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All Things Valentine · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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Speaker 1: a homemark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
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Speaker 1: Homemark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. I
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Speaker 1: feel like the listeners should know that we're recording remotely
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Speaker 1: today and when Wendy popped into our recording session, usually
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Speaker 1: it says Wendy. Today her name is listed as former
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Speaker 1: Hallmark hater. It made me laugh. I don't know why
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Speaker 1: I felt compelled to do that today six years later.
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. I'm just in a mood.
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Speaker 1: I don't feel good, so you know, I'm sorry. Well,
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Speaker 1: it did make me laugh. On today's episode, we're discussing
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Speaker 1: the second movie in our vintage Valentine series, All Things Valentine,
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Speaker 1: which originally aired ten years ago in January twenty sixteen.
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Speaker 1: You can stream it on Hallmark Plus and it is
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Speaker 1: also re airing this weekend. Really, it is re airing
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Speaker 1: this Sunday at two pm on Hallmark Channel. If you'd
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Speaker 1: like to rewatch it, I do Apolodays. We didn't match
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Speaker 1: these reviews up with them airing on Hallmark Channel. We
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Speaker 1: don't have the schedule that far in advance to be
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Speaker 1: able to do that. So if you want to rewatch
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Speaker 1: this movie, it's on this weekend, on the fifteenth. Hallmark's
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Speaker 1: really dipping into their Valentine in fact ives. In fact,
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Speaker 1: all of the movies from our Vintage Valentine's series are
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Speaker 1: airing this weekend. A Valentine's Match will be on Friday,
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Speaker 1: February thirteenth, and The Secret Ingredient will be on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: February fifteenth. My Secret Valentine is on Valentine's Day on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: So you can check the Hallmark Checklist app if you
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Speaker 1: want to look them up movie by movie, and you
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Speaker 1: can look at the Hallmark schedule at Hallmark Channel dot com. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: didn't we get an email somebody was asking like where
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Speaker 1: or last last week's review? Yes, they thought I was aired.
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Speaker 1: They thought hopefully the movie would be on the same
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Speaker 1: day as our review. Unfortunately it was not. I'd love
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Speaker 1: to have a deeper look into Hallmark's future schedule to
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Speaker 1: be able to plan that way, but unfortunately we can't.
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Speaker 1: So it's Hallmark Plus or cross your fingers. I mean,
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Speaker 1: and some of these movies that are ten years old,
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Speaker 1: they might be on YouTube. Oh yeah, I mean, I
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Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know for sure, but you know,
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Speaker 1: you can go look anyway. Anyway, Hey, if you have
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Speaker 1: some thoughts on our reviews, or some feedback or an
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Speaker 1: opinion about anything, really email us. We were at Hello
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Speaker 1: at Girls Gone Hallmark dot com. Let's kick off our
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Speaker 1: discussion of all things Valentine with a synopsis A blogger,
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Speaker 1: which lol. A blogger who has had terrible luck on
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Speaker 1: Valentine meets a handsome veterinarian. Then she finds out he
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Speaker 1: is the one who has been leading root comments on
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Speaker 1: her Valentine's Day articles, and she questions if her luck
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Speaker 1: has changed at all. She's not a blogger. She works
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Speaker 1: for a newspaper. I don't understand. I know. Does it
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Speaker 1: make you think of Real Housewives of Orange County last season? Why?
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Speaker 1: Because they kept talking about the blogger, the blogger who
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Speaker 1: had outed them, and it was like even Andy was like,
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Speaker 1: it's not a blog blogger. It was a podcaster who
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Speaker 1: was talking about these things like get you guys are
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Speaker 1: one hundred years old. Yeah. Anyway, by the way, I
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Speaker 1: am watching Real Housewives Beverly Hills and I'm all in
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Speaker 1: and I have strong opinions. So about who everybody can't
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Speaker 1: stand Amanda but the worst. But also I'm like, Kyle's
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Speaker 1: house is so pretty, I just want to be Kyle
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Speaker 1: Richards her house. I don't think I ever really like
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Speaker 1: her backyard clocked it. Well, I'm you can have that
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Speaker 1: too if you move to Encino. I could not have
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Speaker 1: that too. In Nancio. I don't think it's a direct
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Speaker 1: trade from what I'm living in right now. Anyway. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: All Things Valentine was directed by Gary Harvey. Gary currently
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Speaker 1: has forty three directing credits, with his most recent work
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Speaker 1: being Murdoch Mysteries BT Dubs that is streaming on Hallmark
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Speaker 1: Plus these Days. Hallmark movies include Welcome to Christmas, Walking
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Speaker 1: the Dog? Is this the most uninspired movie title? Ever?
