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Sweeter Than Chocolate · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: I didn't think it was not bad the episode itself. Yes,
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Speaker 1: let's read. Let's read the review. It's titled so much screaming.
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Speaker 1: At least this doesn't say so cackling. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: enjoy the conversation, but not the screaming. They scream that
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Speaker 1: an actor is hot. They scream that a wedding veil
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Speaker 1: I enjoy the conversation, it's the first line, and the
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Speaker 1: off putting for one reason or another. Sure, fair enough,
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, However it sounds like faking enthusiasm and engagement.
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Speaker 1: my podcast voice, and that's when I try and keep
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Speaker 1: it real, nice and mellow and enjoyable for the listeners.
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Speaker 1: I can maintain that for about thirty seconds and then
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Speaker 1: the real me comes through. Well, the thing that's funny
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Speaker 1: too is that, like, did she think that we're actually
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Speaker 1: not passionate about them movie we were talking about or
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Speaker 1: the subject matter. I'm not an actress. I can't fake
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Speaker 1: me neither, like we were fired up about that stupid
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Speaker 1: your hundred year old veil. Anyway, it was quite funny.
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Speaker 1: reviews there too, bad. It's okay. Moving on Hallmark News
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Speaker 1: and Notes. Yes, this is some speculation, Okay, some speculation
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Speaker 1: with a little bit of weight behind it. So we
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Speaker 1: mentioned last week that Ali Sweeney had teased that she
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Speaker 1: was working on a mystery movie, but she couldn't say
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Speaker 1: anything else about it. Then Sleepy Kitty Paw on February second,
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Speaker 1: tweeted a photo of Ali Sweeney and a cute little
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Speaker 1: apron Ali Sweeney prepping to film Carrot Cake Murder, a
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Speaker 1: Hanna Swinson mystery based on the book series by Juanna Fluke.
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Speaker 1: But I looked, and I looked, and there's no actual
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Speaker 1: confirmation of that. However, Eagle Eye fan account at make
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Speaker 1: More MSB, which stands for Make More Murder She Baked
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Speaker 1: Twitter account tweeted while there is no official confirmation from Hallmark,
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Speaker 1: the homemark Wikipedia page says that a carrot Cake murder
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Speaker 1: is in pre production, so whomever is running that account
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Speaker 1: also believes, well, I know that's that's user generated content there,
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Speaker 1: but someone else believes now who knows. Perhaps it was
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Speaker 1: Sleepy Kitty Pause that led to the up of the wikipediaph.
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Speaker 1: But all things seem to be pointing to a new
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Speaker 1: Murder She Baked Wow movie, all found on the Hallmark
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Speaker 1: Dark Web. Right, I just don't understand, Like, why don't
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Speaker 1: stop teasing it? Just give us the information and let
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Speaker 1: us get hyped for it. Right the last Murder she
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Speaker 1: Baked Mystery movie? There are currently five aired in twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 1: And that's not an old photo of her. That's like
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Speaker 1: an actual current Ali Sweeney photo in an apron. You're
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Speaker 1: asking questions, so I don't have the answer. I don't know, somebody.
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Speaker 1: Five new movies were announced from March. Can I get
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Speaker 1: a first? Yeah? Okay? These five new movies announce from
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Speaker 1: March include homework favorites like Kimberly Sustad, Christopher pau Laha,
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Speaker 1: Tyler Hines, and Paul Campbell in a mystery. There's some
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Speaker 1: big names in this month. First impression, I'm excited. Well,
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Speaker 1: that makes sense to me, because I feel like free,
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Speaker 1: very kind of fight your tongue. Sorry, we have a
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Speaker 1: post in on our website with all the details for
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Speaker 1: these movies. I'm gonna leave a link in our show notes.
