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Taking a Shot at Love (Encore) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This week, we are taking a look back at some
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  Speaker 1: of our favorite episodes from the past five years in
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  Speaker 1: honor of our five year anniversary. Here on Girls Gone Hallmark,
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  Speaker 1: and for Year two twenty twenty one, we chose taking
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  Speaker 1: a shot at Love. I remember this one being a
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  Speaker 1: real standout for me. It's when we reference all the time.
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  Speaker 1: I have not watched this movie since that review five
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  Speaker 1: years ago. It would be interesting to take another look
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  Speaker 1: at it. But the fun thing about this movie is
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  Speaker 1: this movie is also the movie that launched our relationship
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  Speaker 1: with Julie Sherman Wolf, our relationship. I like to think
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  Speaker 1: of us as friends. She then came on the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: She was our very first interview. She answered some of
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  Speaker 1: our did you see that? And our questions about this episode,
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  Speaker 1: So you can give that episode a listen after you
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  Speaker 1: listen to this, but listen in once again a quick
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  Speaker 1: reminder that this was way back when we were a
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  Speaker 1: bonus episode. Our format was a little bit different, but
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  Speaker 1: we did have a lot of love for this. I
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  Speaker 1: don't even think it was called Winterfest at the time.
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  Speaker 1: What it was it called? I think He's Movies, yep,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's it. Give it a listen. This is
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  Speaker 1: a Bramble Jam podcast. Hey everybody, Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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  Speaker 1: a bonus episode from Long Story Short. The podcast I'm Megan,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Wendy, and Girls Gone Hallmark was born out of
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  Speaker 1: a project we did in November and December twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: where Wendy, who had never seen a single Hallmark movie,
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  Speaker 1: decided she wanted to not only watch them but review them,
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  Speaker 1: and we had so much fun that we are continuing that.
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  Speaker 1: So now we are in January, and the January movie
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  Speaker 1: grouping is New Year New Movies, which is the stupidest
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  Speaker 1: name for a collection of movies I've heard, I'll be honest,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna have to talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: Last year was Winterfest, much better name.
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  Speaker 1: But we have five movies that we'll be discussing this month,
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  Speaker 1: and our first up is Taking a Shot at Love.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited to be back with this series in
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  Speaker 1: January and to be continuing it throughout the year. Me too,
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  Speaker 1: I'm very excited. Oh good? Who am I?
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  Speaker 2: I truly don't know?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Ms Wendy, do you have a synopsis for us? I
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  Speaker 1: share do?
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  Speaker 2: This comes from theofficial Hallmark channel dot com website. Taking
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  Speaker 2: a Shot at Love. Jenna, a former professional dancer, uses
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  Speaker 2: ballet to help a hockey player get back on the ice.
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  Speaker 2: Stars Alexa Penna Vega and Luke McFarlane. Did I say
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  Speaker 2: his last name right? McFarlane? Yes, you got it.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta trust in yourself. You always doubt your pronunciation.
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  Speaker 1: I do. That's like a super hang up of mine. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this movie is set in Hartford, Connecticut, but it was
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  Speaker 1: filmed in Canada.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually set in the town of Avon, Connecticut. Megan, Well,
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  Speaker 2: the article I read said Hartford. You don't remember like
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  Speaker 2: this she it's the Avon Winterfest Ballet Show or whatever
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  Speaker 2: it's called. Yeah, it's it's in the town of Avon,
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  Speaker 2: because what I read, writer Julie Wolf actually lives in
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  Speaker 2: the town Avon, Connecticut and wanted to get the town's
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  Speaker 2: small name.
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  Speaker 1: To be heard in the public or whatever. I heard
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  Speaker 1: that too, and I apologize. It's the county is Hartford,
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  Speaker 1: Avon is the town. So we're both correct there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I believed that this movie was filmed.
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  Speaker 2: In the winter. Well, I have a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: news on that. Actually, all right, it was filmed during Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 2: so during the week before and the week of Thanksgiving, So.
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  Speaker 1: It was definitely cold in Canada that week. I believed
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  Speaker 1: that it was cold. The skies were gray. Her jackets
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  Speaker 1: were more puffy than fashion.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't the beautiful coats that Candice Cameron wore.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they were function over form. Two notes here.
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  Speaker 2: One, The fact that this movie was filmed in November
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  Speaker 2: and is now on the screen in January is blowing
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  Speaker 2: my mind. What is the turnaround time typically on these
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark movies?
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  Speaker 1: Is it that short? Well, a lot of the movies
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  Speaker 1: we were watching in December were filmed in August and September,
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  Speaker 1: and they're just churning those out, which is why you'll
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  Speaker 1: notice if you use the Hallmark Movie checklist app when
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  Speaker 1: they first launched their countdown to Christmas movie listing. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you look right now at the New Year New
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  Speaker 1: Movies lineup, only three of the five have actual images
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  Speaker 1: of the actors oh and two have like stock photos.