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Speaker 1: And Love by Chance? Okay, As I was putting these
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Speaker 1: notes together, I was like walking the Dog, I'm like,
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Speaker 1: what the heck is that? And then it came up
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Speaker 1: time and time again as I was going through the
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Speaker 1: actors in this project, and is it about walking the dog? Oh?
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Speaker 1: I have no idea, but I know Sam Cage stars
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Speaker 1: in it too. Is it possibly like walking the dog
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Speaker 1: is like a euphemism for something? Oh? No, I don't.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, the movie poster is Walking the Dog. It's
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Speaker 1: too be walking their Dogs? What's this? What's the synopsis
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Speaker 1: of it? Oh? Kimberly sstads In it, rival lawyers battle
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Speaker 1: each other in court as their respective dogs fall madly
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Speaker 1: in love, bringing their guardians together at every turn until
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Speaker 1: they reluctantly realize it may not just be the pups
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Speaker 1: who are each other's true Valentine. Jennifer Finnigan is the
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Speaker 1: female love interest. Guys, that's bad. That's gotta be bad.
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Speaker 1: That's your pups fall in love? What and the Wolf?
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Speaker 1: Although I'm looking at the IMDb, oh, six point five
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Speaker 1: actually not the worst IMDb rating I've ever seen. Oh
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Speaker 1: my god, it sounds terrible. Guys, email us hello at girls.
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Speaker 1: Go on Hallmark dot com if you've seen and like
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Speaker 1: this movie and tell us why. I mean, I mean
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Speaker 1: stampack but funny and worth of you is the first review.
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Speaker 1: Next is amazing. It is so worth a watch you'll
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Speaker 1: finish with a smile on your face. Loved the ending,
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Speaker 1: very cute, very smart. Oh my god, yes, adore, this
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Speaker 1: is one of my favorite Guys. Do we need to
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Speaker 1: review Walking the Dog? Dogs are the glue? This all
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Speaker 1: will surprise you, and I highly recommend it. The dogs
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Speaker 1: are so lovable and cute. Oh this is the female
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Speaker 1: lead is somewhat of an acquired taste, but she grows
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Speaker 1: on you. Ouch. It's like Tara Lipinsky and Johnny Weir
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Speaker 1: are writing these reviews. Oh too funny. He drops some
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Speaker 1: truth bombs. Have you been listening? Mm mmm, I haven't.
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Speaker 1: Was listening yesterday. Johnny's like he kind of skates like
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Speaker 1: a starfish. My husband's like, I don't even know what
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Speaker 1: that means. I'm like me either, but it doesn't sound nice. No,
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Speaker 1: I haven't. We haven't really watched a lot it's been on,
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Speaker 1: but like not listening closely, you know. So you're not
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Speaker 1: Olympics guys. You're not all in on the Quad God.
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Speaker 1: Oh I have seen that name, but I don't know
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Speaker 1: who it is. He's a figure skater, Ilia Malanin from Virginia.
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Speaker 1: He's quite spectacular. Anyway, Apparently you're all in. Yeah, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get you a T shirt that says like
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Speaker 1: Quad God number one thing, just his face all over it,
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Speaker 1: like you'r Ian Harding shirt. Look, I'm sure it exists.
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Speaker 1: Someone posted a photo of him and they're like, I
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Speaker 1: need to know who his biggest rivalry is right now?
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Speaker 1: That is so funny? Then like he did rivalry anyway? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I get it. Wow, really funny, really funny. How did
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Speaker 1: we get from walking to walking the dog to that?
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Speaker 1: Don't know? Sorry about it. It's one of those days. JB.
