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Listener Mailbag December 2025 · 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 gott Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a former Hallmark hater. We're back with one of your
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  Speaker 2: favorite episodes. It is the Listener Mailbag episode. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: to everyone who has emailed us shared your comments with us.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a long list, so we're going to dive
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  Speaker 2: right in with an email from Patty regarding a Bill's
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  Speaker 2: love story. She says, I just listened to your review
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  Speaker 2: about the Buffalo Bills movie. I live in Buffalo and
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  Speaker 2: have some information for you answering some of the questions
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  Speaker 2: that we had. The stadium scenes were filmed May twenty
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  Speaker 2: second and twenty third. The weather was cooler than usual
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  Speaker 2: with a high of fifty three degrees and it was
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  Speaker 2: windy with a light rain. Perfect weather for depicting a
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  Speaker 2: December game. Yeah, we did talk about we thought there
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  Speaker 2: was rain happening, right, Yeah, when they're playing on the field. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Hollin's hair gets real wet and wavy, and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: it's June. It was me but still. We also talked
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  Speaker 2: about the ice bikes. She says. An ice bike has
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  Speaker 2: one back tire and blades on the front, and you
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  Speaker 2: steer like a regular bike. She includes a link to
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  Speaker 2: water Bikes of Buffalo, where you can see the ice
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  Speaker 2: bikes in action and see where you can rent them
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  Speaker 2: at the canal side. I wish we had those here.
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  Speaker 2: I do too.
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  Speaker 3: There's a big ice rink by your house. Have you
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  Speaker 3: ever popped in there to see if they have ice bikes.
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  Speaker 2: My daughter used tock ice skating lessons there figure skating lessons,
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  Speaker 2: so I've been there a number of times. My son
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  Speaker 2: was actually just there last week. He was out with
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  Speaker 2: friends and he texted me. He's like, we're going ice skating.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, you're what? And later on I was like,
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  Speaker 2: how was it? He goes it was terrible. I hated it.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe if they had an ice bike, Yeah, I liked
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  Speaker 2: it more. Yeah. Patty says. The team the Bills were
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  Speaker 2: playing was the New England Patriots. We get a little
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  Speaker 2: more information about that in our next email, and Patty
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  Speaker 2: says they didn't mention sponge candy, which is a specialty
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  Speaker 2: in Buffalo. She sends us a website for Park Edge
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  Speaker 2: Sweet Shop, and oh my goodness, here well, it looks
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  Speaker 2: kind of like like a honeycomb a little bit. But
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  Speaker 2: I encourage you able to check out Park Edge Sweetshop
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  Speaker 2: because they've got some fun looking stuff on here. Patty,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for your email. Yeah, I want to try that.
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  Speaker 2: Yuh me? Do they ship? Oh yeah, it's chocolate. They
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  Speaker 2: ship from to California. How do you think chocolate gets
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  Speaker 2: into the stores?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: Mom, you can order seize candy online?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well you might have to do that. You know
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  Speaker 3: what I've been having a hankering for.
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  Speaker 2: Are butter cookies? Do you know what I'm talking about?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what a butter cookie is? You do okay? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: To order a half pound of dark chocolate peanut butter sponge.
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  Speaker 2: Do it get crazy?
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  Speaker 3: Our next emails from Paula also regarding the Bills movie.
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  Speaker 3: Being a Patriots fan, I didn't want to comment about
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  Speaker 3: the Bills, but I need to respond to your comment
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  Speaker 3: about the game being shown at the end not being
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  Speaker 3: a real game. I just want to say I apologize it.
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  Speaker 3: I was probably watching it on my phone and could.
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  Speaker 2: Not see if. I don't think Paula is coming for you.
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  Speaker 2: I know Paula's moves with good intentions.
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  Speaker 3: It was last December's Patriots game, the twelve to three
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  Speaker 3: Bills eked out a narrow come from behind victory over
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  Speaker 3: the three and twelve Patriots.
