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Fall Favorite: Roadhouse Romance · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark Review podcast. In
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  Speaker 1: today's episode, we are sharing a fall favorite movie, Roadhouse Romance.
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  Speaker 1: Before you listen to this episode, you should know that
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  Speaker 1: this was recorded very early in our Hallmark podcasting career,
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  Speaker 1: so the format of this episode is a little bit
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  Speaker 1: different than what you're used to now, but it's still
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  Speaker 1: the same Megan and Wendy that you know. We hope
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  Speaker 1: you enjoy our review of Roadhouse Romance, and maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: time to add it to your fall rewatch list. Hey everybody,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Megan. I'm Wendy.
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  Speaker 1: And today we are discussing Roadhouse Romance, the first in
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  Speaker 1: six movies of Hallmark's.
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  Speaker 2: Fall Harvest series.
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  Speaker 1: Wendy. Yo.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a synopsis? No, I don't. Hang on.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have my computer in front of me. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: are you ready? Roadhouse Romance. Country music fan Callie is
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  Speaker 2: determined to continue her late grandfather's legacy. That's a terrible
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  Speaker 2: synopsis of this movie.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Right? I'm going to pull up IMDb because they're going
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  Speaker 2: to have a different one that I'm sure is going
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  Speaker 2: to be more satisfactory. Here we go. When Callie returns home,
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  Speaker 2: she finds her hometown has changed. Her first love has
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  Speaker 2: a new girl and her family's barbecue restaurant has hit
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  Speaker 2: hard times. She clashes with a marooned big shot director
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  Speaker 2: who might hold the key to saving the restaurant. What
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  Speaker 2: a different synopsis compared to the other one. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Let's hop into news and notes about Roadhouse Romance.
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  Speaker 2: And I got a lot of them. Oh, okay. Why
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  Speaker 2: don't you hop right in? Well, filmed in Vancouver, as
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  Speaker 2: we know. It was supposed to take place in Tennessee. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It never said Nashville, but it did mention Franklin in
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  Speaker 2: the movie, which I've been to, actually. As has my husband.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to move there. It's a cute town. It
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  Speaker 2: is a cute town.
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  Speaker 1: It's a really cute town. Of course, it stars Tyler Hines.
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  Speaker 1: You know we love Tyler Hines. Easily top three. He's
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  Speaker 1: my number one, I think, Hallmark guy.
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  Speaker 2: But we love him. His hair is still a seventh
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  Speaker 2: wonder of the world for me. I really don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: I need to get up and close and personal with
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  Speaker 2: it and run my fingers through it. I just need
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  Speaker 2: to see. It's got a lot of like Eddie Munster
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  Speaker 2: vibes to me.
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  Speaker 1: He has a strong hairline. Right.
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  Speaker 2: But then I was. I mean, you should have saw me.
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  Speaker 2: I was trying to like zoom in on the TV.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm trying. It looked like it was almost like
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  Speaker 2: powder filled. I think that's his hair.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's his hair because that's how it always looks.
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  Speaker 1: It'd be a real commitment to that. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: his hair. But you know who powdered his hair, sprayed
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  Speaker 1: on his hair? Who? Is John Cryer in Two and
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  Speaker 1: a Half Men.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, really? He sprayed his hair on. Yeah. Oh, okay. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, whatever. I mean, I do that too. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: He stars alongside Lauren Alaina, and we discussed this in
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  Speaker 1: previous episodes, but she is an American Idol alum. She
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  Speaker 1: was a runner-up on Scottie McCreary's season. I did not
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  Speaker 1: watch that season, but watching this movie, man, I think
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  Speaker 1: she should have won.
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  Speaker 2: She's got a voice. She's got a great voice. That
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  Speaker 2: was the 10th season of Idol. She also competed on
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  Speaker 2: season 28 of Dancing with the Stars. I watched that show.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember.