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  Speaker 1: Oh one is like a really blown out image of
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  Speaker 1: a candle, and one is a mug in front of
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  Speaker 1: snow like they have not even added in the official
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  Speaker 1: movie photos. So I do think these are what's the
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  Speaker 1: word I'm looking for? I think these are just constantly
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  Speaker 1: in production. I think the turnaround time is quick, and
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  Speaker 1: it's so fast that they don't even have time to
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  Speaker 1: get the actual images up on the app.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: The same was true of Countdown to Christmas. If you
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  Speaker 1: opened the listing of Countdown to Christmas, there were many
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  Speaker 1: stock photos when they first launched, and throughout the season
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  Speaker 1: the images of the actors in the movies. The official
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  Speaker 1: images were at it. So I think they're just flying
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  Speaker 1: by the seat of their pants.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's not to okay. Now listen to this note.
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  Speaker 2: I also found this morning, so actress Alexa Pennavega was
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  Speaker 2: pregnant while shooting this movie.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, that makes so much sense because they gave her
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  Speaker 1: that big puffy jacket. But what doesn't make sense is
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  Speaker 1: she's always in dance clothes.
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  Speaker 2: She must not have been very pregnant. No, not very pregnant.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently she's due sometime this summer.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought she was okay, So she was not
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  Speaker 1: showing be She was in like leggings and leotards.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but she had like a sweater wrap on in
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  Speaker 2: one of them. I mean, I don't think she was
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  Speaker 2: very pregnant, but still I don't think she was like
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  Speaker 2: she wasn't running around in like barely there leotards. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, perhaps they filmed some of those dance scenes earlier
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  Speaker 1: on and then that like opening scene where she's in
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  Speaker 1: like the big flowy sweater is one of the later
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  Speaker 1: filmed scenes. Interesting. Well, yeah, fun fact about Luke McFarlane.
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  Speaker 1: He is a new United States citizen and voted in
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  Speaker 1: his first election last year.
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  Speaker 2: I saw on his Instagram this morning. Is he a Canadian? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I believe so.
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  Speaker 1: He's also a twin Oh and he has a twin sister.
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  Speaker 1: And he is well known for his appearance in many,
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  Speaker 1: many Hallmark movies. He's definitely a Hallmark movie dude.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know he was also in the show Brothers
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  Speaker 2: and Sisters, though I don't remember who he played in
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  Speaker 2: that show. I looked at his acting credits. He has
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  Speaker 2: like some shows outside of the Hallmark universe, but I
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  Speaker 2: can't nothing that Like. I was like, oh, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: remember him. But he's nice on the eyes and I
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  Speaker 2: think he's a good actor.
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  Speaker 1: I thought both of the actors, the lead actors in
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  Speaker 1: this movie were very pretty, very nice to look at.
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  Speaker 1: Alexa Penevega is I wouldn't say best known for her
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  Speaker 1: spik Kids appearances.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I saw that she was in that, But who
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  Speaker 2: did she play in Spy Kids? A child?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I did not know that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to go back and look. That's hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: Now I do know that she is married to some
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  Speaker 2: musician from a band called Big Time Rush, which I
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  Speaker 2: don't know anything.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so, Big Time Rush is a Disney Channel band.
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  Speaker 1: I think, hold on, Big Time Rush is a Nickelodeon band.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: So they were formed in two thousand and nine and
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  Speaker 1: they starred in the television series. Big Time Rush signed
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  Speaker 1: a record deal with Nick Records simultaneously with the TV series,
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  Speaker 1: and then they were eventually signed to Columbia Records, so
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  Speaker 1: they kind of have that child star going on.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, hold on, I am looking up images from Oh
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  Speaker 2: my god, she was that kid spy.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I mean it it was two thousand and one,
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  Speaker 1: the first Spy Kids, which is twenty years ago, so
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  Speaker 1: you know she was ten or twelve at the time.
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  Speaker 2: But yes, Spy Kids feels like it was like three
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  Speaker 2: years ago. To me. That's blowing my mind. I actually
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  Speaker 2: thought she looks a little bit like Alyssa Milano.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think that's a fair comparison, and she's
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  Speaker 1: in several Hallmarks style movies, but I do think she
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  Speaker 1: is perhaps best known for spy Kids. All Right, Now, overall,
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  Speaker 1: first impression of this movie, did you enjoy it? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed it quite a bit, as did I.
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  Speaker 1: I found it very pleasant to watch, and in fact,
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  Speaker 1: normally I'm writing multiple notes about my problems with the movie,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't have a lot of those. I have
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things to say, but I just found
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  Speaker 1: it really enjoyable to watch, and I think it was also.
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  Speaker 2: A really nice break from Christmas content. I think so too.
