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The Christmas Waltz · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Hi, friends, Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a bonus episode
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Speaker 1: of Long Story Short the podcast. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy,
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Speaker 1: and today we're discussing a Christmas waltz from the twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty Hallmark Countdown to Christmas season. I made Wendy watch
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Speaker 1: over to Patreon to subscribe to that. As mentioned today,
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Speaker 1: we're talking Christmas Waltz from the twenty twenty Hallmark season.
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Speaker 1: Do you have a synopsis? Wendy, I sure do you.
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Speaker 2: A woman dumped by her fiance a month before her story,
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Speaker 2: but Christmas Wedding decides to take this series of ballroom
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Speaker 2: lessons intended for her wedding. Dance stars Lacey's Ship Bear.
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Speaker 1: Yeah you did it.
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Speaker 2: Will Camp and Katrina Reynolds.
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Speaker 1: Hey, let's hop into some news and notes about this
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Speaker 1: movie filmed in Vancouver and Maple Ridge, British Columbia, as
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Speaker 1: well as the Orpheum Theater.
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Speaker 2: Fancy super fancy. I have one former Young and the
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Speaker 2: Restless star, Michael Damien was the director on this movie.
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Speaker 1: Well, hey, did you watch The Young and the Restless?
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Speaker 2: No, but I knew the name as soon as I
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Speaker 2: saw it, Like, I remember what this guy looked like.
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Speaker 2: I have some other updated news too. So on July
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Speaker 2: twenty first, twenty twenty one, he tweeted basically, stand by
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Speaker 2: Christmas Waltz fans and friends because there's some Waltz two
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Speaker 2: news coming soon. However, however, that was in July. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: we don't have a Christmas Waltz too this Christmas, right,
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Speaker 2: He sadly tagged a production company that I can't remember
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Speaker 2: the name of, but once I did a little bit
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Speaker 2: of a deep dive, there's some Ghack family connections there.
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Speaker 2: So I'm hoping a sequel doesn't end up on the
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Speaker 2: Ghak family channel. Is that possible that I could?
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Speaker 1: Sure anybody could buy it?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Man, I know, you know, it doesn't have to be
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Speaker 1: a Christmas movie. We could get like a Winter Waltz
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Speaker 1: follow up in the winter season. Lazy Shabert broke her
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Speaker 1: toe on a couch while in quarantine before filming this movie.
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Speaker 2: Oh really, wait, when did this movie film? September eight,
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty. Okay, so they had been in quarantine was
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Speaker 2: the year? You know?
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Speaker 1: Deal, they had to quarantine for two weeks upon arrival
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Speaker 1: in Canada before filming.
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Speaker 2: All of these movies. That's when she broke her toe. Indeed,
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, what a bummer.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and she said the show must go on.
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Speaker 2: Oh whoa. Will Camp is a trained dancer and had
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Speaker 2: the lead role of the Swan in Swan Lake from
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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety seven to two thousand in London and on Broadway.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a real dancer.
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Speaker 1: Yes, And he said he's a trained dancer, but not
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Speaker 1: a ballroom dancer, so he had to learn that. But
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Speaker 1: I think the fact that he's a trained dancer comes
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Speaker 1: through very strongly in this movie.
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Speaker 2: M M.
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Speaker 1: I found Will's nesting dolls in the movie and.
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Speaker 2: They're on Amazon. I mean, what, let's leave a link
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Speaker 2: to that in our show notes. But like, nesting dolls
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Speaker 2: are easy to find, aren't they? Yes?
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Speaker 1: But I found the ones the Christmas The item listing
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Speaker 1: is Christmas tree nesting doll's original item featured in the Hallmark.
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Speaker 2: Movie Oh Wow.
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Speaker 1: And the description it is a small business on Amazon.
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Speaker 1: Lots of small businesses stell on Amazon, and it says
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Speaker 1: we are a husband wife team of woodworkers that make
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Speaker 1: authentic Russian craft. This Christmas tree is a wonderful piece
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Speaker 1: of artwork, hand carved from one piece of wood and
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Speaker 1: hand painted with great details, as well as signed by
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Speaker 1: the artist. These Nesting dolls are eighty four dollars and
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Speaker 1: ninety nine cents on Amazon and they have fifteen five
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Speaker 1: star reviews.
