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Hearts Around the Table- Kiki's Fourth Serving · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a bramble jam podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Hamemark, a Homewark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 2: On today's episode, we are discussing Hearts around the Table
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  Speaker 2: Kiki's Fourth Ingredient, which originally premiered on the Hallmark Channel
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  Speaker 2: on April twelfth, twenty twenty five. You should come find
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  Speaker 2: number is nine four nine three two nine eight zero
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  Speaker 2: mailbag episodes. We are going to hop right into our
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  Speaker 2: thoughts on Kiki's Fourth Ingredient.
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  Speaker 1: With a synopsis. Kik is overjoyed and then overwhelmed when
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  Speaker 1: she agrees to cater a big wedding. Not just a
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  Speaker 1: big wedding, but her sister Jenna's wedding anyway, she turns
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  Speaker 1: to Clay for support, and together, Keky and Clay proved
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  Speaker 1: that the best ingredient is love.
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  Speaker 2: Marco Dufimia returns to direct Kiki's fourth ingredient. He had
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  Speaker 2: previously directed Jenna's First Love and Sherry's Second Act. You
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  Speaker 2: might recall Marco directed other Hallmark projects like The Jane
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  Speaker 2: Mysteries and Jazz Ramsey, a K nine Mystery.
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  Speaker 1: Neil Kimmel wrote the script for this installment. Neil was
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  Speaker 1: responsible for sherry Second Act as well as other Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: projects like several of the Jane Mystery movies as well
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  Speaker 1: as the previously mentioned Jazz Ramsey. Catherine Davis stars as
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  Speaker 1: Kiki Davis. Katherine appeared in all four Unwrapping Christmas movies.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps that's not one of her last names. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Like the way I made a face was like could
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  Speaker 1: that be right? It might not be right.
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  Speaker 2: Catherine appeared in all four Unwrapping Christmas movies that aired
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  Speaker 2: on Hallmark Plus in twenty twenty four. Before that, she's
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  Speaker 2: been in projects like Everything Puppies and Welcome to Valentine,
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  Speaker 2: Hold the Unwrapping Christmas Movies or another contender for movies
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  Speaker 2: that we might see on Christmas in July on Hallmark Channel.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting, I saw it, you were going to be like
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  Speaker 1: might be a contender that we review and are like
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  Speaker 1: a hard stop on that. Torrance Combs plays Clay in
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  Speaker 1: Not So Shocking News. Torrance also appeared in all four
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  Speaker 1: of the Unwrapping Christmas movies, just like his co star Catherine.
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  Speaker 1: Other Hallmark projects include Royally ever After and Heartland.
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  Speaker 2: Mindy Cohne stars as Angie. Mindy is best known for
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  Speaker 2: her role on the Facts of Life and has recently
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  Speaker 2: been seen on the series Palm roy Al. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: take a very quick break and come right back with
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  Speaker 2: our Not So Shocking first impression of Kiki's fourth Ingredients. Hey, Wendy,
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  Speaker 2: what's your first impression of the final installment of the
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  Speaker 2: Hearts around.
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  Speaker 1: The Table series? Well, it turns out the fourth ingredient
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  Speaker 1: was the same writer from movie number two, and that
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  Speaker 1: explains a lot.
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  Speaker 2: My first impression is talk about woman on Woman crime.
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  Speaker 2: Why is Crystal Demeanu's.
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  Speaker 1: Mean girl we've ever seen on Hallmark? Totally with no
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  Speaker 1: redemption arc at all. I know, It's just just me.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a mess.
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  Speaker 2: So can I tell you people in our Facebook group
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  Speaker 2: have been using Women on Woman Crime, and I just
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  Speaker 2: love it when stuff from the show crosses over into
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  Speaker 2: the fandom.
