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Lights, Camera, Christmas! · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to a surprise bonus episode of Girls
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  Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy. Today we are discussing
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  Speaker 1: Lights Camera Christmas from Hallmarks count down to Christmas lineup
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  Speaker 1: for the year twenty twenty two. We'd love to connect
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  Speaker 1: with you outside of the podcast. You can do this
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  Speaker 1: and Wendy. You can always email us at Megan and
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  Speaker 1: Wendy at gmail dot com. I thought you were going
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  Speaker 1: to say something else. I can tell We have a
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  Speaker 1: Facebook group too that is really awesome. It is Come
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  Speaker 1: find it. It's Girls Gone Hallmark. Just search it up
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  Speaker 1: in Facebook. You should be able to find it. Girls
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  Speaker 1: and Guys Gone Hallmark are welcome. Yes. Yes. Before we
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  Speaker 1: talk Lights Camera Christmas, let's talk a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark last weekend's line up. What did we review? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Ally Good Christmas was last week's review. That was rough,
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  Speaker 1: But because we didn't review this movie, I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: talk briefly about it. I want you too, too. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: My favorite movie after three weekends of movies so far
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  Speaker 1: is Ghosts of Christmas Always. I watched it with just
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  Speaker 1: this pig smile on my face. Oh did you? I
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  Speaker 1: just loved it. Why didn't we review it? Why do
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  Speaker 1: you think we didn't review it because of Willkemp? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: because we were like all in on the Willkemp. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I know, see, like the Today's movie review was not
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  Speaker 1: in our original plan, right, I don't know why we
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  Speaker 1: didn't add another. That's the only week so far. We've
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  Speaker 1: only done one movie, I know. So anyway, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: curious because I can't remember when we picked all our movies.
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  Speaker 1: It was like weeks and weeks and weeks ago. I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember why we didn't pick that movie. I want
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  Speaker 1: to just say that I haven't seen the whole thing yet.
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh. I do have enjoyed what I've seen, I
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  Speaker 1: just haven't finished it. But I want to hear what
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  Speaker 1: you have fallen to sleep during the movie multiple times
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  Speaker 1: I have. I'm just tired. I know I have been
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  Speaker 1: watching every movie. I know. I know. That's why I'm
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  Speaker 1: surprised you haven't watched this one. But tell me what
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  Speaker 1: you like so much about it? And I know that
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  Speaker 1: you listen to Deck the Hallmarks podcast review and you
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  Speaker 1: liked their review as well. I remember you talking about
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  Speaker 1: it on Stories, so give me all that information. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: here's what I like about this movie, Rapid Fire. I
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  Speaker 1: like Kim Matula. I loved Kim Mottula new to Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: She's been on Unreal, but she was on nine hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seven episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful. I
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  Speaker 1: would like to see more of Kim Matula on the
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark She was a delight. I loved Ian Harding as well.
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  Speaker 1: I like him a lot. He's from Pretty Little Liar,
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  Speaker 1: which I've never seen. I've seen a couple episodes, but
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  Speaker 1: other than that. Also in to the Hallmark world, we
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  Speaker 1: need new dudes of Hallmark. We've lost some to the
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  Speaker 1: Gag Exodus. We're losing some like Luke McFarlane who are
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  Speaker 1: moving on to bigger and better. We always need new
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  Speaker 1: I thought their chemistry was incredible. I thought they were
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  Speaker 1: both supernatural on screen. I loved them both. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was criminal how little screen time Reginald vel Johnson got.
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  Speaker 1: I needed more from the Ghost of Christmas Future. I
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  Speaker 1: loved Lori Tanchin, who plays Arlene the Ghost of Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: What else has she been in? I will tell you
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  Speaker 1: she's got a recognizable face, but I can't put her anywhere,
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  Speaker 1: and I know it's going to be something I've watched
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  Speaker 1: a lot of. So she has twenty eight acting credits.