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Speaker 1: You can find our website at Meganewindy dot com. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I have something else to share. Yeah, and this is
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Speaker 1: new news to me while I was putting together notes
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Speaker 1: for our review here. But Hallmark Publishing closed operations unexpectedly
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Speaker 1: in October twenty twenty two. And this is relevant because
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Speaker 1: Sweeter than Chocolate by Lizzie Shane, who this was a
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Speaker 1: book this movie is based on, was published through Hallmark
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Speaker 1: Publishing and now they have like shuddered, so no more
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Speaker 1: like books from Hallmark Publishing company. I wonder if that
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Speaker 1: was at all driven by the huge rise in self
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Speaker 1: publishing by authors and the availability of those books through
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Speaker 1: platforms like Kindle and Limited. I don't know. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: The article I did read just said it was like
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Speaker 1: best business decision. It was, you know, maybe they weren't
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Speaker 1: making any money. Yeah, so that's kind of sad. We
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Speaker 1: have some viewership from last week's Love in Glacier National,
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Speaker 1: a national park romance. Speaking of Instagram by the way,
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Speaker 1: if you're not following us on Instagram, you can see
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Speaker 1: our fake mock up movie posters, which I took so
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Speaker 1: much delight in creating from last week's episode. I gotta
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Speaker 1: tell you, yesterday was in the mall and I saw
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Speaker 1: a calendar, you know, that cute store paper source, and
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Speaker 1: they had this relational parks calendar in there, and I
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Speaker 1: got a good chuckle out of it. I was actually
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Speaker 1: saw it in the window, and I wanted to go
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Speaker 1: in and see if, like a Katie A National Park
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Speaker 1: was in there or whatever. I didn't, but yeah, you know, mind,
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Speaker 1: it brought me a lot of joy to create those
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Speaker 1: so girls con homark on Instagram. But Love and Glacier
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Speaker 1: ranked thirteen out of fifty in cable telecasts for Saturday
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Speaker 1: and pulled in two million lives viewers. No, definitely in
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Speaker 1: disappointed live viewers. That's I think a lot of people
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Speaker 1: were drawn in. It looked like a good movie. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people were super disappointed. Hey,
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Speaker 1: I still kind of liked it. I liked it more
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Speaker 1: than this week's movie. Oh no, oh no, buckle up friends. Wow. Okay, alrighty,
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Speaker 1: let's hear a synopsis for sweeter than chocolate. Sure Thing,
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Speaker 1: a local chocolate tear is rumored to have a secret
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Speaker 1: recipe to finding true love. On February fourteenth, drawing in
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Speaker 1: a TV reporter to investigate, starring Eloise Mumford, Dan Janote,
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Speaker 1: I think it's Janot whatever and Brenda Strong and I'm
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Speaker 1: not whatevering. Guys, don't send me your emails. I just
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Speaker 1: always mess up his name and others. Appropriate for a
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Speaker 1: movie about chocolate, this movie has a chocolate company collaboration,
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Speaker 1: Bissinger's Chocolate, which is known for their hallmark collapse in
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Speaker 1: the past, including their countdown to Christmas. Advent Calendar has
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Speaker 1: created Cupid chocolates tie in with this movie, and they
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Speaker 1: are the chocolates that were in fact featured on screen
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Speaker 1: in this movie. You can get your own. They're fifteen
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Speaker 1: dollars for a box of five milk chocolates with a
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Speaker 1: chocolate raspberry filling. Now this is super non sponsored, but
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Speaker 1: I did buy some candies from them over the Christmas holiday, Drake,
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Speaker 1: and they were delicious. I agree. We received some chocolate
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Speaker 1: from them and it was quite good. It was a
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Speaker 1: good you know, usually the chocolate and a chocolate Advent
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Speaker 1: Calendar is garbage. Yeah right, it was good chocolate. Now
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Speaker 1: I got like chocolate covered marshmallows and then they got
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Speaker 1: these like chocolate caramel lolly pop things. It was good stuff,
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Speaker 1: yummy stuff. Cool. Yeah. This film, like I said earlier,
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Speaker 1: is based on the book by the same name by
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Speaker 1: Lizzie Shane, and it is available on Amazon. Guys and
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Speaker 1: listener and friend of the Show Michelle read the book
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Speaker 1: movie and had very high reviews for it. So if
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Speaker 1: you liked the movie, she said, the book was even better.
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Speaker 1: Good to know. This movie was directed by David Weaver,
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Speaker 1: who has thirty eight directing credits, including Girls Gone, Hallmark Favorite,
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Speaker 1: Lights Camera Christmas, as well as Merry Go Round recently.
