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A Heidelberg Holiday · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark movie fan. I'm Wendy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your former Hallmark hater. Today we're discussing at Heidelberg
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  Speaker 1: out chat situation. Are you ready to talk Heidelberg? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's hear a synopsis. Heidi Heidelberg receives the dream opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to sell her beautiful handmade glass ornaments at the prestigious
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  Speaker 1: Heidelberg Christmas Market in Germany. While there, she meets Lucas,
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  Speaker 1: a local artisan who doesn't want to be called an artist,
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  Speaker 1: who helps her reconnect to her lost heritage. I ad
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  Speaker 1: libdi doesn't want to be called an artist. Did you
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  Speaker 1: catch it? No? He did it. It was such a smooth read.
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  Speaker 1: He was a smooth read. And I actually thought about that,
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  Speaker 1: because that's right. He was very reluctant too. Yeah, claim
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  Speaker 1: that artist's role. Okay, the dude me furniture. I think
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  Speaker 1: there's art in that absolutely Yes, it was beautiful even
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  Speaker 1: without all his carvings. This was written and directed by
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  Speaker 1: McLean Nelson. His resume is pretty short, with less than
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  Speaker 1: ten writing credits. His previous Hallmark titles include A Nashville
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  Speaker 1: Legacy and hashtag x mis Megan just cocked her head. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I draw Botken wrote that, so they must have co
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  Speaker 1: written that. As for directing, Nelson has fifteen directing credits,
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  Speaker 1: including Do Do Do Doo, last year's haul Out, The Holly,
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  Speaker 1: Hidden Gems, Presence of Love, as well as a few others.
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  Speaker 1: Upcoming for the director is the highly anticipated haul Out
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  Speaker 1: the Holly two lit Up lit Up. I just think
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  Speaker 1: that's so funny. Gina Claire Mason stars as Heidi. This
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  Speaker 1: is her second movie for Hallmark. She starred in last
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  Speaker 1: year's A Holiday Spectacular. If you don't know Gena Claire Mason,
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  Speaker 1: she's an accomplished stage actor. She was Glinda and Wicked
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  Speaker 1: on Broadway. Frederick Brossier plays Lucas. He's a Germany based
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  Speaker 1: actor with mostly German projects. Listen, I put these notes
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  Speaker 1: together and I saw the name of his projects, but
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  Speaker 1: they were all in German. I'm like, look, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to even attempt to try to see them. No,
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  Speaker 1: we're good. Okay, we got a cameo in this movie.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see it? I'm gonna tell you that I
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  Speaker 1: knew there was a cameo in this movie, and I
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  Speaker 1: didn't see it, and I watched this very carefully, but
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  Speaker 1: perhaps glanced away to write a note down. All right.
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  Speaker 1: McLain nelson shared on his Instagram that the giving of
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  Speaker 1: the oh Boy, the dudentin kus really pronounced how it's
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  Speaker 1: written almost right. It's twut is a real German tradition
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  Speaker 1: dating back to eighteen sixty three, and when he learned
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  Speaker 1: about it, he's like, oh, yes, I am definitely putting
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  Speaker 1: this in the movie. It's nice, it's cute. This was
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  Speaker 1: filmed mostly in Heidelberg, Germany, as well as the Heidelberg Castle.
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  Speaker 1: These scenes are filmed in Serbia. Some scenes were filmed
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  Speaker 1: in Serbia. That's the different from a few. No, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear you say a few like This was filmed
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  Speaker 1: in December twenty twenty two and took forty nine days
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  Speaker 1: to film and wrapped up January thirty one, twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: Now I have a little news and notes here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Gina Clare Mason and her husband welcomed a baby girl
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  Speaker 1: in April twenty twenty three. Girl Matt tells me she
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  Speaker 1: was pregnant while filming. Indeed, she must have been. That's
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  Speaker 1: how that works. Yeah, and if you go back and watch,
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  Speaker 1: you can see like she's in coats, a lot of coats,
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  Speaker 1: scarfs that hang in front. Yeah. Well, I wonder if
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  Speaker 1: filming took so long because they took some time off
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  Speaker 1: for the holidays. Oh maybe yeah, uh yeah, because you're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna work through Christmas, right. I wonder how many
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  Speaker 1: days they got off. I don't know. Glass ornament artists
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  Speaker 1: Lindsay Designs shared on her Instagram that she was chosen
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  Speaker 1: by Hallmark to create the ornaments you can see in
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  Speaker 1: the movie You know side note here Lindsey Designs sure
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  Speaker 1: sounds a lot like Keith costumes. It does. That's all
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  Speaker 1: one of our faves. First impression time you're gonna go first? Okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: I want to say that. I posted about this on
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  Speaker 1: our Instagram about what I'm gonna say next, and Wendy
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  Speaker 1: was like, no, So my first impression is I needed
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  Speaker 1: a waterproof mascare warning for this one. What did you
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  Speaker 1: cry at Oh, we're gonna get into it. My first
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  Speaker 1: impression is not what you think it's going to be.