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  Speaker 1: She was in twenty seven episodes of Orange is the
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  Speaker 1: New Black. That's where you know her from. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: She was an inmate, Yes, yes, she plays May Chang.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming she wasn't inmate. Yeah. I just I liked
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  Speaker 1: the story. I liked the little bit of the twist
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  Speaker 1: on scrooging. I super scrooging. So I loved it. I
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  Speaker 1: liked I liked what I've seen. I just thought from
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  Speaker 1: the very beginning they did a great job. Now, what
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  Speaker 1: I really liked is that because we were reviewing this movie,
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  Speaker 1: I was able to watch it as a viewer and
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  Speaker 1: not as a reviewer. And so while there are things
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  Speaker 1: to be said about this movie, I don't have to
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  Speaker 1: be the one to say them. And like the way
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  Speaker 1: the movie ends is implausible but lovely. I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 1: practically this doesn't actually work out, but I'm just going
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  Speaker 1: to enjoy it because I think it's really nice. Because
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  Speaker 1: you think, actually three ghosts visit people's houses, right, just
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  Speaker 1: to spend the disbelief and enjoy this lovely conclusion. If
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  Speaker 1: we were reviewing it, what rating would you have given it? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Five stars? Oh wow, I don't it will be hard
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  Speaker 1: to beat? Interesting? Right? And deck the Hallmarks they had
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  Speaker 1: gave positive reviews for me. Yeah, they enjoyed it. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Dan is notoriously the Hallmark movie hater of the bunch.
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  Speaker 1: I see you, Dan. He also he also ranks this
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  Speaker 1: among his favorite movies as his favorite movie so far.
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  Speaker 1: Thinks it'll be hard to beat. He felt like it
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  Speaker 1: was great until the very end, like he didn't want
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  Speaker 1: it to end the way it did. And I can
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  Speaker 1: understand that, and perhaps had I been forced to look
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  Speaker 1: at it with a critical I would have had different feelings.
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  Speaker 1: But I recommend you watching it. We have had people
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  Speaker 1: in our Facebook group, and it's always funny to me
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  Speaker 1: when there's people in our Facebook group who are like,
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  Speaker 1: not really a Hallmark fan, just here for you guys,
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  Speaker 1: and then elsewhere on the internet say like, well, you
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  Speaker 1: guys have maybe want to watch a couple movies. Please
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  Speaker 1: ask us first. Yeah, because not all Hallmark movies are
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  Speaker 1: created equal, right, And I would hate for you to
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  Speaker 1: waste two hours of your time only to come back
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  Speaker 1: and be like Wow, that was a real stinker. There
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  Speaker 1: are movies that I would recommend from this year so far.
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  Speaker 1: Ghosts of Christmas always, Noel next Door, Today's Lights Camera
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  Speaker 1: Christmas yep. So let's get into it. Okay, okay, and
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  Speaker 1: here's your SI. When a holiday rom com movie shooting
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  Speaker 1: in her town needs a costume designer, Carrie, a local
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  Speaker 1: shop owner, steps into the role. While working on the movie,
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  Speaker 1: she rediscovers her passion for costume design and finds herself
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  Speaker 1: falling for Brad, the film's famous leading man, starring Kimberly's
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  Speaker 1: sus Dad. You got it, John Brotherton. Okay, Kimberly sustad herself.
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  Speaker 1: We know her from North to Home, The Nine Kittens
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  Speaker 1: and The Nine Lives of Christmas, which blows my mind
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  Speaker 1: right for reasons I'll explain later, Wedding Every Weekend, which
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  Speaker 1: is a Julie Sherman wolf movie. It's still on my
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  Speaker 1: to watch list, And now I'm wondering if I got
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  Speaker 1: to put Nine Kittens of Christmas on my right Sorry?
