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You, Me & the Christmas Trees · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, friends, Before we get into this episode, we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to let you know what's happening here. This entire month
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  Speaker 1: will be Christmas in July on Girls Gone Hamewark, featuring
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  Speaker 1: some movies that we reviewed but you've never heard.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. These reviews appeared exclusively on our Patreon account,
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  Speaker 2: but we dug them out from the vault and we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna celebrate Christmas in July. I gotta tell you, Megan,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little bit concerned because I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: I said about these movies.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you should probably give these episodes a listen to.
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  Speaker 1: We hope you enjoy this month on Girls Gone Hamewark.
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  Speaker 1: As always joined us on our Facebook group to talk
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  Speaker 1: about these movies and these reviews. Enjoy the episode. Hey, Patreon,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to a bonus episode of Girls Gone Hallmark.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Megan, I'm Wendy.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're talking about you, me and the Christmas Trees
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  Speaker 1: from the premiere weekend of Hallmark's Countdown to Christmas series,
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  Speaker 1: the very first movie. Are you ready?
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  Speaker 2: I am? I'm sorry I was yawning when I said
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  Speaker 2: my name. It's not indicative of what I thought of
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  Speaker 2: this movie at all.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a synopsis I do.
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  Speaker 2: Olivia is Connecticut's resident expert on evergreens, who, just before
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  Speaker 2: days before the holiday, agrees to help Jack, a fourth
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  Speaker 2: generation Christmas tree farmer in Avon. A mysterious illness has
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  Speaker 2: befallen their first causing them to die out and threatening
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  Speaker 2: his family's one hundred year old business. As Olivia tries
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  Speaker 2: to get to the root of the problem and extends
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  Speaker 2: her stay in town, she and Jack spend more time
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  Speaker 2: together and feelings begin to develop.
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  Speaker 1: What's happened to? Some news and notes on this movie?
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  Speaker 1: Can I start with the disappointing one? Sure, Danica mckeller
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  Speaker 1: has signed a deal with Ghak Family, No not seeing
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  Speaker 1: some of our favorites jump over there. Jen Lily is
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  Speaker 1: working on movies with their with that network and the
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark is far from progressive, but they are working really
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  Speaker 1: hard to not be anti progressive, to be regressive, and
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  Speaker 1: I think Gak is doing a good job of doing
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  Speaker 1: the exact opposite of that, and I found that disappointing.
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  Speaker 2: So basically I'm guessing that they are just showing them
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  Speaker 2: the money, and these actors are like, well, Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna sign this deal. It's got to be it, and
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  Speaker 2: then that makes me start to question, like the integrity
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  Speaker 2: of these actors.
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  Speaker 1: But whatever, hall Mark has been bringing in new actors
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  Speaker 1: and let's bring some fresh faces. Maybe it's time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it is just time. And who am I
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  Speaker 2: never watched Hallmark Christmas movies ever, this is the second
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  Speaker 2: year and I'm feel connected and hurt betray by these
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  Speaker 2: actors who are leaving to go work for this other company.
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  Speaker 2: Here you I hear?
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, so additional news and notes? Do you have
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  Speaker 1: anything else on this?
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  Speaker 2: You know? A lot of it was that it was
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  Speaker 2: really hot in Canada when they filmed this movie. It
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  Speaker 2: was in August. Lots and lots of the same story
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  Speaker 2: that I found that what's her face, Danica? What's her
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  Speaker 2: last name? M Keller? Yes, that she poured cold water
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  Speaker 2: in her boots the cool off blah blah blah blah. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I wrote that story over and over and over again. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: me too, it was hot.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about this on our review of The Santa Steakeout,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that it's kind of taking me out of the
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  Speaker 1: holiday moment a little bit, and I'm I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 1: try and forget it because I want to believe that
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  Speaker 1: they're cold in their coats.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's always hot here around Christmas time, so it's
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  Speaker 2: not hot. I know, I know it's warm. I'mritting a
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  Speaker 2: one hundred degrees. But it's you guys in the fifties.
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  Speaker 2: We live in southern California. We do not wear big
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  Speaker 2: winter coats.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not in a bathing suit on Christmas Day?