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  Speaker 1: It is I'm here for these cozy family Christmas vibes.
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  Speaker 1: Look at you. I didn't hate it. I just wasn't
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  Speaker 1: crying watching it. Oh my goodness, Well let's talk what
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  Speaker 1: we like. Okay, since we're there, let's here's what I
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  Speaker 1: thought was beautiful about this movie. There was no wasted space.
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  Speaker 1: They bill this beautiful story. So when she's talking about
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  Speaker 1: her family's Christmas traditions, it's not a conversation that dies there.
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  Speaker 1: It continues. They do her family's Christmas traditions. They honor
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  Speaker 1: her family's Christmas traditions, yes, while also involving her in
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  Speaker 1: their own families. They did enjoy all of that. Even
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  Speaker 1: the boys talk about their love of legos in a
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  Speaker 1: very casual way That comes into play later in the
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  Speaker 1: movie where they're making their mosaic art. Nothing smaller than
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  Speaker 1: a lego. Just there were none of these throwaway moments.
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  Speaker 1: And what made the moment that made me cry the
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  Speaker 1: final thirty forty minutes of the movie. Here's what happens
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  Speaker 1: when they bring the tree into the house, yes, to
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  Speaker 1: decorate because their tradition is to decorate on Christmas Eve
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  Speaker 1: and hers is to have it up early, and so
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  Speaker 1: they compromise. What a lovely moment that made me a
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  Speaker 1: little weepy. That started it. Okay, do you want to
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  Speaker 1: say something? And I got thoughts, I got thoughts. Oka ahead.
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  Speaker 1: And then shortly thereafter her ornaments arrive and they're in ruins,
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  Speaker 1: and you see I could feel her panic, the oh no,
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  Speaker 1: like there's what am I going to do? And then
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  Speaker 1: you hear her sobbing while Lucas is inside her shop.
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  Speaker 1: That was a moment and the family is out there
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  Speaker 1: digging through it, and she's devastated. I'm already weepy about
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  Speaker 1: the tree now we and you knew, I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: knew something terrible was gonna happen. Of course you knew
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  Speaker 1: it was coming. So watching it come to fruition, and
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  Speaker 1: something about the juxtaposition of the goofy German postal worker
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  Speaker 1: with this tragic moment really really did it for me.
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  Speaker 1: Then she and Lucas have this moment and she doesn't
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  Speaker 1: deny her feelings for him, but she's so overwhelmed by
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  Speaker 1: the disappointment that she can't even think about her feelings
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  Speaker 1: for Lucas, She's like, this is my life, this is
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  Speaker 1: all this work. I'm going to disappoint all of these people.
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  Speaker 1: I came here for nothing. That moment was very touching
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  Speaker 1: to me. And then she sits down and she has
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  Speaker 1: her realization about how she can turn lemons into lemonade.
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  Speaker 1: I did not hate that solution, okay. And then they
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  Speaker 1: all work together to make their beautiful mosaics. Did you
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  Speaker 1: really think they were better than the or No, it's
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  Speaker 1: not better than the ornaments, but a very natural marrying
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  Speaker 1: of her talent with Lucas's Wendy's shaking her head. And
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  Speaker 1: then two final moments that really bring it home for me.
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  Speaker 1: The woman who was buying the ornaments for her father,
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  Speaker 1: uh huh, and she gives her the display set as
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  Speaker 1: she carry on, I go, oh, she's gonna give her
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  Speaker 1: the ornaments, and West Wing fans will know that this
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  Speaker 1: gave me a really he gave him the knife moment,
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  Speaker 1: which is a Thanksgiving episode, so the timing could not
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  Speaker 1: be more perfect. I need to give you the backstory here.
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  Speaker 1: There's an episode in which President Bartlett has his body man,
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  Speaker 1: which is basically like his personal assistant Charlie, who becomes
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  Speaker 1: like a son to him. He has him searching for
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  Speaker 1: the best carving knife, and he keeps bringing him carving knives.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, this won't do. This, won't do. This, won't do.
