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Guiding Emily · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Emily says, sprinkles don't go on donuts and what kind
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  Speaker 1: of wild take is that? Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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  Speaker 1: a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark movie fan. I'm Wendy and I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're discussing Guy by Emily, which originally aired on
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  Speaker 1: the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries channel on a Friday, September eighth.
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  Speaker 1: We love for you to connect with us. When you're
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  Speaker 1: not listening to the podcast, we're around, you can follow
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  Speaker 1: us on Instagram. We're both talking Girls Gone Hallmark at
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  Speaker 1: Hamewark related at Megan and Wendy jump into our Girls
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  Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark Facebook group. Lots of conversation over there. This weekend.
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  Speaker 1: People had lots to say about the two new movies
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  Speaker 1: as Sey, yeahalus, I loved it so much. Before we
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  Speaker 1: talk about this movie, I just have one little Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: news and note, oh I have one too. Okay, go ahead,
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  Speaker 1: you go. First. Hallmark actors Marco Grizzini and Alvina August
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  Speaker 1: welcome to Baby Girl together. Recently, I'm oh Marco. He
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  Speaker 1: played the chef in that movie. Yeah, okay, right in
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  Speaker 1: front of me, is that what you're saying of? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: It was also recently on Hearts in the Game. He
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  Speaker 1: also has a recurring role on Virgin River. Alvina August
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  Speaker 1: has only been in one Hallmark movie as far as
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  Speaker 1: I can tell, and it is a Second Chance at Love.
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  Speaker 1: And She's also had roles on The Good Doctor, Zoe's
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  Speaker 1: Extraordinary Playlist, a TV series called Animal Can Yes, starring
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  Speaker 1: Joel McHale. No idea who this person is, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: happy for them. Congratulations, Congratulations. I have a note it
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  Speaker 1: might be a little bit old, but uh Andy mcdale,
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  Speaker 1: who we know as what's her name on the show
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  Speaker 1: Dell on the Way Home. Honestly, last week I could
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  Speaker 1: not remember the name of the Way Home. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm losing my mind literally Anyway. She recently quit Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: declaring that she's quote tired of the world. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: this was after the wedding of her daughter Margaret Wally
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  Speaker 1: and Jack Antonov and the mob that showed up to
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  Speaker 1: creep on guest Taylor Swift. That was real ugly. I know,
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  Speaker 1: I was very disappointed in the swifties who created such
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  Speaker 1: a scene for that wedding. Right, let her go to
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  Speaker 1: this wedding. Let people have their day. Yes, I know
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  Speaker 1: what my question is in your mind, Like you're the
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  Speaker 1: person waiting outside that wedding. I'm waiting to see she's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be like, oh my gosh, thank you for being here,
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  Speaker 1: be my new best friend. What how is that going
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  Speaker 1: to endear you to her? You think she's gonna take
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  Speaker 1: a picture of you? Never you just want to catch
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  Speaker 1: a glimpse from far away. I'm being hustled into a car.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand the motivation there. I'm gonna be honest.
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  Speaker 1: So if you were the mother of the bride, would
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  Speaker 1: you be pissed off at the world too, I'd be pissed. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not the kind of person who wants to meet celebrities. Like,
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  Speaker 1: for example, my husband and some went to a concert
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  Speaker 1: two weeks ago, and my parents also were at that
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  Speaker 1: concert with my aunt and uncle, who they had gotten
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  Speaker 1: VIP passes for because my aunt uncle are like big
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  Speaker 1: into like meeting people, and they did the whole meet
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  Speaker 1: and g got for the show. That holds no interest
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  Speaker 1: for me, Like, if I'm gonna meet a famous person.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to be organic. Oh, I want to run
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  Speaker 1: into that person on the street and strike up a conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Like you're dropping your dog off at doggy daycare and
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  Speaker 1: there's a super famous person who shares it's not doggy daycare,
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  Speaker 1: it's training. Okay, but yes, my trainer also trains a
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  Speaker 1: dog of a I guarantee every single person listening this
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  Speaker 1: is really really the demo for that person. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to out them, but would be like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: like better than Taylor. I was too, and immediately got
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  Speaker 1: in to make sure that it was in fact that person.
