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  Speaker 3: I'm Wendy. I'm your Hallmark former Hallmark hater every time.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for listening today as we discuss Field Day,
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  Speaker 2: the final movie before Hallmark starts dropping a barrage of
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  Speaker 2: to Like, I can sit down and watch a movie
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  Speaker 2: they're Taylor Swift Era they sure are. I'd love to
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  Speaker 3: I mean they're so smart. I don't know who's running
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  Speaker 3: that show over there right now, but I mean it
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  Speaker 3: makes sense to like.
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  Speaker 2: The same person who put New Kids on the Block
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  Speaker 2: in a movie that was designed for mothers of a
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  Speaker 2: certain age.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for the reminder. I forgot to add it
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  Speaker 3: to my notes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we'll talk more about that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Sleepy Kitty paw over on Twitter. Look, I'm just
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  Speaker 3: always gonna call it Twitter. I don't care if you
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  Speaker 3: don't follow this person. This person knows everything about Hallmark
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  Speaker 3: movies and more so if you're on the Twitter they
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  Speaker 3: have to.
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  Speaker 2: They're pulling back on their like holiday movie coverage, but
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  Speaker 2: they're still covering quite a bit.
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  Speaker 3: Look at it is going to be my everest to
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  Speaker 3: get this person on our show.
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  Speaker 2: We'll use a voice modulator if we have to.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, like we will share anything. We could do it
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  Speaker 3: all via audio. It doesn't even have to be on camera.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need to see what this person looks.
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  Speaker 2: Like that doom WATCHI has a podcast and she's anonymous,
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  Speaker 2: but people hear her voice.
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  Speaker 3: I know, see, I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna email
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  Speaker 3: them again. Anyway, my point was Sleepy Kitty Paw shared
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  Speaker 3: that Field Day pulled in one point five to million
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  Speaker 3: live viewers and point one to two of the key demo.
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  Speaker 3: This movie was the top non sports program of the evening.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot of people watching, particularly in like football season.
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  Speaker 3: That was Saturday night college.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, lots of competition.
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  Speaker 3: How many total number of holiday movies across all platforms
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  Speaker 3: and channels do you think there are this year for
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty three?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I hate to be this person, but I saw
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  Speaker 2: this tweet as well, so I know that it's roughly
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  Speaker 2: in the one fifty range. Yeah, which is significantly less
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  Speaker 2: than last year. Although it's still a huge number of
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  Speaker 2: holiday movies.
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  Speaker 3: It's a big number of holiday movies. But I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: have to guess that the strikes.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, something to do with it.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, Yeah, I mean, are you okay with one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty five twenty legs? I mean, when I'm
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  Speaker 3: looking at the Hallmark schedule, it's a lot. And then
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  Speaker 3: I might see an ad for an Eddie Murphy Christmas
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  Speaker 3: movie over on Amazon and I'm like, where am I
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  Speaker 3: gonna add that? I have to watch all these Hallmark
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  Speaker 3: movies as it is? Per Hallmark three Bed two Bath
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  Speaker 3: one Ghost was a ratings quote knockout. This is the
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  Speaker 3: part I don't understand and his girl Math with three
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  Speaker 3: point nine million unduplicated total viewers.
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  Speaker 2: Are they pulling from streaming services? I don't know, but nevertheless,
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  Speaker 2: a big win for the network, A big win.
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  Speaker 3: It is the network's most watched twenty twenty three premiere.
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  Speaker 2: I will be interested to see once we get a
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  Speaker 2: full week out from Field Day how those numbers shake out.
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  Speaker 3: Oh good, good, good point.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about field Day with a synopsis.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Three moms from some different social circles are
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  Speaker 3: forced to work together to plan their kids' elementary school
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  Speaker 3: field day, starring Rachel Boston, Benjamin Ayirs, Shannon chan Kent,
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  Speaker 3: and Carmel Emmett.
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  Speaker 2: Rachel Boston stars as Jen in this movie. She was
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  Speaker 2: less than the More Love Grows. Before that, she was
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  Speaker 2: in a Christmas cookie catastrophe. But unfortunately we are not
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  Speaker 2: seeing her in this year's Countdown to Christmas lineup.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like she needs to be in more movies,
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  Speaker 3: more Hallmark movies. It's like one a year this was.
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  Speaker 2: I fully believe that this will turn out to be
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  Speaker 2: such a big hit that maybe this will catapult her
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more.
