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A Winter Getaway · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a bonus episode from Long
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  Speaker 2: Story Short the podcast. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy and this
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  Speaker 2: week's movie is a Winter Getaway, which is movie number
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  Speaker 2: four out of five from the New Year New movies
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  Speaker 2: should be called Winterfest Series on the Hallmark Channel in January.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're new here, Wendy and I like to
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  Speaker 2: review these movies. I am a long time Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 2: Wendy is a brand new Hallmark baby. Watched her first
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark movie way back in October of twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm off the rails, dude, I'm off the rails now.
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  Speaker 3: I have added Hallmark Mystery Movies or whatever it's called,
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  Speaker 3: to my cable lineup. I am recording movies that I
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  Speaker 3: don't have to watch for the pot My husband will
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: come downstairs and he's like, what are you watching? And
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  Speaker 3: then he'll roll his eyes because it's a Hallmark movie.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening.
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  Speaker 2: We have breaking news right now in the Hallmark movie world,
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  Speaker 2: and that is that. As you were talking, I opened
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  Speaker 2: my Hallmark Checklist app, which is great if you want
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  Speaker 2: to keep track of the new movies as well as
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  Speaker 2: when old movies are airing, and as it opened, it
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  Speaker 2: asks me if I wanted to add the Love Ever
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  Speaker 2: After lineup to my calendar. That was not available yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: It is available today, which is Monday, January twenty first,
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  Speaker 2: as we are recording that. So if you want to
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  Speaker 2: keep track of the new movies, I would recommend that app.
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  Speaker 2: And the Love Ever After series is live in the app.
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  Speaker 1: Exciting. I have the app too.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, she is off the rail. Okay, a
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  Speaker 3: winters get away? Would you like me to recap it
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  Speaker 3: for the fine folks at home?
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  Speaker 1: I would Okay.
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  Speaker 3: When an average guy is gifted a luxury trip, he
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  Speaker 3: is mistaken as a millionaire, but then sparks fly with
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  Speaker 3: the lovely concierge. Will she feel the same way about
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  Speaker 3: him when she learns the truth.
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  Speaker 2: News and notes about a winter getaway?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't find Minnie. Do you have some? I have
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  Speaker 1: a couple.
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  Speaker 2: So we like to talk about where these were filmed.
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  Speaker 2: This was filmed in several locations in Canada, but largely
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  Speaker 2: in bamf which is in the Canadian Rockies. And I
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  Speaker 2: know you're gonna have something to say about that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I was supposed to go on a sister trip
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  Speaker 3: with my sister to Bamf last summer. Obviously we didn't
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  Speaker 3: go because of COVID. So watching this movie just made
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  Speaker 3: my heart sad because I am dying to go there.
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  Speaker 2: My husband has been there, loved there. So yeah, this
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  Speaker 2: just made me dream of traveling again. And as soon
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  Speaker 2: as they announced where they were going, I did think
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  Speaker 2: of you.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Nazneine Contractor, who is the lead actress in the movie,
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  Speaker 2: commented on Twitter that in the scene where they are
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  Speaker 2: filming the outdoor lunch, she said it was so cold
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  Speaker 2: that the grapefruit juice and her wineglass kept freezing.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no way, Oh my gosh. I did not envy
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  Speaker 3: them sitting out there in the freezing Yeah. They did
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  Speaker 3: film it during November and December of twenty twenty, so
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  Speaker 3: real snowy.
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  Speaker 1: Their breath, I mean it was snowy.
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  Speaker 2: I did also see we talked about last week, our
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  Speaker 2: actor did his own skiing.
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  Speaker 1: This week.
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  Speaker 2: She showed a shot of her ski double on Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: It was in a collage a photo. She didn't specifically
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  Speaker 2: call her out, but there was a side by side
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  Speaker 2: photo of them dressed identically. And okay, yes, so I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if Brooks Darnell had a ski double as well,
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  Speaker 2: but she definitely did.
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  Speaker 1: Got it.
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  Speaker 3: I saw that two things this movie was going to
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  Speaker 3: be named something else, Yes, Love Alps, Love in the Alps,
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  Speaker 3: and Love in the Rockies. They decided on a winter getaway.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously Love in the Alps since they changed
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  Speaker 2: the locale didn't work. Love in the Rockies, eh, A
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  Speaker 2: renter getaway.
