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Love in the Clouds · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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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. On
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  Speaker 1: today's episode, we are discussing Love in the Clouds, which
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  Speaker 1: originally premiered on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday May tenth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. It's currently streaming on the Hallmark Plus
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  Speaker 1: let's hear a synopsis of Loving the Clouds.
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  Speaker 2: Reporter Brooklyn travels to the balloon Fiessa to meet hot
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  Speaker 2: air balloon pilot Jared, who offers romantic balloon rides but
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  Speaker 2: is closed off to love himself.
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  Speaker 1: I heard that deep sound fame again. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: tell you right now, this entire week is rough really.
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  Speaker 1: Loving the Clouds was directed by Larry McLean. Larry has
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight directing credits, including a Billy ray Cyrus led
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  Speaker 1: television series called Doc, a Hallmark Christmas movie from twenty
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  Speaker 1: thirteen called Christmas with Tucker, and fourteen episodes of the
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  Speaker 1: series Sue Thomas f b I, which we are reviewing
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  Speaker 1: as part of our First Impression series coming later this month.
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  Speaker 2: Lisa Happner wrote the script for Love in the Clouds.
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  Speaker 2: She's no stranger to the feel good genre, with seven
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  Speaker 2: writing credits to her name, including Sappy Holiday and Christmas
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  Speaker 2: Loves Anonymous, all Hallmark adjacent projects Hallmark Esque.
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  Speaker 1: Mackenzie Wesmore plays Brooklyn in Love in the Clouds. She's
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  Speaker 1: racked up twenty one acting credits, most notably starring in
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  Speaker 1: over eleven hundred episodes of the soap Passions, plus a
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  Speaker 1: stint on All My Children and a few appearances in
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  Speaker 1: the Star Trek Universe. This is her first appearance on Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: Remember how we just talked about Passions with Jesse Metcalf.
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  Speaker 1: I was floored when I saw that she was in
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  Speaker 1: over over one thousand episodes of a soap I've never
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  Speaker 1: even heard of before. Don't remember I remember a real weird,
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  Speaker 1: an odd soap And what's so funny? I told you this,
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  Speaker 1: but you know we saw Jesse Metcalf on chess Peak Shores.
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  Speaker 1: He was then on one of my favorite radio shows,
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Lewis.
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  Speaker 2: Live just by coincidence, by coincidence, and you enjoyed his interview.
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  Speaker 1: He was promoting a skincare line.
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  Speaker 2: What Jesse Metcalf has a skincareline?
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember the name of it. We'll Lincoln in
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  Speaker 1: the show notes interesting. Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Paul Green takes on the role of Jared with forty
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  Speaker 2: five acting credits. Hallmark fans will likely recognize him as
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  Speaker 2: doctor Carson Shepherd from Wind Calls the Heart. He's also
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  Speaker 2: been in Hallmark favorites like Christmas Ceo, My Favorite Wedding,
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  Speaker 2: and Anything for Love.
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  Speaker 1: Primetime Emmy Award nominee. Gail O'Grady plays Jane with one
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  Speaker 1: hundred nine acting credits. Gail is best known for her
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  Speaker 1: role as Donna in the long running series NYPD Blue.
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  Speaker 1: She has starred in everything from Ally McBeal, American Dreams, Revenge,
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  Speaker 1: and Criminal Minds. Lorenzo Lames plays Brad with an impressive
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty seven acting credits. He's had major
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  Speaker 1: roles in shows like Falcon Crest, Renegade, Air America, and
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  Speaker 1: The Bold and the Beautiful. He's even lent his voice
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  Speaker 1: to the animated series Phineas and Ferb. Love in the
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  Speaker 1: Clouds was originally titled Love in the Air. The movie
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  Speaker 1: was filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in December twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break and we'll come right back
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  Speaker 1: with our first impressions of Love in the Clouds. Deep breath, Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: what is your first impression of Love in the Clouds?
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  Speaker 2: My first impression is what in the world was Hallmark
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  Speaker 2: thinking when they acquired this one?
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  Speaker 1: Just really going for it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have nice things to say, guys, buckle up.
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  Speaker 1: My first impression is silence. You're dang cell phone, Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's such like a interesting take on a movie
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  Speaker 2: that was terrible, I know, but it kept going off
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  Speaker 2: at an opportune times.
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  Speaker 1: The woman is a reporter. Do you think in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of a segment, she can have her phone like
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  Speaker 1: do do do Do Do Do Do Do do do
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  Speaker 1: do do? It was giving love actually, and Laura Lenny
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  Speaker 1: and I wanted her to just put it on silence.
