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Hearts Around the Table- Josh's Third Serving · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Homemark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 2: On today's episode, we're discussing Hearts around the Table, Josh's
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  Speaker 2: Third Servying, which originally aired on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: April fifth, and is currently available to watch streaming on
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  Speaker 2: but man, I'm trying to remember the details. But it
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, because it was more in real time,
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  Speaker 2: like you weren't waiting for an US Weekly to drop.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna tell you from an SEO perspective, Pink
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  Speaker 1: It still exists.
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  Speaker 2: lifestyle website now, so I think it must have gotten.
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  Speaker 1: As one does.
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  Speaker 2: to Wikipedia, Yea, best known for his celebrity gossip blog Pink,
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  Speaker 2: website might still be there because you know, blogger was free.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting deep cut? Well moving on, Wow, moving on, Let's
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  Speaker 2: jump right into a synopsis of I don't even know
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  Speaker 2: what this is called.
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  Speaker 1: Hearts Around the Table. Josh is third third serving. The
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  Speaker 1: synopsis is when after school programs see their funding cut,
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  Speaker 1: teachers Josh and Ella turned to fundraising before banding together
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  Speaker 1: in search of a larger donation. Falling hard along the way.
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  Speaker 2: Mike Donus directed Hearts Around the Table Josh's third serve.
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  Speaker 2: This is Mike's seventeenth directing credit and his first project
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  Speaker 2: for Hallmark Channel.
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  Speaker 1: The script was written by Paula Tiberius, who also penned
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  Speaker 1: the first film in this collection, Jenna's First Love, with
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  Speaker 1: a total of twelve writing credits to her name. Paula's
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  Speaker 1: work also includes The Jane Mysteries, Murder at Moseby and
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  Speaker 1: The Heiress and the Handyman, showcasing her talent for Heartfeldt
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  Speaker 1: storytelling and engaging mystery.
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  Speaker 2: Jake Epstein stars once again as Josh, with sixty three
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  Speaker 2: acting credits to his name. Jake's no stranger to Hallmark fans.
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  Speaker 2: He appeared in last year's Mistletoe Murders and starred in
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  Speaker 2: all four of the Unwrapping Christmas movies.
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  Speaker 1: Stephanie Bennett stars as Ella seventy, has forty six acting credits,
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  Speaker 1: with recent Hallmark appearances in His and Hers Christmas Class
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  Speaker 1: Reunion and a Throwback to The Nine Kittens of Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Millie Davis co stars as Gina. Millie has fifty acting
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  Speaker 1: credits and has been seen in shows like The Umbrella Academy,
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  Speaker 1: Odds Squad and the twenty seventeen movie Wonder. She's also
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  Speaker 1: done a ton of voice work for animated series like
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  Speaker 1: Esmey and Roy, little people and doozers doopsers.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, let's take a quick break and we're gonna come
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  Speaker 2: right back with our first impressions. Hey, Wendy, what is
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  Speaker 2: your first impression of Josh's third serving?
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  Speaker 1: Well, okay, hear me out. I watched this entire movie
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  Speaker 1: in a like low key state of rage. And it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't because it was bad, but it was because I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was good and it made me resent every
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  Speaker 1: minute I spent suffering watching the second one.
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  Speaker 2: That's so interesting because you hated it.
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  Speaker 1: You hated it, this one.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't hate it. My first impression is this movie
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  Speaker 2: is giving me pta flashback ten not in a good way.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred percent the amount of times I'm watching this movie,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, of course the arts are being like whatever,
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna really mad at the whole thing. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe I was just in a low key rage with
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  Speaker 1: the storyline as well.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. So it's interesting that you say you
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  Speaker 2: really liked it. Can I preface our us.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, I didn't really.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, I liked it. Can I preface our
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  Speaker 2: likes segments with sure? So I'm sitting down to write
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  Speaker 2: my notes and like my wishes, I'm good. I did
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  Speaker 2: to see that's I'm good, my likes, I'm like, because
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  Speaker 2: here's what I think the problem is. I am faced
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  Speaker 2: with the feeling that this series really should have been
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  Speaker 2: two movies. I've seen all four movies at this point,
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  Speaker 2: and when I look at the full story, I think
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  Speaker 2: we would have better served these characters with two movies.