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Speaker 2: I love nesting dolls. I find those very special, and
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Speaker 2: I think it's because when I was young, I had
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Speaker 2: a friend whose parents had visited Russia, like on a
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Speaker 2: travel trip, and they brought home nesting dolls, and I
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Speaker 2: remember thinking, like, those were so cool. Maybe I want
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Speaker 2: to buy those lazy Lacey s Bear I cannover say
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Speaker 2: their name and will Kemp start together in Love, Romance
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Speaker 2: and Chocolate In twenty nineteen, did you see that movie?
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Speaker 1: Did not? Are you ready for first impressions? Sure, this
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Speaker 1: is the movie that made me love Lacy Shebert as
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Speaker 1: a Hallmark actress.
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Speaker 2: Oh really, because you didn't like care before then?
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Speaker 1: She really has those Claudia Salinger vibes for me. However,
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Speaker 1: when I watched this movie for the first time, I
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Speaker 1: did not want to watch it. The title did not
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Speaker 1: seem like something I would be interested in watching a
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Speaker 1: movie about ballroom dancing. And I will say I was
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Speaker 1: wrong then, and I'm wrong now. This movie does it
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Speaker 1: for me.
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Speaker 2: My first impression is that this movie is damn delightful.
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Speaker 2: It's maybe my top Hallmark Christmas movie to date. Wow,
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Speaker 2: I love it.
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Speaker 1: I loved it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I loved it.
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Speaker 1: The past couple of throwback movies we've reviewed, I myself
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Speaker 1: have done a lot of tearing a part of these movies.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna spoiler alert tell you I do not have
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Speaker 1: that for this movie.
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Speaker 2: Oh good, Yeah, I don't really either. I have like
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Speaker 2: maybe some comments about things, but not like any like terrible.
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Speaker 2: You know, neggave comments?
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Speaker 1: What did you like about this movie?
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Speaker 2: The first thing on my list is I really loved
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Speaker 2: Katrina Reynolds as best friend Mollie. And I think her
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Speaker 2: name was Mollie. Did we just come off of another
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Speaker 2: movie name with Mollie? Did God stop using the name Mollie?
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Speaker 2: Her friend was really funny. I loved her being she
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Speaker 2: was supportive, Like, yeah, the best friend was great.
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Speaker 1: I loved the scene where they are doing the practice
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Speaker 1: dance prior to the big show, and I believe her
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Speaker 1: name is Arena Is. His partner is not available, and
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Speaker 1: so Avery has to step in and they dance to
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Speaker 1: a silent night and it's kind of their breakup dance,
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Speaker 1: and it is such a beautiful scene and the look
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Speaker 1: on Lacey's face kills me every time. I think it
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Speaker 1: is a better scene, even than the final dance on stage.
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Speaker 1: I love it.
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Speaker 2: Is that, okay? Question? Is that the scene where they
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Speaker 2: get into hold in the position to dance and she
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Speaker 2: goes to look at him and she and he tells her,
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Speaker 2: you need to turn your head and look the other
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Speaker 2: way because this is a proper waltz. Yes, that was heartbreaking.
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Speaker 2: Heart breaking.
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Speaker 1: He thinks she is back together with her fiance. She
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Speaker 1: doesn't know what is happening. They've both obviously been falling
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Speaker 1: for each other, and they're both kind of their hearts
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Speaker 1: are breaking for different reasons in this moment. I loved
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Speaker 1: that dance.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a really good scene. I thought these two
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Speaker 2: as leads had great chemistry, and you know, that's I'm
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Speaker 2: always looking for that, Like I'm looking for like sparks
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Speaker 2: between the two. And of course we're not gonna get
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Speaker 2: like you know, we're not gonna get like down and
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Speaker 2: dirty or anything. But I just loved like once they
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Speaker 2: started dancing, like they were so tender and intimate with
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Speaker 2: each other, it just was passionate. I just loved it.
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Speaker 1: I did too, And we've seen other movies where actresses dance,
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Speaker 1: and I think, as you mentioned recently, I have just
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Speaker 1: forgotten the name of that movie.
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Speaker 2: If I only had Christmas.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Candice Cameron has a dance scene in that movie,
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Speaker 1: and it's not a great dance scene. And one thing
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Speaker 1: she mentions is she wasn't willing to forego her heels
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Speaker 1: in that movie and therefore wasn't able to dance very
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Speaker 1: well because she likes to wear these super high heels.
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Speaker 1: And she even says, I'm no Lacey. Lacey Shapert puts
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Speaker 1: in the work to be a great dancer in this movie.
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Speaker 1: And it's not like there's all these cut scenes of
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Speaker 1: these close ups. It's her and she's dancing and she's rate.