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  Speaker 1: That is boomer behavior right there, keeping your phone ringing?
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  Speaker 1: Is this Chaco Boomer? I don't think so. My point
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  Speaker 1: is silence your phone. Yeah, I hear you. Okay, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think, like me, your likes segment might be small.
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  Speaker 1: I have just three things. That's more than I have.
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  Speaker 1: Let's hear it. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The first one is the best thing I liked about
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  Speaker 2: this movie, where the balloons and Albuquerque.
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  Speaker 1: It added some much needed visual stimuli one hundred percent
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  Speaker 1: to this and I was excited to learn that this
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  Speaker 1: balloon f Yes, it is an actual thing. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: my number one. Like the balloon footage. Great. I liked
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  Speaker 1: how the hot air balloon news segment. That was the
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  Speaker 1: most interesting part to me. We learn about how balloons fly,
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  Speaker 1: why Albuquerque, New Mexico is good for ballooning. Are you
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  Speaker 1: laughing at how balloons fly? I'm laughing that this is
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  Speaker 1: our biggest takeaway from this. Well, that was the most
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  Speaker 1: enjoyable part for me, and I thought well that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Like hot air, ballooning terrifies me. I will never do it,
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  Speaker 1: but it was helpful to learn that the predictable weather
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  Speaker 1: patterns in Albuquerque are what make this a place where
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  Speaker 1: ballooning is popular.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of that b roll, I noticed they have the balloon,
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  Speaker 2: the actual I don't even know what the balloon part was,
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  Speaker 2: laid out on the ground, and then they had the
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  Speaker 2: basket tipped over. I was like, how do you get
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  Speaker 2: into it? You don't get climb into it when it's
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  Speaker 2: tipped over sideways.
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  Speaker 1: No, I think you get like hoisted up. So maybe
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  Speaker 1: they have like a little stool, but I think they
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  Speaker 1: have a stool.
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  Speaker 2: And then I was wondering, all is the balloon pilot
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  Speaker 2: plus like his second hand man that was helping. And
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  Speaker 2: then let's just say, like the two people in the
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  Speaker 2: at the top of the movie that was are all
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  Speaker 2: four of those.
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  Speaker 1: People in the balloon basket? Where else would they be?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if like that the second hand
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  Speaker 2: man is also in the basket.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time, I think you only need one pilot.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I thought maybe the guy was like on
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  Speaker 2: the ground helping and like you know, like land it
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you were paying close attention, you would know.
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  Speaker 1: Once you're in the air, there's nothing to be done.
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  Speaker 1: All you can do is go up and down. You
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  Speaker 1: cannot control anything other than going up or going down.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but then when they're landing, is there like you know,
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  Speaker 2: like when an actual.
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  Speaker 1: Airplane lands, like there's like a person to like direct
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  Speaker 1: You should see Wendy with her with her airplane hand
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  Speaker 1: signals right now? What you know, I talk? Do you
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  Speaker 1: see tiktoks with the people doing like bringing in the airplanes? No, stressful,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like flying. I don't need to. They're not bringing
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  Speaker 1: they're like parking the planes. There's not a person on
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  Speaker 1: the runway landing the planes like that. No, it's only
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  Speaker 1: when they're parking or backing up. No, they don't help
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  Speaker 1: it land. And when they landed the basket, the balloon,
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  Speaker 1: you saw it, He's like, it's gonna be rough. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: we can do about it, like just brace for impact. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: so the only thing the person on the ground can
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  Speaker 1: do is drive the truck to the pick up location.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, here's my other question. If all these people are
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  Speaker 2: in this small little basket and say like this couple
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  Speaker 2: that is gets engaged at the beginning of this movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're like hip to hip.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, excuse me, We're having a romantic moment.
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  Speaker 2: And then like I was.
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  Speaker 1: Like pilot, but here it is right here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that just seems bizarre to me. Like I've never
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  Speaker 2: been on a hot air Boland, I have no desire to.
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  Speaker 2: I would watch from the ground.
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  Speaker 1: I think that it was very pretty from the ground. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: do you want me to go on with my life? Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Paul Green as Jared clearly easily the standout in this movie.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like he has a warmth and he has
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  Speaker 2: a nice smile. I liked him, but I thought everything
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  Speaker 2: else about this movie was just.
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  Speaker 1: Nonsense. Yeah, I liked Paul Green too. There was so
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  Speaker 1: much to distract from Paul Green in this movie. Paul
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  Speaker 1: Green is enjoyable, but it's not enough. I liked the
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  Speaker 1: inclusion of Paws and Stripes, an actual organization that pairs
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  Speaker 1: veterans with service dogs, and it is an organization based
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  Speaker 1: in Albuquerque, so they gave them a nice little shout
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  Speaker 1: out during Great Loon Festival fair. I like that, well done?