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Speaker 1: White wrote the script for All Things Valentine and he
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Speaker 1: currently has thirty three writing credits. His last project for
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Speaker 1: Hallmark was Road Trip Romance from twenty twenty two. Sarah
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Speaker 1: Rafferty stars as Avery. This appears to be her only
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Speaker 1: Hallmark project, but she's been busy since with projects like Suits, Chicago, Mad,
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Speaker 1: and My Life with the Walter Boys. Sam Page stars
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Speaker 1: as Brendan. Sam currently has eighty one acting credits and
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Speaker 1: has starred in many other Hallmark movies, including Rescuing Christmas
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Speaker 1: and One Summer. Don't miss Out on One Summer, Guys,
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Speaker 1: that was real good. He will appear in the newest
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Speaker 1: season of Shrinking on Apple TV. That's right. As of
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Speaker 1: the recording of this episode, only the first episodes are
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Speaker 1: out and he is in episode two. He walks in
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Speaker 1: I go, Sam Page, that's amazing. It is amazing, and
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Speaker 1: that season is gonna rip our hearts out, y'all, just
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Speaker 1: letting you know. Should we review that? It's too late,
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Speaker 1: too late? Only two episodes in? Oh, no, three seasons in?
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Speaker 1: You want to go back to the beginning, but I
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Speaker 1: don't know. Okay, We've got big ideas over here and
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Speaker 1: not enough time. I would. Okay, write me down on
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Speaker 1: your list. I will talk about I want you to
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Speaker 1: know that. In our Pop Culture Club episode that dropped
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Speaker 1: this week on our Patreon feed, which listeners can find
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Speaker 1: at patreon dot com, slash Megan and Wendy, a listener
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Speaker 1: sent a screenshot of the exact moment in time during
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Speaker 1: that episode in which you said, are we going to
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Speaker 1: do a West Wing podcast? And they said, don't tease
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Speaker 1: me with this? Oh that's exciting. Was it you that
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Speaker 1: did that to myself? Send it to myself? It was
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Speaker 1: a DM directly to me. Did IDM myself and say
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Speaker 1: don't tease me with this? Yes? Yes, No, they said,
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Speaker 1: a straight up recapped won't connect. But the format you
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Speaker 1: use for Hallmark movies might maybe having a third person
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Speaker 1: every so often during the big episodes. Cough cough. That
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Speaker 1: person is a Hallmark listener, So you know who you
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Speaker 1: are just food for thought. Oh interesting, I don't hate
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Speaker 1: that idea. Mm hmmm, I don't hate that idea at all.
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Speaker 1: We're still in news and notes. I apologize to the listeners. Wow,
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Speaker 1: sometimes they like our tangents and they don't. Heather Dirkson
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Speaker 1: appears as sister Hannah. Heather currently has ninety six acting
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Speaker 1: credits and might look familiar for her roles in Debbie
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Speaker 1: mccumber's Joyful Missus Miracle and Oh Whitewater Romance. I remember
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Speaker 1: liking a Whitewater Romance. I think you hated it. I
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Speaker 1: wish I could remember. I remember the movie. I can
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Speaker 1: like envision them on the banks of the river. I
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Speaker 1: cannot remember what I thought about it. I think Dan
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Speaker 1: Jana is on that. I think you might be right.
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Speaker 1: I think I could be picking the wrong wavie though too.
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Speaker 1: Kim Release says that appears as McKenna. This movie came
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Speaker 1: two years after The Nine Lives of Christmas. Funny enough.
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Speaker 1: Kim also appears in Walking the Dog. Jeremy Gibo appears
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Speaker 1: as Kit. Jeremy has a deep resume of Hallmark and
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Speaker 1: Hallmark adjacent movies. His last Hallmark project appears to be
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Speaker 1: Christmas Waltz in twenty twenty, Jeremy, if I mispronounced your
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Speaker 1: last name. Hello at girls Conhollmark dot com. Hillary Jardine
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Speaker 1: plays Prue. We last saw Hillary on Hallmark in the
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Speaker 1: miniseries Holidays, but she's got several homework titles under her belt.
