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Listener Mailbag - October 2025 · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: This is a bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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Speaker 1: a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
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Speaker 1: Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. It's
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Speaker 1: time for our first mailbag of the holiday season. It
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Speaker 1: has been a little bit of time since we've done
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Speaker 1: a mailbag episode, but we're back with your thoughts on
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Speaker 1: some recent Hallmark offerings. If you want to keep up
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Speaker 1: with all of us, make sure you're following us on Instagram.
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Speaker 1: We are Girls Gone Hallmark. We are Girls Gone Hallmark
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Speaker 1: on TikTok and if you want to participate in a
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Speaker 1: future mailbag episode, we'd love to produce these weekly during
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Speaker 1: the holiday season, So the best way to do that
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Speaker 1: is email us Girls Gone Hallmark at gmail dot com,
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Speaker 1: or you can leave us a voice memo and our
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Speaker 1: phone number is nine four nine three two nine eight
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Speaker 1: zero nine zero.
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Speaker 2: Hey.
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Speaker 1: If you want to join our Facebook group, we have one.
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Speaker 1: It's called Girls Gone Hallmark. In Facebook groups, what you
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Speaker 1: find there is just a bunch of people who watch
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Speaker 1: these movies. And if you're looking to just chat with
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Speaker 1: somebody in real time, they're there. Yeah. I mean, we
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Speaker 1: try to go in there too. I try to go there,
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Speaker 1: me too, just busy, but yes, come join us Girls
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Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark in Facebook groups. Well, we have a lot
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Speaker 1: to talk about this episode. We are going to talk
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Speaker 1: about finding Mister Christmas, Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper, Christmas Angel Match,
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Speaker 1: haul out the Halloween, even an update on a mystery
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Speaker 1: franchise we've been wondering about for a very long time.
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Speaker 1: Have you seen our crash out on Instagram Home Let's
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Speaker 1: start with my name mister Christmas. Okay, I'm curious about
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Speaker 1: the numbers for this show. I'm curious. You know. Jonathan
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Speaker 1: Bennett has been promoting it full time on Instagram and
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Speaker 1: creating incredible content. The reels are reeling over there. Please
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Speaker 1: watch the show. Please listen to our recaps. Just a
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Speaker 1: couple comments pulled from the first impression post on our Instagram.
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Speaker 1: Sydney from Mary Movie Club says Team Craig after episode one,
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Speaker 1: I feel like he crushed both challenges. So she's talking
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Speaker 1: about the festive face off and the like ski meet
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Speaker 1: Cute challenge. Yeah, Craig's great. Craig's great, They're all great. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you need to listen to our recaps because we're having
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Speaker 1: a really hard time letting them go each week. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and while I want to point out the obvious, sometimes
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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, yeah, maybe so and so isn't that
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Speaker 1: great of an actor, or like whatever, Like it still
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Speaker 1: hurts my heart, Like I landed on the line, I'm invested.
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Speaker 1: Courtney on Instagram writes about finding Mister Christmas. She says,
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Speaker 1: it's so so good. Ruston, Davy, and Drake were early
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Speaker 1: favorites in our house. The choice to make the guys
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Speaker 1: ski was diabolical and hilarious. My girls and I were
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Speaker 1: howling when Drake fell. All of the guys seemed sweet,
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Speaker 1: perfect for Homewark, Rusted, Marcus, and Davy are my favorites,
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Speaker 1: but Ruston did the best job. Gabriel got lucky hot takes. Finally,
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Speaker 1: Elizabeth on Instagram says, my first impression is that it's fun.
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Speaker 1: I like the two judges commenting on the guys trying
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Speaker 1: to act and Ski very funny. Got to support Robbie
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Speaker 1: from West Springfield, Massachusetts because I'm a Boston girl.
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Speaker 2: I love that.
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Speaker 1: One of my favorite parts of the show is kind
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Speaker 1: of the commentary that Jonathan Bennett and Melissa give. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I actually really would love to hear like concrete feedback
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Speaker 1: from them in terms of what the guys should do better. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I see acting like I want to hear like acting advice, right,
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Speaker 1: because when we see them in the eliminations, they give
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Speaker 1: like a brief the judges thought that you did X, Y,
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Speaker 1: and Z, but you could have improved. Here are they
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Speaker 1: expanding on that more? Yeah, I don't know, because I
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Speaker 1: think that could be great where they sit down and
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Speaker 1: they're like, look, this is where we didn't connect with you,
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Speaker 1: so let's work on that. Let's move on to Ted Cooper.