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  Speaker 2: So here's my question. When we talked about the Christmas
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  Speaker 2: movies and the first movie that came out in the
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  Speaker 2: Countdown to Christmas series, you said was kind of a
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  Speaker 2: dud that they don't put like the big name, big
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  Speaker 2: movies until closer to the Christmas holiday. Now does the
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  Speaker 2: same apply for this kind of content, the New Year,
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  Speaker 2: New movie content?
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  Speaker 1: I would say no, because at this point they're just
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  Speaker 1: trying to hold on to their Christmas viewership. They get
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  Speaker 1: a huge surge of viewers for the holidays, and I
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  Speaker 1: think it peters out. So I think at this point
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to do whatever they can. I think a
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  Speaker 1: lot of their non Christmas movies are great, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't think placement. I don't think it matters so much.
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  Speaker 1: Now that we're into January.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you it was appointment TV for us.
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  Speaker 1: Again.
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  Speaker 2: My husband and I sat and watched.
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  Speaker 1: It on the couch together. I really enjoyed it. I
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  Speaker 1: really really enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 2: I would stop and watch it again if I saw
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  Speaker 2: it on the guide, Yeah, I would do.
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  Speaker 1: I would have it on in the background. I enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: it that it was very visually pay to watch. Her
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  Speaker 1: house was beautiful, obviously, the people in it were beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: One thing I really liked is that the dancers in
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  Speaker 1: her dance studio were actually dancing, and they were enjoyable
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  Speaker 1: to watch. I liked that they showed, you know, all
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  Speaker 1: the way through the dance. It wasn't like they were
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  Speaker 1: just doing real close ups on a dancer's face to
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  Speaker 1: give you the impression that they were dancing, which I
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  Speaker 1: have something to say about the hockey.
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  Speaker 2: But.
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that. And they showed their final dance performance,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes that's the kind of thing that you'll just
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  Speaker 1: maybe see them like standing off stage, or you'll see
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  Speaker 1: a couple little bits of it. But I really thought
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  Speaker 1: that they did a good job showing the dance and
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  Speaker 1: making it a part of the show. And if she's
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  Speaker 1: a dance teacher and the central part of the plot
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  Speaker 1: is this big dance performance, I thought it was great
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  Speaker 1: that they had them actually dancing in the movie.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So with that said, let's talk about what we
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  Speaker 2: liked with a shot Taking a shot at Love. So
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  Speaker 2: you liked that the dances were actually dancing. I really
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  Speaker 2: really enjoyed that boy, Felix.
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  Speaker 1: He was a dancer.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was a great dancer. I thought he
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  Speaker 2: was a good actor. And what I liked best is
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  Speaker 2: that he was passionate about dancing but also really wanted
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  Speaker 2: to learn how to play almost says soccer. He almost
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  Speaker 2: he really wanted to learn how to play hockey, and
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  Speaker 2: that these adults rallied around him to, you know, show
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  Speaker 2: him he could do both. I loved it, loved it,
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  Speaker 2: loved it.
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  Speaker 1: I loved when Felix shows up for the first time
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  Speaker 1: and he recognizes Coop and Ryan walks over to do
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  Speaker 1: and he's like, don't tell anybody who saw and Felix
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  Speaker 1: is like, why what's wrong with dance? And I really
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  Speaker 1: like that he, you know, owned the fact that he
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  Speaker 1: liked dance in addition to liking hockey. And one thing
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  Speaker 1: I was watching the Instagram review of a fellow Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 1: Her account is Hallmarks the Spot, and one thing she
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  Speaker 1: said was that there were points in the movie where
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  Speaker 1: I think we were supposed to believe that Luke McFarlane's character,
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: Ryan Cooper was a bit of a bad guy, right, Like,
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  Speaker 1: there were multiple scenes and he couldn't commit to it, Like,
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  Speaker 1: he was just such a good guy. There was no
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  Speaker 1: point at which you felt annoyed with him, because even
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  Speaker 1: in the moments where.
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  Speaker 2: He was kind of supposed.
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  Speaker 1: To be annoying, he turned it around so quickly that
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  Speaker 1: you just couldn't help but like him.
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  Speaker 2: So I enjoyed that scene, right So, like when he
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  Speaker 2: gets to Jenna's house and he mistakenly thinks that's his accommodations.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he did come off as a little put
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  Speaker 2: out when he had to go to like the guest
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  Speaker 2: house or whatever, but he was still likable and that's
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  Speaker 2: what I enjoyed about his character. I agree talking about
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  Speaker 2: Ryan and his like bad boy persona, he was so
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  Speaker 2: nice to the kids, Like he was nice to the
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  Speaker 2: kids that were waiting for him outside the hockey rink
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  Speaker 2: signing autographs. He was nice to the ballet kids I
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  Speaker 2: just studied. Was a super nice guy.
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  Speaker 1: In general.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that they had a decent amount of chemistry
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  Speaker 2: between the two. What did you think about the chemistry
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  Speaker 2: between the two of them. I believed their chemistry. I
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed them. I was rooting for them as a couple.