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  Speaker 1: Love it a deep cut, I know, and I remember
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  Speaker 1: when we were using it a lot, because if you
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  Speaker 1: don't know the backstory, the backstory is somebody had emailed
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  Speaker 1: us our message us in regards to a review. We
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  Speaker 1: left yeah because we said that two act dresses looked alike, right,
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  Speaker 1: and they were like, that's Woman on Woman Crime as
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  Speaker 1: a joke. It's fine. And then we ran with it
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  Speaker 1: a little bit and then we got some emails that
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  Speaker 1: were like, stop stop referring to it. Look, guys, now
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  Speaker 1: it's in the Girl's Gone Hallmark Cannons exactly. Yep, Woman
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  Speaker 1: on Woman Crime. The people, if we're to get into it,
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  Speaker 1: people who told us to stop referring it to that
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  Speaker 1: way were like, you guys don't need to feel bad
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  Speaker 1: for having an opinion. They were on our side. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk what you liked about KI. I have exactly
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  Speaker 1: two I like Catherine Davis, and I have said it
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  Speaker 1: with all four movies. I think the four main characters
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  Speaker 1: plus Angie and their foster storylines are the heart of
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  Speaker 1: the series. All the romance stuff between Kiki and Clay
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  Speaker 1: least favorite part of this movie. HM. My other thing
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  Speaker 1: is I thought this movie wrapped up Jenna storyline nicely.
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  Speaker 1: That is my like.
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  Speaker 2: While I think it goes against the title of the movie,
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  Speaker 2: I like the Jenna gets some closure and her relationship
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  Speaker 2: comes full circle.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the Jenna Movie times four. Like you, I agree
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  Speaker 1: with you.
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  Speaker 2: I like the relationship between the siblings and the partners
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  Speaker 2: that we see in this This is really a family movie.
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  Speaker 2: It's about the family, and I think it speaks to
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  Speaker 2: our assertion on last week's review of The Josh Movie
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  Speaker 2: that this is the Jenna Show and one of two
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  Speaker 2: things should have happened.
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  Speaker 1: Have either had two movies.
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  Speaker 2: That were Jenna's storyline with some satellite characters, or it
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  Speaker 2: should have been the Angie Show. Because I think, and
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  Speaker 2: while this isn't our wishes section, I think the biggest
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  Speaker 2: disservice that we did is Angie never once gets her
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  Speaker 2: own storyline that isn't in relation to one of the hearts.
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  Speaker 1: And so like, how did Angie become a foster mom?
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  Speaker 2: We don't know anything about Angie. Angie, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: Bechdel test is about like.
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  Speaker 1: Do these women? Do two women ever appear on screen together?
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  Speaker 1: Not talking about a man? Right? This is like whatever?
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  Speaker 2: The Angie has no storyline outside of her children version
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  Speaker 2: of that? Sure, and I think we did a real
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  Speaker 2: disservice to her. I know we're still in likes, but
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  Speaker 2: let me and let me compliment sandwich this. I did
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  Speaker 2: like the ending scene with the montage of everyone's storylines
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  Speaker 2: bringing it all back together, and I did think that
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  Speaker 2: this was a necessary piece in the heart's story. However,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Kiki's a love story was a necessary
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  Speaker 2: piece part of the whole.
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  Speaker 1: I agree Kiki herself great love story, definitely. My list
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  Speaker 1: of wishes is long. Are you ready to get there? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I only have four? So why don't you start? I
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  Speaker 1: mean I have like six?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, back to my first impression, kind of hoped for
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  Speaker 2: some resolution with Crystal, who's rude for no reason. She's
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  Speaker 2: just a B word, She's just a nice person. She
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  Speaker 2: snied t Kiki the entire time. I'm a fancier chef
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  Speaker 2: than you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's cute. You didn't like her? Yeah, I have
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  Speaker 1: some I have a digit see that I'm not her
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  Speaker 1: later on, but I agree, like it's not necessary. So
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  Speaker 1: why a rising tide raids a little shit? Exactly exactly,
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  Speaker 1: Joy to just keep going.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the dude should not have been standing at the
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  Speaker 2: altar when Jenna is not even at the wedding venue.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, just say to the people who are
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  Speaker 1: in the audience, is that what they're called your guests?
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  Speaker 1: Just be like, she's not here yet, so we're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna stand up here like two buffoons for the next
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  Speaker 1: forty five minutes. Like just let's say, everybody get a cocktail,
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  Speaker 1: let's just mingle. Say nothing. You don't come and stand
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  Speaker 1: at the altar when she's not even there. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: was the wedding starting late for whatever reason it happens. Yeah, standing,
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  Speaker 1: it's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: I found the misunderstanding of it all. Jenna's dad not
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  Speaker 2: knowing where she was, Jenna's dad showing up at the
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  Speaker 2: rehearsal dinner, Jenna not knowing that Angie.
