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O Little Christmas Market · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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Speaker 2: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Homemark hater.
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Speaker 1: On today's episode, we are discussing Oh Little Christmas Market,
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Speaker 1: which originally aired on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday, July eleventh,
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Speaker 1: and it's now streaming on Hallmark Plus. You can keep
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Speaker 1: up with us over on Instagram, where we are Girls
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Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark for all the latest announcements about our schedule,
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Speaker 1: Hallmark late breaking news, well peaks behind the Girl's Not
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Speaker 1: Hallmark curtain occasionally over there.
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Speaker 2: Occasionally we also have a Facebook page at once Again
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Speaker 2: y'all delivered over the weekend. Right, what's happening? I don't
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Speaker 2: understand all of a sudden, look, I'll take it, you know.
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Speaker 2: Maybe just there's just the population of people that have
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Speaker 2: their Facebook open while watching.
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Speaker 1: This movie and they just want.
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Speaker 2: To weigh in.
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Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, if your Facebook over Instagram, you can get
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Speaker 1: all that over on our Facebook page as well, which
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Speaker 1: is of course Girls Club homework.
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Speaker 2: Did you watch this movie?
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Speaker 1: I know what you're gonna ask me, Yes, I did.
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Speaker 1: I watched it not live but recorded from television, so
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Speaker 1: you got to see Biltmore's who Views What did you see?
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Speaker 1: I had the exact same reaction I've had right now.
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Speaker 1: I was like, first of all, it's I think it's
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Speaker 1: stunningly beautiful. Mm hmm. It made me very excited for
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Speaker 1: the movie. And I have always loved Holland Roden. I
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Speaker 1: like her a lot. I think she looks so perfectly
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Speaker 1: timeless in this movie, the customing and the hair. I'm excited,
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Speaker 1: are you thinking?
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Speaker 2: I'm very excited, But I have some reservations, only because
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Speaker 2: I love the original so so much, and I know
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Speaker 2: this isn't like a reboot or a redo or a whatever.
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Speaker 2: It's going to have its own story, so I'm looking
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Speaker 2: forward to that. But I just love the original so much, Like,
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Speaker 2: how's that going to land for me? The second thing
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Speaker 2: is in the preview that I saw, there's this Holland
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Speaker 2: Rodin kind of like dazs is off and I couldn't
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Speaker 2: help but think about her character in Holidays, which who
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Speaker 2: I did not like very much. I don't know, so
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Speaker 2: I'm but I loved her in the Bills movie last
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Speaker 2: last year, So I'm just and in.
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Speaker 1: That dial one for murder movie, Yes, you're right, So I'm.
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Speaker 2: Just carrying this like Holidays PTSD with me for I
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Speaker 2: don't know why. Yeah, why, I hear you.
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Speaker 1: I My goal is to let this movie stand alone
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Speaker 1: and not be like, but it's not Chris, but it's
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Speaker 1: not you know, there's no beth Any joy Len's moment.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the preview was bringing it for me, So
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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it very much. The other thing
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Speaker 1: that I noticed I thought was really funny is that
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Speaker 1: Hallwark was promoting the hell out of next week's movie,
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Speaker 1: but not next week's movie, the preview you're gonna see
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Speaker 1: during next week's movie, which is the Tyler Heines Christmas movie.
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Speaker 1: That is funny.
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Speaker 2: Did you not notice it?
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Speaker 1: I didn't see that because mostly I fast forward it
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Speaker 1: through commercials. It was only the the Biltmore commercials that
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Speaker 1: I watched.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like at that on the bottom, you know,
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Speaker 2: what's that called cryon or whatever? Oh chyron.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I try and ignore that because it's so distracting.
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Speaker 2: But yes, no, but it was like next week dry
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Speaker 2: don't miss next week's movie will be the preview of
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Speaker 2: the Nights Before Christmas or whatever. It's something like that.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, that's the Tyler heines movie like they they
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Speaker 2: know their audience.
