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Forgotten Holiday (Hallmark Channel 2026) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark Review podcast. I'm Megan,
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Speaker 1: and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a
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Speaker 1: former Hallmark hater. I got a little froggy in my
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Speaker 1: throat this morning. Today we are discussing Forgotten Holiday, which
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Speaker 1: originally aired on Saturday, October 24th on Hallmark Channel and
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Speaker 1: is now streaming on Hallmark +. We are everywhere on
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Speaker 1: let's talk Forgotten Holiday and start with a synopsis. When
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Speaker 1: Catherine panics and runs from her boyfriend Rob's surprise marriage proposal,
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Speaker 1: a devastating car accident leaves him with no memory of
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Speaker 1: the past year, including their relationship. Hoping to restore his memories,
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Speaker 1: Catherine agrees to retrace their romance, but as Rob begins
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Speaker 1: to remember, she fears he'll also remember the heartbreak that
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Speaker 1: sent him driving away in the first place. Was it devastating?
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Speaker 1: Was that little tree tap devastating? I thought it was
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Speaker 1: quite cinematic, actually. Oh, okay. I'm afraid what you thought
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Speaker 1: about this movie. No, I liked the movie. I just,
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Speaker 1: you know, there wasn't like big car crash budget. Exactly.
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Speaker 1: Jessica Harmon directed Forgotten Holiday. She also directed All's Fair
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Speaker 1: in Love and Mahjong and I'll Be Seeing You in 2026.
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Speaker 1: We're not talking about Jessica Harmon enough. No. We have
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Speaker 1: some new names this year that I feel like perhaps
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Speaker 1: have been neglected. Nicole Baxter is another one. Exactly. The
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Speaker 1: teleplay is by Tracy Andreen based on a story she
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Speaker 1: co-wrote with Lee Freelander. Andreen and Freelander have been collaborating
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Speaker 1: on Hallmark movies since at least 2017, so this is
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Speaker 1: a reunion of two longtime Hallmark creatives. Janelle Parrish stars
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Speaker 1: as Catherine Liu. We last saw Janelle on Hallmark earlier
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Speaker 1: this year in Two for Tea opposite Chris McNally, and
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Speaker 1: before that in 2025's Christmas on Duty. Remember, we did
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Speaker 1: not like that. Didn't like it. No, no. Daniel Listing
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Speaker 1: stars as Rob Ashford. We last saw Daniel on Hallmark
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Speaker 1: in August's Ozzy at Heart opposite Rhiannon Fish. Jen Oleksiuk
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Speaker 1: appears as Amy, Rob's sister. Jen has 50 acting credits
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Speaker 1: with appearances in the recent Love Finds You and An
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Speaker 1: Easter Bloom. Gabrielle Rose appears as Meryl, Rob's mom. We
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Speaker 1: last saw her in Nellie Knows Mysteries, All Manners of Murder,
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Speaker 1: as well as last year's Christmas Above the Clouds. Casey Manderson,
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Speaker 1: Steve McKay, Nat Buchanan, and Eric Yu round out the cast. Hey, Wendy,
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Speaker 1: what was your first impression of Forgotten Holiday? Excuse me,
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Speaker 1: but who let a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie sneak
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Speaker 1: into this year's countdown to Christmas? Oh, yes, yes, yes.
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Speaker 1: You should know that we received an email- about a
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Speaker 1: week ago from a listener who was expressing some displeasure
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Speaker 1: with Hallmark, basically saying like, she was like, I like
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Speaker 1: the comedy, but I miss like the deeply dramatic, heartfelt
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Speaker 1: Hallmark movies. And I had just watched this movie when
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Speaker 1: I responded and I said, I'm curious, what did you
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Speaker 1: think of Forgotten Holiday? Because this, that movie, that email
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Speaker 1: came in before the movie did. Yeah. And she was like,
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Speaker 1: I loved it. And so my first impression based on
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Speaker 1: that is if you've been looking for the drama on Hallmark,
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Speaker 1: you found it with this one. Were you kind of surprised?
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Speaker 1: I was surprised by the depth of emotion in this.
