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Hearts in the Game · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: You went so much more deep than I did. Because
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  Speaker 1: my next like is Hello Marco Grazzini. I think he
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  Speaker 1: is rot. Hey everyone, Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a lifelong Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: movie fan. I'm Wendy and I'm not ashamed to admit
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  Speaker 1: this movie me mecrery twice. Oh twice twice, I can
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  Speaker 1: guess one of those. Today we're discussing hearts in the Game,
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  Speaker 1: which originally aired on Saturday, April twenty ninth, twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: email MEGANO Wendy at gmail dot com. Now, as we
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  Speaker 1: were prepping for this episode, Wendy has some piping hot
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark tea. But I want to get a couple of
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark housekeeping notes out of the way. Okay, First, the
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  Speaker 1: June movie lineup is out. It is a wedding season
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  Speaker 1: themed for wedding themed movies. You can find the full
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  Speaker 1: details on that on our website, Megan and Wendy dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark is also dropping two new mysteries and in the
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  Speaker 1: month of May and June they're doing something a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different with their movies and mysteries drops. They're moving
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  Speaker 1: them from Sundays to Fridays, and no official announcement has
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  Speaker 1: been made. How do you feel about that move? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. From a Hallmark reviewer standpoint on a
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  Speaker 1: tight turnaround, appreciate the move actually better for us. On
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  Speaker 1: a personal note, feel that, Yes, I would guess they're
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  Speaker 1: just testing it. Sunday premiers typically do less well than
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  Speaker 1: the Saturday premiere, so they're maybe trying to see what happens,
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  Speaker 1: trying to grab that Friday stay at home those tgif
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna say tjif I was going to say, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that Friday night to me is like the
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  Speaker 1: CBS crowd, you know what I mean, watching the Magnum
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  Speaker 1: PI and whatever else is on. Yeah, and this way
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  Speaker 1: they're also not competing with their series, which typically drop
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  Speaker 1: on Sundays. So yeah, but this ride is going to
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  Speaker 1: end in like the next five weeks, right, But then
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  Speaker 1: Chesapeake Stores is coming back with the new section this summer.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, Oh my goodness, when Calls the Heart is
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  Speaker 1: coming back with a new season, so that will be
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  Speaker 1: on Sundays, I imagine. Okay, So they're just they're just
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  Speaker 1: playing with the schedule. That's okay, Yeah, I'm okay with that.
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  Speaker 1: That's what d drs are made for, exactly on demand
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  Speaker 1: doing I mean, and peacock and friendly, all those things,
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  Speaker 1: exactly a couple of things. Please. Oh. We got some
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  Speaker 1: feedback regarding last week's A Pinch of Portugal. Uh huh
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  Speaker 1: Facebook group member Laura. She shared this in the Facebook group,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought it was interesting. She said, quote, I
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  Speaker 1: love the scenery and the plot was interesting. However, I
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  Speaker 1: did not like the way they portrayed the only two
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  Speaker 1: Portuguese characters we really got to see, the gruff fishermen
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  Speaker 1: and the scheming marketer. I have friends who live in Portugal,
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  Speaker 1: and by all reports, the people are overwhelmingly kind, generous,
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  Speaker 1: and quick to help a stranger. I think that's a
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  Speaker 1: good point. It is a good point because imagine if
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  Speaker 1: like they at Pairs Proposal, if they and I can't
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  Speaker 1: really remember, did they stereotype the French people as being unfriendly.
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  Speaker 1: They may have, but the two leaders of that French
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  Speaker 1: jewelry line, they were lovely. Like. There was also their
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  Speaker 1: like coworker, their French counterpart, who was kind of slimy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but there were certainly quite a few lovely French people.