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Speaker 1: You know who wrote that, by the way, No, I don't,
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Speaker 1: Russell Hanlin.
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Speaker 2: Oh I'm so excited. That makes me excited. Now let's
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Speaker 2: talk a movie. I'm not so excited about.
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Speaker 1: Uh. Let's hear a synopsis of Oh Little Christmas Market.
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Speaker 2: And artist's fights to save her town's beloved Christmas market
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Speaker 2: from a developer, but a budding romance with the architect
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Speaker 2: tied to the deal may bring about a Christmas miracle.
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Speaker 1: Time for everyone's favorite segment, News and Notes, Mars.
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Speaker 2: It's getting longer.
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Speaker 1: Mars Herodsky directed Oh Little Christmas Market. She's an Emmy
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Speaker 1: nominated director for ghost Writer. Mars has also directed ten
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Speaker 1: episodes of Working Moms, along with several Hallmark style films.
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Speaker 2: Natasha Baron and Ryan Peck and Pass share writing credit.
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Speaker 2: Baron has eight previous TV movie writing credits, while Peckhampah
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Speaker 2: previously wrote Hallmark's A Nineties Christmas From twenty twenty.
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Speaker 1: Four, Catherine Burrell stars as Olivia. Hallmark fans last saw
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Speaker 1: her in Christmas Baby and two episodes of Mistletone Murders.
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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five. She also starred in a nineties Christmas.
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Speaker 2: Stephen whoz Our plays Grayson, with four upcoming projects on deck.
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Speaker 2: We last saw Stephen earlier this year in to Philly
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Speaker 2: with Love. Paula Badreaux plays Olivia's mom Leonore, with sixty
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Speaker 2: nine acting credits. You may recognize her from Hallmark's Autumn
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Speaker 2: at Apple Hill and Take Me Back for Christmas, Can't.
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Speaker 2: Shridan plays Grayson's dad Bill. His Hallmark work includes Chesapeake
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Speaker 2: Shores and Operation Nutcracker.
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Speaker 1: Ann Pornow plays friend Zoe. This is her first Hallmark project,
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Speaker 1: but has appeared in the series Private Eye, which streams
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Speaker 1: on Hallmark Plus. Oh.
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Speaker 2: Little Christmas Market was originally titled a Miniature Christmas and
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Speaker 2: was filmed in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 1: Interesting, twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 2: Why what are your thoughts on that?
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Speaker 1: Well? That makes me think this is an acquisition. I
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Speaker 1: believe it is, or it's been like shelved for some time?
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Speaker 1: Who know?
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Speaker 2: I don't know who knows. I tried to do some
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Speaker 2: googling but couldn't find a ton other than it was
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Speaker 2: made in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, Wendy, what was your first impression of
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Speaker 1: A Little Christmas Market?
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Speaker 2: What in the fourth grade California emission diar ema is
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Speaker 2: going on here.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, Wendy's bringing the heat right up top. My
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Speaker 1: first impression is this week all Mark was determined to
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Speaker 1: make me shout that's not mistletoe, it's Holly repeatedly.
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Speaker 2: Oh what You're gonna have to tell me when that happened,
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Speaker 2: because I don't even remember.
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Speaker 1: I will, Okay, do you want to talk about what
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Speaker 1: we liked? I do.
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Speaker 2: I have a few right up top. I have to admit,
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Speaker 2: as someone who who loves a dollhouse and tiny furniture,
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Speaker 2: there was something oddly charming about Olivia's work. I may
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Speaker 2: have questioned whether there's a market for this art of hers,
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Speaker 2: but I was drawn to the tiny details, like when
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Speaker 2: she made that miniature version of her dad, Like that
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Speaker 2: made me, you know, made me feel something. I'm not
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Speaker 2: all terrible guys.
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Speaker 1: Well, I kind of think she like captured the essence
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Speaker 1: of all the miniature people.