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  Speaker 1: Is that right? Go ahead? No, I would say, and
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  Speaker 1: North to Home again. We mentioned it in a episode
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  Speaker 1: earlier this week that somebody in our Facebook group really
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  Speaker 1: love that movie uh huh, and said it's the best
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  Speaker 1: all year. I have been meeting to watch it me too,
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  Speaker 1: and I just haven't, So it's really on my list.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to watch it because I have now become
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  Speaker 1: a Kimberly Sustad fan, like huge, oh that percent. John
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  Speaker 1: Brotherson also stars in this movie. You may recognize him
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  Speaker 1: as Matt from Fuller House. He had his Hallmark Channel
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  Speaker 1: debut last year in the Christmas Contest alongside CCB. That
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  Speaker 1: movie did not perform the way I wanted it to,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm glad to see him back in a new
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  Speaker 1: role given another chance. I think he's a great fit
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  Speaker 1: on the Hallmark Channel. Oh me too, Me Too. Writer
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  Speaker 1: Gary Goldstein has twenty one writing credits, Unfortunately, no movies
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  Speaker 1: we've personally reviewed. However, is IMDb indicates that he is
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  Speaker 1: given story credit for a nineteen ninety two episode of
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  Speaker 1: my all time favorite series Beverly Hills nine O two
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  Speaker 1: one zero And now I must know what episode specifically,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I wish they had credited that on IMDb.
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: It doesn't say it just says like I think it
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  Speaker 1: just has a link to like their IMDb page or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But in nineteen ninety two. That probably would have been
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  Speaker 1: their second season, no third season. I was in high
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  Speaker 1: school like the same timeframe, so anyway. Also also wrote
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  Speaker 1: a nineteen ninety episode of Saved by the Bell, which
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  Speaker 1: is I know, a fan favorite of yours and your husband's.
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh. Specifically, the episode Save the Max was the
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  Speaker 1: restaurant going to close down. You know that assumes that
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  Speaker 1: I have any memory of that show. I would imagine,
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  Speaker 1: who knows, Maybe I don't know. Anyway, I thought that
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  Speaker 1: was funny. This movie was directed by David Weaver. This
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  Speaker 1: is his fourth movie that he has directed. In twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. He also directed Merry Go Round, a royal
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  Speaker 1: runaway romance, and Butler's in Love. It's busy, Busy, busy, busy, busy, busy.
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  Speaker 1: I want to shout out Laura Soultics. Soultice, Yes, Laura Sultics.
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  Speaker 1: She plays Carrie's mom in the movie. We talked about
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  Speaker 1: her recently because she was in Autumn in the City.
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  Speaker 1: I love that she had a bigger role in this movie.
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  Speaker 1: I find her just so adorable and charming. She played
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  Speaker 1: the boy's mother in that movies and you hated her character, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I just loved her. I just love her. I
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  Speaker 1: would love to see her in a leading role. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the story is quite yet, but I
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  Speaker 1: think she'd be great. Yeah. Okay. This was filmed in Vancouver,
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  Speaker 1: wrapped in August, and Decider reviewed this movie and calls
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  Speaker 1: it one of the networks best. Oh. I don't disagree
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  Speaker 1: me neither. I'm so glad we added this to urmy too,
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  Speaker 1: because I saw the commercials and I was like, that
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  Speaker 1: looks funny, Like why is that not in our lineup?
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't we pick that? And then we're like, let's
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  Speaker 1: do a bonus one, and here it is, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: so glad we did, and here we are. What's your
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  Speaker 1: first impression of this movie? Okay, this might be kind
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  Speaker 1: of a deep cut. You had to really pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to this movie. Okay, from here on out, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to call me Carrie Kiljoy whenever I'm being negative.