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  Speaker 1: And the front desk person at their hotel wasn't he
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  Speaker 1: also wonderful? I think so. So I don't think it
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  Speaker 1: was an overall wash of slimy French person in that movie. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So it's an interesting point, like, let's celebrate some of
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  Speaker 1: the cultures and beyond just countries. Yeah, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I kind of see why in that movie the potential
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  Speaker 1: loven just had to be kind of slimy. But looking
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  Speaker 1: at it, there's no reason the voting dude needed to
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  Speaker 1: be anything but lovely, right, Like, it doesn't move the
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  Speaker 1: story forward, right right? Okay, I thought it was a
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  Speaker 1: good note too. I agree. Okay, there's an impending writer
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  Speaker 1: strike there is. It's I think, well, why oh this
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  Speaker 1: draw this episode drops Tuesday May. Second, I think their
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  Speaker 1: contract ends tonight, like at midnight. Okay, So I don't
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  Speaker 1: know exactly, so don't come at me with the specific details,
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  Speaker 1: but it flows. It's very soon, and I had to wonder,
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  Speaker 1: is this writer's strike going to affect our Hallmark writers? Right?
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  Speaker 1: We know they don't have a ton in the can, right,
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  Speaker 1: So I asked in our Facebook group because there are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of smart people there who are connected to
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Hallmark people, right, And apparently the answer
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  Speaker 1: is yes, According to Eric, who is the co host
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  Speaker 1: of Hallmark Mysteries and More podcasts, he told us that
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  Speaker 1: the Mystery one on one writer John Christian Plummer spoke
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  Speaker 1: extensively about the strike in a recent interview on their podcast,
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  Speaker 1: and he also mentioned that writer director Ron Oliver as
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  Speaker 1: well as writer Marcy Holland are both gearing up for
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  Speaker 1: the strike, but they're hoping for a resolution. If you
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  Speaker 1: remember when we had a writer strike before seven eight,
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  Speaker 1: somewhere around there, six oh seven. Yeah, I think you said,
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  Speaker 1: O seven. I was quite pregnant with my first child.
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  Speaker 1: I was born in June of that year, so I
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  Speaker 1: think I might have been okay with the volume of
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  Speaker 1: reality reality television that kme our away that year, I know,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, Hallmark has nothing to worry about
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  Speaker 1: because they can just reshow re air movies upon movies
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  Speaker 1: upon movies that they've already shown. Right, Sure they'll have
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  Speaker 1: an audience for that. But in terms of like new
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  Speaker 1: content we might just see, I mean on network TV
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  Speaker 1: might just seemed like more game shows and reality TV.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very curious to see if it happens, how it
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  Speaker 1: plays out, but I am worried about the jobs and livelihoods,
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  Speaker 1: about the many people affected by this sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Me too, Me too. But I will say for us,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're good here. If if a writer's strike happens.
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  Speaker 1: Ye had girls on Hallmarks not going away with There's
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  Speaker 1: a million movies for us, so we're not going anywhere, guys.
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  Speaker 1: And finally here's the piping hot tea. Can't wait. It's well,
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  Speaker 1: you know. It was quietly announced on April twenty first
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  Speaker 1: that director Michael Damien tweeted, do you know who Michael
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  Speaker 1: Damien is? No? He is the director of Christmas Waltz
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  Speaker 1: Oh with Lacy Shrber Shabeier every Time guys and Will Camp. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: maybe one of my top five movies. I love it anyway.
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  Speaker 1: He tweeted that he has recently signed a three picture
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  Speaker 1: deal with MPCA. It's important to remember MPCA included in
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  Speaker 1: that deal is a sequel to Christmas Waltz. Wow. How Whever,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, the new movie will be called Paris
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  Speaker 1: Christmas Waltz and will film in Europe in June per Deadline,
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  Speaker 1: which is like a legitim repub urse. However, at this time,
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  Speaker 1: the leads have not been announced, and it is unclear
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  Speaker 1: if this movie will end up on Hallmark channels, since
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  Speaker 1: Damien makes movies for Netflix, Hallmark, and GAFF. Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: here it comes, Sleepy Kittie Pot also weighed in and says, quote,
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark's work with NPCA is limited to one calls the
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  Speaker 1: heart since the launch of a Great American Family, where
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  Speaker 1: Brad k r e Voy is an investor Cravoy, he
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  Speaker 1: is the CEO of MPCA, so, and he's an investor
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  Speaker 1: in GAFF. Yeah. So okay, so it all remains to
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  Speaker 1: be seen. We shall is the answer to that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm thinking it's not gonna happen on Hallmark. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think it if the leads are not the same.