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  Speaker 2: True fair? Okay, fine, I have two more news and notes. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: this took place in Avon, Connecticut. This is the second
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  Speaker 2: movie to take place in Avon, Connecticut. The other was
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  Speaker 2: taking a shot at Love. I always get that one
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  Speaker 2: mixed up with the two for the Win or yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the Skime the Ski movie. But this was written by
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  Speaker 2: Julie Sherman Wolf, who we've had here on the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I really like her as a writer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: My other news and note is that I thought Jason
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  Speaker 2: Hervey Is that how you say his last name? Hervey?
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  Speaker 1: Sure? He was such a dick.
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  Speaker 2: In this movie.
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  Speaker 1: Is that news?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why I have under news and notes.
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  Speaker 1: I have a note about that too. It's le's later
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  Speaker 1: for me.
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  Speaker 2: But okay, well, all right, we'll talk about that later.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, that's all I have for news and notes.
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  Speaker 1: The last thing I have is Julie Sherman Wolf, who,
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  Speaker 1: as Wendy just said, wrote this movie. She tweeted that
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  Speaker 1: she used the names of her close friends in the movie,
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  Speaker 1: and she had an outdoor watch party and she said,
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  Speaker 1: most of the people whose names I used in this
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  Speaker 1: movie are here at this premiere party with me.
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  Speaker 2: So I saw her watch party on Instagram. I looked
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  Speaker 2: real cute.
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  Speaker 1: I loved that, and I also loved she kept it
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  Speaker 1: super real because she has a teenage son, and she
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  Speaker 1: posted a photo the teenagers just on their phone. She's like,
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  Speaker 1: let's pretend like they're watching the movie on their phones.
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  Speaker 2: They're not.
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  Speaker 1: So as parents of teenagers, I could appreciate that. They're like, yeah, yeah, mom, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: totally to Okay, what was your first impression of this movie?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So this is just the opposite where I was
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  Speaker 2: really really excited for the Santa sakaut and was a
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  Speaker 2: little bit disappointed. I wasn't totally looking forward to this
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  Speaker 2: one because you trashed Danica oh Heller.
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  Speaker 1: So I did not trash her. I just said she's
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  Speaker 1: not my favorite homemark actress.
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  Speaker 2: But I know this movie well a lot I listened
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  Speaker 2: to a lot of things you say, bag, and so
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  Speaker 2: I had this, you know, impression that she was a
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  Speaker 2: crap actress in these movies, and I ended up really
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  Speaker 2: liking it.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with that assessment. I went into this movie.
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  Speaker 1: I had kind of forgotten prior to watching it that
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  Speaker 1: Julie Sherman Wolf had written it, so my hopes were
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  Speaker 1: not particularly high. It's the launch movie of Countdown to
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  Speaker 1: Christmas that can sometimes not be the greatest spot. Again,
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  Speaker 1: Danica mckeller is not my favorite Hallmark actress. I thought
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  Speaker 1: this was a great movie, well written, and I this
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  Speaker 1: is my favorite Danica mckeller movie by far and away. Wow. Yeah, No,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was.
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  Speaker 2: Really well written as well. There was a lot of
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  Speaker 2: funny lines in it, and I have one that I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to mention a little bit later on. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so let's jump into what did you What did you
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  Speaker 2: like about it?
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  Speaker 1: So I want to start just hopping back to your
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  Speaker 1: news and note callback oh oh uh. Dwayne in this
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  Speaker 1: movie played by Jason Hervey. I wrote that I like
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  Speaker 1: that he's kind of a punk in this movie because
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  Speaker 1: my memory of his character Wayne on The Wonder Years.
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  Speaker 1: I liked that tie in there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, was that? Again.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't watched The Wonder Years in probably twenty years,
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  Speaker 1: so I could be misremembering, but my memory is he's
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  Speaker 1: kind of the punk older brother, not super nice to Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: and so I kind of, whether it was intentional or not,
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  Speaker 1: liked that they gave him a similar role in this movie.
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  Speaker 1: And I knew he was in this and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: where's Wayne? And then in he walks, and so I
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed his placement in this movie.