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  Speaker 1: Was that your only Like? I have also said other things.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I have one more. I didn't hate Lorenzo.
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  Speaker 1: Lamis the dad. Yeah, Brooklyn's dad. And where's why I
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  Speaker 1: have Brooklyn's dead.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're right, I have Brooklyn's dead. Paul's not Paul's dad,
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  Speaker 2: Jared's dad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I found it believable that this man would be
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  Speaker 2: retired and depressed.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And I was like, that's what this movie should
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  Speaker 1: have been about. Like, that would have been so much
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  Speaker 1: more into your His parents were so much more compelling
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  Speaker 1: to me. I related to them so much more. This
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  Speaker 1: goes back to listeners of our generation. We'll understand. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the dynamic of their marriage has changed, the dynamic of
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  Speaker 1: his life has changed. They're struggling with that. I bought
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  Speaker 1: it all. But that is where my likes end. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk wishes. Okay, jump in. Well, I'm gonna start small.
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  Speaker 1: I hate Mary and her dedication to professionalism while also
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  Speaker 1: encouraging her reporter to become like the National Inquirer and
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  Speaker 1: dig up dirt on a business owner that nobody knows
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  Speaker 1: or cares about.
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  Speaker 2: Brooklyn's boss is my number one dislike of this movie.
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  Speaker 1: The story his past is only compelling if anybody has
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  Speaker 1: a clue who he is. Nobody cares that a stranger
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  Speaker 1: doesn't believe in love, right, right, My notes say, your
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  Speaker 1: reporter is there to cover the balloon festival. That is
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  Speaker 1: the story, not.
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  Speaker 2: The love life or whatever of somebody.
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  Speaker 1: Who small lives matter people. I'm not suggesting that your
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  Speaker 1: life needs to be big and you need to be
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  Speaker 1: famous for your life to be important. It's not newsworthy
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  Speaker 1: my life. The details of my life are important to me, right.
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  Speaker 1: But that's what made me laugh too.
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  Speaker 2: Is like Jared bro who he calls the boss and
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  Speaker 2: is like, yeah, you can come interview, but don't ask
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  Speaker 2: me any of these questions. You're not Lady Gaga. You
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  Speaker 2: don't get like, uh, what makes you think that anybody
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  Speaker 2: is going to be interested?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and now you've given her the information, it's like,
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  Speaker 1: don't look inside this box. Well I didn't care it
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  Speaker 1: was in the box until you told me not to
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  Speaker 1: look there.
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  Speaker 2: Right exactly. Well, I thought that was so stupid that
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  Speaker 2: what's her name again? Mary?
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  Speaker 1: Yep, that's my notes saying, I don't know. She was so.
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  Speaker 2: Comically awful, like awful as a boss. And first Brooklyn
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  Speaker 2: just like took it. I was like, have some self
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  Speaker 2: respect first, of all, like, look, I know we're watching
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  Speaker 2: a want I'm not even calling this a Hallmark movie
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  Speaker 2: because this is not a Hallmark movie. It aired on Hallmark,
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  Speaker 2: not a Hallmark movie. But this boss was like so
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  Speaker 2: rude and awful terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Agree, I'm like, how do you live with yourself acting
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  Speaker 2: like that?
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  Speaker 1: She's the worst.
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  Speaker 2: She was terrible, and I just hated, like make it
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  Speaker 2: make sense to me, Like she was like, oh, that's
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  Speaker 2: the story I want you to go after. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: that is so dumb on so many levels.
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  Speaker 1: It's not compelling.
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  Speaker 2: You live in Seattle. I get they're covering a balloon festival, fiesta.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big deal, happens every year, right, but people
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  Speaker 2: from Seattle are not going to care about like whatever
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  Speaker 2: this mystery situation. If it's that, it's a good.
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  Speaker 1: Point, like why are they sending this reporter from Seattle
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  Speaker 1: to report on this in like it does it have
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  Speaker 1: enough national interest?
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  Speaker 2: Is does she work for like the nightly news or
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  Speaker 2: is it like a you know, like back in the
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  Speaker 2: morning set.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, is that what we're talking about? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: They may have said, but it didn't stick with me. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Brooklyn's career path is super confusing to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, shouldn't the business beat be more prestigious than the
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  Speaker 1: lifestyle beat? I would think so. I say this as
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  Speaker 1: a person who makes lifestyle content. So summer down people, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't understand. The boss was mad because Brooklyn was
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  Speaker 2: covering like a coffee spot a business, right, but it
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  Speaker 2: was her approach was to lifestylely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what it was like too casual? No, no puns.