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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper smash hit for homemark. Yeah you said,
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Speaker 1: Sleepy Kitty Paw reported on Blue Sky that it drew
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Speaker 1: in over one million live viewers. Over one point two
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Speaker 1: million live viewers did really well. It's really hard to
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Speaker 1: compare your year over year numbers because the number of
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Speaker 1: cable viewers is dropping. But I think anything over that
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Speaker 1: million mark is still doing quite well. I'm not surprised.
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Speaker 1: This was and pre Halloween. Yeah set the bar very
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Speaker 1: I think I think so too. Beth Anne on Facebook wrote,
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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper could do no wrong for me?
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Speaker 1: Is it because I'm a bob? Buck fan who would
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Speaker 1: watch him even sit in silence and blink for eighty
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Speaker 1: four minutes. Maybe, but I can't help it. The movie
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Speaker 1: really was everything I want in a Hallmark movie. My
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Speaker 1: only critique is that when he asked her out in
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Speaker 1: asl she didn't yank him by the collar and lay
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Speaker 1: a big fat kiss on him. This will no doubt
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Speaker 1: be my number one for the year, maybe my number
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Speaker 1: one of all time. So in summary, yeah, I guess
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Speaker 1: I liked it. Okay, I wonder if there's a movie
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Speaker 1: that can knock this out of first place for us
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Speaker 1: as well for the holidays. I have a question for you.
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Speaker 2: Uh huh?
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Speaker 1: Would you like to see a Ted Cooper sequel? Oh?
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Speaker 1: What's the story there? I don't know, But I just
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Speaker 1: love Ted. I love the character of Ted Cooper so much.
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Speaker 1: Ted Cooper could be a sitcom Thursday night sitcom for me.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, right, Hallmarks for sitcom. I just freaking
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Speaker 1: loved the character so much. Yeah, I love the character.
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Speaker 1: I love his relationship with Hope. I loved a lot
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Speaker 1: of the on screen, like bring Back Brandon Penny. I'm
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Speaker 1: not a post, Lisa emailed us. I just listened to
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Speaker 1: your review of Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper. Of course, as usual,
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Speaker 1: it was dead on. Thanks Lisa. I did want to
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Speaker 1: point out that for me, I was a little miffed
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Speaker 1: with Kim's character when she got mad because he didn't
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Speaker 1: get upset. I agree with you about him advocating for himself,
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Speaker 1: but I felt like she was just looking for an out.
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Speaker 1: I also found it very interesting how she told him
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Speaker 1: that she tended to wind up with guys who were
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Speaker 1: closed off and didn't open up. Then he opened up
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Speaker 1: totally to her about his mom leaving and about how
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Speaker 1: that made him such a people pleaser. So I felt
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Speaker 1: like her getting upset about him not having a stronger
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Speaker 1: reaction to the classic misunderstanding was more about her trying
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Speaker 1: to protect herself and dump him before anything could go wrong.
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Speaker 1: This movie was such a winner on so many levels.
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Speaker 1: Just like you said, Robert Buckley, not Junior is the
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Speaker 1: total package. And I love how sometimes when he smiles,
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Speaker 1: his smiles crooked and other times it's not. My husband
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Speaker 1: and I both think he looks like Scott Speedman. Oh
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Speaker 1: he does. I'd love to see those two play brothers
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Speaker 1: in the Hallmark movie. I also love how you guys
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Speaker 1: always talk about the writing and directing. I've never paid
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Speaker 1: attention to that, and it's good information to have. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot to unpack here, If I may please, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to start backwards. Thank you for noticing the amount
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Speaker 1: of work that we put into it to talk about
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Speaker 1: the writers and directors of these movies. And I think
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Speaker 1: if going in five years ago when we were doing this,
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Speaker 1: we were not covering that stuff. No, but what I
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Speaker 1: have come to love from so many of these movies,
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Speaker 1: I go, oh, this is a Russell Hanlan movie. I'm in.
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Speaker 1: You know, like you start to know, like who directed it,
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Speaker 1: who wrote it, Like those start to become your favorites,
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Speaker 1: almost as much as the actors who are portraying the characters.