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  Speaker 3: I feel though, that the fans already love her.
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  Speaker 2: I don't disagree, all right, mister.
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  Speaker 3: Romance University plays coach Dan Aldridge. Benjamin Airs has a
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  Speaker 3: whopping ninety three acting credits, including last year's Long Lost Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: Most recently, he is in a Canadian show called Family Law.
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  Speaker 3: He will co star with Laura van der Voot in
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  Speaker 3: Miracle and bethelhem Pa on December twenty first on Hallmark
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  Speaker 3: Movies and Mysteries.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah will.
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  Speaker 3: That movie is not on our current review.
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  Speaker 2: Scheduled be a twenty twenty four look back review.
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  Speaker 3: Ooh, I like you calling it that? What a great name.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we're gonna call it.
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  Speaker 2: Shannon Chan, can't plas Kelly talk about whopping? Kelly has
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  Speaker 2: two hundred eighty six acting credits. Is this most we've
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  Speaker 2: ever seen? It might be. She does a ton of
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  Speaker 2: voice work on animated shows like Strawberry Shortcakes, Sonic Prime,
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  Speaker 2: and Polly Pucket. Her last timemark credit appears to be
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  Speaker 2: twoy nineteen twenty nineteen twenty nineteen's Holiday Date and Flip
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  Speaker 2: that Romance. She was also in The Irresistible Blueberry Farm,
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  Speaker 2: which our listeners are basically begging us to review.
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  Speaker 3: They are, I know, in the Facebook group.
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  Speaker 2: It's an Alie Sweeney joint.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. They wanted this to review it
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  Speaker 3: during the summertime and we didn't, and then it didn't
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  Speaker 3: fall in the fall movies. So maybe sometime in the spring, I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean basically by the time count On to Christmas is over,
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  Speaker 2: will be planning for summer anyway, so keep up the request.
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  Speaker 3: Carmel Emits plays scary lawyer Lady Marissa. She has sixty
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  Speaker 3: five acting credits, including last year's A Fabled Holiday. No
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  Speaker 3: notes there, We're not going to even revisit A Fabled Holiday.
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  Speaker 2: This script was written by Julie Sherman ohl fin Out.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't know her, yeah you do, because listen
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  Speaker 2: to the titles of the movie. She's written fourth down
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  Speaker 2: in love Hanukah on Raie A holiday spectacular always a
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  Speaker 2: more the perfect pairing a Dickens of a holiday, you
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  Speaker 2: me and the Christmas trees right in front of me
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  Speaker 2: taking a shot at love. One Royal Holiday Wedding every weekend. Y'all,
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  Speaker 2: these are good movies. We love her, definitely big fan.
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  Speaker 2: Up next is Holiday Hotline. She took over the script
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  Speaker 2: after the original writer, Dwayne Poo Poo sadly passed away,
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  Speaker 2: and we are reviewing that movie. It's dropping a little
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  Speaker 2: later in the schedule, but it is in our lineup. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: drops on twelve nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: Though.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, when we were reviewing the movies with our
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  Speaker 3: first impressions, Megan was like, this is a Butterball movie,
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  Speaker 3: Butterball Hotline movie.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so excited for this movie, knowing that it's written
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  Speaker 2: by Julie Shermanwolf just it's gonna be great. I know
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be great, right.
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  Speaker 3: David Winning directed. His previous titles include Time for Him
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  Speaker 3: to Come Home for Christmas, The Nine Kittens of Christmas,
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  Speaker 3: The Twenty Seven Hour Day, and about eighty other movies
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  Speaker 3: because he directs a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, this movie was film last fall in Vancouver, Canada,
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  Speaker 2: where apparently it was very cold.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I can't remember what it was, but I know
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  Speaker 3: there was like a whole bunch of Hallmark people got
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  Speaker 3: together and got to see screening of this movie. Like
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  Speaker 3: in the summertime.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe okay, sound familiar to you at all? No?
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  Speaker 3: Was it at one of those conventions? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Did they watch it at.
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  Speaker 3: Think they watch it actually at Homemark headquarters.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're right, like all the Hallmark stars went
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  Speaker 2: to Hallmark Headquarters yet ahead of Christmas con because they
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  Speaker 2: were all in town for that. Yeah, that's ringing a bell.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, we weren't there.