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Speaker 2: There is kind of because you said that. Everything I
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Speaker 2: read online said that she learned to dance for this movie.
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Speaker 2: But I swear there was like one scene like where
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Speaker 2: we never saw her face and I wondered if it
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Speaker 2: wasn't her.
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Speaker 1: Well, I read an interview she did three weeks of
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Speaker 1: training at home and then nine days of intensive training
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Speaker 1: on set, and there's an Instagram photo of her and
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Speaker 1: Will Kemp and then their dance instructor. So there may
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Speaker 1: have been a scene where they use a body double,
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Speaker 1: but she definitely did some dance training and quite a
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Speaker 1: bit of the dancing.
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Speaker 2: Is her Get That Girl and Dancing with the Stars.
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Speaker 1: Has she been on Dancing with the Stars?
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know. I doubt it. Let me la,
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Speaker 2: she might not be a big enough name. What there
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Speaker 2: are some real low level people on that show. She
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Speaker 2: would be totally big enough. I see, Oh my gosh,
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Speaker 2: it's the number one Google search thing that just comes up.
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Speaker 1: Oh that is so funny.
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Speaker 2: I don't think she's been on It doesn't look like
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Speaker 2: she's been on there. Well, I have so much more
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Speaker 2: respect for her now to see that, Like she put
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Speaker 2: in the work for the dance dancing scenes in this movie. Yes,
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Speaker 2: you know, yeah, that's hard on top of like learning
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Speaker 2: your lines. Well, I you know, think about it. Dancing
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Speaker 2: with the Stars pulls in big numbers every week. Right,
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Speaker 2: they have an audience, and so I could maybe assume
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Speaker 2: that it could be a similar audience that watches Hallmark movies.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: Oh yes, yeah, so a movie.
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Speaker 2: About ballroom dancing. Could I don't know. It was a
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Speaker 2: good movie.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a double whammy for these people.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, I have some a couple
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Speaker 2: more things that I really liked. Okay, you said you
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Speaker 2: really like that scene where they're dancing a silent night.
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Speaker 2: I loved the scene when they're just casually strolling down
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Speaker 2: the city street and then they bust into like singing
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Speaker 2: in the rain style. I mean that, like my head exploded.
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Speaker 2: That is the scene that had me. I'm like, I'm
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Speaker 2: all in on this movie, Like I loved it so much.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, and the dancing was actually good in that
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Speaker 1: scene they were just goofing around. I really liked it too.
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Speaker 1: And I read an interview they filmed that very late
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Speaker 1: at night and there were some people unaffiliated with the
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Speaker 1: movie just like crossing the street, like what is happening?
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Speaker 1: But so fun, although dude just got a concussion from
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Speaker 1: dancing in the snow and then he's dancing in the snow.
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Speaker 2: Watch out for that ice. And loved how Mollie and
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Speaker 2: Avery got so dressed up for the show at the end.
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Speaker 1: And we loved her dress, oh so did I.
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Speaker 2: But we had talked about dressed up for the holidays
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Speaker 2: in our review of a Shoe Attics Christmas, and I thought, like,
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Speaker 2: that's the same same thing, Like they got all dressed
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Speaker 2: up for like a show, you know, a play. Like
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Speaker 2: we just don't get dressed up for stuff like that anymore.
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Speaker 2: So it just made it feel so special. I Yeah,
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Speaker 2: that was cool.
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Speaker 1: I was going to ask, do you ever dress up
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Speaker 1: for the holidays?
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Speaker 2: No? Never jeans and a sweater.
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Speaker 1: I know, I really want to. I want to do
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Speaker 1: it up a little bit, a little bit more, just
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Speaker 1: a touch this year, even for we have like tickets
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Speaker 1: to a Christmas light thing locally, and I was like, well,
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Speaker 1: maybe like wear something cute and festive. Not a dress, obviously,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be in jeans, but like maybe a
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Speaker 1: cute red beanie. I don't know, guys, maybe I'm going
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Speaker 1: all in on the Christmas this year.
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Speaker 2: Well, I will tell you. Like last Christmas Eve, we
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Speaker 2: got together at my parents' house, socially distanced. We sat
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Speaker 2: out in the backyard and my stepmom had got really
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Speaker 2: dressed up and I came in like jeans and a
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Speaker 2: sweater because I was like, we're going to be in
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Speaker 2: the backyard right right, And I was like, why are
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Speaker 2: you so dressed up? She's like, look, what have I
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Speaker 2: got to be dressed up for it? This year? Like?