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  Speaker 1: So I loved this anecdote from Lauren Alaina, who really
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  Speaker 1: did this movie as kind of a tribute to her family.
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  Speaker 1: She says when she goes home from the holidays, she
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  Speaker 1: visits her cousin and her aunt and they lay in
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  Speaker 1: bed and watch Hallmark movies together. And she was able
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  Speaker 1: to share this movie with them. I like it when
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  Speaker 1: these actors have a personal connection to the Hallmark movie
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  Speaker 1: and they're excited to be there and they're not lowering
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  Speaker 1: themselves to be in a Hallmark movie. They're excited to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're excited to be there.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Now I think I read it. It was her
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  Speaker 2: first Hallmark movie. Yeah. She was in another movie called
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  Speaker 2: Road Less Traveled, but, and I assumed that was a
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark movie, but then I had read that this was
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  Speaker 2: her first. Well, listen to this note. This is one
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  Speaker 2: that you probably are not familiar with, but the actress
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  Speaker 2: who played Willa, Willa was the aunt, the brunette.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: She was played by Sarah Edmondson. Now, I knew I
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  Speaker 2: recognized her when I watched this movie. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: where do I know her face from? Is she in
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  Speaker 2: another movie that I saw this year? Can't place her.
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  Speaker 2: Can't place her. No, I saw a ton of her somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: She was a major player in the documentary that blew
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  Speaker 2: open the MLM cult NXIVM. Oh, I haven't seen that.
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  Speaker 2: There are two of them, aren't there? There are two
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  Speaker 2: of them, but she is front and center in one
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  Speaker 2: of them and it's called The Vow. And that was
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  Speaker 2: the one that was on HBO. Oh, I might need
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  Speaker 2: to watch that. Yeah. It's a reenactment that she is
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  Speaker 2: in or was she in the cult? She was in
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  Speaker 2: the cult.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Her and her husband both. Oh, I need to watch
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  Speaker 2: this now. Yeah. And it was, it's, it's very in depth. It's,
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  Speaker 2: how many did I say? Oh, nine episode series. Yeah. It's,
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot. So that's where I recognized her from.
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  Speaker 2: She is an actress who got involved in that NXIVM
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  Speaker 2: cult anyway. Yeah. Who is now out of it.
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  Speaker 1: Another fun note about Lauren Alaina is that her father
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  Speaker 1: was an army veteran. So she plays a soldier. She's
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  Speaker 1: a lieutenant in the army. And so for her, it
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  Speaker 1: was this movie came out on the 20th anniversary of 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: Her father was an army vet. And then she said,
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  Speaker 1: I called my dad the day I put the uniform
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  Speaker 1: on and he cried like a baby on FaceTime. And
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  Speaker 1: then she says, well, he cried. And then he said,
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  Speaker 1: fix your hat. So that's a quote from southernliving.com, which
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  Speaker 1: I like that. I like that tie in. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that was fun. What was your first impression of
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  Speaker 1: this movie? I really liked this movie. I thought this
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  Speaker 1: was a great kickoff.
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  Speaker 2: You know, look, I love Tyler Hines. I loved Lauren Alaina.
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  Speaker 2: She could not be cuter.
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  Speaker 1: She needs to be a Christmas headliner, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: I liked the fall vibes. And, you know, my husband
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  Speaker 1: is finally watching now. Now that it's fall, he's watching
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  Speaker 1: with me. So it made the experience watching more fun.
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  Speaker 1: But man, this was a win for me.
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  Speaker 2: I agree. I thought it was a solid start to
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  Speaker 2: the fall harvest. Yeah. Loved it. Well, I didn't love it.
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  Speaker 2: 10 out of 10. I liked it a lot. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So what did you like about it? Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Look at those notes here. I'm impressed. A full page here.
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  Speaker 2: I really enjoyed Lauren Alaina as an actress. Me too.