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  Speaker 2: So that is what my note says here. Jason Hervey
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  Speaker 2: Dick character very similar to Wayne on The Wonder Years
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  Speaker 2: quote unquote Dwayne. I thought that was cheeky and fun
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  Speaker 2: and a cute little wink in a nod to The
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  Speaker 2: Wonder Years there where they named him Dwyane. I'm I'm
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  Speaker 2: guessing that was a last minute script change, probably, don't
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  Speaker 2: you think once they hired him on, Oh, sure, that
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  Speaker 2: makes sense. And like you said, I haven't watched The
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  Speaker 2: Wonder Years in a bazillion years, And as soon as
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  Speaker 2: he came on, I was like, yeah, he was the
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  Speaker 2: same on The Wonder Years. So I thought that was
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  Speaker 2: really funny. I was a little disappointed because they advertised
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  Speaker 2: him as this reunion. He was in it for maybe
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  Speaker 2: ten minutes. He was barely in this.
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  Speaker 1: Movie, I think, right, he was in it the right
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  Speaker 1: amount for his character. I didn't need more of him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but to call it a reunion is more of an
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  Speaker 1: offset reunion than anything.
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  Speaker 2: It was probably a one day film day for him.
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  Speaker 1: There was a moment that I really loved. If you
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  Speaker 1: recall when we discussed Advice to Love By, I complained
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  Speaker 1: that there was no heat. These two were actively dating
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  Speaker 1: throughout the movie and there's absolutely no affection, and all
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  Speaker 1: I wanted was like, just tuck her hair behind her ear.
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  Speaker 2: Do something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: There's a moment Jack walks Olivia back to her room
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  Speaker 1: and he kind of sweeps a little pine needle out
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  Speaker 1: of her hair.
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  Speaker 2: That was smooth.
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  Speaker 1: That was a great moment.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, it's so funny that
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned that, because I had forgotten about it until
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  Speaker 2: you just said it. And I was like that was
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  Speaker 2: so like subtle and hot at the same time that
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, we can't need right, Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: Is this the time where I tell you that Benjamin
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  Speaker 1: Ayers is a wowie zouie for me? What I can no.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I find him. I find him rugged and
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  Speaker 2: handsome and funny, but not quite a wowie zowie for me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh oh, he's a total wowie zowie for me, total
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  Speaker 1: wowie's aoie.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what else did you like? I thought these two
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  Speaker 2: had really fun banter. They worked really well together, like comedically,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they were funny together. I thought they like
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  Speaker 2: riffed off each other. I thought was really good. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's actors or if that's writing
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  Speaker 2: or a combination of both, but I applaud them for that.
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  Speaker 2: And I loved the chemistry between them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I thought the exact same thing. I thought they
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  Speaker 1: had great chemistry and great banter. And I think Julie
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  Speaker 1: Sherman Wolf is a great writer. I think she's one
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  Speaker 1: of the best in the Hallmark business. Her writing is
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  Speaker 1: quippy and it's witty, and it's she's she's funny to
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  Speaker 1: talk to and that translates into her writing. And so
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  Speaker 1: what I felt like Danica and Benjamin Ayres were having
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  Speaker 1: a good time with the script. I've never seen Danica
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  Speaker 1: be this goofy in a movie, huh. It felt like
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  Speaker 1: they were genuinely enjoying it now, granted their actors, but
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  Speaker 1: they sold me. I believed it.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you want from a movie, you want it
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  Speaker 2: to feel believable. I agree. She Danica strikes me as
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  Speaker 2: a little bit stiff, like buttoned up a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: and she did some like funny, silly things in this
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  Speaker 2: movie that I was like borderlined, cringed a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: but I was like, all right, whatever, I'm here for it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It sold me on her character. She strikes me
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  Speaker 1: as the kind of person who's a little shy on set,
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  Speaker 1: like I doesn't like to take super like acting risks,
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  Speaker 1: like she's not gonna, you know, do a solo dance
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  Speaker 1: like that when she did that twirl. Yeah, yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: I could feel how nervous she probably was prior to
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  Speaker 1: that moment, like she I'm gonna be on the spot
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  Speaker 1: and I have to do this. But I enjoyed that.
