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Romance at Hope Ranch · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gotten Hallmark, a Hamewark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 1: On today's episode, we're discussing Romance at Hope Ranch, which
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  Speaker 1: originally premiered on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday, February twenty eighth,
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  Speaker 1: And if you want to watch it now, check it
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  Speaker 1: out on Hallmark Plus.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Megan just told me. Apparently they're running like crazy
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, check their Instagram because they seem to have consistently
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  Speaker 1: the Hallmark Plus Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if that's for new subscribers only, Like, should
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  Speaker 2: I see what I'm paying and see if oh discounted? Ray,
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know. I think I'm probably painting like
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  Speaker 2: seven nine month or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I am too.
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  Speaker 2: So can I get a four ninety nine deal?
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  Speaker 1: I mean you could change your email address?
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  Speaker 2: I could, I guess, Yeah, I guess I could.
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  Speaker 1: But speaking of Instagram, we're on Instagram of course where
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  Speaker 1: girls go on Hallmark. The late breaking Hallmark News just
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  Speaker 1: dropped Lazy Shaber will be starring in a six episode
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  Speaker 1: limited book adaptation series exclusively on Hallmarks Plus. Speaking of
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  Speaker 1: based on the novel Paris is always a good idea
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  Speaker 1: alongside Scott Michael Foster, which, btw, back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: I was a big fan of the show Greek.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like tall and blonde, right, he's.
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  Speaker 1: Tall and blonde. Yeah, kind of a douf in Greek,
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  Speaker 1: like that's kind of his thing.
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  Speaker 2: But but he's been in a ton of other Hallmark things, right,
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember Return for the Office. Was he in Return?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh? What what a pole? What girl?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I have it and sometimes I don't. Today seems
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  Speaker 2: to be the day.
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  Speaker 1: He was in Return to Office. I'm not sure that
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  Speaker 1: he's been at anything else on Hallmark other than that,
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  Speaker 1: but he was great that he's.
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  Speaker 2: Been on Hallmark before refore that, I think, So.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll trust you. I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: I hope people are screaming at us right now, like, hey, dummies,
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  Speaker 2: he was in when Calls the Heart.
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  Speaker 1: I know he wasn't, but you know, yeah, that could
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  Speaker 1: not be more opposite that dude's personality. Yeah, he was
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  Speaker 1: in Love for Real from twenty twenty one. Well, that
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  Speaker 1: reality dating show, remember that I liked it?
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  Speaker 2: I do? I do? All right, before we jump in,
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  Speaker 2: I have a question for you. So it's interesting that
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark Plus is putting out these limited series. I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: they'll make it to Hallmark Channel eventually, but I can't
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  Speaker 2: help but think about the twelve I can't even remember
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  Speaker 2: the name of it, The Twelve Dates of Christmas, the
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  Speaker 2: the show we really like during account on the Christmas. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I'm praying the quality of this Lacy should Bear project
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  Speaker 2: is like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's my hope as well. That's my hope as.
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  Speaker 2: Well, praying. And I hope I hope it leans comedy
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  Speaker 2: because I think Lacey does comedy so well. And I
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  Speaker 2: wonder where they're gonna be shooting this. Are they shooting
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  Speaker 2: it on location? I mean, she just wrapped that Disney
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  Speaker 2: movie and now she's off to somewhere else. Kind of
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  Speaker 2: crazy beautiful her. I'm guessing though, her reality TV show
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  Speaker 2: is probably not making it come back.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't made an official announcement, but they did announce
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  Speaker 1: that they're leaning away from unscripted programming. So this I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure this was a don't worry, Lacey, we got you
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  Speaker 1: covered and working out your reality show. But here, how
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  Speaker 1: about this limited Hallmark LUs exclusive?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Serious? All right? Are you ready to talk a
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  Speaker 2: Romance at Hope Ranch?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Boy? I am? Oh no.
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  Speaker 2: Hope Morgan sets out to begin a new chapter of
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  Speaker 2: her life, fulfilling her childhood dream of running a ranch
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  Speaker 2: in the picturesque town of Rodoso, New Mexico, and reviving
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  Speaker 2: the beloved Giddyup Gala.