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  Speaker 2: I liked her laid back southern way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was... It felt very authentic. And it
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  Speaker 2: was just a really nice like juxtaposition compared to Luke's girlfriend, Jillian,
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  Speaker 2: who was like this like high strung Hollywood actress. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I like that. I liked it a lot. I loved her.
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  Speaker 1: She honestly could not be cuter. I loved her relationship
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  Speaker 1: with her mom and her aunt. That felt really real
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  Speaker 1: to me. I liked how, you know, her mom and
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  Speaker 1: her aunt like antagonize each other a little bit, but
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  Speaker 1: There was a lot of love there. I liked the
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  Speaker 1: incorporation of the singing.
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  Speaker 2: Me too.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes I fast forward through that, but not like
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  Speaker 1: in a movie.
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  Speaker 2: Not this movie. Not in this movie.
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  Speaker 1: But sometimes if they're singing in a movie, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: really like, I don't really want to. I'm not here
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  Speaker 1: for that.
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  Speaker 2: I watched all of it.
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  Speaker 1: I thought her voice was great. I loved the Alison
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  Speaker 1: Krauss song at the end.
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  Speaker 2: You say it best. One of my favorite songs ever.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And they didn't drag the songs on too long. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't like a time filler. It moved the story forward.
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  Speaker 1: And she can actually sing, although I don't think she
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  Speaker 1: was actually singing in all of those scenes.
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  Speaker 2: It's pre-recorded. I didn't watch that closely to her. I
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  Speaker 2: am glad that she got to sing.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't like her singing was her.
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  Speaker 2: Only contribution to this movie.
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  Speaker 1: I thought she was a great actress.
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  Speaker 2: I had read that she got to sing two of
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  Speaker 2: her own songs in this movie. She didn't write them
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  Speaker 2: for the movie, but she got to sing two of
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  Speaker 2: her own songs. She sings three times. She sings the
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  Speaker 2: Alison Krauss song, and then the other two must be hers.
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  Speaker 2: And there's one point where, like, The lady, the actress
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  Speaker 2: who played her mom is like singing along. And I
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  Speaker 2: was like, that's real cute. Like, I didn't know at
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  Speaker 2: that point that that was one of Lauren Alaina's songs.
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  Speaker 2: But did that lady like learn the song or know
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  Speaker 2: of the song already?
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  Speaker 1: Well, and they probably had to play it several times
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  Speaker 1: to get the take. True. True.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was the Run song. It was called Run, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was the first one she sang. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: maybe she learned it ahead of time. But it was funny.
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  Speaker 2: It was like, here she is behind the bar. Now
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  Speaker 2: come on up and sing. And like, you know. I
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  Speaker 2: like that. I loved the music and the singing. I
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  Speaker 2: loved the fall festival vibes of everything. I have been
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  Speaker 2: saying it for weeks. I was like, I need a
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  Speaker 2: fall festival.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: In my own neighborhood. I would love to go to
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  Speaker 2: like a barbecue place and have like. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 2: stuff you get in Nashville anyways. Like you go out
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  Speaker 2: to eat and there's musicians playing there. You know? Why
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  Speaker 2: can't I have that here in Orange County? I would
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  Speaker 2: like it too. I would like it too. I spy
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  Speaker 2: some diversity. I mean. They were side players. Joe, the boyfriend. Yeah. Jillian,
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  Speaker 2: the girlfriend. And the car guy, the mechanic guy. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know his name. But this is a fine line
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to walk here. Yeah. And I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: say it in the most appropriate words. Lauren Alaina did
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  Speaker 2: not fit this stage. Hallmark actress category.
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  Speaker 1: Mold.
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  Speaker 2: I agree. And I loved it. Me too. Me too.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, there is someone who looks like me
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  Speaker 2: and I'm here for it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about this before that Hallmark has been taking
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  Speaker 1: the babiest of baby steps into diversity in their movies.