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  Speaker 2: I agree. My feeling about this movie is that it
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  Speaker 2: was fine. It was certainly more watchable than the second movie.
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  Speaker 2: There are some things that I really about it, but
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  Speaker 2: I think we're trying perhaps. I think with all of
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  Speaker 2: the recurring characters and these movies airing week after week
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  Speaker 2: after week as opposed to after an extended period of time,
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  Speaker 2: I just don't think there's enough there to make this
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  Speaker 2: four back to back full movies.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, there's not enough meat. There's not enough content too,
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  Speaker 1: like the storytelling. It's yeah, I agree, it should have
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  Speaker 1: been maybe maybe two movies, and like you said, we
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  Speaker 1: have seen all four at this point. This collection of
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  Speaker 1: movies is really about Jenna.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, right, yes, and that's what it really should have been,
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  Speaker 2: Jenna's story and then great, we make it two movies,
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  Speaker 2: and we have these interesting back characters. Look, I love
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  Speaker 2: Mindy Cone. I love the idea that Jenna is a
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  Speaker 2: part of this Foster family and they have this bound family,
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  Speaker 2: and they all are there for each other, and they
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  Speaker 2: all have other things happening outside of the family, but
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  Speaker 2: I love them as that central unit that remains true
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  Speaker 2: in this movie. Mindy con is the best character in
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  Speaker 2: the series.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I agree with that. I think I wish I
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  Speaker 1: was like a film writer. I'm not so this is
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  Speaker 1: gonna come out so clunky when I try to articulate it,
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  Speaker 1: But I think it would have been so much cooler
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  Speaker 1: if they would have taken like if the main over
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  Speaker 1: arc was about Mindy Cohen's Angie and the Foster angle
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  Speaker 1: of it all, and then operate under that umbrella.
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  Speaker 2: Does that make sense? No, I think it totally makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: I just think we're working with a system that requires
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  Speaker 2: a romance, like, yeah, that is just the homemark formula.
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  Speaker 2: And as much you and I are like, well, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't always need it, the viewers expect it. That is
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  Speaker 2: the premise that Hallmark works under, Like we got a
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  Speaker 2: love story or we have a mystery series to which
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  Speaker 2: we're building towards a love story. Yeah, those are the
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  Speaker 2: two premises under which we're working. So I don't disagree
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  Speaker 2: with you. I think that's perhaps a more interesting story,
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  Speaker 2: more compelling because I loved the Angi character. Me too,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't think it's gonna happen in this.
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  Speaker 1: Universe, unfortunately. I agree. Okay, so now do we want
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  Speaker 1: to get yes? Nice? For me? I did think that
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  Speaker 1: this third movie was so much better than the second
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  Speaker 1: Sherry's Next Act, which I just thought was pretty dreadful
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  Speaker 1: in comparison to One in three. It's obvious now the
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  Speaker 1: writer was different for the second movie, so I felt
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  Speaker 1: like this movie was much more in line with tone
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  Speaker 1: of the first one. The second movie, to me, felt
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  Speaker 1: like out of left field.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there were some things that didn't match up timeline wise,
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  Speaker 2: and they didn't flow for me in the second movie.
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  Speaker 2: I like I said, I think this movie is so
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  Speaker 2: much more watchable, And while there were parts of the
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  Speaker 2: plot that made me want to scream, it had a
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  Speaker 2: clear through line, like we knew what was going on here.
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  Speaker 2: M Yeah. I really like the addition of our new
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  Speaker 2: characters in this movie, and the characters of Ella and
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  Speaker 2: Gina you know, Millie Davis as Gina, I don't love
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  Speaker 2: like I know you're kind of like the resident child hater,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't always love like every child or teenage
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  Speaker 2: actor we get on these shows. And I thought she
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  Speaker 2: was great. I thought her character was very relatable as
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  Speaker 2: a teenager who's going through something and she was kind
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  Speaker 2: of torn between like wanting answers about why things were
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  Speaker 2: so hard and so not wanting something that was going
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  Speaker 2: to make her different. I just thought she was real
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  Speaker 2: fun and real cute and real enjoyable on screen.