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Speaker 2: This is it? You? Know so. But now now that
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Speaker 2: we can get back out, I'm sorry, bless you. Now
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Speaker 2: that we can get back out there, like it feels like,
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Speaker 2: oh yeah, let's make it a thing. You know.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I was actually just scrolling through my photos to
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Speaker 1: see did I dress up last year for Christmas? I'm
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Speaker 1: guessing the answer is no. We did see my parents.
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Speaker 1: It was just my family and my parents. It was
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Speaker 1: not my brother wasn't there. My aunt and uncle were
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Speaker 1: not there. No, we are in. All of us are
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Speaker 1: in jeans. Oh I am actually in case anybody's wondering,
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Speaker 1: And only I remember, I'm wearing like a wide leg
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Speaker 1: pant and a seat, so I'm like slightly not in jeans.
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Speaker 1: You cannot see it in the photos. I just know
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Speaker 1: looking at this photo that oh, yes, that's what I
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Speaker 1: I'm wearing. But yes, we're having our Christmas party this year.
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Speaker 1: It's been two years since our last one. I think
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Speaker 1: I think I'm going all in and this movie. Excuse me,
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Speaker 1: this episode is being released after Christmas. But check our
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Speaker 1: instagram because I think there may be some photos. I
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Speaker 1: think I may have to have to go in.
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Speaker 2: I think you should. I definitely think you should, and
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Speaker 2: you won't see me in those pictures because I did
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Speaker 2: not go to the party. I'm going to be out
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Speaker 2: of town. She was invited, let's be I was invited
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Speaker 2: and I would have gone. But we will be in
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Speaker 2: New York. So maybe I will drop a picture or
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Speaker 2: two in our Instagram of me in New York.
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Speaker 1: Please, And I would like it to be noted that
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Speaker 1: I cannot adjust the date of the Christmas party because
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Speaker 1: it is around a specific event. So it's not that
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Speaker 1: I planned it for when Wendy without a town. And
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Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, I even changed the day
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Speaker 1: of the party and checked in with Wendy to see
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Speaker 1: if that would affect her ability to come. So let's
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Speaker 1: just put all of that out there. Also, you're going
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Speaker 1: to be here for Christmas. Maybe your dress up, maybe
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Speaker 1: we go all in, let's.
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Speaker 2: Do it, Okay, anything else you liked, that's it?
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Speaker 1: Okay, what did you wish for?
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Speaker 2: Look, her ex David did not need to come back
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Speaker 2: into this movie at all. There was no reason for
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Speaker 2: him to come back and create tension between Roman and
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Speaker 2: David over Avery, like it did not need to happen. Now,
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Speaker 2: I understand that they needed to create tension between Avery
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Speaker 2: and Roman for like that scene that you love so much,
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Speaker 2: maybe a different misunderstanding or so, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what is the misunderstanding we would have liked to
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Speaker 1: see there?
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Speaker 2: Yeah that I don't know. I mean it makes sense,
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Speaker 2: but I don't know. Could he just have gotten really
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Speaker 2: mad that she was getting so irritated about not having
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Speaker 2: someone answer the phone. I don't know. Oh, I have
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Speaker 2: no idea. I don't know either.
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Speaker 1: And how clueless does Avery's ex have to be that
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Speaker 1: they have this breakup that is so low key? She's like, yeah, dude,
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Speaker 1: I'm just not feeling it. Like, obviously you do not care.
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Speaker 1: She messengers the ring back to him. They have no
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Speaker 1: further communication. There's no like, hey, can you help me
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Speaker 1: return these wedding gifts? Or there's no even moment where
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Speaker 1: they kind of get together and have this kind of
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Speaker 1: like oh, we're really sad that it's over. It's just over.