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Speaker 2: It made me wonder, I said, she as if you know,
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Speaker 2: but yeah, if she did it, I was like, are
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Speaker 2: they three D printing those? What's happening? And like show
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Speaker 2: me the process behind that. I'm curious in that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, because the miniature people were my favorite
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Speaker 1: of the miniatures. That's clearly her Dad, that's clearly Grayson,
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Speaker 1: that's Zoey. I thought I liked the people.
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Speaker 2: The Zoe replica was spot on, yes, and the Grayson too,
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Speaker 2: to be quite honest, I have some thoughts on that
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Speaker 2: in a little bit. But how's she making those?
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Speaker 1: I would like to know as well.
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Speaker 2: I was very curious also also this movie, you know,
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Speaker 2: it is the dead of summer here in southern California
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Speaker 2: and everywhere else except for Australia, hey, Shannon.
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Speaker 1: And everywhere else in the southern Hemisphere.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I'm kind of drawn to where the Christmas
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Speaker 2: market's going to be in my neck of the woods,
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Speaker 2: ah this holiday season, like I want, I told myself,
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Speaker 2: I said, I'm going to make a list of Christmas markets.
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Speaker 2: I love a Christmas market me too. I like to
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Speaker 2: walk around and look at stuff and buy stuff and
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Speaker 2: drink a hot cider or cocoa or whatever. Me too.
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Speaker 2: They're just few and far between where we're at. So
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Speaker 2: I was going to start copiling a list so I
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Speaker 2: could hit a bunch of them this holiday season before
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Speaker 2: this season gets away from me, you know what I mean? Yes,
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Speaker 2: we went to Boston several years ago and went to
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Speaker 2: the best Christmas market I've ever been. It was wonderful.
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Speaker 2: So that was so much fun. And then I told
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Speaker 2: my husband this weekend because we were at the Sawdust
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Speaker 2: Festival uh huh, which is a artist market, and then
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Speaker 2: they have a Christmas version two during the holiday season.
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Speaker 2: But I was telling him about this movie and the
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Speaker 2: Christmas Market, and he goes, Hey, why don't we just
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Speaker 2: go on one of those river cruises and go stop
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Speaker 2: at all the Christmas markets. I was like, yeah, I'm
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Speaker 2: not jealous.
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Speaker 1: Not this year, but maybe, yeah, maybe. Well you know
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Speaker 1: it's on my twenty twenty nine calendar. You've been invited
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Speaker 1: to join us on our river cruise.
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Speaker 2: Give me some of your likes.
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Speaker 1: Okay. So I think what this movie does best is
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Speaker 1: focuses on the sense of community. And I think it
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Speaker 1: happens in two different ways. One, it's kind of obvious
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Speaker 1: in like a large scale the Christmas market. They talk
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Speaker 1: about how important this market is to the community, and
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Speaker 1: then the people within the market support each other and
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Speaker 1: they support Olivia and they support the idea of the market,
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Speaker 1: and then so much support, so much support, and then
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Speaker 1: the local businesses rally around to collect money, right, So
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Speaker 1: I think I like that. On a smaller scale, I
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Speaker 1: was really drawn to the mom leonor is that her
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Speaker 1: name in this movie, uh huh, telling the story of
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Speaker 1: how when they purchased this house that's now the B
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Speaker 1: and B, it was very run down, and you know,
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Speaker 1: they pitched to the buyer like, hey, we'll restore this
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Speaker 1: place to its former glory. There's something about that story
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but it stuck with me. And then
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Speaker 1: they kind of created their own little community within, like
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Speaker 1: let's share this lovely B and B with our guests,
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Speaker 1: and they've created this warm, lovely place within it that
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Speaker 1: was working for me. Hmm. I have some thoughts on
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Speaker 1: the mom going to come up in my wad.
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Speaker 2: Okay actually liked her character, but I have a slight
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Speaker 2: beef with the character.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear it get to it.
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Speaker 2: There was a running storyline in this It came from
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Speaker 2: Grayson's dad who was like, we built this on tradition, tradition, tradition, tradition,
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Speaker 2: tradition is the only acceptable answer. I hate that narrative.