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  Speaker 1: So for me, that's an interaction that I'm excited about,
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  Speaker 1: right because we're on an equal playing field, got it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not like, please say hi to me and meet
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  Speaker 1: me and make me feel good, because I feel like,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes as lovely as I think people are, I would
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  Speaker 1: worry the entire time that that interaction that I'm having
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  Speaker 1: in a meet and greet scenario isn't genuine. Well, because
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  Speaker 1: you've paid for it. Now, okay, but let me put
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  Speaker 1: you in this position. You and I are doing a
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  Speaker 1: podcast tour and we have offer a bat I need
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  Speaker 1: ticket put it in the universe on the Okay, go ahead,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna happen, And we've offered a VIP like meet
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  Speaker 1: and great option so people can which happens? People do that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would genuinely be excited to meet anybody who was
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  Speaker 1: a listener of the show. So would I. But why
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  Speaker 1: do I assume that someone else meeting a fan of
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  Speaker 1: theirs wouldn't be excited about that? I don't know. So anyway, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: before we move on to our review of Guiding Emily,
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  Speaker 1: can we talk just quickly about a podcast review that
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  Speaker 1: we recently received? Oh? Sure, am I to pull it up? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: First I want to say thank you to those who
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  Speaker 1: have left reviews. We need them, we love them. They
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  Speaker 1: help us tremendously. We compliment sandwich this. Can we read
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  Speaker 1: a recent positive review? Yes, this is from listener Missy Fay,
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  Speaker 1: who says love listening to you guys every time I'm
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  Speaker 1: in the car, I plug in and Missy Fay, we
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  Speaker 1: love that. Thank you. So why don't you read the
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  Speaker 1: review that wasn't so great? Two stars? How do you
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  Speaker 1: do a movie podcast with no recap? They want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about movies without a recap, about what even happens?
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  Speaker 1: In said movie. I'm so confused. I guess I have
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  Speaker 1: to watch the movie first to be able to even
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  Speaker 1: know what they're talking about. I just want to make
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  Speaker 1: it clear that we do not recap these movies. Correct.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a recap podcast. We review the movies.
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  Speaker 1: We always tell you what movie we're reviewing. We give
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  Speaker 1: a synopsis of the movie. It is highly suggested you
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  Speaker 1: watch the movie before you listen to her, or maybe
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  Speaker 1: our review will make you want to watch the movie.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not a recap. It's not a long form
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  Speaker 1: synopsis of the movie. But we do talk about what
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  Speaker 1: the movie is about, right, But I think that's pretty
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  Speaker 1: typical for reviews to talk about the things they liked
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  Speaker 1: and the things that they didn't, but to not But
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  Speaker 1: we're not going by moment. Yeah, we're not. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: not our podcast. That yeah, and that's okay. I know.
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  Speaker 1: So if you'd like to flood us with reviews to
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  Speaker 1: bump up that rating, because you know, those two stars
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  Speaker 1: are real painful, I know. Let's hear a synopsis of
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  Speaker 1: Guiding Emily. Yes. This movie follows Emily as she struggles
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  Speaker 1: to cope with her new reality after losing her sight.
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  Speaker 1: And Garth, a potential guide dog struggling with his training.
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  Speaker 1: With a bit of help, both make headway in their
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  Speaker 1: important transitions. Guiding Emily was filmed in and around Vancouver, Canada,
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  Speaker 1: as well as in Victoria. Beautiful filming locations. So freaking
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  Speaker 1: pretty and you love Emily's house. Oh my god, I
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  Speaker 1: have at Mom's house. Please take me there, like I
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  Speaker 1: want to retire there the garden. I sit me on
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  Speaker 1: that porch, put me in front of that lake like
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  Speaker 1: so pretty. It was gorgeous. So so whoever lives in
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  Speaker 1: that real life house, I'm envious. This movie was based
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  Speaker 1: on the novel of the same name by author Barbara Hensk.
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  Speaker 1: It's also one of four in the series Nice. The
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  Speaker 1: Guy Dog. Garth was played by Dog Owen, who is
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  Speaker 1: in found training to be a guy dog himself. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: how cute is the name Garth for dog? So cute?
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  Speaker 1: I was like, if we get a boy dog, I
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  Speaker 1: love the name Garth. That's a great name, Garth Brooks. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's a great name. And they're not going to be
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  Speaker 1: one of many Garths at the Vet. Yes, Like my
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  Speaker 1: dogs definitely are not the only Bailey and Coopers of
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  Speaker 1: the Vet Roxy and Penny. Yeah exactly, Yeah, I know
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  Speaker 1: two other Pennies in my neighborhood alone. Sarah Drew plays Emily.
