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Betty’s Bad Luck in Love · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Betty's gonna be like, oh, bad luck again, Yeah, exact.
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Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark movie fan. I'm Wendy.
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Speaker 1: Today we're discussing Betty's Bad Luck in Love, which originally
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Speaker 1: premiered on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday, January twentieth. If
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Speaker 1: awesome review. Loved it, It's so nice. Augh made me happy,
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Speaker 1: me too. Let's talk Betty's bad luck in love with
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Speaker 1: a synopsis.
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Speaker 2: Sure cursed from childhood to fail at romance, Betty's relationships
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Speaker 2: have always ended in disaster, But when she meets Alex,
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Speaker 2: She's tempted to try once more. Can true love prevail
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Speaker 2: over a curse?
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Speaker 1: This movie was directed by Lynda Lisa Hater. Linda Lisa
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Speaker 1: has thirteen previous directing credits, including Murder in g Major A,
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Speaker 1: Haunted Harmony, Mystery, Unexpected Grace, and Cranberry Christmas, all of
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Speaker 1: which are a little bit heavier in tone, which leads
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Speaker 1: me to believes UH had some influence on some of
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Speaker 1: the later moments in this movie.
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Speaker 2: Yeah interesting, I note Lisa follows us on INSTAGRAMI Lisa
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Speaker 2: Cameron Johan would you say, Johan?
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Speaker 1: I don't know why you're second guessing yourself.
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Speaker 2: It's Johan, right, okay? Cameron Johan wrote the script for
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Speaker 2: this movie. This is Cameron's second writing credit. He has
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Speaker 2: also written the screenplay for a movie called Birdie from
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. He has worked in entertainment for a
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Speaker 2: long time, producing a number of Hallmark movies, including A
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Speaker 2: Paris Proposal, Ground Swell, and Rippin Time.
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Speaker 1: Lacey J. Mayley plays Betty. Lacey has twenty nine acting credits,
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Speaker 1: which include fifty five episodes of the Hallmark series Chesapeake
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Speaker 1: Shores as Jess O'Brien She was also in one episode
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Speaker 1: of Hudson and Rex, which I do think is due
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Speaker 1: for a place on our Hallmark Actor Bingo card due
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Speaker 1: to the number of times we see that on our resumes.
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Speaker 2: A lot lately. Marco Garzini plays Alex. Marco's fifty acting
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Speaker 2: and credits also include murder in g Major, A Haunted
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Speaker 2: Harmony mystery, and also noteworthy, David has a role as
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Speaker 2: best Friend Number two in Once Upon a Time, Break
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Speaker 2: Out those Bengo Cards.
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Speaker 1: That's Right. Jessica Garcia plays sister Amy. Jessica has twenty
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Speaker 1: nine acting credits, which include roles in both An Unexpected
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Speaker 1: Christmas and Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas, incidentally,
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Speaker 1: both starring one Tyler Hines I mean girl hit the
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Speaker 1: supporting actor jack Pot, with her lead actors being Tyler
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Speaker 1: and Marco.
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Speaker 2: Not too bad right, Not too shabby. Betty's Bad Luck
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Speaker 2: in Life was filmed in and around Vancouver in mid
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Speaker 2: to late September twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 1: What was your first impression of Betty's Bad Luck and Love?
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Speaker 2: Well? In the words of my fifteen year old daughter
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Speaker 2: who watched with me, she says, why are they blowing
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Speaker 2: things up? Isn't this supposed to be a rom com?
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Speaker 1: Oh? Indeed, my first impression is, girl, that's just stalking.
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Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of criticism about this whole stalking.
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Speaker 1: Stool top part. I want the genders and you got
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Speaker 1: a real problem.
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Speaker 2: You got a lifetime movie on your hands.
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Speaker 1: What did we like about Betty's bad luck and love?
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Speaker 2: Okay, I really liked Lacy JM Maylee. Oh my god,
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Speaker 2: is that how you say? Bailey Maylee? Right? Okay, I
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Speaker 2: really like shut up, shut up, shut up, it's Monday morning.