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  Speaker 1: I think it fits what's happening right right.
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  Speaker 3: So I have read a little bit of criticism about
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  Speaker 3: this movie. Are you interested in hearing it?
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  Speaker 1: They said that?
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  Speaker 3: And when I say they, A couple of commenters on
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  Speaker 3: the IMDb website said that the music was the sound
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  Speaker 3: level of the music was too loud in some of
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  Speaker 3: the scenes that you couldn't hear the actor speaking had
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  Speaker 3: Did you did you notice any of that?
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  Speaker 1: No? Did you?
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  Speaker 3: I noticed that the soundtrack I thought was great. I
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  Speaker 3: thought it was like current and made it feel like
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  Speaker 3: I was watching a real movie. But I didn't notice
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  Speaker 3: it the sound level being like too high.
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  Speaker 2: One of the reviews in the Hallmark app the premise
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  Speaker 2: was interesting and the actor's appealing, but we couldn't hear
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  Speaker 2: key dialogue. It seems to be a growing problem.
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  Speaker 3: I just people got to complain about something.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, what is your first impression of this movie?
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  Speaker 3: I really enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you laughing? I was so bored.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, that's what my husband said. He's like, this is
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  Speaker 3: the most boring movie. Nothing is happening. There's no like
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  Speaker 3: forward movement in it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what's funny, and we'll go to what we liked next.
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  Speaker 2: But what's weird for me is that there were so
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  Speaker 2: many individual aspects of the movie that I liked, but
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  Speaker 2: it didn't add up to being a great movie.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, the super Fair, let's talk about those things. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: So the first thing I liked. I loved the actors.
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  Speaker 3: I loved both the lead actors.
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  Speaker 1: In this movie.
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  Speaker 2: I thought they were charming and believable and good actors.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed them on screen. They were not sometimes these
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  Speaker 2: actors are uncomfortable to watch, but I felt like they
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  Speaker 2: played their roles well.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 3: I really liked them both. I think I like Brookstar
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  Speaker 3: now maybe a little bit better, only because he seemed
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  Speaker 3: very natural to me with like the script. But I
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  Speaker 3: liked them together, and I thought they had chemistry from go,
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  Speaker 3: so I did enjoy them too, and I would absolutely
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  Speaker 3: watch another movie that they star in. I also loved
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  Speaker 3: the many montages that we got, throwing it back to
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  Speaker 3: one of your wishes from.
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  Speaker 1: The last movie. It was a little bit of an
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  Speaker 1: action sequence.
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  Speaker 2: We got a skiing montage, a dog setting montage, and
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  Speaker 2: a curling montage.
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  Speaker 1: I found those highly enjoyable to watch me too.
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  Speaker 3: I thought those were really good too, and it made
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  Speaker 3: me go, man, I want a dog sled. That would
• 7:08
  Speaker 3: be so much fun. And then when they curled, I
• 7:11
  Speaker 3: was like curling again. Because if you remember, curling was
• 7:14
  Speaker 3: also featured in a New Year's resolution. My husband just
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  Speaker 3: goes Canada, That's all he said to me.
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  Speaker 1: I complained about curling.
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  Speaker 2: Well, someone on Twitter was responding to the Hallmark channel
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  Speaker 2: and they're like, this is the first time I've ever
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  Speaker 2: seen curling in a Hallmark movie. And I had to, well,
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  Speaker 2: actually them and be.
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  Speaker 1: Like it was an a huge resolution.
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  Speaker 2: Also, they did not respond, and they apparently did not
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  Speaker 2: appreciate my insight.
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  Speaker 3: But I asked my husband. I go, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: is curly the thing here in the States?
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  Speaker 1: I don't. There's gotta be some.
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  Speaker 3: Like medcally, but there is a league here in California.
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  Speaker 2: No way, my phoneh did like an intro lesson.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So I think post pandemic, when we can do this,
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  Speaker 3: I think we should go curling because that.
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  Speaker 1: Would be so funny.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's an Orange County curling club all curling suspended.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that is funny.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So, like I said, I really like the soundtrack in
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  Speaker 3: this movie. The scenery was so beautiful to look at,
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  Speaker 3: just so many beautiful shots. I especially liked when they
• 8:26
  Speaker 3: were out shopping and they were walking down that little
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  Speaker 3: main street.