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  Speaker 2: Paula throw in shade.
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  Speaker 3: The announcer mentioned Drake May, the Patriots quarterback. As of now,
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  Speaker 3: the Patriots are ten and two and the Bills are
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  Speaker 3: seven and.
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  Speaker 2: Four, Not that it matters. I also find it add
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  Speaker 2: that all the Bills fans' favorite win was a wild
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  Speaker 2: card blowout over the mediocre Patriots team. I'll just leave
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  Speaker 2: it there. The Bills are going to be the Bills. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I again feel like I'm part of Bill's mafia. So
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  Speaker 2: maybe are you taking offense to Paula's email. Maybe Paula
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  Speaker 2: needs to dial it back for Christmas. Paula, I love you,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for your email. As always, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: buy you a Bills jersey a beanie because you love
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  Speaker 2: hat so much. God stop it.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 2: I told my husband, I was like, you should watch
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  Speaker 2: this movie. Is a really great movie.
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  Speaker 3: And now my husband and his brother do like a
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  Speaker 3: one trip a year to a stadium they never been,
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  Speaker 3: and he's like, oh, I think I need to put the.
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  Speaker 2: Bills on my list. And I said, I think I
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  Speaker 2: need to go with you because our brand new stadium.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really care about that. I want to go
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  Speaker 2: downtown to Burner's. What's the place called No Spindlers. I
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  Speaker 2: want a peanut stick? And this funny is can can
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  Speaker 2: we both go? And maybe we go on the trip? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: You know when we were in Kansas City, my husband
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  Speaker 2: said eighteen times, go see the Chiefs, Go see the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, Mandy, you not know me at all.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't really care about the football game. Now
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  Speaker 3: would I go to that bar where Andrew Walker works to.
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  Speaker 2: Watch the bar bill tavern?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I would, Yes, I would. Maggie, she's one of our
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  Speaker 2: Facebook group moderators. She sent a couple of emails. The
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  Speaker 2: first is in regards to The More the Merrier. She says,
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  Speaker 2: I thought i'd share the following excerpt from a People
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  Speaker 2: article that details how Rachel and Brendan ended up getting
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  Speaker 2: cast in The More the Merrier. I love this story.
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  Speaker 2: To quote the article, we met one year ago on
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  Speaker 2: this cruise and we made each other laugh a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Oh interesting they hadn't met before then. No Oh, Boston
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  Speaker 2: tells people from a lounge on the twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark Christmas Cruise. We did not know each other before
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  Speaker 2: then at all, and we had a really good time
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  Speaker 2: on the cruise. Penny agrees it was the dress up
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  Speaker 2: night that we kind of were like, Hey, let's go
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  Speaker 2: talk to Tan Tiana erasme, who's the head of casting.
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  Speaker 2: And so we threw the idea that we haven't worked
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  Speaker 2: together yet, we'd really love to and that if it
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  Speaker 2: was a possibility to strongly consider it and it landed.
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  Speaker 2: How much do you love the idea that for some reason,
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  Speaker 2: the idea of them being like, hey, we'd like to
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  Speaker 2: work together, can you make that happen?
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  Speaker 3: I kind of love that. I love it too. I
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  Speaker 3: wonder how often that happens?
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  Speaker 2: One and two?
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  Speaker 3: Why doesn't it happen more? And you would feel like
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  Speaker 3: you have access to the casting director, you're on a boat,
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  Speaker 3: You're beal like, hey, can we get in front of you.
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  Speaker 3: We'd really like to work together.
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  Speaker 2: Look, if you haven't listened to our view of the
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  Speaker 2: more of the merry or yet. I thought they had
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  Speaker 2: instant on screen chemistry. So that was a great move.
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  Speaker 3: And so from Mackie she writes in about melting my
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  Speaker 3: heart at Christmas, which btw, I think is a surprise hit.
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  Speaker 2: Megan doesn't want to accept it.