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Speaker 1: So I'm so glad you like that information. The second
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Speaker 1: thing is I think Scott Speedman is busy on Gray's Anatomy?
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Speaker 2: Is you not?
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Speaker 1: Oh? Good question. I don't know Scott's Speaman was in Felicity?
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Speaker 1: Is he on Gray's Anatomy? I thought it wasn't Grays
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Speaker 1: that quite possibly I could be wrong, but I love
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Speaker 1: me as Scott's Speedman. I would love Scott Spearman. I
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Speaker 1: weren't you team Ben? Oh? Yeah, I was team Ben definitely,
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Speaker 1: but it was a pulsh and pull because I like
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Speaker 1: Noel too.
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Speaker 2: Sure.
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Speaker 1: I just watched that show Felicity last summer. I like
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Speaker 1: rewatched all four seasons of it. I didn't love it
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Speaker 1: as much as I loved it when I was in
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Speaker 1: my early twenties, but it's still really good.
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Speaker 2: Me.
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Speaker 1: It's because you have a TV watching brain made for
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Speaker 1: streaming these days, I think. Correct. Yes, that show was
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Speaker 1: not bingeable by any means, by any means. Okay, now
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Speaker 1: let's talk about Kim's character Hope. I too found Hope
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Speaker 1: a little unlikable in this scene, Yes, and I struggled
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Speaker 1: with that, Like it has sat with me since I've
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Speaker 1: watched this movie. And people have emotional baggage, right, And
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Speaker 1: I think it's interesting here Lisa's comment about because I
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Speaker 1: didn't really put this together, but Hope's history with dating
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Speaker 1: men who are closed off is very interesting. Like, so
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Speaker 1: she was bringing a lot of her stuff exactly to
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Speaker 1: the conversation here. They were just a little bit of
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Speaker 1: a miss, but she really tried to like villainize Ted
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Speaker 1: in this moment. I thought like Ted was the wrong guy,
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Speaker 1: or not the wrong guy, but Ted was wrong in
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Speaker 1: the situation. Yeah, equal in my mind, now, yeah it was.
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Speaker 1: Do you think she's coming that at that from a
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Speaker 1: place of like, I've been disappointed by guys. I can't
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Speaker 1: fully trust that you really are this way. Perhaps, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but I would appreciate it when Sidney just laid it
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Speaker 1: out for her. She's like, oh no, a good looking
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Speaker 1: guy who's happy all the time. Yeah, what is wrong
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Speaker 1: with you? You're complaining about nothing? Yeah, Yeah, I'm really interested.
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Speaker 1: I would love to chat with Russell about this, like
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Speaker 1: this particular scene, like when he wrote it, like how
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Speaker 1: he got there, what was because you know, sometimes when
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Speaker 1: you're storytelling, it doesn't always Yeah, and other other pieces
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Speaker 1: we didn't get to see. Yeah, exactly. Still a great movie.
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Speaker 1: A great movie. A quick little note from Lisa regarding
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Speaker 1: podcast ads, which I thought was funny. We've talked about
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Speaker 1: this on social media, we haven't really talked about it here.
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Speaker 1: Something worth noting. When you hear ads on our podcast,
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Speaker 1: they're different for everybody. They're location based for the most part,
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Speaker 1: and so Wendy and I don't hear the same ads.
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Speaker 1: You're not going to I'm not gonna hear the same
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Speaker 1: ads as someone in another state or even another city. Really,
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Speaker 1: Lisa emailed in the past, I've heard you mentioned on
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Speaker 1: the podcast that ads will be tailored to you location. Well,
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Speaker 1: this is hilarious. I travel almost every week for my job.
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Speaker 1: This week, I'm in the middle of nowhere, Georgia. Imagine
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Speaker 1: my confusion when I started hearing ads on your podcast
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Speaker 1: from Ireland. I was like, huh, Well, then I remember
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Speaker 1: that I'm not far from a town in Georgia called Dublin.
