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Welcome to Mama’s · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a bonus episode
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  Speaker 1: of Long Story short the podcast. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: and today we're discussing Welcome to Mama's, the final movie
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  Speaker 1: in the Love Youary lineup on the Hallmark Channel. Before
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  Speaker 1: we jump into our thoughts on this kind of standalone
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  Speaker 1: movie from a weird month of Hallmark movies, we want
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  Speaker 1: to let you know that you can always find us
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  Speaker 1: outside of the podcast on Instagram, on Twitter, on TikTok.
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  Speaker 1: We are at Megan and Wendy, and you can also
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  Speaker 1: hop into our Facebook group, which is Long Story Shorties
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  Speaker 1: Don't Forget.
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  Speaker 2: You can also email us at Meganandwindy at gmail dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Now that the wedding veil madness has died down, we're
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  Speaker 1: not getting the influx of emails, but we want your
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark emails. Let us know what you think. We have
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  Speaker 1: the pleasure today of being joined by a guest. We're
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  Speaker 1: thrilled to have her. Laur Garcia is a writer, a
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  Speaker 1: pop culture lover, and the host of the untitled gen
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  Speaker 1: X podcast, a podcast dedicated to the pop culture that
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  Speaker 1: raised us. She's the wife of one, mother of two,
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  Speaker 1: and perfectly virgo in every way. Her hair went viral once,
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  Speaker 1: her words went viral twice, and she's still not over
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  Speaker 1: how my so called life left us hanging. Laurie, First
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  Speaker 1: of all, welcome to the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me, ladies. I'm really
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  Speaker 2: excited to be here.
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  Speaker 1: And second, that may be the most practically perfect bio
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  Speaker 1: I've ever read.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you bo writer, easy well, and I got easy.
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  Speaker 1: I had said it was very clear that this bio
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  Speaker 1: was written by a writer, so I agree. It's not
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  Speaker 1: easy to write a bio. I hate is my least
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  Speaker 1: favorite thing to tell you, but I loved yours. So
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  Speaker 1: we had the pleasure of being guests on Laurie's podcast
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  Speaker 1: last year, and it was a real turn of the
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  Speaker 1: tables because on this podcast, I'm the longtime Hallmark fan,
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  Speaker 1: Wendy's the newbie. Although we're like way into it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that you could claim that title anymore, but
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  Speaker 1: on that podcast, Wendy was the expert and I just
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  Speaker 1: kind of bumbled along behind her. So Wendy brought it.
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  Speaker 2: She totally brought it.
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  Speaker 1: I that was such a highlight for me.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. Thank you, no, thank you guys for
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  Speaker 2: joining me last season. It was a blast. People really
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  Speaker 2: loved your episode, you know, I of course, I mean
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  Speaker 2: no doubt, right. You know what is so funny, Lorie,
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  Speaker 2: You've had a couple I don't want to call it
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  Speaker 2: rerun episodes, but repeat episodes lately show up in my
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  Speaker 2: feet and I was like, I could have been a
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  Speaker 2: guest on that one and that one and that one.
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  Speaker 2: Like I feel like you are speaking my language. You're
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  Speaker 2: giving me the content that, like you know, I grew
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  Speaker 2: up on. So I just love it so much. I
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  Speaker 2: love that. You'll just have to come back, Okay, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we'll do it again.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yes, and preferably something I know something about. And
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  Speaker 1: I have to say, there have been so many episodes.
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  Speaker 1: I agree that. I'm like, man, I would have had
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  Speaker 1: so many better things to say. So we're ready. I'm
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  Speaker 1: in the wings waiting for my protection.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: We are talking about Welcome to Mama's Today and Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: we forgot to do a synopsis last week, but do
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  Speaker 1: you have one for us this week?
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  Speaker 2: I do? I do?
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready? I am? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: After she inherits an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn, manager Amy
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  Speaker 2: teams up with a master chef to relaunch the establishment
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  Speaker 2: and make her loved ones proud.
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  Speaker 1: Boom, okay, oh yeah, So we're going to hop into
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  Speaker 1: news and notes about this episode, and I have a
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  Speaker 1: very sharp left turn. Oh I need to get this
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  Speaker 1: out of the way your This is Melanie Grafano, who
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  Speaker 1: is the star of this movie. She plays Amy. She tweeted,
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  Speaker 1: oh no, for this movie. There's an image of her
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  Speaker 1: and one of the other women in the movie baking,
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  Speaker 1: and it says two girls, one measuring cup. Question mark.