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Speaker 1: Me too. Yeah. Me too. Although it doesn't make sense,
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Speaker 1: but because it has that while you were sleeping vibe,
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Speaker 1: I guess I thought maybe we'd get a little more
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Speaker 1: comedy because it's based on like a little bit of misinformation,
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Speaker 1: but it is not a comedy. No, there's... comedic moments
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Speaker 1: there's some comedic moments I'm going to talk about a
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Speaker 1: few of them but I I agree overall pretty dramatic
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Speaker 1: yes can I talk a little bit more in my
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Speaker 1: likes about the I mean literally only because earlier this
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Speaker 1: year we did a stretch of reviews on Hallmark Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame movies otherwise I would have no point of
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Speaker 1: reference right so while watching I was like this is
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Speaker 1: HOF caliber. Oh, yeah. In my opinion. Like, this could
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Speaker 1: have aired on, you know, ABC or CBS or whatever.
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Speaker 1: Saturday Night Movie, yeah. I totally thought. Movie of the week. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: So we have sequence is the word I'm looking for.
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Speaker 1: The sequence from the proposal to the accident to Rob
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Speaker 1: being in the hospital, all that I thought was, like,
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Speaker 1: so compelling. Mm-hmm. Different on a dramatic level than what
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Speaker 1: we're used to on Countdown to Christmas. I mean, even,
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Speaker 1: you know, at one point we would be like, oh,
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Speaker 1: this would be on Hallmark. Movies in Misery. Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: So I wonder. I still think it was more dramatic
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Speaker 1: than that. I do, too. I do, too. I said earlier, like,
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Speaker 1: I thought the accident sequence was kind of cinematic. I
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Speaker 1: know it was low budget. I mean, he did just. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And you know it's coming. You know it's coming. But
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Speaker 1: like what I thought was so good was like leading
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Speaker 1: up to it. It was like his phone call to
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Speaker 1: the sister and the sister was like, come over. I'm like, oh, no,
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Speaker 1: here it is. Here's what's going to happen. So I
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Speaker 1: just thought it was really good. And then when Catherine
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Speaker 1: gets the phone call and like you hear sirens, even
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Speaker 1: though like I don't think she could literally hear the sirens,
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Speaker 1: but you could hear sirens. Yeah. You know, I just
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Speaker 1: thought it was really good. It gave it a lot
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Speaker 1: of like stakes. Mm-hmm. I really liked it. I really,
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Speaker 1: really enjoyed it. And I like that overall it wasn't
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Speaker 1: or it allowed our characters to be unhappy, to be hurt,
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Speaker 1: to be confused. It wasn't just like neatly wrapped up
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Speaker 1: for the sake of it because it's a holiday movie. Well,
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about that because there is a
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Speaker 1: moment in this movie where it could have been their
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Speaker 1: reconciliation and it's not. And I love that. And it's
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Speaker 1: the moment after this is after Rob has discovered what
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Speaker 1: Catherine has done. And then they they meet to kind
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Speaker 1: of discuss things and they both kind of lay all
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Speaker 1: their cards on the table and they explain what they've
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Speaker 1: been going through and and why things played out the
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Speaker 1: way they did. And it's So emotional. Like, in my notes,
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Speaker 1: I was like, these two are acting their asses off. Agreed. Like,
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Speaker 1: it is incredible, this moment between Daniela Singh and Janelle
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Speaker 1: Parrish as actors. And there is a part of you
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Speaker 1: that's like, oh, like, forgive each other. Be okay. But
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Speaker 1: it was nice that they didn't do that. That they just, like,
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Speaker 1: had to kind of sit in the discomfort of it
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Speaker 1: and find their back. And, of course, their actual... reconciliation
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Speaker 1: is more beautiful. That's such a good scene. Yeah, really
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Speaker 1: good scenes. I think Daniel Lissing gives maybe his best
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Speaker 1: Hallmark performance ever that I've seen. Of course, we didn't
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Speaker 1: watch One Calls the Heart, so we don't know. And
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Speaker 1: you didn't love Single on the 25th. I didn't. I
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Speaker 1: really did. I really did. Better in this, though? I
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Speaker 1: think he was better in this. This is a more
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Speaker 1: dramatic role. What was interesting is last year I interviewed
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Speaker 1: Daniela Singh prior to Single on the 25th. And one
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Speaker 1: of the things he said was whenever I play a character,
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Speaker 1: I kind of create this backstory for them in my head.