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  Speaker 1: Do you get the reference? Yeah? I just thought it
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  Speaker 1: was so funny, so funny, just Carrie killed Joy. That's
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  Speaker 1: my nickname. What is that called alter ego? Yes? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: my first impression is have we been sleeping on Kimberly Sastead? Seriously? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Totally good. I apologize for everything that I said about
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  Speaker 1: the Nine Kittens of Christmas, like our steadfast refusal to
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  Speaker 1: watch that movie last year. Yeah, she's so great, She's
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  Speaker 1: so cool. I just love her seriously. Okay, what did
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  Speaker 1: you like about this movie? Okay? I loved the satire
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  Speaker 1: used in this movie and because it was essentially making
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  Speaker 1: fun of the Hallmark movies we watched. Yes, just every
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  Speaker 1: little layer of like fake snow and yes, just everything
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  Speaker 1: all the Hallmark meta moment. Loved it all. Laura Solti says,
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  Speaker 1: the mom we just talked about her. I really enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: her in this movie. I have a question, is that
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: us if we happen to stumble onto a Hallmark movie
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  Speaker 1: that we're like, yes, yes, I would out yes do
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  Speaker 1: you know who that is? Yes? Yes for me. I
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  Speaker 1: loved how the story unfolded, how it was told in flashbacks. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know how they start out that they're at their
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  Speaker 1: screening or whatever, and then it was a little bit
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  Speaker 1: like unbelievable that that mom would be like, I have
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  Speaker 1: a question, tell me about the costumes, like so embarrassing,
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  Speaker 1: Like yes, the daughter, but they obviously the people like
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  Speaker 1: who worked on the movie loved her, and so they're like,
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  Speaker 1: is that you out there? Anyway? I loved how it
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  Speaker 1: like jumped from like present day and then flashback whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I just thought it was a cool way, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I liked that too. But one of the things about
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  Speaker 1: Laura Soltis's character that I loved the most is she's
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  Speaker 1: a super cheerleader for her daughter. I just loved that
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  Speaker 1: she was like all in on her daughter success. Good.
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  Speaker 1: I know you said my notes kimberly sustained auto correct.
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  Speaker 1: I thought she was so great. I thought she was
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  Speaker 1: funny and dry and playful when needed to be. And
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: it's raining again. I got some crazy weather here in
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  Speaker 1: southern California. Tell me what you thought about John Brotherton.
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  Speaker 1: I loved John Brotherton in this movie. I thought he
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  Speaker 1: did such a good job of playing the full of
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  Speaker 1: himself actor, but then switched to being warm and engaging
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  Speaker 1: during his time with Carrie. He sold me he's one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent a Wowie's away from me. Oh, totally put
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  Speaker 1: that man on a shirt. I have a question for you, Okay,
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: do you think The King of Christmas was kind of
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: a dig at a former coastar I heard it. I
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  Speaker 1: noted it I loved it, whether it was intentional or not,
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  Speaker 1: people like you and I are going to hear it
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  Speaker 1: that way, right. And his name was he like Brad Baxter,
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  Speaker 1: b B Candice Camera. Yeah, I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that you're not. He's stretching to the highest point
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  Speaker 1: to try to get the slipperbody. You can get it.
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  Speaker 1: I thought this movie had a really great supporting cast.
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  Speaker 1: It was a real deep bench. It was not a
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  Speaker 1: throwaway character in the bunch. I loved Jill and Caleb
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  Speaker 1: as the Divorced movie did I so did. I totally
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  Speaker 1: rooted for them. I liked Jamie the PA. Yes, my
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  Speaker 1: daughter was like, what's Jamie's job? That looks like fun?
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  Speaker 1: Just telling people what to do all day long. I
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: was like, okay, and then later on she was like,
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: tell me again what her job is? Oh my god.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: So I liked co star Mariah's character. I just thought
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  Speaker 1: they did a great job with this supporting cast, and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't do what Hallmark often does and make too
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  Speaker 1: much going on right. Focus was on Carrion Brad, but
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  Speaker 1: the supporting characters moved the story in an effective way. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The last thing for me was the kiss between Carrie
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  Speaker 1: and Brad when they were dancing was so super hot,
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  Speaker 1: like couldn't believe it, like that it was on a
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark movie. And then when they were playing in the
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  Speaker 1: snow and it was like fake snow and we're like
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: rolling around. I just thought it was so playful and
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  Speaker 1: fun and they just had crazy chemistry. She shoved snow
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  Speaker 1: in his mouth. Yes, yes, so great. In one of
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  Speaker 1: their kisses, I don't remember which one. He kind of
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  Speaker 1: like puts his hand on her neck. Oh, that's like
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: a whole thing on TikTok right now, Like really, it's
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: like from books and people are talking to how like
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: they want that, like not in an aggressive way, but
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  Speaker 1: there's just like a hand placement that people find interesting
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  Speaker 1: air sexy, And I thought I may have caught a
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: piece of that. Mmm, what you wish for from light's camera, Cris,
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  Speaker 1: miss I only have one Okay. I thought the conclusion
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  Speaker 1: was too quick, resolved too quickly, and a little choppy.