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  Speaker 1: She has forty nine acting credits, including a long running
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  Speaker 1: role as April Kepner on Grey's Anatomy, a show I
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  Speaker 1: have not watched it in twenty years. She previously starred
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  Speaker 1: in Christmas in Vienna on Hallmark. Antonio Kubo plays best
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  Speaker 1: friend Matthew. He has seventy four acting credits, including a
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  Speaker 1: role on Unreal Bingo as well as Hallmark movies Love
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  Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving Day Parade, Garage Sale, Mysteries, A Glenbrook Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: Christmas at the Golden Dragon, and A Winning Team. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I think about when I see the title,
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  Speaker 1: A winning team, don't you? Okay, I'm not even not
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  Speaker 1: even mentioning it. Moving on. Eric McCormick, best known as
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  Speaker 1: Will Truman from Will and Grace, has seventy nine acting
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  Speaker 1: credits and voices the Dog of Garth. The screenplay was
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  Speaker 1: written by Betsy Morris, who has nine acting credits, including
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  Speaker 1: the Wedding Veil inspiration from earlier in twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: as well as A Kids Met Christmas and Snow Coming Okay,
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  Speaker 1: here's my question for you. Well, first of all, I
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  Speaker 1: asked you earlier off Mike, did we enjoy the wedding
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  Speaker 1: veil inspiration? Yeah, that's yes, we did. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: we didn't like any of them. No, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: so either. It was the Autumn Racer Round two. In
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  Speaker 1: the round two It's so hard to explain. And I
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  Speaker 1: watched a Kismic Christmas last year enjoyed it too. Snow
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  Speaker 1: Comming is a movie I'm not familiar with. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: is this a play on like Homecoming? I believe so? Yah?
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay. Director Andy Makita has thirty two directing credits,
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  Speaker 1: including episodes of Hallmark series Cedar Cove, The Good Witch,
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  Speaker 1: and Chesapeake Shores, as well as Virgin River on Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like Virgin River needs to be added to
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  Speaker 1: our bingo card now because I think so too. There's
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  Speaker 1: some huge crossover between the two. We need to do
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  Speaker 1: a News and Notes bingo card. Okay, Hey, Peter Benson,
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  Speaker 1: another busy actor, plays dog trainer Mark. This is another
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  Speaker 1: actor who gets the best Friend energy treatment. I realized
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  Speaker 1: I skipped over someone as I was in a little one.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, Matti Finocchio plays coworker hero Drew and with
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  Speaker 1: one hundred acting credits. This guy deserves a leading role
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  Speaker 1: in a homework movie. Give it to me. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he uh shared our Instagram recently. You know, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: give this guy leading role, and it was he reshared
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  Speaker 1: it with like praying hands. I love him, I love him. Mate.
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  Speaker 1: Toby Levins plays dead fiance Connor and has appeared in
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  Speaker 1: both Unreal and Once Upon a Time, as well as
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  Speaker 1: a ton of homework supporting actor roles. It's time for
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  Speaker 1: first impressions. Go ahead, Okay, I have a video. I
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  Speaker 1: have a well it's given me an audio clip. Here
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  Speaker 1: can I play it? Yeah? This is it's a deep cut.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't know if many people are gonna get it,
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: but here it goes. That's steel Magnolia's terms of endearment. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Shirley McClain one of the best scenes ever. But I
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  Speaker 1: thought that Emily's mom was giving Shirley McLain energy in
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  Speaker 1: this movie. Yeah, because Connor was such a dipshit She's
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  Speaker 1: like for six hours. Yes, I just thought like I
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  Speaker 1: thought there was some parallel parallel energy. Nice. My first
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  Speaker 1: impression is but one word and it is Redemption totally tale.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about what we liked. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: just love so much about this movie. Let's just put
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  Speaker 1: it out there. But I'm gonna start at the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: I loved the relationship between the woman who raised Garth
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  Speaker 1: and baby puppy Garth and when oh, she said goodbye Cry. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that tracks because you were training a puppy right now.
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  Speaker 1: You found that very relatable, I'm guessing yeah, except that
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  Speaker 1: dog is way better behaved than my dog. You mean,
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't take your dog into a restaurant and be like,
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  Speaker 1: down under under the table. Not yet. I see dogs
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  Speaker 1: at home depot and I'm like, Nope, we're not there yet.