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Speaker 1: And I wanted to know so badly, like, what is
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Speaker 1: his backstory for Rob? Oh, I love it. The other thing...
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Speaker 1: While we're talking about him, it's in my did you
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Speaker 1: see that, but I'm really curious. Did you think he
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Speaker 1: was trying to do a bit of a New York accent,
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Speaker 1: like a real subtle New York accent? Hawaii. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: So Daniel Lissing is Australian. He speaks with an Australian accent,
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Speaker 1: but he does a beautiful American accent to the point
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Speaker 1: that when I first heard him speak. You were shocked? Yes,
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Speaker 1: I was surprised. I did not know those details. But
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Speaker 1: this felt a little bit different, and I felt like
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Speaker 1: he was leaning into a little bit of a, because
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Speaker 1: he is very much a New Yorker in this movie.
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Speaker 1: Did you feel like it was put on? I didn't
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Speaker 1: really notice it. No, it was not Kevin McGarrigan, the
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Speaker 1: Wedding Vale caricature accent. It was just real, real subtle.
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Speaker 1: Just kind of some of the turns of words. I
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Speaker 1: thought he was more in character in this movie than
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Speaker 1: I've probably ever seen him. Got it. Look, I loved him.
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Speaker 1: I thought he was great. I liked the lighter scenes
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Speaker 1: that he did with the actress who plays his sister. Yes.
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Speaker 1: I thought those were great. Those felt very much adult
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Speaker 1: brother and sister. When you have a good relationship with
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Speaker 1: an adult brother and sister. Yeah. Yeah, all the stuff
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Speaker 1: with his family I thought was really good. But when
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Speaker 1: he gets his memories back in that scene where he's
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Speaker 1: like in the kitchen and it's all like flooding back,
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Speaker 1: I was like, holy moly, this is amazing. I thought
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Speaker 1: he was amazing. Those memory sequences that obviously they had
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Speaker 1: to film, those two look like two people. Who are
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Speaker 1: so in love. Like those memory sequences are incredibly well done. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I thought so too. And then there's a scene where
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Speaker 1: they talk about their first kiss and he goes, will
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Speaker 1: you kiss me first? She goes, I had to. Like,
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Speaker 1: what was her line? I had to. She says, I
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Speaker 1: had to. It couldn't be helped. I was like, oh
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Speaker 1: my gosh, that's such like a great line. Like, and
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Speaker 1: the way they, they have incredible banter. And at one
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Speaker 1: point they're on the phone with each other. This is
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Speaker 1: before they started dating. It's right after they've met. And
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Speaker 1: I was thinking about Lacey Chabert and Scott Michael Foster,
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Speaker 1: how there's a scene in Paris is always a good
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Speaker 1: idea where they're on the phone. And I feel like
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Speaker 1: they lost a little bit of the banter magic because
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Speaker 1: they're not in the same room with each other. And
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Speaker 1: I would imagine that's incredibly hard to do when you're
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Speaker 1: having a conversation with no one. In this case, Whether
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Speaker 1: we're going to give it to the director or the
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Speaker 1: actors or a combination thereof, they have incredible chemistry on
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Speaker 1: the phone where I have to imagine neither of them
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Speaker 1: is actually talking to anybody. I thought these were a
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Speaker 1: really nice match, these two. Back to the scene where
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Speaker 1: they talk about their first kiss. How stunning was that scene?
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Speaker 1: We've talked about a couple of movie scenes that have
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Speaker 1: stuck with us this year. This is going to be
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Speaker 1: one of them. The way it was shot with the
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Speaker 1: fireplace behind them. And it was just this beautiful, warm
10:47
Speaker 1: glow of the fireplace. And it was just like their
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Speaker 1: faces like talking so intimately. It was stunning. Yeah. So good. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about the music. Good music. Great
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Speaker 1: music budget. The movie opens with a song. My husband's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: they got that Michael Buble money. It's not Michael Buble.