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  Speaker 1: I thought she let loose a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Another thing I liked about this movie, and I
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: talked about this in the Santa Steak Out too, is
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  Speaker 2: that at first, well even throughout, it's not really romantically
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  Speaker 2: driven storyline. The story was about the trees, right and
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  Speaker 2: them trying to figure out what is happening with the
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  Speaker 2: trees and what they could lose if the trees or
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  Speaker 2: disease whatever. That's what I liked about it. It was completely
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  Speaker 2: different than anything I've seen from Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: Right. It was a little more solving the mystery of
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  Speaker 1: the trees. What's happening here? That was their end goal,
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  Speaker 1: not repairing some tear in their interpersonal relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, or you know, like it could have gone really off,
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  Speaker 2: killed her with like her canceling her wedding and you
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  Speaker 2: know whatever. But I liked it. I like the storyline
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  Speaker 2: a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, if you've listened to our most recent episode of
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: the main podcast, it's all about getting your act together
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  Speaker 1: prior to the holiday season. And there was a line
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  Speaker 1: in this movie that made me think of that episode
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  Speaker 1: very much, and the line was Christmas isn't something to
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  Speaker 1: get through, it's something to treasure and usink you and
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  Speaker 1: I are on opposite sides of that sentiment.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yes, I absolutely agree with that. That line really
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  Speaker 2: stuck with me a little bit because I'm always just
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  Speaker 2: trying to get through Christmas. And that's what I wrote.
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  Speaker 2: I wrote here. I get why she is reluctant to
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  Speaker 2: return home for the holidays. She doesn't want to live
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  Speaker 2: in this like perfect facade, we're happy family whatever. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I just I got it. I got it. I liked it.
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  Speaker 2: I liked that whole part of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, did she like it?
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  Speaker 2: Made me stop and think, is what I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: say here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, did you like anything else about this movie?
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  Speaker 2: I really liked their couple. I can't remember is he
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  Speaker 2: the brother in law?
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  Speaker 1: I thought maybe he was just like a close friend.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I couldn't remember. But they had that
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  Speaker 2: whole drink competition, and of course she won, come on, guys.
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  Speaker 2: But I just thought that the whole scene was funny,
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  Speaker 2: Like it was a different, you know, a different spin
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  Speaker 2: on baking cookies, which they did. They did a cookie decorating,
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  Speaker 2: but like you know, making like a drink or whatever
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  Speaker 2: was like a fun different spin.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that something. I just thought it was good.
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  Speaker 1: I thought a gingerbread house decorating. Yeah, exactly exactly. So
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  Speaker 1: that's what I've got. What did you wish for?
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  Speaker 2: I wish that the resolution between Olivia's family was less easy, huh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, she had like years and years and years
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  Speaker 2: of all this like pent up emotion and feelings of resentment,
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  Speaker 2: hating the holidays because of her mom. Really, and then
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  Speaker 2: like one single phone call, one single meeting, it's all resolved.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, that's a lot to unpact there. Well, it
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  Speaker 2: could be that easy.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it's a quick They come to the coffee shop
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  Speaker 1: and they leave. Jack says to Olivia, you can't expect
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  Speaker 1: your parents to solve a problem that they don't know
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  Speaker 1: they have.
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  Speaker 2: And great line.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I love that. And it's funny because I had
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  Speaker 1: that line written down, and until you brought up that resolution,
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  Speaker 1: I had forgotten what it was in reference to. And
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe that line speaks to the quickness of
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  Speaker 1: the resolution. It wasn't so much that her parents were
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  Speaker 1: so attached to these traditions. They were just stuck in them.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't realize that it was a problem because she
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  Speaker 1: just went along with it. And yes, her mom was
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: very much the is that what you're wearing? Mom? But
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  Speaker 1: I think there are plenty of us who can relate
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  Speaker 1: to that kind of parenting. I mean I do that
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  Speaker 1: with my own children, like, yeah, you know, could you
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: comb your hair for this event? That sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: I do wish that had been longer, but I did
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  Speaker 1: like that. The resolution was, Hey, let's actually discuss this
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  Speaker 1: problem like adults.