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Speaker 2: I really liked Lacey J. Maylee. I had forgotten she
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Speaker 2: was in Chesapeake Shores. Granted I only watched a couple
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Speaker 2: of episodes, but I forgot that she was like the
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Speaker 2: younger sister. I think she's the youngest sister on that show. Anyway.
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Speaker 1: I know there's been a.
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Speaker 2: Lot of criticism about the character Betty, but I thought
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Speaker 2: Lacey was awesome.
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Speaker 1: I agree. Look, I found myself watching this movie with
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Speaker 1: a big smile on my face almost the entire time.
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Speaker 1: I have some thoughts, but overall, I like Lacey and
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Speaker 1: Marco were very charming, and may I say the costume
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Speaker 1: department deserves on a ward for the up top the
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Speaker 1: brilliantly fortless wardrobe worn by Lacey Maylie as Betty.
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Speaker 2: I one agree. It's also in my in my Life situate.
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Speaker 2: Myf notes here.
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Speaker 1: I was blown away by how unfussy but absolutely stunning
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Speaker 1: she looked in every scene she worked, you know, weekend dresses,
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Speaker 1: her workwear. I loved it. But it doesn't stop with her.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Sorry, I was gonna.
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Speaker 2: Say like, her work wear was great, her casual wear
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Speaker 2: was great. Those blouses and jeans, I was like, yes,
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Speaker 2: put those in my wardrobe right now. She had great
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Speaker 2: jewelry from head to toe. Stunning. I loved it.
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Speaker 1: So other honorable mentions go to Maya, Alex and Nelson's costuming.
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Speaker 1: In my opinion, other than the fact that there's no
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Speaker 1: way a teacher would wear a bodycon dress in the classroom,
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Speaker 1: Maya looked great. There's a scene early in the movie
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Speaker 1: where Alex is wearing like casual spring scarf, and I
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Speaker 1: feel like that was the chef's kiss and the perfect
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Speaker 1: way to tell you everything you needed to know about
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Speaker 1: this free spirit, adventurous, gong owning dude.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, totally.
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Speaker 1: And Nelson and his short ties really went a long
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Speaker 1: way to developing his character in a visual sense. HM
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Speaker 1: One side note. While I found millennial Annie Hall to
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Speaker 1: be a very funny line, I hated that bowler hat.
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Speaker 2: Would she put it on? I was like, wait, is
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Speaker 2: she going to work at TJ Fridays? What's happening here?
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Speaker 1: Out loud?
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Speaker 2: I said, what is she wearing?
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Speaker 1: Not once, but twice woman on Woman Crime? I apologize
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Speaker 1: she could not be more beautiful, but they did hurt
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Speaker 1: no favors.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I did not get it whatsoever. And even like
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Speaker 2: I said, I watched it with my daughter, she was.
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Speaker 1: Like, what so funny? I agree?
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Speaker 2: I agree. I don't want to let this segment go
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Speaker 2: by without mentioning how great Lacey's hair is. Oh, shout
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Speaker 2: out short hair. Finally I'm getting my moment here, fan
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Speaker 2: frea fantastic. I loved her hair so much. It was
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Speaker 2: so chic and cool. I just loved it, loved it.
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Speaker 1: And what I liked is they didn't give her one
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Speaker 1: hairstyle and leave it that way the entire time. She
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Speaker 1: had like a cute like side part and cute like
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Speaker 1: she had workout wear, and I just oh, she had
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Speaker 1: the cutest hair. I was watching it in every scene.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I loved, loved. What else did you like about
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Speaker 2: this movie?
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Speaker 1: The kitchen cooking scene was real hot.
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Speaker 2: Oh you think so personal?