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  Speaker 1: And there's finally a moment where he goes, I don't understand, sir,
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  Speaker 1: I thought you would have had a carving knife, and
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  Speaker 1: he goes, I do, and he takes it out and
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  Speaker 1: it's just like this beautiful knife with his history. I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting chills talking about it. And he's like, it's a
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  Speaker 1: knife that's meant to be passed from a father to
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  Speaker 1: a son. And he gives Charlie the knife, and that's
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  Speaker 1: a very anybody who's watched West Wing, No, he gave
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  Speaker 1: him the knife. Megan's getting ready to cry, you guys am,
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  Speaker 1: And then I've all worked up and then Ohma arrives
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  Speaker 1: and that really would have been the moment that just
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  Speaker 1: that would be it. I've had a really bad couple
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  Speaker 1: of days. And then my beloved grandmother shows up. Yeah
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  Speaker 1: that was nice. Look, I'm not eating on this movie.
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  Speaker 1: I like this movie, but let me say, let me
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  Speaker 1: just back it up here. Okay, when we reviewed Christmas Island, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you said, I connected to the story of Kate right, which, admittedly, yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's why I like that movie so much. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: think there's a little piece of you that's connecting to
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  Speaker 1: this movie, of the story of marrying the two traditions together.
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  Speaker 1: Look at you because I think maybe your traditions are
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  Speaker 1: not always respected. And let me break it down, not
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  Speaker 1: by my husband, correct, there are outside forces. My husband
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  Speaker 1: and I have a harmonious holiday situation in our family.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, I think that's a very insightful way of
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  Speaker 1: looking at it that I did not consider. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: You're welcome. And let me be very clear. You liked
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  Speaker 1: Christmas Island more than I did. I liked this movie.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not mad that you didn't love this movie or
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  Speaker 1: connected the same way. I didn't hate the movies. I
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  Speaker 1: needed it. Okay, I hated it. I have a whole
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  Speaker 1: list of things that I I just have you with
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  Speaker 1: mascara running down your face. I phoned in your ears,
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  Speaker 1: staring at your computer while your family's orbiting around you
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  Speaker 1: doing their evening things. No, you didn't watch just with
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  Speaker 1: your husband either. No, my husband doesn't the European movies.
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  Speaker 1: What and I told him, I said, I think this
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  Speaker 1: is a really classically Hallmark movie that just happens to
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  Speaker 1: be set. He doesn't do the Royal movies either, I
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  Speaker 1: hate real and I think they give him that same vibe.
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  Speaker 1: So like he's not going to watch a Christmas in Vienna.
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  Speaker 1: He just, I don't know, just not into it. I
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  Speaker 1: think he would have liked this movie. I think he
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  Speaker 1: would have loved it. I think so too. Okay, let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you what I liked about it, please, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: It was a sweet story, and I really enjoyed learning
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  Speaker 1: about like German holiday traditions. I think it's really cool
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  Speaker 1: when Hallmark can kind of like expose people to things
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  Speaker 1: happening in different parts of the world. Yeah, without like
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  Speaker 1: hating us over the head with it in a real natural,
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  Speaker 1: organic way. Absolutely, the most heartwarming scenes to me were
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  Speaker 1: the ones when the whole with the whole family and
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  Speaker 1: they're sharing the joy of the season and telling stories.
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  Speaker 1: And I loved that. I like you. I loved the
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  Speaker 1: mix of traditions. I thought that was very sweet, and
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  Speaker 1: I really loved I've never heard of doing like a
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  Speaker 1: Christmas wish where you put it in your at the
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  Speaker 1: end of you're stalking, Like, that's so sweet, just as
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  Speaker 1: like a good idea too. It wasn't like I wish
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  Speaker 1: to get a million presents this year. It was like
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  Speaker 1: something deeper than that. Yeah, I just I thought that
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  Speaker 1: was really nice. Now. I also thought that this scenery
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  Speaker 1: was gorgeous. And I know we've talked in previous movies
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  Speaker 1: where like the scenery like is a third character. Almost. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this wasn't like that. For me. It was nice as
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  Speaker 1: a person who has been to Germany but not to Heidelberg.