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Speaker 1: Oh I didn't like Marry Go Round. Neither did I,
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Speaker 1: but I love Lights Camera Christmas. Filming took place in
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Speaker 1: and around the Vancouver area of British Columbia, Canada. One
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Speaker 1: specific location per Pinstripe was the Picturess Fort Langley Community Hall,
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Speaker 1: which doesn't have like a great name, and so I
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Speaker 1: looked it up. It's beautiful and I was like, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I remember seeing that in the movie. It's like very pretty, yeah,
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Speaker 1: very pretty, Like get some better. Pr Fort Langley Community Home. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I get a better name, yo. While speaking of Pinstripe
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Speaker 1: Dan Jannotte, who plays Dean Chase in this movie, although
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Speaker 1: he will always be Pinstripe in US due to his
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Speaker 1: role on The Bold Type. He was also in twenty
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Speaker 1: five episodes of The Good Witch, a Hallmark Channel home series.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad to see him getting starring Hallmark movie roles.
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Speaker 1: I quite enjoy him me too. I like him a
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Speaker 1: lot to Brenda Strong plays Lucy's mom, and I'm sorry
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Speaker 1: I could not find her name. It was not listed
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Speaker 1: on IMDb and I could not remember from the movie.
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Speaker 1: She's probably best known for playing Mary Alice Young in
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Speaker 1: Desperate Housewives, as well as Anne Ewing in the reboot
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Speaker 1: of Dallas from twenty twelve to twenty fourteen, and also
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Speaker 1: twenty two episodes as Norah Walker in the Netflix show
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Speaker 1: Thirteen Reasons Why, which is real hard watch for parents
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Speaker 1: of teenagers. Brenda Strong's character in this movie is named Helen, Helen,
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Speaker 1: Helen Sweet, Lucy and Helen Sweet. This movie has two
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Speaker 1: writer credits, Kim Byer Johnson and Tracy and Dreen. Kim
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Speaker 1: Buyer Johnson recently wrote Inventing the Christmas Press and Snow Kissed,
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Speaker 1: and Tracy Andreene wrote The Holiday Sitter and Two Tickets
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Speaker 1: to Paradise. Both are accomplished writers and have quite a
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Speaker 1: few writing credits to their names. Yay Now Eloise Mumford.
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Speaker 1: I know she has a real big fan following. I'm
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Speaker 1: not familiar with her though we've seen her and quite
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Speaker 1: a few things guys, I know, but I've seen a
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Speaker 1: million Hallmark nies over the last two and a half years.
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Speaker 1: So she made an impression on me in this movie
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Speaker 1: in a way she hadn't necessarily done. So oh really
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Speaker 1: in past Oh really real cute haircut in this movie.
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Speaker 1: I was thinking, like, do I want to do that
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Speaker 1: with my hair? Maybe I do? Yeah, curl it like that? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: cute right. She has twenty film credits, including Hallmark Movies
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Speaker 1: and mysteries Presence of Love in twenty twenty two, one
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Speaker 1: December Night from twenty twenty one, and also The Baker
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Speaker 1: Son from the same year. She also started in three
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Speaker 1: fifty Shades movie see I saw the first one. I
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Speaker 1: don't remember. I didn't see any of them, but I
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Speaker 1: did read all of them, so don't worry. I'm not
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Speaker 1: too good for fifty shades. All right, are you ready
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Speaker 1: for a potentially controversial clash of the first impression? I am.
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Speaker 1: You can go for sure. Mine is Lovyerry is offt
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Speaker 1: to a surprising starts. Oh god, Mine is No more
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Speaker 1: magic things, no magic veil, no magic chocolates. Can we
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Speaker 1: just have good old chemistry between people. I'm so over this,
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Speaker 1: like outside influence to make people fall on love, over it,
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Speaker 1: over it, over it. To your point, the magic chocolate
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Speaker 1: is not the quote magic in this movie for me,
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Speaker 1: all right, tell me what is now. I have a
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Speaker 1: very long list of things that I like, So I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and start. Because your list is going
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Speaker 1: to be shorter than mine. I'm just gonna say, like,
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Speaker 1: check if you if you come across it. I found
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Speaker 1: the directing in this movie to be fantastic, And let
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Speaker 1: me give you some examples of moments that I love. Please.
