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Tidings for the Season · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: This is a bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girl's Gone Hallmark,
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Speaker 1: a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
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Speaker 1: Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. Today
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Speaker 1: we're discussing tidings for the season, which originally aired on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: November sixteenth, twenty twenty five, and you can stream it
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Speaker 1: right now on the Hallmark Plus streaming platform. If you
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Speaker 1: want more of Megan and Winity this holiday season, we've
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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm gonna promote our Blue Sky and Threads if
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Speaker 2: I may. On Monday nights, we have been live. I
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Speaker 2: don't want you see live posting whatever it's called for
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Speaker 2: these platforms. I'm usually on Blue Sky, Megan's over around Threads.
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Speaker 2: We are at Girls Gone Hallmark on both of them.
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Speaker 1: It's been fun.
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Speaker 2: I miss that sort of like live interaction but let
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Speaker 2: me tell you, I need more people to come over
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Speaker 2: and engage with me, because I'm just talking into a
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Speaker 2: void over there. It seems like I know, and I
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Speaker 2: say specifically that we were doing finding mister Christmas.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that. I don't know. Yeah, Monday's finding
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Speaker 1: mister Christmas. Monday's finding mister Christmas. Yeah. Hey, I have
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Speaker 1: a little note. In our episode that dropped yesterday, which
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Speaker 1: is Three Wiser Men. We discussed the extended cut on
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Speaker 1: Hallmark Plus? Have you seen it? Have I watched the
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Speaker 1: extended cut on Hallmark Plus? Is your question? No? No,
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Speaker 1: So I watched the ending because I heard there was
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Speaker 1: an alternate ending, and there is. There's an extended ending.
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Speaker 1: I didn't watch the whole thing. I know there's some
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Speaker 1: additional scenes. I didn't have another hour and a half
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Speaker 1: to watch the whole thing to find them. But they do.
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Speaker 1: There is more clarity at the end of the movie.
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Speaker 1: Why didn't they use that ending? I don't know. It's
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Speaker 1: very interesting because it's kind of a key plot point
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Speaker 1: that they wrap up. That's the house. Yes, would you
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Speaker 1: like me to tell you what happens with the house? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Listeners skip forward? Yes, if you don't want to hear
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Speaker 1: you want to discover it on your owns. But go ahead,
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Speaker 1: and Megan, I'm listening. Taylor purchases the house for his mother.
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Speaker 1: He goes, I'm rich. I can do whatever I want.
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Speaker 1: She's like, did the other boys know there? Of course there?
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Speaker 1: And he's like, nothing happens without these two because I
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Speaker 1: had forgotten the plot point that yes, she wanted to downsize,
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Speaker 1: but she also wanted more money to be able to
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Speaker 1: try travel. And so he says, now you can travel
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Speaker 1: and do whatever you want, but you can keep the house.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's nice. They should have that's the Indian they
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Speaker 1: should have used.
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Speaker 3: I agree.
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Speaker 1: I agree that would have been great. So there's more
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Speaker 1: clarity there.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw, but in our Facebook group,
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Speaker 2: somebody had asked just trying to get a general consensus
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Speaker 2: of what they thought of three ways men.
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Speaker 1: I did see. I wrote that I feel like I
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Speaker 1: might need to go into hiding after my review. Yes, well,
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Speaker 1: I will say that I edited that review, so I
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Speaker 1: re listened to it, and I think it's fair. Honestly,
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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot that we really liked about.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't our favorite movie of the year. But I
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Speaker 1: was worried after we recorded it and then upon relstening.
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Speaker 1: I honestly think it's very fair. Okay good, So yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't think there was. It doesn't come across to
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Speaker 1: me as the person who created the episode. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: come across me and spirited. In my opinion, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: come as a takedown. That is never the intention. No,
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Speaker 1: of course, but I think people can read into things,
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Speaker 1: and I don't think that comes through it all. I
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Speaker 1: think it's a very fair and balanced review. Okay, good,
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Speaker 1: But if you have thoughts about it, you can always
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Speaker 1: email us at girls Gun Hallmark at gmail dot com. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: if you disagree with my assessment, let us know. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Let's kick off.
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Speaker 1: Tighting for the Season talk with a synopsis.