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  Speaker 1: I want to go to the Christmas market. I have
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  Speaker 1: a question about the Christmas markets. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: bigger than that. When they were doing the overhead shots,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute, is this an actual, true,
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  Speaker 1: true Heidelberg Christmas Market because it looked kind of small
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  Speaker 1: that I don't know, I don't know. I know there's
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  Speaker 1: a ton of them, like different places have them. A
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  Speaker 1: friend of mine went last year specifically for that, and
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  Speaker 1: they spent Christmas in Europe and they did Germany and Austria,
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  Speaker 1: and don't I think they're huge. I know we have
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  Speaker 1: a listener in our Facebook group who said that she
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  Speaker 1: had lived there in Heidelberg. I'm going to follow up
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  Speaker 1: because I'm curious to see like how big the markets are, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the scope of it. Can I just say what? We
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  Speaker 1: got two bells nickels? Two bells nickles? We did on
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  Speaker 1: a weekend. And I know, like the recording of these
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  Speaker 1: and the published dates are a little wonky, but like
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  Speaker 1: two I never even heard of this. Neither had I
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  Speaker 1: German folklore ever did. I also not know there's the
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  Speaker 1: difference between Satannik and Santa. Nope, I thought that they
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  Speaker 1: were the same person too, no idea of no freaking idea,
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  Speaker 1: forty eight years old. I just thought it was like
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  Speaker 1: a different name me too. I didn't know there was
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  Speaker 1: like a different dude. That dude I'm saying, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sure that comes and fills your boots? Yeah, no idea.
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  Speaker 1: Gina Marie singing, Oh, I mean I'm so glad, Like
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad we get that talent of hers in
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  Speaker 1: a movie that seemed very natural. It wasn't just like
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  Speaker 1: she was like, well, I don't know, she didn't really
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  Speaker 1: like show that she had any singing experience, right, Like
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  Speaker 1: it was never talked about. She just got up and
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  Speaker 1: like saying, it was a really nice scene because it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't just like her singing the entire time where I
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  Speaker 1: would have got like second hand embarrassment. It was like
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  Speaker 1: interspersed with like satanik and belle' snickele handing out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I liked that. I think it was nice to have
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  Speaker 1: a It was an organic moment to utilize her talents,
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  Speaker 1: to have her singing this carol during that holiday event. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And this is what I mean about there's no wasted space.
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  Speaker 1: We've had a lot of movies where there's some sort
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  Speaker 1: of like nonprofit event happening and it's always handled badly
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  Speaker 1: with like people who don't really have a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: of knowledge of how these things run. Yeah, and when
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  Speaker 1: they're like, oh, we'd like to be able to give
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  Speaker 1: them all a gift and they're like, well, we don't
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  Speaker 1: have the budget for that. I have a solution, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought it's not going to pan out. And they
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  Speaker 1: did the absolute most logical thing by going to the
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  Speaker 1: Christmas market and asking for those donations, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: that's actually perfect. Yeah, the gifts they're going to get
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  Speaker 1: are these beautiful, handmade, lovely things, and that is how
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: you get things by going and asking people for them.
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  Speaker 1: And she had made these connections at the market and
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: then it paid off. I really liked that. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: liked it too. And finally, I really enjoyed that the
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  Speaker 1: romance between Lucas and Heidi developed early, and there was
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  Speaker 1: like early kisses, and it wasn't just like this whole
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  Speaker 1: thing leading to the end. We had to see the
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  Speaker 1: whole development, because I think calling for each other, it's
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  Speaker 1: like a natural progression. It's not just like this, we
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  Speaker 1: like each other. I love you, kiss I love that,
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  Speaker 1: and he held her hand at one point they're on
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  Speaker 1: the bridge, and I really thought their romance was very sweet,
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  Speaker 1: and we had some silliness with the like him helping
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  Speaker 1: her up the hill, but there wasn't manufactured conflict keeping
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: them apart, right, they just developed very natural. Do you
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  Speaker 1: have anything you wished for? I do a few, So
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: I only wrote one thing down, and it's that I
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  Speaker 1: spent a long time wishing that we saw the inside
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  Speaker 1: of her cute cottage, and then we finally do. So
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  Speaker 1: they're no wish. She just like keeps going to the
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  Speaker 1: door and going inside, and I was like, are we
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  Speaker 1: ever going to see it? And though we do so,
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  Speaker 1: I have no isshes. Okay. I thought the pace was
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  Speaker 1: kind of slow, just the whole and I know it's
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  Speaker 1: not even hijiinks, but like going to the post office
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  Speaker 1: and going to the post office and going to the
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  Speaker 1: post office and then keep getting turned away, Like I
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  Speaker 1: was just like, Okay, we get it. These are going
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  Speaker 1: to be like these are loss somewhere. I think maybe
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: she should have tried to work on a resolution before
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: she was forced to work on a resolution. Well, I agree,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: but she kind of discussed it like maybe I need
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: to find a last going shop. But then she's like,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have time. Yeah, I know, I think her
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  Speaker 1: hands when she's packing those things up. I thought this
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  Speaker 1: is a disaster. I would never trust. Like she's like
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  Speaker 1: not trying to save money. I'm like, no, lady, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta get these things there next week. Well, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: they don't get packed in cardboard boxes. Maybe you need
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  Speaker 1: like reusable hard sighted shipping cases, something for your glass ornaments, something,
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  Speaker 1: because this feels like an accident waiting to happen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: is it on her for her haphazard I mean she
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  Speaker 1: put it in there with foam peanuts. Aren't the ornament's
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  Speaker 1: going to sync to the body. They needed some sort
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: of structure in there. I don't mean a victim blame,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I know. Finally, speaking of resolution, I thought
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: the resolution happened so quickly and it felt a little unbelievable.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: You're gonna put your crushed up ornaments on like his
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: beautiful handcarved orc Do you wish she had at least
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: asked him for permission to do that. I just think
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: she should have come up with a different idea to
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: sell I just like I wasn't particularly drawn to that
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: sort of artistry. Okay, I thought his his hand carved
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: work was beautiful. I liked her ornaments so but I
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: didn't see how they worked together. That's all. Okay, Okay,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: did you see that? I got a few me too?