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  Speaker 1: It's a different movie. It's no big loss, right, It's
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  Speaker 1: a different movie. It's not like it's a sequel. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if we were to lose a Lacey Shabert will Kemp
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  Speaker 1: movie to GAF that would be a different story, but
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  Speaker 1: a story about two people who dance starring any other
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  Speaker 1: two actors. Meh, yeah, I agree because I think the
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  Speaker 1: magic in that movie. The story was fine, it was nice,
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  Speaker 1: but the magic in that movie was Lacey and Will
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  Speaker 1: and their chemistry together say free and they have a
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  Speaker 1: mystery coming out the Dancing Detectives. So it's just the
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  Speaker 1: dancing Detective because she's the detective. Okay, he's not. As
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  Speaker 1: I was saying that word, I wondered if it was plural.
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  Speaker 1: Also fun note, I'm going to say, that's just going
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  Speaker 1: to open a whole flood of pitches from us the
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  Speaker 1: dancing Detective. It's a deadly tango. What else can we have?
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  Speaker 1: Like the slain Salsa? I don't know, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean? Spiked Heals? Yeah, oh I love it. Spiked
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready to talk Hearts in the Game? Sure,
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  Speaker 1: let's hear A synopsis. A publicist helps a picture for
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  Speaker 1: the New York Mets and her boyfriend from high school
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  Speaker 1: find his way back to the game and her heart.
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  Speaker 1: This movie stars Aaron K. Hill, who has an impressive
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty seven acting credits. We at Girls
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  Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark first saw her in a Timeless Christmas and
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  Speaker 1: let me just say to us, come a long way baby,
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  Speaker 1: Like you know, I remember not liking that movie. Oh
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  Speaker 1: you hated that movie. I don't like time travel stuff. However,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we can put it on Aaron Khale
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to leave it at that, Okay, Marco Crasini,
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  Speaker 1: please diego. He has forty nine acting credits, including the
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  Speaker 1: series Virgin River, and he was last seen on Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: in the movie Right in Front of Me, written by
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  Speaker 1: one Julie Sherman. Wall Yeah. Writer Shelby Lake Bartlestein is
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  Speaker 1: a little new Baby writer. She has four writing credits,
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  Speaker 1: but actually actually it's only three because we learned that
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  Speaker 1: Hearts in the Game was originally titled The Spin Cycle.
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  Speaker 1: There is an IMDb listing for that movie. The actors
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  Speaker 1: and director and writer are attached to that IMDb listing.
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  Speaker 1: She shows four credits, but it includes both Hearts in
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  Speaker 1: the Game and The Spin Side. So every actor and
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  Speaker 1: producer and whatever in this movie is credited with I'm
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  Speaker 1: kind of sure they went that deep. But the leads
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  Speaker 1: and the main crew have two credits. Yeah It director
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  Speaker 1: Stacey Hardin has nine directing credits, mostly Hallmark, but tons
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  Speaker 1: of ad work on shows like Timeless, Zoe's Extraordinary Playlist,
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  Speaker 1: and Hallmark Favorite Unreal. I love all those shows, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, and I say Hallmark Favorite Unreal is because
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  Speaker 1: there's so many actors and actresses from the Hallmark world
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  Speaker 1: who have appeared on Unreal. Many. Brennan Elliott, who has
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  Speaker 1: a starring role in that show, Donia Cash, plays Jax
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  Speaker 1: in this movie. They made their Hallmark debut in the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two Holiday movie cycle with roles in Hashtag
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  Speaker 1: x Miss and The Holiday Sitter. They also were in
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  Speaker 1: seven episodes of A Million Little Things, which rounds out
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  Speaker 1: their twenty two acting credits. I kind of want to
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  Speaker 1: watch that show. We follow one of the writers on
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  Speaker 1: social media, and so I've been seeing a lot of
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  Speaker 1: promotion for promotion and the show is ending. Oh is
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  Speaker 1: the show series is ending? Yes, that's why Elizabeth is
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  Speaker 1: no longer working there because the series itself is ending.