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  Speaker 1: Now do you know what that's a reference to? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Not me, No, no, she said, she said, one measuring cup,
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  Speaker 2: question Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the thing. Two girls, one cup is not something
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  Speaker 1: you should google if you are squeetish at all. This
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  Speaker 1: is a Hallmark podcast, now let me tell you. The
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  Speaker 1: replies blew up good and there were responses like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: this is a Hallmark and her response was yes, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm new here. So immediately I read this after watching
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  Speaker 1: this movie, and it immediately elevated my opinion of her.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, she's fun.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, I'm looking up two girls, one cup. It's raid too.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not do that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little bit afraid, but I what's coming up
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  Speaker 2: is this? Two Girls, one Cup is the unofficial nickname
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  Speaker 2: of the trailer for Hungry, a two thousand and seven
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  Speaker 2: Brazilian oh fetish pornographic film. Okay, so, but keep reading,
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  Speaker 2: don't read it, don't well, oh my god, no, it's no,
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  Speaker 2: that's awful. It's not a dictionary.
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  Speaker 1: If anybody wants to know that, don't do it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So, can we safely say that she's no longer
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  Speaker 2: going to be in the roster of Hallmark Films for
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  Speaker 2: having tweeted that she's.
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  Speaker 1: Not your Candice Cameron Ray. But I mean, maybe she's
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  Speaker 1: coming back. Maybe Hallmark wants this audience.
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  Speaker 2: Is Hallmark getting like Edgier, I don't know what you saw, Wendy.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm I coming from a place, you guys, and
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  Speaker 2: my face is flush and I am shook right now,
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  Speaker 2: like I know.
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  Speaker 1: So let me say this, Laurie. We're deep in the
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  Speaker 1: world of Hallmark, obviously, and obviously what's been happening in
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  Speaker 1: the last I would say a year or so with
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark is they've made an effort to be more inclusive.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's not a perfect process. I mean, we have
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  Speaker 1: yet to have a same sex main couple, although we
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  Speaker 1: have had same sex couples. We work real hard to
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  Speaker 1: find diversity in this movie, particularly in the leads. But
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  Speaker 1: they have taken steps in the right direction. And there
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  Speaker 1: is a subset of the Hallmark audience who gets very
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  Speaker 1: angry when they do that, And when you read the reviews,
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  Speaker 1: they get very mad at Hallmark being woke. Those are
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  Speaker 1: their words, not mine, So I think, yes, Hallmark is
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  Speaker 1: trying to be edgier, definitely not to this.
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  Speaker 2: They're getting some pushback from like Middle America. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: understand that, and I I do know that the need
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  Speaker 2: for diversity in these Hallmark films. I mean, whoa, We've
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  Speaker 2: needed this for so so long, So I do appreciate
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  Speaker 2: the baby steps forward, but clearly more needs to be done,
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  Speaker 2: and Middle America just calmed down a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay, So let's move on to some more as
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  Speaker 1: traditional news and notes about this movie. Lourie, do you
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  Speaker 1: have anything you'd like to talk about?
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  Speaker 2: Well, okay, so this is really superficial, but I'm going there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Amy needs bangs.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, can we all.
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  Speaker 2: Agree even a side bang. I'm a fan of a
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  Speaker 2: side bang. It doesn't have to be a curtain. Bang's
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  Speaker 2: something I had this thought. I'm not even trying to
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  Speaker 2: be funny. I have this thought so many times throughout
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  Speaker 2: the film. And she's a lovely girl. I think that
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  Speaker 2: she's really pretty, and I thought she did a great
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  Speaker 2: job in the film, but I don't know, I just
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  Speaker 2: felt like she needed some volume there. Okay, so that
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  Speaker 2: was my first thought. My second one was I wanted
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  Speaker 2: more scenery. Now. I know, like I usually spend my
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  Speaker 2: you know, Hallmark movie time during the Christmas season where
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  Speaker 2: there's just so much eye candy. It's just so lovely
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  Speaker 2: to look at. Everything feels so warm and cozy. And
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  Speaker 2: I know this wasn't set during the holiday season, but
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted more. I enjoyed the look inside the
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  Speaker 2: restaurant that was kind of giving me some serious Nancy
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  Speaker 2: Meyer vibes, and I live for that. But I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: it's just like the New York of it all just
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  Speaker 2: didn't A lot of it looked like a backdrop, and
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted more scenery.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have that note a little bit later. Also,
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  Speaker 1: I have a complaint about that, to your point, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't look like New York because of course this was
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  Speaker 1: not filmed in New York. It was filmed in Vancouver, Canada, right,
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  Speaker 1: And I have to say I do appreciate that they
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  Speaker 1: found one moment of scaffolding for that authentic New York feel,
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  Speaker 1: But that was really the only moment where I was like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we're in the city. Everything else, you know, it's largely
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  Speaker 1: shot inside the restaurant or like behind a lattice work.