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  Speaker 1: Drink every single time they say giddy Up Gala totally.
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  Speaker 2: And now if I can't just just the spoiler, just
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  Speaker 2: the spoiler, the spoiler of your thoughts on this movie,
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  Speaker 2: hear me out. I texted Megan early while watching this, huh,
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, I don't hate it, but wow
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  Speaker 2: did things go sideways?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: No, okay, I'm a lot of good things to talk
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  Speaker 2: about and a lot of like questionable things to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Tren't wait to get into it, okay. Taylor Brion directed
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  Speaker 1: Romance at Hope Ranch. This is her first Homewark project,
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  Speaker 1: but her twenty fourth directing credit overall, and she's no
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  Speaker 1: stranger to the director's Chair with titles like can You
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  Speaker 1: Feel the Beat That Lisa Lisa Story and Tempted by
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  Speaker 1: Love Terry McMillan presentation among her credits. We're excited to
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  Speaker 1: see what a fresh voice brings to the Hallmark world.
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  Speaker 2: Lisa Lisa hold On, I just I'm like my and
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  Speaker 2: the yeah is like a file? What is it call
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  Speaker 2: a file?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I'm like where where do I know that?
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  Speaker 1: From?
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  Speaker 2: Where do I know that from? Yeah? Totally Lisa Lisa
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  Speaker 2: and cult jam is that what it was called?
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  Speaker 1: I think so I couldn't sell I couldn't name their song,
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  Speaker 1: could you No?
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  Speaker 2: But I think we're gonna need listener Wayne to check
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  Speaker 2: in because I bet Wayne knows. Oh. Juliana Wimbles wrote
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  Speaker 2: the screenplay. This is Juliana's tenth writing project, and Hamewark
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  Speaker 2: fans will recognize her work from Love on the Amazon
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  Speaker 2: earlier this year. She's also got a hand in Swanston
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  Speaker 2: movie coming out UH in the next few weeks. Clearly,
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  Speaker 2: she is having quite the year, both written and on camera.
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  Speaker 1: Correct she is not the writer on the next Hannah
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  Speaker 1: Swinson movie. Tunin tomorrow for our March First Impressions episode,
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  Speaker 1: where we'll talk more about that. Hope Morgan is played
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  Speaker 1: by Alison Sweeney, who also serves as executive producer on
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  Speaker 1: this project. Ali appeared in four Hallmark projects in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, the two Barcelona movies, as well as two
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  Speaker 1: installments of Hannah Swinson mysteries.
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  Speaker 2: She stays busy. You know, I like those Barcelona movies
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  Speaker 2: a lot, we do. I really like those. I like
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  Speaker 2: that like female energy, like you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Gabriel Hogan plays Jack Hope's X who shows up on
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  Speaker 2: the ranch ready to make a case for a second chance.
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark fans know Gabriel best as Norman Rhodes in Hannah Swinson,
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  Speaker 2: but he's also been keeping busy on The Lincoln Lawyer
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  Speaker 2: and Heartland. And we'll be joining the cast of the
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  Speaker 2: Way Home for season four. You know I'm reading this.
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  Speaker 2: Can you hear the excitement in my voice? I did
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  Speaker 2: not know he was joining the cast.
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  Speaker 1: Did I make the Way? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know?
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  Speaker 1: Did you? Oh? Him and Dan Janott Real Hogan and
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  Speaker 1: Dan Janott. Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Megan Sweeney plays Maggie Morgan, Hope's college bound daughter. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that is Allie Sweeney's real life daughter making her acting
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  Speaker 1: debut here. Meghan was sixteen when they filmed this coincidentally,
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  Speaker 1: the same age Allison was when she first landed the
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  Speaker 1: role of Sammy on Days of Our Lives.
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  Speaker 2: Scott Martin play's neighbor Tom Grayson. Scott is an occasional
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  Speaker 2: actor with nine previous acting credits and a strong background
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  Speaker 2: in producing that this appears to be his first Hallmark
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  Speaker 2: project in any capacity.
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  Speaker 1: Stephanie Baran plays Lorie Bennett. This is Stephanie's thirteenth acting
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  Speaker 1: project and her first for Hallmark.