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Speaker 1: This movie, as mentioned, did originally air on January thirty first,
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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. Pre February. Oh weird. I mean, I wonder
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Speaker 1: today she was February. Just how the cookies crumbled? Yeah, exactly, exactly,
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Speaker 1: But I know, but like now, in twenty twenty six
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Speaker 1: we got like a full slate of January movies, right
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Speaker 1: move into February movies. Yeah, well, I mean it kind
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Speaker 1: of sounds like perhaps you know that was a five
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Speaker 1: Saturday month for January, and they're like, huh, we only
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Speaker 1: got four winter movies, so roll it on over. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: maybe let's take a quick break and come right back
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Speaker 1: with first impressions. Hey, Wendy, what was your first impression
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Speaker 1: of all things Valentine? Well, if you removed the dog Buzby,
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Speaker 1: this movie would lose one full star for me. Whoa Buzzy?
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Speaker 1: He was so cute? Buzby was really cute. I have
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Speaker 1: a real want right now. Look, I have two dogs
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Speaker 1: at home, and I've been really wanting like a small
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Speaker 1: boy dog to be like my little lap dog. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: like my little Bailey. Yeah. My husband's like, you gotta
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Speaker 1: be out of your mind. You have two dogs who
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Speaker 1: are high energy dogs that need lots of exercise, which
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Speaker 1: he takes the lion's share of is. He's like, no,
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Speaker 1: that's not happening. You're not gonna believe this. But I
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Speaker 1: was trying to talk my husband into a third dog yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Was only trying. I know, I was only trying to
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Speaker 1: talk him into it, knowing he would never ever, ever,
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Speaker 1: ever ever agree. So it was like a safe conversation
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Speaker 1: for me to be like, look, because there are the
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Speaker 1: cutest chocolate shitsuos right now. Oh my god, truly the
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Speaker 1: cutest dogs I've ever seen in my life. From there,
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Speaker 1: can I tell you this Friday in my neighborhood, there
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Speaker 1: is an event called Puppies and Lattes and it's an
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Speaker 1: adoption event where they're gonna also have like Valentine lattes
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Speaker 1: and crap like that. I want to go so badly,
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Speaker 1: I really want to go. He's like, no, don't go.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. You're gonna come home bringing a dog?
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Speaker 1: You guys, I need these chocolate shit suos. Truly the
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Speaker 1: cutest dogs I've ever seen. I'm like, and they're girls.
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Speaker 1: We don't have a girl dog, like, we only have
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Speaker 1: boy dogs. You're crazy, I know. I My two are
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Speaker 1: too much. Especially dogs is a ton of dog poop.
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Speaker 1: It is a lot of dog poop. It is, it is.
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Speaker 1: But I feel like having like two little dogs would
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Speaker 1: just like I know, when we got two dogs, genuinely
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Speaker 1: the biggest mistake of my life. So everyone's like, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna get another dog. I'm like, goe to luck with that,
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Speaker 1: and then I secretly get mad when it was easy anyway,
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Speaker 1: you already did your first impression, Yeah, what was yours?
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Speaker 1: My first impression is you know, E've been doing this
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Speaker 1: a long time. When I recognize Kimberly Sestad simply by
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Speaker 1: her voiceover, oh totally right. I was like, that's Kimberlys,
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Speaker 1: says dad in my notes, and then they cut to her.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, well, that wasn't quite the reveal that
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Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be. Yeah, I gotta
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Speaker 1: tell you, I you know, I didn't know she was
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Speaker 1: in this movie. You either, you know. Prior to sitting
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Speaker 1: down watching it, I was like, Calisa's dad, what are
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Speaker 1: you doing here? Why are you not the lead? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I got thoughts on that. I'm going to talk about
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Speaker 1: it my wishes as well, but let's talk likes, okay.
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Speaker 1: I personally really liked the leads in this movie. Same.
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Speaker 1: Sarah Rafferty I thought was very enjoyable. Sam Paige as
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Speaker 1: a light always. They had to me like, aside from
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Speaker 1: their dueling keyboard wwareness when they were together, they had
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Speaker 1: a nice, easy, adult chemistry. It didn't feel like overly
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Speaker 1: precious in this like Valentines movie. Yes, it's like a
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Speaker 1: grown up meet cute, Yeah exactly. And they were just
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Speaker 1: like hanging out with each other and talking and getting
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Speaker 1: to know each other. I liked that their relationship unfolded
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Speaker 1: naturally mm hmm, which came in such contrast to Brendan
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Speaker 1: and McKenna, which they set up at the very beginning,
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Speaker 1: and that was exhausting from the jump and we only
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Speaker 1: have like a few minutes of their fallout. Yeah, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: I really liked Sarah Rafferty and Sam Page. I did too.