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  Speaker 2: Of plants to hide.
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  Speaker 1: Totally, Wendy, what else you got for news and notes?
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  Speaker 2: I've got that this movie was originally named The Perfect Recipe.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, which I.
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  Speaker 2: Think is a better choice than what agreed Mama's in
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  Speaker 2: my opinion. It was also, Yeah, I think it's cute.
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  Speaker 2: It was also filmed during November fifteenth through December third,
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  Speaker 2: and there was one scene they were outside and you
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  Speaker 2: could clearly see their breath. It was very cold wherever
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  Speaker 2: they were at, but they were not wearing jackets or anything.
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  Speaker 2: I just thought, those Portuo actors are freezing their buns
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  Speaker 2: off out there. Yeah. I know.
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  Speaker 1: They had Frank Daniel de Tomaso and the leather jacket
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  Speaker 1: once and I could see his breath and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I bet that's not very warm, buddy. She wish she
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  Speaker 1: had to wear the Countdown to Christmas wardrobe where they're
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  Speaker 1: pushing up their sleeves in August. He was hot.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was so handsome. About Frank He is
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  Speaker 2: a model actor and he's done campaigns for Lareel and
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  Speaker 2: Giorgio ARMANI Oh, so, is this his first Hallmark film?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, is He does have other titles he's done, but
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  Speaker 2: I think it's his first Hallmark. Oh. I hope they
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  Speaker 2: bring him back. I enjoyed watching him a lot.
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  Speaker 1: This is definitely his first starring role. He has a
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  Speaker 1: lot of guest starring and recurring roles, including on a
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  Speaker 1: show called Timeless, which my husband and I loved and
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  Speaker 1: ended entirely too soon, but I liked him as the star.
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  Speaker 1: Melanie's Grafano, who plays Amy, is best known for playing
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  Speaker 1: on the show win on Ip and she's got some
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  Speaker 1: wine own EARP fans showing up on social media, So
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  Speaker 1: I think, what the hell is why? I I've never
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  Speaker 1: even heard of this show before?
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  Speaker 2: Me neither.
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  Speaker 1: Why NOA IRP is a supernatural Western horror television series
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  Speaker 1: I'm Out, based on the comic book series by Bo Smith.
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  Speaker 1: She is the great great granddaughter of the legendary lawman
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  Speaker 1: Wyatt Irp. Whynona returns to her hometown of Purgatory, where
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  Speaker 1: she battles Revenants, the reincarnated outlaws that Wyatt killed. Oh wow,
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  Speaker 1: four seasons, you guys, I have not Wow, what channel
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  Speaker 1: is it on Sci Fi? So? Why on? Earp is
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  Speaker 1: not in my wheelhouse? But that is what she's best
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  Speaker 1: known for. She brings a fan base. I would imagine
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  Speaker 1: that's a draw at this point if you're going to
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  Speaker 1: bring in a new actress the same way Katie Sakoff
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  Speaker 1: brought kind of her cult following to Hallmark. I think
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark brings in these external actors and actresses, so they
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  Speaker 1: bring their following with them.
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  Speaker 2: I thought she was great. I thought she was great.
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  Speaker 2: I just thought she needed some banks.
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  Speaker 1: And of course we have Lorraine freaking Brocco.
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh my god. Love her, love her.
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  Speaker 1: Most notably from The Sopranos, But she's worked quite a
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  Speaker 1: bit since then. She played Angela Rizzoli on Rosolian Ills
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  Speaker 1: in one hundred and five episodes of that show.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, I mean she's in Good Fellas, Like, come on, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: She's gonna have a lot of syndication money, soh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I bet you right, Yeah, I bet you're right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think she did this job for the money, right,
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  Speaker 1: She just likes to work. Maybe I wanted to tell
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  Speaker 1: that I loved her voice too, Give me that, give
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  Speaker 1: me that scratchy Lorraine Brocco voice. Oh you know.
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  Speaker 2: My husband was like totally in the other room and
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  Speaker 2: I was watching this, and he's like, is that the
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  Speaker 2: shrink from the Sopranos? Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 1: I have not actually an episode of the Sopranos.
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  Speaker 2: What, Yes, I've watched the Sopranos. Of course, it's so good.
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  Speaker 1: My husband does not like new shows. He watches old,
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  Speaker 1: old shows all the time. Well that's an old old show,
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  Speaker 1: so no, I know. But I mean the lead guy
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  Speaker 1: is a dead show from his childhood, like Silver Spoons
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  Speaker 1: or Growing Pains.
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  Speaker 2: Or would you like to be a guest on my
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  Speaker 2: podcast or covering iconic TV on The Patriot.