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  Speaker 1: And what I liked is that they clearly had a
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  Speaker 1: connection throughout. And it wasn't the sort of movie where
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  Speaker 1: their enemies throughout the movie and then they come together
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  Speaker 1: in the last five minutes. They clearly liked each other.
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  Speaker 1: They clearly enjoyed each other's company. And I like when
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  Speaker 1: the movies give us that glimpse because I don't believe
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  Speaker 1: it when you've got enemy, enemy, enemy enemy, Oh we've
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  Speaker 1: got to wrap it up, all of a sudden, we're
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  Speaker 1: in love. I liked that they showed us their chemistry,
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  Speaker 1: and they showed us their connection. And of course, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they had roadblocks in their way, which I don't actually
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  Speaker 1: think we're roadblocks at all, But we can talk about
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  Speaker 1: that later. But I feel like they built up their
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  Speaker 1: connection throughout the movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I was a little bit worried in the kind
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  Speaker 2: of beginning scenes when she was like annoyed with him
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  Speaker 2: or what, and I thought, Oh, no, are we doing this?
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  Speaker 2: But I agreed they kind of like put that to
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  Speaker 2: the side and they had some cute banter. They really
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  Speaker 2: liked each other's company. They started hanging out together more.
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  Speaker 2: I believed it, which then leads me to at the
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  Speaker 2: very end when he comes out to spoiler alert to
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  Speaker 2: Jenna's showcase and he comes out to like introduce her
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  Speaker 2: or the dance or whatever, and I thought, I really
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  Speaker 2: like this guy. He's like humbled and charismatic. I just
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  Speaker 2: loved him. I loved him so much.
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  Speaker 1: Well, my favorite line is when he shows up and
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  Speaker 1: before he goes on stage and he said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I need to talk to you, and she says, I
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  Speaker 1: thought we said everything that needed to be said, and
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: he said, we didn't say anything that needed to be said,
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  Speaker 1: And I thought that was such a perfect call out
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that they never had a conversation about
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: how easy it would have been for them to continue
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  Speaker 1: this relationship. You know, she just assumes that him going
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  Speaker 1: back to his hockey team means that everything is over,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: and he points out a hockey's not year round, and
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  Speaker 1: be you know I can travel, I can. You know
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  Speaker 1: you don't. Connecticut and New York are not that far apart,
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  Speaker 1: so we can still continue this relationship. I loved that line. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: me too. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I have a couple few little scenes. They probably didn't
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  Speaker 2: mean anything to you, but they were so cute to me.
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  Speaker 2: One was when they went to ice skating together. It
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  Speaker 2: was just the two of them, and I thought, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna do a little ice dancing. In my favorite
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  Speaker 2: episode of Beverly Hills nine o two and zero, when
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  Speaker 2: Brandon meets the she an ice skater I don't remember.
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  Speaker 2: I think she's an ice skater and he plays hockey
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  Speaker 2: and they go and do a little time of your
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  Speaker 2: life out on them oh, on the ice rink, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, this is it, this is what's happening.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't do any ice dancing. They actually did a
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  Speaker 2: cute little like playing around and shooting pucks and stuff
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: like that. Totally loved it, Totally thought that it was
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  Speaker 2: an adorable date. Also really liked that they talked about
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  Speaker 2: getting coffee in like their little town center or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: that there was coffee carts all over town center, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, man, I really wish we had something
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  Speaker 2: like that, a little coffee cart action, Like I could
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  Speaker 2: just walk down to my local center and grab a
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  Speaker 2: coffee at a coffee cart and make me want to
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  Speaker 2: hang out.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember that part at all? I do. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't feel that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's coffee on every corner. I guess the
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  Speaker 2: cart part is it's so much more charming.
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  Speaker 1: It is charming.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, I know, But how much time do you
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  Speaker 2: spend just walking around enjoying, like seeing what there is
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  Speaker 2: to see?
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  Speaker 1: Which is to say that we shouldn't. I just I
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  Speaker 1: just don't.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you and I don't live in small towns. And
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  Speaker 2: I think if we lived in a small town that
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  Speaker 2: had like a one main street with no chain coffee places,
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  Speaker 2: that sure, if we lived in Stars Hollow or.
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  Speaker 1: Eggs, Connecticut exactly, we would.
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  Speaker 2: My husband even say, you want to start a coffee
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: cart business, and I was like, yes, I.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Do, let's do. A husband, once we moved to a
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: small town, started an ice cream shop. So you guys
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: can learn the coffee card. We'll run the ice cream
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: shop and.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: We'll just have our own Hallmark movie. I freaking love it.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Let's do it. Okay.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: One final scene that I thought was so adorable is
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: when she took him to task on the air hockey game.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's cute. I liked that. I loved it.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: It just that that stuff just supported like the fun, hangout,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: banter relationship that they were building.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Agree, agreed it loved it.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Is there anything else that you liked about this movie?
