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The Way Home Season 4 Mailbag #7 · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hamemark, a homemark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a former homemark hater. On today's episode, it's time for
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  Speaker 1: another listener mail bag, number seven for this season of
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  Speaker 1: The Way Home. If you want to participate in future
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  Speaker 1: listener mail bags, the best way to do that is
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  Speaker 1: by emailing us hello at Girls Gone Hamewark dot com,
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  Speaker 1: or you can leave us a voicemail ninety four nine
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  Speaker 1: three two nine eight zero nine zero. I gotta tell
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  Speaker 1: you know our episode that dropped earlier this week. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of spicy. Yes, we had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of hot takes. Yes, you know, a lot of frustrations.
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  Speaker 1: And I opened up our email the other night, like
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  Speaker 1: before bed, and I was like, oh boy, oh boy.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't believe the number of emails we gotten. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and some people are upset with us. Oh so that's
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  Speaker 1: interesting because I saw a lot of like people agreed
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  Speaker 1: with us emails. So yes, so the interesting split and
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about we'll read some of these emails. But
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  Speaker 1: the emails that we got were largely on our side,
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  Speaker 1: like people who agreed with us. What we were talking
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  Speaker 1: about over on YouTube, which is a little bit like
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  Speaker 1: The Wild West. A lot of the comments coming in there,
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  Speaker 1: not a lot. There were a couple comments coming in
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  Speaker 1: there that didn't love our tone. So we will talk
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  Speaker 1: about it, but I want to talk about two quick
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  Speaker 1: things before we get into this Listener mail bag episode
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  Speaker 1: Sure one is one of the emails we got said
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  Speaker 1: something about like I heard the Way Home was going
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  Speaker 1: to Netflix, and I wanted to talk about this because
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  Speaker 1: there's been a little bit of chatter in the Way
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  Speaker 1: Home universe because at the ATX Festival, Kyler and Evan
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  Speaker 1: and Sadie were there and they were asked about the
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  Speaker 1: ending of the show, and Kyler basically was like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Landry never gives up, but hey, if you want to
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  Speaker 1: give a shout out to Netflix and ask them to
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  Speaker 1: pick up the show, which I think is the logical
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  Speaker 1: place if this show's going to get picked up. It
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  Speaker 1: was originally for Netflix. The seasons are streaming there. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: has happened, But we talked earlier about how Alexander Clark
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  Speaker 1: basically was like, we're always hoping for our five more minutes.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that people involved in this show would
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  Speaker 1: love to give it another go with the season five.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, if you feel like there is a
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  Speaker 1: form that will link that, there is a way to
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  Speaker 1: suggest shows to Netflix or pickups of shows to Netflix. Really, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's not just like on social media like at Netflix,
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  Speaker 1: hey you should pick up the Way Home. I think
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  Speaker 1: that certainly is another way to do it as well.
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  Speaker 1: But they do have a request TV shows or Movies page,
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  Speaker 1: which I think is more to do with like pick
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  Speaker 1: it up for streaming. But yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's
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  Speaker 1: another option. But yes, definitely, I think the more vocal
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  Speaker 1: people are, there's a lot at play in terms of
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  Speaker 1: what gets a show picked up. So I have no idea,
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  Speaker 1: I have what thoughts are? I have a thought? I
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know. I know I've bitched and moaned
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  Speaker 1: all season long and have have even said that this
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  Speaker 1: show could have ended like last season. But if a
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  Speaker 1: fifth season did end up on Netflix, I would watch
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  Speaker 1: it one hundred percent would watch it and over on Netflix. Man,
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  Speaker 1: you feel like let that horse up run wild a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, you know what I mean? Yeah, I could
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  Speaker 1: really kind of take a little not a full departure,
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  Speaker 1: but just you know, yeah I would. I think that
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  Speaker 1: would be amazing. I think it'd be amazing, all right.
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  Speaker 1: The other bit of news that we learned is the
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  Speaker 1: season nally will be one and a half hours long. Whoa,
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  Speaker 1: I saw this information dropped into some Facebook groups, but
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  Speaker 1: it appears to have been confirmed that includes commercials, and
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  Speaker 1: that's exciting. It is, you know, it's like they had
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  Speaker 1: to wrap it up, but they're like, look, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: need two hours, Like we can't do this all in
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  Speaker 1: an hour episode. I love it very special ending. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a beast overall. Man, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a beast. Yeah, you're right, you're right. I hadn't
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  Speaker 1: thought about us. Well, why don't we jump in to
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  Speaker 1: the listener mail bag and we're starting with some feedback.