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  Speaker 1: I can seriously have him on his guest He swears
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  Speaker 1: a lot and has a bad attitude.
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  Speaker 2: Well, perfect, welcome with open arms. You're just describing my ideal.
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  Speaker 1: Guess that's what we do. A handler like to feel
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  Speaker 1: like with an external mute button.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I love it.
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  Speaker 1: But he has said over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 1: One of the shows I would like to go back
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  Speaker 1: and watch is The Sopranos, and we don't have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of mutual shows that we watch. I'm like, yes, please,
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  Speaker 1: that would be great because then we'd have a show
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  Speaker 1: to watch together. So maybe maybe were days I'll get
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  Speaker 1: him to watch it. It's time for our first impressions
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  Speaker 1: of this movie. Laurie as our guest, you may go first.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So first, I thought I enjoyed the story. I
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  Speaker 2: love a story told through flashbacks. It's always, you know,
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  Speaker 2: something I enjoy. But my first impression was that there
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  Speaker 2: just wasn't a lot of sexual chemistry between the title characters.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought they both did a great job. I
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  Speaker 2: thought Frank was super hot.
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  Speaker 1: But I just.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was a really cute story. I just
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  Speaker 2: felt like it lacked chemistry.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like maybe you've stolen Wendy's first impression, even
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  Speaker 1: though I don't very in line with the standard Wendy
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  Speaker 1: first impression.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, I have notes later on that my first impression,
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  Speaker 2: and this may be an unpopular.
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  Speaker 1: One, but it was much better than I expected it
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, so you came into this from a negative space Wendy.
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  Speaker 1: As she always does it always always.
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  Speaker 2: But we just came off of like this huge megastar
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  Speaker 2: trilogy and then there's like this throwaway movie to wrap
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  Speaker 2: up February. I thought it was going to be like
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  Speaker 2: a real bummer, but okay, I kind of enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 2: I liked it.
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  Speaker 1: My first impression is they chose the wrong romantic lead.
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  Speaker 1: More on that later, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Also, I wanted to say what I wouldn't give to
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  Speaker 2: be part of a Friday night supper club like that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh right, yes, oh my god, it was
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  Speaker 2: so fantastic. I'm like, oh, every every town needs a
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  Speaker 2: place like this, every town needs a Mama's.
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  Speaker 1: You're part of our family. Now, wine and give me
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  Speaker 1: a big bull pasta, please, yeah, please.
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  Speaker 2: I love that idea. I would like even if it
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  Speaker 2: was just in my home, like every Friday night show up,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to eat and hang out, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that would be so well. I don't want to do
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  Speaker 2: that because I don't like hosting things. But Megan, if
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  Speaker 2: you needed to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah of course I did it because I don't I
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  Speaker 1: do that.
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  Speaker 2: Hell yeah, we're gonna come over.
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  Speaker 1: So because I could make a big vatapasta and pour
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  Speaker 1: some red wine and just.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about the week and each other and like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: check in on everybody.
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  Speaker 1: I just loved the idea.
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  Speaker 2: Me too.
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  Speaker 1: You know. My parents, as in the side, had like
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  Speaker 1: a standard Friday night date with friends of theirs, not date,
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  Speaker 1: like they would get together at each other's homes. Once
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  Speaker 1: my brother and I got older, so when we were
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  Speaker 1: like in our teens and didn't need a babysitter anymore,
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  Speaker 1: like just every Friday night they would alternate, they would
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  Speaker 1: go and just hang out. And I was like, that's
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  Speaker 1: so nice. Not quite the same thing, but they had
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  Speaker 1: that they knew.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. I mean, I've been trying to get
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  Speaker 2: together with my friends for like three months, like you
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  Speaker 2: can't nail anything down, you know. I love that sort
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  Speaker 2: of standing date and if you can make it great
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  Speaker 2: and if you can't, that's okay, but you know, in
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  Speaker 2: the absence of anything else, let's get together. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed, let's talk about what we liked about this movie, specifically,
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  Speaker 1: Laurie you can go first.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, Well, I loved just the food, the food
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  Speaker 2: porn of it all, because I love that in any film,
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  Speaker 2: Just show me a lot of food that's photographed beautifully.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I want to look at. I want to
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  Speaker 2: look at a gorgeous kitchen. And I loved the interior
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  Speaker 2: of the restaurant. I thought, you know, just the way
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  Speaker 2: it was lit, and and anytime I get to see
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  Speaker 2: a twinkle light, I enjoy that. So I just I
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed the interior scenery that I really liked about the film.
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  Speaker 1: Wendy, what you like?