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Speaker 2: If somebody comes to me and goes, this is the
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Speaker 2: way we've always done it. Yeah, I want to rip
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Speaker 2: your head off. I cannot stand that.
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Speaker 1: So I liked that we get a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Of movement away from that. Olivia is trying to embrace
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Speaker 2: like a future like she she is also tied to
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Speaker 2: the people of the market and wanting to help them,
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Speaker 2: but like also trying to pivot that both can both
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Speaker 2: can exist. Like the the new building they're going to
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Speaker 2: business building there.
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Speaker 1: It's not like just like, don't tear it down. She's
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Speaker 1: trying to compromise.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, so I could appreciate that it wasn't blindly
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Speaker 2: never change, you know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, Two more other small likes.
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Speaker 2: I really liked Olivia's red holiday dress. Oh she comes
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Speaker 2: to that party. I liked that it was giving Jessica
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Speaker 2: McLintock if you know, you know, I really love that
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Speaker 2: off the shoulder, Yes, loved it. I also thought that
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Speaker 2: I enjoyed Catherine Stephen together. I hated his character though.
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Speaker 2: Of Grayson, I wanted to shake him and be like,
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Speaker 2: stand up to your dad. Oh yeah, where's your moral
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Speaker 2: compass if this, if his business values don't align with yours,
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Speaker 2: you need to break free, like you need to do
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Speaker 2: your own thing. You are successful in your own right
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Speaker 2: step away.
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Speaker 1: At one point, he's like, the difference between you and
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Speaker 1: I is I'm not allowed to do my own thing.
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Speaker 1: And I was like, sir, you were a grown man.
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Speaker 1: What do you mean not allowed? You are forty? Come on,
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Speaker 1: what's happening here? I didn't like that.
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Speaker 2: If he was like twenty two and fresh out of college, Okay,
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Speaker 2: I could see how he maybe hadn't established himself in
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Speaker 2: a career yet, and so therefore he has to do
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Speaker 2: what his dad wants him to do. But yes, he's
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Speaker 2: certainly employable outside of his father's business. Exactly, exactly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So I want to talk about these two actors
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Speaker 1: and lovely mailman. Steve over in our Facebook group posted
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Speaker 1: huzzah for who's oar. I'm not going to read the
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Speaker 1: entire thing, but if you're in our Facebook group you can.
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Speaker 1: But he says, I think this is his best performance
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Speaker 1: in a while. Maybe it was the writing or the direction,
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Speaker 1: but his character was much more compelling than many of
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Speaker 1: his recent roles. Steve goes on to say, the true
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Speaker 1: star of this film is Catherine Barrell. Every scene she
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Speaker 1: was in with so nuanced her performance elevated her performance
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Speaker 1: elevated the story throughout the movie. Her dialogue seemed tropy, yes,
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Speaker 1: but Catherine delivered it in a way that seemed both
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Speaker 1: effortless and sincere. Now, I think sometimes what happens on
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Speaker 1: Hallmark is these movies become self fulfilling prophecies for the actors.
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Speaker 1: Like if we get Stephen and Catherine in an acquisition
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Speaker 1: which maybe isn't up to the standard of twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: six Hallmark in some ways, like isn't pushing the envelope,
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Speaker 1: then what the audience is in one Hallmark is like
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Speaker 1: these two people existing within like a perfectly fine buy
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Speaker 1: the book trophy script, and they're not given the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to be the Tyler and Lacy j Mailie and Russell
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Speaker 1: Hanlines holiday movie m So I think it's like at
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Speaker 1: some point, Catherine, I would argue, has been given that opportunity,
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Speaker 1: especially with a Christmas Baby. I thought she was great
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Speaker 1: in that. But Stephen has been so relegated to these
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Speaker 1: like you know, Jane Mysteries, which was a Hallmark Plus
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Speaker 1: exclusive for a while, right, like kind of side burner things.
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Speaker 2: And so yeah, sometimes I think it's hard for us.