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Speaker 1: Early in the movie, Dean is walking with his boss
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Speaker 1: Nora and they have a walk and talk. Now, I've
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Speaker 1: mentioned on another podcast I Am deep into a rewatch
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Speaker 1: of The West Wing, a show that I've seen many times.
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Speaker 1: In West Wing, I think is well known for their
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Speaker 1: walk and talk scenes because they're hard to produce. This
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Speaker 1: is a one shot sequence, okay, where they're walking through
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Speaker 1: the halls, and I will say, there's a lot of people.
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Speaker 1: It's like a busy airport in those halls. But I
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Speaker 1: thought it was a really nice from a cinematography directorial perspective.
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Speaker 1: There's another moment there when Lucy's friends drew up to
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Speaker 1: help her when they're overwhelmed with their number of chocolate orders. Yes,
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Speaker 1: and there's a cute choreographed scene of the chocolate being boxed,
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Speaker 1: and it's again a one shot as the chocolate moves
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Speaker 1: through the shop. That's attention to detail that wasn't necessary
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Speaker 1: in that moment, and I feel like it added something
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Speaker 1: to that scene. You don't know this right now, but
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Speaker 1: Wendy's rolling her eyes. You know, I don't even know
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Speaker 1: I know what scenes you're talking about, but like I
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Speaker 1: didn't even like I wasn't that invested while cheeing it
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Speaker 1: to let me just tell you, I was home alone
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Speaker 1: on Saturday night, teed up the movie when it came on,
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Speaker 1: was very excited, and then found myself on my phone
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Speaker 1: and they had to rewind the movie to see what
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Speaker 1: I had missed. So that's where I'm coming from. Tell
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Speaker 1: me what else you liked. I really liked the inclusion
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Speaker 1: of the love stories chick. Yes, I agree. I have
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Speaker 1: that on my list too, And I like that they
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Speaker 1: weren't just clips of we met here and then they
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Speaker 1: fade out of that conversation. We hear their full love
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Speaker 1: story in each of these cases. And again that's another
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Speaker 1: attention to detail that wasn't perhaps necessary for the story,
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Speaker 1: but I think makes the story feel more full. Okay.
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Speaker 1: I loved the on the street interviews, oh did you?
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Speaker 1: And I really liked when we have the two ladies
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Speaker 1: and they say, in those days, two ladies dancing caused
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Speaker 1: quite the stir, and we didn't care. I just thought
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Speaker 1: that I loved those two little ladies together. My it's lovely.
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Speaker 1: The banter in this movie is quite enjoyable writing. There's
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Speaker 1: so many funny, little like throwaway lines that just really
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Speaker 1: did it for me. One line that I know Wendy
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Speaker 1: noticed is Lucy calls Dina Sinek and he goes, I'm
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Speaker 1: not a cynic, and she goes, oh, right, you're a realist.
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Speaker 1: This is because we've had this conversation between you and
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Speaker 1: I am a million times. Yes, Because Wendy is an optimist,
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Speaker 1: and she has called me a pessimist, and I will
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Speaker 1: tell you no, ma'am. She is a realist. I am.
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Speaker 1: I mean, somebody could have just took the words right
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Speaker 1: out of my mouth for that scene. We've got real
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Speaker 1: music alert in this movie as long as Until I
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Speaker 1: Found You by Steven Sanchez, Huge TikTok song, Huge TikTok song.
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Speaker 1: My daughter was a huge fan of that song before
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Speaker 1: it became like, yeah, radio famous, you know, when she's
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Speaker 1: cueing up her in the car playlists. And then not
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Speaker 1: only did I like that they had real music in
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Speaker 1: that dancing scene, the lyrics of that song are perfect
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Speaker 1: for the moment. Yeah, in that scene, I liked it
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Speaker 1: because it did like a little fast forward, yes to
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Speaker 1: the end of the night they're still dancing. That actually
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Speaker 1: is one of my favorite scenes in the entire pace.