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  Speaker 3: But I saw somebody say, like, that's their number one
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  Speaker 3: movie of the year. It's not my number one movie
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  Speaker 3: of the year, but it's somebody's number one movie.
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  Speaker 2: People really liked it. Uh, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not people.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're not.
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  Speaker 3: I hate it. I didn't hate It's not my favorite
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  Speaker 3: of the year, but I went in. I think it's
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  Speaker 3: because I went in with super low expectations.
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  Speaker 2: That is truly why.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, let me get back to Mackie's email, she writes
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  Speaker 3: in response to your question in your review about them
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  Speaker 3: where the movie was filmed. Jennifer Wigmore shared in an
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  Speaker 3: interview on the Heart and Motion podcast that it was
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  Speaker 3: filmed in Ottawa in February twenty twenty five, so it
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  Speaker 3: really was.
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  Speaker 2: Freezing on set. Yeah, and that came through. That came through. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: we have a new listener to the podcast. Her name Shannon.
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  Speaker 2: She's from Sydney, Australia, and she says, greet thinks from Sydney.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Shan and I'm a longtime lover of
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark movies, but most have been living under a Rock
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  Speaker 2: because I didn't know there were podcast about Hallmark And
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  Speaker 2: to that, I say, if you are listening to this podcast,
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  Speaker 2: your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to
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  Speaker 2: share us with a friend, make sure people know that
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  Speaker 2: we exist. So far this count out to Christmas. My
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  Speaker 2: favorites have been Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper. I laughed so
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  Speaker 2: hard and loved that they were all betting on poor
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  Speaker 2: Ted's misfortunes. It was a classic and one I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: I'll be watching again. I also really loved Christmas Above
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  Speaker 2: the Clouds. The Christmas Carol theme was a hit. It
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  Speaker 2: made me laugh, it made me cry. Now that's a
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  Speaker 2: good combination. My all time favorite Christmas movie is A
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  Speaker 2: Biltmore Christmas. I've lost count how many times I've seen it.
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  Speaker 2: It's magical and Christopher Polaha is just swoon worthy.
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  Speaker 3: Can I tell you I read this email myself originally,
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  Speaker 3: like when it came through and I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: listener from Australia, leave a review. Shan, You know how
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  Speaker 3: excited I am that somebody down under across the world
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  Speaker 3: listens to us. We're sitting at our freaking kitchen table
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  Speaker 3: talking about Hallmark movies and somebody's like, I just.
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  Speaker 2: Bout you and I love you down under. I have
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  Speaker 2: a quick story to tell.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, my husband was recently in Singapore for work and
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  Speaker 3: they had to do like a icebreaker, and he's like, so,
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  Speaker 3: if you have any new listeners from Singapore, And I
• 9:25
  Speaker 3: was like, wait a minute, an icebreaker is about yourself,
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  Speaker 3: not about your wife who has a Hallmark podcast. And
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  Speaker 3: he goes, but what happened is he told these people
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  Speaker 3: in this room that we have a Hallmark podcast. And
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  Speaker 3: he's like, so if you've see an uptick from.
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  Speaker 2: Singapore, Singaporean downloads, Yeah, but I look to Hallmark doesn't air,
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't Hamewark channel does not exist in Singapore. It
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  Speaker 2: may show on another network. I don't know. The last
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  Speaker 2: thirty days from Singapore, point zero eight percent of our
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  Speaker 2: downloads came from Well that's.
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  Speaker 3: Better than zero, that's right, So thank you very much.
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: Listener Jail writes in regarding a Newport Christmas For the
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  Speaker 3: Newport Christmas movie, I thought the relationship between the museum
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  Speaker 3: executive and the employee was unrealistic. I know we're supposed
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  Speaker 3: to suspend disbelief, but that being said, that would be
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  Speaker 3: a huge hr issue if a boss stated an employee,
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  Speaker 3: she goes on to ask what was the executive doing
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  Speaker 3: making flower arrangements? Shouldn't she be fundraising or working with
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  Speaker 3: the border directors? Where were the volunteers on this committee
• 10:34
  Speaker 3: or hired help such as a floral designer and events staff.