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  Speaker 1: I fully agree with you. I was like disappointed because
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  Speaker 1: it looked like it was good, Like there was a
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  Speaker 1: point where she like doesn't go in on him, but
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  Speaker 1: like she has like this little monologue. But it I
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  Speaker 1: swear to God, like scenes got cut out of there.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, there's so much build up. I'm so invested
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  Speaker 1: in this relationship, and then I didn't quite get the
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  Speaker 1: resolution that I wanted. And what I wondered is, did
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  Speaker 1: we spend too much time with the on stage panel? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Is that where we lost time? Truest because I liked
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  Speaker 1: that panel. But in a made for TV movie, you
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  Speaker 1: can't go over by fifteen minutes the way you can
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  Speaker 1: in a theatrical release, right, or even just to direct
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  Speaker 1: a streaming movie, right, So something's got to get cut right,
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  Speaker 1: And I think that maybe they cut the wrong thing.
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  Speaker 1: I think that it just was like unfulfilling. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm glad that they're like together and perfect,
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  Speaker 1: but there was like boom boom. I needed a little
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  Speaker 1: more of their post connection moment, like a like a
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  Speaker 1: flash forward to them working together, potentially more of that
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  Speaker 1: final conversation. I just needed more got it. And I
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: think that's the sign of a good movie that we
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: want more of it, right right right. I agree with
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  Speaker 1: your wish. That's my biggest wish. Also have two small
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: scale wishes here. One I wish that Carrie would advocate
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  Speaker 1: for herself. Yes, I'll be your costumer. Fake it till
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: you make it, girl. And they're a fashion designer. You
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: can design clothes, you can merchandise clothes. Of course you
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: can dress these people. Here's my rate, Like I know,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: get on Google and then yes, you can use my store.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Here's what I'm going to charge for being closed for
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  Speaker 1: the day. Oh totally, come on. I'm not asking her
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  Speaker 1: to take advantage of people. Just be your own advocate.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: You are in a position where you need this money.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Speaking of money, my second wish, and this is called
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  Speaker 1: all Hallmark movie writers out there, no more collection notices.
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  Speaker 1: I put that on the Girl's Gone Hallmark Instagram story
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  Speaker 1: that I should have put it on our Bingo card
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  Speaker 1: this year because there have been so many collection notices
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  Speaker 1: in the movies. We've seen so much a classic Hallmark thing.
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  Speaker 1: There's always the small business that's about you under unless
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  Speaker 1: there's this big, major moment. I don't enjoy it. It
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  Speaker 1: really stresses me out. I don't. I just am like,
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  Speaker 1: even though you know that it's all gonna work out
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  Speaker 1: in the end, it's not a Hallmark trope I enjoy,
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  Speaker 1: and I would like to replace it with a different
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: form of conflict. Gotcha, she had enough conflict in not
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: what's the word I'm looking for, not being sure of herself,
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  Speaker 1: not being confident in her ability that we didn't also need,
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  Speaker 1: and my retail story is failing. Right, Okay, are you
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  Speaker 1: ready for? Did you see that? I am major Balsam
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  Speaker 1: Hill product placement in this movie? I saw the commercial
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  Speaker 1: for it, but I don't. Oh twice in the movie
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  Speaker 1: they're decorating and it says like Balsom Hill Holiday Collections.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't hold the lid and slide it out of
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  Speaker 1: the wedd didn't even notice. Oh my gosh, and even
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: my husband tired. That's a nice tree. I go, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: did you not just see that they took out their
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Balsam Hill ornaments to decorate what is likely a Balsam
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Hill Christmas tree. I have a Balsom Hill tree. It's
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: fan freaking tastic. They're beautiful. We get the catalog and
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: every year we're like, ooh, it's so nice. Yeah, it's
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: a nice tree. I didn't have any technicals. Did you
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: see that? But except for when John Brotherton walks out
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: of his trailer and he's in that like red Santa suit,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: that she designed. It is the moment where I was like, oh, hot, damn, hot, damn.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Who knew they could make Santa sexy? I smoking hot?