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Speaker 1: It's an artist named Johnny Blue. But they do have
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Speaker 1: a Brett Eldridge song in this. And I only knew
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Speaker 1: at the very end I stopped to look at the
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Speaker 1: music credits. And even my husband, who is a big
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Speaker 1: music fan and a big Michael Buble fan, was impressed
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Speaker 1: by the sound of that artist. But they have a
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Speaker 1: Brett Eldridge song. But they have quite a bit of
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Speaker 1: great music in this movie. Did he like this movie?
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Speaker 1: He did. I'm surprised. It's not like his usual jam. No.
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Speaker 1: He liked it. It was Christmas enough for him. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: In terms of the way it looked. Yeah. Yeah. He goes,
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Speaker 1: I got to watch Winter Wonderlands. I was like. Okay, wait.
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Speaker 1: Can I give you just a couple of other little
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Speaker 1: likes that I. We talked about the actress who plays
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Speaker 1: Rob's sister. I thought she was particularly good. Put this
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Speaker 1: woman in more Hallmark movies. Yeah. really enjoyed her when
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Speaker 1: she's like, plus my mom's intense when she's talking about it.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that's my favorite line of the movie.
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Speaker 1: She's like, are you going to tell your mom? And
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Speaker 1: she's like, no, my mom's really intense. So that was great.
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Speaker 1: And then speaking of the mom, Gabrielle Rose, perfectly cast
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Speaker 1: as she's, I can't remember her job. She's either like
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Speaker 1: the DA. She's a retired judge. Yeah. I mean, she
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Speaker 1: was no nonsense. Yes. And there were scenes between she
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Speaker 1: and Janelle Parrish that were like so strained that I
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Speaker 1: was like, oh my God, I felt that as a viewer. Like,
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Speaker 1: I would never want to be in a conversation with
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Speaker 1: this woman. Like, no, no, no, no, no. I thought
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Speaker 1: they were so great. The dad, his dad was really funny.
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Speaker 1: The brother-in-law was really funny. Or not funny, but just funny. No,
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Speaker 1: the brother-in-law was funny. Like, he was nice, light, comedic relief. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but you know how we've been talking about lately how
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Speaker 1: we have just, like, these other characters that just act as, like, somebody?
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Speaker 1: They are kind of fully developed, right? Yeah, you have
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Speaker 1: a sense of who they are. Yes. I just— good stuff. Oh,
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Speaker 1: and I thought their wardrobe was impeccable, too, on everybody. Yeah. Like, especially, like,
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Speaker 1: the mom was— That's what you would expect like a
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Speaker 1: retired judge to be like. And Janelle Parrish looked beautiful
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Speaker 1: in all her things. That green gown at the end. Yes. Oh. Right? God, stunning. Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: So good. A moment for the dress. Very good. Do
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Speaker 1: you have any more likes? Two little ones. I actually
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Speaker 1: really liked their night with Mr. Shipley, their little detour
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Speaker 1: from their redating. I just thought it was so warm
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Speaker 1: and lovely when they're like, should we order a pizza?
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Speaker 1: And he's like, I got nothing else to do. There
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Speaker 1: was something I, this movie was very warm. It was
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Speaker 1: working for me. And because I'm such a sap when
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Speaker 1: Rob says, I've fallen in love with you twice. The
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Speaker 1: first time I thought I knew you. And this time
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Speaker 1: I do. I mean, that's just, I just was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I just. Let's talk about that for a second. So
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Speaker 1: I did think when they finally get to that conversation
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Speaker 1: about where, not where things have gone wrong, but that
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Speaker 1: this is outside the gala where he says this. Not that.