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  Speaker 1: What is she going to do next? She's working on
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  Speaker 1: her own stuff. She's not currently attached to anything. She's
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  Speaker 1: like I think she's sold a pilot. Oh. Donia Cash
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  Speaker 1: is also the first openly non binary actor to work
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  Speaker 1: on the Hallmark Channel. Yes I loved them standout role
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  Speaker 1: for short star of the movie. Yes, I agree. Surprise
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  Speaker 1: this was filmed in Vancouver. Okay, so let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: some base ball baseball corner. Yeah, this is new for
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  Speaker 1: us here. Meg and I both have like some unique
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  Speaker 1: experiences with baseball. Can I stop you right there? There
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  Speaker 1: was a conversation in our Facebook group last night about this.
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  Speaker 1: You made that exact comment, and I laughed so hard because,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you, Wendy's baseball experience is that she's
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  Speaker 1: like baseball royalty adjacent and my baseball experiences. I met
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  Speaker 1: my husband at a baseball game. Oh girl, is that
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  Speaker 1: you had tike? In my mind? You were always that
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  Speaker 1: girl trying to catch the attention of the baseball player
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  Speaker 1: when you were single, Gal Megan going to the baseball games.
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  Speaker 1: I had a longtime crush on Anaheim Angel They were
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  Speaker 1: the Anaheim Angels at the time. They're not anymore, but
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  Speaker 1: I was like a season ticket holder, my family husband
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  Speaker 1: season ticket holders. I was there a game five when
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  Speaker 1: they won the American League championship. This series. I bet
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  Speaker 1: if there was social media that time, you would have
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  Speaker 1: been fully in that dude's damns. He's very happily married
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  Speaker 1: right now. At that time, was he married? No? No,
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  Speaker 1: he was single, and his wife is currently significantly more
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  Speaker 1: famous than he is, single and ready to mingle. So
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  Speaker 1: in terms of my baseball royalty, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: say names on here. Yes, for their privacy, sure, but
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  Speaker 1: yes there is some adjacent baseball family ties. Yes. And
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just a dugout diva. I was trying to
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  Speaker 1: come up, what do they call them? Diva? Is that
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  Speaker 1: what they really call a great name? Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: that's so funny. Really reality show dugout diva. I really
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  Speaker 1: it paints a very different picture. I just have been
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  Speaker 1: a lifelong baseball fan. Moving on. So, baseball was a
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  Speaker 1: big storyline in those movies. Indeed, and in our Facebook group,
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  Speaker 1: listener Paulo wrote in saying a few things that I
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  Speaker 1: want to share, and you guys can join our Facebook
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  Speaker 1: group anytime girl's gone homework you can see the whole thread.
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  Speaker 1: But here here's what she had to say. Quote Diego
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be the greatest picture of the past decade.
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  Speaker 1: WLU Game seven. It's happened before and everyone moved on. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: athletes are not machines. It's a game because you don't
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  Speaker 1: know what the outcome is going to be. So do
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  Speaker 1: you think like when an athlete has like a real
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  Speaker 1: bad game like that, that doesn't do something to them mentally?
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely do. Where I think this movie went' wrong
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  Speaker 1: is I don't think that this was the kind of
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  Speaker 1: move that needed a PR person to step in. One
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  Speaker 1: of my wishes is I wish that Hazel were in
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  Speaker 1: the role of a sports psychologist instead of a PR person,
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  Speaker 1: because that's what he needed. He didn't do anything wrong
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  Speaker 1: other than play a bad game. He didn't say conspire
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  Speaker 1: to steal the World Series and cheat on baseball's biggest stage.
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  Speaker 1: And then that dude, by the way, still continues to
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  Speaker 1: get to play. None of the players on the Astros
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  Speaker 1: wherever punished. Only the coaching staff was. And if you've
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  Speaker 1: ever been to a game where said players are batting
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  Speaker 1: that is not in their home stadium. Years later, this
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  Speaker 1: was in twenty seventeen that this happened, they will boo
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  Speaker 1: that person at every single app back. I still get
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  Speaker 1: booed at Angel games, right, every single at, not even
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  Speaker 1: the first at bat, every single appat. Now, what I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying is the Astros didn't fire those guys. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: need a reputation rehab. They're like, can you hit the ball? Great,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't a physical inability to pitch. We know that
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  Speaker 1: there was other stuff going on. He needed a sports psychologist.