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  Speaker 1: We got a lot, as we talked about at the
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  Speaker 1: top of the show, of comments on our snarkiness, our
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  Speaker 1: spiciness last episode, starting with Michelle, who says, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for your honest review. I'm not enjoying this season as much.
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  Speaker 1: Too much going on, too many loosens, too many mysteries.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a lot. With three episodes left, Beverly says,
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  Speaker 1: I wish at this point, with only three episodes left,
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  Speaker 1: that they were wrapping up more stories instead of adding
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  Speaker 1: stories and adding characters. Sometimes I feel like just throwing
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  Speaker 1: up my hands and saying I'm done with the show.
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  Speaker 1: But I have a lot of time invested with both
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  Speaker 1: the show and the characters that I will not do that.
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  Speaker 1: Seems like so many things are just going over my
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  Speaker 1: head and I don't catch it except from when I
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  Speaker 1: listen to your wonderful podcast. Hey, Debbie says, regarding the
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  Speaker 1: dissatisfaction with the progress of the story, Please remember that
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  Speaker 1: the writers had five seasons of story to tell and
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  Speaker 1: three seasons of questions to resolve for us, So simple
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  Speaker 1: logic tells us that this season needs to be told
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  Speaker 1: differently than what we've come to expect. In order to
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  Speaker 1: finish the story and continue the development of the existing
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  Speaker 1: character arcs that allow this story to make sense, we
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  Speaker 1: need both simple answers to small questions and broader explanations
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  Speaker 1: of others. It can't be easy to ensure a good
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  Speaker 1: flow or appropriate way weather to perfectly accomplish that task. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the weather. The weather, because we question last week, like
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  Speaker 1: why are they traveling during the wintertime when previously the
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  Speaker 1: pond was frozen? So no, I hear what Debbie says,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I totally get I get when you're
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  Speaker 1: like you're a big fan of something. I have been
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  Speaker 1: that person where you're like a little on the defensive
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  Speaker 1: about things. You know, I get it, I get it,
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  Speaker 1: I get it. And Debbie makes good points here. I
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  Speaker 1: think so too. Jennifer says, I love this episode, but
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  Speaker 1: guests from last week's feedback that you did not. What's
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  Speaker 1: funny is that I also loved your episode on it
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  Speaker 1: and do not necessarily disagree with a lot of what
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  Speaker 1: you said. Paula chimes in great recap, and I have
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  Speaker 1: to agree that I have no clue as to what
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  Speaker 1: is going on and where it's headed, So I, for one,
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  Speaker 1: am a listener who is not smarter than you. I'm
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  Speaker 1: actually kind of disappointed. In the first few seasons, the
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  Speaker 1: Pond was mysterious. Now everyone is coming and going. They're
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  Speaker 1: even bringing pop tunes with them. How does Kat end
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  Speaker 1: up on so many film reels? It's weird. What's the
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  Speaker 1: point of case? How did Jacob become so boring? Ooh,
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  Speaker 1: now that's a spicy take, right. The final comment comes
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  Speaker 1: from YouTube and it says, you guys are incredibly snarky
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  Speaker 1: and negative about a show you're supposed to like. Kind
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  Speaker 1: of weird. Nonetheless, I did enjoy some of your insights. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark. I'm guessing this person is new,
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  Speaker 1: brand new. Yeah, someone else did call us straight up rude.
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  Speaker 1: I just I want to geeze a dress some of
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  Speaker 1: the comments here, Okay, My intent wasn't to be rude.
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  Speaker 1: I think we were a little spicy last week. It's that.
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  Speaker 1: I also think we are fans of the show. We've
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  Speaker 1: been watching it since day one. Season one, we produced
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  Speaker 1: two hours worth of content about the show every single
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  Speaker 1: week between our recaps and our listener mailbags, Like we
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  Speaker 1: are out here promoting the show, discussing the show. So
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  Speaker 1: we have a ton of content on our website about
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  Speaker 1: the show. So we are doing a lot of free
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  Speaker 1: promotion on our end for the show. But I also
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  Speaker 1: think as fans of the show and consumers, we're allowed
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  Speaker 1: to feel frustrated when the content work. Like we don't
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  Speaker 1: need to be the kind of blindly loving the show
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  Speaker 1: at all time. I think criticism sometimes is fair. I
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  Speaker 1: think so too, And I also think we've talked about
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  Speaker 1: this a million times. There's no power in a positive
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  Speaker 1: review if we don't sometimes call out what's happening? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Are you laughing at me? No? Bravo. I love it
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  Speaker 1: all right, let's talk Abby and Jacob, Megan's favorite storyline ever.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna not I'm people are gonna yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna not say another word about Abby and Jacob. Oh boy, okay,
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  Speaker 1: Kaylee writes in she says, I know this is a
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  Speaker 1: super nitpick, but they look so much alike, the dark haired,
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  Speaker 1: the piercing blue eyes. It's just weird for me. But
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  Speaker 1: mostly it just feels like an unnecessary add on. I
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  Speaker 1: get that maybe it's always a plan for them to
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  Speaker 1: be Casey's parents, but I honestly wish they were supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be Kat and Elliott's. I just find Jacob quite annoying,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't buy or care about this relationship. Hmmm,
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  Speaker 1: like somebody's in Megan's head. I don't find Jacob annoying.