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  Speaker 1: I found it inexcusable. Okay, go ahead, this is inexcusable
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  Speaker 1: by whom multiple players. I love Angie, but look, she
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  Speaker 1: needed to speak up. She needed to present Jenna with
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  Speaker 1: the information about her dad. Earlier agree Jenna needed to
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  Speaker 1: know that her dad didn't know that her mother had passed.
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  Speaker 1: Her dad didn't know that she was in foster care. However,
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  Speaker 1: that being said, please help me make Jenna's dad's choices
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  Speaker 1: make sense. Yes, because he gave up his rights because
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  Speaker 1: he traveled a lot. So you're telling me, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: judging him for traveling. Some people's jobs take them far.
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  Speaker 1: He and his wife split, So you're telling me, I
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  Speaker 1: had a job that requires me to travel a lot.
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  Speaker 1: So my choices are travel a lot and don't see
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  Speaker 1: my kid a lot, or just say I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to see her at all. That's a choice that someone
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  Speaker 1: who loves his child makes. Yeah, yes, I have similar notes.
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  Speaker 1: I wrote, sir, you should be apologizing for not being
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  Speaker 1: part of her life at all, and says you're apologizing
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  Speaker 1: for like not knowing that you ended up in foster care.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, it was terrible. And he still lives in
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  Speaker 2: the same area, which seems kind of small townish, and
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  Speaker 2: he still doesn't know that her mom past and doesn't
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  Speaker 2: know that she.
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  Speaker 1: Was in foster care. Doesn't make any sense. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make any sense. And in regards to Angie, I did
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  Speaker 1: think Angie was acting kind of out of pocket here,
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  Speaker 1: Like it seems to me that Angie wouldn't have like
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  Speaker 1: went to the father without Jenna knowing. That didn't make
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  Speaker 1: any sense to me. I have two more. Okay, why
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  Speaker 1: did we send Ella and Gina on Rory on vacation
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  Speaker 1: Through the first eighty five percent of the movie. They
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  Speaker 1: show up at the wedding, poor Ella especially. And my
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  Speaker 1: final wish is simply a statement. It says, I love
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  Speaker 1: you stfu. I yeah that I have that same more
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  Speaker 1: end of movies. I love yous hate it. I hate it.
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  Speaker 1: I hate it so very much. One thing we didn't
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  Speaker 1: talk about in your wishes is Kiki agreeing to cater
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  Speaker 1: a one hundred guest wedding from her food truck is
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  Speaker 1: truly absurd.
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  Speaker 2: Also agreeing to cater the wedding of your sister that
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  Speaker 2: you would also like to attend me a break. You
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  Speaker 2: have three brain cells, Kiki. You know this is not
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  Speaker 2: going to work.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense to me. And then she
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  Speaker 1: fires all the like her soux chefs, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: do it myself in your bridesmaid dress, Like what are
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  Speaker 1: you doing? She's prepping. Oh my god, this is a
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  Speaker 1: dig you see that. But there was like a tray
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  Speaker 1: of like plastic wineglasses that had veggies in it. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, this is Weber serving six of them? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're prepping in your food truck. Like, why can't you
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  Speaker 1: get a commercial kitchen?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know, they kind of like went through it right,
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  Speaker 2: like the wedding venue oven was broken, and then they
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  Speaker 2: didn't have other options and the restaurant was too far
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  Speaker 2: away and they couldn't find another rental and blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. It was so stupid, Like it was
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  Speaker 1: so stupid it was and honestly, like the wedding venue
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  Speaker 1: needed to solve that. If the wedding venue doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: a working kitchen, then it is on the wedding venue
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  Speaker 1: to come up with a solution because obviously you need
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  Speaker 1: a working oven. She's like, no, I can't use this,
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  Speaker 1: and I could picture the other end of the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: They were just like shrugging their shoulders and moving on
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  Speaker 1: as if that isn't a problem that needed to be solved.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, and they just kind of were like, I
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  Speaker 1: guess there's no oven. We'll just have to deal with that.