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: Sometimes homework doesn't get it right with some of the
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: basic things, and it distracts me from my viewing experience.
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: Can you relate to this well? I have a long
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  Speaker 3: history of working in nonprofit.
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: Special event fundraising, and while I do think that there
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  Speaker 2: should be some volunteers here, it's an all hands on
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  Speaker 2: deck situation. There probably wasn't floral designer and event staff.
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  Speaker 2: They're working with a small skeleton crew. I have worked
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  Speaker 2: on big and small special events, and I have been,
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  Speaker 2: as a twenty one year old fresh out of college,
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  Speaker 2: the point person on large events, driving our rented rider
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  Speaker 2: truck through the streets of downtown LA and having to
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: find a place to park it in my no parking
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: available Los Angeles neighborhood. So all that to say, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we're working with a really small crew. But I was
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  Speaker 2: the volunteer coordinator at the National MS Society, and my
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  Speaker 2: superpower was activating the volunteers. So yeah, they really needed
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  Speaker 2: to find a volunteer network. Here, got it. Would you
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  Speaker 2: like to talk more about nonprofit special events? Email is
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  Speaker 2: at Girls Class Markets femail dot com. Our next email
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  Speaker 2: is from listener Chantal regarding the television show Family Law,
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  Speaker 2: which has come up in our news and notes a
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  Speaker 2: number of times. Yeah, she says, ladies, you should definitely
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  Speaker 2: watch this if you can find it. It's so good
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  Speaker 2: and there are so many Hallmark stars that come through
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  Speaker 2: along with some very familiar faces. As a Canadian girl
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  Speaker 2: who works in Family Lot, it's very interesting for me
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  Speaker 2: to watch as the court process and terminology is accurate,
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, aside from the usual courtroom antics you see
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: and legal shows like Surprise, Witnesses, et cetera. Anyway, I
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  Speaker 2: started it for the Hallmark stars and stayed for the story.
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  Speaker 2: It's so good. Ten out of ten recommend I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to check right now where, if anywhere, it is streaming
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  Speaker 2: in the US Family Lots on the CW I think
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  Speaker 2: is available on It is on the CW also on
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  Speaker 2: Prime Video.
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  Speaker 3: Cool. You want to review this in January? Guys, we
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  Speaker 3: haven't even talked about January yet. Do you want to
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  Speaker 3: review this in January.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Last January we were reviewing The Way Home.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do need a series. We need something in January.
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  Speaker 2: All right, folks, girls gone Hallmark at gmail dot com,
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  Speaker 2: start your campaigns for what we should review. It's December first,
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  Speaker 2: we got to figure it out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we don't know what Hallmarks putting out in
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  Speaker 3: January in terms of movies, and we will not be
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  Speaker 3: doing when calls the Heart, thank you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I could not think of the name of that show
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  Speaker 2: to save my life. So we gotta do something. Yeah, something.
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  Speaker 3: Can't just take a break, because that's not how podcasting works.
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  Speaker 3: Listener Lisa writes in the subject says follow up Comma keller,
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  Speaker 3: comma brackets.
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  Speaker 2: That's my subject. Oh those are my notes. These are not.
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  Speaker 2: This is not that's the too long, didn't read summary.
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  Speaker 2: So when we're going.
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  Speaker 3: Through it, Okay, that's what's happening, Lisa wrote, I met
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: Jordan Belfie in Waikiki about four years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, last time we talked.
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  Speaker 3: She met him on an elevator and we were like,
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: is was this reason?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jordan Belfie of the movie Snowbride, which if you
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: haven't seen it, you should go and watch because it
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: was surprisingly good. Lisa continues, I was really surprised that
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  Speaker 2: you guys didn't mention and you did you see that
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: on a Killer Christmas Vacation that the dad's very early
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: on on the ships, hands were very shaky and he
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: spilled hot tea while pouring from a kettle. Being a nurse,
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: I immediately knew it was Parkinson's, but I didn't figure
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: out that was the problem with William until the kids
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: were about to find out. I saw the Parkinson's storyline
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: coming a mile away. But you're right.