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Speaker 1: Clearly she doesn't care that much. Obviously he doesn't care
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Speaker 1: at all. When he comes back and he's like, hey,
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Speaker 1: I can be in New York. It's convenient for us
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Speaker 1: to get married. No, nobody believes that that is going
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Speaker 1: to happen. I also agree that I would have liked
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Speaker 1: to see a little more thought put into what the
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Speaker 1: conflict could have been. And in another movie, I don't
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Speaker 1: know what it is, and I don't even know if
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Speaker 1: it's a Hallmark movie, but there's some conflict over the
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Speaker 1: business plan situation, like somebody, yeah, it's a business plan,
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Speaker 1: perhaps against the other person's wishes. And as I was watching,
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Speaker 1: I couldn't remember if that was this movie, it clearly
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Speaker 1: was not. He was very happy for her support, and
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Speaker 1: I actually really like that scene where they're sitting in
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Speaker 1: what will be his future dance studio, kind of going
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Speaker 1: over it together, and there's not this like, oh, I'm
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Speaker 1: a fancy lawyer and I know more than you. They
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Speaker 1: just kind of get into it and she's helping him
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Speaker 1: with it. There was an ending to that sentence that
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Speaker 1: I couldn't find, so I just got caught up at
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Speaker 1: the end there. I just feel like sometimes we have
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Speaker 1: these moments where there's chemistry. There's two people who were
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Speaker 1: obviously meant to be together, and so when we create conflict,
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Speaker 1: it feels manufactured.
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Speaker 2: Totally.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think maybe the conflict could have been she
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Speaker 1: pulls back a little bit because she's just gotten out
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Speaker 1: of this relationship she was supposed to get married. She
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Speaker 1: now clearly has these feelings for Roman, and she maybe
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Speaker 1: tries to put a little distance there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that would have been good.
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Speaker 1: Call us Hallmark Movies by Megan A Wendy coming soon?
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I wish uh Before we move on
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Speaker 2: to did you see that? I have a question for you. Okay,
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Speaker 2: if you were to have a Christmas wedding, would you
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Speaker 2: have picked out a nutcracker themed wedding cake? No? Yeah, right,
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Speaker 2: like doesn't need it. Don't hit me over the head
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Speaker 2: with it. Like I get that you're getting married at
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Speaker 2: Christmas time.
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Speaker 1: If I had a Christmas wedding, I would not have
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Speaker 1: a Christmas themed wedding. I may go in on winter colors.
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Speaker 1: I could see like using a you know, a deep
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Speaker 1: green as an accent. But no, I would not have
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Speaker 1: anything Christmas related at my wedding at all. And I
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Speaker 1: am a Christmas person. We are recording this episode on
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Speaker 1: when November seventeenth, my house is head to toe Christmas,
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Speaker 1: and I would not have a Christmas wedding.
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Speaker 2: You wouldn't want like huge candy cane cutouts or no Santa,
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Speaker 2: an actual Santa at your wedding. Could you imagine.
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Speaker 1: I bet people have done it. Oh, I guarantee you.
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Speaker 1: People have had Christmas weddings just like they have Halloween
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Speaker 1: weddings where their guests come in costume.
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Speaker 2: No, god, that's so funny. Okay, let's talk about did
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Speaker 2: you see that I have just one as do I?
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Speaker 1: Okay, I'll want to hear yours.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So they go over to Roman's house his family house,
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Speaker 2: right and earlier in the movie. This is kind of
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Speaker 2: confusing for me, but earlier in the movie they established
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Speaker 2: that he's Russian. But then she asks, why do you
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Speaker 2: have a British accent? Is that some sort of joke
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Speaker 2: like I didn't get He just no.
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Speaker 1: Maybe he just says like he went to school in London,
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Speaker 1: So maybe that's their way of explaining away his British
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Speaker 1: accent even though he's Russian in the movie.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, then we go to his house and his
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Speaker 2: the mom who's like super lovely and she like gets
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Speaker 2: avery into like stirring things and whatever. She doesn't have
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Speaker 2: a lick of an accent, not one. She doesn't say
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Speaker 2: a lot, but she does not have an accent.
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Speaker 1: Every once in a while, it feels to me like
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Speaker 1: she falls into like a very light accent, but she
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Speaker 1: doesn't stay in it. I agree, Yeah, okay, yeah, okay,
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Speaker 1: my did you see that? Comes from a place of
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Speaker 1: having watched three movies in one day, and it is
21:39
Speaker 1: possible that my brain crossed wires. But I do believe
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Speaker 1: there's a scene when Lacey is walking because this movie
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Speaker 1: is set in New York, although it is not filmed there,
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Speaker 1: and she walks past the giant Christmas ornaments? Do you
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Speaker 1: happen to recall that scene in your brain?
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Speaker 2: H No?
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Speaker 1: Well, the reason it's my is because that is in
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Speaker 1: New York City. It is on Sixth Avenue. It is
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Speaker 1: near Radio City Music Hall. My husband and I have
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Speaker 1: been to New York during the holidays easily eight or
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Speaker 1: nine times. I have walked past that twenty times in
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Speaker 1: my life, so it is a memorable moment to me.