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Speaker 1: The kitchen counter, yeah I was.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was kind of steamy, right mm hmm, I
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Speaker 2: was like real sexy for Hallmark, I thought, m M,
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Speaker 2: I agree with you. I thought Marco as Alex was
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Speaker 2: maybe the best I've seen of Marco. I loved his
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Speaker 2: whole like cool, calm demeanor. It was super sexy. And
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Speaker 2: then I loved how like funny and playful his character was,
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Speaker 2: like making jokes but like not trying too hard to
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Speaker 2: make jokes. I just I thought he was great, and
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Speaker 2: I agree. I thought that Marco and Lacy were fantastic together.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I loved how this movie opens in the past and
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Speaker 2: we get to see all the backstory of how the
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Speaker 2: curse happens when we see teenage Elena Varcos come on
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Speaker 2: when she puts the curse on Betty. Like I said,
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Speaker 2: I was watching with my teenage daughter and she goes,
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Speaker 2: who's this emo chick? And I laughed because there's always
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Speaker 2: one sort of like witchy middle school high school girl
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Speaker 2: in like every school across America. Am I wrong?
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Speaker 1: No one hundred percent, they like captured that moment fully fully.
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Speaker 2: I just thought it was great. And I also really
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Speaker 2: loved Current Day bff Maya. I thought she was like
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Speaker 2: a great voice of reason, always relatable and when she
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Speaker 2: like declares like she's had enough, like that's what you
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Speaker 2: need from her friend, right.
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Speaker 1: It just took her a little bit too long to
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Speaker 1: get there, But yes, I agree, I also agree, And
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Speaker 1: I do think she had fantastic bangs as well.
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Speaker 2: It's like great hair, great hair on her. And finally,
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Speaker 2: for me, I like that Hallmark gave this story ago.
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Speaker 2: I thought it was different from them from a new Rider.
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Speaker 2: They're not new faces, but newer faces, right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Lazy's never been in a Hallmark movie, only Chesapeake Shores.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I thought it was I thought it
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Speaker 2: it was enjoyable. It's not a perfect movie. I think
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Speaker 2: we're gonna get to it, but enjoyable.
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Speaker 1: I agree. Are you ready for wishes?
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Speaker 2: I am?
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Speaker 1: Okay. So for me, I found Betty's behavior to kind
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Speaker 1: of veer wildly from like cookie and silly to a
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Speaker 1: little bit over the top. And I think the following
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Speaker 1: Alex into the woods moment, while it has some like
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Speaker 1: definite comic relief, it's too much. That's the moment at
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Speaker 1: which the friend needed to be like, what are we
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Speaker 1: doing here? Like, first of all, following someone into the
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Speaker 1: woods and observing them on their camping trip is is
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Speaker 1: not cute? What exactly is her plan should the worst happen?
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Speaker 1: Like she's afraid he's gonna fall in the river, he's
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Speaker 1: gonna get eaten by a bear. What's she gonna do?
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Speaker 1: She shows herself to be no good in an emergency
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Speaker 1: when they hear something in the woods. What's her plan there?
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Speaker 1: I And again, if it were a dude following a
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Speaker 1: chick on her camping trip, there'd be no argument that
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Speaker 1: it's not a cool thing to do.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I hear you. I hear you when you say
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Speaker 2: all that for me felt kind of harmless. But when
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Speaker 2: you put it in in that kind of context, yes,
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Speaker 2: I could see how it could be problematic.
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Speaker 1: Also, I do think Maya she has a great relationship
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Speaker 1: with Maya, she has a good relationship with her mom.
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Speaker 1: I mean, her mom's a little to focus on her
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Speaker 1: love life. But it's a Hallmark movie, of course. I
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Speaker 1: do think that, like, when you're this hyper fixated on
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Speaker 1: this portion of your life to the point that, like
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Speaker 1: you start to get close to a person and you
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Speaker 1: immediately break up with them in the car. Someone needs
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Speaker 1: to say, you should probably talk to someone about this.
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Speaker 1: I don't There was a little bit of a discussion
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Speaker 1: about this in our Facebook group. I don't think therapy
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Speaker 1: is like, your life is at rock bottom, you need
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Speaker 1: a therapist. I think therapy is like, there's some things
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Speaker 1: going on that I could use some alternate perspective on,
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Speaker 1: like who can put this into perspective? Who's not too
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Speaker 1: close to me?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: And I think this character could have benefited from the
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Speaker 1: occasional talk therapy session.