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  Speaker 1: I don't either. I love Jacob. Brittany writes in I
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  Speaker 1: like how Abby looks adorably embarrassed that she picked out
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  Speaker 1: a wine from Verona. I'm cocking my head because that's
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  Speaker 1: where Romeo and Julia takes place, and that's where Verona. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: does Jacob even realize that they are talking Shakespeare? He
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  Speaker 1: just repeated what Casey said, after all. And then Brittany
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  Speaker 1: writes in parentheses snickers. So she's suggesting like Jacob's not
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  Speaker 1: very smart. I don't know. I mean, it's so heavy
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  Speaker 1: handed when you look back on it, especially when you
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  Speaker 1: have the reverse falcony scene with Jacob up in the Hayloft.
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  Speaker 1: I think the thing about this show is that while yes,
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  Speaker 1: there were several Romeo and Julia level references, and we're
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  Speaker 1: dealing with the feuding families and all of that, I
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  Speaker 1: think you can also appreciate the relationship without picking up
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  Speaker 1: on all of that as well. Yeah, fine, Malie Michelle says,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob and Abby are another member of the Hayloft makeout Club?
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  Speaker 1: Why can they get together in like two episodes? While Alice,
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  Speaker 1: Kat and Dale have these slow burns that go on
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  Speaker 1: way too long. Alice needs to get with Max, Dale
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  Speaker 1: finally commits to Sam. Move it along, folks, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean we are coming to the end here, so Rachael
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  Speaker 1: really wants things to wrap it up. Let's talk about Evelyn.
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  Speaker 1: Debbie says, I totally see Evelyn asking the questions about
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  Speaker 1: Alice's skincare regimen. If Evelyn eventually owns a skincare company
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  Speaker 1: with the Queen of Cups logo, maybe a company that
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  Speaker 1: had merchandise like T shirts with their logo that Alice
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  Speaker 1: wore after working there one summer. What a cool tie
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  Speaker 1: back that would be. I mean, why would they show
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  Speaker 1: that tea again when Alice was packing? Okay, I remember
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  Speaker 1: you bringing that up, but I don't remember any details.
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  Speaker 1: Was Evelyn connected with the Queen of Cups? My hair? Googling?
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  Speaker 1: Are you giggling? I'm googling because Alice came back with
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  Speaker 1: that shirt, and that shirt has something to do with Rachel,
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  Speaker 1: her stepmom's that's right, because she spent the summer with
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  Speaker 1: her dad and she came back wearing that T shirt
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  Speaker 1: and that had something. That's right, that's right, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: And of course Evelyn is into tarot cards. But what
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember and what I was googling to try
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  Speaker 1: and figure out, was Rachel's company or was that is
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  Speaker 1: Rachel and p R And that's the shirt of a
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  Speaker 1: company she works with. Got it? It doesn't fully make
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  Speaker 1: sense because her dad's company is based in Minnesota. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and Evelyn is not. But I think more Evelyn just
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  Speaker 1: can't figure out why Alice hasn't aged. Of course Evelyn
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  Speaker 1: hasn't either. I mean, the reality is Evelyn is still
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  Speaker 1: played by the same character who's aging at the exact
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  Speaker 1: same pace at saving the plane snow. But I understand
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  Speaker 1: that they seem to feel like they need to call
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  Speaker 1: out what would be obvious, right, And I'm sure it
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  Speaker 1: is curious to Evelyn what's going on. Brittany says, I
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  Speaker 1: felt weird hearing Alice say those things to Evie. So
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  Speaker 1: Brittany's talking about the scene towards the end of the
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  Speaker 1: episode when Alice tells Evie to appreciate these times these
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  Speaker 1: will you know these are her golden years for both
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  Speaker 1: of them. She basically told her her best day are
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  Speaker 1: behind her. Alice, that sucks. Why would you say that?