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Speaker 1: To see what these actors can really do like, we
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Speaker 1: don't really let them cook, so to speak. I don't
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Speaker 1: really know if that's a micro wish. It's just something
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Speaker 1: I was thinking about. But to wrap up my likes,
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Speaker 1: I do want to call out some lines I liked.
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Speaker 1: When he says is it miss or missus train station companion? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I love that, And then Olivia says what interior decorator
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Speaker 1: for the mouse king? And the nutcracker? These just made
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Speaker 1: me laugh. I thought there were some good lines too.
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Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break and we will come right
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Speaker 1: back to discuss our wishes. All right, Wendy, what did
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Speaker 1: you wish for in a little Christmas market? Well?
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Speaker 2: I hate to say it, but I have a ton
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Speaker 2: of wishes.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: My first one is justice for Archie. Let this man
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Speaker 2: retire because he wants he wants to sell the lot.
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Speaker 2: He wants to retire, he wants to hang out with
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Speaker 2: his grandchildren. It is earned. Wait, I was sympathizing with
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Speaker 2: this guy that they wanted us to root against. Maybe
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Speaker 2: it's because I had My parents are this man's age,
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Speaker 2: and my dad just sold business. Like you know, there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of responsibility when you're a business owner because
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Speaker 2: you employ all these people or whatever. But let the
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Speaker 2: manner retire.
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Speaker 1: It's Christmas Eve. Let him go home.
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Speaker 2: I hated that Olivia was so like, but my dad
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Speaker 2: created this market.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, whatever, here's my next here's my next beef.
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Speaker 2: Why can't you find another.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
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Speaker 2: Property to put this market on my We have a
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Speaker 2: we have a farmer's market situation in my neighborhood every
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Speaker 2: other week and it sets up in the school parking lot. Yes,
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Speaker 2: you can't find a lot in this neighborhood that this
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Speaker 2: Christmas market can set up. And I don't understand. The
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Speaker 2: solution is so easy.
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Speaker 1: Yes, this took me out of the movie so much
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Speaker 1: because I just kept saying, this is my makes no sense, like,
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Speaker 1: move it anywhere? And there she was like, oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: our stalls are run down. Go to Costco and buy
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Speaker 1: a folding table. Nobody cares what your stall looks like.
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Speaker 2: Put a pop up tent up and a folding table, yeah,
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Speaker 2: folding table and a.
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Speaker 1: Christmasy tablecloth over it, and set up your stuff just
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Speaker 1: like they do at every other crafty market that I
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Speaker 1: go to. You know, there's one in my neighborhood every
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Speaker 1: other weekend. Have it outside the freaking B and B.
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Speaker 1: My gosh, this is not a problem that needs solving.
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Speaker 1: You do not need to rent space.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so interesting because they have these permanent structures
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Speaker 2: or whatever that they were selling out of, right their
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Speaker 2: little stalls. Yeah, but they're not permanent because only open
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Speaker 2: sixties out of the year, so they put them away.
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Speaker 1: I don't. Oh yeah, and can I say I did
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Speaker 1: not root for the shipping container market idea.
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Speaker 2: All I wrote down in my notes is wtf. I
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Speaker 2: don't a shipping container like.
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Speaker 1: I think there's a place for it, I understand, but
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Speaker 1: it just is not giving like the classic Christmas market
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Speaker 1: vibe to put them in these like gritty industrial containers.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to rack my brain to figure out where
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Speaker 1: I've ever seen a shipping container converted to like a
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Speaker 1: marketplace type where you would go for a transaction, and
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Speaker 1: I cannot think of anywhere. It also doesn't really make
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Speaker 1: a whole lot of sense because like the whole purpose
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Speaker 1: of it to me is like you're out in the
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Speaker 1: open air, you're walking around. I just I thought they
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Speaker 1: were solving a problem that didn't exist by bringing in
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Speaker 1: the shipping containers and.
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Speaker 2: Other Esthetically, a shipping container.