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Speaker 2: You know. I was just thinking, we haven't seen like
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Speaker 2: a therapist in a Hallmark.
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Speaker 1: Movie, have we not? That I can recall, Like, I think.
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Speaker 2: That is something they should explore, Like that would kind
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Speaker 2: of be funny to see her in a session talking
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Speaker 2: about this stuff and having that the therapist be like, no,
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Speaker 2: stop doing that, you know, do you know what I mean? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: And I wonder the level she goes to to get
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Speaker 1: in touch with a Lenny. Perhaps that's something the therapist
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Speaker 1: would be like, maybe you just need to get in
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Speaker 1: touch with this person and say like, because in my vision,
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Speaker 1: that therapist would be like, yeah, that didn't actually happen.
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Speaker 1: That's like a thirteen year old making up stories, right, Like,
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Speaker 1: of course she didn't actually curse you. Everybody knows the
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Speaker 1: thirteen year old goth girl that they went to elementary
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Speaker 1: school with who grows to be totally normal s urban's
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Speaker 1: a soccer mom. Yeah, so I just think she could
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Speaker 1: have used like a little bit. I think people let
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Speaker 1: this caught a little bit too long. It does make
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Speaker 1: for some funny stories, but she's like neurotic to the
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Speaker 1: point where it's and I speak as someone who is
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Speaker 1: incredibly neurotic, to the point that I feel like she
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Speaker 1: would have pushed more people away.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, our girls Gone. Hallmark Facebook member Paula wrote the
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Speaker 2: following in the group, and I thought this perfectly summed
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Speaker 2: it up. And if I may, she says, my problem
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Speaker 2: with Betty was that she was a risk analysis allegedly
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Speaker 2: very good at it, but didn't know the difference between
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Speaker 2: systemic and non systemic risk. That may be just me, though,
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Speaker 2: So while watching this, I was like, if Betty's career
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Speaker 2: is making her this anxious about everyday life, maybe she
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Speaker 2: needs a different career. Yeah, that's a good point, didn't
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Speaker 2: you think like she was so and it didn't start
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Speaker 2: out at the beginning like this, because I think at
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Speaker 2: the beginning, like we see her being like this boss
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Speaker 2: bitch at work and whatever, right, and then it just
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Speaker 2: kind of like devolves into she's panicked about every single
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Speaker 2: situation like anybody's getting into, especially the boyfriend's. And if
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Speaker 2: I may note, how did this curse? Because the curse
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Speaker 2: to me feels like it's Betty's bad luck in love? Right,
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Speaker 2: the curse is on Betty. Why does the curse now
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Speaker 2: become like final destination.
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Speaker 1: For the boyfriends?
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Speaker 2: Right? Well, like she's worried he's gonna ge hit by
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Speaker 2: a car, eat my bear or her in rugby, Like
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Speaker 2: every boyfriend of hers is now dying. I just don't what.
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Speaker 1: And then she like extends the net to cast oh
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Speaker 1: or maya because when things start going wrong with her wedding,
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Speaker 1: she's like, oh, clearly it's me. Everybody I love gets
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Speaker 1: hurt as opposed to shitty things happen like it's not
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Speaker 1: it was nice of you to offer to pay. It
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Speaker 1: was unclear what she's paying for. She's paying for the wedding,
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Speaker 1: is she paying for the refrigerator? Repair a little unclear
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Speaker 1: to me because she just all pay for it, but
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Speaker 1: that's a nice thing to do. She clearly has the
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Speaker 1: means that apartments gorgeous that she lives in all by herself.
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Speaker 1: But you didn't cause the venue to overbook, like your
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Speaker 1: friendship with her has not caused these you know, the
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Speaker 1: refrigerator on your food track to malfunction, right right.
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Speaker 2: Also, I would like to add I have a couple
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Speaker 2: more wishes this movie. It started out solid for me.
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Speaker 2: I was very invested, and then came the camping scene,
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Speaker 2: which was like far too much high jinks for me.