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Speaker 1: I think it's a shame that we don't get Sarah
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Speaker 1: Rafferty in more Hallmark movies. I loved her as Donna
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Speaker 1: in Suits. I feel like I need to tell you
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Speaker 1: that we were original watchers of suits before Megan Markle
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Speaker 1: was royal, so you know I claim that. But she's
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Speaker 1: fantastic in suits. If you haven't seen it, that movie
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Speaker 1: is that movie, that series. It's just really beautiful to
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Speaker 1: look at. Like everybody in it's beautiful. It's also pretty
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Speaker 1: well done. So I found Netflix if you're interested. But
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Speaker 1: I also thought this movie was really beautifully shot, starting
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Speaker 1: with the opening scene when we have Sarah Rafferty's character
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Speaker 1: Avery walking to her love interest house with the balloons
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Speaker 1: with her flowy skirt. I mean, it's gorgeous, and then
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Speaker 1: when she runs away and the skirts blowing, the shot
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Speaker 1: is beautiful. The rest of the movie is really beautiful
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Speaker 1: and nice to look at two, which goes a long
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Speaker 1: way like this felt like a fun, happy Valentine movie.
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Speaker 1: Props to the cinematography team on this one. Yeah, but
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Speaker 1: it wasn't like cute scene, No, it was just beautiful
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Speaker 1: to look at. Yeah. Yeah, well I like that it was.
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Speaker 1: In my opinion, I thought it was a little more
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Speaker 1: serious leaning than your average Valentine. Yeah, you know, I
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Speaker 1: keep going back to last year's An Unexpected Valentine, which
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Speaker 1: I really liked so much much because it was like
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Speaker 1: fun and light but not cheesy. Like to me, that's
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Speaker 1: like the bar that we're trying to reach with these
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Speaker 1: Valentine's movies, because I think the Valentine's movies kind of
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Speaker 1: skew a little bit cringey. Mmmm hm, like last week's
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Speaker 1: movie I did not really like. So this feels like
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Speaker 1: more in line with that, like a higher tier Valentine movie.
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Speaker 1: I agree, and with that, there's some comedy in this movie.
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Speaker 1: At one point, Avery says I don't have a phone
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Speaker 1: with the hook. I think someone says like take your
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Speaker 1: phone off look, and she was like, I don't have
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Speaker 1: a phone with the hook. Made me laugh. There's also
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Speaker 1: a funny love actually is a Christmas movie line, which
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Speaker 1: made me laugh because of course it is. It's not
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Speaker 1: a Valentine's movie. The fact that she included it on
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Speaker 1: a Valentine's movie list is laughable. She also had another
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Speaker 1: line that I wrote down and said, I don't have
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Speaker 1: a comfort zone. I have varying degrees of anxiety. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: this is ahead of its time in twenty sixteen, put
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Speaker 1: that on a sweatshirt. I loved it. I'm very relatable, yep,
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Speaker 1: very relatable. And I just love that damn dog, Busby.
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Speaker 1: That dog was so cute. Busby was incredibly cute. Is
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Speaker 1: that all for your likes? Oh? I have one more like.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm not sure that it's intentional, but I
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Speaker 1: do like the message that making mean comments behind a
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Speaker 1: computer has repercussions and that you're talking to a real person.
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Speaker 1: And I kind of as much as I will dive
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Speaker 1: into those comments in my wishes, I liked the juxtaposition
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Speaker 1: of the person behind the keyboard and the real person.
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Speaker 1: I think it's prescient for this day and age. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I agree. Now let's talk wishes. What's the big one?
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Speaker 1: Brendan is too mean? Oh that's not my big one,
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Speaker 1: but okay, let's talk about it. I have a big
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Speaker 1: one about Kimberly, so I said too, I would say
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Speaker 1: they're balanced. Brendan behind the computer is too mean. Yes,
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Speaker 1: to me, it's a giant flag, one hundred percent. I
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Speaker 1: have the exact same note, red flag. I think I
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Speaker 1: would have a hard time forgiving him, seeing how mean
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Speaker 1: he could be with very little reason. She didn't deserve
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Speaker 1: his ire. He clearly wasn't into the relationship with McKenna.