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I think that covers it.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, I have one last thing. Tell me.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: The thing I don't love about the Christmas movies is
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: like the holiday hijiinks. This right, there's no hijinks. No,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: there were no hyjikes.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I love it. I loved it. Yeah. It felt like
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: real life. Yes, like that opening scene where she's just
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: like making coffee and it's not a hot chocolate with
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: ninety seven marshmallows, and it's not right. It's just her
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: life obviously her life was So you saw that Hooga
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Farms sign? Did you care it?
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yes, I have something that I'm going to put
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: in the digital moment.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Okay. Well it's I bumped on it right in the
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: very beginning, and my in my brain. I thought, Oh,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: it's like a home goods Like that's the kind of
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: thing you would find at home goods. And I honestly
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: bet that that's where they found it in, like a
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: home decor. Like that's cute, right, And then she ties
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: it back in. She's like, oh, it's actually my family's
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: farm day and I was like, no, it's not. But
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I did like that, you know, it was just a
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: very shot of real life. Even though her friend comes in.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: It's like, your life is like a coffee commercial. That
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: was funny, daring out the window in your cozy clothes.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: But yes, I appreciate that the holidays have been wiped
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: from the movies.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's funny you say that. I can appreciate that
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: the holidays have been wiped from the movies.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: You know, I am so done twenty twenty holidays. Bye,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I just okay.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: So let's move on to a news segment for us.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: It's called uh oh.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: So.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: In this segment, we are just looking at the potential
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: roadblocks to move the story forward, and the first one
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: that I came up with was we got Jenna, who
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: lives in Connecticut, and Ryan, who is currently playing for
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: the New York Rangers. They live in different states, but
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: uh oh, can they not be in a relationship?
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Can they not be in a long distance relationship? There
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: are roads. I am rereading the Babysitters Club series with
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: my daughter, and for those in the know, the Baby
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Sitters Club takes place in the fictional town of Stonybrook, Connecticut,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: and Stacy is from New York and often goes back
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: to New York for her doctor appointments and they drive
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: there for the weekend. So even the casual Babysitters Club
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: reader knows that it is a quick drive. Yeah, is it?
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I just And here's the other thing too, is like,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: he plays for this professional team, fine, but he doesn't
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: have to live in New York in the off season.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: He can come back to Avon, Connecticut and live with
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: her there. He's traveling most of the time.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah. They don't even point out that he doesn't have
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: to live there until the final scene of them maybe.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, that was a little bit frustrated to me. Okay,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I have another uh oh, Okay, there's a mysterious person
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: taking video of Ryan as he's out on the ice.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Uh oh. He gets called back to the team before
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Jenna's big dance finale.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I feel like they built that up to
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: be this big nefarious thing, right, Like they show the
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: guy filming and I was like, what's gonna happen here?
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Because what's wrong with what he's doing? Right?
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: And then he gets called up and they can't even
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: have a conversation where she says like, hey, I'll call you.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: It's just over, like she's done, like the chemistry's gone,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: it's over there. I don't This is my biggest complain
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: about movies like this is when they don't have the
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: conversation that needs to be had, you know. Okay, so
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: we don't have it all figured out. I'll call you tomorrow, like, hey,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: maybe we can get together this weekend. Like to her,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: she's like it's over. And that's why I do appreciate
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: he was like, we didn't say anything that needed to
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: be said. Yeah, totally. Okay. Next, let's talk about things
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: we wished were different about this movie. And I know
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: you have a big list, So why don't you go first, Wendy.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Okay, it's a big list, but it mostly has to
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: do with Jenna's storyline. Yes, it was a little all
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: over the place without much explanation. So first, that the
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: studio competition. She's losing students to a companion studio. There's
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: like some shady moms happening, But like that doesn't pan
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: out to be like anything.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: What the thing I didn't like about that was just
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: as she was a bad business woman in that sense.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know a single dance studio that doesn't have
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: a competitive team aspect to it. That's where they make
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: their big money. And you can still be the competitive
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: dance teacher who teaches for the love of dance. You know,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: they did their performance in the end, and those kids
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: still enjoyed dance. You can still instill the love of
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: dance while also having the competition aspect. And also, if
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: that's the one thing that's going to keep you in business,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: You need to pivot if that's what's going to keep
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: you in business.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And I think she gets lucky here because she
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: gets saved because she doesn't end up having to do
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: that because she becomes like, oh, I'm going to be
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: a sports rehabber but is or she's going to you know,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: teach these classes for athletes, which okay, fine, but really,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: if you think realistically, I'm going to teach a agility
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: for ass athletes class.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: At my dance studio. What one a week?
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, what's the demand for that really going to be?
