ileana Douglas, who played the mothers in this movie. Ada
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  Speaker 2: is known for playing Janice on The Sopranos and she
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  Speaker 2: I think she's Tony's sister on The Sopranos and Iliana.
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  Speaker 2: She's got like a deep resume of TV shows and movies.
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  Speaker 2: She's always like, I totally recognize her face from so
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  Speaker 2: many things. But here's the thing. They are each fifty
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  Speaker 2: nine and fifty six years old, okay, and they are
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  Speaker 2: playing the roles of.
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  Speaker 3: Moms, like older moms who.
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  Speaker 2: Are spoiler alert dead. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to talk about that, but.
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  Speaker 1: So you think they're playing roles in which they're older
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  Speaker 1: than they actually are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it kind of bums me out because this
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  Speaker 2: is again where these are are actors with big resumes
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  Speaker 2: who I feel like don't have a place in movies
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  Speaker 2: and TV anymore except for these like super geriatric roles.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, But is it possible that the fifty nine year
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  Speaker 1: old has a daughter has a twelve year old granddaughter?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think you know, if.
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  Speaker 1: You have your kids at twenty two and then you've
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  Speaker 1: got a thirty something year old daughter who has a
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  Speaker 1: twelve year old, I mean, I think it's I think
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  Speaker 1: it's possible.
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  Speaker 3: But yes, I do.
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  Speaker 2: Think you are they're dead. But they're dead.
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  Speaker 3: They're dead. They are dead.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't they didn't say, like, who knows, it could
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  Speaker 2: have been early deaths whatever, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think so. I think these are just
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be parents who have passed on.
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  Speaker 1: Like they passed in their sleep of old age.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just old age. I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just weirded out by it.
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  Speaker 3: Like I give.
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  Speaker 2: Them a second chance at love movie. They don't need
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  Speaker 2: to be playing like a super old lady who's dead. Now, sure, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: that's my two cents on it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll take it. Moving on, what's your first impression of
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  Speaker 1: this movie?
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  Speaker 2: My first impression is are you ready for it? I
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  Speaker 2: am Brava.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? What was yours? Mine?
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  Speaker 2: Is?
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: This appears to be the year of the Italian.
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  Speaker 3: Grandma on Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: I have some thoughts about that or questions mostly okay,
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  Speaker 2: So I want, because we just talked about this to
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  Speaker 2: start with one like, and this isn't quite the late
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: in life second chance at love story.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: We're not getting the love stories of the grandmothers in
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  Speaker 1: these movies, but we aren't getting first love young love either.
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  Speaker 1: This is kind of a middle ground.
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  Speaker 3: They've both.
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  Speaker 1: Mio was married, she has a daughter. Tony had a
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: long term relationship. They're both well into adulthood. So we're
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: getting a mix. We're getting a mix of ages here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, somebody is listening to her podcast.
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  Speaker 3: I liked it.
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  Speaker 2: We've been asking for it. I liked this movie a
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  Speaker 2: lot because the dialogue was sharp, and I gotta give
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  Speaker 2: that to Nina Weinman for writing a good movie, but
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  Speaker 2: that it had a great cast and the music was
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  Speaker 2: so like just made me happy to watch it. It
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  Speaker 2: just made me so happy.
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  Speaker 1: I was a little bit nervous about the music, knowing
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  Speaker 1: that the songs were going to be in it, and
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  Speaker 1: I loved the way they were woven throughout the movie.
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  Speaker 1: We have, you know, Nick performing in his little club,
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  Speaker 1: and we have them in their dreams, and then him
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  Speaker 1: singing at the old Folks home, and then they have
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a moment.
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  Speaker 3: Where they sing together.
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  Speaker 1: On the roof. I thought they did such a nice shop.
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  Speaker 1: I was a little bit worried that it was gonna
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  Speaker 1: be like breaking into songs, singing in the rain style,
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  Speaker 1: dancing on the sidewalk, and I'm glad we didn't have that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I like that.
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  Speaker 1: I just think that's perhaps hard to execute well sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, but let me say, like a Christmas waltz, did
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  Speaker 2: it really well when they were dancing in the street, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in the city street or whatever like that
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  Speaker 2: was one of my favorite scenes in one of my
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  Speaker 2: favorite movies. So it can be done. But I hear
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  Speaker 2: you like you were worried it was gonna get like
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  Speaker 2: a little too cop rock. That's a real throwback.
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  Speaker 1: I just didn't want it to feel like we were
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of a staged musical, yeah, where they
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden start singing their feelings.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, all right, all right.
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  Speaker 1: I loved this line from Nick, who says, you walk
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  Speaker 1: into the middle of someone's life, you can't expect.
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  Speaker 3: Them not to have one.
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  Speaker 1: Mia is apologizing for Casey's presence and how that complicates things.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought that was such a great.
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  Speaker 2: Line, isn't it. I mean, it's such a relatable line.