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  Speaker 1: The Mets do not care what anybody thinks about this dude.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's great if they are excited about him
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  Speaker 1: and they want to come watch him play. But if
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  Speaker 1: he can win games, that's all they care about. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Who cares if you like him and you tell the
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  Speaker 1: story of why he pitched a bad game, humanize him. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I think there's value in a human interest
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  Speaker 1: story like that, But that's not what's going to get
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  Speaker 1: the Mets to re sign his contract. Right, So that
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  Speaker 1: is my question. Was his contract pending? That's unclear to me.
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  Speaker 1: The whole thing was like, he needs a reputation rehab. No,
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  Speaker 1: I just don't believe that he does. You know what
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  Speaker 1: is so funny reputation rehab? I mean, Michael Vick was
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  Speaker 1: dog fighting and then came back and people still like him.
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  Speaker 1: Athletes like rape women and do terrible things and be
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  Speaker 1: your pires and domestic eyes and all of these things,
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  Speaker 1: and they still play. He didn't do anything wrong. He
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  Speaker 1: played a bad game. It happens, and I can understand
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  Speaker 1: that it would mentally mess with him. Sure, question though,
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  Speaker 1: was he really upset that he did not do well
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  Speaker 1: in that game or was he hiding his mental wellness
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  Speaker 1: struggles with the death of his mother. I think the latter,
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  Speaker 1: But again that's a different issue. Yeah, I hear you,
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  Speaker 1: and I can understand perhaps as an athlete, that's not
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  Speaker 1: a discussion you want to have. Maybe you're afraid of
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  Speaker 1: what that does to your reputation, because I don't think
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  Speaker 1: as a country we're one hundred percent there in accepting
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  Speaker 1: of mental health struggles. Yeah. I have some notes on
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  Speaker 1: that later later on, But again I stand by the
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  Speaker 1: fact that I don't think you needed a reputation rehab.
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  Speaker 1: There's some like inside baseball talk too, Right, he blew
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  Speaker 1: it in the ninth inning? Right, There were questions brought
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  Speaker 1: up into the Facebook group, like would the starting pitchers
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  Speaker 1: still be pitching in the ninth inning of the World Series. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to explain it to me. Well, the
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  Speaker 1: answer is No, if you're in Game seven of the
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  Speaker 1: World Series, you burn every picture you have my field,
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  Speaker 1: they're not gonna give that picture a chance to get
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  Speaker 1: to the bottom of the ninth I don't care if
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  Speaker 1: he's pitched a no hitter at that point, too bad.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's great. But if this is the game winning inning,
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  Speaker 1: you put in a fresh pitcher. They're gonna and there's
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  Speaker 1: no games after this, Like, there's no reason to keep
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  Speaker 1: their pictures fresh. Put them in and let them pitch once. Mm.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone throw your best pitch, every single pitcher. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: just think that's not realistic. Hmm, that's all any more
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  Speaker 1: baseball talk. No, I think that's good. What's your first
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  Speaker 1: impression of Hearts in the game. My first impression of
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  Speaker 1: this movie is that I hated the over the orange poster,
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  Speaker 1: and based on that alone, it gave me super low expectations. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my first impression is how much did the Mets pay
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  Speaker 1: Homewark for this promo? Well? Yeah, that's really funny, right
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  Speaker 1: because somebody, I think it might have been Reddit, was saying,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: like the Mets they were expecting on the Mets social
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: media to have some sort of like the motion of
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: the movie, and there was nothing. Oh, so I wonder
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: how much they did pay for it, Well, if anything,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: but I would imagine you'd have to pay for the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: use of the team name. And there's multiple instances of
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: the logo. Yeah, and the logo. I was like in
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: the press conference, every single person is wearing a Mets badge.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: It's like a Mets lanyard. So I'm very curious. But
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: and they could have very easily made up a team.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: They've done it in the past for other sports. Mm. Yeah,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I wonder, I wonder I'd like some more inside information