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: He's not going to be the one thing that saves
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: your studio. Obviously, you can't be rehabbing athletes across the
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: country who don't live anywhere near you. You still got
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: to pivot. Yeah.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Well, I think she thought, oh, I got this connection
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: with my cousin who's a sports manager, and now I
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: can get all the athletes to come my way to
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: be a cash cow for her. I don't know, it
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: was just thought well thought out. I don't run a
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: competitive studio, lady, right, get the money where the money is.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Here's my other problem. She was having problems paying the
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: rent at her studio. And big and beautiful, right, and
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: she's got this gorgeous barn out in the back where
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: he COO does tell her at one point, why don't
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: you convert this to a studio back here? And she
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: then goes off to talk about how they tried at
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: one time to make it a cider tasting room, but
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: it's too old and historic and blah blah blah blah, blah, whatever, Look,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: there are ways around this. She could have converted that
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: barn into a studio. But my point is she went
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: on talking forever about her dad's dream to make this
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: cider tasting area and the barn, which made me kind
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: of believe, like, is she moving that way? Is she
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: going to do that in the future, And then that
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: just was like nothing.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I did feel like the farm storyline was one that
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: we didn't get enough information about. They kind of like
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: threw it in every once in a while to give
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: her a little bit of backstory, but I didn't fully understand.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, wait, this is on farmland, but
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: you live in the middle of a residential neighborhood. I
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: didn't fully understand what was going on there.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, And my final missed opportunity in the Jenna storyline,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: she never fully really tells the story about why she
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: left the ballet company. It has something to do with
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: like a relationship gone wrong with her boss what.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: So she was right in a relationship with the lead
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: guy who was in charge. She gets injured and while
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: she's out rehabbing, they replace her, and then he ends
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: up in a relationship with a new prima ballerina. So
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's kind of the whole story, like that
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: she was no longer of service to him. He was
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: over her, is the way I understood it. When she's
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: out of the spotlight, don't care anymore?
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Why is she hanging her hat on some dude? Aren't
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: there a bunch of other ballet companies that you can
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know anything about ballet, but isn't
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: there another company you can go work for?
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe she felt disillusioned by the fact
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: that they dropped her like a bad habit when she
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: was injured. And the interesting thing was her cousin in
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the very beginning, He's like, this is the same injury
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: that you came back from. You made a comeback. But
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: did she really actually ever make the comeback? She rehabbed
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: and then opens a dance studio, which is fine. She's
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: clearly good at her job and enjoys it very much.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: So everything else on my list falls into the category
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: of did you see that?
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: And I have some things to talk about? This is
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: my most fun category that we do here on the recaps.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: I have quite a few. So let's see if we
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: have some overlappers, go ahead.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Okay. My first is there's no way that's him in
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: the opening hockey scene, because there's this guy is beautifully
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: skating down the ice and then the up close shots
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: are like right in his face. They found some bearded
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: hockey player who resembled Luke McFarland to do all of
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the hockey shots, and then they got real tie on
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: his face when it was time for him to speak.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: I do like believe that was him. They're like, Luke,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: sell it with your face that you're playing here out
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: on nice.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: And then later in the movie, when he takes Felix skating,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: he has the friend, who's clearly a very good skater,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: get out there and teach him, and then he.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Kind of like hops on the ice for a quick
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: little lap. When Jene gism the all clear.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: You're all clear for it. I didn't believe.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: I didn't believe that.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Also, I was like, oh, how convenient that he has
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: to stay off the ice right now because he's not
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: a good skater.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: But he says, speaking of his character, so he plays
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: for the New York Rangers, which is a real hockey team,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: and did you notice how much merch he wore throughout
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: the entire movie. Now, listen, you know that we have
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: a professional sports athlete in my family. Yes, never have
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I seen this man wear anything from his team in
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: thirty years.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Well was he being paid for it to be in
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: a movie? Because I could imagine that if the Rangers
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: sponsored this movie, there must have been some sponsorship, otherwise
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: they would have done link. You know it's the Polar
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Bears because there's so much New York Rangers placement. Constantly,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: he constantly has a sweatshirt on or a jacket on,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: and obviously the jersey. They mentioned the team name over
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: and over again. I fully believe there was an exchange
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: of funds.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there had to have been, because in my experience
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: with professional athletes, they want to keep everything on the
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: down low.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: They don't want to be.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Going to pick up a hot sider where in their
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: New York has app whatever.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: So next for me is, look, I know he's like
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: a big fancy hockey player, used to fancy accommodations. But
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: I didn't believe when he showed up at Jenna's house
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: that he assumed that the house was where he was staying.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: He had been told he was staying in a guest house.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: There's clearly He's like, oh, that's a garage. When she
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: points out his mistake, it doesn't look like a garage.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: It looks like a guest house. Yeah, it's beautifully painted
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: to match the house. The key is in the wrong place.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: He walks in. He's clearly in someone's home. I did
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: not buy that for a second. And then she comes
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: home and he's shocked that she's walked into his home.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Didn't buy it.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I have so many problems with that scene because, first
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: of all, she tells him the key is under the pot, right,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: So when he gets to her home, he lifts up
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: the mat and there's a key under the mat. Who
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: on God's green Earth leaves a key to your home
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: under the mat at all times? Maybe in Avon, Connecticut
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: you do, Yeah, if you guys are familiar with Avon Connecticut.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: I want to know what the safety is there, or like,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: what's the crime there? Because if I can just leave
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: your key under the mat for any old Joe to
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: walk on in, okay? But why wouldn't he have stayed
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: in a hotel?