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Speaker 2: M m, I mean everybody's hung up on the stalker part.
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Speaker 2: I was like, oh, nope, this is too much highjinks.
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Speaker 2: I can't, I can't, I can't even with this. And
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Speaker 2: then sharp left turn when that building fire happens. I
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Speaker 2: was like, I felt like there was like two scripts
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Speaker 2: like mashed together, or if like the writer came up
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Speaker 2: with like this premise for a fairly great movie, and
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Speaker 2: then it kind of just didn't see it through. It
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Speaker 2: took a weird turn for me midway through.
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Speaker 1: I think that explosion scene, there's a lot going on there,
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Speaker 1: and for me, there's a fire in this building for
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Speaker 1: a company that her company has just acquired, and now
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, she's convinced it it's her fault. Yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: fire starts, it's not your fault that a fire started.
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Speaker 1: The company might have issues to deal with, but nobody's like,
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Speaker 1: look what you did, Betty.
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Speaker 2: Yeah it's your fault. That's That's what I said out
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Speaker 2: loud while watching it. I was like, she was a
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Speaker 2: risk analysis. She can't predict the future. She does no, yeah, no,
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Speaker 2: one is going to hold her liable for this, you know.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: One final stupid thought from me. I hated Betty's wedding dress.
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Speaker 2: I thought it was like girl sitting I looked gorgeous.
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Speaker 2: I did not like her wedding dress looks great, I did.
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Speaker 2: I just do you like their wedding dance down the aisle?
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Speaker 2: I didn't understand it. Yeah, it made me a little
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Speaker 2: uncomfortable to watch it, But I didn't understand. I was like,
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Speaker 2: what is this a throwback to like him dancing down
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Speaker 2: the stairs and then eating shit? I don't I don't understand.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're having their predistare Jean Kelly moments. I didn't
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Speaker 1: really get it either. I have a wish, Yes, please
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Speaker 1: stop shouting during yoga. Y'all are so rude.
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Speaker 2: Well, when is the last time you've taken a yoga
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Speaker 2: class and then somebody was shouting in it? That bothered you?
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Speaker 1: If somebody were having a loud conversation in a yoga class,
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Speaker 1: I would lose my shit. That is not the place
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Speaker 1: for it. Go out to coffee, get of this room, Like,
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Speaker 1: I think it is so presumptuous to be like, yes,
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Speaker 1: everybody wants to listen to my conversation while they're in
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Speaker 1: here focusing on this other activity. And it happened not once,
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Speaker 1: but twice. They had to be shushed multiple times and
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Speaker 1: they're not even talking, and quiev was They're like, Betty,
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Speaker 1: you're not gonna believe what's happening with my wedding. It's
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Speaker 1: out outrageous it I put it in all caps. Stop
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Speaker 1: shouting during yoga.
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Speaker 2: You know. I think it doesn't bother me because I
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Speaker 2: don't take yoga, So you know, I.
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Speaker 1: Was so uncomfortable watching them shout in that room. I
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Speaker 1: was like, oh, man, y'all are rude. Like I wove
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Speaker 1: if I were one of those women and my friend
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Speaker 1: was talking to me like that, I'd be like, sh.
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Speaker 2: You're gonna get us kicked out of here.
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Speaker 1: Be quiet, and then Betty's gonna be like, oh, bad
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Speaker 1: luck again. Yeah, exactly kicked out of yoga. Are you
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Speaker 1: ready for digite that? Yes? I am, okay, go ahead.
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Speaker 2: Well, I thought I was so that I was so
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Speaker 2: on top of my game when I noticed that Betty's
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Speaker 2: alarm clock said Saturday on it, and when she wakes
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Speaker 2: up late and runs downstairs and she's like, oh, this
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Speaker 2: happening on a Friday where it turns out it it
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Speaker 2: turns out it was a Saturday. I thought it was
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Speaker 2: so smart. I thought I was so I took I
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Speaker 2: paused it and took a picture of it. I was like, we, like,
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Speaker 2: they really screwed this one up.