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: on the Mets connection inside baseball. Yeah, yeah, all right,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: let's talk about what we liked. I said it already.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Jack' is the absolute stock of this movie. I agree.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: They played this role so perfectly. They were a great
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: assistant friend, shoulder to cry on comic relief. Yes, I
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: loved the relationship that Jackson Hazel had. I happened to
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: think that the most exciting baseball scene in this movie
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: did not involve Diego. It was when Jackson the driver
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: are talking about It's early in the movie and they're
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: talking about baseball and they're just getting so excited talking
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: about the Mets and talking about the possibilities of the season.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: I love when people love things, and I thought that
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: was the most exciting baseball this fall. Specifics aside, I
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: am here to tell you that I really liked this movie.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: I thought it was a narrative about mental wellness more
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: than anything. And I like that because I think there
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: are so many good stories to tell that don't strictly
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: have to beat about romance. We are complicated people. Complicated
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: people can watch complicated stories. Yes, that's what I liked
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: about it, that you went so much more deep than
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I did. Because my next like is Hello, Marco Grosini.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I think he is rot yeah, and I think it's
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: great casting because he gives serious baseball player vibes to me.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: The two characters i've seen him play this one in
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: this movie and then the chef and right in front
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: of me Yeah, both understated. Yeah. I mean he's not
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the life of the party kind of guy. He's just real,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: kind of low key. There was a scene. I really
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: love this scene when they Hazel and Diego are dancing
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: at their friend's house party. Yeah, and he says, you
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: want to get out of here? And I was like,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: is this an equivalent to like, do you want to
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: come in for a night a calf. They went back
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: to her parents' house and said on the port swing,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: so like not super sexy, but sweet and romantic. Yeah,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: but did you We got a lot of affection before
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: we got to a kiss. Like they're holding hands, and
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I was like, did I miss something because at this point,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: as far as I can tell, they haven't discussed their relationship.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: They're just holding hands in multiple scenes. Well, and they
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: kiss really early on. I do not early on, but
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: like before the end of the movie. Yeah, I'm like
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: that direction that Hallmark is taking these movies. Yes, because
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: relationships do not culminate in a single kiss, right, There's
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: a lot of built up there. One of my favorite
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: scenes in this movie is the second to last scene
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: where Hazel is crying. Jack's comes to her with the article.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: At first, I thought it was so funny. I was
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: on debate team, so here we go and I just
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: read this so fast. That was really funny, and I
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: think it was a nice counterbalance. And Carly shows up
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of forgiveness in that moment. But
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: she's like, I smell like food in tears, and Carly's like,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: why don't we get you packed and showered. I just
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: thought it was a great scene, and I think that
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: sort of scene is something many Hallmark movies are missed.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: We sometimes jump straight to the final scene. We see
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Marco take off from the baseball diamond when he finds
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: out that Hazel has cut the article. It's not going
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: to happen at all, and he's realizing that he perhaps
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: was too hard on her in that moment. Yeah, And
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I think in another movie, we very easy could have
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: seen that final scene without her sobbing to her friends.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: And that's a nice world building moment. I thought I
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: would agree that was one of my favorite scenes in
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: this movie. In addition, this movie had some excellent lines.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: For example, Jackson Hazel walking through the school hallways and
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Jack's asks, were you a Gretchen or a regime? Yeah?