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: That's what I didn't understand the very beginning, In all caps,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I wrote, why is he staying in her guest house.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: And why does she even have a guest house because
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: all of these people we saw the same thing and
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: never kiss a man in a Christmas letter. She has
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: a guest house that she doesn't rent out like she
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: uses for her own studio. But you're telling me there's
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: not a hotel in this town. There's not an airbnb.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: He has to stay in the home of the beautiful
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: ballet dancer.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: They did say that she rents it out during the
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: summer or whatever, so it's like a perfect place for
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: him to stay. But still, like a professional athlete is
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: going to stay in a hotel with very nice accommodations.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: He's not staying in some ladies, right.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: This is acrasal relationship. They're not gonna even though you
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: know the cousin, they're still not going to have you
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: stay in her home. She's an employee. She's rehabbing the photo.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Talk to me, I don't remember a photo when they're
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: in the barn. Oh, he sees the photos of her
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: and he goes, wait a minute, as if all of
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: a sudden he's just realizing that she was a ballotin
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: at which he knew. Whips out this photo he has
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: on his phone, which there's like six people in it.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: It's not a giant group, and they just happen to
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: be in a photo together. It didn't occur to him
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: going to work with this ballerina, he's staying in her home.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: It's not until he sees a photo of her that
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: it occurs to him. By the way, we've already met
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: and we have a photo together that I'm carrying around
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: on my phone with my ex girlfriend.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: And I said to my husband, I go, oh, he
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: just so happens to pull that up on his phone,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: like how old is this photo? And how is it
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: still on your phone?
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: He would have a had to scroll forever to find
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: that photo was right at the beginning of his relationship
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: with his ex. That was one of the most beautiful
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: dances I've ever seen. Give me a break. I mean, no,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: it was not necessary to the story at all. Nope,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: didn't believe it.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: I agree, Okay. The other thing I didn't believe is
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: that Jenna's ballet shoes were perfectly pristine pink. Every ballet
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: dancer that I've ever seen in one of my best
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: friends growing up was a ballet dancer.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Her shoes are a wreck. They are worn in.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: And so I was annoyed by like there was no
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: reality in the condition.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Of her ballet shoes. Yes, how about the ice storm?
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Okay, so many thoughts on this ice storm. First of all,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: if you don't know, we live in southern California, we
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: have very few rainstorms, let alone ice storms.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: You might hail for thirty seconds.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the power goes out, and she calls her
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: friend in this dangerous ice storm to come on over
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: because it's game night, Like, do they live next door? Like,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: don't send your friends out to come over during this
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: dangerous ice storm. But then they do come over and
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: they're dry as a bone, they're not wet at all.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Well, and they wear She says, are you okay to
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: walk home? And they go, oh, yeah, we have our crampons.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you for bringing that up, because I said
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: to my husband, I said, what a What is a crampon?
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: The exact definition is a metal plate with spikes fixed
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: to a boot for walking on ice or rock climbing. Now,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: I do not think Please listeners from states where you
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: have weather correct me if I am wrong, But I
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: do not think these are meant for walking down the
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: street in an ice storm. They're for like rock climbing
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: or mountain climbing, not like go into your friend's house
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: for a game night. Did you know what a crampon
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: was before they said it? I knew it was for
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: mountain climbing. I couldn't I but I could not have
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: given you the exact definition. But oh my god, that's
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: it's funny in a nutshell. A crampon is a type
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: of spiky traction device that attaches to your footwear to
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: help provide grip and stability while walking or climbing on
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: ice and snow. Ice climbing, glacier crossing, and snow hiking,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: they all require crampons. I mean these images, they're like
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: the dooty spikes. Just not for one second. It's like
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: snow tires for your feet. Not for one second do
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: I believe that people wear them just to walk from
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: house to house on an ice storm. I think you
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  Speaker 1: stay your ass home and then it's okay for them
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  Speaker 1: to walk home. But she's like, you couldn't possibly walk
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  Speaker 1: across ther here's.
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  Speaker 2: The okay, let us take this one step further. Would
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: they have the crampons on their feet in her home?
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Are they putting them on out on the porch in
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: the weather, like it makes no sense to me.