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  Speaker 1: Now we see where Evelyn gets her obsession with the
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  Speaker 1: White Witch because she has nothing to look forward to. Yikes,
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  Speaker 1: this ranks in top ten things never to say to
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  Speaker 1: a friend. What's your take on what Alice said to Evelyn?
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  Speaker 1: Like these are the golden years? Yeah, like, enjoy it now.
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  Speaker 1: It's very unlike Alice to have said something like that
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  Speaker 1: because she's you know, she's good about like not saying
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  Speaker 1: revealing too much, right, But yeah, I'm trying to put
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  Speaker 1: myself in Evie's position if a friend, if you came
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  Speaker 1: to me and we're like, Wendy, you just better enjoy
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  Speaker 1: yourself right now because your future looks murky. That's interesting
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  Speaker 1: because that's not how I took that scene. No, I
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  Speaker 1: took it more as Evelyn always seems to be looking
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  Speaker 1: to what's next, and Alice was trying to tell her
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  Speaker 1: to stop and smell the rose. So got it, like,
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  Speaker 1: look around at what you're experiencing now. Sometimes now is great.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't always need to be like this is leading
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  Speaker 1: to something else. I think that's a fair assessment of
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  Speaker 1: it as well. Yeah, I didn't get the sense that
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  Speaker 1: she was like, it's all down here from here girl.
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  Speaker 1: And Alice doesn't even know that for sure, you know, right,
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  Speaker 1: she doesn't know Evelyn. She does the end, but she
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  Speaker 1: doesn't know what's in between many many, many many years. Right,
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  Speaker 1: Evelyn may have a great level of her life in there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we don't know about One final comment about Evelyn that
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  Speaker 1: came in from YouTube. This commentary says, I rewatched the
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  Speaker 1: intro to season three, episode one, and they're talking about
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  Speaker 1: the baby in the basket. I think it is Max
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  Speaker 1: and Alice. They traveled to see Evelyn and then Tessa
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  Speaker 1: handed Alice baby Elliott in the basket. I can vaguely
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  Speaker 1: remember the scene, but I would have to go back
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  Speaker 1: and watch. I don't remember any like hand off to you. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: no no. I don't think they're theorizing here. Yes, they're
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  Speaker 1: theorizing that that's how they came to have baby Elliott
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  Speaker 1: got it, And there has been some other theorizing about
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  Speaker 1: that being Alice as well, But this is the first
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  Speaker 1: time I've heard Alice in Max. Well, we'll see, right,
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  Speaker 1: we maybe chelsee maybe, I hope right. I also want
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  Speaker 1: to say someone did write in and say I am
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  Speaker 1: shocked at the restraint you have but not watching future episodes. Ah,
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  Speaker 1: I am too a little bit, But I feel like
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  Speaker 1: it's important to keep calling it out because we do
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  Speaker 1: a lot of theorizing here and a lot of guessing,
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  Speaker 1: and we genuinely don't know. Yeah, no, we don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I am not watching ahead. So yeah, I got season
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  Speaker 1: nine or episode nine sitting right in there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we have watched episode eight because we viewing it today. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. It's interesting though. I wonder when we'll get
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  Speaker 1: the final hopefully they'll give it to us that one.
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  Speaker 1: We do not have both. Okay. Our next segment is
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the weather. We had one writer energy in.
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  Speaker 1: She writes, in season one, Alice was able to go
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  Speaker 1: to New Year's Eve nineteen ninety nine slash two thousand thousand.
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  Speaker 1: Whoa talk about time travel. The pond hadn't frozen yet.
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  Speaker 1: It seems to freeze after New Year's or maybe it
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  Speaker 1: matters when you are coming from, not where you're going to.
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  Speaker 1: We're splitting hairs here. I mean they would have to
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  Speaker 1: return at some point, but I but they are right.
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  Speaker 1: Alice did go to this exact same day in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine, so she also writes Colton's death and funeral
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  Speaker 1: were even later that winter, so it seems to take
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  Speaker 1: So it seems to take the pond a while to freeze. Okay, fine,
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  Speaker 1: but this is all fair. And when you think about it,
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  Speaker 1: technically winter starts December twenty first. Sure, maybe it's not
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  Speaker 1: freezing until January February. Who knows some of these things? Guys,
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  Speaker 1: This isn't us saying, like you told us the pond freezers.