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  Speaker 1: It was just so cute.
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  Speaker 3: And I want to go there so badly. I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: that they were actually filming in vamp you know, filming
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  Speaker 3: where they're supposed to be. And it was so funny
• 8:43
  Speaker 3: because I was wondering, you know, the Fairmont Springs is
• 8:46
  Speaker 3: like the big hotel out there, and you know how
• 8:51
  Speaker 3: they in the movie there was like a hotel that
• 8:53
  Speaker 3: was under renovations or whatever. Yeah, they got the hotel
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  Speaker 3: they were referring.
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  Speaker 1: They did Fairmont.
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  Speaker 2: Ah.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting, So I wonder if the Fairmont allowed that because
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  Speaker 3: they just don't have any tourism there right now.
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  Speaker 2: And another one of the notes I saw said another
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  Speaker 2: one of the movies was also filmed at a different
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  Speaker 2: Fairmont property.
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  Speaker 3: Man, I want to go there so badly. That's what
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  Speaker 3: I liked about it. I agree with you that it
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  Speaker 3: was a little bit slow. All the kind of like
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  Speaker 3: action happened, of course at the very very end. And
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  Speaker 3: we'll get to that, because I have some like criticism
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  Speaker 3: about that, okay, but let's.
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  Speaker 1: Move on to.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, do you have any I do a very
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  Speaker 2: short list, you know, they throw it in very early
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  Speaker 2: on and as a reminder, no relationships with the clients.
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: And of course she shows up and he's beautiful and
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: she falls for him, and oh, she's not allowed to
• 9:52
  Speaker 2: date him, and he tries to kiss her.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that scene was super awkward when she
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  Speaker 3: like turned away from him and he was like, I'm
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  Speaker 3: so sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, what I.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't understand because she made him feel He was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I got caught up in the moment, and she was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: why wouldn't she just say I was feeling it too,
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  Speaker 2: But it's not like, you know, it's not allowed.
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  Speaker 1: My job is on the line.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just communicate with the guy like, hey, I'm feeling
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  Speaker 3: you too, but right now, like I can't this. My
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  Speaker 3: job is important to me and I can't mess things up,
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  Speaker 3: So hands.
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  Speaker 1: Off or whatever you oh for me. I have one note.
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  Speaker 1: Joe is a liar, I wrote, He's a liar, blessed Mark.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's the whole problem.
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  Speaker 3: Like there were I get so frustrated with these movies sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: While I like them, these are easy fixes and these
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: people make their life too complicated.
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  Speaker 2: Also, I didn't care about his lie. I could not
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  Speaker 2: muster the energy to be angry with him. No part
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  Speaker 2: of me was like, eh, I mean, okay, so he's
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  Speaker 2: not a billionaire, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: There was no part of me that cared at all
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  Speaker 1: about his life. And I really was like, why do
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  Speaker 1: you care? Why do you care?
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  Speaker 2: You don't actually care that he's not a billionaire. If
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  Speaker 2: you had met him, you still would have liked him.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing that you like about him is because he maybe
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  Speaker 2: is a billionaire, So why do you care?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: She cares because she wants a relationship like her mother
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  Speaker 3: and father, and their relationship is based off of trust
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  Speaker 3: and honesty, and so if Joe can't be honest with
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  Speaker 3: her that he's not a billionaire, then that blows.
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  Speaker 1: The relationship out of the water for her fair enough.
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  Speaker 3: We had a lot of funny jokes at home. Basically,
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  Speaker 3: the guy works for geek squad. Yes, he's the mobile
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  Speaker 3: guy that comes out O place. And then I was like,
• 11:52
  Speaker 3: why doesn't his billionaire best friend give him a better job?
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  Speaker 3: Like that is so ridiculous, Like if he's that, like, okay,
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: there's a difference between being techie who can fix a
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: computer and then writing code who can build an app.
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  Speaker 3: So doesn't why doesn't his friend give him a better job?
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  Speaker 3: Like it's just stupid to me?
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  Speaker 1: Stupid?
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  Speaker 2: Well, should we jump into what we wished for?
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  Speaker 1: Sure? My first wish was for real jobs.
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  Speaker 2: I okay, First of all, what's her name, Courtney? I
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: hated her job. Look why because while I believe that
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: these high end concierge businesses exist, they're not traveling with you.