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  Speaker 2: This goes back to something Laurie said earlier. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark movies have a tendency to tell us what happened,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, so we understand. Like the backstory. I
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  Speaker 2: loved that this one told it via flashback. It's I
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  Speaker 2: think it's maybe the first time I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: It done in a Hallmark movie. Yeah, yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: you're right, And that's my number one like as well.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I love the dual timeline telling Mama and Papa's origin story.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: And up top at the beginning of the movie when
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: they're in the lawyer's office, I'm thinking, what is going on?
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Why would she give her this restaurant? Why are these
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: two people? And I felt like that was going to
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: be my main complaint like I don't understand, And then
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: of course they answered all of those questions, and I
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: felt like we had a really full backstory. One of
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: the ways it worked for me is it didn't require
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: them to add in all these unnecessary subplots to fill time.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Is they could just focus on telling this story good points.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can totally see that.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I liked Mama and Papa both young and old, perhaps
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: better than Amy and Frank. Oh so did I agreed.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, they totally had more chemistry. Young Mama and Papa
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: totally had more chemistry. So yeah, I can totally see that.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was just rooting for them when they
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: were young. I liked, you know, their connection. When we
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: saw the adult Mama and Papa, I liked seeing the
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: day that they met. I believed in them.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I have a similar note. I wrote that down that
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: I liked the two actors who played young Mamba, and
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I loved whoever did this styling and the costumes for
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: that era.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I just thought it was me too. Looked really good.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: I thought her wedding dress was so pretty, so classic,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: so just timeless looking. I loved it.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Anything else we liked, I mean, I liked.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Hot Frank I wrote down Hot Frank, Hot Frank.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I liked the back of the house staff in the restaurant,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: sal and Christine and Lorenzo. They weren't back of the house,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: but the support staff. I thought they were more the
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: heart of the restaurant again than Amy and Frank agree.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: And seeing Maddi Fanikio in back to back Hallmark movies
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: made me very happy. I think he's so He's like
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: so subtly funny, and I'm here for that. I need
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: more Matty Fanico. Am I saying his name? No, how
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: do you say it?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: It's like Pinocchio with Oh.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Why have I always call it Faniko? Okay whatever. I
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: like him and I need him in more more movies.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Yes, I agree. I like the rooftop, you know what.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I like the rooftop too. That they I did too.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I hated the view for me.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Did we think did we think Mama overreacted to me?
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm like, chill out.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: It's not that big of a deal.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Seriously, Like I thought their whole falling out was super weak.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: You've known this girl since she was a kid. You're
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: basically like a maternal figure to her. You guys have
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: this strong, loving bond. How could something like this an
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: idea that Amy has to modernize Mama's even if it's
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: not what Mama wants. How could this be the thing?
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: It was just it was weak. I needed more well,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: And it's.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: No wonder Amy comes into the restaurant determined to return
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: it to its roots. When this was her last interaction
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: with Mama, Mama telling her I like things the way
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: that they are, right, it was a little hard for
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: me to believe that actually Mama wanted you know, they
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: rewrote history like Mama wanted change and she wanted growth.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Hm.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: But yes, Mama overreacted.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: She did. I agree, Mama overreacted. And then I just
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: thought it was strange that they just sort of lost
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: touch here. They were so important in each other's lives,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: they were fixtures and then just I don't know. I understand,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: life gets in the way, but.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, Mama took the time to write her that
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: letter using writing font.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, that wasn't my list of wishes. I
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: wish someone had just handwritten a letter, because it's not
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: that hard.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: No, I wrote, get a PA and put them to work.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Calm on.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Someone in there has okay handwriting.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Yes, right, didn't even have to be nice out loud anyway,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: You didn't. I didn't even have to be to read it.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Yes, agreed.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, since we've started talking about what we wished for,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: what else did we wish for? From Welcome to Mama's.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, like I said earlier, I wished for more
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: chemistry between Amy and Frank. I wished for more of
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: a backstory with Mama and Frank. And I wrote this
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: wish down and then they gave us some. Okay, I'll
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: be transparent about this because I was like, are they
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: not going to show us any interaction between Frank and
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Mama at all?
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: No?