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Speaker 1: Agree, it's not like the industrial kind of g really
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Speaker 1: look that they were going for. And the other thing
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Speaker 1: is they're building this building, like why couldn't you just
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Speaker 1: have like you don't need to spend any money, just
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Speaker 1: applaza out front where they roll out their tables every
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Speaker 1: weekend or every week or six weeks during the holidays
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Speaker 1: or whatever it is, and then they roll it back away.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't even need to be a permanent structure. This
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Speaker 1: this is a problem that doesn't exist.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, totally, that's what I was thinking too. I'm like,
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Speaker 2: they're gonna build this multi million dollar building here and
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Speaker 2: then you're gonna have these shipping containers out in this plaza.
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Speaker 2: Why wouldn't you build like a more permanent structure that
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Speaker 2: could be used at like a multifunctional space that's not
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Speaker 2: a shipping container. Yes, because I did like her idea
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Speaker 2: of like, oh we could use this, you know, for
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Speaker 2: classes or whatever. I'm not going into a shipping container
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Speaker 2: for a class.
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Speaker 1: No, just make it like a if it's this big
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Speaker 1: industrial or not like commercial building. Right, this office building,
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Speaker 1: you have this like outdoor plow. Now if it's somewhere winterry,
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Speaker 1: this is not actually the most functional thing. But we're
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Speaker 1: under the assumption that they can exist in this outdoor market,
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Speaker 1: so we'll go with it. And it can be like,
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Speaker 1: you know, the workers come down and sit by the
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Speaker 1: fountain and eat their lunch, and during the summer they
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Speaker 1: have like food carts. You know, you have like a
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Speaker 1: summer market and a Christmas market, and you maybe have
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Speaker 1: like a little covered area where you're like, oh, we.
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Speaker 2: Can do classes here.
21:24
Speaker 1: Just so it's useful for everybody.
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Speaker 2: And fits the vibe.
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Speaker 1: Let Greyson design it.
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Speaker 2: That was my other kind of moment where I was like, oh,
21:36
Speaker 2: this architect Grayson is signing co signing on this shipping container.
21:43
Speaker 2: I cut you.
21:44
Speaker 1: When they started running with the shipping containers, I was like,
21:47
Speaker 1: what are we doing? And then they start fundraising to
21:50
Speaker 1: get the shipping containers there. I was like, we have
21:53
Speaker 1: gone so far off the rails here, folks. I agree,
21:56
Speaker 1: uh agree.
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Speaker 2: My next wish is it has to do with the mom.
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Speaker 2: I liked the mom, but she was letting Olivia do
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Speaker 2: everything and telling her she's doing an amazing You're doing
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Speaker 2: the amazing, sweetie, Like Olivia is running I don't know
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Speaker 2: if she's actually running the Christmas market or she oversees
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Speaker 2: the Christmas market or whatever it is.
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Speaker 1: But she's got the binder.
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Speaker 2: Yes, she got the binder plus the bed and breakfast.
22:27
Speaker 2: You know, she's on the phone and the fruitcake is
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Speaker 2: burning and like you can't be like, excuse me, I
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Speaker 2: have to put you on hold. We haven't an emergency
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Speaker 2: happening here.
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Speaker 1: She's decorating, she's making her little art.
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Speaker 2: I'm not trying to minimize her art, but she's making
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Speaker 2: her art, like and her mom is.
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Speaker 1: Just like, oh, you can do it all.
22:47
Speaker 2: Like she was just giving her all these cliche sayings.
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Speaker 1: It was making me hate the mom well, and then
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Speaker 1: at the end of the movie, she's like, honey, I
22:57
Speaker 1: can handle the B and B cany because why have
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Speaker 1: you not stepped up until now?
23:01
Speaker 2: You forgot to turn on the timer for the pnic
23:04
Speaker 2: you burned, You're gonna burn the banb down. Yeah, why
23:07
Speaker 2: hasn't she stepped up at all? Look, she's at a
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Speaker 2: certain age too, like she's entitled to retire as well.