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Speaker 2: A serious TV newscaster's life changes when he meets a
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Speaker 2: young superfan and the boy's hard working single mom. As
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Speaker 2: he embraces positive holiday stories, romance blooms, but a career
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Speaker 2: opportunity forces him to choose between ambition and love.
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Speaker 1: Linda Lisa Hayter directs Tightings for the season, marking her
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Speaker 1: seventeenth project behind the camera. Her previous Hallmark work includes Haunted,
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Speaker 1: Harmony Mysteries, Buried at Sea and Sign Seal Delivered to
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Speaker 1: the Moon and Back. Joey Elkins and Blake Silver are
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Speaker 1: responsible for the script. Joey Elkins eight writing credits and
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Speaker 1: a strong Hallmark resume including Game of Love, Autumn in
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Speaker 1: the City, and Unlocking Christmas. He's also contributed to the
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Speaker 1: hit Netflix series Outer Banks. Did you do you watch
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Speaker 1: Outer Banks? No, that's a.
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Speaker 2: Real gen Z show. Blake Silver also has nine writing
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Speaker 2: credits and has worked on many of the same Hallmark
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Speaker 2: titles as Joey.
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Speaker 1: Bj Britt stars as Adam Caide with fifty eight acting credits.
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Speaker 1: BJ's probably best known for his role as Pete from
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Speaker 1: the Groomsman trilogy. It's worth noting that Bja recently starred
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Speaker 1: in hashtag Worst Christmas Ever on Amazon Prime that currently
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Speaker 1: has a ten out of ten rating on IMDb. Have
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Speaker 1: you ever seen a ten out of ten rating? No?
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Speaker 1: I mean, this movie has a seven point two, which
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Speaker 1: is pretty high for a Hallmark movie, but ten out
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Speaker 1: of ten that's I've never seen any such thing.
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Speaker 3: It.
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Speaker 1: There must be one review.
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Speaker 2: It may have just been one review. I don't even
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Speaker 2: know it. Is it currently out?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? That was my question. Has it even aired? Yet
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Speaker 1: I don't know. No idea, no idea.
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Speaker 2: Tamara Mawory Houselee stars as Lucy. Tamara has forty one
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Speaker 2: acting credits and we last saw her in Haunted, Harmony
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Speaker 2: Mysteries Buried at Sea. She is currently hosting the Hallmark
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Speaker 2: reality baking competition Baked with Love Holiday.
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Speaker 1: Elijah Justice Lewis plays Robbie. This is his second acting
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Speaker 1: credit and his first project for Hallmark. Matthew James Downham
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Speaker 1: plays Todd. You might recognize Matthew from his role as
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Speaker 1: Pastor McGregor on The Chicken Sisters. This movie marks his
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Speaker 1: thirty fifth acting credit. This movie had an original working
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Speaker 1: title of Tonight's Top Story. It was filmed in and
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Speaker 1: around Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in August twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: We are going to take a quick break and come
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Speaker 1: right back with our first impressions. Hey, Wendy, what was
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Speaker 1: your first impression of tidings for the season. Well, the story.
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Speaker 2: Feels like someone at Hamewark is trying to gently pry
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Speaker 2: MSNBC out of my cold, anxious hands.
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Speaker 1: My first impression is Robbie for President. I love Robbie. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to talk about it. Oh my gosh,
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Speaker 1: we'll tell me what you liked about this movie.
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Speaker 2: Let's start with Robbie. Robbie is the heart of this
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Speaker 2: whole entire movie. And you know, I don't say that
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Speaker 2: lightly because children and homework movies is usually a no
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Speaker 2: from me.
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Speaker 1: Dogs. He was just so cute and natural, and he
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Speaker 1: wasn't delivering his lines like they were like feeding the
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Speaker 1: lines zone. He was just so adorable.
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Speaker 2: I thought that his scenes with both like his mom
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Speaker 2: Lucy and with Adam were the real emotional moments that
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Speaker 2: like made the movie move along for me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah you really said at all? He quite frankly steals
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Speaker 1: the show for me. Robbie is the movie.
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Speaker 2: I was like, Robbi's gonna grow up to be like
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Speaker 2: a famous actor someday. I know his name is not Robbie,
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Speaker 2: his name is.