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Speaker 1: That's clear the fact that she called him out on
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Speaker 1: it just because, and did she go a little hard maybe,
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Speaker 1: but she didn't end the great love of his life.
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Speaker 1: He didn't want to be with McKenna either. I don't
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Speaker 1: know why he was so defensive about it. Yes, he
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Speaker 1: just he was just mad that Avery called him out,
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Speaker 1: and he was like a dog with a bone and
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Speaker 1: he couldn't let it go and everything she said he
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Speaker 1: needed to have a comeback, and his comebacks were unnecessarily mean.
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Speaker 1: They weren't even like playfully ribbing each other. He was
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Speaker 1: just like, let me think of the meanest thing I
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Speaker 1: can say and send. And I just thought beyond finding
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Speaker 1: out that this is the person who's been giving you
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Speaker 1: a hard time. If I were Avery, I'd be like, wait.
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Speaker 1: It concerns me that he can be that mean to
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Speaker 1: someone he's mad at, because how long until I do
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Speaker 1: something that irritates him and then he turns into that person? Exactly?
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Speaker 1: Did I go too far with that? I just it
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Speaker 1: made me uncomfortable. No, I absolutely agree, and it makes
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Speaker 1: me think about you know, because everybody on like Reddit
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Speaker 1: or TikTok or whatever, Instagram, Facebook has an opinion about
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Speaker 1: everything to me, right, And okay, fine, everybody's entitled to
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Speaker 1: their opinion. But there is this comfort that people have
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Speaker 1: behind their keyboards yes that they would never say in
20:41
Speaker 1: real life. It's the face to people. And if I
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Speaker 1: had realized that I was dating somebody who was like
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Speaker 1: hiding in the dark and writing these mean yes, like
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Speaker 1: that tells me who you really are, you should have
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Speaker 1: ran great. The wish I have that comes from this
21:04
Speaker 1: part of the story, though, is the misunderstanding. So when
21:07
Speaker 1: Brendan finds out who Avery is, and then Avery finds
21:10
Speaker 1: out who Brendan is, Avery assumes that Brendan knew the
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Speaker 1: entire time that she was the quote unquote blogger, she
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Speaker 1: was the coach or whatever. The dear abby. Yeah, this
21:25
Speaker 1: could have been solved in one easy conversation. But she
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Speaker 1: was like, you knew the whole time, and you presented
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Speaker 1: yourself this way and blah blah blah blah blah blah
21:36
Speaker 1: blah blah. This is classic Hallmark. Yes, I agree that
21:43
Speaker 1: to me was like, no, he didn't. I mean, yeah,
21:48
Speaker 1: that part I'll forgive. That's not the unforgivable part though,
21:52
Speaker 1: like you deceived me part right exactly exactly. Let's move
21:56
Speaker 1: on to Kimberly sasaid wildly underused in this movie. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I had such conflicting feelings about her role because I
22:04
Speaker 1: was like, I want to root for her, but kind
22:07
Speaker 1: of unlikable. Like I felt like, do you disagree? Sorry, no,
22:13
Speaker 1: the woe is me. It was a heavy handed and
22:17
Speaker 1: when like girl, no, and it when it became clear
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Speaker 1: that Brandon wasn't into her and she kind of like
22:22
Speaker 1: kept pushing, I was like, just take the l and
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Speaker 1: move on, Like he's just not that into you. Why
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Speaker 1: do you want someone who doesn't want you? Yeah? Whoof
22:31
Speaker 1: that's rough, it is, it is. But I see this
22:35
Speaker 1: and I'm look, I'm married for a long time, so
22:37
Speaker 1: I haven't had to do this, but I am certain
22:39
Speaker 1: that I did things that if I had to watch
22:42
Speaker 1: them back, I'd be like, WHOA, girl, that's too much.
22:46
Speaker 1: But I've never understood. You see it in movies a
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Speaker 1: lot where someone's breaking up or they're having a conflict
22:52
Speaker 1: and the other person's pushing back, and I'd be like, whoa,
22:54
Speaker 1: if they don't want to be in this relationship. Please
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Speaker 1: do not talk them back into it. No, who wants that? No?