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  Speaker 2: Sadly next year.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I just had a I hope when we go
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  Speaker 3: on our Hallmark cruise we get a little we do preview.
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  Speaker 3: Has that already been announced? There's a screening of a
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  Speaker 3: movie that seats a movie that's not made yet.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, a screening of a twenty twenty four Countdown to
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  Speaker 2: Christmas movie. Our cruise is next November, so it will
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  Speaker 2: have already been announced, will already be in the Countdown
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  Speaker 2: to Christmas lineup, so it'll be one of the later movies.
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  Speaker 2: We had to pick our seats.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder.
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  Speaker 3: I just had a thought, we're going in November. Am
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  Speaker 3: I going to need a jacket on this cruise? I
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  Speaker 3: pictured me sunny.
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  Speaker 2: You know you won't need a drink. It's like going
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  Speaker 2: to Hawaiian November a light jacket maybe for windy decks,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not going to be It's not likely to
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  Speaker 2: be wintry weather in the Bahamas.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, let's be real. I'm probably gonna be laying
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  Speaker 3: in my bed the entire time because.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be seasick. But no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: Nice. If any of you are planning to go on
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  Speaker 3: the Hallmark Cruise in November next year.
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  Speaker 2: Let us know.
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  Speaker 3: I want to meet you.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe it's still over a year. A. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a long time. I'm away, sad. I want to
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  Speaker 2: go now.
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  Speaker 3: It's a long time away. All right? Are you ready
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  Speaker 3: for your first impression? I am you go first?
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  Speaker 2: Did they film this in my hometown?
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  Speaker 3: In your hometown?
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  Speaker 2: I know every single one of these moms.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's funny, mine is Julie does it again?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am? What did you like about field Day?
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  Speaker 3: Well, since we started these use I have always said
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  Speaker 3: that Julie writes for me. I am her demo like
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  Speaker 3: you know, Meg and I if listeners don't know, have
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  Speaker 3: a longtime blogging background. Who's your ideal customers? Your ideal customer?
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  Speaker 3: And I think Julie thinks of me. Wendy in suburban
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  Speaker 3: Orange County when she's writing these movies, because I love
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  Speaker 3: the story she creates, I love the language she uses,
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  Speaker 3: I love her pop cultural references. The jokes are funny.
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  Speaker 3: I does Julie have a you know how that there's
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  Speaker 3: the heinies and then there's the wolves.
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  Speaker 2: The wolves.
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  Speaker 3: That's us, we're coining it now. Yes, yes, I really
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  Speaker 3: really enjoyed this story.
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  Speaker 2: This movie was so relatable mm hmm, deeply relatable, deeply
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  Speaker 2: from the moment she's in the drop offline and gets
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  Speaker 2: out of the car and I'm like, don't get out
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  Speaker 2: of the car.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's one of Oh my god, They're like,
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  Speaker 3: you can't park here.
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  Speaker 2: I was like that every parent who has done school
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  Speaker 2: drop off knows that moment. We all know that feeling
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  Speaker 2: of not being fully ready and having to get out
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  Speaker 2: of the car for one reason or another. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: happened to me this morning, not at school drop off,
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  Speaker 2: but there is no coffee in my house and I
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  Speaker 2: placed a Starbucks order went to pick it up. It's
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  Speaker 2: kind of like cold and chilly here in the mornings.
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  Speaker 2: I'm wearing my fuzzy crocs around the house.
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  Speaker 3: Geez, did you get out of the car and go,
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  Speaker 3: oh shit, exact morning my feet hit the ground and
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  Speaker 3: I go, oh.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm in my crocs. But you know what, man,
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  Speaker 2: I just I just owned it. I walked right in.
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  Speaker 2: There were kids from your daughter's school there, and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, they're just talking about this mom and her
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  Speaker 2: crocks and I don't care because I had my coffee
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  Speaker 2: and I turned and it was ready for me. It
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  Speaker 2: was perfect. I've picked it up that thank you in
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  Speaker 2: that we know that moment though, right, yeah, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to wear a broad a drop off.
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  Speaker 3: Because I'm not going to get out of the car
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  Speaker 3: until my kid forgets our lunch and I have to
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  Speaker 3: go running after them.
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  Speaker 2: Been there.