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Speaker 1: Elijah Justice Lewis, But yeah, he's adorable, real cute. I
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Speaker 1: mean his face is so cute. Yes, in his one
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Speaker 1: little missing tooth, like right now, Christiness, you know he's
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Speaker 1: got those kid teeth. Yeah, he was adorable. Great, And
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Speaker 1: I'm saying I can't believe I'm saying that. Honestly, it's
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Speaker 1: very timely to want to see some good news on
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Speaker 1: our screens. I don't disagree with the messaging there. I
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Speaker 1: do have some issues with that storyline, but I don't
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Speaker 1: disagree with Lucy being like, I'm turning off the news.
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Speaker 1: I do not need this in my life.
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Speaker 2: Right, because crisis fatigue is real. I say this to
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Speaker 2: myself every single night as I'm laying in bed, doom
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Speaker 2: scrolling looking at the news of the day, and I'm
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Speaker 2: just like, put it away, Wendy, just.
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Speaker 1: Turn it all well, especially Robbie's a local news anchor, right,
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Speaker 1: and if you like the local news, rob like Robbie
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Speaker 1: Adam is a local news anchor, and you turn on
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Speaker 1: a local news and it's shooting this and car accident
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Speaker 1: that and carbon monoxide poisoning this, and yeah, it's radable.
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Speaker 1: It's always bad.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, why would people want to turn on the
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Speaker 2: five o'clock news to watch all the tragedies in their
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Speaker 2: community of the day.
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Speaker 1: It's awful. And I actually was thinking about it. I
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Speaker 1: was like, who needs that information? Like it seems like
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Speaker 1: there's information that the news should be bringing us that's
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Speaker 1: relevant to our lives. But how is so much of
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Speaker 1: this tragedy relevant to my daily life? Yeah. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I think we've talked.
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Speaker 2: They talked about it in this movie too, that what
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Speaker 2: was his name, Todd, the like producer basically was like,
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Speaker 2: you know, human interest stories are boring. People want sensationalized tragedies.
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Speaker 2: It's like a sick fascination for people.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, why are there five Murdoch murders? Got the countries
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Speaker 1: and movies? So yes, exactly blame the humans. M h.
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Speaker 2: This might be a controversial take. I enjoyed the slow
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Speaker 2: burd In romance. It's nice in theory, Like I appreciate.
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Speaker 1: When like two adults don't lock eyes and then their
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Speaker 1: soulmates and then then we're in love by the end
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Speaker 1: of the movie. It's realistic. It's it's realistic.
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Speaker 2: Now, I can't say that I totally bought into their
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Speaker 2: like romantic chemistry, but there's gonna be I'm gonna talk
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Speaker 2: about it more in the Wishes.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 1: I have some small likes worth mentioning. I thought the
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Speaker 1: wardrobe game was real strong in this movie. I thought
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Speaker 1: Lucy looks sharp in every scene, as does Robbie and Caid.
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Speaker 1: Quite frankly, Lucy's wardrobe was the most notable, but I
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Speaker 1: loved Caid's suits, and I love little Robbie all dressed up.
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Speaker 1: I just thought everybody looked really good.
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Speaker 2: I agree when they turn when like Adam decides he
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Speaker 2: needs to like freshen up his wardrobe or whatever, and
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Speaker 2: he goes from like the boring blue conservative suit to
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Speaker 2: like something a little more snazzy, he looks great. It
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Speaker 2: was very reminiscent of the Groomsman movie where he gets
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Speaker 2: to makeover makeover. The man looks good in a suit.
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Speaker 2: There's no denying that.
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Speaker 1: Both before and the after we're great exactly.
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Speaker 2: As for Tamara, you know what's funny is I did
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Speaker 2: think her wardrobe was great in this, but there was
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Speaker 2: at one point she was in this beautiful, like off
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Speaker 2: white satin blouse that I was like, Oh that's giving,
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Speaker 2: Like that is so pretty.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was lovely, lovely, lovely. We got a
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Speaker 1: hairtuck on our smooch. I love a hairtuck.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it always makes me wonder because you know,
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Speaker 2: I feel like we've been talking about that for Oh yeah,
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Speaker 2: is that scripted? Is that in the direction is somebody
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Speaker 2: listening to our podcast that two middle aged women are like,
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Speaker 2: just tuck the hair, you know?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, us our book Talk Book Talk loves a hairtuck
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Speaker 1: and a forehead kiss. They're delivering this year homemark. They
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Speaker 1: really are up. Both they got both are sweet. Twelve
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Speaker 1: Days of Christmas trees the one that got away, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that was very sweet.