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: They did. They showed us some, but it didn't feel
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: like enough. I didn't really get a strong sense of
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: their connection. They wanted us to get there in a
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: real big hurry, you know, like they're telling us that
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: those two were close, but they share such little screen
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: time together that I just I would have enjoyed more.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the one from back to Our Roots to Modernizing
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Frank's Fusion was a little bit of whiplash. It was
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: absolutely okay, I swear I am not just saying this
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: as a Maddie Finocchio, Stan, I think Maddie as Sal
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: was the better romantic match for Amy, and I wish
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: he had been the lead.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: You wanted to interesting thought you wanted him as Frank.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: No, I wanted him as Sal to be the lead.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: And Frank is this like troublemaker is causing problems and
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Sal is the go between trying to smooth things over.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: And I mean Sal did eat the Biscatti was in
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: support of her.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I mean I like that idea too.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: And here is another reason why Hallmark should call us,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: because I think we're better writers than some.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Of these people that they hired.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Astag Justice for Maddie, Justice for Mattie. Like Lorie said,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I do feel like there was zero chemistry, zero passion
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: between Frank and Amy. They were just so boring together.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: They were and it wasn't even like, you know, oh
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: I hate her, oh I hate him. We have this
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: you know, thin line between love and hate thing going on,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: you know, where there's chemistry between them and their disdain
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: for each other. You didn't even get that, Like I
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: felt like a spark of something when they were cooking together.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: That was arguably one of my favorite parts. You know,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: when they were together in the kitchen and she was
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: going to cook for him, but he had to help
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: her along. And that was a cute little moment. I
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: love it when cobbles cooked together in movies. But it
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: was so fast, it just I don't know. There wasn't
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: enough there, okay, But they used box pasta, and I
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: had to stop at that because I was like, really,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: a chef is going to use a boxed pasta?
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't he have made his own? But he did make
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: his own. She yes, she was right right.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Let me show you how mama did it. But Mama,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: I don't think he used the box pasta that they
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: spilled all over the floor, right, they picked that up
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: and cook it? Are they?
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I think hairs and bits of dust they boil it? Troll,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Hair sticks to everything. Okay, I will
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: say that. I thought, well, okay, I think this movie
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: could have used a better lead act actor.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Didn't really like Melanie Scarafano or how you say her
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: name as Amy I. She was super stiff. I just yeah,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: I just didn't like her. I just didn't like her.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: She didn't have bangs.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Maybe she needs every busy curtain bangs.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Everybody loves a girl in bangs. It's just it's just
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: the way it goes.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Do you think that was an acting choice that because
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, her character Amy is supposed to be uptight,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: is supposed to be a little controlling. Or do you
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: think she's a virgo?
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I think we can we can establish that.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Comes in with her color coded tabs, right, the fast system,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the fast system. Yes, well, I think you know, her
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: intention was to save the restaurant because it had been
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: in despair for the last couple of years or whatever,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: and she had that experience. But I don't know. She
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: just was like even in her downtime, she was just
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: like boring.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah she was. She was boring. I agree, there was
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: not she didn't have like spirit. There was no spirit
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: in her. Yeah. No, she had like no energy. It
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: was just like a flatline the entire time. I thought,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: I know, I don't like her.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I'm a fan of her on Twitter.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Okay, two girls, one cup.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: She amuses me. I would suggest checking out her Twitter feed.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: We discussed this at the top of the episode, but
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: there are so many shots of them, both from the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: roof and then from the waterfront looking out at the
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: New York skyline. Over the water. It's so distracting to
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: me to see this, and they had done some digital
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: effect to the water to make it look like it
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: was moving, and I kept like, it was so distracting
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: to me. And then multiple times they throw their worry
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: stones into the water and they do like a.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Close up splash splash, Yeah, same splash every single time.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Right, yes, And I was like, could we not have
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: like this close up like and it took me out
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: of the moment.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: However, I really liked that scene and that idea of
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: putting like that your worries into a stone and throwing
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: it away like into the water. I kind of I
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: like that too, connected to it, but agreed that the
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: way it was executed was super cheesy. Okay, and we
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: talked about it a little bit earlier, But Lorraine Broco,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: I think she's like above this kind of work. However,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: my favorite Gene Smart was in a Christmas movie a
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: couple of years ago. And so the question I have is,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: why do you think these established actors who are getting
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: paid lots of money from other projects that they've done,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: do these Hallmark movies. Do they do them just for fun,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: just for work hobby?