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  Speaker 1: Someday We're not there yet. You will, You'll get there someday.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of I very much liked this movie too. While
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  Speaker 1: I was watching it, I texted Megan. I was like,
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: have you watched Guiding Emily yet? It's so good. Usually
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: we don't do a lot of that. Sometimes I'll text
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  Speaker 1: you and be like this is real bad or this,
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  Speaker 1: but this one was really good. And this is what
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  Speaker 1: I liked so much about it. When Garth says this
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  Speaker 1: is the last time she'll see me. It set up
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  Speaker 1: such good suspense for me because it tells the audience
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  Speaker 1: Emily's gonna lose her sight at some point, but we
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  Speaker 1: don't know how or when it's going to happen. So
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  Speaker 1: for every like scene after that, there's like a car ride,
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  Speaker 1: She's crossing the street, like, I'm like, how's it gonna happen?
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  Speaker 1: How's it going to happen? And then spoiler alert if
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  Speaker 1: you haven't watched the movie, skip right through this part
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  Speaker 1: when the rock falls and hits her in the head.
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  Speaker 1: I gasped, Yeah, like this, I did this. It was
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  Speaker 1: so good. I agree, I agree, it was so good. Look,
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  Speaker 1: we just touched on this. I loved Mattie Finocchio's best
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  Speaker 1: friend energy in this movie. And while I want to
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  Speaker 1: see him play the lead in the main love interest,
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  Speaker 1: he just shone in this movie the way he showed
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  Speaker 1: up for Emily. He had these like kind of funny,
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  Speaker 1: comedic moments, but he also was like this rock behind her,
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  Speaker 1: and he was like, we're gonna kind of push you
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  Speaker 1: along the way and step back when it's time, but
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  Speaker 1: we're not gonna let you just crawl into a hole
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  Speaker 1: and give up on the life. It's a kind of
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  Speaker 1: friend you want. Yes, I loved it. And then he
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  Speaker 1: makes an app that you can hear, the scratching, the
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  Speaker 1: sound of crossing something off your to do list. I
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  Speaker 1: knew you would love that. I did love that. I
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  Speaker 1: love him. I thought Sarah Drew was incredible. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: familiar with her. When I was looking through her IMDb,
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  Speaker 1: I saw that she had played a mom on the
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  Speaker 1: Freeform show Cruel Summer the first season of it, which
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  Speaker 1: is a really good show. Second season didn't like so much.
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  Speaker 1: First season was really good, and I was like, ah,
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  Speaker 1: that's the face. But I thought she was incredible. I
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  Speaker 1: found her so believable. She's a great actor. There were
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  Speaker 1: several scenes that just sent me. Let me go through that, please.
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  Speaker 1: When she wakes up in the hospital room and she's
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  Speaker 1: like freaking out a little bit, but like it is
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  Speaker 1: like asking questions, like what happened? When happened? Thought that
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  Speaker 1: was really good. After they take the bandages off and
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  Speaker 1: she still can't sing, and she's like, I didn't say anything.
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  Speaker 1: I was crying. I don't cry during Hallmark movies hardly. Ever.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: I usually fall asleep. I did not fall asleep in
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: this one. When her jerk boyfriend says he's moving to
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  Speaker 1: Tokyo and she's like, you need to leave, like right now.
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  Speaker 1: I was like yes. And even her interactions with the
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  Speaker 1: neighbor girl, Zoe, like she's so warm and like sweet
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  Speaker 1: to this girl, like she has just been blinded, she
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  Speaker 1: has lot, she's so like offering advice. I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was just so good. We mentioned Grays and Aati.
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  Speaker 1: She was on that show over ten years, dramatic show,
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  Speaker 1: giving those acting chops. She had this storyline on Grey's
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  Speaker 1: Anatomy where she was pregnant with the baby who had
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  Speaker 1: a condition that was not compatible with life. Oh and
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: she played a very hardcore Christian on that show who
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  Speaker 1: didn't believe in abortion and who didn't and there's this
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  Speaker 1: really incredible scene where she finds out what like that
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  Speaker 1: the baby has and how she's gonna have to deliver
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  Speaker 1: that baby, and her mother in law and her husband
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  Speaker 1: are with her and she's like, how am I going
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  Speaker 1: to do this? I saw it on TikTok the other day.
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever see people share like clips of TV
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: shows on TikTok. It's a weird time of TikTok to
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  Speaker 1: be on because you'll get like a sixty second clip
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  Speaker 1: of a TV show and you're like, wait, now I
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  Speaker 1: need to see more, and you've watched it. You'll start
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  Speaker 1: getting more clips and then I'm like, why don't I
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  Speaker 1: just go watch the show. I've watched five minutes of
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  Speaker 1: the show via sixty second clips anyway, and it was good.