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  Speaker 2: Her last was.
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  Speaker 1: Exit Protocol in twenty twenty five. We are going to
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  Speaker 1: take a quick break, take a fish oil, and come
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  Speaker 1: right back with our first impressions. Hey, what was your
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  Speaker 1: first impression of Romance at Hope Branch?
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  Speaker 2: I thought I was watching Hallmark, but ten minutes in
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  Speaker 2: I was checking to see if Keith Morrison was about.
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  Speaker 1: To narrate what.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, do you have the same first impression?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: Am I watching Dateline? What is happening here?
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  Speaker 1: You know Keith Morrison and I used to take our
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  Speaker 1: dogs to the same trainer.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about Keith Morrison for just a second.
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  Speaker 2: He's an Orange County local. By the way, he is
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  Speaker 2: an Orange County local. I just saw a TikTok. If
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  Speaker 2: somebody was like, yeah, you know you're a Newport Beach
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  Speaker 2: and Keith Morrison is in a Bentley with the top
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  Speaker 2: down driving down pach or something. I just thought, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's Megan's from friend from dump Train.
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  Speaker 1: I played it so cool. Every time we would run
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  Speaker 1: into each other and our dogs would just like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: have a little moment. I wanted to be. I just like,
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  Speaker 1: just like, this is my fellow Tuesday morning training buddy.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, I would just like listen to him talk.
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  Speaker 2: I would just be like, it would like just lull
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  Speaker 2: me to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was so funny because when he walked up,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, is that who I think it is?
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  Speaker 1: And then you know, as dog people do and you
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  Speaker 1: like talk about your dogs only, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: that's absolutely Keith Morrison talking to me about his dog. Anyway. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he is seen out and about in the Newport Beach
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  Speaker 1: area quite a bit. Yeah, my first impression is nothing
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  Speaker 1: quite so dark as yours. It's o MG, get a
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  Speaker 1: better lock for that gate. I am going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about it. I don't know why it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was one of the things that bothered me the
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  Speaker 2: most about this movie me if you can believe that too,
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  Speaker 2: It okay too.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk what we liked though. Let me start.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So this season of Life really hits home.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I love the.
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  Speaker 2: Opening stretch Hope dropping off her daughter at college and
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  Speaker 2: then she's like driving to her own fresh start and
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  Speaker 2: she's like really excited. Like that hit hard for me.
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  Speaker 2: I see, are you in the same season of life?
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  Speaker 2: I was excited for Hope stepping into this next chapter.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of crazy that she would be navigating like this transition,
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  Speaker 2: like I've just dropped my kid off at college and
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  Speaker 2: now I'm going to start a whole new life for myself.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's a lot to take in, but I was
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  Speaker 2: fully on board. This is when I texted you and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I'm into this. I'm into this.
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  Speaker 1: You know that storyline resonated with me too and for you,
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  Speaker 1: like you are sending your one and only child to college,
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  Speaker 1: so like we're in different phases of life, like I
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  Speaker 1: have one and one at home. But I did like
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  Speaker 1: that story, and I especially liked the reality of the
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  Speaker 1: way they handle her transition to college and her general
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  Speaker 1: feeling of feeling overwhelmed and maybe in over her head,
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  Speaker 1: and then the parallel feeling that Hope had of helplessness
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  Speaker 1: on the other end of line, She's like, what can
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  Speaker 1: I do? And that's so familiar to me. And I
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  Speaker 1: assume you, as a parent, were like, how can we
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  Speaker 1: solve this? And really you can't, Like you can offer
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  Speaker 1: advice and then you just have to sit back and wait.
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  Speaker 1: And so I thought there was a lot of reality
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  Speaker 1: in that moment. Agree, Speaking of our girl Alli, though
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  Speaker 1: she spends a lot of time in this movie by herself,
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  Speaker 1: acting by herself, you know, cruising with the wind in
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  Speaker 1: her hair, wrangling chickens, decorating her new home, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that's a very interesting well the movie is about
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  Speaker 1: her making it on her own in theory, like she
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  Speaker 1: wants to do it on her own, but I also
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  Speaker 1: think it paints a picture of how much she is
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  Speaker 1: carrying this movie on her back, because I thought a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the characters lacked depth. We really only get
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  Speaker 1: to know most of these people as they relate to Hope,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of them don't exist on their own
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  Speaker 1: outside of the universe of Hope. But I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we get a full clear picture of who Hope is
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  Speaker 1: down to her flaws as well, and I Alie does
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  Speaker 1: a really good job with that.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you. I think Alie Sweeny is always watchable.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoy her as an actor. As Hope.