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Speaker 1: You're thinking of their, like, their very mature conversation that
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Speaker 1: two adults have. You know, first of all, I thought
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Speaker 1: it was really good. Meaning, like, I was happy it wasn't, like,
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Speaker 1: continued to be some, like, misunderstanding or, like, some manufactured
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Speaker 1: argument or whatever. And I thought it was an interesting
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Speaker 1: look at, like, people who are not being, like, Their
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Speaker 1: true selves to each other. I'm going to talk a
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Speaker 1: little bit in my wishes where I didn't feel like
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Speaker 1: the puzzle pieces were like fitting quite exactly right in
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Speaker 1: terms of like that storyline. But I just thought that
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Speaker 1: that conversation was so good and what we often miss
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Speaker 1: in Hallmark movies, you know. Yeah. You know how we
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Speaker 1: yell about like, hey, this would be handled in an
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Speaker 1: easy 30-second conversation. And this was like a really deep
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Speaker 1: conversation that I thought was that they let like breathe
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Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, yeah. Anyway. Let's take a quick
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Speaker 1: break and come back with our wishes. Okay. All right.
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Speaker 1: What did you wish for? I have a couple of wishes.
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Speaker 1: First of all, I needed to understand Catherine's fears much earlier.
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Speaker 1: So she runs away from Rob's proposal, right? Mm-hmm. She
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Speaker 1: almost becomes a villain. Yes. Villain light. Yes. Because in
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Speaker 1: Rob's sister's eyes, she's like, why did you walk out
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Speaker 1: on the proposal? And we still don't get an explanation. Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: What I didn't like is we as the viewers were
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Speaker 1: learning kind of at the same pace that Rob is learning. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: And I didn't like that. I thought it would help
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Speaker 1: me root for them to get back together more during
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Speaker 1: this like redate, which I didn't like either. If we
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Speaker 1: understood the background of why she like freaked out that night. Well,
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Speaker 1: for me, I don't like the background of why she
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Speaker 1: freaked out that night. Go ahead. I don't like that
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Speaker 1: I was divorced 15 years ago and now I'm ruined forever.
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Speaker 1: Did you notice that she was like, I was married
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Speaker 1: in college? I was like, what? I mean, that's the
16:31
Speaker 1: only way to make the timeline work. I know. But
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Speaker 1: I just was like, this is this like romantically jinxed
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Speaker 1: framing of it all. I was like... buy it i
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Speaker 1: don't buy that you look at a relationship that failed
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Speaker 1: in college when you were a child and go oh
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Speaker 1: yeah i guess relationships aren't for me and then of
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Speaker 1: course we learn later in the movie that her dad
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Speaker 1: has kind of set this standard like he is not
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Speaker 1: good in relationships he runs from relationships i did kind
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Speaker 1: of like that framing we don't get it until the
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Speaker 1: very end where he's like oh I've done this to you. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That's why I don't like that. I'm like, let us
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Speaker 1: get all that story. Front load that for us. We
17:15
Speaker 1: get plenty of her saying like this relationship ended. I
17:19
Speaker 1: don't know if like I am any good at this,
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Speaker 1: but it's, I don't even know if she realizes what
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Speaker 1: a big role her dad plays in the way she
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Speaker 1: treats relationships. I think to your point, that's a more
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Speaker 1: compelling story. Like my, This parent that I am so
17:39
Speaker 1: close to has set the example that relationships don't work.
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Speaker 1: And therefore, that's the example I followed. Not my college
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Speaker 1: marriage didn't last. What a shock. Yeah. Yeah. Right. What
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Speaker 1: a shock. When Rob calls Amy after the proposal and
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Speaker 1: she's like, come over. I'm like, Amy, he was just dumped.
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Speaker 1: You go to him. Yeah, but Rob needs to get
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Speaker 1: in the accident. I know. I know. But I was like,
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Speaker 1: get in your car, babe. You're the big sister. You
18:11
Speaker 1: go do the consoling. She's in bed already. No, I
18:16
Speaker 1: hear you. I know he needed to get in the accident,
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Speaker 1: but I did think, you know, if you call me
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Speaker 1: and you're like devastated, am I like, yeah, drive over here.
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Speaker 1: I'm not getting out of my nice warm bed. Don't
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Speaker 1: make me put on shoes for this. I'll be a
18:32
Speaker 1: good friend, but only as long as I don't have
18:34
Speaker 1: to leave the house. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we needed to,
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Speaker 1: we needed Rob to get in the car accident. I know.