23:13
Speaker 2: But Olivia shouldn't have to do everything.
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Speaker 1: No, this is I think that's not really When her
23:19
Speaker 1: mom's like, no, I wanted her mom to be like,
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Speaker 1: you know, we can bring someone in part time because
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Speaker 1: the mom is kind of headed towards retirement as well.
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Speaker 2: And finally, my biggest not my biggest wish, but classic
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Speaker 2: hall Mark Olivia is mad at Grayson. It just felt
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Speaker 2: misplaced a little bit like Grayson works for the company
23:38
Speaker 2: that's buying the property, and she's she's angry at the situation,
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Speaker 2: but she really wants to take it out on somebody.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I completely forgot to mention in my likes. I'm
23:50
Speaker 1: so sorry. I did enjoy the scene where she forces
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Speaker 1: him to purchase from all the vendors and like all
23:56
Speaker 1: of a sudden, he's like wearing this scarf in the hat,
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Speaker 1: like carrying all this. I thought that was cute. I
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Speaker 1: am not going to do but yes, I agree with
24:03
Speaker 1: you her anger was misplaced. And he was like, look,
24:05
Speaker 1: I can leave and they will just send someone else
24:08
Speaker 1: in who won't gaf about what you got going on here,
24:11
Speaker 1: and they'll just get the deal closed. So maybe you
24:14
Speaker 1: should dial it down, which is not what he says,
24:17
Speaker 1: but perhaps is what he should have said. Totally. My
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Speaker 1: only other wish is we talked about at up Top.
24:22
Speaker 1: Greason talks about not being allowed to leave the family business,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, come on, you can leave, bro,
24:30
Speaker 1: just because you're very like my daddy will be mad
24:33
Speaker 1: at me. I mean, I understand not wanting to disappoint
24:35
Speaker 1: your parents, but not allowed is not what's going on here.
24:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, they keep framing him as trapped. Yes, at some
24:43
Speaker 2: point you got to own your choices.
24:46
Speaker 1: Just leave.
24:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like, my values don't align with yours.
24:51
Speaker 1: This isn't the job that I want to do. I
24:53
Speaker 1: support your business, I appreciate all the hard work you've
24:55
Speaker 1: put into it, but this isn't the job I want.
24:58
Speaker 1: I'm just so curious how many people end up in
25:01
Speaker 1: their family businesses even though they don't want to be.
25:06
Speaker 2: But is that a real thing.
25:08
Speaker 1: I'm sure it is, Scather, let's talk.
25:14
Speaker 2: Did to see that? Okay, this is my one and
25:18
Speaker 2: only and it's not a true did you see that?
25:20
Speaker 2: But after Olivia and Grace and meet at the train station,
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Speaker 2: which I really enjoyed this scene to be quite honest too,
25:26
Speaker 2: where they decorate the tree and then they have this
25:29
Speaker 2: thing of course, like she leaves her card and he
25:31
Speaker 2: like grabs his briefcase and doesn't see it and satchel.
25:35
Speaker 1: Yes.
25:36
Speaker 2: Actually, now, talking about that scene, I was like if
25:39
Speaker 2: you just met this dude that you like felt something with,
25:41
Speaker 2: whuldn't you miss your train? Wouldn't it be like, I'll
25:44
Speaker 2: take the next train. I'm gonna like lock this in.
25:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't go running off to catch the train
25:51
Speaker 1: while he's on the call. I would yeah, like have
25:53
Speaker 1: a proper goodbye. Yeah, exchange numbers. But she comes home
25:59
Speaker 1: as she makes like the miniature version. Yes, like that
26:03
Speaker 1: scene and like it like steps away. It just felt
26:07
Speaker 1: very sort of like she made an altar to the scene.
26:12
Speaker 2: Oh my, I'm just saying, like, if you're Grayson and
26:16
Speaker 2: you're like, can you walk in? That's that's me. We
26:19
Speaker 2: met for a whole half an hour and now you
26:21
Speaker 2: made a little doll out of me like that.