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Speaker 1: I'm not a full hater, guys, And they told me
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Speaker 1: on Instagram that I was incapable of true love or
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Speaker 1: something like that. Yeah, like I'm not into it, which
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Speaker 1: is not true. Like I don't have a full black heart.
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Speaker 1: I am here for romance. So like, I really enjoyed
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Speaker 1: that scene and she's holding her shoes as she's like
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Speaker 1: still dancing with them. Yeah, and I love that song.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was appropriate in that moment. Do you
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Speaker 1: want to hop in here with anything else? I think
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Speaker 1: you pretty much covered it a dialogue. I love the
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Speaker 1: two leads. I thought they were great together. Yes, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you covered it all, and I have more go for it.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to give you an opportunity to go for it.
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Speaker 1: I there were a lot of really touching moments for me.
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Speaker 1: Name Lucy talks about losing her dad and how through
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Speaker 1: her mom's grief it felt like she had lost both parents,
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Speaker 1: and I like how in the beginning of the movie,
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Speaker 1: we see Lucy's mom, Helen, house hunting, but we don't
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Speaker 1: really get any details about that. We just have a
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Speaker 1: shot of her looking and she says, I'm not really
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Speaker 1: sure that I'm ready. And then now we find out,
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Speaker 1: you know, her mom's kind of been in the weeds
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Speaker 1: of grief, right, and she's maybe ready to move on.
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Speaker 1: I loved the conversation that these two people have. This
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Speaker 1: is an adult conversation between Lucy and Dean when he
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Speaker 1: comes to her he's gotten the interview for the job
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Speaker 1: that he really wants. Oh go causet was kind of heartbreaking.
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Speaker 1: I thought so too, And they don't leave it open
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Speaker 1: for misunderstandings. They talk it out. Yeah. I enjoy that
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Speaker 1: she knows this is a job he wants. He's clear
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Speaker 1: that this is a job he wants. But he also says,
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Speaker 1: I think we might have something here. They have a conversation.
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Speaker 1: I think they make the right decision in that moment.
19:34
Speaker 1: This is new. He needs to pursue this big career move,
19:38
Speaker 1: something you've been working for for your entire life, like
19:40
Speaker 1: you have to see it through. And of course it's
19:42
Speaker 1: a little heartbreaking because they are starting to fall for
19:44
Speaker 1: each other. In this moment, Lucy's mom saying that the
19:48
Speaker 1: grief was worth the love. She would do it all
19:50
Speaker 1: over again, knowing what she knows. I loved that little interview.
19:54
Speaker 1: And finally Lucy has his conversation with Dean. He's gonna
19:59
Speaker 1: go have this inner you. She supports him, but she's
20:01
Speaker 1: heartbroken and she goes back to the shop and it's
20:03
Speaker 1: overrun with people, and she melts down and kicks everybody out,
20:06
Speaker 1: and then she has this overwhelmed crying moment. And I
20:10
Speaker 1: could absolutely relate to those feelings. I can see that. However,
20:15
Speaker 1: are you truly going to kick out a line of
20:18
Speaker 1: people out of your shop when you need the money
20:21
Speaker 1: so badly? Because rent has now increased to sixty two
20:25
Speaker 1: percent per month, which is a real thing here in
20:27
Speaker 1: like southern California. I mean it may be all over
20:29
Speaker 1: the place too, like this is this is a little
20:33
Speaker 1: tirade part month. No, that would be illegal, right somebody
20:37
Speaker 1: I read that somewhere? Is that illegal to raise You
20:40
Speaker 1: need a certain amount of time before a rent rais
20:42
Speaker 1: and I think there may have been some miscommunication. Okay,
20:46
Speaker 1: well fine, but this is where like small shops cannot
20:50
Speaker 1: survive because people are raising rent so high. Yes, I
20:55
Speaker 1: don't necessarily think it was a great idea to kick
20:57
Speaker 1: out paying customers, but I could understand her feeling of
21:00
Speaker 1: kind of like sensory overload, like I cannot take this path,
21:06
Speaker 1: and so she needed to go in the back and
21:08
Speaker 1: like go about the moment somewhere else. Yes. Agree, Now
21:12
Speaker 1: I'm ready to move on. Okay, all right, let's talk
21:15
Speaker 1: about what we wished for. I'm gonna start here. Yeah,
21:19
Speaker 1: I please don't come for me. I thought the story
21:23
Speaker 1: was really slow moving, like I needed them to pick
21:27
Speaker 1: up the pace. I found the beginning very enjoyable, and
21:31
Speaker 1: then the middle was just and then the end. Okay,
21:34
Speaker 1: I just thought it was so slow and there was
21:37
Speaker 1: nothing else, like there was nothing to me, Like I
21:41
Speaker 1: don't care about these magic chocolates. Yeah, and I know
21:44
Speaker 1: the story, like I know it wasn't about the magic chocolates. Yeah,
21:49
Speaker 1: they're They're relatively meaningless to me, right, So maybe if
21:54
Speaker 1: I went back and watched it in that kind of
21:56
Speaker 1: like through that lens, and maybe I would enjoy it more.