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: What do you think.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: You know, I just think there's not a lot of
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: space for women of a certain age anymore. And I
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: think that that's really a shame because it's my most
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: favorite thing.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: I love to.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: See women on you know, the other side of middle age.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: I want to see them fall in love. I want
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: to see them do new things and try new things
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: and be outside their comfort zone. Like I want to
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: see these women that we have all grown up watching
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: on film and loving on film. They're so talented. I
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: want them to have more roles and I just don't
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: know that they're there, and I think this is just
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: an opportunity for them to just continue their craft. And
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: thank God, because I want to watch them.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: I think that's a great point that I hadn't occurred
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: to me. One thing I was thinking is I think
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: actors like to work. And a Hallmark movie takes two
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: weeks to film, and so I feel like it's just
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: a fun project to take on. You're not dedicating three,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: four or five six months of your life, you're not
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: signing on to a series. You're just making a movie
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: for a couple weeks. And I assume that people who
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: continue acting probably likes to work.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Laurie, there is a movie that's coming up,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: and Megan, can you remember the name of it that
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: features those actors that were on Er.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I can't remember the name of it, but I can
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: look it up.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Because Megan man talking for months that we need to
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: see older couples in these kind of stories. It doesn't
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: always need to be like this unmarried thirty year old
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: like show.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, this is I think a second chance at love
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: is what it's called.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: A second chance at love. I'm excited to see that.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's like when you talk about films
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: like as Good as It Gets and It's complicated, and
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: films that show, you know, older women falling in love.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Maybe they've maybe they're widows, or maybe they have just
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: not had good experiences in love and now is their
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: chance to find it. I don't know. It's just there's
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: something so heartwarming and beautiful about a love story between
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: people who have lived some life. I want to see
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: more of it.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Uh huh. It stars Gloria Rubin and Eric Wassalam, who
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: haven't bet on screen together since they were in Er together. Wow,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: it is time for digitousye that and I've got some
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: things to talk about. But once again, Laurie, how about.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: So my big questions are, how did Mama and Papa die?
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: I feel like I need to know that? And I
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: don't know why I need to know that as much
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: as I do, but I do.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: I feel like.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: I I'm not sad enough about Mama's death because I
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: don't know how she died. Why were they called Mama
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: and Papa? Why did they call each other mama and
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: papa any children? Because adult don't believe that they did,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: because the kids were not involved in the reading of
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: the will or anything like that. And so what's up
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: with that? That would be like if my husband and
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: I called each other mom and dad or mother and father,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Like that's so weird to me?
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Do I sometimes call my husband daddy, but not like
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: in a gross daddy way, like.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I do, not even like go daddy.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, not even like in a daddy way. You know,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: it's no. It just started when the kids were young,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: like oh golass, daddy, Da da da da. And it's
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: always said like daddy, like a name. It's not said
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: like like sexy, it's not said in any kind of
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: other way. But when it's just the two of us.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: I don't call him that, but when the kids are around, like, oh, hey,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: go ass daddy, what time he's gonna whatever? Whatever? You know,
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: it's all very matter of fact. But the fact that
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: they call each other Mama and Papa. Why why there's
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: no kids there? Yeah, why would she call her restaurant Mama's,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Like Mama's was that even talked about? No?
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, if they call each other, I feel
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: like maybe this was a working Backwards're like, Mama's is
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: a great name for an Italian restaurant. How are we
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: going to get to Mama's? Okay, wait where he calls
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: mama and Papa.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Before they had the restaurant. I'm trying to remember.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: I think I think they did in their early married days,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: when they're in their tiny little apartment. I thought, maybe
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: we all they know them as Mama and Papa.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I think they referred to her first name
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: as being Maria, like once when they meet in the
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: something like that. Yeah, And so I don't know. I
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: had questions.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: There's a scene early in the movie where Frank brings
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: out a sampler of everything that's on his menu to Aim,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I know what you're gonna say, So First of all,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I have issues with this scene. If you're going to
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: bring out a sampler, you don't make a giant plate
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: of each, Like, couldn't you make like a smaller piece
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: of all these things? She can't eat all this a
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: full branzy note, right. The issue is I think she
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: takes one bite of the pasta and she's like, oh spicy,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: And she says, now that I've sampled Frank's fusion, bitch,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: you took one a one.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: You're right, I made that now, you are absolutely right?
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Like you are such an asshole, Amy, Like, what are
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: you thinking? You're so rude?
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: How can you run a restaurant and have a comment
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: about his menu without tasting it?
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I know.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Also, there's a moment where they go somewhere I don't
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: remember what's happening, but she takes a bunch of money
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: out of her wallet, like a bunch of twenties. They're
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: so fake. I'm like, could there's nobody on this set
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: has actual money that they can use us a prop?
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: What is happening? Why are we printing me off on
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: a printer?
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: It was for the wine flight, and she took out
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: like eighty or one hundred bucks, and I was like,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: wait a minute, and did she mentioned.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Have that wine flight by the way, because they don't
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: carry that at the restaurant. But how does she go
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: somewhere else and order Mama's flight?
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Right, it's Mama's flight and it was Mama's face, like
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Mama loved this spot, like what she also? I love
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: that cafe.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Also also to the wine flight, every single one of
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: those glasses was completely full. If you order a wine flight,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: isn't it going to be like a quarter glass of wine? Yeah,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: it's a sample.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: No wonder it was so expensive.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: There's a full bottle of winey, I know, glass what
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: you got?