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  Speaker 1: Well, in my defense, I enjoyed Gina as well. I
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  Speaker 1: know I am the resident child hater, but I like
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  Speaker 1: when teenagers are done nicely, and I thought Gina was
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  Speaker 1: done nicely. And I think Rory's done nicely to the
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  Speaker 1: other teenager who appeared more in the first movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he doesn't have to do here now.
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  Speaker 1: But I liked Gena's storyline especially. I liked that this
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  Speaker 1: movie tackled ADHD, which we never talk about these things,
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  Speaker 1: those kind of things, not that like ADHD is taboo
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that, but still like we don't really
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  Speaker 1: ever talk about that and in a Hallmark movie. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I liked her a lot. And what I especially liked
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  Speaker 1: is that we got another foster storyline yeah to Rory's
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  Speaker 1: in the first one. That makes sense that and Angie
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  Speaker 1: would still be actively fostering children. She wouldn't just have
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  Speaker 1: these like four grown adults now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I love I love that this doesn't really
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  Speaker 2: have anything to do with the movie. But I just
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  Speaker 2: love that she's fostering teenagers because I think teenagers are
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  Speaker 2: probably the among the hardest group to place. I think
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  Speaker 2: taking in a teenager who's gonna have, you know, fourteen fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: sixteen years of backstory with them is perhaps in some
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  Speaker 2: ways a little more challenging, And so I like that
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  Speaker 2: we're putting her as like, no, I'm not fostering babies
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  Speaker 2: or little kids, like I'm in the thick of it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm you know, we're And it's low drama in this
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark movie. But I like the message it sends.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 2: What else did you like? Speaking of new characters, I
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  Speaker 2: really like Stephanie Bennett as Ella. She's great, and I
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  Speaker 2: thought she and Jake Epstein had real cute chemistry on
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  Speaker 2: screen together. I liked them as a couple a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I just thought like their vibe was like fun and cute,
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  Speaker 2: and it was very like New Romancy, and I thought
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  Speaker 2: I loved like that bit at the end where like
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  Speaker 2: they preen to pretend to propose. I almost felt like
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  Speaker 2: it was a riff on Hallmark movies in general, especially
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  Speaker 2: especially actually with movies two and four, which spoiler alert,
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  Speaker 2: we get like kind of two unearned. I love yous
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  Speaker 2: so yep I really enjoy I really enjoyed her. I
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  Speaker 2: mean also a spoiler alert, she's hardly in the next movie.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, what are we doing here? She's so cute, Like,
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  Speaker 2: give me more of her.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I was thinking while watching this movie in
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  Speaker 1: and putting my notes together, I was wondering, why hasn't she.
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  Speaker 2: Been like the lead.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure she probably has been a lead in
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  Speaker 1: a Hallmark movie, but maybe not like a standout Hallmark movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, she should be. She could totally carry a movie.
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  Speaker 1: She's so adorable. Yeah, and a great actor. Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I loved her. I'm like, put her in more stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of fellow actors, I find myself drawn to Jake Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why. It's something about his.
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  Speaker 2: Like goofy dad joke. Yeah, that I'm into he's just cutie,
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  Speaker 2: Like I just he's cute. He's not yeah about him, He's.
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  Speaker 1: No Wowie's Howie Webster, but.
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  Speaker 2: But smoldering at you. No.
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  Speaker 1: But I enjoy kind of like that comedic sort of
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  Speaker 1: you know, easy going.
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  Speaker 2: I'm meant to Jake Epstein totally.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm excited because I know he's in Mistletoe Mistletoe Murders,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm looking He's not in like every episode, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing him in that, which I
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: think you didn't if you didn't know. We are reviewing
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: Mistletoe Murders this summer. So yeah, it's announcement, big announcement
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  Speaker 1: coming soon.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe today. Maybe I'll drop that today. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: Mystery Summer here on Girls Gotten Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, do I have anything else? My last two little notes,
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  Speaker 1: I think the character of Angie and I know we
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  Speaker 1: already talked about her, but like, this is the best
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  Speaker 1: human to ever live. I know she's like, oh, let
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  Speaker 1: me help with your fundraiser. I want to be involved.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, you just don't get that kind of enthusiasm
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  Speaker 1: from people, especially when it comes to like school stuff,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as moms. Two teenagers in high school. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: everybody's checked out by high school age parents don't want
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  Speaker 1: to do anything right.