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Speaker 3: He just kept doing it.
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Speaker 1: Bet she shows up and I love their hug. Their
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Speaker 1: hug was prolonged. It felt real, like to people reconnecting. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: like how satis sad that this man is like doing
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Speaker 1: his twelve days at Christmas every single year hoping his
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Speaker 1: girl comes back, but nobody got on the internet for
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Speaker 1: him before that to like track her down. TikTok can
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Speaker 1: make these people famous, Like what is happening? I know, well,
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Speaker 1: I guess that's what happened here. Finally, Yeah, can I
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Speaker 1: tell you.
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Speaker 2: I want to talk about Tamara real quick. I think
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Speaker 2: she's great. I think she's a great actress.
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Speaker 1: Right. She is warm, she is loving.
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Speaker 2: But some of her and this is gonna sound like
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Speaker 2: a wish a little bit, but some of her characters
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Speaker 2: do start to blur together for me, and my favorite
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Speaker 2: Tamara is from The Santa Steakout because she's like silly
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Speaker 2: and colorful and figure out life. Like this character a
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Speaker 2: little bit more. I don't want to say rigid, like
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Speaker 2: she's a busy mom doing it all like I. It's
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Speaker 2: very relatable, right, she is the flow and I think
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Speaker 2: she's a wonderful actor.
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Speaker 1: I do wish, I do wish you would get better
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Speaker 1: movies last year. I don't know if you recall we
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Speaker 1: were on deck the Hallmark for scouting for Christmas and
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Speaker 1: I made a controversial statement. Do you recall this moment
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Speaker 1: I remember in the movie not being Great? What was
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Speaker 1: the statement I said? I Lovedmara Mowray Housley. I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure the Hallmark does, because they keep giving her these
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Speaker 1: scripts that she's doing the best she can, Like she's
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Speaker 1: doing what can be done here with the material that
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Speaker 1: she's given. But give her something more to work with.
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Speaker 2: What do you think about her in the Murdered Murdered
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Speaker 2: at scene that's not what it's called.
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Speaker 1: At the Haunted Harmony mysteries. I do like her in those.
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Speaker 1: She's a little more loose in those, Yes she is.
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Speaker 1: I do like her in the mysteries. But these Christmas movies,
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Speaker 1: I thought this movie was fine. That's really my overall tick.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was fine, real, kind of classic hallmarky,
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Speaker 1: mild conflict, slower in romance, mildly uptight woman right like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I thought I thought it was fine. I thought it
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Speaker 1: was watchable. Thought I had some nice Christmasy moments in it,
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Speaker 1: some heartfelt things happening. But I would like to see
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Speaker 1: her get like the script of the year. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: wouldn't that be great? Like she's paid her dues, you know.
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Speaker 1: And I saw something on Blue Sky somewhere and they
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Speaker 1: were talking about why isn't she and her sister and
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Speaker 1: I'm yes together. I was just going to say that, Wow,
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Speaker 1: I can really hear your typing, because they were just
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Speaker 1: in a commercial together, and I was trying to figure out, oh,
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Speaker 1: home Goods, they just did a home goods commercial together. Ah.
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Speaker 1: But there was some online scuttle but that perhaps they
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Speaker 1: were on the outs, right, But then I've seen some
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Speaker 1: recent social media posts of them together, and then they
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Speaker 1: just were reunited for that home Goods commercial. So if
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Speaker 1: Homework could bring them together for a movie, I think
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Speaker 1: Tia does Lifetime sometimes, but if Homemark could bring them
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Speaker 1: together for a movie, the ratings would shoot through the roof.
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Speaker 1: People are dying for a sister sister reunion. I would
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Speaker 1: love to see them in a movie. I think it's
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Speaker 1: a misstep that Homework hasn't tried to make that happen,
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Speaker 1: or at least that it hasn't happen yet. Who knows
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Speaker 1: what they're doing behind the scenes, Right, do you have
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Speaker 1: more likes? That's it for me. Let's talk wishes.