21:59
Speaker 1: But I think kind of went into it with this
22:01
Speaker 1: expectation of something like the magic veil, you know what
22:06
Speaker 1: I mean, Like there was this like what's really wasn't
22:09
Speaker 1: magic chocolates. It was just it was not It was
22:11
Speaker 1: just right, Am I wrong? Here is my interpretation wrong?
22:15
Speaker 1: Like the movie the chocolates were not truly magical. Well,
22:20
Speaker 1: I think they believe that they are. I don't. I
22:23
Speaker 1: don't think the veil's magical either. Okay, did you watch
22:25
Speaker 1: a Kisnet Christmas? Yeah? It was like magical. Yeah, I
22:30
Speaker 1: don't need any of those. I don't, but you need
22:32
Speaker 1: magic chocolate. No, I'm saying the chocolate is irrelevant to
22:36
Speaker 1: me in this movie there's nothing about the chocolate storyline
22:40
Speaker 1: that has any meaning to me in this is the
22:42
Speaker 1: storyline that you like so much. I liked their their
22:46
Speaker 1: budding relationship. Yes, I liked their connection. I liked her
22:50
Speaker 1: relationship with her mom. I liked their banter together. The
22:55
Speaker 1: chocolates really you could lift them out of the movie.
22:59
Speaker 1: For me, didn't changed my experience. Okay, all right. That
23:02
Speaker 1: being said, I liked it when they were making chocolate.
23:04
Speaker 1: They actually were making chocolate, like they had chocolate to
23:07
Speaker 1: work with. Yeah, that's see was kind of sexy. They
23:11
Speaker 1: like piping chocolate and pouring. Eh, they didn't have to
23:14
Speaker 1: do that. She's like, go get an apron. It was.
23:17
Speaker 1: That was a cute scene. I liked it too. Something
23:20
Speaker 1: I really wished for Brenda Strong, who plays the mom
23:25
Speaker 1: in this movie. I wanted her to have her own
23:28
Speaker 1: love story, and it was all expecting it. I thought
23:31
Speaker 1: it was she was going to like meet the camera man, right.