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  Speaker 1: But we've also talked about how diversity doesn't just come
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  Speaker 1: in skin color. Like, yes, we want actresses and actors
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  Speaker 1: of color in these movies, but there's body diversity, there's
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  Speaker 1: lifestyle diversity. And so yes, Again, I feel like this
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  Speaker 1: is all real baby steps into body diversity.
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  Speaker 2: But I liked it. Honestly, like, I love her.
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  Speaker 1: She could not have been cuter this entire movie. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, I so enjoy watching her in this movie.
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  Speaker 2: Me too. Every time, like, every scene she was in,
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  Speaker 2: she was just, like, smiling. And I was like, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like she, like, loves what she's doing right now. Like,
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  Speaker 2: she's so enjoying it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Totally. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: Totally. Totally.
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  Speaker 2: I really liked the story in terms that Callie was
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  Speaker 2: returning from deployment. It was such a nice change from
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  Speaker 2: like a man coming home, you know? And like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if I've ever seen it in a Hallmark movie,
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  Speaker 2: like where a woman comes home from deployment. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I just really enjoyed that. And I liked how
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  Speaker 1: they very lightly touched upon... how life goes on when
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  Speaker 1: you're gone and how jarring it can be to come back.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And you haven't been a part of it. You knew
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  Speaker 1: what was going on, but to come back and kind
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  Speaker 1: of assimilate into life, it's obviously tougher than a lost
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  Speaker 1: barbecue sauce recipe for real soldiers.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But I did get that feeling when she's talking to
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  Speaker 1: her mom in her room. She's like, I know I
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  Speaker 1: was gone, but the reality that I was gone and
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  Speaker 1: that two years have passed is just hitting me we
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  Speaker 1: have a neighbor who's currently deployed and granted not for
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  Speaker 1: two years but I you know I think about that
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  Speaker 1: what it must be like to leave and sacrifice so
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  Speaker 1: much of your life and to then come back how
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  Speaker 1: hard that.
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  Speaker 2: Must be right right here's another thing I really liked
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  Speaker 2: I liked that Callie and Luke were strangers they didn't
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  Speaker 2: have any kind of weird backstory they didn't date in
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  Speaker 2: a previous life like Two strangers meeting for the very
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  Speaker 2: first time and we were watching their relationship unfold. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I liked about this movie. And I also
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  Speaker 2: really loved the dialogue. Whoever wrote this movie had some
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  Speaker 2: really funny wit about them.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like Tyler Hines movies get those because he
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  Speaker 1: can handle it. Like he's got that like real easy comedy,
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  Speaker 1: not like slapstick comedy. He can just deliver a line
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  Speaker 1: in a way that I find entertaining. And I thought
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  Speaker 1: she was great too.
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  Speaker 2: Me too.
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  Speaker 1: Like her banter was great. She was believable. I believed
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  Speaker 1: her as Callie. Absolutely agree.
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  Speaker 2: Agree. Are you ready for what did you wish for? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 1: May I start with an email?
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: We have an email from Michelle who says, I love
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  Speaker 1: watching anything with Tyler Hines, but please Hallmark, you've.
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  Speaker 2: Got to do better.
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  Speaker 1: Then cheesy high school level green screens. It was painful
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  Speaker 1: to watch the car scene.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes, yes, yes. I have that in my digicy
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  Speaker 2: that moment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: This was filmed in the spring.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously we don't have fall foliage outside the window.
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  Speaker 1: So my question is, in the spring, these places still
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  Speaker 1: would have been green because they do a couple shots
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  Speaker 1: of them, just the car, like a quick zoom. And
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  Speaker 1: they're outside and it's beautiful and green, but you don't
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  Speaker 1: get the changing of the leaves. Would you have preferred
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  Speaker 1: real shots of them driving through green areas that don't
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  Speaker 1: have the changing of the leaves or this attempt to
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  Speaker 1: stay true to the actual season with the green screen colors?
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  Speaker 2: I don't need to be hit over the head with
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  Speaker 2: fall foliage. Yeah, because it's distracting, right? When they were driving,
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  Speaker 2: that's all I saw.