26:24
Speaker 1: There's the weird tree we half and half decorated. That
26:28
Speaker 1: was a weird decor choice, I thought. But yeah, I
26:33
Speaker 1: just laughed out loud.
26:34
Speaker 2: I just was like, I might have some questions if
26:38
Speaker 2: I saw somebody made a doll out of me.
26:41
Speaker 1: Yes, agree. I'm just imagining you're the train station employee though,
26:44
Speaker 1: and you set those ornaments out and you go to
26:47
Speaker 1: lunch and you come back and you're like, what the
26:48
Speaker 1: hell happened here.
26:49
Speaker 2: Yeah. They're like, man, they're so busy here, like we
26:52
Speaker 2: should decorate this tree. And you're like, I just took
26:55
Speaker 2: a coffee break. I was on a smoke break in
26:57
Speaker 2: the bag Jesus.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so I have too little, did you see? That's one. Look,
27:05
Speaker 1: it's going to be a long Christmas season. But as
27:07
Speaker 1: they're hanging mistletoe and a lot of it. By the way,
27:11
Speaker 1: it's not mistletoe, it's holly. Holly has red berries, mistletoe
27:14
Speaker 1: has white.
27:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I even think like the you know, fake
27:19
Speaker 2: holly is sold as mistletoe. I mean, I think this
27:23
Speaker 2: is a common mistake.
27:24
Speaker 1: It is a common mistake, but it's an irritating one
27:27
Speaker 1: for Megan, the only one. I'm not the only one,
27:31
Speaker 1: I guarantee. F I know, I know, But once you know,
27:34
Speaker 1: you can't unsee it. And it's actually in the next
27:37
Speaker 1: movie that we're gonna review this week, although they address it,
27:40
Speaker 1: but as soon as it happens, I'm like, that's holly.
27:44
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
27:45
Speaker 1: She wants an accurate representation of Christ.
27:48
Speaker 2: Hard. It's not that hard.
27:50
Speaker 1: The other thing is the end of this movie. At
27:56
Speaker 1: the end of this movie, I'm trying to think of it.
27:58
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. At the end of this movie, it's
28:00
Speaker 1: snowing without a cloud in the sky, which is my
28:03
Speaker 1: husband's personal that's not mistletoe, it's holly like He's like, pause, rewind,
28:08
Speaker 1: look at the blue sky. Where is the snow coming from?
28:12
Speaker 1: Doesn't need to be snowing just because it's the winter, guys,
28:15
Speaker 1: if you're filming in sunny, blue skies.
28:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this movie was supposed to take place in Philadelphia,
28:21
Speaker 2: which I thought was very interesting considering Stephen Huzzar just
28:25
Speaker 2: did I did do?
28:26
Speaker 1: I did too, So.
28:29
Speaker 2: It could just be gray and cloudy, but it could
28:31
Speaker 2: also just be cold and sunny.
28:33
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, what did you rate a Little Christmas Market? Well?
28:39
Speaker 2: I thought it was only slightly better than last week.
28:41
Speaker 2: I gave it two stars.
28:42
Speaker 1: I gave it two and a half stars. What are
28:46
Speaker 1: we doing here Christmas in July? Uh? Huh? Mark? What
28:49
Speaker 1: are we doing? Yeah? Yeah?
28:52
Speaker 2: Question of Mark?
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Speaker 1: Question mark across my forehead right now? Are you looking
28:55
Speaker 1: forward to this weekend's movie with Marcus and Vanessa?
28:58
Speaker 2: I kind of am.
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Speaker 1: I'm tubing. I'm really hoping it. Jude.
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Speaker 2: It could be a five star considering what we've watched
29:07
Speaker 2: the last two weeks.
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Speaker 1: Sure, so.
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Speaker 2: I hope, so, I hope it's good.
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Speaker 1: Well, thanks for listening to this episode of Girls Gone Hallmark.
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Speaker 1: We'll be back next time with more Hallmark reviews.
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Speaker 2: Goodbye bye.
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