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  Speaker 1: I did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did. I did, but I did not put
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  Speaker 2: it in. Did you see that?
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  Speaker 3: You're right?
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  Speaker 2: And lastly, are you doing the brackets this year? I
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: heard you talk about them when I listened to some
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  Speaker 2: old podcasts from last year, and it sounds really fun.
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  Speaker 2: But I think I heard you saying there were some
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: issues last year. Let's run it down, let's unpack that.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: Go ahead. Wendy is the point person on the brackets
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  Speaker 2: just because it was her idea, not because I'm unwilling
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  Speaker 2: to help. He is kind of a hard job to share. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes, folks, this is episode six of the
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: day and even the dogs have gone a little punch drunk.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: So it's a ton of work. These things that you
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  Speaker 2: just see pop up on your Instagram stories and that
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: are just a blip. It's a lot of work. You
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: gotta create all the images every single day. You gotta
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: post this sounds silly, it's time consuming, yeah, And it's
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: time consuming in a busy time of year, and it's
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: time consuming over a short period of time after a
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: very long season here. That's phase one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The pro of that, if I may, is the community
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  Speaker 2: by and large really enjoys it. Typically we get some
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: fun buy in from cast and Crewe. It's always kind
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  Speaker 2: of fun to see who gets in on it, and
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  Speaker 2: the fans start really like rooting for their own team.
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  Speaker 2: It gets people engaged. It's a fun way because everyone
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: kind of gets a little bit of the post holiday
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  Speaker 2: movie letdown. This kind of keeps that going for a
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  Speaker 2: little while. Back to the cons, a few bad apples
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  Speaker 2: spoil the whole bunch, and by that I mean a
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  Speaker 2: couple things happen. One, everyone has an opinion about the
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  Speaker 2: way it should be run. Two, some people get real
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  Speaker 2: mad about the way the votes go. Just the way
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  Speaker 2: the cookie crumbles, folks.
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  Speaker 3: I think we were threatened to be sued last year.
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  Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no no oh. That was for the
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  Speaker 2: Way Home, where we threatened to be sued over a
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  Speaker 2: single Instagram story asking people to vote over whether they
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: were Team Elliott or Team Thomas. That's right, and then
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: someone bought bots to game the system. Whatever. Nobody threatened
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: us to us over the brackets. However, people get really
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: upset the seeding is is random. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Also, it's a fake competition. There's no price, there's nothing
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  Speaker 4: at stake, it's just fun. So some people get really
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: upset and at the very end of last year's competition,
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  Speaker 4: while nobody purchased bots last year, I am afraid that
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  Speaker 4: might happen this year because there were a number of
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  Speaker 4: fake accounts maybe fakes the wrong word, extra accounts that
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  Speaker 4: were created to fin the votes in one direction, and
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  Speaker 4: it came down to us like, honestly.