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  Speaker 3: This PTO storyline was very relatable, No, deeply. Megan and
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  Speaker 3: I are both moms of teenagers, and we have spent many,
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  Speaker 3: many years involved in the Parent teacher organization association whichever
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  Speaker 3: it's called. In your neck of the woods, we have
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  Speaker 3: all planned field day or a trunk or treat or
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  Speaker 3: a end of year carnival something. Yeah, and there are
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  Speaker 3: those moms there that are in this movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I would like to point out that Julie said
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  Speaker 2: on Twitter that none of these women this is an
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  Speaker 2: amalgamation of people she's known over the years. None of
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  Speaker 2: them are a direct character, but I think we all
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  Speaker 2: know who these women are.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah for sure. Now tell me this. Have you heard
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  Speaker 3: the narrative of the working mom who is not available
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  Speaker 3: to come help at school? And how much shit has
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  Speaker 3: talked about these women who can't be there. It happens,
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  Speaker 3: It really happens, And I'm so glad that Julie put
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  Speaker 3: this in the movie.
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  Speaker 2: One of my favorite scenes is when it's towards the
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  Speaker 2: end and Kelly is talking to Marissa and she's like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry I ever made you feel bad for being
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  Speaker 2: a working mom. You were an amazing mom. You worked
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  Speaker 2: so hard for your family. I loved the female friendships, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: that's the best part of this whole movie. Agree, was
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  Speaker 2: that trio of women. And I just love that she acknowledged, like,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: you're such a good mom, even though your mom life
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: looks different than mine. Right, I'm your best mom friend?
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Made me cry. I cried.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: I texted Megan and I was like, why am I crying?
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: You feel great? Wise loved I loved loved how they
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: these three women like rallied around each other to help
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: each other out and they all come from different like sets,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: you know, and it was just so nice.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: It was so nice.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: I love, love, love when Hallmark gives us a movie.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: I know, we just talked about it, but when it
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: gives us a movie about female friendships and the love
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: story is like the side story. Yes, I have some
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: thoughts about it, somebody at Hallmark or maybe it's the
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: writers or I don't know, but I truly believe that women,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: and I know men watch Hallmark movies too, but I'm
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: talking about women here. Women who watch Hallmark movies, me included,
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: find that female friendships are equally as important as romantic ones,
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: and I love that they're giving us stories that show that.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, I think maybe one of the reasons that resonates
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: so much with me is not that everybody in my
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: age is married. But I've been married for eighteen years.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I'm not constantly in the like let's find a new
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: romance face yeah, but I could make new friends at
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: any point, like that is an evolving part of my
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: life forever, whereas romance may not be right.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: That's why for me it gets old to watch movie
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: after movie about like falling in love again. Give me
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: a break obviously.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I love the NW Kids on the Block moment. I
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: happen to have been standing up and I just danced
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: my ass after it.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: I did cringe a little bit when she was like
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: doing the sprinkler move. I was like, don't do that.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Don't do that.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: It's like a robot throwback to you.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just don't do that, Just do like your fancy
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: eye mean shake.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Whenever I see moments like this, I think this is
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: why I could never be an actress, because when they're like,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: just just dance, just feel yourself in that moment, I'd
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: be like, well, I'm now, I'm sorry. I quit. Like
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: I would need it to be like I would need
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: to do like the shopping car or the sprinkler just
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: to get through that moment, or the like stand alive. No,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know what to do. I can't dance and dancing. No,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: couldn't do it. He just do this too, bedroom not
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: on video.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: That was pretty funny. I gotta say I was there
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: really surprised that they used the New Kids on a
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Block song. Yeah, and it just was perfect for the
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: age of woman watching this.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Movie one hundred percent. Yeah.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's talk about Benjamin Airs and in this role.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, I found him.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Charming and kind and mature.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I love Benjamin Air.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: I know you do. Did you see that they were
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: giving away he was giving away the coach the coach?