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Speaker 1: I think that's like a young mindset, you know, if
23:04
Speaker 1: it's not a hell, yes, it's a no. Right, Yeah, exactly.
23:08
Speaker 1: And I did feel bad for her at some points.
23:10
Speaker 1: I felt like she was collateral damage in this whole thing.
23:14
Speaker 1: But like I was, like, not into her, Like Avery
23:18
Speaker 1: did her a favor. Cut him loose and move on.
23:20
Speaker 1: Find someone who's as excited about you as you are
23:23
Speaker 1: about him. Yeah, exactly. Did you have any other wishes?
23:26
Speaker 1: That's it me too, let's talk. Did you see that?
23:30
Speaker 1: I have a few. Actually, Okay. Avery was painting on
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Speaker 1: a canvas with no paint on her brush, water, no color,
23:38
Speaker 1: just vibes, dry rush on campus. Did you see it?
23:42
Speaker 1: I said, just vibes. I'm going to get that made
23:45
Speaker 1: into a neon sign. I was like, what's happening here?
23:49
Speaker 1: Make it a little bit believable, right. I also have
23:52
Speaker 1: another one, the dancing scene at the very end of
23:55
Speaker 1: the movie in the Mexican restaurant. Everybody is dancing like
23:59
Speaker 1: it's an uptempost song and the music is slow. Yeah,
24:03
Speaker 1: and even our two leads are slow dancing, and everybody
24:06
Speaker 1: else is like fast dancing. That's the only lie put it. Yes,
24:13
Speaker 1: I know, because they don't play music when they're filming those,
24:15
Speaker 1: and they added in later and nobody has any idea
24:17
Speaker 1: what to do. Yeah, it's terrible, terrible, terrible. My last
24:22
Speaker 1: did you see that? Is when this is just one
24:25
Speaker 1: of those things that bothered me. Avery's dad is uh,
24:29
Speaker 1: he's like declaring that Brendan is the one after a
24:33
Speaker 1: few days. Like he's like, that's a man that's in love.
24:36
Speaker 1: I'm like, you're not trying to save some twenty year
24:38
Speaker 1: old marriage here. It's like they've known each other for
24:40
Speaker 1: two weeks. Like, give it a rest, dad, Yes, yeah,
24:45
Speaker 1: let it just let it be a little bit. Yeah,
24:49
Speaker 1: what do you have? Only that the raspberry scone that
24:52
Speaker 1: Prue serves Kit is absolutely not a scone. It's a Danish.
24:56
Speaker 1: Oh why wouldn't somebody go, this is not a scone.
25:03
Speaker 1: Can we just change the line to Danish? Seriously, I
25:07
Speaker 1: don't understand that kind of stuff. It just isn't a scone.
25:11
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, looked it looked delicious, but yeah, change the
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Speaker 1: line on the fly. Sorry, we couldn't get a scone
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Speaker 1: at our prop bakery. This morning, so whatever, it doesn't matter.
25:24
Speaker 1: I'm it doesn't matter whatever. Yeah, but uh, let me
25:30
Speaker 1: hear what you rated this one. I gave it three
25:33
Speaker 1: point seventy five stars. I gave it three stars. I
25:37
Speaker 1: did find it enjoyable three stars. Sorry, I know I'm
25:42
Speaker 1: really picky on these Valentine movies for some reason. Yeah,
25:46
Speaker 1: this one was head and shoulders above my secret Valentine
25:50
Speaker 1: for me. I actually found it really enjoyable to watch.
25:53
Speaker 1: I just had some thoughts like, oh yeah, yeah, but
25:57
Speaker 1: enjoyable to watch. Yeah, that's fine. From all those other things.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of like the era of sloppy Hallmark movie making,
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Speaker 1: Like this is a movie where you can find like
26:09
Speaker 1: lots of digite that's in it, don't you think so? Yes?
26:12
Speaker 1: But I also think if you were like I think
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Speaker 1: it deserves a place on the what Valentine Movies should
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Speaker 1: I watch? List? Yeah? This would be up there. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: last week's not up there. Yeah yeah. Hey, thanks for
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