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  Speaker 2: But then Jack freaks out on her at her suggestion
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  Speaker 2: to diversify his business, and I was like, dude, you
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  Speaker 2: got to communicate why that doesn't work for you, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But my question is can he survive on a one
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  Speaker 1: month long business? What is he doing the eleven months
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  Speaker 1: out of the year that he's not selling Christmas trees.
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  Speaker 1: I understand their attachment to the tree farm, that was
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  Speaker 1: the way that it had always been done. But you're
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: telling me that in twenty twenty one, your entire income
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  Speaker 1: comes in in one month out of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Christmas trees are kind of expensive, I will say one,
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  Speaker 2: but two. On the flip side of that, there's like
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  Speaker 2: a baby Christmas tree farm near us a little bit south,
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  Speaker 2: and yes, they do Christmas trees during the winter holiday season,
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  Speaker 2: but they also have a farmer's market every weekend, and
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  Speaker 2: they do other things to generate income.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps a pumpkin patch during the fall. Yes, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it would have been a disservice to his dad's
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  Speaker 1: memory to continue to be able to afford to eat. Yeah, right,
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  Speaker 1: to figure, God, right, here's what I wished for, and
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  Speaker 1: this is a call to all Hallmark writers everywhere stop
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  Speaker 1: placing the pivotal town event on Christmas Eve. It is
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  Speaker 1: not believable. I do not care that that's what happened
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  Speaker 1: to his grandfather, and so now the town lights the
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  Speaker 1: tree on Christmas Eve. It is not believable one that
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  Speaker 1: people are willing to wait until the night before Christmas
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  Speaker 1: to light this tree, and then Christmas is over, and
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  Speaker 1: then what they're enjoying it through New Year's when they
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  Speaker 1: tear it down. Nope, I don't believe that. I also
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  Speaker 1: don't believe that all of these people have nothing better
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  Speaker 1: to do on Christmas Eve than set up this party
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  Speaker 1: in the town and attend this town party. Everyone's doing
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  Speaker 1: their own thing. The town event should be the first
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  Speaker 1: weekend in December or the weekend after Thanksgiving, so you
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  Speaker 1: can then do your own thing for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the month. You can see the beautiful tree in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of town, but nobody wants to attend a festival
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  Speaker 1: on Christmas Eve.
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  Speaker 2: The end, well, I wanted to bring up the point
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  Speaker 2: that any big like holiday Christmas tree here in our
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: neighboring towns is always spray painted green because it dies
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  Speaker 2: as soon as you cut it, you know what I mean? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: or it has like all this filler into it to
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: make it look like lush and full. It's never. It's
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: never like this freshly cut tree that comes in, you know,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: the day of Christmas Eve or whatever.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Do you recall seeing the Rockefeller Christmas tree go up
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  Speaker 1: last year?
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: No? So was it in pieces?
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: No, it's a full, live tree that they put up
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: every year. But when they put it up, and we
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: typically don't see it go up there. But when they
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: put it up, it looked like it needed a little
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: bit of help. And there was the big joke that
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: like this tree had the same twenty twenty the rest
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: of us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then when it was fully decorated, you know, they
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: add like fake branches, and then of course they add
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: lights and they add ornaments. It's beautiful, looks exactly as
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: you expect it to look. And so I don't know
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: what my point is here other than well, I don't
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: know what my point was at the point of like
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: spray painting green trees. You can put your tree up
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: prior to Christmas Eve. Yees, stop that, I hear you?