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  Speaker 1: I was.
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  Speaker 2: Struggling a little bit, like because part of me was
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  Speaker 2: really excited for her, and then other parts of me
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  Speaker 2: I was like, you are over your head here and
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  Speaker 2: you need to ask, Oh, for sure that's going to
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  Speaker 2: be I'll talk of a little bit about more about
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  Speaker 2: that in my wishes. But I thought she was completely watchable.
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  Speaker 2: And also Allie as Hope made me believe that she
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  Speaker 2: could run this ranch, even though I think the script
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  Speaker 2: was actively sabotaging her a little bit throughout. But I
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  Speaker 2: was into her like boss ranch energy, yes, which is
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  Speaker 2: so silly. You're right, because she was alone in so
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  Speaker 2: many of these scenes, and I was like, I feel this,
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  Speaker 2: like I like to be alone as well and do
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  Speaker 2: like productive things like this. So I found it very
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  Speaker 2: relatable and I did you know, I love I'm a
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  Speaker 2: sucker for like small trump, small town traditions, legacy events
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  Speaker 2: that they're trying to revive. Like I like movies like
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  Speaker 2: that where they're like working towards this goal. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: while I thought it was a little bit silly and
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to talk way more and my wishes about it,
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  Speaker 2: there is this through line, like this narrative that I
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  Speaker 2: find appealing in this movie.
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  Speaker 1: Oh for sure, me too. I like all of that too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think a lot of that storyline is
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  Speaker 1: very classic Hallmark, like the small town event. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm into that small town event. I would. I love
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  Speaker 1: the idea of having this thing that we all look
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  Speaker 1: forward to in this tradition, and Hope had that from
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  Speaker 1: her childhood and her daughter's childhood and now can be
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  Speaker 1: instrumental in creating it for others. Obviously, there were some
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  Speaker 1: moments along the way where she could have made some
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  Speaker 1: different choices.
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  Speaker 2: This is so silly, But I love the animals. Oh
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  Speaker 2: me too. You know Ali chicken, the houd Okay, first
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  Speaker 2: of all, Houdini hive, arise up.
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  Speaker 1: This is the cute.
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  Speaker 2: If I could have a freaking chicken in my backyard,
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  Speaker 2: I would Why did this chicken look so different from
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  Speaker 2: the other chickens? Was it a chick I don't understand
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  Speaker 2: what it looked different.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's a different kind of chicken. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what kind. I just that is a yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: has a name. And you know who Jen Hamilton is,
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  Speaker 1: the TikToker who's a labor and delivery nurse.
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  Speaker 2: Do I know who Jenlton is?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: I do. I love her.
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  Speaker 1: Well, she has that kind of chicken and she has
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  Speaker 1: some older videos of her, like swaddling those chiens is
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  Speaker 1: a whole thing. They're really funny. So that's where I
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  Speaker 1: recognized that chicken from all Right, what else did you
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  Speaker 1: like about this movie? That about rap?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I did like New Mexico. Was this actually filmed
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  Speaker 2: in New Mexico?
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  Speaker 1: Question Mark Filming locations, Ruydoso, New Mexico.
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  Speaker 2: Oh nice.
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  Speaker 1: Well, now I need to know which one of these
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  Speaker 1: men gave you dateline vibes.
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  Speaker 2: Jack?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good, Okay good. I have a lot of thoughts
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  Speaker 1: about Jack.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about Jack.
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  Speaker 1: So my initial feeling, and when I wrote in my
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  Speaker 1: notes and perhaps I was too kind, is that I
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  Speaker 1: had to work through some feelings about Jack just setting
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  Speaker 1: up shop in Riudoso in order to be with Hope.