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Speaker 1: But I hear you. Yeah, that was funny. But I
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Speaker 1: love that. I love that whole scene how she was like,
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Speaker 1: answered the phone. She's like, how'd it go? You know? Yes.
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Speaker 1: That was good. Okay. Here's my other biggest wish. Can
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Speaker 1: you explain why Rob forgot that he loved Christmas so much?
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Speaker 1: Because my feeling is that He forgot the things that
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Speaker 1: caused him trauma. So he forgot Catherine because her running
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Speaker 1: away was traumatic to him. And because he was proposing
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Speaker 1: at Christmas, like those things were all tied together. Like
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Speaker 1: his love of Christmas was such a big part of
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Speaker 1: their relationship and proposal. That is my understanding. Well, that
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Speaker 1: explains my own trauma and my own dislike for the holidays.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Is that something you didn't understand? No. I
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Speaker 1: do understand that, but like... That is a realization you're
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Speaker 1: coming to right now? No, like I knew that before,
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Speaker 1: but like now as you're like spelling it out in
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Speaker 1: terms of Rob, I'm like, oh yeah, that totally makes sense.
19:50
Speaker 1: sense because I do that too. Like that is my
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Speaker 1: own experience. Yeah. Here is $ 250. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: I guess it had to happen. But when Rob realizes
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Speaker 1: that Amy, why do I keep saying Amy? That's his sister.
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Speaker 1: When Rob realizes that Catherine has been lying to him
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Speaker 1: and he like refuses to listen to her. My question is,
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Speaker 1: do you think Catherine's a bad person for following through
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Speaker 1: on the redating without him having all of the information?
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Speaker 1: I feel, I don't feel that Catherine's a bad person.
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Speaker 1: I do feel it's unfair to Rob though. Yeah. Because
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Speaker 1: like his family, well. But what's she going to do?
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Speaker 1: The sister knew. The mom had real. Mom figured it out.
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Speaker 1: Mom figured it out. It shouldn't be on Catherine. I
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Speaker 1: don't know. It was a terrible situation to be in.
20:51
Speaker 1: I think they should have told Rob that, hey, you proposed.
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Speaker 1: It didn't. go as planned, and then you got in
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Speaker 1: this car accident. But they were between a rock and
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Speaker 1: a hard place because the doctor said the best way
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Speaker 1: for you to get your memories back is for you to, like,
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Speaker 1: relive these situations. And so there's no way Rob was
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Speaker 1: going to then be willing to relive these situations. So
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Speaker 1: just relive the Cinderella part of it? The Mary Poppins
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Speaker 1: part of it? Yeah, I mean, it's a good point.
21:21
Speaker 1: I don't... What's the... Am I... Talking along the fairy
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Speaker 1: tale part of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like that's ridiculous.
21:29
Speaker 1: That's ridiculous. Yeah, fair enough. In a year, a normal
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Speaker 1: person experiences highs and lows. And so the doctor just
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Speaker 1: is like, oh, you had all this great stuff with
21:41
Speaker 1: this woman and therefore redate. Which I hated that they
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Speaker 1: were calling it that. Didn't work for you? Redate? Yeah.
21:52
Speaker 1: relive the last year you i don't know i thought
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Speaker 1: it was kind of silly okay how about just like
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Speaker 1: get to know this woman that you fell in love
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Speaker 1: with the last year again yeah but then they don't
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Speaker 1: have the contrast of like look at this first date
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Speaker 1: you took me on that's not actually something either of
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Speaker 1: us really cares about fair but then yeah fair but
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Speaker 1: they did end up like ditching those plans altogether yeah
22:17
Speaker 1: and that's where that contrast lives where they're like finding
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Speaker 1: themselves yeah it's it's complicated Are you, do you have
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Speaker 1: more wishes? I, just one little one. I did think
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Speaker 1: it was the tiniest bit slow at some parts, but.
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Speaker 1: I don't disagree. That might be an us problem. It
22:35
Speaker 1: could have been. I think maybe we want snappy and
22:39
Speaker 1: this wasn't not a snappy movie. It wasn't. Yeah. Let's talk.