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  Speaker 2: Right, No, no, no, So she's just a fabulous human.
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  Speaker 1: My last little like is I did enjoy Andrew's proposal
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  Speaker 1: to Jenna. It was so sweet.
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  Speaker 2: It was in a.
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  Speaker 1: Place of where she felt the most like love, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with family. I thought it was sweet, even though a
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  Speaker 1: bit awkward and not really sure why this happened in
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  Speaker 1: Josh's movie, but whatever, Well, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think it just goes to the fact that this these
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  Speaker 2: movies are about Jenna. With the exception of movie two,
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  Speaker 2: she is a main character in three of the four movies.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean, we'll talk about it next week, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Jenna is the vehicle, like she's she's driving this bus.
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  Speaker 1: I honestly, it kind of irritates me. They should have
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  Speaker 1: just if they're not going to do the Foster angle,
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  Speaker 1: which I think they should have, I think they should
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  Speaker 1: have just made it like Jenna's whatever and then like,
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  Speaker 1: now meet my brother Josh.
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  Speaker 2: You know what we have. Okay, it doesn't make any
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  Speaker 2: sense to me. It's like it's kind of a bait
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  Speaker 2: and switch. Yeah, a little bit, yeah, yeah, yes, because
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  Speaker 2: in the In the first movie, you get Jenna's story
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  Speaker 2: and you think we're gonna dive into that level. And
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  Speaker 2: Jenna doesn't fade into the background, which is not to
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  Speaker 2: say that I wanted her to. Her story is interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I like Jenna and her partner whose name I don't know, Andrew,
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  Speaker 2: thank you. But yeah, this is the Jenna Show. It's
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: the Jenna Show.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Let's talk about wishes, which I felt like
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: we've talked about wishes this entire episode.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's true. Look, you know we got to
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  Speaker 2: go there. Let's talk about the fundraisers. I have a
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  Speaker 2: lot to say. Go ahead, both as a former PTA
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  Speaker 2: mom and as a person who worked in nonprofit fund
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  Speaker 2: raising for several years of my life. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: raffling off a giant teddy bear, y'all, nobody wants that.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's gonna pay for that. What are you doing here? Like,
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  Speaker 2: what are we doing? What does it be? Big? It
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  Speaker 2: needs to be a.
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  Speaker 1: Week in Cabo, not a teddy Bear that you can
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  Speaker 1: get at David Busters.
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  Speaker 2: No nobody wants that. Also, somebody, I'm begging you, please
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: explain to me how book swap makes money. How does
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: a book swap you're swapping books like for like, there's
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  Speaker 2: no money exchanged, they're not buying books and finally not finally, Additionally,
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  Speaker 2: there are one bazillion people on a typical high school
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  Speaker 2: track team. Where the hell are they?
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  Speaker 1: Right, He's like working with one student ever.
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  Speaker 2: One student is running and like there's like six students
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  Speaker 2: out on the track during track practice. Y'all. Track teams
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  Speaker 2: are huge. There's just there's multiple events. There's so many
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  Speaker 2: you have JB and this movie suffered for lack of extras,
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  Speaker 2: although I do have to say that the PTA meeting
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  Speaker 2: with like eight people there did ring very true.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, those are the people that like barely or
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  Speaker 1: those are the eight who always consistently show up and
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  Speaker 1: then and then you can't get any more involvement.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm yeah, yep.
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  Speaker 1: My biggest wish is the storyline of there goes your
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  Speaker 1: extracurricular programs because we have no money. Feels a little tired.