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  Speaker 1: He calls it unhinged, and I was like, yeah, that's fair,
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  Speaker 1: Like that's not even a stretch. I did come around
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  Speaker 1: to him though, because I feel like he does prove himself.
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  Speaker 1: He listens to her, he hears her when she's like,
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  Speaker 1: go away. It does take him a second, but he
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  Speaker 1: ultimately does listen. He's quick to apologize, and we learn
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  Speaker 1: that he kept himself as a presence in Maggie's life
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  Speaker 1: even when he was no longer in Hope's life. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's weird. Oh do you think it's weird?
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  Speaker 2: I do?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, tell me may they.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't They didn't really establish how long they had been together.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the timeline of it all, like when did Maggie's
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  Speaker 1: dad pass that?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, Like they didn't even there was no
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  Speaker 2: context to that either.
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  Speaker 1: I just I just just he's just in the military
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  Speaker 1: and he's gone, right, right, And all we know is
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  Speaker 1: that they haven't been together for ten years.
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  Speaker 2: So Maggie was six, Yeah it is eight.
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  Speaker 1: I guess, considering how old she is in the movie.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, Right, I just thought it was weird. I have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of feelings. I like Gabriel Hogan a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was excited to see them paired in this movie
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  Speaker 2: because he is so in the friend zone on Hannah Swinson. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and so I liked that they were getting to explore
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  Speaker 2: a different relationship in this movie. But in terms of
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  Speaker 2: the character Jack one, I thought it was really weird
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  Speaker 2: that he heard she was moving there, so he relocated.
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  Speaker 2: He was in New York, New York City. He was
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  Speaker 2: in New York, right, and they were like in Denver
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  Speaker 2: or something like that, and it's just this weird. He
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  Speaker 2: buys this feed store and has a photo of them up,
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  Speaker 2: and it was weird.
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  Speaker 1: It was red flags all around to me. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: do agree with you. I do fully agree with you
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  Speaker 1: that it would is enough to make somebody uncomfortable. Really,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if she especially if she didn't share his feelings.
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  Speaker 1: Now what exactly and she was like not into it
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: at first. You're right, like they came around. But I
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: think it would have been so much better if Jack
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: was someone brand new to her. She's in this new
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: season of life. She deserves something fresh, not this.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Man who like for the third time, yes of this
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: whole relocation timeline, no, no, no, no no. And then
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: I hated that she was like hesitant and scared. Excuse me,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know how old Alison Sweeney is or how
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: this character is, but a woman of my age, Like
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I kind of know what I want, and I don't
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: like if I'm hesitant, like we've tried, let's try this
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: a third time.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I'm not doing that, Like I haven't been walking around
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: with this like one that got away feeling right, like
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: this is a relationship that failed twice. And while that
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: may be sad, you didn't get the vibe that she
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: had been pining for him the way he had for her.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And that would have freaked me out.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you, I hear you.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it just I just thought it was weird make
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: these people two complete strangers, make him be the neighbor.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Well, can we talk about the neighbor?
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Sure?
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: In the beginning, I felt like we were setting up
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: for a Tom Jack Hope love triangle. Absolutely Tom shows up.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I'm like, that man is falling in love with her,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: like fumbling over himself, he like couldn't find the words,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: so like he was so taken by her blue eyes,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: you know. And then we get a little bit of
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: friction between Jack and Tom, and I thought, well, that's
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: because they're both like Tom's like, who is this interloper
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: coming from my new ranch? Lady neighbor? And then they
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: kind of just Laurie comes in and they're like, well
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: that's neat and tidy. We'll just give sweet rancher Tom
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: to my friend Laurie. Yeah, which it was cute, but
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I was like, wait, I saw the eyes Tom was
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: giving Hope. Uh huh. I don't want Laurie to be
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: second choice here because she's the one who's available.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Fight for her Tom, not LORI.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Fight for I Hope, you know, come on, you know.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: But he was like, oh, this is my buddy.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Now the two dudes are buddies because they like fix
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: some water pipe together or whatever. So now there's like
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: a agreement between gentlemen of like you can have Hope
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: and all gross take your sister Laurie.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, come on, come on. Okay, we talked
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: about the fence earlier.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, ma'am, your horses are escaping and you're off planting
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: your garden, Like you need to get this fence in order.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I'm like, get a freaking zip tie, get a bungee
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: cord something. What is going on here with this whack
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: job wire situation?