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: And for some Watters it might have went right over
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: their head and they were referring to mean girls. Yes,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: which just celebrated like a huge Antichrist twentieth annivers And
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: there was another line that I thought was really funny too.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: After they had that party at their friend's house. The
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: friend they're at the diner and he's eating like a
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: greasy breakfast and he's like, I'm too old for fun,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: and I was like, ah, this feels so relatable. Real
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: music alert in this movie, we get listened to your
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: heart At the end, Oh yeah, and something else too.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: There was another her and her friend were dancing to it.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I loved Hazel's outfits. At the beginning of the movie.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: She had some gorgeous suits, so pretty, and then they
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: just like, really, I don't want to say downgraded, got
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: more casual. Towards the end. She was wearing like the
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: high school baseball sweatcher, I kind of we're in town
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and jeans and whatever. I loved. Actually, when she and
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Diego are both wearing like sweatshirts under their jackets, I
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: like that look. It was a good look. Yeah, yeah.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I wondered if it was because it was colder perhaps.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Then I did read that there was snowing during the
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: production of this movie, really, so I wondered, Oh, they
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: were supposed to be in their sweatshirts, so they had
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: to throw a jacket on over there. I thought it
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: was a good look. We're freezing her buns off out here,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: so yeah, Phineas help us out. I really liked how
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: they ended up together. You know, it was kind of like,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say they were meant for each other,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: but they had this natural connection that ended too and
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: then I can back together. I don't know, it just
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: made me happy. I liked this movie, Suomi, what'd you
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: wish for? Well? I thought it was a little unclear
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: about Hazel's backstory. Now, let me explain. It was referenced
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: a couple of times that Hazel has spun things. Okay, yes,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Correspondent Mike had some thoughts about that. Oh cours Mike. First,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: when Diego when they meet at the restaurant and they
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: see that she's gonna be his new pr agent or whatever,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: He's like, oh, he takes a dig at her base.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: So you spend stories now for a living. That's fitting. Yeah,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: And I was like, what's the backstory here? And then
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: it's said later on as well, I think like the
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: best friend might say something to her. Well, he says,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: spin the story anyway you want, because you always do that.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Who said that? Diego says that, Ohner, Okay, so I
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: thought it was the best friend of it. Yes, that's
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the scene, and I'm like, what's the backstory here? Why
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: is Hazel the bad guy. I don't understand, yes, especially
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: because we find out that he was the one who
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: leaves her, bails on her for prom Mike had that
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: very same complaint about that movement. Why the anger from
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: him when we're always being told he's the one with
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: the problem, right, Thank you Mike for validating my thoughts. Okay,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: question about Carly. Their friendship ended because Hazel didn't come
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to her wedding right because she had a work commitment.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Is it reasonable that a young woman starting in her
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: career could potentially have an unmissable work commitment. Yes, I
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: think it is. I wrote down why are we making
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: a successful career woman the villain? People miss weddings and
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: all kinds of things for work. Yes? Is it unfortunate? Sure,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: But to end a friendship over could Hazel and Carly
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: have found another way to connect and celebrate her friend
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: and I understand that a wedding is an important day.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I think we could do our children a great service
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: by building up this expectation and that while it is
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: a great day for you, the reality is you cannot
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: expect your entire universe to revolve around that day. There
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: are going to be people who cannot be there for
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: one reason, and it's not a remark on your value
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: to them. Life is full. Yes, Okay, now I think
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: they could have totally acted the BFF storyline. Not needed.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: It didn't add anything to this movie. Yeah, I didn't
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: need Carly to get a book deal at the end. No,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: it's not well developed enough. Hazel asks or when they
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: first went into each other, like are you still writing?
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: And here's actually I have an issue with that because
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: as much as I want Hazel to be this like
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: high powered woman who's allowed to have a career and
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: celebrate that, I also think it needs to be enough
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: for Carly to be content in her life as a mom.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Like that can be enough. I loved writing. It's not
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: what I'm doing right now. I don't need to be
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: a best selling author to be valuable. My life doesn't
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: need to be big to beat. Yeah, which, by the way,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: is the theme of a show on Apple TV Plus
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: called The Big Door Prize. I don't know what that
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: show is. It's I mentioned it on last month's episode
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: of Pop Culture Club, and long story short was that here.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: It's an interesting show and it kind of explores like
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the idea of destiny and the desire for a big
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: life isn't necessarily everyone's desire anyway. Okay, okay, I have
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: one more wish. Yeah, lay off of the daughter guilt.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: At the beginning of the movie, the parents, Hazel's parents
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: were like guilty in her and her like we never
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: seen you anymore. You never come and visit and delivered
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: it yourselves. She has a job in New York, you
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: live in Ohio, and she's clearly connecting with you. Oh,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I remembered how much you love that cheesecake. I just
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: sent it to you. I'm calling you. I'm having these
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: moments acknowledge that lives are full. Yes, you ready for
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: we did to see that? Yeah? I have two Okay,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: my first one it's about baseball, and I'm gonna need
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: you to clear it up. In a scene, he was
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: telling Hazel, he's like starting to talk about, like open
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: up about like what happened in Game seven, and he
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: says that he did not know he was going to
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: pitch in Game seven until the morning of the game.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: And I must ask, isn't there usually a pitching schedule
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: on thousand percent? The only reason he would not know
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: that he was pitching in Game seven is if some
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: tragedy befell the scheduled pitcher because they absolutely have their
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: pitching schedule for the World Series lined up. Now, could
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: they adjust it because someone gets injured or things aren't
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: going Yeah, but not the morning of. Are their rules
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: in MLB about how much rest time you need between games?