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  Speaker 1: No, you had mentioned.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Earlier houga, the Danish word for cozy, so you know
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  Speaker 2: that I am married to a Dane. And we had
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: a good laugh about it because she went on talking
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  Speaker 2: about how it's like a Danish No no, no, no no no,
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  Speaker 2: no no no. Her name is Jenna Wagner. Wagner is
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  Speaker 2: not a Danish name. Now, sure, the Danes could been
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: like on her mom's side, and then she married a Wagner,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: but like, why not just make her a Nielsen or
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: an Oulsen or a whatever, not Jenna Wagner.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: There is a great constinuity question that I cannot answer
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  Speaker 1: for you.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: I don't think they thought that all the way through,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: and they didn't they need to hire someone like me
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: to I'm telling.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: You what happened was they found the sign in the
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: home goods. They thought this is perfect for one of
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: our sets, and then they wrote the story backwards from that.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I guarantee, if the writers are listening, confirm my suspicion.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, their sign could.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Have said live, laugh, love or whatever you know, go
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: after your passion, or it is my mission to find
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: this sign now all.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Right, My last comment, and you may have more, is
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: about the diversity in this movie, or perhaps the lack thereof. Okay,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: we discussed it in the Countdown to Christmas movies and
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: some movies did a better job than others, and we
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: have said that Hamewark appears to be trying, although they
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: are not there yet. And I would say this movie
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: fails the diversity test. There's one friend of color. She
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: has her best friend who is black, whose husband is
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: even white and super duper white. Like I would say,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: this is a fail on the diversity scade.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was a little disappointed that we didn't see
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: any other people of color.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Dancers are all white, the kids in the movie all
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: of his hockey teammates, although hockey is a real white sport.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's true, but that's a fail for me.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully we see a little bit more diversity going forward.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Not in the lead actors.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you that, not in the next five movies, correct,
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: that's for sure. I'm just going to end this one
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: little note here in this section of did you see that?
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: And it has to do with her friend's husband, the
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: real white guy, Matt, that we were talking about At
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: one point, he says that he almost was drafted to
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: the NHL, but he decided not to go that route
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: because his dad died and he needed to help save
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: the family business. Why are you not going then to
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: the NHL and getting that NHL money to save your
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: dad's business.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Right, This is not his dad was a real he's
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: a real estate attorney. This is not a store that
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: needs to be run. If the father passes away, he
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: just stops being a real estate There's no assets. I mean,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: perhaps he needs the income, but you're right, if it's
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: the income that they.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Need, go to the NHL.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: That is a storyline that did not hold up for me.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: And I feel like if they wanted it to be
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I had to go into the family business. They needed
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: a better storyline than real estate attorney.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: But then, on top of it, his wife was not
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: aware of this because she said early on in the
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: movie like how she was really trying to get her
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: husband to get to watch some hockey with her and
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: this and that whatever, And then it turns out that
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: he was once almost a professional hockey player, and this
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: is the reason why he can't watch hockey anymore because
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: it's too hard for him.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Like she like what she doesn't make it sound like
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: he has this history with hockey and that's why he
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: doesn't watch it.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: It's just like he doesn't like it. I'm the hockey
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: fan in the house, and it turns out he has
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: quite the history.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: And yes, wait, I got one. There, I got one.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I'm sorry, And I know this one is
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: why you didn't even bring it up.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Blows my mind.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: But when the power went out and they were falling
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: asleep on the couch and they had a million candles burning,
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: You're falling asleep with a million candles. Yes, romantic looking.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: But not real.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not safe at all. So I was apparently bothered
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: more by.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: That than you.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Well, all of that being said, let's rank this movie.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Are we doing four stars? We're sticking with our four stars.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: We're sticking to four stars. This best Hallmark movie we've
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: ever seen is a four star. For me, I have
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: a really hard time rating this because I've only seen
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Christmas movies, so I don't know how to like place this,
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: do you know what I mean? Right?
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: So I'll go first, just to give you something to
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: think about. So, okay, I think the only four star
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: movie we had was the twelve dates of Christmas? Am
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: I correct? And I am like you, hesitant to give
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: a movie four stars because I haven't seen the rest
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: of the New Year New movies. But for me, this
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: is a solid three and a half stars. Great movie.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Would absolutely watch again in spite of all of our complaints.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Really enjoyed it. I didn't find those things distracting while
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I was watching. They were just fun to note and discuss.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Three and a half stars. I'm gonna agree with you,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: oh right, a half stars? Yeah, yeah. Thank you so
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: much for joining us for this week's episode of Girls
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark. You know what we love. We love a rating,
• 40:57
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• 41:07
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• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Amy t Guard and which Wendy has just informed me
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: is Julie Taylor from Friday Night Lights all grown up.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: She's as cute as can be. I'm very much looking
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: forward to that. And Michael Rady is the actor in
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: that movie from Timeless and Unreal. We'll see you all later,
• 41:28
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