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  Speaker 1: They're not showing up.
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  Speaker 2: They will make all of the arrangements so that the
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  Speaker 2: person at the hotel will walk you to your driver
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  Speaker 2: who is waiting to take you to your helicopter skiing
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  Speaker 2: h They're not showing up and walking you to breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: It's just I know that felt fake to me. Also,
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  Speaker 2: her app idea is so stupid it is twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, she's like, wants to create a combination
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  Speaker 2: between like a YouTube channel and trip Advisor. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 2: what was weird to me is he's like, you'll create
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  Speaker 2: this app and they'll be like, I want to go
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  Speaker 2: to the Swiss Alps. That's not what he said, but
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  Speaker 2: and like a video will pop up and you're telling
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: them all about it. Except she hasn't created any of
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  Speaker 2: this content. So you want her to launch an app
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  Speaker 2: that is the ultimate travel guide when she has not
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  Speaker 2: created she has to start traveling to create. How in
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: the world how many years is it going to take
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  Speaker 2: her to be the ultimate travel guide app?
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  Speaker 1: Who's gonna want to invest in that?
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  Speaker 2: His billionaire friend apparently is just gonna give them money
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  Speaker 2: to travel the world and make videos.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it made it sound like.
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  Speaker 2: At the end, lady, make a YouTube channel in your
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: spare time.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm all for following your dreams.
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  Speaker 2: I also think I am such a dream killer. My
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  Speaker 2: husband had talked about this business idea, and I consider
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: myself a realist. You can call it whatever you want.
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  Speaker 2: And I was not knocking the idea at all, just
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  Speaker 2: pointing out like the things that you might need to
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  Speaker 2: think about.
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  Speaker 1: It can be a bit of a dream killer.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it was a dumb idea for an app. You're
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  Speaker 3: right about that. That's pretty wish for I wish for
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: a little more clarity on who Joe really was. As
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: the viewer of this movie, you need to be let
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  Speaker 3: in on like the secret or the I think it's
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: better as the viewer that you know what's going on,
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: even though like the main character doesn't know what's going on,
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: because otherwise than you're confused as well as what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: So I was You sent me a text yesterday and
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: you're like, I think I missed the.
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  Speaker 2: Big part, And so I missed a major plot point.
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  Speaker 2: But it turns out I hadn't. They just hadn't told us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they need to tell the viewer anyhow.
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  Speaker 3: With Joe going on the vacation for his friend and
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: like the mix up at work, it's not that big
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  Speaker 3: of a deal, Like the whole scene where like when
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: they're back at the agency and the lady's like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: Is paying for it, then who's Joe Boom whatever?
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  Speaker 3: Like Google exists, why aren't they googling Joe whatever? His
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: name was Franklin because they thought he was the head
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: of geek Squad.
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  Speaker 1: I know it wasn't called Bat.
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  Speaker 2: But a dossier on him with all of the information.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I didn't understand. The person who had originally
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: had this account gave her this file with information about him.
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  Speaker 2: Had she just created the file about the billionaire and
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: then changed the name when it turns out the billionaire
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: wasn't going to take the trip. I guess said she
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: had this file, I had all this information. You know,
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Joe wasn't like didn't give her that information.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: I agree that it would have been better if we
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: had been let in from the start and all of
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  Speaker 2: the little like he almost finds out moments or the
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: moments where it's very clear that he's like new to
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  Speaker 2: money would have been funnier as the viewer as opposed
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  Speaker 2: to us going what's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: With this dude?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They also cut out a scene that was in a
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: promo that I saw on Instagram where when they offer
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: him a mimosa and he asked for root beer. In
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: the promo, he says, oh is it free?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? But they cut that out, and.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: You know, he's like riding the airplane chair, like it's
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: a roller coaster. Ian dude in a chair that moves
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: before he's been in a car. I like that part
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  Speaker 2: the movie theater has reclining chair. It's not like his
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  Speaker 2: first day on the planet.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you're funny, Okay, So I wish they had more snowboarding.
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  Speaker 3: It was supposed to be a snowboarding trip, right, and
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  Speaker 3: you would think that he's in this like spectacular place
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: for boarding. Wouldn't he do it every single day? He's
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: not gonna be.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Like, oh I'm too.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I don't snowboard, so I don't know like
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  Speaker 3: how taxing it is on your body. But for someone
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: who was like going on a three day trip or
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: four day trip to snowboard, I would think that they
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: would go more than one day. So I have been
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: snowboarding and it was the most store I've ever been.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: But man.