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Speaker 1: So somehow your podcast thinks I'm in Dublin, Ireland. I'm
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Speaker 1: getting to listen to exotic Irish commercials while in the
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Speaker 1: middle of nowhere Georgia. I love it. Small correction, it's
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Speaker 1: not our podcast, thanks, it's the advertising company that buy
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Speaker 1: space on the podcast thinks that you're in Dublin, Ireland. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I have. We have zero control control over it. Also,
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Speaker 1: just as an aside, if you ever hear an ad
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Speaker 1: that you feel like is super out of character with
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Speaker 1: who you know us to be, please email us because
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Speaker 1: we work really hard to make sure that that does
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Speaker 1: not reoccur. Yes, let's take a quick break and we're
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Speaker 1: going to come back to talk Christmas Angel Match. We're
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Speaker 1: back with the email from Lisa regarding the movie Christmas
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Speaker 1: Angel Match from opening weekend. She says, I have to say,
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Speaker 1: you guys brought me down a little, pointing out all
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Speaker 1: of the unanswered ques, questions. None of those things even
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Speaker 1: occurred to Melol. I thought it was absolutely awesome. I
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Speaker 1: was sad to see that so many gave up on
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Speaker 1: it so quickly. She's talking about people gave up on
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Speaker 1: the movie quickly, right. I was thoroughly entertained. I also
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Speaker 1: loved how it made me think about what I might
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Speaker 1: be missing out on when I'm on my phone. I'm
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Speaker 1: happily married, so not love ha ha ha. I love
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Speaker 1: this movie. I did, and I am disappointed to see
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Speaker 1: people be like, oh, it didn't catch me or didn't
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Speaker 1: grab me and I turned it off, Like I do,
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Speaker 1: think there was a worthwhile message in this movie, especially
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Speaker 1: when it comes to like we live in a world
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Speaker 1: that's distracted and fast paced and we're missing moments around us.
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Speaker 1: I thought that was a beautiful message. Yeah, Like do
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Speaker 1: you did we we talked about irony in this review?
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Speaker 1: Did we talk about the irony of not giving this
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Speaker 1: movie a full chance because you weren't grabbed at the beginning. Look,
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Speaker 1: I'm all for you know, a band of the movie,
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Speaker 1: a band in the book. If it's not for you.
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Speaker 1: I was surprised by some of the feedback about this
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Speaker 1: movie because we overall really enjoyed it. We did enjoy it. Also,
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Speaker 1: this isn't in our notes, but did you catch Benjamin
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Speaker 1: Ayres posted the other day about the romance University merch
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Speaker 1: in the background of the scene, And we had did
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Speaker 1: the same thing like a couple of days prior to that.
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Speaker 1: You know, I think that's fun. He gave us a
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Speaker 1: little like a little wink at a nod and sums
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Speaker 1: about it. But yeah, that's what I love about this
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Speaker 1: podcast is doing the did you see that? And like
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Speaker 1: finding these things and it feels almost like it was
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Speaker 1: planted there for us to fight. Oh for sure, no
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Speaker 1: one dred percent. That was definitely for the alumni. Yeah
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Speaker 1: for sure. Linda, in regards to Christmas Angel Match, sends
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Speaker 1: an email that says, Hi, I enjoyed this story, especially
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Speaker 1: that the Angels matched the elderly couple as a byproduct
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Speaker 1: of trying to match the young ones. We didn't really
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Speaker 1: talk about that a lot in the episode. We didn't.
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Speaker 1: I loved the angel costumes, especially the Christmas ones on Earth.
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Speaker 1: Agree the costume game was strong. However, I thought the
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Speaker 1: ending was weird. When a couple stop at chaste kisses
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Speaker 1: seems very strange for angelic behavior. I think a better
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Speaker 1: ending would have been for Gabriel to grant them a
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Speaker 1: life as people on Earth until they died, and then
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Speaker 1: then could return to Heaven as angels. I have to
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Speaker 1: admit I didn't fully understand the ending. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what's happening there. Do you like this scenario that Linda
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Speaker 1: has present. Sure that Gabriel says, now, you guys get
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Speaker 1: to live in real time on Earth. You get to
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Speaker 1: experience love and snowball fights. Yeah, all those things that
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Speaker 1: the Meganori character. But she was like, I've never had
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Speaker 1: hot Coco. She doesn't partake in the human worldly things, right, Sure,
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Speaker 1: so that would have been cool to connect that in
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Speaker 1: that way. And I also wonder if that's the conclusion
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Speaker 1: we were supposed to have drawn. Perhaps when Gabriel does
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Speaker 1: his magic and all of a sudden they're in new clothing, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: maybe are we and he disappears. Sometimes we need get
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Speaker 1: spelled out for us. I think it was unclear to
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Speaker 1: a lot of people. Okay. We got a message regarding
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Speaker 1: haul Out the Halloween from Heather who says, Hi, girls,
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Speaker 1: I have some hopefully good news. I went to the
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Speaker 1: Hallmark event in Nashville last week and talked to Wes
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Speaker 1: about the ending of haul Out the Halloween and the
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Speaker 1: possibility for a fourth He said it is being written,
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Speaker 1: but he's not sure it will be picked up yet.