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  Speaker 2: One vote, one vote, Yeah, and it kind of was
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  Speaker 2: frustrating that it came down to one vote when there
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  Speaker 2: were many fake accounts. Made kind of sucks the fun
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  Speaker 2: out of it, Yeah, it does. So, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's December first, as we're recording this. No final decision
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  Speaker 2: has been made, but that is the nuts and bolts
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  Speaker 2: of the bracket.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: I will tell you the origin story of the bracket,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: because we did.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: It's been done three years now, right.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: I think we had just launched our Instagram and I
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: was like trying to come up with ngate, trying to
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: come up with ways to get more engagement in our Instagram,
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: and I think that's where it came from. Of course,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: it's like fun, it's it's a lot of fun. I
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: enjoyed doing it, but at the end of last year,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: I was like, I don't know if I can do
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: it again, simply because there was so much criticism about
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: how it was being done. And I was like, oh,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: this is supposed to be fun. Like you said, there's
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: nothing to gain out of it. With that said, the
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: other night, I was laying in bed and I was like,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: if I don't do it, I bet somebody else does,
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: and I don't want them to take it away from us.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you. We also last year we were
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: contending with we had homework plus yeah, these that we
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: made a decision not to include. We also had a
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: ton of movies. We had a play in around this year,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: with fewer movies. If we just did the twenty four
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: brand new movies, it would be a little bit of
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: an easier situation. Yeah.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would need to like map it out and
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: look at it and see and see what it's going
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: to take.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm leaning towards doing it. If you don't, I
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: would take it on. I just the fomo in me.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I'm not worried about the fomo. I don't want somebody
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: to steal it. Yeah, of course, of course, And I
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: think people somebody would.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: I think you're right, not that like you can't have
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: your bracket. Anybody can have a.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Bracket, right, But I think maybe we might be synonymous
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: with it for this for Hallmark.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Correct. So moving on? Time will tell Okay, before we
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: keep going, we should probably talk about that little seven
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: day magic mind experiment we did last week.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that thing that I thought would absolutely do nothing,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: and somehow I did something.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: I tried it because my afternoons have been rough, like
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I'll sit down to work and immediately think Nope, not today.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: And I tried.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Because my brain fog has been real. I can start
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: the day feeling like I'm on top of things, and
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: then by noon I'm like staring at the screen going
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: like what.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Was I doing?
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: So around day three of the Magic Mind, I remember
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: thinking I'm like, oh, I'm just doing my thing.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I'm not pausing, going what are you doing? Wendy? Do
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean?
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: The biggest thing for me was that I wasn't scrambling
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: to find my focus. It's like my attention span stopped
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: fighting with me. And because it's not coffee level intensity,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: I wasn't jittery. I could just sit and do the thing.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: I know, you're the kind of girl that's like I
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: can't drink a coffee in the afternoon.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Here's the thing for me.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: It didn't like change my personality or fix my life
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: in any way, but it did make the week feel
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: a little bit easier, especially towards the end of the week, where.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I'm like done, Yeah, just through the edges, a little
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: bit less fog, more focus, And if your brain feels
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: like a little cluttered browser window most days, this might help.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: So if you are curious, we do have a link.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: It's Magicmind dot com. Slash Girls Gone twenty and the
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• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Try it for seven days and see if it does
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: anything for you. We were surprised in a good way way.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Megan emails regarding a Keller Christmas Vacation. Megan says, somewhat
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: newer listener here, but I'm making my way through your
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: archives pretty much on a daily basis, so the parasocial
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: relationship is fully realized. We've made it, Megan, we haven't
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: made it. I love the podcast. You're always entertaining, and
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: we often not always have similar takes on the movies.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Welcome Megan. I'm linked to the new movies as always,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: but finally watched Keller Christmas Vacation this past weekend and
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: listened to your podcast on it this morning. If you
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: talked about this and I was distracted, then ignore me
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: for sure. I don't remember hearing this anywhere and had
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: to bring it up. When they're in the square listening
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: to the choir about an hour and fifteen into the
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: movie If played with commercials, cal is standing behind Emory
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: and talking to her about the photos she's taking. He
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: says something about her taking a shot at love and
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: you just got to get your head in the game,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: and she replies, thanks. Coach Bolton, a high school musical
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: friends that I was fully entertained by That's it. That's
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: the whole comment. Thank you both for the daily entertainment
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: on my morning walks. I don't know what I'll do
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: once I'm all caught up on the archives. I mean, Megan,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: we're not going anywhere. I also join the patreons. You
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: beat me to it.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: There's so many back episodes to dig through there. Although
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: if you want to talk parasocial, they could go off
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: the rails in there. It's so much more personal, much
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: more personal. But yes, at patreon dot com slash.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Megan and Wendy, it's right there for you. Come join us.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Some people lock down their archives. I don't know. It'd
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: be too much work. Honestly, it's so much work.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: But I'm I get a little like weird feeling in
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: my stomach when they're like, I go back and listen
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: to the archives.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh boy, oh, don't do.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: That, you know, because in our early days of Hallmark
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: reviews they were not great.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: They were so you're worried that our Patreon might not
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: be great. Oh I don't care if they Oh you're
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: saying people go back to listen to our old Hallmark reviews. Yeah, yeah, Yeah,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: you can really see the evolution over the podcast for sure.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: No, I've come listen to our Patreon like, I think
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: there's great stuff there, crash out of epic measure, crying, laughing,
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: times of laughing a lot.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: It's a good place. I think it's a great place. Also,
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: if you didn't know, we have a YouTube channel.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, if you want to go way back, there's
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: six years of YouTube videos there.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of the same content, same idea as Patreon.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I had this thought the other night.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: I was like, how long?