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Speaker 2: I want to circle back to the romance here. Okay,
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Speaker 2: speaking of fine, The romance was fine, but it was
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Speaker 2: not the relationship I was rooting for while.
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Speaker 3: Watching this movie.
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Speaker 2: I thought Adam and Robbie were super adorable. That's the
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Speaker 2: bond that I cared about. I don't know if it
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Speaker 2: was like a future father figure or like big brother
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Speaker 2: situation dynamic, but that's what was.
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Speaker 1: The driving force for me. Yeah, I think there's a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a silent, subtle messaging about like leaning
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Speaker 1: into your village, because in the beginning of the movie,
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Speaker 1: Adam says to Lucy about Robbie, He's like, oh, takes
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Speaker 1: a village. She's like, I am the village. And in
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Speaker 1: many cases that's true, right, Like she's a single mom,
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Speaker 1: it is all on her shoulders, but when she has
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Speaker 1: to lean on somebody, they come through for her. And
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Speaker 1: I think that messaging like let your village come through
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Speaker 1: is a little bit stronger for me than the romance.
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Speaker 1: Like you said, like you can have these full, deep
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Speaker 1: relationships in your life without it always being romantic. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and Lucy were very sweet.
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Speaker 2: They were very polite to each other, but there were
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Speaker 2: a very few sparks in my opinion, and I totally
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Speaker 2: didn't find it believable that he wouldn't take that Chicago job.
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Speaker 1: I don't understand he wanted this upward move. The conflict
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Speaker 1: is so familiar. She gets upset because he's been looking
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Speaker 1: for a job. I don't They are new in their relationship,
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Speaker 1: and in your opinion, did he need to be having
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Speaker 1: that discussion with her already? No, Oh, I might be
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Speaker 1: moving well, yeah, we've been on one date. Like sure,
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Speaker 1: I get being disappointed that this person I like and
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Speaker 1: I'm developing feelings for is moving away. But the anger,
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Speaker 1: as always, I felt like, was not justified there. And
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Speaker 1: I really was a little disappointed that he didn't take
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Speaker 1: the job right take the job. I know that I
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Speaker 1: know that we're trying to soften Adam here in this movie.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of one of the plot lines, is, you know,
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Speaker 1: smile a little and have a good time. And so
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Speaker 1: I think this is trying to prove that he has softened,
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Speaker 1: but well he can continue being a presence in Robbie's
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Speaker 1: life while following his dreams. I mean that would have
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Speaker 1: sent a big message to Robbie who has this dream
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Speaker 1: of being a newscaster. Yeah, exactly. You know what city
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Speaker 1: were they supposed to be? Minneapolis? Okay, I think that's
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Speaker 1: not that far. Actually, don't ask me much about geography,
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Speaker 1: but okay, my question is though, like you work for
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Speaker 1: something for so long, so many years, right, trying to
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Speaker 1: achieve like this goal he wants to be on like
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Speaker 1: a bigger national stage, and then he meets this woman.
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Speaker 1: I just like what. I just don't get why he
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Speaker 1: would turn it down. It doesn't make any sense for
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Speaker 1: a two week old romance. Yeah no, let's be long distance,
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Speaker 1: let's you know, let's figure it out. It's not happen, Like,
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Speaker 1: maybe it isn't what you want, but give it a try, right,
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Speaker 1: But it was also like it wasn't like Robbie desperately
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Speaker 1: needed some father figure in his life, you know, because
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Speaker 1: his mom was like too busy for him, or and
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Speaker 1: then he was gonna fill that role or yeah, he
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Speaker 1: had his full life of people who loved him. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it just didn't make any sense to me, and it
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Speaker 1: kind of made me mad. Actually yeah me too, me too.
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Speaker 1: I was like when he comes, when he says that
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Speaker 1: I was disappointed. I wanted more from you, Adam. I
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Speaker 1: don't know why, but I feel like Adam's character should
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Speaker 1: have been named Robbie and Robbie's character should have been
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Speaker 1: named Adam. But oh yeah why sah, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but in my mind, Robbie is the adult I have
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Speaker 1: to stop myself every single time.