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  Speaker 1: Same.
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  Speaker 2: It was like a blur of red and orange.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea what they talked about in the car. Ever.
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  Speaker 2: The terrible production whenever they drove was awful. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And even when they walk down to that grove of trees,
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  Speaker 1: that's a green screen.
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  Speaker 2: The absolute terrible fall foliage everywhere. Am I saying that? Foliage.
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  Speaker 2: You and my husband both say foilage. Foilage. After Luke
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  Speaker 2: and Kelly stop. It was awful. And when they do
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  Speaker 2: the up close shot, you can tell.
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  Speaker 1: My husband's like, they put one little orange tree in
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  Speaker 1: the background and the rest of it.
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  Speaker 2: It was rough stuff there. That was bad. That was bad.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you, Michelle, for... Yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Those driving scenes really could have done without it because
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  Speaker 1: they do a good job. The town is decked out.
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  Speaker 1: The bar is decked out. The mechanic shop is decked out.
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  Speaker 1: I think we could have just.
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  Speaker 2: It would have been okay. Yeah, right. What did you
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  Speaker 2: wish for? A slightly quicker pace to the story. I
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  Speaker 2: thought it unfolded a little too slowly for me. At
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  Speaker 2: first it was about like the barbecue sauce and then
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  Speaker 2: it was about like The car breaking down or their whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And then about the recipe. And then about Tucker's possibly
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  Speaker 2: going out of business. So it was like, where are
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  Speaker 2: we going with this? I don't find that the premise
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  Speaker 2: for Luke to stay in town holds up. Because his
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  Speaker 2: car won't start.
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  Speaker 1: His car needs a part. This is not like with
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  Speaker 1: Jingle Bell Bride where they're stuck someplace and they can't
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  Speaker 1: fly out. Because at one point, Jill drives there. So
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  Speaker 1: if she can drive to him, he can drive to her.
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  Speaker 1: There are no rental cars in Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: There are no Ubers.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't need to stay because she makes the point, like,
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  Speaker 1: why didn't you just ship the car to California? He
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  Speaker 1: goes to his beautiful home with a pool. He clearly
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  Speaker 1: has the means to make these things happen. So he
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: didn't need to be stuck in town. Could we have
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  Speaker 1: manufactured a better reason for that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: For them to stay in town. I'm sure they could have.
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  Speaker 1: Like we're researching a show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That would have been better, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Because why do you and your agent both need
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  Speaker 1: to stick around waiting for this car to get fixed? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You don't.
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  Speaker 2: Totally. Totally. I hated Joe, the ex-boyfriend. Me too. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, you're a P-R-I-C-K. But that's by design. I know.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: Because I... Yeah. Because... I understand. But I was like, oh,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: you're so douchey. Like this douchey doctor. Like you're such
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: a jerk. I hated him. And we've seen.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Movies where they have had exes get back together and
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: realize they're not right for each other and they don't
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: have to be douchey. But even when they're realizing that
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: it's not going well and he's still trying to turn
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Callie against Luke.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Right. Luke's making fun of us.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: I didn't like him either. I did not like him either.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: I have read some reviews. Okay. It's polar opposites. People
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: say Tyler Hines and Lauren Alaina had tons of chemistry.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: And then on the other end, people say terrible chemistry.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: What do you think? I do wish there was more chemistry. Well,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: that's funny. I thought they had great chemistry. I thought
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: they had great banter. And at one point, I thought,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: are they going to end up just friends? Yes. Like,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: I thought they have such a, they have a flirtation
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: that you would see like in the workplace between two coworkers.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: But do you think that's.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Because she was, you know, he was in a relationship
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: up until the last scene?