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: How long are we going to be doing this Hallmark podcast?
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: I turned fifty this year and I was like, and
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: we've been working together a long time.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I'm so worried about what the next part of this.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Megan always gets afraid, like at the I'm like, it's December,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: it's almost January. I always want to quit.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: No, because how long have we been working together? Now?
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: By the way, this is what you would get on Patrion.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Twelve years.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, am I gonna be sixty two still doing this?
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Can you imagine we're still gonna be doing this another
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: twelve years?
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: You say that like it's a bad thing. No, I'm not.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: But I'm like, am I who's gonna listen.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: To a sixty two year old talk about a Hallmark movie?
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think there's a sixty two year old
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: listening to this episode right now who's offended at the
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: idea that a sixty two year old's opinion isn't valuable
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: and entertaining. That is fair. I know. I just have
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: like a spin out the other day. I'm like, no,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: getting too old. I need to join a pickle pickleball group.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but I'm not done yet. I'm not
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: done yet either. Okay, what's next? No, I'm not looking
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: to quit right now?
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Have I said too much?
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Can I go forward with our next email?
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Mary Louise writes, the only part of the movie A
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Newport Christmas that was shot in Newport were the dock scenes.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: They kuld fooled me. I thought they filmed not on
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: a Windows ninety five computer. Not the wom the ocean. Yeah,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: like running along the dock when she first arrives that
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: area of the dock. Gotcha. The rest of the movie
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: was shot in Western New York, including Buffalo, Akron and Lewiston. Well,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: we did get some feedback on social media too about
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: that as well, because we talked about how it was
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: filmed on location. Why couldn't it look more like water? Well,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: that's because it wasn't.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Got it?
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Got it, Mary says, regarding The Three Wisest Men, just
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: a quick bright spot in an otherwise not so hot movie.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Hot take. Send your emails to Mary the mom's brilliant
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: defense of her son at the dinner table. Well written,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: well timed, and well said. Mary did send this before
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: our review of that movie came out. Got it?