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  Speaker 2: That's yeah, it's so good. It's so good. And I
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  Speaker 2: feel like that's kind of a wink and a nod
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  Speaker 2: to like, you know, typical Hallmark movies where, like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: worlds get turned upside down because people actually have lives
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  Speaker 2: before they meet each other. Oh you had an ex boyfriend?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god?
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  Speaker 1: You know well, And speaking of a wink and a
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  Speaker 1: nod to Hallmark movie, I feel the entire title and
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  Speaker 1: then the running thought of how can you know that
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  Speaker 1: he's the one after just one kiss was also kind
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: of a little bit of a nudge to Hallmark. We
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  Speaker 1: get the kiss at the end and everyone lives happily
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  Speaker 1: ever after, and I liked that.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: I agree. I don't know if you noticed, but the
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: interior apartments were super cool in this movie. Yes, totally
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: different and contemporary compared to what we've seen on typical sets.
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  Speaker 2: I liked it. I mean, I don't think she's getting
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  Speaker 2: an apartment for that price though not in New York City.
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  Speaker 3: As a professor. No, I don't think so. But I
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  Speaker 3: love her apartment. I loved I thought it was great.
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  Speaker 2: And there were so many like shots of the New
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  Speaker 2: York skyline, and I freaking love New York. So I
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  Speaker 2: was just like, I want to go back. I want
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: to go back. I love it there. It was so pretty.
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  Speaker 1: I have one more small like before we get to
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: a big thing that I want to talk about. And
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: they liked Uncle Harry and his can't get enough gaga.
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  Speaker 1: I just thought he was fun.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about, those lines being like good, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I really liked it.
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  Speaker 1: Would you like to talk about the twist?
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  Speaker 3: Well, sure we can say that. Do you have it
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  Speaker 3: in a better spot?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: I have it in a like spot.
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  Speaker 3: Actually me too.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see it coming. Okay, was I not paying
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  Speaker 2: attention closely?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see it coming either. However, as I'm watching
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  Speaker 1: sometimes I'm also doing a little research on the movie
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  Speaker 1: while it's playing, and I'm looking at the IMDb page
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  Speaker 1: and there's a synopsis I believe, and it says something
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  Speaker 1: about spirits and it names the mothers, and I thought,
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  Speaker 1: oh wait, and then I didn't I use it, so
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  Speaker 1: I didn't continue reading that.
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  Speaker 3: And then I start watching it and I go, wait
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  Speaker 3: a minute.
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  Speaker 1: That answers so many questions, like how come they didn't
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  Speaker 1: see them when they were in the club, and how
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: come they nobody heard them talking at normal voices when they're.
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  Speaker 3: In the movie theater.
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  Speaker 1: And then I rewound because there's only one scene where
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: I believe MIA's mother is in the scene with her,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: and that's when they're looking at the apartment. Uh oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: watched it, and they never speak to each other. Mia
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  Speaker 1: echoes a lot of her mom's thoughts. Her mom's like, look,
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  Speaker 1: you can see the Brooklyn Bridge, and Mia.
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  Speaker 3: Goes, wow, I'll look at that view.
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  Speaker 1: So it feels like they're bantering. But there they never interact.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: They never look at each other. And I did not
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: see it coming either, is what I'm saying.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: But as soon as I realized it.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Then I watched the rest of that movie through that eye.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Well that was a real sixth sense moment there when
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: they were in the apartment together. Nice, yeah, how funny.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I didn't And now that you mention it, yeah wow.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Like I said, I didn't see it coming. And I
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: got super choked up when when they like off together,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: like the two moms went off together because their job
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: was done, and then like Mia and Tony have like
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: a moment about like wishing that their moms were there,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: and I was like, oh my god, I thought it
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: was so good.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought it was great. It was really well done.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: It did not even looking back, it doesn't feel cheesy.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I thought they were really funny. I liked how they
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: both talked up their own kids, but then when it
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: came to the other ones, you're like, yeah, he's all right.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So then let's move on to what did you
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: wish for from just one kiss?
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: My wish is more of a complaint, okay, And I
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: guess I can frame it in the form of a wish,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: and it is I wish the Casey didn't suck so much.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: That's the ex husband. Yes, Okay, So I have something similar.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I wrote less Stockery estranged husband and you was a nightmare,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Like go away, dude, Like, I know, he's dealing with
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: a bunch of stuff and he didn't want their relationship
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: to the end, but uh, have some boundaries, like you
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: are a nightmare. She's divorcing you.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: She's told you over and over again that she's done
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: and that she does not trust you and you, even
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: if you're holding out hope that you might someday get
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: back together, this is not the way to do it.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was a night or like showing up on
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: our doorstep and like yeah, yeah, nope, and then like
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: kind of like badgering Tony a little bit when they
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: were in her kitchen.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Oh a lot when he shows up when he brings
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: the daughter home and Mia has to wait in the
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: room and he's like, I don't know what you're doing here,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: and oh, yeah, he's a jerk.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't like him at all.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Did you wish I had one?