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  Speaker 2: Snowboarding who has his own snowboard, who like cares very
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: much about his snowboard, he's not new to it. He's
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: clearly in good shape, so like he's not me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It was obviously like, oh, we only have the body
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: doubles for a day, so we only get one snowboarding shot,
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  Speaker 2: and I also had issues with the snowboarding itself, the
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: like ski lift would skew lift. We're gonna helicopter and
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: this is so stupid. Yes, helicopter skiing is a thing,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: but it's typically to like remote locations where you can't
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  Speaker 2: ski it. It's not like we're gonna helicopter you to
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: the top of the mountain because rich people don't write
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: a ski lifts. No, no, and they're like the old
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: on these perfectly groomed runs. No, that's no, that was ridiculous.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: She's like waving the helicopter down to land.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: And pick them up.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: No, it is so stupid, right.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: I just wished for deeper relationships with some of the
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: side characters in some of these movies. We've had great
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: friendships that really drive part of the movie.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: And other than maybe the bell.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Hop at the hotel game, we didn't have, yes, thank you,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: we didn't have that, you know, her boss back at home.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: I just wanted some other side character that I cared about.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I know, but they're on vacation somewhere. There's you know,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: there's no friends with them, so they could have made
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: it up. Okay, all right, fine.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Time.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: How are everyone's favorite part of the podcast? Did you
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: see that? I have a couple me too? Go ahead? Okay.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: First of all, when they were in the airplane, in
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: the private jet and she was having problems with her computer,
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: he said, oh, you have to clear the cachet. It's
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: not called the cachet, it's called the cash. A techie
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: computer guy knows that, right. I was so annoyed.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Where is the.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Script person who like follows every word of the script
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: when they're making when they're making this movie.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: In another room because it's COVID.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Behind her mask, it's too far to run in there
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: to correct them.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Just keep rolling. She's like, it's cash, not cachet.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So that was annoying. But I did think there
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: were some funny lines in there, and I will be
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: sharing those on our Girls Gone Hallmark Instagram. But what
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: did you see?
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Did you happen to zoom in on the rental price
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: when she rents her ski clothes. I was very curious
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: to see, like if they had made a real invoice
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: on that screen they had it was like one hundred
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: and forty two dollars, But I was like, that's it green, Yeah,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: just for a day's rental that actually, I mean it's
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: just going to keep it.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Well, I thought mister millionaire was buying it for her.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Oh he asked for like the best rentals in town.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: And here's the other thing. Like, so they went shopping.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Homeboy doesn't have any money, and like they're like acting
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: like they're just gonna like, oh, we're going down and
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: shopping in Beverly Hills buying anything that we want. Like
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: that didn't make any sense to me. He wants to
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: go shopping, but he doesn't have any money.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: But he ended up at the art gallery when they
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: were shopping, and then they went to the souvenir shop.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh again the souvenir. She's like, look at this
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: beautiful snow globe. It was like the cheesiest, crappiest bamp
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: snow globe that you're gonna get at some little touristy shop. Like, uh, dumb, dumb,
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: dumb dump. Okay. Did you watch this scene where there's
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: two of them where he's drinking beer. Yeah, I don't
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: think he ever.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Takes a sip.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, his his sipping was terrible. I did realize that.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I don't think he takes a sip.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I think he like, there's the scene where they have
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: the flight of beer, and then there's the scene where
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: he's with Gabe and his beer is half finish, and
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Gabe does and touches, and he keeps like drinking his beer,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: but none of it ever goes in his mouth.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Oh funny. I was like, if you can't.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Drink it, because you're redoing the scene over and over again,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: give him something he can drink, please, because it.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Was like it was bad well in that flight when
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: I had the flight of beers too, Like my husband's like, that's.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Not how you do it, Like you don't.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: You don't sip one from over here and then sip
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: one from over here and then try this one here,
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: like you're supposed to drink them in order, like.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: The lightest to darkest or hat. Yes, I thought that
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: was weird. He's like, work toward the middle. I know works.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: In the hot Chocolate scene, while we're talking about drinks,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: there's a moment where Courtney's drink goes from completely full
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: and then the next shot it's half gone.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Oh she downed it. His doesn't change, he doesn't touch his,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: but there was there was a continuity issue there.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Okay, how about when they're eating lunch?