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Ooh King's Hawaiian Sorry every time. I'm never gonna forget.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: That Neubrin little yep yellow. Mary goes on to say,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I have been a fan of Margaret Colin barb Ma.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know what that means. Oh, I think it means.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I think it's touched and it's Tyler. Yeah, I got it.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Since As the World Turns, where she played Margo and
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: ended up marrying her real life co star Justin Deis,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: she was also great in Independence Day. Mary goes on
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: to say, I also loved Kim's line about everyone loving
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: a trilogy at the end in the hospital waiting room,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: and Paul's muffled reaction. It kind of goes from Jamie
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: in regards to a variety of topics. Jamie starts by saying,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: one of you admitted to not seeing real genius, and
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: to that, I say, what you need to stop what
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: you're doing and watch it. Megan, you've seen real genius
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: like eighty in the eighties. Yeah, it's a movie. Yes,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: you don't remember talking about this.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: No, it has Val Kilmer in it, like a golden
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: rip Ohl in the castle.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Oh look a castle. That's me Lindy Boose. She does
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: tend to play the same character and is a bit grating. Yikes.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Have you seen the twenty fourteen series The Librarians, where
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: she plays a lead named Cassandra. No, but we talk
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: about this The Librarians. It's not ringing a bell. I
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: thought we talked about it. Maybe, Oh, there's a new
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: spinoff The Librarians the next chapter. I do think we
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: talked about this series perhaps when we did Holidays and
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: I was like, I could get into a show about librarians.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: You could, Jamie says, Robert Buckley, not Junior. I legit
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: think that in real life he is essentially Ted Cooper,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: so likable and real. It was a great movie. I
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: would rewatch it even during non holiday times. He has
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: been a co host on drama Queens a One Tree
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Hill rewatch podcast for seasons seven to nine, the seasons
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: he was a part of and he is one hundred
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: percent the best part of the potos. If you have
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: some spare time, lol. Thank you Jamie for seeing us.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Yes for the lol. Listen to a few episodes. I
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: did see that they did like a live final episode.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: I've never seen One Tree Hill. I have watched One
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Tree Hill.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: I did listen to that podcast in the early days
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: when they first launched, but I haven't.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Listened One Tree Hill. Hold up on rewatch Bummer. So
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: it's nice. I mean it does.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: It's highly sexualized for teenage girls. I didn't watch it
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: through that lands when I initially watched it, But now
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: as a fifty year old woman, I'm.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Like, you know, I'm glad we've come around to the
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: place we are. My husband and a neighbor we're talking
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: about back to the future the other day and my
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: neighbor was like, you know, I was rewatching that and
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Biff is basically assaulting her back that. I was like, absolutely, Yeah.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Back to Jamie, who says on Misslete Murders, I am
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: super glad I watched She's in one based on your recommendation.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Thank you. So now my only complaint is I must
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: made a week for the new episodes to drop. This was,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: of course said before all episodes had dropped. Too bad,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: it's such a limited seasonal release. I did post, may
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: I share, I posted, I just saw the suggestion that
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: we get a summer season of Missiletoe Murders for Christmas
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: in July, and honestly, don't hate it. Six episodes in
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: the summer six during countdown to Christmas? What say you
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: at Ken Cooperri's and Ken himself responded, Emily runs a
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: year round Christmas store. There are story possibilities for all
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: four seasons, and I would absolutely love to tell them.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Oh m G.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Yes, I could get down with six episodes in the summertime. Yeah, Hallmark,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: are you listening?
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be great? Yes? Christmas in July and then
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: we still get the six. We still get the six
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: at Christmas time. I agree, we want it, you know,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: it's your primetime. I get it, but this would do well.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Jamie finishes by saying, I have a question, how do
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: we think Sue feels about Violet c literally not loving
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: working at the diner. Could she have asked Emily one
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: more time for her old job back while working at
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: the diner? Made me laugh? That's funny. I think they
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: just I mean, Sue's reaction to it all is just Sue.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: I love it. She's like, thanks for stealing my employee. Yeah, great,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: it's great, It's perfect. Yeah. Yeah. Finally, from Adam on
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Blue Sky, he says, if you haven't already recorded, you're
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: the more the merrier episode. Here's a dig you see
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: that pause. First of all, I love it when listeners
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: are like, I got my own did you see that? Yeah,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: me too, Adam, we have already recorded it, and so
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: I told him I'm gonna include this in our mail bag.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Adam says early on, the hospital staff mentioned a neighboring town,
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: North Haverbrook, which is from the Simpsons Marge versus the Monorail.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Adam goes on to say, having finished the movie, there's
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: another Simpsons reference later as they ask about borrowing an
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: ambulance from Shelbyville, which is the rival town of the
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Simpsons Springfield. Great hey, this was a really fun episode.
• 30:59
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• 31:01
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