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  Speaker 2: I hated all those puns too, but like one is enough. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: one is enough everybody. But it didn't make sense to me.
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  Speaker 2: I just did not understand, Like what she was so
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  Speaker 2: eager about moving, wanting.
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  Speaker 1: To move into a lifestyle space. I don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't get it. Brooklyn needed to at least try
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  Speaker 1: to explain the misunderstanding. She doesn't. She doesn't. That's a
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  Speaker 1: comley sentence, she says, let me explain, and she says,
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  Speaker 1: how much did you hear? But not wait stop, we're adults.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to me for a minute. This is soap opera
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  Speaker 1: acting here. This is like every scene needs to be
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  Speaker 1: drawn out over the course of a week. Well, look
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  Speaker 1: at her, I understand, but it's also it's soap opera directing. Too,
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  Speaker 1: where there are soap opera watchers in my house and
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: so there a scene is never complete. They'll say like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing here? And then they'll stand and
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  Speaker 1: stare at each other, and then they'll cut to the
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  Speaker 1: next scene. That's what it felt like to me because
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  Speaker 1: when Jared hears her on the phone with her boss,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, she's saying, I'm not gonna do a
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  Speaker 1: story about him. That's what she is saying. She walks
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  Speaker 1: outside says what do you hear? And he's like, I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: Not hey, this is so easily handled. She doesn't try. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I hear your frustration. He doesn't even ask.
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  Speaker 2: I know, Booms, I know, I have another wish, but
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  Speaker 2: I think it fits here. I felt like this movie
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  Speaker 2: came across as like the writer with somebody who was
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: trying to replicate what a Hallmark movie is, but at
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  Speaker 2: it's like worst version of it, like it's rough draft
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  Speaker 2: version of it, because and I said earlier, this is
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  Speaker 2: not a Hallmark movie, Like Hallmark has come such a
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  Speaker 2: long way, yeah, and they make really good movies, and
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  Speaker 2: here we have been like tooting the Hallmark horn for
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: what feels like years about like, oh no, Hallmark is
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  Speaker 2: not your like Grandma's Hallmark anymore. This is your grandma's
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark movie.
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  Speaker 1: This is this so bad? It's good? Like you watch it? No,
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  Speaker 1: this was so bad. It's bad. This was not good
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  Speaker 1: by any means. I agree with you. But it's so
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  Speaker 1: bad that it gives you enough to talk about. It's
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  Speaker 1: so bad that it's entertaining in the fact that there's
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: so much to talk about, Like, may I go ahead?
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  Speaker 1: The green screen ballooning? Oh okay, I thought.
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  Speaker 2: You were going somewhere else, but okay, oh yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: mean I can talk about that too, we'll get there.
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  Speaker 1: But the green screen ballooning is so bad. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why they wouldn't do a fool rewrite at that
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  Speaker 1: moment and be like, this is so bad we can't
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  Speaker 1: include it. It's there are some bad GreenScreen moments, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these movies we watch, even good movies,
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  Speaker 1: like we're decent movies. Right, this was so bad. It
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  Speaker 1: was like it was like I'm trying, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: the style of animation where there's like a cutout of
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  Speaker 1: an item and it's like wiggling in front of the background. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: do you understand what I'm talking about I'm doing some
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: hand motions here, and the fact that they do it
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: twice and when they do the proposal in the balloon,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: it's so bad.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: It's so it's embarrassingly bad.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: That truly, were this my movie and I saw that,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: I'd be like, that's gotta go. We can't. They can't.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: I understand. The whole point is that at some point
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: they got to go up in the balloon, but we
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: cannot send them up in these balloons.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: I'm a little bit concerned because the director of this
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: movie also directed the Sue Thomas FBI series that We're Oh.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: You thought that was gonna be a real Critic's Choice
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Award winning No, I don't think so.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I'm like, maybe he can make something good out of it. Like,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: but this was terrible, truly terrible. I had a hard
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: time connecting with any of these characters.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: One, the chemistry just was.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Not there between like our two leads, yeah at all.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: And two I'm gonna let you talk about it, but
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Brooklyn's wig was so freaking distracting that that's all I
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: could see when she was on screen.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, what else is there to say about it?