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Speaker 1: No jokes on me, jokes on me, funny jokes on me.
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Speaker 1: I'd like to think Hallmark Channel Twitter. They pointed out
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Speaker 1: that Jessica Ceposts from Chesapeake Shores is one of the
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Speaker 1: firefighters in the explosion scene. So we had a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a Chesapeake Shores reunion here.
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Speaker 2: Oh you know, I was wondering they were showing that
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Speaker 2: actor a lot.
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Speaker 1: Hmmm.
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Speaker 2: You know, there was a funny okay, I'll put it
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Speaker 2: here in my digit see that during that scene, when
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Speaker 2: the fire explosion was happening, Betty runs over to this
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Speaker 2: man who's like, I don't know, he's he's somebody in charge.
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Speaker 2: He's looking like at a map or whatever, and she's
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Speaker 2: excuse me, are you in charge? And he's like, yes,
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Speaker 2: he's a paramedic. He's not in charge, it says on
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Speaker 2: his shirt paramedics. He's not in charge of the whole situation,
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Speaker 2: not the fire chief. I was gonna say, the fire chief.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly, well the whole thing. Okay, first of all,
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Speaker 1: this is one of my I did to say that's
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Speaker 1: the building explodes. Alex's just fine, but he's close enough
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Speaker 1: to the blast that he has fotstains on his face,
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Speaker 1: but otherwise completely unharmed, no smoke inhalation, no bodily harm.
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Speaker 1: But he falls down carpeted stairs and sustains a concussion.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was like, I want to take this seriously,
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Speaker 1: but like even the emergency workers aren't that concerned about
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Speaker 1: what's happening, other than when they start to smell gas
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Speaker 1: and they're like, get back, get back. But the scene
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Speaker 1: didn't work for me.
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Speaker 2: I absolutely agree. This scene didn't work. He's taking photos.
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Speaker 2: He's like behind the police or like you know, he's
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Speaker 2: close to the building, and she's like, what.
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Speaker 1: Are you doing?
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Speaker 2: He's like, this is what I do. I was like, uh,
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Speaker 2: you were taking photos in like war zones. This is
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Speaker 2: like a building on fire. Dude, You're not, like I don't.
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Speaker 2: You're not breaking some story. This is not whatever. Oh
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Speaker 2: I didn't understand that whole segment, and he's not out it.
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Speaker 2: I have one more.
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Speaker 1: Did you see that?
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Speaker 2: So when Alex and Betty exchange rings, Betty's ring is
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Speaker 2: obviously too big for her, he like puts it on
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Speaker 2: in it fully turns like she's wearing gloves too, so
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Speaker 2: like that doesn't help the situation. But like he puts
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Speaker 2: it on in it and it like swivels on her finger,
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Speaker 2: so you like don't get to see her diamond or whatever.
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Speaker 1: I just thought it was funny when you wear gloves
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Speaker 1: in your wedding, do you put your ring on over
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Speaker 1: your gloves? They did it. Yeah, that's interesting. So then
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Speaker 1: like after the ceremony, you're taking your ring off then
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Speaker 1: put in I guess, okay, are you ready to rate
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Speaker 1: Betty's bad luck in love I am. I gave it
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Speaker 1: three point seven five stars.
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Speaker 2: I gave it three stars, all right, three point seven
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Speaker 2: five is higher than I thought you were going to give.
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Speaker 1: To be honest, I mean overall, I did find it
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Speaker 1: to be a pretty cute movie. Just had some moments
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Speaker 1: where it was you know, but yeah, I didn't tell you.
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Speaker 1: Lacey Maylee really sold it to me on this one.
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Speaker 2: I agree. Put her in more movies. M hm.
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Speaker 1: He Thanks for listening to this episode of Girls Gone Homework.
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Speaker 1: Will be back next week at the brand new slate
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Speaker 1: of three episodes, a throwback movie, A Way Home recap
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Speaker 1: and review, and next week's brand new Hallmark original movie
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Speaker 2: Bye bye stand step to