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Speaker 1: He said they would travel all the way to Norway
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Speaker 1: and there would be a baby. I have a couple
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Speaker 1: of thoughts. I do wonder if McLean Nelson is writing
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Speaker 1: a fourth movie. I don't know how. We talked about
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Speaker 1: this in our review that the extended cast in this
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Speaker 1: movie is what partly makes it so great one hundred percent.
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Speaker 1: I refuse to believe there's a world in which there's
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Speaker 1: a fourth movie in which the extended cast isn't involved,
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Speaker 1: even an off of Evergreen Lane, which makes me nervous. Yeah, look,
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Speaker 1: I would absolutely watch it. I was head over heels
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Speaker 1: for The Halloween. It was my favorite of the three. Same.
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Speaker 1: We have a voicemail from Era regarding the Chicken Sisters.
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Speaker 1: It's still October, y'all. I know some people are peeris
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Speaker 1: and they will not go in on Christmas movies until
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Speaker 1: after Halloween.
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Speaker 2: Hi'm Megan and Wendy. This is Eera. I am leaving
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Speaker 2: a fallow up voicemail about Chicken Sisters. And I know
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Speaker 2: I said I was really loving it a couple of
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Speaker 2: weeks ago, and I'm a little bit behind. I just
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Speaker 2: finished the last two episodes and I just have to
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Speaker 2: say what a big disappointment. And my big disappointment is
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Speaker 2: in Frank Junior. I am so sad to see he
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Speaker 2: had a redemption arc. I wanted him to go full villain.
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Speaker 2: I wanted him to feel that chicken recipe and just
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Speaker 2: go hog wild and get to court to get sued
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Speaker 2: or I don't know something. I'm just so disappointed to
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Speaker 2: see him have a change of heart. I wanted to
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Speaker 2: see him turn to the dark side. I still enjoyed
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Speaker 2: this season overall, but I just thought the last two
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Speaker 2: episodes were super an psychomactic and just kind of boring.
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Speaker 2: All right, girls, well, looking forward to another mailback episode.
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Speaker 2: Have a great day.
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Speaker 1: Bye. I know you have a lot to say, suok,
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Speaker 1: because I have listened to your reviews and I think
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Speaker 1: you thought this season ended strong. Yes, the final two
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Speaker 1: episodes were great in my opinion. We did do a
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Speaker 1: wrap up episode after the season with Aaron Shay and
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Speaker 1: she came back. She had joined us on a recap
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Speaker 1: earlier in the season, and she came back to wrap
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Speaker 1: up the season, and she and I talked about our
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Speaker 1: thoughts on the season overall, and really we were on
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Speaker 1: the same page. So let's talk about the Frank Junior
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Speaker 1: of it all. All season long, I said, over and
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Speaker 1: over and over again, don't want a redemption art, don't
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Speaker 1: try and make me like him, right, And then they
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Speaker 1: did it in a way where I found it believable.
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Speaker 1: He took accountability. And I think it makes sense for
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Speaker 1: these people to live in a place where they can
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Speaker 1: be cordial with each other, where they can live and
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Speaker 1: work and they have a family, and that's a better solution.
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Speaker 1: But I like Era's point of view of well, now
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Speaker 1: who's the villain going to be? Yeah, you need a villain, right,
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Speaker 1: We do need a villain, And you know, I think
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Speaker 1: we're pointing, you know, Lachlan Monroe. If season three happens,
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Speaker 1: maybe our villain in the form of our mayor. And
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Speaker 1: I really did find the last I mean, the penultimate
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Speaker 1: episode was a tornado right, that was very exciting, But
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Speaker 1: it's not the Tornado. It was that Nancy pulls herself
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Speaker 1: up from the bootstraps and steps into this like Superwoman
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Speaker 1: exactly right. Yeah, yeah, and she's all over town saving everybody. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: like she comes Look, guys, I didn't even watch it.