23:35
Speaker 1: I did think that Dean's co worker and her were
23:39
Speaker 1: making a little bit of a connection, but that is
23:41
Speaker 1: that's so tue. But it had never panned out. No,
23:43
Speaker 1: But I was hoping for something. And now I can't
23:47
Speaker 1: remember how long they said, like her husband had. I
23:50
Speaker 1: think it's been eight years. Oh, so maybe she's ready
23:55
Speaker 1: for to meet somebody new. Yes, but keep in mind
23:58
Speaker 1: she was still living with Lucy. She was just ready
24:02
Speaker 1: to move out on her own. So I don't think
24:05
Speaker 1: she was quite ready for a new relationship yet. I
24:08
Speaker 1: just think this was a misuse of an actor who
24:13
Speaker 1: could have had more of a storyline, who could have
24:15
Speaker 1: handled more of a storyline. Yeah, you're not wrong. Brenda
24:18
Speaker 1: Strong is striking to me. I want to see her
24:21
Speaker 1: in a lead Hallmark role in a movie a later
24:24
Speaker 1: in life divorcee widowers something, Yes, give me some she'd
24:31
Speaker 1: be a widow. I suppose I wish that Lucy would
24:34
Speaker 1: buy bigger bags of coco beans. You run a chocolate
24:36
Speaker 1: shop and you buy a one pound bag of cocoa
24:39
Speaker 1: beans the farmer's market. No buy in bulk. You buy
24:42
Speaker 1: in bulk. And now I understand you want to buy
24:44
Speaker 1: fair trade chocolate. I am sure you can find a
24:46
Speaker 1: fair trade chocolate company, cocoa bean company that will send
24:51
Speaker 1: you a giant bag of their cocoa beans. You buy
24:55
Speaker 1: from the farmer's market. When you are in a pinch,
24:58
Speaker 1: you accidentally run out right as your business plan. Right,
25:02
Speaker 1: what did you think about the secret ingredient? Bravery? Sorry
25:08
Speaker 1: just again, chocolate storyline you could lift out of this
25:12
Speaker 1: movie for me. Didn't need it. That's all I wished for.
25:15
Speaker 1: I wish that their online ordering system had an order
25:17
Speaker 1: limit so they wouldn't over commit themselves. You are a
25:20
Speaker 1: small business. You just have an unlimited number of And
25:23
Speaker 1: it happened more than once. Right, They got this influx
25:27
Speaker 1: of orders when the ordering system was put in place,
25:30
Speaker 1: and you'd think at that point they would say to Georgie, hey,
25:34
Speaker 1: nice job on the website, but could you put a
25:36
Speaker 1: limit so that we sell out, so that we are
25:39
Speaker 1: not in a position that we cannot fulfill these orders? Yeah?
25:42
Speaker 1: Think it the our ladies. Yeah, I just had something
25:45
Speaker 1: else I wished for. Dam Chase is an investigative reporter.
25:48
Speaker 1: Why is he not investigating the rent? The rent increase?
25:54
Speaker 1: I thought it was a missed opportunity here, not this look.
25:58
Speaker 1: I get that he was trying to give a fluffier
26:01
Speaker 1: image that he could get the morning show like Spot,
26:04
Speaker 1: But yeah, just an idea. It's time for Did you
26:09
Speaker 1: see that we have some legitimate did you see that moment?
26:13
Speaker 1: So there is a moment where Helen is looking at
26:17
Speaker 1: home listings online. Yes, and we just they just flashed
26:21
Speaker 1: to it very briefly, and I flashed on the fact
26:25
Speaker 1: that the prices were very low, and then I just
26:28
Speaker 1: let it go. And I remember my brain thinking, is
26:30
Speaker 1: that rent. Surely you can't buy a house for six
26:33
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. But Girls Go on Hallmark Facebook member Mike
26:37
Speaker 1: comes in hot with the screenshots and more than the price,
26:41
Speaker 1: which are for beautiful single family homes, they're listed at
26:46
Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred dollars. Fifty three hundred dollars is the
26:49
Speaker 1: size of these homes right? For example, one is listed
26:52
Speaker 1: as six bedrooms, four bathrooms, two hundred and thirty square feet,
26:55
Speaker 1: which is smaller than the dining room that we're sitting
26:57
Speaker 1: in right now. It's so weird, right, I mean, I
27:00
Speaker 1: know it's all fake numbers and whatever, but I'm sure
27:03
Speaker 1: I wonder if, like the props department was like, let's
27:07
Speaker 1: just put these fake numbers in here because nobody's gonna
27:10
Speaker 1: see it anywhere anyway. But then like they didn't know,
27:12
Speaker 1: like Mike from Girls Gone Homemark was going to screenshot,
27:18
Speaker 1: pause the TV and screenshot the flyer for these for
27:21
Speaker 1: these houses. And what's funny to me is there's some
27:24
Speaker 1: homes listed along the side and they says like home
27:26
Speaker 1: facts status three hours, which what does not happen? Has that?