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Well, that's what I have down here. I wanted to
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: ask you, what did you think about that? That he
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: had this girlfriend. How do you feel about that kind
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: of narrative of like, he's connected with somebody, but then
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: here comes this other person. hot piece like what a
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: you know is that problematic.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: So I am always against the like any sort of
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: even implied infidelity do I think he would actually unfaithful
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: no do I think you should maybe feel bad for
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: obviously he clearly had feelings for Callie while he was
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: with Jillian yeah I think that's complicated.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: So the answer is I do think it's problematic. I
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: do think it's... Now, I didn't like Jillian. I didn't
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: like her.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I wasn't rooting for her. I knew from the very
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: beginning they were not going to end up together and
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: they wanted different things. But I don't love when one
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: relationship develops while another relationship.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Is still active. Well, to me, he didn't even seem
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: that into Jillian either. Yeah. Like, he was like... Here,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: I bought you a brand new retro car. Cool car.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: But I don't really like you. Yeah.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: And even like her first comment to him about the
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: car is like, why didn't you ship it? And you
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: can already tell like he's annoyed. They don't want the
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: same things. They don't live the same way. You know,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: she wants him to do this Island Girl movie and
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: he thinks it's terrible, et cetera, et cetera.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Right. All right. What else did you wish for? That's
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: all I wished for. Time for did you see that?
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Did you see Tyler Hines aggressively white earbuds?
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't even notice them. He's wearing earbuds twice.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: And you're telling me dude doesn't have a set of
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: AirPods on set because they're like have a real thick
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: white core.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: They're very generic. They were distracting. I didn't even notice that.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Happens twice. Did you happen to notice his glasses always
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: hanging on his shirt? Never on his face? Never noticed.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Always on his shirt. Like, you know, he's like the
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: director-producer guy who's always got to take his glasses out
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: to read a script or something, always hanging on a shirt.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: That's funny. Yeah.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: At one point, when he has the car accident with Callie,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: she's like, you came flying in here. And then later on,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I believe it's the boyfriend who says like, oh, you're
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the one who hit Callie.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: And he says, hit, flying, a lot of adjectives flying
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: around here. Those are verbs, jackass.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that. Where is the continuity person on
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: this production team? Hello, writers. Those are verbs. Wouldn't there
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: be somebody to check that? I mean... That's hilarious. Hilarious. Okay,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: there was one scene where the dog who was so
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: cute and named george jones which is adorable but like
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: i think the dog pooped or something and he brought
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: in like a bag of poop and gives it to
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: callie across the bar he's like here i have a
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: gift from your dog and she's like thanks and they're
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: like talking and she's like holding it on the bar
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: right and then he's like can i have a cup
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: of coffee she's like sure and then she goes and
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: makes a cup of coffee like doesn't wash her hands
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: nothing i was like gross Gross. Gross.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: No dogs in the restaurant kitchen, please. And he like
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: jumps up and puts his paws on the stove. That's
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: very dangerous.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: That's gross. Yeah.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: When Dan and Willa go on a hike, Dan wears
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: jeans and a tucked in shirt.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's what I would wear. So uncomfortable.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, they did set the zine that he's not
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: a hiker. So obviously he did not come with his joggers.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: They were passing through, man. They were passing through. Yeah.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: And The Dan and Willa, like, side story was not needed. No,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: but I liked Dan. No, I thought he was... Stan
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: or Dan? I wrote Dan.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I liked him. I thought he was funny. I just...
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: They don't need that rando, off-topic side story of opening whatever. Like,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know. What did they talk about? Did they
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: open a bakery?
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: What?
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: They were talking about opening some bakery.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I don't remember that at all.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I just like their relationship. I don't remember that at all.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: That's funny.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: When... Jillian is getting her surprise. She hands her phone
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: to Luke and she's like.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Shoot from above.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: And then he's like three steps below and shooting up
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: at her. I was like, way to take direction, Luke. Also,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: did you notice that Jillian's movie was Fall Harvest?
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I did. I thought that was so funny because it
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: was on her truck or whatever.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Car ride. Yeah. I thought that was kind of like
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: a wink and a nod.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I also was like, is she starring in
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: one of the other Fall Harvest movies?