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: It it well on the Hallmark Facebook page.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Lots of people have stuff to say about the.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Wig, and and some people don't even realize it's a wig.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: It was a wig, right, I think it's a wig.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: But it had real dark roots, which was a real
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: choice for a wig. I thought, Look like, sometimes life happens,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: like your roots get dark. I just I don't understand
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: that choice on a wig. It's not like like a
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: smudgie root, like an you know, like that's a look,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: that's not what this was. No, this was like your
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: bleach blonde wow, like it when your hair doesn't move. No,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: it was just terrible. It was super distracticed, the heiress
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: and the handyman all over again. Worse, one hundred times worse.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: What is this? What is this woman's name?
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Mackenzie Westmore? Yeah, look at IMDb gorgeous picture of her. Yes, yes,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: she's so cute, right, she's so cute.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: That wig was Oh my gosh, like this hair she
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: has in her IMDb photo, she must be so mad.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I would be furious. She's like, look at how cute
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I am, and look what you did to me.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: And that's what anybody is talking about.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Ish.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I mean people are talking about other things too, but
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to get into it.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Nope, not doing it. Uh, do you have any more wishes?
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Because I got lots of digit see that.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: No, I'm done, but I do have two digit see
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: thats go ahead, go ahead.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Well there's a few. Let's start with the fact that
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: they're dressed like it's the middle of winter, which it's
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: December in Albuquerque. It was probably cold, right you could
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: see their breath at times. But the International Balloon Festival
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five will be held in October this year,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: so I assume the twenty twenty four festival held around
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: the same time. The average temperatures in Albuquerque in October
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: range between a low forty five and a high of
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: seventy four. Those are not temperatures that warrant full winter
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: coats and beanies in all of the weather. And my
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: question is if we have to make our actors sweat
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: in the summer. This is a this is an acquisition,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: so they didn't know when it was going to be aired,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: but it's uh chronologically illogical. Sure, and it's part of
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the May for Mom's lineup, which, by the way, homemark,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I'd like a do over. Your May for Mom's lineup
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: includes two acquisitions and three reairs. I feel offended total
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: four reairs actually with one Jane Mysteries tossed, but that
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: is just one. The outfits do not match the supposed
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: time period.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: I agree they should have if they were gonna air
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: this on Hallmark at another time, it should be in
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: October maybe, but even then maybe November, but then we're
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: in Christmas and so that wouldn't work.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: They just were shoving it in. This was a shoehorn situation.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Seriously, I want to talk about the beanie that Coworka
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: a lase wears night and day inside it or outside,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: always has a beanie on.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: It looks like like an elf. Oh that's interesting. Like
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: at one point it's like folded over and I was like,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: that looks like an ELF beanie.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I just felt like costume department was like, we're gonna
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: lean in on the fact that we're from the Pacific
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Northwest and that's what you do. You wear beanies in Seattle.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: It just so so stupid to me.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: But hers was more like a fashion beanie wasn't keeping her.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: It was just like it was like on the yeah
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: yeah times, like when they're doing that like karate thing,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Why are you wearing a beanie.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: I don't understand, Taekwondo. I'm sure somebody will come into
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: our comments.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: It was, yeah, whatever that like martial arts thing that
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: they were doing during the drone show. Our two leads
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: are having a conversation and lights are flashing on their
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: face during the drone show, kind of like you would
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: see like during fireworks. Yeah, but when they cut to
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: the drone show, it's not bright enough to be like
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: flashing bright reds and greens all over their face. They
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: were like using like a firework effect when one was
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: not warranted. You thinking like somebody was just like offscreen,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: like throwing lasers on their face or something. You know.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe they didn't post. I don't know.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. My last did just
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: see that.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Is from IMDb. I saw this comment. I did my
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: own Google research because ages aren't always reported ac on
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: the internet, which we learned with our friend of the show,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Erica Tuvliy. Yes, but it is reported that Paul Green
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: is fifty years old. He was born in nineteen seventy four,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: and Gail O'Grady, who played his mother, is reportedly sixty
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: two years old. Born in nineteen sixty three, making her
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: eleven years older than him.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Well why why why? Because men can be hot and
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: handsome at any age. Okay, what else do you happen?
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: My last one is just that the song that plays
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: during the closing credits was being sung by Paul Green.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Oh that's interesting. That's an interesting take. I didn't catch
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: that at all.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Well it was. It was notable to me when it
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: started playing. So I shazammed that, did you? And actually
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: came up. Yeah, it took a long time. I had
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: to do it twice. Zam had to think real hard.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I'm having a hard time finding this one. Hey, what
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: did you rate Love in the Clouds? I gave it
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: one star for Albuquerque, one and a half star for
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the balloon.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: I almost gave it zero stars us, Like, could I
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: get away giving a zero star movie? I don't want
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: to be a full hater, but this was terrible?
• 25:11
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