27:30
Speaker 1: How long it's been on the side. I don't know,
27:31
Speaker 1: Harberdy type townhouse. You're looking clearly at a single family
27:34
Speaker 1: home in this photo. Homeownerdues two hundred and twenty dollars
27:37
Speaker 1: a month, but it's eight thousand dollars, five bedrooms, woor bathrooms,
27:40
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty square feet. It was just a fun, little,
27:43
Speaker 1: fun little grab. It's like one of those small houses.
27:47
Speaker 1: Are is that what they're called? House? That's funny. I
27:52
Speaker 1: saw this one, this one scene where Tracy is going
27:57
Speaker 1: to give Bean a piece of chocolate and she it
28:00
Speaker 1: out of the case bare fingers. It's there's no gloves,
28:06
Speaker 1: it's not sitting in a cute little candy wrapper. It's
28:09
Speaker 1: just a piece of chocolate from the case and she
28:11
Speaker 1: hands it home, which I mean, like at this point
28:13
Speaker 1: they haven't kissed her anything, but maybe you have a friendship.
28:17
Speaker 1: But like, isn't there some sort of sanitary you grab
28:19
Speaker 1: a little one of those tissues at the doughnuts? I mean,
28:23
Speaker 1: I go to our local chocolate tear here. Quite often
28:27
Speaker 1: you're talking about seas candy. Hey, I'm talking about Sea's candy,
28:30
Speaker 1: and it's always in a little paper cup. Yes, And
28:33
Speaker 1: they do not grab their chocolates, They do not bare
28:37
Speaker 1: finger their chocolates their fingers. They I think they wear
28:40
Speaker 1: gloves there, which, by the way, gloves are not actually
28:43
Speaker 1: more sanitary than your skin. But I do think they
28:45
Speaker 1: picked them up, wo says every food Safety Why say ever,
28:50
Speaker 1: because you're still transferring, transferring, transfering transfer me, Yes, because
28:54
Speaker 1: people assume like, oh, I have gloves, it's cleaner, but
28:57
Speaker 1: you're still touching things like yeah, I understand that process
28:59
Speaker 1: should be washing anyway. Yeah, I think they use like
29:01
Speaker 1: a little bakery tissue to pull their chocolates out on.
29:04
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to look next time. I get it's
29:07
Speaker 1: a good point. I have a digit to that question.
29:10
Speaker 1: They talk about we have to do well for Valentine's
29:13
Speaker 1: Day because that's our biggest chocolate day of the year. Yeah,
29:16
Speaker 1: I think so. So I thought, do you not tell
29:19
Speaker 1: at Easter and Christmas and Mother's Day? And I looked
29:22
Speaker 1: it up and research from the Nielsen Company suggests that
29:24
Speaker 1: Easter is a bigger chocolate holiday than Valentine Day. I
29:28
Speaker 1: will tell you we spend a lot more money and
29:29
Speaker 1: seas candy during Easter than we do in Valentine's Day. Yeah,
29:34
Speaker 1: I can see that because you buy for more people,
29:36
Speaker 1: like for Valentine if you're truly borrying for one single person,
29:41
Speaker 1: not like a family situation. Right Easter, you're doing baskets
29:45
Speaker 1: for kids and whatever. And I buy it way more
29:49
Speaker 1: at Christmas too than Valentine's Day for gifts. I just
29:53
Speaker 1: thought it was this is not going to be. They've
29:55
Speaker 1: got another holiday rolling around the corner. You don't need
29:57
Speaker 1: to make all your money in February because that was
29:59
Speaker 1: their thing. You gotta make this money to cover it
30:01
Speaker 1: for the year, right, stressful man? Anything else? No? Are
30:06
Speaker 1: you ready to rate this movie? I am? I gave
30:08
Speaker 1: it four stars. Wow, I gave it two and a half. Yea,
30:12
Speaker 1: actually originally gave it four and a half just so
30:14
Speaker 1: you know what I am. Sorry, it is mompa good
30:18
Speaker 1: of a movie. I really liked it. You're I know.
30:21
Speaker 1: I'm in the minority here. Our Facebook group love this movie.
30:25
Speaker 1: They did so sorry, guys. This is a busy week
30:28
Speaker 1: for girls Gone Hallmark We will be back tomorrow with
30:30
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30:34
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30:38
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30:41
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