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  Speaker 1: It's more we talk about the show. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about things that we noticed. Yeah, here's a comment
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  Speaker 1: about the ideas. Summer says, I think the wedding that
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  Speaker 1: is referenced in the future is Jacobin Abbey, although I
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  Speaker 1: could also see it being Nick and Claire. They're varied yet,
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  Speaker 1: right if it's freaking Nick and Claire. God, it could
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  Speaker 1: be Nick and Claire though, And where's Nick been for
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  Speaker 1: episodes on end? You know he's moving his mysterious Claire
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  Speaker 1: to peck at u haul. Yeah, if it's Nick and Claire,
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  Speaker 1: I might revolt, right, right, right right. I was thinking, like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it'd be nice to have a flash forward and see
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  Speaker 1: where all of these people are at some point point.
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  Speaker 1: I would love a flash forward like to Casey's future,
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  Speaker 1: right to Casey's timeline. Yeah, exactly, But then we like
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  Speaker 1: get adult Alice. That'd be so interesting. Oh yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about Casey. Let's do it, Summer wrote in
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  Speaker 1: she says, I also wonder if Casey is getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to go to school, or if their family is moving
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  Speaker 1: and they won't be able to access the pond anymore,
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  Speaker 1: and that is why they seem to be time traveling more?
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  Speaker 1: Is that what they meant when they said they wanted
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  Speaker 1: to have fun before everything changed, and that everything was
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  Speaker 1: a countdown to something? I like this take. I like
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  Speaker 1: this take too. I mean that sounds like a riddle,
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  Speaker 1: right she just typed out? But I like that take. Yes? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because Casey was talking a lot in this episode about
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  Speaker 1: things ending, countdown to things ending, but we just don't
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  Speaker 1: know what, right, Jen writes in inability to make friends
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  Speaker 1: and just be there is part of what makes a
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  Speaker 1: bad time traveler? Does that mean Casey is a bad
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  Speaker 1: time traveler? They have maybe become friends with Sam, but
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  Speaker 1: seemingly no one else. They've purposely and inadvertently told people
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  Speaker 1: their futures, perhaps more than anyone else, and even got
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  Speaker 1: caught jumping in the pond. In some ways, they have
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: seemed like the best time traveler because they have been
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: helpful with saving the farm and the letters. But what
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: have they been learning about themselves with this traveling? Interesting? Yeah,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: if you think about what Casey has done, they have
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: been very helpful, absolutely saving the farm and so on.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: But if you compare like Haskat been helpful she could
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: get Jacob back. I guess I don't think Alice is helpful,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: and I don't say that as a knock. I just
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: don't think that's Alice's role in time traveling. Yeah, I
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: would love like the writers, like they're a peek into
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: the thought process there, you know what I mean. Like
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: they're like all of our time travelers are not functioning
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: the same like they all have there, they all do
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: different things. Right, that's so interesting and I hadn't thought
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: about the differences between them. Right, Let's talk about Tessa.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Francisco says, Okay, that scene with Tessa. He says, that
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: scene with Tessa or whatever she is back then Anti Coop,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: the Great Contessa, Futura and Elliott at the Pond reminded
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: me of every mob movie I've seen. How she was
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: behind him. If this was any other channel, I would
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: have expected she'd shoot him as far as he goes.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I really don't want him to die. But Ferne did
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: say Landry women don't have luck with love. Okay, there's
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: a couple things to unpack here. First of all, I
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: stand by what I said. I hate seeing like Anti
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Coop Tessa like dress up like as this mob figure.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I cannot stand it. I think it's so corny. But
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Francisco's take about Fern's advice about landry women not have
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: being lucky in love that has stuck with me because
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I'm like, what does that mean? Right? Is Kat going
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: to be unlucky in love? Is Alice going to be
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: unlucky in love? I hope that's kind of just like
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: a whiff of a not something we see come to fruition. Sure,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: let's take it to creak and will come all right back,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Let's talk Elliott's arrest. Brittany says, it says in Grayson
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Goodwin's newspaper that Elliott gets caught by Inspector Cliff Kane
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: at Grayson's New Year's Eve party. Man, did Brittany put
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: it on pause and read that paper? Definitely? What it
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: says that Caine quote cracked the code whatever the heck
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: that means. And Elliott is wearing those dopey rounded lenses
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: in the photo. So great catch, ladies. Big red hairing
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: here because by owning the only newspaper in town, Grace
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: and Goodwin could be manipulating facts to preserve his own image.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: So what really happened here? Ooh I like that. I
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: would just like to say, for the record, I never
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: call them Elliott's glasses. I didn't call them dopey either.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I did say they were old timey, which I think
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: is accurate. I just don't want all the Elliott stamp
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: coming for us. No. Yeah, but that's interesting. That's a
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: really interesting take about Grace and Goodwin opening or owning
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the paper, so right, you know, he can write whatever
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: he really wants. I don't know, very interesting. Brittany goes
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: on to say, is Tesso wearing cliffs clothes too? That
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: would be funny. That is hilarious. I suspect not, but
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: it made me laugh. Cliff it to be a very
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: bad detective or whatever he is, Inspector. Everyone's in my clothes?