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: What is squab? I think it's some sort of foul
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I think it's a bird.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: So they have this whole conversation about like what he
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: does want to eat, and he's talking about chili dogs
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: and macaroni and cheese, and I don't I can't remember
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: what else he said, and she's like, great, meet me,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: I'll work on it. Made me downstairs at one o'clock.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: And then they don't eat. They go out shopping. So
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: I'm like, what happened to the chili dog scene? Like
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: I was looking forard to that.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Why is he so first of all, why is she
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: ordering for him? That's the weirdest thing, so damning. Rich
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: people can order their own food, they can make choices,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: And why is he afraid to say when she's ordering
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: like these breakfast it isn't like like you can order
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: your own French I don't It was.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: No, I'm sorry.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: They it's like they've never met a rich person before.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: And I don't know, unless like you have a personal
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: assistant who knows like what your typical breakfast order is,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: You're not gonna have a stranger ordering food for you.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Simply because it's fancy. Right, It's perfectly fine to.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Like a burger, right, dude, order a burger for lunch? Right?
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: And well that was so frustrating, Like if you don't
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: like the squab do you'd just be like, hey, can
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: I get a burger instead? Like this is not what
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: I want to eat for lunch? But instead he chokes
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: it down, like this's so dumb.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Come on, all right, how many stars are you going
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: to give this Winter Getaway?
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Seriously again, same as last week when it ended, I
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: was like, this is the best Hallmark movie I've ever seen.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: It's so good, and my husband's like it was so boring.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Since then we discuss what I would rate it, and
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: he's like, how can you even give it that? I'm
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: gonna give this movie, God, Magan, I want to give
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: it like three stars, so generous. It was so beautiful
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: to look at, and the actors were beautiful. I just
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: I liked a lot of elements of it, but like
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: you said earlier, like it just didn't all worked together.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: So I think a three is super generous. It was
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: still better than a New Year's.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Resolution falls wrong came together for me.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: This movie, I agree I liked many of the elements
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: on their own, and if I were greeting them individually
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: and adding them up, I probably would get to a
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: much higher score. But overall, based on my experience watching it,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: it's a two star for me, and I feel so
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: badly doing that because there were a lot of great things.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: I would love to see both of them in another movie.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: But this, you know, sometimes you can only do so
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: much with the material you're given, and I think they
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: were maybe given a stinker.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Well, I disagree.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: I thought the writing was pretty good, but maybe whoever
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: like came up with the overall story of it was
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: not good.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I thought their lines were good. No, yeah, that's true.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: I didn't. I found the conversation fine. I don't.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: I can't put my finger on what fell flat for
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: me because there were so many enjoyable moments, but.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: And didn't care. I don't. I didn't feel. I feel
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: very badly about that. Well.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: I had really high hopes going into it because I
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: was like, look at they have this diverse main cast.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Yes, I was excited about that.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: I had heard an interview of Brookstar now I liked him,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: so I had like really high hopes and yeah, I
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: know a three is too generous.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Maybe I think you stick with your gun going. Oh okay,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I mean I liked it. Do I think I'd watched
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: it again?
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: No, but I don't know.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I liked I liked Brooks.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: I liked Brooks Star Now too.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Well he They both have pretty deep resumes, but not
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: a ton of Hallmark movies on them, which I like.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: I like to see someone who's not entrenched in the
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Hallmark community and shake things up that.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Can dip in between like Hallmark and regular TV.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, real TV. You know what I mean. I feel
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: the same way.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Okay, so I will tell you I'm not looking forward
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: to next week's movie.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Oh no, why not? It looks boring.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: I hope maybe it's a low expectation. Well, uh, we'll
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: make it a good one.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I really like her.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Jen Lily is the actress in that movie, and I
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: like her a lot, so I'm hoping that she brings
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: it home for me. Next week's movie is Snow Kissed,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: featuring Jen Lily and Chris McNally, and we will see
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: if it exceeds Wendy's expectations. Good to go in low,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: hard to hard to go below your expectation? We have
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: our regular podcast episodes that come out every Tuesday. We'd
• 27:07
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• 27:09
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• 27:12
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