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  Speaker 1: Should see. She's great. She's great. I'd love to see
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  Speaker 1: her in more Hallmark movies. I wonder if she will
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  Speaker 1: or not. I don't know. I think she could. I
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  Speaker 1: think she's great. I thought Maddie really brought it again
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  Speaker 1: in the comedy. His line I've watched a lot of
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: unsolved mysteries and this is always how it starts to
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Connor was a real singer to me. Speaking of real singers,
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  Speaker 1: the food server who helped her not once but twice
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  Speaker 1: in this movie, when she comes back to the restaurant
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  Speaker 1: she's with Matthew Now, the server says like the kne
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  Speaker 1: isn't the only new upgrade. I was like, I love
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  Speaker 1: the lines in this movie. I loved Lindy, yes I
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: mentioned it earlier. Loved her mom, Martha played by Christine Willis,
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  Speaker 1: when she just lays into Connor for being like I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to say that Connor was a jerk. I
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  Speaker 1: actually I thought Connor was a really nice guy until
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  Speaker 1: like he couldn't cope. I thought he was a nice
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  Speaker 1: guy until she got hurt. But you don't just get
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: to be a nice guy for the good part. It's
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  Speaker 1: in sickness and in hell. I agree, he fell down
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  Speaker 1: on the job, as she said. And that's one of
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  Speaker 1: the things I liked about this movie that I often
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: don't like about movies where they start off in one
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  Speaker 1: relationship and end up in another. I thought they did
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  Speaker 1: that really well. She was all in on that relationship
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  Speaker 1: with Connor. It wasn't like they were a bad match.
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  Speaker 1: They clearly seemed like they were good for each other
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. She was still committed to him,
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  Speaker 1: even once the crack started to show when he seemed
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  Speaker 1: to not be willing to and I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about this and did you see that? But there were
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  Speaker 1: some signs that he was struggling to do what she
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: needed him to do. Obviously, one of the most obvious
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: is when she gets left alone for six hours, what
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: the hell man seriously and walks away from her when
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: she's in the bathroom. You too, even a match this
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: phone call is so important I have to walk outside
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: and leave my recently blinded girlfriend on her first day
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: out in it. No, I just it's outrageous. So I
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: thought they handled that and that relationship was fully wrapped
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: up before she even began to have feelings. And whether
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: or not she had feelings for that friend before, it's
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: not set up that way. It's just she genuinely was
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: her best friend, right, and she saw him in a
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: different light after the fact. I thought that was well done.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I agree. It wasn't like, oh, I have this relationship
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: weiting in the wings for me as my other one
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: falls apart. Yeah, that's what I was worried about when
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: it started. I was like, oh, no, Megan's gonna hate
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: this because she's gonna jump relationships. But I really did it.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I think they did it well. Yeah, and I also
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: liked that Matthew showed up for her as a friend
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and wasn't there with ulterior motives. And even the first
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: time when they almost kiss, he kind of like puts
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: that distance between them, and to me, I'm reading more
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: into it, but it felt like he was not trying
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: to take advantage of this city situation like I'm here
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: altruistically as your friend, not in the hopes of getting
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: this reward, so to speak. I really appreciated that they
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: had cast that included blind actors. Oh yeah, I wanted
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: to talk about that in a minute. Okay. The other
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: thing is there's some real wowis Howie's in this movie? Dude,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with before this weekend Antonio Coupo and
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Toby Levins who plays Connor, Like I know he was
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: like not a great character, but I think these men
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: are quite handsome. Oh agree, agree, let's talk wish Okay.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I want to go back to the disabilbility elephant in
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the room. Okay, And I just because people are talking
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: about it, this is an ongoing conversation we have here
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: about should characters with disabilities be played by actors with disabilities?