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  Speaker 1: But what felt even more tired was the conflict between
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  Speaker 1: Josh and Ella and they're like fighting between them about
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  Speaker 1: getting what they need and her being like upset that
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Josh took her money and nope, I know it just
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: is all to hallmark on the nose.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Especially annoyed that the solution to the problem is a
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: millionaire who can fund things.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Which is not realistic.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Nobody has millionaires for their high schools that are like, oh,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: I just have million dollar projects every single year that
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I'm funding.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: What No, let me tell you about our secret club
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: of millionaires alumni.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: So that said, dumb, neither of these programs needs one
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: million dollars? What are we doing? Like you didn't? Also,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: why did we not just get all the band parents
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: in one weekend to clean out the room. They just
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: sit in this stinky room. Like when I was in
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: high school, I went to a public high school and
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: old it is not a nice high school, like never was.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: It was old when you went there.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: It was old when I went there. My parents went
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: to high school there. It was a high school, and
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: my parents were like that place was never nice. We
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: had a day pta organized. It was called Dustbuster Day.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: It was a weekend and you they would have like
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: families come in and like we cleaned things. They would
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: be like, these are the areas we're cleaning or we're
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: repainting or whatever. Get those families in there and be like,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: let's clear all this furniture out, scrub it down, throw
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: away that, Like, come on, what are we doing? You're
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: just gonna sit in this mess for the entire year
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: waiting for someone with money to come along and do
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: it for you.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you and I both went to public
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: high school and in almost the same area. I think
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: there was always like this busted down room that you
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: got put in. There's always a classroom, right that is
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: falling apart. Sure, maybe has like rain damage or you know,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: like it's not taken care of, and there's always some
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: sort of like something happening in it, like I gotta
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: go to the music room today, and as well as
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: like musty old you know, water damage.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: It just is what it is.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I'm not surprised seeing it in this movie. I thought
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: it was kind of funny. But you're right though, like
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: she should have organized the band parents to come and help, yes, or.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: The nine billion foster siblings. Hey, can you come help
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: me clean this room out? I mean, yes, you need
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: to raise money, although it was kind of unclear to
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: me what they needed money for, like she just kept
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: talking about the state of the band room, and Okay, yeah,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: a nicer space would be nice, but that's not much
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: you need to run the program, and she kept like
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: giving this speech. Sorry I interrupted you, but she kept
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: getting speech about like the kids deserve a nice speace. Okay,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: then give them one.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Well, now are you putting it on the teacher to
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: figure it out?
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: I'm not on the teacher. Look sure, probably it is
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: too much like Okay, disclaimer like former teacher here, my
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: husband's a teacher. Like, I'm not blind to the plight
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: of teachers, but I just think that there were things.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: You're right, she shouldn't have to handle all that herself,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: but while she's in the background running these fundraisers, perhaps
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: some of her time could have been used a little
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: bit more wisely.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, question for you on the flip side, what is
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: what does Josh need money for for the track team?
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Well, this is I don't understand. They're like, we're going
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: to refurbish your track, and he's like, but that's not
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: we don't even need that. He did say they needed
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: new uniforms. Okay, fine, but I was like, this guy's
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: coming in with money that you don't even need, Like
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: your track looks perfectly fine.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: What because there's no kids running the things?
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: The things like I was thinking about this too. I'm like,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: what do they actually need money for because they don't
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: really talk about it, like buses, like that's what a
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: track program needs money for. That that's expensive, you know, uniforms,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: But but what else, Like what are you paying for?
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Like there's not a lot of supplies in track, Like
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: there's like a shot put, you know, but there's not
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: like balls and nets those things you jump over. What
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: are those called like hurdles like hurdles? Yeah, how often
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: do those need to be replaced?
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I don't know a lot of that was unclear. And also,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: please tell me this are track in music the only
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: two extracurriculars at this school because they're like we cut
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: the extracurricular budget and now it's banned in track that
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: do get out? And I was like, is there not
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: a soccer team? Do we not have a drama c?
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Like?