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Speaker 1: She comes in because if I recall season one, Nancy
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Speaker 1: drove me crazy because Nancy just let these men walk
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Speaker 1: all over her and then finally she has her own
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Speaker 1: redemption art. Yeah, that's what we got in the last
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Speaker 1: two episodes of season two. Correct, absolutely, I mean Nancy,
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Speaker 1: this whole season is about Nancy finding her own voice
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Speaker 1: and then steps into that in the end. And then
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Speaker 1: I thought, I really, you know, the final episode, we
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Speaker 1: get the wedding, which I thought was beautifully done. We
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Speaker 1: get some closure on the destruction of Memi's There's there's
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Speaker 1: a lot there. So I'm I'm sorry that you didn't
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Speaker 1: like the end era that that makes me a little
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Speaker 1: bit sad. I hate it when a series doesn't land
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Speaker 1: for me. So for sure. Now I'm trying to remember
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Speaker 1: we had a recent conversation with somebody, had they confirmed
19:50
Speaker 1: or denied if the Chicken Sisters was coming back yet?
19:54
Speaker 1: Was it still undecided. We hadn't have Yeah, there's no
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Speaker 1: official word as of the recording of this episode having
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Speaker 1: her anything. I you know, what do you think they're
20:03
Speaker 1: gonna do? I really don't know. I feel like I
20:05
Speaker 1: just am surprised every day by decisions that are made
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes on projects that are beloved by the fans.
20:13
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that. We had like a full blown
20:15
Speaker 1: crash out this week on multiple platforms on starting with
20:21
Speaker 1: in the News and Notes of Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper,
20:24
Speaker 1: we were talking about Megan heffern who was in the
20:27
Speaker 1: Cases of Mystery Lane, right, and I casually dropped, Oh,
20:30
Speaker 1: I heard that had been canceled. I I'm still hurt
20:35
Speaker 1: about it too. Do you understand now, like imagine you're
20:39
Speaker 1: a Mystery one O one or I can sort of
20:42
Speaker 1: get it. Mystery one oh one was like seven movies
20:45
Speaker 1: and you fall in love with these characters. They had
20:47
Speaker 1: a little time to like really like grow on you. Yeah,
20:53
Speaker 1: the Cases of Mystery Lane was just good entertainment. Yeah,
21:00
Speaker 1: and yes, I liked the characters, but I want to
21:02
Speaker 1: play in that world some more. For me, I thought,
21:07
Speaker 1: this is so fun. It's still homemark. It's a little unhinged. Yeah,
21:14
Speaker 1: it's the funniest of the mystery series, and I think
21:17
Speaker 1: maybe that might be the problem. It's Homewark is like, oh,
21:20
Speaker 1: mysteries can't be funny. I don't know. Maybe that's not
21:23
Speaker 1: what they're thinking. Maybe they're like, it's not a great
21:26
Speaker 1: return and investment. You know. I don't know, but as
21:29
Speaker 1: a fan, I'm telling you, Homewark, this is a bad move. Well,
21:35
Speaker 1: what was funny was where I had seen it was
21:39
Speaker 1: a comment on a post that was over a month old.
21:41
Speaker 1: Like I went back to dig and I was like, oh,
21:43
Speaker 1: this is an old post. It was from summertime. It
21:46
Speaker 1: was from September. Okay, granted we had a lot of
21:49
Speaker 1: stuff going on. Yes, did you hear Travis and Taylor
21:52
Speaker 1: got engaged like breaking news. You posted a promo for
21:56
Speaker 1: the Ted Cooper episode and you were like, uh, just
21:59
Speaker 1: learn the case mister Lane had been canceled. And then
22:01
Speaker 1: people came into the dms like what one that I
22:04
Speaker 1: read that made me laugh out loud. She was like
22:06
Speaker 1: this is my favorite we ride at don Yes, And
22:08
Speaker 1: I was like, yes, yes, yes. Well then I felt
22:11
Speaker 1: better because I was like, Okay, when I looked back
22:13
Speaker 1: at this post where I had originally seen this comment
22:15
Speaker 1: from Paul Campbell saying We've been canceled. I was like, oh,
22:17
Speaker 1: this was from September. Everyone must know this, Like you said,
22:20
Speaker 1: sometimes we missed stuff. We missed it. Well, then I
22:23
Speaker 1: realized we weren't the only ones. So then I make
22:25
Speaker 1: this video that's like, yo, Cases, mister Lane is canceled.