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: All right? Are you ready for? Did you see that
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: I am. Benjamin Ayers tweeted, I do my own stunts
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: about the whipped cream on his nose scene, and I
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: found that hilarious.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: I thought that was a really funny scene too. I
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: wondered if it was like real now, it couldn't have been,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: like I know that he really got whipped cream on
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: his face. Just the reaction I thought was really funny. Agree, Okay,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: So I read some reviews and there's some criticism about
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: a line that he had about an ornament being like
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: twenty seven years old.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, he's forty four.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: He's forty four four years old, Like, why are we
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: lying about his age? There's no ways he does not
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: look twenty seven, first of all, and she is forty six.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: She's my age.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I'm shocked.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: So I wondered about that line so much because when
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: he says it, he almost gives like a little wink.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: After he says it, he's like twenty seven years ago,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: And I almost am like, wait, are we supposed to
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: believe you're twenty seven? Because in the Hallmark universe, if
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: you're forty four, certainly should not be single anymore. Is
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: that huh? Is that the implication here? I almost it
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: seemed to me when he said it that he laughed
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: a little bit when he said it. But so many
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: people bumped on that line that I think I was
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: maybe alone in feeling that way, and that the intention
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: was that he was playing a twenty seven year old. No,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with being forty four, but it's not
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: twenty seven.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it just was weird. But you're right though, like
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: if she was forty six and still single, well, you know,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: she was engaged to be.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Married, so there's no shame in being forty six and
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: is still single, but not humors. Perhaps there's a message there, right.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I would like to know why, as people are continuing
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: to return trees to him and he is giving them
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: their money back, he continues to then sell trees. No't
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: you know something wrong? Why are you creating more of
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: an issue for yourself? Stop stop selling them?
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know, I know, And he
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: the amount of money there was one part I was like, no, wait,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Christmas trees are so freaking expensive. They're in the hundreds
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: of dollars for like a fresh cut tree. I don't
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: think like that they were working with that kind of
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: money because I just remember he was giving a refund.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Needles fall off the trees. This is not groundbreaking. There's
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: a nightmare of real trees is they're a mess exactly.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: The funniest line for me. And this falls into did
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: you see that or did you hear that? She says
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Danica McKellar says science for the wind, and I thought.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Huh, oh, wonder, I wonder if that's I don't I
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: thought it was funny. I thought it was maybe a
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: little I don't know.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Julie Gruman Wolf, were you being cheeky? Cheeky is
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: what the word I was looking for. Yeah, perfect, that's
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: a great that's a great call out. I wrote, do
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: trees have DNA? Because Danica talks about meaning to DNA
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: sequence these trees and the answer is, yes, trees have DNA.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: In case any wonder, they do have DNA, more of
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: some type of DNA than human The cells have more
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: DNA than human cells, so they haven't fully mapped the
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: tree DNA sequence.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: But ah, trees do have DNA. Oh that's cool, that's cool.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I mean I just wondered, like she basically made something
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: that already exists. It's like basically that stuff that you
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: put in cut flowers right for that last longer. I
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: mean you could put sugar. I think sugar is another thing.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: That you could put in there.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: So did they actually solve the mystery of what was
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: causing did the trees have a disease?
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I don't even remember.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know mystery.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: All I know is they had this stop gap measure
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: to keep them alive through Christmas, right, and then they
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: were then going to have to solve the issue for
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: next year.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, maybe we'll get a part two. Probably not, not
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: that she signed a deal with GHAK. Who are not
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: going to get a part two?
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: You Me and the Pumpkin Patch.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, just real quick. I did look on IMDb. The
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: reviews for this movie were not great on IMDb. Oh yeah, yeah.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: I was kind of surprised because I really liked it.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: But the one that stood up on stood out on
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: IMDb was was this shot in spring? No, dummy, it
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: was shot in August, which we know. I mean, no,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: it was not shot last December. Like, are these people idiots?
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: They're idiots?
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: They were upset that it didn't look like winter.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Well, welcome to Hallmark, folks, Yeah, welcome to movie making right, God, dummies,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: They were a little heavy on the digital snow in
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: this movie.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: This movie in particular, they were laying down on the
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: ground and the digital snow was supposed to be like
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: hitting their faces, but it would just like magically melt
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: away before it even touched their skin.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I always comment on the soapy equality of
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the fake snow that is used when they use fake
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: real snow, But I still would prefer that landing on
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: their shoulders to digital snow where there's no snow on
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: their clothes, on anything around them except for the ground
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: at all. Right, it looks like it's going to be
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: a heavy digital snow season. I wonder if it doesn't
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: work as well when it's one hundred degrees, if those
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: if it just dissolves too quickly.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: The soap bubbles or whatever they have used in the past, yestly,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: if that's an issue. What did you rate this movie?
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: I gave this movie three stars.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Exactly what I gave it is.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I liked it.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to this episode and we'll be
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: back next week. Have a great weekend, happy watching, Goodbye bye.