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: What is happening that you've got two extracurriculars and that's
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: why there's only six people on the track team because
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: apparently there's only twelve people at the school.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Yep, yep, here's my next wish I and I mentioned
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: it before. I really liked Genus storyline, but I do
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: think it almost overshadowed the main storyline between Josh and
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: el One. Yeah, my takeaway is they should have made
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: her the main storyline and Josh and Ella's and the
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: fundraising the subplot. I enjoyed that storyline. I really enjoyed
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: that actor Millie Davis. I thought her story was fresh
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: for Hallmark. So missed opportunity totally. And you already mentioned oh,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I have two more things. You already mentioned this one before.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: But Josh and Ella's relationship way too fast. The way
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I yelled no when I said I love you, I
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: was like, get out. What is the time frame here?
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: A whole four weeks? Maybe get out of here? Get
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: out of here. Agree.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: My final wish is I don't understand the title of
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: this movie well either Josh's Third Serving mean, like, it
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: makes no sense. I get the hearts around the table
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: because they have their Sunday night suppers or whatever.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but what doesn't make sense is the second movie
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: is Sherry's second act. I get that because I know,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: But my point is they're trying to make it third
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: serving because but none of the other ones are like
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: food related. They're like, I, no, no, we can't make
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: it work. Let's come back to the table. But the
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: other like Jenna's first Love, I don't know Josh's third
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: lap would have made more sense.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, it would have, that would have made Yeah. I
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: know that they have to put the word third to
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: indicate the third movie, but serving doesn't work with it.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: No, not at all, so dumb.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Do you have any other wishes?
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: No, ma'am?
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, gad if we did see that, I am.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: I have just a few. Okay. There's an inconsistent use
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: of voiceover during texting in this movie and in the
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: first movie. I called out how nice it was when
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: they're texting we hear the voiceovers of the other characters,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: because sometimes it's hard to read those on screen. Well,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: this time, sometimes they did it, sometimes they didn't. Sometimes
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: the character would like type out loud with like speaking
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: what they were texting. But all or nothing people, and
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: preferably all I wanted. Those textboxes were hard to read.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: The Zephon the director.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I think that's got to be editing.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I wonder, and we don't dig that deep
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: into like who edits these movies. But since we have
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: a different director and a different writer, I wonder if
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: there's a different editing team as well.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, us it has to be some sort
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: of collaboration because the editor is not just like making
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: those choices. The director would have to be like, let's
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: record a voiceover for this scene, and then the editor
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: puts it together. Yeah, good question.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I my two digit see that's one of them. Is
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: kind of a question, and it goes to the timeline. Now,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I have watched all these movies kind of like back
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: to back. I may have I may be mistaken, but
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I swear, I swear they have Jenna trying on a
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: wedding dress and movie too. Maybe it's the Keky movie
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: that I'm getting it confused with. I know she's in
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the wedding dress and the Kiky movie in the fourth movie,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: but was she ever in a dress in the second movie?
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I don't recall her trying on a wedding dress in
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: the second.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Then that's probably my own personnel. Did you see that?
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: When do you get it together? And my other did
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: you see that? And then we can finish yours, which
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: there was a really funny scene between characters Josh and Andrew.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I enjoy their banter a lot. I think they're very funny.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: But and I can't remember what the particular line is,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: and they're kind of in each other. But Andrew Weeks
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: winks at Josh and I just laughed out loud. I
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: thought it was so funny, Like I was like, Oh,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: these guys get along.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they had good banter. Yeah, they had a good vibe.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Give me a movie with them. Give me a movie
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: with the four of them, you know, Stephanie Bennett and
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Jake Epstein and Jenna Jenna Ashley Newbroke anyway, you know
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: what I mean? Okay, tell me the rest of you did.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Just see that they're just little one. The band is
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: playing Twinkle Trinkle, Little Star, which made me laugh. They
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: play like multiple times. I was like, do we know
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: anything else? And uh the Green Screen Proposal locations Wolf,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Oh terrible. Yes, yes we're inter visiting those. That's all.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: What'd you rate this movie?
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I gave it three stars?
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Wow? I mean I gave it two point five.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, wait, I need to go back and see
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: what I gave Sherry Cherry.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: I think I gave Sherry too.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I gave you a two stars?
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what did I give them? Jenna Jenna? I gave
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: three point five.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I gave Jenna three points five too, so I don't
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: hate my three point zero. Your two point whatever is
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: mean low rough, surprising, surprising, surprising, surprising.
• 29:17
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