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I didn't know I could be attracted to Santa. That's
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: what my notes say. That was a really great moment
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: as she's like cutting up this Santa suit and I'm thinking,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: have you ever been to the Beverly Center? So it's
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: them all in LA and I used to live very
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: close to their right out of college, and their Santa's
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: are sexy Santa's. And by that I mean they're wearing
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: like Santa pants and suspenders and they're shirtless. Get out.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: It's for not for children, it's for and who knows,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: maybe they do have a real Santa, but they definitely
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: have like sexy Sanna and his sexy el situation or
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: at one point, this was in the early two thousands.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Maybe they've been me too by now, but I was thinking,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: that's the direction we're gonna go. Because anytime you hear
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: like they want like this edgy or Santa, you think
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: like the a Sanna missus claws in her short little
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: skirt or a shirtless Sanna. I thought, wow, to the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: costumer on this movie, for creating that it was excellent
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: and he war it so well and good. So yes,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: we are the mother in this movie. Apparently, I guess
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: so so embarrassing. One last thing, I actually felt real
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: heartbreak when she found out that he dropped out of
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: that movie. And she was like, yeah, she was so
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I think devastated because she turned them that job, which
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: is like, did we know that No? I didn't think so. No,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: she had got the offer and told her mom she
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: got the offer, and then like then kind of like
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the next scene or two, it was I was like,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: what a jerk to Like he was begging her, like,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: come work on my movie with me, blah blah blah
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: blah blah blah whatever, and then he quits the job,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: doesn't tell her. It doesn't occur to him to tell her. Oh,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I felt so bad for her. I felt that moment
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: too for her, Like I wasn't even on your mind
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: in this moment. And that was such a weird thing
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: because he ends up taking the job and he talks like, oh,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: the timing worked out. It wasn't a timing issue. You
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: were worried the movie was going to ruin your reputation.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: It's this nice dude who makes family friendly Christmas movies.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I thought that was a little interesting. Yeah, that is interesting.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Good point, very good point. But why if the timing
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: worked out, why didn't he then go back to her
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: and say, like, come work, I'm going to be in
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the movie now, so come come work with me. Yeah.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: But at that point, if I were her, I'd be like,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I don't want to rely on you. I want to
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: do this right now. Too bad? Are you ready to
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: read to it? I am go ahead and go first.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Four and a half stars, almost perfect, four point seventy five. Wow,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the resolution. If they had just fixed that, yeah, same,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: it would have been a five star movie for me. Same.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: It was just good, funny, good star, snappy, moved along,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: enjoyable character. Loved it, loved it. Bravo, Bravo. Next week.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I know the previous actually look kind of cute, did
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: you see? Nice? Okay, So next week from Girls Gone Hamewark,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: you will get The Royal Nanny. And that is a
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: product of our Facebook group. Yeah, really sticking it to Wendy.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: They're not doing it purpose no, no, no, no, I
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: think that's the movie they are most interested on. Next week.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: This is the third episode we have done. This week,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: we also discussed Magical Christmas Village as well as a
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Maple Valley Christmas. So tap on back listen to our
• 22:37
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• 22:41
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