22:30
Speaker 1: Confirmed what is happening? And we heard from a ton
22:33
Speaker 1: of people involved with the show, a lot of fans
22:36
Speaker 1: of the show expressing shock and dismay. Someone sent us
22:40
Speaker 1: a video from May of Matt Hamilton discussing the cancelation.
22:45
Speaker 1: They said, did you see this? And I said, in fact,
22:46
Speaker 1: we did not. Fortunately, they hadn't seen it either. They
22:48
Speaker 1: did a deep dive after our post. Amy Garcia commented
22:52
Speaker 1: on our reel, thank you for this post. I had
22:54
Speaker 1: such a blast working with Paul Campbell and I'll miss
22:56
Speaker 1: Alden and Bertie Shenanigans. This is what my mind. We
23:00
Speaker 1: were in Kansas City last year. Amy Garcia was there.
23:03
Speaker 1: Amy Garcia does a lot of workoutside of the network,
23:07
Speaker 1: but I believe the only work she's done for Hallmark
23:10
Speaker 1: is Cases, and she was front and center at Kansas
23:13
Speaker 1: City Center in Kansas City, and then like poof what
23:17
Speaker 1: I know? I know? And she was so lovely. I
23:20
Speaker 1: remember some of the things she said. She fully embodied
23:23
Speaker 1: what Hallmark was about with her comments. This is a loss.
23:27
Speaker 1: I'm hurt by it. It's a miss to not have
23:30
Speaker 1: given this franchise more room to groove. Did you just
23:34
Speaker 1: have a flash of Paul Campbell with his shirt unbuttoned
23:38
Speaker 1: down to his belly button doing the groove when he's
23:41
Speaker 1: doing the dance. It's my favorite scene from the second
23:44
Speaker 1: movie where he's like salsaing or whatever. It's so freaking hilarious.
23:50
Speaker 1: I just don't understand. Part of me feels like the
23:54
Speaker 1: mystery one on one community like mad about it and
23:57
Speaker 1: like calling for a reboot for it, and I'm like,
24:00
Speaker 1: it's not gonna work. And then the other part of
24:02
Speaker 1: me is like, we need to knock on some doors
24:05
Speaker 1: in Kansas City with pitchforks and fire and be like
24:10
Speaker 1: we ride at Don right at Don Huh. Let's be
24:14
Speaker 1: change makers. I think we need to get in Hallmark's
24:17
Speaker 1: ear that this show needs to come back, this movie
24:19
Speaker 1: series needs to come back. Let's be change makers. Here's
24:21
Speaker 1: the other thing I know there's a lot of uncertainty
24:25
Speaker 1: in terms of like mysteries, right, yeah, the Mystery Channel
24:29
Speaker 1: and some of the franchises, like we haven't heard from
24:31
Speaker 1: Curious Cater all year long.
24:34
Speaker 2: I know.
24:35
Speaker 1: But then you have some other franchises that are still
24:39
Speaker 1: continuing to make movies, and I'm like, well, maybe we
24:42
Speaker 1: sunset some of those those are spicy, hot takes. I
24:48
Speaker 1: didn't name name. I know, I know, I know your
24:51
Speaker 1: own conclusions, but this was so special. I guess it was.
24:57
Speaker 1: This movie so special. Matt Hammon, It's funny, Paul Campbell's funny.
25:02
Speaker 1: Amy Garcia was great in it. Megan heffern was in it.
25:06
Speaker 1: I'm mad, me too, Me too, me too. We received
25:10
Speaker 1: a review of our podcast that is a mailbag adjacent
25:15
Speaker 1: and I'd like to read it. Okay. It's from Beth
25:18
Speaker 1: who says, just listen to your reviews of Under the
25:21
Speaker 1: Autumn Moon and All of My Heart. Wendy nailed the
25:24
Speaker 1: first one. I'm with her all the way, though I'd
25:26
Speaker 1: have given it two stars. Under the automn Moon is
25:29
Speaker 1: all the Jesse shram with the guy who was such
25:32
Speaker 1: a jerk to her character. Yeah, she says, I avoid
25:36
Speaker 1: that movie whenever it's on and in your spare time,
25:39
Speaker 1: you should watch the first All of My Heart. It's
25:41
Speaker 1: so much better and no need to apologize for whining.