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  Speaker 1: What I know, I don't get it. One thing we
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  Speaker 1: didn't talk about was this is a wish. Why did
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  Speaker 1: Jenna ask her a strange father to walk her down
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  Speaker 1: the aisle? Like it didn't really I felt like it
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  Speaker 1: was a real disservice to Angie, who was actively in
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  Speaker 1: your life for the past however many years. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: hated all of that. I'll love doing you to be
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  Speaker 1: a guest in my wedding. Come sit with my family.
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  Speaker 1: Don't give that honor to this man who was not
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  Speaker 1: there for you. And then just thought, poof you didn't
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  Speaker 1: know where you went.
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  Speaker 2: I thought I was doing what's best for you by
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  Speaker 2: cutting myself out of your life completely. I don't understand that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes I don't. Okay, that's all I had for wishes
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  Speaker 1: all right time. I did just see that There's two
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  Speaker 1: things here. One is when Jimma and Angie and her
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  Speaker 1: dad are walking down they they turned the corner to
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  Speaker 1: walk down the aisle and there's like a big fountain
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  Speaker 1: or something right in front of them, and then it's
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  Speaker 1: like a quick shot and then they're in front of
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  Speaker 1: the fountain. You know. We went to a wedding this
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  Speaker 1: past summer and the church had a similar situation with
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  Speaker 1: that like fountain right in the middle like a baptism yeah,
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  Speaker 1: or like a holy water situation. And when the when
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  Speaker 1: people walked in, like the the bridesmaids, they would have
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  Speaker 1: to like walk around it. Now I noticed it when
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  Speaker 1: they cut to it, and they like cut they never
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  Speaker 1: showed people walking around it at all. But I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was so funny because I had never seen it
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  Speaker 1: until I had been in this particular church that set
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  Speaker 1: up of it like right in the middle of the eye,
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  Speaker 1: right in the middle, right in the middle. My other
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  Speaker 1: did you see? That? Goes back to Clay and that
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  Speaker 1: chef's name, what's her name? Crystal? Crystal. So he's like
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to introduce her at the like dinner engagement
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  Speaker 1: rehearsal dinner, rehearsal dinner, and he's like, hey, come here,
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, she's not a dog like look
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  Speaker 1: I know that she was like not the nicest character.
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  Speaker 1: But the way he's like summoning her is like how
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  Speaker 1: you would like your pet. I was like, yeah, He's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't even call her by name. You didn't even
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  Speaker 1: say Crystal. He was like, hey, come here, come here,
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  Speaker 1: let me introduce the chef to the everybody here, like
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  Speaker 1: I hated the writing in this movie. Oh okay, my
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  Speaker 1: two digits, that's are. At one point, Key says the
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  Speaker 1: word produce, but she says it in a way I've
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  Speaker 1: never heard before, and I don't know if it was
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  Speaker 1: a mispronunciation or if this is how Catherine Davis speaks.
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  Speaker 1: But she said produce. It was produce. It was like produce.
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  Speaker 1: It was weird. Oh interesting. Finally, who's the random third bridesmaid? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Everyone else Sherry Kiki and then no, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Sherry Kekey and some rando. It's not Ella. It wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be Ella. That wouldn't make sense if it was Ella. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but the other two dudes are in.
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  Speaker 2: It, like, oh oh yeah, Gerry's dude is one of
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  Speaker 2: his men.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Ella Stephanie Barnett, Bennett Bennett, or maybe she was unavailable,
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  Speaker 1: but she's at the wedding. Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't make sense because the third bridesmaid is only
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  Speaker 2: at the wedding, she's not at the dress fitting. So
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  Speaker 2: why couldn't Ella just be the third bridesmaid? Not that
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  Speaker 2: I actually think she should have been, And I actually
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  Speaker 2: don't think that.
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  Speaker 1: Sherry's boyfriend should have been either Yeah or even Josh. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess he's known Josh a long time, but Sherry's
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend was new. Whatever.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: What did you rate Kiki's fourth ingredient two and a
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  Speaker 2: half stars, same.
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  Speaker 1: Look. It started out strong. Oh I loved the first
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  Speaker 1: one was so good. Everything else was terrible. Thank you
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