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Wendy Well, Miamisaphonia was on Hilert in this movie because
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: there were so many scenes where they were slurping and
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: eating and I could hear it and I wanted to
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: break my TV.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: I just hated it so much that part. I noticed
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: it the most again in that tasting scene, and it
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: was so noticeable that I wondered if it was added
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: in post because how close are the onset mics that
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: they're picking up her chewing noises?
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: I mean they could have been like right over her head,
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: but still like I bet it was added in post,
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: but why would you add it? Like so many people
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: don't want to hear other people eating, So I'm like,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: unless it was like to add that she really loved
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: the taste.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Of it, I don't know, add some fake restaurant background
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: like tinkling of silverware noises, you know, like if you
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: need something else going in the back. Also, oh sorry, no, go.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: At the very end, when they're on the stupor wherever
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: they're at and they're doing their they kiss and they
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: do this like terrible. This was like at the very
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: very end of it, Megan, you probably turned it off already.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: They were doing this like terrible, like force that box dance,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: and then it had like the horrible green screen of
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: the New York Skyline in the back, and I was like, yes,
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: what is that happening? It just it was the cherry
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: on top that these two had no chemistry well, and
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: it was like the first step of their dance they
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: were trying to get into position because they both take
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: this giant step. Yes, yes, what is that?
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Why would you not just start where you were?
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: It was?
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I agree it was they were There were no lazy
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Shabert dancer level ability.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: No no, no, no.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm very curious to hear what we've rated this
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: movie out of five stars. We used to do a
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: four star rating. We changed it for twenty twenty two.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: So out of five stars, Lorie, what would you rate
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Mama's?
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Okay? I would rate Welcome to Mama's a three out
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: of five simply because Lorraine Brocco, Yes, and the food porn.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Wendy, you liked it more than you thought you were
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: going to. What do you rate it? I rate it
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: two point seveny five stars.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Wo, It's very specific. I know, I I it's hard
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: for me, like because I have like this idea of
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: my first impression is says I liked it, But then
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: when I really start to break it down, I go,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: I didn't really like it that much.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it gets for me. I rated this
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: two point five stars.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: I wow, I rated this higher than both of you.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: How is this possible?
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Can I change rating seventy five Hallmark movies that we've
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: watched in the last year. I know, we know what
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: a good Hallmark movie looks like to us. You know,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: there were things that I liked about this movie, but
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure I enjoyed the experience of watching it
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: as a whole a lot. I didn't hate it. There
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: have been There's definitely worse movies. I could name five
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: off the top of my head, but I did not
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: love it. So next, Hallmark's doing a weird thing. I
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: feel like Hallmark cannot catch up from Countdown to Chris
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: miss Uh. They are calling their spring line up Spring
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: into Love, which is different last year it was Springfling. Fine,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: but on the app the first movie in their Spring
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: into Love which is Feeling Butterflies on March.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, I am so glad you brought that up. So
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: the commercial for this upcoming butterfly film played at every
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: commercial break, and I'm like, what the hell is this like?
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Is it supposed to be so romantic? Just the butterfly
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: of it all? It seems like such a weird, like
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: a butterfly contest. What are we dealing with here? What
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: do we know about that film?
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: I mean that's literally what we know about the film.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: But it's so many weird How annoying? Are the fake
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: butterflies going to be? Oh my god, it's Christmas movie.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: It has Kevin McGary in it, though he's fun to watk.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: He is fun to watch. I agree we will be
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: watching it, but I do feel like Hallmark is like
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: sliding in by the skin of their teeth on these
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: March movies. We do have a full week off. There
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: is no new movie this Saturday March. She's like thank God,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: which feels like a personal birthday gift from Hallmark to wait. Yes,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: happy birthday to me. Of course, we will be back
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: to discuss the March twelfth movie before we go. Laurie,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: tell everybody where they can find you.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Well, I spend most of my time on the socials
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: on Instagram at the untitled gen X podcast. I'm also
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: on Facebook and you know, anywhere you get your podcasts,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: you guys can tune in. We talk about, you know,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: the TV films, music, music videos, cultural phenomena of gen
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: X and it's a really good time. So I hope
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: you guys will come check it out.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: It is a good time. I would highly recommend giving
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Laurie's podcast listen. You're very fun to follow on Instagram.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: We will leave links to all of those in Wendy's
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: very detailed show notes, so you don't need to remember
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: any of that. You can just click through the show notes.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us, Lori. We will
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: beating me in two weeks with another Hallmark movie. But
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: don't worry, our regular Tuesday episodes will still be here.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: We will not be going two weeks without an episode.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening before you go. We
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: love your five star ratings and reviews, so take a minute,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: leave us a review, and we'll see you next week. Bye.