25:45
Speaker 1: It made me laugh out loud on my walk today.
25:47
Speaker 1: Keep up the fabulous work. All of My Heart was
25:50
Speaker 1: the Brennan Elliott Lacy Shiver sequel that we watched. We
25:54
Speaker 1: should watch the first one. Correct, Okay, I'm gonna put
25:57
Speaker 1: it on my to do list next ball. No, I don't.
26:02
Speaker 1: I mean there are downtime of course, of course, you know,
26:05
Speaker 1: and there's always some time in the year where we
26:08
Speaker 1: try to fill the schedule with fan favorite reviews. Yeah,
26:11
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to go back, I think and tackle
26:13
Speaker 1: that one. I just had a thought. Is Niale major
26:17
Speaker 1: in a Christmas movie this year? Yes, yes, he is.
26:24
Speaker 1: I think I'm almost positive he is. With autumn research
26:28
Speaker 1: and we met in December. Oh yeah, I'm looking forward
26:31
Speaker 1: to that movie. That's right, it's hard to remember, like
26:34
Speaker 1: at the stage of the game. Sure, I know. I
26:36
Speaker 1: want to bring up just a quick topic that you
26:39
Speaker 1: and I texted about a little bit yesterday, and this
26:42
Speaker 1: is super not mail bag, but have you noticed a
26:48
Speaker 1: trend in the new Christmas movies of some fresher faces.
26:54
Speaker 1: Well you said that, do you mean supporting characters, supporting
26:58
Speaker 1: characters who have me down the line become lead characters.
27:04
Speaker 1: I think the Angel movie, The Angel Movie is a
27:07
Speaker 1: good one we had. I don't have the names of
27:10
Speaker 1: the actors in front of me right now, but the
27:12
Speaker 1: gal that played an angel too, who was real cute.
27:16
Speaker 1: I know who you're talking about, her blonde angel friend. Yeah, yeah,
27:19
Speaker 1: I could see her coming up the ring. Sure. This
27:22
Speaker 1: weekend's movie Christmas on Duty, we have Janelle Parrish who
27:28
Speaker 1: was like a staple, we have like the solid Hallmark Yes.
27:33
Speaker 1: And then opposite of her, we have this guy named
27:38
Speaker 1: Parker Young. Yeah, Hallmark debut, but he's he's worked on
27:43
Speaker 1: a lot of other things, Nine to one, one, Lone Star,
27:45
Speaker 1: a million little things, imposts. So, but first on Hallmark
27:50
Speaker 1: any lead role, Yeah, same thing right with the Bill's
27:54
Speaker 1: movie The Male co Star, Yes, is a Hallmark debut exactly.
28:00
Speaker 1: And so if we rewind it back to last the
28:06
Speaker 1: end of last year, at the very beginning of this year,
28:09
Speaker 1: there's a lot of turmoil at Hallmark about people in charge,
28:13
Speaker 1: and there was a lot of commentary about ages of
28:15
Speaker 1: actors and yeah, casting and so on and so forth,
28:19
Speaker 1: and so I wonder are they moving towards finding fresher
28:26
Speaker 1: faces for Hallmark? Yeah? Is this a reaction to that? Yeah,
28:29
Speaker 1: I wonder. I don't know how close of attention I've
28:32
Speaker 1: paid to the level of fresh face as we get
28:34
Speaker 1: in our movies, but there's definitely people who are missing.
28:39
Speaker 1: There's definitely people missing, and so that's hard. I like
28:42
Speaker 1: when we get new people who I'm excited about, but
28:46
Speaker 1: I also get really invested in my face totally, which
28:49
Speaker 1: is one of the things I think Hallmark does best.
28:52
Speaker 1: Don't you think there's room for both? Sure? Yes, yes, yes,
28:56
Speaker 1: But then I get protective of my old guys. I'm like, well,
28:58
Speaker 1: I don't want I don't want my faves to get bumped. Yeah,
29:02
Speaker 1: I mean neither, especially as someone who is not a
29:04
Speaker 1: fresh face myself. You're gonna replace me fresher podcast takes.
29:11
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think the gen zers are coming
29:12
Speaker 1: for this job quite yet. I don't know. I see
29:14
Speaker 1: instagrammers who have better followers than us talking about the
29:18
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29:22
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