22:16
Speaker 1: And I am almost positive that it is a lazy Shabert,
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Speaker 1: not Candace Cameron Beret in a shoe at ex Christmas
22:22
Speaker 1: walking past that scene, which is weird because okay, all
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Speaker 1: of this to say that must have been a green screen.
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Speaker 1: I didn't bump on that being a green screen until
22:34
Speaker 1: I was after watching looking up where this movie was
22:37
Speaker 1: filmed so that I could write my notes for this podcast,
22:40
Speaker 1: and now I need to go back and see does
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Speaker 1: it look like that's a green screen?
22:44
Speaker 2: How does this happen? I'm gonna pull it up right now.
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Speaker 2: Where in the movie that it occurs.
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Speaker 1: There's so many New York b real scenes there it is?
22:54
Speaker 1: Where is it at? It's just b roll though it
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Speaker 1: is one hour, seventeen minutes and forty five seconds. Can
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Speaker 1: I take a screenshot? Okay, so she does not walk there,
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Speaker 1: just be roll. And now, having rewatched the entire movie
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Speaker 1: in two second increments, I can tell you that there
23:12
Speaker 1: is hit you over the head amounts of New York
23:15
Speaker 1: City be role, which really does a good job of
23:17
Speaker 1: setting the scene. It's kind of subtle because my brain
23:21
Speaker 1: remembered it as her walking there, so it does set
23:24
Speaker 1: the scene really well. All that to say, that is
23:27
Speaker 1: not a digitsu that moment.
23:28
Speaker 2: It's just be roll.
23:32
Speaker 1: But they do do a lot of iconic New York
23:35
Speaker 1: City Central Park and snow and when you are in
23:37
Speaker 1: New York, you should walk by those balls because it's
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Speaker 1: kind of a fun thing to see. You'll be right there.
23:43
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll just like walk by. I'll make my family
23:45
Speaker 2: take a video of me walk and buy the ball. Yes,
23:47
Speaker 2: I'll recreate the moment for you.
23:49
Speaker 1: Please do. Although it's gonna be crowded there, but it's
23:52
Speaker 1: up on some steps like you can you can get
23:54
Speaker 1: close to it. Please take a photo there for me. Please.
23:57
Speaker 2: I beg you for Instagram. Alright, I will.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, well that was a wild ride. What
24:05
Speaker 1: is your did you see that? Did we do it already?
24:07
Speaker 1: I don't know, it was like ten minutes ago.
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Speaker 2: I'm ready to give my rating.
24:12
Speaker 1: What did you rate this movie?
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Speaker 2: I've never done this before. It's a four from Willy.
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Speaker 1: It's such a four star movie, isn't it.
24:23
Speaker 2: It totally is. Yeah. I love it, loved it, loved
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Speaker 2: it so much. I will totally watch it again. I
24:28
Speaker 2: might throw it on after this after we wrap up here.
24:32
Speaker 1: I chose the order of the airing of these podcasts
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Speaker 1: mostly randomly, but perhaps in the back of my mind,
24:38
Speaker 1: I was doing it in order of least to most favorite.
24:42
Speaker 1: But this is airing last, and I do feel like
24:44
Speaker 1: this is a great final Girls Gone Hallmark episode of
24:48
Speaker 1: the holiday season of twenty twenty one. Our next episode
24:53
Speaker 1: will be in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 3: Ah wow, so I just want to say to everybody listening,
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Speaker 3: thank you from the bottom of our hearts for being
25:04
Speaker 3: listeners of this podcast, for supporting us with your listens
25:07
Speaker 3: and with your reviews.
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Speaker 1: We hope you all have a fantastic new Year. We
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Speaker 1: are coming back twenty twenty two, will be here with
25:15
Speaker 1: a Tuesday episode and we will be back with Girls
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Speaker 1: Gone hall Mark.
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Speaker 2: I love Mark, I love the question Mark.
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Speaker 1: Maybe we are recording this on November seventeenth. We have
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Speaker 1: many Christmas movies to get through, so we will see
25:34
Speaker 1: how Wendy feels six weeks from now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, as long as they just don't serve up
25:41
Speaker 2: New Year's Resolution or whatever that stupid ass movie was,
25:45
Speaker 2: then I'm good.
25:46
Speaker 1: I need to ask you to rewatch that with the
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Speaker 1: lens of the rest of the twenty twenty one movies
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Speaker 1: in mind.
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Speaker 2: I'll try.
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Speaker 1: Thanks guys, have a very happy New Year. Goodbye bye
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