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Why look once, fine, like that's what's there? You think, Oh,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: that must work, So we just wrap it up when
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: it fails multiple times and you a strong, confident, capable
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: woman with checklists, don't immediately get your ass to the
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: hardware store for a better solution after your horses have
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: escaped and the townspeople are talking about I was done.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I was like, stop wrapping that damn wire around the fence.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: A three year old could undo it, and clearly these
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: several thousand pounds horses can as well.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, are they jumping over the fence? I know
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: they weren't, but could those horses jump over that fence?
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I assume not because that wasn't my issue, but.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: I know nothing about horses, but pretty hard they just
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: are they using their teeth to like pull on that
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: wire or just nudge at the fence where they know
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: where the opening is and it could just like, you know,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: stretch that wire out or whatever.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I was super annoyed with that, mostly because it's
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: this she Hope keeps telling her daughter you need to
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: ask for help, you can ask for help, while refusing
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: to ask for help herself. Like the irony was so
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: loud it was driving me crazy. I it really burns
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: my breeches when people can't ask.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: For help, yespecially when you're drowning. Yes.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: And the girl was drowning, you know, I know you
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: and I both like like a checklist. So I was
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: really impressed with her big board and her big checklist,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: but I was like, she can't do it on her own.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: No, And she was doing three huge things. She was
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: relocating her entire life. She was starting a ranch, which
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: she had never done before, and running a major town event,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and attempting to do all three of those things simultaneously
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: and alone. Stop it.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Well, that is my next beef, because I'm not wrong.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: She is running like a bed and breakfast too. At
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Oh that's right. Okay, So this is what's striving me.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: This is where yeah really lost me here because she
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: she double books reservations, like we don't see any of
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: that happen, right, just.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Like her system malfunctioned? What system? Her online booking system?
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: How did she get that going? Okay, that's a side problem.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: But she double books these reservations and it somehows like
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: she panics, but then it's like, really not a problem.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: And here's my questions. Who's cooking, who's cleaning, who's turning
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: over the rooms? Who are greeting guests, who's making coffee?
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: This woman has zero staff at this ranch she's running.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: And apparently her first guess were happening at the gidda
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: up gallot. You're not doing a soft opening, you're not
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: doing the dragonfly in. Test it with the test it
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: with your friends and neighbors, and make sure everything runs smoothly.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Come.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: It was too much. It was absurd for her to
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: take on all of these things. And it's in my
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: digity that but we'll talk about it here. Is it
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the reality, never mind all of the other things she's doing,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: but is it the reality that people run a ranch solo?
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Because Tom was like, it's just me, and Hope is like,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: it's just me. You can run a rand with all
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: of those animals by yourself.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: There's no there are not enough hours in the day.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Like you would work seven days a week, sun up
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: to sundown, between feeding and cleaning and watering and planting
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: her garden and exercising those horses and harvesting the eggs
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: and taking care of your No, no, you need help.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Now let's add a massive town wide gala on top
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: of it.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: It was too much, too much, Just have the freaking gala.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: You don't need to open Like who who edited this script?
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Like did anybody look at it and go, you know,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: that's a lot super realistic, like we like take out
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: the bed and breakfast, like the ranch and the Gala
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: on their own would have been overload. I understand that
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: we needed to have some sort of like extra piece
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: that made it very clear that this was all too much,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: But the fact that she's also opening up this inn
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: at Hope Ranch was completely implausible. Totally I agree. Here's
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: my other beef is she invites the whole freaking town
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: to this free.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Why are you making it free?
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: You can't it's a free a bit?
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: How much are tickets?
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: It's free?
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Everybody.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Come, I'm gonna pay for food and entertainment and drinks
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: and cocktails and decore with what money? Come on? Come on?