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Speaker 1: Did you see that? Hey, spoonful of comfort. Loved by
22:47
Speaker 1: the spoonful. Not even mad about it. I was like, hey,
22:50
Speaker 1: you found your target audience because I think that's a
22:52
Speaker 1: great idea. Right? I didn't know soup delivery existed. That's
22:57
Speaker 1: a great care package. Totally. I was like, job well done.
23:02
Speaker 1: Advertising dollars well spent. Yeah. We're going to review another
23:05
Speaker 1: movie here in a minute where I thought, excellent. Excellent
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Speaker 1: product placement. This makes sense. Oh, I forgot about that.
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Speaker 1: But yes. Uh-huh. Right. Right. Also, I really love the
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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold joke. I don't know if you got it
23:17
Speaker 1: or not. Do you know who Sam Darnold is? I don't. Okay.
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Speaker 1: So when Rob wakes up in the hospital and he's
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Speaker 1: talking to his brother-in-law and he goes, Sam Darnold won
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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. So Sam Darnold is a quarterback and
23:28
Speaker 1: he played for the Jets and he was terrible. Terrible.
23:33
Speaker 1: These guys are obviously Jets fans. And then Sam Darnold
23:36
Speaker 1: went on. To play for some other teams and then
23:38
Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl with another team. So he can't
23:41
Speaker 1: believe Sam Darnold, who was the quarterback of the Jets,
23:44
Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl. I thought it was a great joke.
23:47
Speaker 1: You know, we have the, that's your fiancé call out,
23:51
Speaker 1: which is straight up a line from while you were
23:53
Speaker 1: sleeping when they're in the hospital. When they're like, who's that?
23:57
Speaker 1: That's her fiancé. I thought he played that scene so great. Hi. Hi. Oh,
24:02
Speaker 1: my husband laughed out loud. So did I. It was great. Yeah,
24:07
Speaker 1: that was really funny. Okay, I've got some questions about
24:10
Speaker 1: the cookie baking extravaganza. Okay. They make 900 cookies. I
24:15
Speaker 1: think that's 63 batches. Like, how many... You did the math?
24:20
Speaker 1: How many... ovens could they possibly have in their standard
24:27
Speaker 1: residential kitchen? Because my husband was, I was like, this
24:29
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. And so my husband's like, well, we
24:31
Speaker 1: have three ovens. I'm like, yeah. And that's a lot.
24:33
Speaker 1: He's like, well, look at their big kitchen. I'm like,
24:35
Speaker 1: there's no way they have more than three. There's no way.
24:37
Speaker 1: And where are they taking them? It's like the middle
24:40
Speaker 1: of the night and they're like, we're off to deliver them.
24:42
Speaker 1: And were they delivering them to schools? Where were they going?
24:44
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. First of all, Sugar
24:47
Speaker 1: cookies in my, they were sugar cookies, right? That were decorated. Yeah,
24:51
Speaker 1: but they didn't. Yeah, are not good. Okay. First of all,
24:53
Speaker 1: they're so labor intensive, in my opinion, to make a
24:56
Speaker 1: sugar cookie. The fact that they're trying, and they were
24:58
Speaker 1: like beautifully decorated when you zoomed in on them. It
25:00
Speaker 1: takes like five minutes a cookie. You're not making 900
25:02
Speaker 1: cookies like that. And you got to bake them. They
25:05
Speaker 1: got to cool. You got to do them. We know
25:08
Speaker 1: you got to do them in layers. And at one
25:09
Speaker 1: point they're rolling out dough and they're each using these
25:11
Speaker 1: tiny little cutting boards. And I was like, roll it
25:13
Speaker 1: out on the counter. What are we doing here? Yeah. But,
25:18
Speaker 1: you know, I don't like a sugar. Like, I think
25:19
Speaker 1: a sugar cookie is beautiful, but I don't want to
25:22
Speaker 1: eat a frosted sugar cookie. Oh, really? But as we're
25:24
Speaker 1: watching this, my husband's like, where can we get those?