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I don't actually think so, But I think pitching is
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: so hard on you that they don't want to burn
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: out a pitcher. They don't want to overuse a pitcher.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: So could hypothetically he have pitched Game six and was like, oh,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I'm done, I'm not pitching in Game seven. There's zero
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: chance you would have a pitcher start back to back
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: in the World Series, right, I think so? Zero again,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: unless tragedy has befallen your entire starting But what if
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: he came in as no, he wouldn't come. A starting
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: picture doesn't come in as a relief picture, right No? Okay,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: so thanks for clearing that up. Did you see that
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: there is a background track that's used throughout this movie.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: It's not noticeable unless to you, like to me, the
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: first few bars sound like here comes the sun. Oh,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: and then it transitions and it doesn't sound like that anymore.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: But every single time it would start playing, my brain
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: would think that's what I was hearing, and then I
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: remember that's not what I was hearing. Interesting, I don't
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: remember any standout music besides those pop songs. I have
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: one more. Did you see that? Okay, Diego was wearing
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Bobo black and white Nike dunks. Oh, they couldn't spring
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: for the real thing. For those who don't know what
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: bobo means, it means like fake knock off, knockoff pretend.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: And I saw those same shoes that well, maybe recently,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: so I wondered if that's where they came from a wardrobe. Hey.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Correspondent Mike also says Hazel appears to be wearing an
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: engagement ring in the final scene, but not mentioned. There
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: was no mention correct that they were now engaged. They
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: were like cooking together. Are we to assume that they're
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: just together now? Yeah? Okay, I don't know if I
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: really noticed it or not. I didn't notice it at all.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I just like that they were together and that they
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: now lived in New York. He plays for the Mets.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: She lives there with her high powered PR jobs. I
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: don't understand her job, Like as you're saying that she
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: rehabbed his public opinion. But she also was the PR
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: agent who got her best friend a best selling book,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: and it's almsfusing to me at the top of the movie,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: she was like repping an actress I think who had
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: got caught eating a hamburger who was supposed to be
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: vegan that she was a PR crisis I think she's
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: supposed to be. I think sometimes people who write these
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: movies don't understand jobs. Yeah. Well, and I feel like
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: crisis PR is like something new ish, like a new
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: well in the age of social media, and people are
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: caught with their pants down, so to speak, right, they
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: hire a crisis pr to make things better. Yeah. Would
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: you rate this movie three and a half stars? Guys?
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I liked it. I gave it four point seventy five.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'm sorry. I really liked it. Wow,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I really liked it. I take that back. I gave
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: it four and a half stars. Four and a half. Well,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: you upgraded it during the course of this review. Four
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: and a half stars. I liked it. I just thought
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: it was really sweet and the parts that made me
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: cry were the real tender moments between Hazel and Diego.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Tell me the moments that made you cry, all this
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: stuff about the mom and here's why. And it's probably
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: a personal reason. My mom has passed. It's been a
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: couple of years now, and like we're on the cusp
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: of Mother's Day coming up, and his mom was sick.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: My mom was sick. I don't know. It was just
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I triggered all these weird feelings for me, so I
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: just thought it was nice. So we have wen Love
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Springs next week, and all I gotta say about that, ugh,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I didn't watch the previews. I saw the previews, and
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: while I enjoyed Rihann and fish in a picture of her,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: the things I didn't like about her and a picture
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: of her seemed to be in full force in this movie.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: We have a new ish addition to the schedule when
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Love Springs next week, but we will also be back
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: on our new Ride Recamp Day this week, which is Friday,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: with a recap of episode six of Ride. Thank you
• 32:25
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• 32:28
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