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Go ahead. When Heidi tells her dad that there are
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: still a few hours left on Thanksgiving Day and his
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: response is, but my countdown to Christmas started at the
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: end of October, I laughed out loud, loved it. And
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: speaking of Hallmark call outs, there is a Hallmark Gold
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Crown store right back to the shipping store that she
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: goes to. Yep, yep, there's a baby in this movie.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Have we ever seen a Hallmark movie with a baby?
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Like a Wiseman and a baby, uh uh, like a
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: toddler baby that's like, oh, the sweet little girl. It
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: was her niece, and she's stacking the stuff on the table,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: her little passfire in her mouth, and then she's sitting
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: at the dinner table, and I thought, there's there's a baby,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: like three wise men and a baby, and then there's
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: children that can be taught to act, and then you
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: got a wild card of a toddler who knows what
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: she's gonna do. And I thought it was very an
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: interesting choice because that's a hard thing to act around.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: That's got to be somebody's kid, right, That's what I
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: thought it's got to be, especially because she's like got
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the pacifier in her mouth. It felt very like this
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: is someone's baby. Mm hmmm. I thought she was so cute,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: real cute. When she was like stacking those toys on
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the table. I was like, oh, look at that beautiful
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Christmas decor right next to it that this toddler's not touching. Yeah.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Alma's map was something out of a professional beautiful. She's like, here,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I made this map for you, and I rolled it
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: up in a scroll like come on, I know, but
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: I wrote it down. I actually loved her beautiful list.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, what's the other option she's got, like a
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: grocery list that she hands over to her, because that's realistic.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: When they bring the Christmas tree out, I loved. I
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: love this scene too. There was one string of lights
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: on the tree, just one. Can you hear me? See?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I can? Every time I move it squeaks. We need
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: to talk about the cameo. Yes, Jonathan Bennett and his
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: husband James Vaughan appear in the market scene. She's HEIGHTI
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: is at like one of the booths. She turns, she
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: walks away and then like Jonathan Bennett and her and
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: his husband then walk away from the from the booth too.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: You know what I love about this scene is that
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: it was not planned. No, I know. So there's a
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: real cute video on Gina Clare Mason or Jonathan Bennett,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure one of their instagrams of the actual
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: moment where Jonathan and his husband surprise her. They happened
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: to be in Germany trap while they're filming. And do
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: you think they like know each other from like last year? Yeah,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: they know each other. They clearly knew each other. She
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: was just so shocked. The joy on her face is
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: so lovely. She's like, what are you doing here? And
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: then they put them in the movie.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I think they were just there for they were just visiting,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: visiting travel. Yeah, yeah, that's fun. He's like, hey, that
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: looks like a Hallmark movie production over there. Let me
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: go check it out. Yeah, it's funny. I have one
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: more Okay, and you mentioned it. I mean she gives
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: away her suitcase of the samples. Why is she giving
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: away the suitcase that has the samples in it? Probably
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: because that's the best way to transport them without them
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: getting ruined. I know, but that's hers. Yeah, you know
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: what I mean. It was Yeah, how was she How
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: was she going to give all these ornaments? You would
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: think she would have some sort of box system. Yeah,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: like right, yes, you're a because they're in a little
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: wooden crate when she's shipping them. Anyway, That's all that's
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: all I got. Would you rate this movie? I gave
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: it three point seven five stars, four and a half.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I thought it was a really nice movie. It's one
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: of my top three at the moment. Keep in mind, listeners,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: we have not seen the big movies of the week.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I understand something could happen. No, no, no, I need
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: to know what your top three are? Then the Santa Summit,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Uh huh, missed it Christmas? And this interesting? What are
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: your top three? Santa Summit, Christmas Island and missed it Christmas?
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: But like you said, things can change at any moment. Yep,
• 22:42
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• 22:45
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