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Sure, I love that. That's really cute.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: I just thought that was cute. But I did love
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: his character in this movie, Like, you know, he was
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: gonna and I'm like, I was taking it slow. They
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: both were. They were confused. They were both a little
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: bit are you done with.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: What we liked? Yeah, because this is a transition.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Let's transition.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: So for that to me, I like that they were
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: taking it slow. I liked that they were figuring it out.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: It was a little bit of emotional whiplash.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: For me, though, I agree, because it was.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Almost one too many back and forth, Like I can
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: understand that day doesn't go well, we're not ready, Maybe
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: we are, let's figure this out. And then that same day,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: after deciding that they're ready, he's like, I'm backing off again. Yeah,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: And he went into this relationship like relationships suck. Love sucks,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: and so for him to have that attitude and then
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: to back out twice, part of me was like, how
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: can I feel comfortable getting into a new relationship with
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: you when like, this is what you've shown me.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Now when I'm listening to you hear all these things,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I was like, well, those are not charming, kind of
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: mature at all. So I just.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Because he's so lovely to her at school, even though
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: she's like struggling with the door, like from that moment,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: they don't have a contentious relationship. And even when he's
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: like relationships suck, he's like saying it in the context
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: of her struggling with the idea of getting into a
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: new relationship. I didn't find it off putting. I just
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: found it it's fine that that's how you feel, but
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: you he wasn't giving me the well, like I said,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: it was emotional whiplash. I guess moments of like, oh,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: he seems like he's very taken by her, and then
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: moments of like, but relationships under the umbrella suck, Like
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: he was like, I'm in, I'm out, I'm in, I'm
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: out right in that same vein. I know that these
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: movies have to have a romance, but I think we
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: got to stop trying to make I Love you happen.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: That's just my number one wish don't say I'm falling
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: in love with you, just I'm falling for you is.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Perfectly yes enough, I really like you.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: I really like you. We're talking a span of a
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: few weeks.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Here, they've been on one non date.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Right, Can I go back to the date for a second.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Uh huh.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: I think it's unfair. This is a woman who was
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: a widow. You can't expect her not to talk about
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: her ex husband, yeah, or not even her ex husband,
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: her dead husband.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah right. And I think like.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: She was kind of beating herself up a little bit
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: after the day she's like, oh, I talked about I
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: can't remember his name, sorry, her now past husband. I
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: don't think it's unfair, Like this was a man she loved,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: she lost him.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: The huge part of her life. You shouldn't just.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Like wipe that clean and be like I'm twenty one
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: again and like I don't have any baggage yet.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: So I didn't really love how they were like talking
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: about their exes and they're like, well, we're not ready
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: because we're still talking about our life.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: This is our life. Let's process it out loud. This
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: is where I'm coming from. Yes, I was in a
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: loving wonderful marriage. He died. That has left marks on
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: me and has shaped who I am now.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Right, can we talk about his illness for two seconds?
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: She says he had a headache, he went to the doctor.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: He was dead. Later. I can't remember what it was,
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: but I was like, don't don't see a headache. I
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: have headaches every single day. Now this, now I have
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: this thought in my head. Yeah, of course, of course
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: I have a brain tumor.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: It just made me sad.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, anyway, I thought so too. Speaking of sad, I
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: thought her performance while watching the video of her husband
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: that he had left for her was beautiful.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Mmmm.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: That was another moment where I cried. It gave me a.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Little bit of throwback to Sweet Autumn when Aunty leaves
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: her like video will will I like this one better? Oh?
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Me too?
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: And I thought it was nice that her mom was
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: holding on to it for a time when she needed it, Like,
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: that's so nice, like to have that kind of forethought.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know if I would be capable of that
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: forethought if I was dying to be like.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I want you forever, if you move on for me.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I think it's a very selfless thing to be able
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: to do. Yeah, and while you're sick and thinking of
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: everything you're leaving behind, right to do that? God, don't, don't.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I can't.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: All right, I have one more. I wanted more, which
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: means I was sad when this movie was over. I
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: don't know if it lends itself to a sequel, but
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: I would love one.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I loved these women. I could absolutely see them.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: And I think we're just getting started with the romantic
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: reallyationship here. Even though we get the I love you,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: there's still it's not going to be a straight path forward.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Right, Julie, I'm gonna email you DM you we want
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: a sql seql field Day two. I'm trying to come
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: up with a clever title. I can't think of one
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: right now. Megan usually knocks them out.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't have a ring.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: The book fair, field Day, the book fair. Let's move
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: on to did just see that?