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: What is happening here? These music swells behind him? You know,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: let's talk about name. Sam Jen says, I agree with
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the theory that was floated that Sam already knew about
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: time traveling and maybe about the Landryes in particular, and
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: that maybe he has already time traveled. It also seems
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: that Sam has told this to Casey in their past,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: but Sam's future Stacy on YouTube, says Calvert, Now this
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: is referencing the poster at the carnival with the disappearing coins.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: M H. Calvert was a maker of antique chess sets.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Can't be a coincidence that there's a lot of chess
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: talk the bishop piece found at Lingermore and Sam's last name.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: And I did Google this because this was brand new
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: information to me. The website chess antique dot com says
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: John Calvert was one of the top chess set makers
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: in England from seventeen ninety one until his death till
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: in eighteen twenty two, and you can find Calvert chess
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: sets online. Wow, Lindsay says, Okay, who the heck is Sam?
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I posted a poll in the way Home facebook groups
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: asking people's opinions. After over three hundred responses, eighty percent
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: said they thought he was just a regular guy in
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the present time, thirteen percent said he was a time
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: traveler from the future, and seven percent said Griffin. There
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: are some people who say that the last episode answered
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: who Sam is, but it sure seems that he still
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: has a lot of secrets and we need more answers.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I disagree. I don't think what did the last episode,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: How did they answer anything about who Sam was? I write,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I think people are point to he's just a dude
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: who was approached by Casey, But I think there's more
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: to know. I think there's more to know until proven otherwise.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: You guys, I feel like I'm being gas lit here
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: about this freaking poster well and in a circus. If
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: we referenced it in last week's episode, it was in
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: episode six. We referenced it in episode seven because you
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: said we saw Sam at the circus and people on YouTube.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: We get a lot of comments on YouTube because it's
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the only podcast platform where you can actually comment as
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: you're listening, and so people were like, wait, what do
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: you mean Sam was at the carnival? So people had
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: missed They're not listening closely enough. I can tell yeah,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: doing other things while you listening to Girls Gone Homer.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: You know, people were cleaning the house and doing laundry
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: and I'm sitting around take exercising. Yeah, our final topic,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: we have a full circle moment from Lindsay. So. We
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: had an email that was sent in last week after
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: we recorded our listener mail back, and that email luted.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe Elliot saw himself or something about himself in the
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: nineteen twenties newspapers, So that's how he knew he was
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: going to be there. Maybe that's why he told Kat
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: not to worry about what comes next. In the preview
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: for the next episode, it looks like he might get
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: stuck there. So this was before episode seven had aired
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: and we saw the murder board on Elliott's bed. So
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Lindsay sends a follow up email and the subject line
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: was I was right, and I appreciate that righteous indignation
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: because I love moments like that. She says. I'd like
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: to point out that I sent my email and I
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: was right about Elliott seeing himself in the newspapers. My
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: mom said that Elliott clearly knows more than we thought.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Is he the mastermind and the key to it all?
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: He knew he was going to go back in time
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: and stay awhile, thus the sabbatical and whatnot? Does he
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: put the clock in the wall? The letter and the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: clue he found in the piano that said the letter
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: comes after is in all caps, like Elliott writes, Oh wow,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: is it his handwriting? Is he leaving clues for cat
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: or for himself in the future. We love Elliott. It
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: better not be a sad ending for him. Fingers cross.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I love this. I like the pick up that Elliott
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: writes in all cats, Bro, did I just say Bro?
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to go back now? Oh this is
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: what drives me crazy actually, but also love when like
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: the listeners buying things and I'm like, now I have
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: to go back and see that too for my own self.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: All right, it's awesome. Well, hey, that's a wrap on
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: this week's listener Mailbag. We will be back on Monday
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: with our thoughts on episode eight of The Way Home
• 27:50
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• 27:52
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• 27:56
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• 28:00
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• 28:16
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