25:26
Speaker 1: And I was like, why do you want them? He
25:28
Speaker 1: wants a sugar cookie? Like a frosted sugar cookie. I'm like,
25:32
Speaker 1: where can you get those? I don't know. Apparently, I
25:35
Speaker 1: got to find out. $ 5 a cookie. I know. I
25:40
Speaker 1: have a question about the cookies. Because when they go
25:44
Speaker 1: the second time. Yeah. At the end. There's a scene
25:48
Speaker 1: where they're like, we need somebody as tribute to eat
25:51
Speaker 1: this cookie, to try this cookie. And it looks like
25:53
Speaker 1: it's a burnt cookie. And they have like this big
25:56
Speaker 1: like laugh about it. And I'm like, what is this
25:58
Speaker 1: a callback to? Because I don't remember in the first
26:02
Speaker 1: cookie scene. I have no memory. Having some, you know,
26:07
Speaker 1: like a, is that a fever dream? I had some
26:09
Speaker 1: weird dreams last night. So I'm pretty sure that was
26:12
Speaker 1: part of the movie. I walked into my daughter's room
26:14
Speaker 1: this morning. I said, good morning. And she goes, North Adams.
26:16
Speaker 1: And I go, what? Because that's one of the towns
26:19
Speaker 1: we were just in. She's dreaming about Boston? And I
26:21
Speaker 1: was like, she goes, it's a school. I'm like, it's not.
26:25
Speaker 1: And like, she was clearly still asleep. Oh, funny. I'm like,
26:28
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? She goes, I don't know.
26:30
Speaker 1: So anyway. You want to hear the dream I had
26:33
Speaker 1: last night? Yeah. I was at some like very small
26:36
Speaker 1: wedding and I went to go use the porta potty.
26:40
Speaker 1: It was like a mobile porta potty. And it started
26:43
Speaker 1: rolling away? I ended up driving it on the street.
26:49
Speaker 1: What is happening here? You know, every time I use
26:52
Speaker 1: a porta potty, I'm afraid it's going to tip over.
26:54
Speaker 1: Every single time. I don't think about that. But now
26:57
Speaker 1: I'm going to be fearful that I'm going to drive away.
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Speaker 1: It was like I'm driving in like an upright porta potty.
27:04
Speaker 1: It was so weird. And then I missed a turn
27:07
Speaker 1: and I had to like sit in the traffic again.
27:10
Speaker 1: It was really weird. A port-a-potty at a wedding is
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Speaker 1: truly tragic. It was really weird. I took some melatonin
27:19
Speaker 1: last night. Oh, you got wild dreams? I had some
27:22
Speaker 1: weird dreams. Like a sleepy time tea? Sleepy time tea
27:25
Speaker 1: gives me the wildest dreams. I'm scared of sleepy time
27:31
Speaker 1: tea because you said that. Like disturbing. I will never,
27:35
Speaker 1: ever again. that might be it other than there is
27:39
Speaker 1: a family stone reference in this movie which we appreciated
27:42
Speaker 1: and now they're making a remake the family's stone oh
27:45
Speaker 1: are they yeah i can't really remember that movie other
27:49
Speaker 1: than it has like a really big cast like sarah
27:53
Speaker 1: jessica parker is in it right and yeah well and
27:55
Speaker 1: diane keaton is in it um r.i.p and is sick
28:01
Speaker 1: in the movie coach in that movie too I don't remember.
28:06
Speaker 1: I've only seen it once. People love that movie. I
28:07
Speaker 1: don't get the hype. Sorry. All right. Do you have
28:11
Speaker 1: any more did you see that? That's it. What did
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Speaker 1: you rate Forgotten Holiday? I think it's the best of
28:18
Speaker 1: the season so far. I gave it 4.25 stars. Wow,
28:22
Speaker 1: that's a... I gave it four stars. Oh. Interesting. So
28:27
Speaker 1: you and I have two different best ofs so far,
28:29
Speaker 1: just as we're keeping track. Because my best of so
28:32
Speaker 1: far was Holiday Touchdown. And this comes in number two
28:37
Speaker 1: with 0.25 fewer stars. Fun. Really? Wow. If you'll recall,
28:46
Speaker 1: ratings here, pure vibes. Totally. But I stand by Holiday
28:49
Speaker 1: Touchdown being a great movie and, in my opinion, the
28:53
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