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: I only have one? Okay, it's field Day.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: They're setting up all the stuff outside. They are all
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: talking about the impending rain. The sky is sunny. I
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: didn't see one rain cloud. Yes.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, then the spring books go off, so it doesn't
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: really matter.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: True.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: When I was in college, I ran an organization, and
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: we would have to reserve like outdoor spaces to have events.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: And we had three big events and they were in
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: the spring, and we always would reserve an alternate indoor
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: like one of the gym in case of rain. And
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: one year none of the indoor spaces were available, and
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: so we were like, well, we're just going to cross
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: our fingers. And the week leading up to our biggest event,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: we didn't have an alternative space, and there was rain
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: in the forecast. And this is in like n eighteen
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: ninety nine, so I was literally watching the Weather channel day,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: every single day, watching the forecast, watching the forecast. It
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: did not rain. The event went off fine, but that
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: was the most stressed I ever was. It was in college,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: was thinking that the rain was going to ruin this event.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: So I get it. Okay, First of all, school starts
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: and it is immediately freezing cold outside.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Oh I have a did just see that too? Thank
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: you for reminding me.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, go ahead, snowing at one point while they're off
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: at this adventure course, and they tell us in the
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: beginning of the movie, like field days in one month.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: So even if school started on Labor Day, after Labor Day,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: it's still September and it was snowing, which whatever, it
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: was clearly cold. You could see their breath.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: We know where this movie was supposed to take place.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, actually I do remember. It was supposed to be
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: set in Framingham, Massachusetts. And the reason I know that
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: is because Julie said so on Twitter.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Well, damn, I'm going to Massachusetts in November. Is there
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: gonna be like a snowstorm there?
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Accordingly to that time in Boston, but in November. But
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: it would not be like this in Boston in September.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Okay, here's here's a thing. I noticed. They are dropping
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: the kids off on the first day of school and
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: there are pumpkin decorations out in front of the school.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this school must start in October. We got to
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: make it a fall movie.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Put some pumpkins out here. Nobody's gonna care about this
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: first day of school timeline.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: That's funny. Yeah, so the water in the dunk tank
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: must have been a reasing. I didn't.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: I had read somewhere there was some commentary in a
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Facebook group about.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Someone said maybe it's heated. It didn't look cold.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: To me, Like, did you see it's just a great
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: actor see steam.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Coming off of it, like it it was cold, steam
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: would come off it if it was warm.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if the water was warm and then it was
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: colder outside, right, yeah, so the water's cold. Oh yeah,
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Steam's not coming off my cold pool when it's cold outside.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Steam's coming off the hot jacuzzie when it's cold outside. Okay,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean he's an actor, he's a professional.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, you're not putting me in a freezing
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: cold dunk tank when it's cold enough to see my breath.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Well, remember on the way home when they would have
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: to like jump into that pond or whatever, like.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Paid a lot of money to jump in that cold pond. Too.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: I just said too and helped Lendinger. During the indoor
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: field day, there is a soccer shoot game that they
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: have going on, and there's a mom in goal and
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: she's just going for it like big smile, diving for
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: all the balls. And I was just like, she deserves
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: a prize, Like she's just really bringing it those kids.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: The mom deserves a prize. Yeah, that's that's a good volunteer.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: This entire movie has so many great lines, like I
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: could not possibly write them all down. It's just a
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: line after line after line. But when Kelly is asking
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: for something and she goes, oh, I thought we could
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: just barter for exposure.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, she was asking Jen she wanted gen the website.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: The website, that's right. Yeah, I alo like, I'm pretty expensive,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: and she's like, oh, I thought we could just barter
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: for exposure. And that's what hilarious disposure with your tips.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: If you don't follow Julie Sherman Wolf on Twitter, you
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: should because during the premieres of all of her movies,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: especially now the writer strike is over, she life tweets
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: them with like behind the scene tidbits, and she notoriously
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: hates word signs. She makes fun of them twice during
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: this movie, and she posted a picture of the one
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: word sign she has in her house, which is a
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: wooden sign with a script font that reads inspirational family
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: motto in a whimsical font.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Oh that's funny. So as I I like, look around
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: your house, do you have any word signs?
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: I don't think so Gather, Live, laugh, Love.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: I feel guilty I put those out during the holiday season.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: I have probably some holiday related ones. What did you
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: rate Field Day four point seven?
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: Fight?
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Actually, what I wrote Thank you for listening to this
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: episode of Girls Gone Hallmark. This was the final episode
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: in Hallmark's Fall lineup, and count under Christmas starts tomorrow Friday,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: October twentieth. We're not quite done with Fall around here, though.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: We do still have two fan favorite Fall movies dropping
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: over the next two weeks, so make sure you come
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: back for that. But we will be starting our count
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: down to Christmas reviews next week as well, so talk
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: about Whiplash, y'all. We'll see you next time. Bye.