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: And I wonder if it's just me or maybe this
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: goes back to the IMDb reviews about Santino Fontana's voice.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I thought the sound might have been off just a
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: little bit because when he's sang, like in the lounge scenes,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: he was very loud, like almost shouting loud a little bit.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: And I just thought, is maybe his voice is like
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: too loud for the music playing and that didn't translate
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: well over TV. I don't know. It could have just
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: been a personal thing. I have to play my TV
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: really loud because especially this when I didn't have subtitles
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: on it, so I got it, you know, I got
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: I can't miss anything, So it was loud on my end.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Hmm, I did not notice that. Okay, it's time for
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: did you see that. I have a couple of things
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: to say.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm excited.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: First, uhuh.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Nick and Mia are in a bar and a fan
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: comes up to Nick and tells him how her music
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: just changed her life.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: And then she says, can I get a picture for
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: my blog?
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: What?
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, can we not say Instagram?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Is that?
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Oh maybe they can't say instagram, but she could have
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: said for my social media, you know, or just.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Can I get a picture? Everyone knows what the picture's for,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: but can I get a picture.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: For my blog? Not saying blogs don't exist? I just
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: feel like that reference is maybe ten years too late.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because we're.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Not blogging our daily lives anymore.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Did it feel like a personal attack a little bit?
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Because you know, we have a blog. It's at back do.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: We Megan and Wendy dot com.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: We do have a blog, but I'm not blogging, like
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: and today I'm at Joe.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: No.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I thought I thought it was odd.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I only had one little one and we talked about it.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: You mentioned it, hit on it just quickly. But I
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: was wondering why the why the moms were talking so
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: loudly in the movie theater when everybody else got shushed.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: You know, I was like, why why are they why
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: are they allowed to like shout at each and they
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: weren't shouting, but you know, they weren't watching the movie.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: But now I know in the end that we were
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: not there.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Really, looking back, it feels very obvious because they she
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: moves into a new apartment her mom income, they were
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: across the street all the time. They're in the bar,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and they never notice they're in the bar twice and
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: one time they're so close to them. This is when
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I already knew what was happening. But I was like, Okay,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: it feels like they're like, hello, you haven't hear how
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: what's going on? At this point, we cannot make it
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: any more obvious to you. Yeah, But that said, I
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: would not have guessed it if I had not seen it.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Written two things one and this In nixt dream, he
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: has two dreams about Mia, and in the second one,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: it's kind of a nightmare because Casey comes and steals
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: her away.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: But you hear her.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Singing and you see her singing, but what she is
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: singing is.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Not what we hear.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't notice.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if that was because things were
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: starting to go wrong, so what he was hearing was
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: not what was happening.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: I don't know if that was intentional or.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: If they just dubbed the music incorrectly, but it's very
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: clear that she's not singing whatever it is you're hearing.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Oh. Interesting.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: The last one is just a funny little one. Casey
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: is cooking in me his kitchen and I don't even
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: remember what he's making, veal something.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, he was making veal parmesan or something like that. Yes,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: I remember, Uh huh.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: He has a towel over his shoulder. Did you know
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: that's the towel I have hanging in my kitchen.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: No, I did it, I did it.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: It's it's my little gray Home Goods towheld. I love
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: so much.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: All the set decorators or shop at a have home goods,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: I have that dowel. Oh too funny. Okay, I just
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: want to ask you quickly about the Italian Grandma's That's
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: what you talked about at the very beginning your first impression.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Do you remember we had a writer in her who
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: mentioned that she was a little bit offended.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: By like the.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Bad Italian stereotypes. Yes, so I I really I hope
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: that she's listening, and I hope she writes into the
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: show because I'm really curious about what her opinions are
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: on this movie and then also the other movie that
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: we're going to review.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Amore.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, what her thoughts are there?
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: I do remember.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Exactly what we're talking about. I think that in this
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: movie they play up the stereotypes more than they do
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and always Amore.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I'm just curious. I'm curious. So if you're listening, please
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: email us.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Indeed, are you ready to rate this movie? Yes?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Are we doing this new thing where we say it
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: at the same time again?
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay, okay, three, two, one, four and a half stars?
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Oh for real?
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Five stars? Huh?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Actually I had four and a half in my head,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: but I was like, that's gonna be hard to say
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: at the same time.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Oh god, you're so weird. I thought it was a
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: great movie. It was it perfect?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Maybe not, but it's definitely a four and a half
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: five star great Hallmark movie for me.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Me too. Like I said, Brava, that was good.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: It was real good.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening to this episode of
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the podcast. As always, we love your feedback. You can
• 26:19
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• 26:23
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• 26:29
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• 26:31
  Speaker 1: a two for we will be discussing always a more
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: a Hallmark Movies and Mysteries movie, so don't miss that
• 26:39
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