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Speaker 2: Well, I one of my other wishes is I feel
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Speaker 2: like I needed more Lucy. I. You know, we got selfless,
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Speaker 2: single mom holding it together, and I get that. I
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Speaker 2: get it, trust me, I get it. But like, let
20:11
Speaker 2: her be funny, let her be messy, Like give her
20:14
Speaker 2: some sort of life that isn't just fixing everybody's issues
20:19
Speaker 2: or problems.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't really get to see her outside of
20:23
Speaker 1: her relationship with Robbie or Adam. Yeah, I think she
20:27
Speaker 1: deserved her own story, really, and one that wasn't made
20:31
Speaker 1: to support Adam's growth as of yes, you know, safenin
20:36
Speaker 1: or whatever. My only other wish to editional. What I've
20:39
Speaker 1: already talked about is, yes, we need more feel good
20:42
Speaker 1: stories on the news, But I feel like the level
20:45
Speaker 1: to which we got pushback around the holidays from the
20:48
Speaker 1: producer was a little unbelievable. Like the potential for a
20:53
Speaker 1: viral story like that Christmas tree one where people are
20:55
Speaker 1: all in on solving this mystery, Yeah, that's gonna drive viewers.
21:01
Speaker 1: So I just thought it was a little bit unbelievable
21:04
Speaker 1: that they were like, we cannot talk about anything good
21:06
Speaker 1: on the news during the holidays at all, and that
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Speaker 1: Adam had to go rogue in order to tell these stories.
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Speaker 1: The news producer Matthew James Dowden, who every time I
21:17
Speaker 1: see him it feels like he reinvents himself. I don't
21:20
Speaker 1: know why. It feels like a completely new person in
21:22
Speaker 1: every cast. But he wasn't evil, Like they had this
21:25
Speaker 1: great relationship, so putting him in this position to make
21:29
Speaker 1: kind of like big evil corporate decisions felt flow off
21:33
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah. Yeah, I'm almost tempted to watch the
21:37
Speaker 1: local news tonight to see you if there's like a
21:40
Speaker 1: feel good human interest story in it, you know, because
21:43
Speaker 1: think about like People magazine, right, there's always a feel
21:46
Speaker 1: good human interest story, but there's always a murdery story
21:49
Speaker 1: in there too, and celebrity news. So hmm, like, give
21:56
Speaker 1: me both. I think I need both. I'd be curious
21:59
Speaker 1: to see which people are clicking more online, which of
22:02
Speaker 1: those stories gets more? Yeah, that's interesting, that's interesting. I'm
22:07
Speaker 1: gonna report back. I'm gonna turn on the channel, the
22:09
Speaker 1: Channel five news whatever, whatever the local news is tonight
22:13
Speaker 1: at five o'clock. I'm sure it's gonna be all politics stuff,
22:16
Speaker 1: but I'm curious. Okay, okay, let's talk to you to
22:20
Speaker 1: see that the product placements are back. Thrive Net THRIVNT
22:25
Speaker 1: I think is what it is. Oh, is that what
22:27
Speaker 1: it's called? Thrivnt? You're right, you're right, thrivnant. Look, it
22:30
Speaker 1: wasn't King's Hawaiian level. KOs wasn't quite as clunky, but
22:34
Speaker 1: it was there. I always think. I was like, hot, Dan,
22:37
Speaker 1: does Hallmark have a sponsor for every movie this season?
22:40
Speaker 1: At least this weekend? I was like, somebody in the
22:43
Speaker 1: marketing department is going to get a raise because they
22:47
Speaker 1: have been pounding the pavement for those sponsorship deals. They're like,
22:51
Speaker 1: we didn't have the money for forty two movies, but
22:54
Speaker 1: this is how we're finding it.
22:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I didn't think it was as bad. We
23:00
Speaker 2: got the close up on the ornament and then like
23:02
Speaker 2: a little bit of a banner in the background.
23:05
Speaker 1: Well, and when he goes to talk to the Angel
23:07
Speaker 1: Gifts lady, she does like the straight up like infommercial four.
23:12
Speaker 1: She's like, well, I had the idea, and I went
23:14
Speaker 1: to Thrive INT and they made it happen right exactly.
23:18
Speaker 1: And I believe there you probably didn't watch this live.
23:20
Speaker 1: I watched why I streamed it unfriendly. So there were commercials,
23:25
Speaker 1: and there were what's it called Thrivant there were Thrive
23:28
Speaker 1: VNT commercials.
23:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, that too, which I was kind of surprised. I
23:33
Speaker 2: don't know if I've ever really noticed that before. If
23:36
Speaker 2: if like there was a King's Hawaiian Rules commercial, well.
23:39
Speaker 1: That's a good question. But I feel like in product
23:41
Speaker 1: placement in the past, like I've seen like they'll open
23:44
Speaker 1: the refrigerator and you'll see like the Daisy sour cream
23:47
Speaker 1: container and they won't even talk about it, but they
23:49
Speaker 1: might like take it out and use it, but they're
23:50
Speaker 1: not like do a doll but Daisy in the movie,
23:54
Speaker 1: and then in the commercial break, we'll then see a
23:57
Speaker 1: daisy commercial. But you are correct. I watched this on
24:00
Speaker 1: homework plus, so I didn't see commercials. Do you have
24:03
Speaker 1: any other digit? See that? Just one? There's a snowman
24:07
Speaker 1: in front of Robbie and Lucy's house when Adam comes
24:09
Speaker 1: over to return the notebook, and the snowman is so
24:12
Speaker 1: perfectly round each one of his body parts. It's like, oh,
24:15
Speaker 1: Adam like stops and looks at it, like, oh, look
24:17
Speaker 1: a snowman and it's perfectly round, like styrofoam ball round. Oh, fake,
24:23
Speaker 1: fake snowman. Quite I have two digit? See that? Okay?
24:28
Speaker 1: One is remember we we have Lucy. She goes into
24:32
Speaker 1: her hair salon and she turns off the news. She's like, nope,
24:34
Speaker 1: can't do this today. And Adam was the anchor at
24:37
Speaker 1: the time. Yes, I thought about this as well. But
24:40
Speaker 1: then we also see him doing like the evening news
24:44
Speaker 1: as well. Is this man working twenty four hours a day,
24:47
Speaker 1: twelve hours a day like morning and evening. I wondered
24:51
Speaker 1: the same thing, like, I don't understand that's not how
24:54
Speaker 1: it this works, how it works.
24:57
Speaker 2: Also, this is the second movie this season, drop and
25:00
Speaker 2: Era's tour reference Like, okay, it's fine, Like I get it.
25:05
Speaker 2: It's fine because when the writers are writing these movies,
25:08
Speaker 2: I'm sure that was like the biggest thing like last
25:10
Speaker 2: year around this time, right, But I'm like, is Hallmark
25:14
Speaker 2: leaning too hard into Taylor Swift as this like cultural
25:18
Speaker 2: touchstone like we're marking time?
25:22
Speaker 1: Yeah? Interesting, It's just it's weird to me, and and
25:27
Speaker 1: it's not weird to me like one time, but two
25:30
Speaker 1: times is too much. I know.
25:34
Speaker 2: You would think like there would be some sort of
25:36
Speaker 2: like over look, I'm making jobs up in my head book,
25:39
Speaker 2: somebody who like oversees every script, and it was like,
25:43
Speaker 2: you know what, there was a Taylor Swift reference in
25:45
Speaker 2: that movie and also in this movie, and maybe that
25:47
Speaker 2: should be changed.
25:49
Speaker 1: I got you Savannah banianas tickets.
25:51
Speaker 2: Yes, I wonder if that is that big enough, Like
25:55
Speaker 2: does that hit like the Canadians would they understand who
25:59
Speaker 2: the Savannah Baniana?
26:00
Speaker 1: I don't know Canadians way in do you know the
26:03
Speaker 1: Slavanna Banana or do you use I'm like trying to
26:06
Speaker 1: think of like another musical artist that could be big enough,
26:11
Speaker 1: but not Taylor Swift big enough. Justin Bieber, I don't
26:17
Speaker 1: know Canadians know who Justin Bieber is really got our
26:23
Speaker 1: finger on the pulse of the pop cultures. I guess
26:25
Speaker 1: over here is headlighting Coach Halla next year, so he's
26:30
Speaker 1: doing some things. Sure I don't. Yes, anyway, that was
26:38
Speaker 1: my all my digit see thats hey, what did you
26:40
Speaker 1: rate tidings for this season? I gave it three stars.
26:44
Speaker 1: I gave it three stars as well. All right, thank
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