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, wouldn't that be hilarious? I looked, but she's not.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, bummer.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Bummer. Oh, my last, did you see that?
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: It's really just an issue with the movie, and that
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: is that a shoebox is a terrible place to leave
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: the one and only copy of your famous barbecue sauce recipe.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Well, that's where she'd find it, though. But how did he.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Know she was going to go back to her shoebox
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: of memories from her old boyfriend?
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: That could have laid dormant for years.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: I would have thrown that crap out, like, eventually. It
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: was weird. There was a part where they're like, oh,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: this is store-bought barbecue sauce. But then on the table,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: they were putting bottled Tucker sauce. And I was, like,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: super confused. Like, They still have bottles of the Tucker sauce,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: but if you order a meal, that's not the sauce
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: you're getting. I mean, these are stupid details that I noticed,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: but I just thought the barbecue sauce storyline was weird.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: I hear you. All right.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Also, I don't believe you that in a restaurant nobody
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: ever knew the recipe. Give me a break. Grandpa made
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: this recipe for every.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: No.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: No.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: All right. What?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: What?
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Would you rate this movie? I gave it three stars.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: I gave it three stars also. I didn't think it
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: was bad. I actually had started it and kind of
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: like got sucked into my phone. And then I was like,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: wait a minute, I kind of like this. And so
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: I started it from the beginning.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Again and rewatched it and enjoyed it.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: First of all, did you notice the previews at all? No,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: you didn't see any commercials, did you? I didn't see
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: previews for the next movie. Hold on a second. It's
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: taking the reigns. A writer discovers what ended her marriage
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: and why she stopped riding horses. It stars an actor
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: named Scott Porter. Do you know who that is? Friday
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Night Lights? Jason Street. Put some hotties in a Hallmark movie.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: I'm all over it. Yeah. I love him. I follow
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: him on Instagram. He was in that Georgia and I
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: don't remember the name of it, but it was on Netflix, Georgia.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Ginny and Georgia. Ginny and Georgia. I really liked him
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: in that. He was in that show that you liked.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: That's helpful. Dixie something or other. Dixie. Heart of Dixie. Oh, yeah.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: He was in that show. I loved Heart of Dixie.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I'm super excited. When the commercial came
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: on screen, I went, what?
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: If you're a Hallmark movie watcher, just a side note,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: you would love Heart of Dixie.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Great CW show.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, like, if you're a prude Hallmark movie watcher
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: who thinks, like, sometimes the kisses are too extreme.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Don't watch it.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Because it's, like, it's CW. It's not, you know, Cinemax.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: But it's more extreme than Hallmark. Great show. I... Would
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: rewatch the entire thing. Such a soothing, nice show to watch.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: All right. All right, guys. I'm all in on Fall Harvest, man.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I'm excited.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: What is the name of next week's movie? Oh, I'm sorry.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Starring Juan Pablo De Pace. It is called Raise a
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Glass to Love. And here we go again with the
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: song titles. Raise a glass to freedom.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: What other movie song title did we have?
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: On the Wings of... Yes, but that's not what it
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: was called. Either. It was called Journey of My Heart,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: but originally titled On the Wings of Eagles or something
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: like that. Okay. Sorry.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: If you haven't listened to last week's episode, Wendy gives
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: a musical rendition of the song that She was reminded of, so.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: And next week we'll have Hamilton, so. Stay tuned, guys.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Raise a Glass to Love, starring Fernando from Fuller House.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: All right, guys. Have a great week. Goodbye.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Bye.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: On the wings of love.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: All right, friends, before we go, just a quick heads up.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: You're about to hear some ads. These little gems help
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: us keep the show running and the Hallmark love flowing.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: So do with that info what you will. Grab a snack,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: hit the skip button, or maybe, just maybe, listen in
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and discover your new favorite product.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Bye.