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: And then the cater let's just really dump they the
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: caterer kind of caterer can't close their damn refrigerator and
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: the food gets spoiled like you're and it's a phone call, sorry,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: I don't have anything for you. That's on the caterer
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: to rectify in that moment. It's not a sorry like
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: go to the store.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: And buy some new food.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Bro Well, that morning when she's like making scones to
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: have the code.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Guy come, oh okay, oh my god.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: How many hours are in a day? I don't understand.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: There's like thirty six hours in that whole branch. She's
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: making scones. She's doing all this stuff, and then the
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: caterer dumps her, and then they they can get everybody
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: to come to bring like something up.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: They all got time to whip up a cast role
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: at home?
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: What I like? One of the ladies came and she's like,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: here I brought like it's a veggie plotter. I was like,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: oh good, Like get a food truck, lady, Like.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: There's not a restaurant in town that you could have
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: called upon. Seriously, I'm like a bakery, like just go
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: buy everybody out, have.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: It be free, a free event, but like food and
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: drinks for purchase. Like what is she doing? What is
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: she doing?
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: What is she doing? Yeah?
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: This just was like are you freaking kidding me?
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: That's all?
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: That is all?
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk. Did you see that?
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: I have a question and I don't. This person came
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: out of nowhere. She was like the snarky town person.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: She had full lashes, super booty. She brings the mac
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: and cheese, like saves the day. But I'm like, who's
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: this chick? She's just the mean girl.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: And then it was so dumb, like why why?
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Eddie edite in the script would have been a
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: good idea. I had to look this next thing up
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: because I did not know what was called because I
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: do not wear cowboy boots. In my notes, this is
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: the boot take her off her contraption. It is called
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: a boot jack.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Have you ever seen one of those before? Because now
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: that you say that, I feel like I have heard
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: that term before.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Jack.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Did you?
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Did you even catch it? Was like taking her boots
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: off at the front door, and I was.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Like, what is that thing that she's Oh, I saw
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: her take her boots off. You like hook the back
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: of your boot in and it holds on.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: To it, Yeah, and you just slide your foot out
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: of it.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Now, let me ask you a question.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: If I'm working on a ranch of not wearing cowboy
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: boots a boot that has like a little heel, I'm
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: not all day long. I know like cowboys and ranchers
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: wear boots because like I.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Think they are wearing cowboy boots.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: There's no way my feet there's I'm wearing a tennis
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: shoe or a croc because let's be real.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: But no, no, no, no, no, no no. Because you're
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: walking through muck, you need like a like a rain
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: boot at least.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: But give me a hunter boot.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Them they are wearing cowboy boots and everybody says that
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: they're the most comfortable shoes you'll ever or look, I
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: have owned them, and I've never been more uncomfortable in
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: my entire life.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Well, you and I went to a Garth Brooks concert
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: which you wore, and I feel like you walked out
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: to the parking lot barefoot because you were like, these
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: boots are too much for me.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Probably probably. I bought real cowboy boots like in
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Park City, Utah, and they were so damn cute, And
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: now my daughter has them. Because they're so uncomfortabley're miserable
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: to wear.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just don't get it. Does it just take time?
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Maybe burying them in every single time? Maybe you have
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: to do more than wear them to a concert.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: All right, funny did you see that? Are they're limited?
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: But look, there's a lot of personal touches in this movie.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Of course, Ali's daughter, Meghan plays her daughter, Maggie, and
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: that is that he's her real memorabilia in her dorm
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: room that they used to decorate it, her horse metals
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: and all of that, which is very cute and Ali's mother.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Thank you to Girls Con Homewark team member Maggie who
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: emailed us to let us know that Ali revealed that
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: her mother's name was Hope and that's where the title
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: of this movie and her name for her character comes from.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's cute. Can I just add a note here, like, okay,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Alie's real life daughter, was it seamless her first acting job? No,
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: but you got to start somewhere, and it really helps
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: when your mom is Ali Sweeney. Right.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and also the article I read said she doesn't
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: really have aspirations to do this, that's not her goal
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: and knife to be an app at it. All. Right,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: what did you rate this movie?
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: I'm actually really torn. My notes say right now two
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: point seventy five to three stars.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I wrote three. I wrote three.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: I don't like get that Like it started out so
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: solid for me and then it just was like, come on,
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: that's where I'm at.
• 31:29
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