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: And typically I'm in favor of that strongly. Yeah, this
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: was a different case because you've got a character who
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: was sighted in the beginning of the movie and had
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: to go through the process of losing their sight. And
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I'm personally and I don't really get to be the
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: person to make that call, but as a viewer, I'm
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: okay with the choice to use a sided actor. For
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: her role, particularly again to your point with using blind
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: actors to play other blind actors in the movie. Oh,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: how do you feel about that? While I was watching,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: there was a little bit of like push and pull
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: of what I was thinking. But I was like, well,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: how else would they have done it? You have a
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: sighted person who tragically becomes blind. I suppose the argument
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: is a blind person could have played a sighted person. Okay,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: that's fair. That's fair too. I guess it's not a
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: clear line for me from this case. Okay, I agree.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Opposed to Chandler Massey's character in a previous movie, that
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: was a very clear line he should not have taken
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: that role. Yeah, what's the feedback ban on that? Where
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: are people landing on that? I've seen people on both
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: sides side. Okay. I don't want to be the person
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: who's like, h, it doesn't matter to me in this case,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: because Sarah drew such a great actor. I don't want
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: to say that. I just what do you do in
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: this case? I don't know, gotcha. I thought they did
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: a nice job of talking about all of the modifications
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: person who has lost their sight can use. They talked
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: about like descriptive audio on television programs, and they showed
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: her going through the school for the Blind and her
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: friend creating the app, and I was really interested in
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: her desk that up. He's like, Oh, I've got a
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: cup holder for your coffee mugs. You don't accidentally knock
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: it over on your desk. Ye, I thought that was interesting.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I think that's interesting too. Sometimes I get a little
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: why do I say this? My thought is like, I'm
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: curious as a viewer about the modifications. Yes, However, sometimes,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: like you know, when movies are trying to teach us
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: something and it comes off as I guess maybe it's
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: like the closest example of recent is like The Love
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: and the Great Smoking Mountains. Yeah, but did it feel
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: like that a little bit to me? Oh? Because I
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: felt Love in the Great Smoking Mountains to me felt
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: like and now a moment for learning. No? Oh, okay, yes,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I agree it was happening in that movie. In this movie. No,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: it was not happening like that. I thought it was
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: done well in this Okay. That's yes, that's how I
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: maybe want to learn more. Yes, it didn't feel like
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: they were taking a break from the story to teach
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: me something. Yes, I'm glad. I clarifyed, do you have
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: anything you wished for? I do just one. I'm not
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: sure I needed the voice of Garth oh Over for Garth,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I so disagree. Okay, you didn't enjoy it. I thought
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: it was cute and I enjoyed his story, but his
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: story was so secondary to like, Sure, what was really
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: happening in this movie? Now, I'm very curious about the
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: books in that book series, like how that like develops.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: First of all, when we have this talking dog, very cute.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I loved all of it. I love dogs. I'm here
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: for it. I thought, oh my god, this dog is
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: going to die. Oh I bet it happens in one
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: of the older book series. What do you think in
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: like the later book series. No, right, well, you know
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I did think when they're like it takes two years
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: of training, which makes sense, like you can't give a
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: puppy to a person who needs care. Yeah, that they
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: need to be fully dialed in on their training. Sure,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh man, two years in a lab
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: that maybe lives for ten. Yeah, I know that made
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: me sad. I just thought about that. I don't know,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: like I just what did you think about the voiceover?
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: So I kind of loved it. So when I when
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: we were looking at this movie, when we were doing
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: our schedule, I saw Eric McCormick and I thought, oh
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: my gosh, Eric McCormick in a Hallmark movie. And then
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: it said as Garth, and I thought, oh gosh. I
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: thought it was first of all, Eric McCormick really shown
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: as a dog. Boy. Thought he was great. I love
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I didn't think it sounded anything like him. Oh interesting, okay,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: but that's just me. Yeah. The other thing is I
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: thought it was real cute. I thought it added a
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: little bit of sweetness and light to the movie. I
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: thought it helped us tell Garth's story a little bit
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: more like I don't know how else you would have.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: You couldn't made that connection to totally. Yeah, you couldn't.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: So because obviously the woman's not gonna be like we
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: saw you in a coffee shelf years ago, but Garth remembers,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: which of course is silly and coincidental. I didn't mind that.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: I didn't mind the like Garth remembers her throughout his life, well,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: that she imprinted on him. Oh then I start to wonder, like,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: is does that really happen with dogs? You know, I
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: lost a dog this summer, so like I think about
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: like what that dog thinks about, and then here we
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: have like this voice over this dog is putting like
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: human thoughts to what dogs really feel or think. You know.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I know, well, okay, I hear you. Because last week
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: my dog did his first day real day at the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: trainer and it was a little rough day for him.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I think a long day. M hmmm. They're nice to
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: him there, to be clear, I just think it's a lot,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of hard work. And when we got out
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: of the car when I got home, I like opened
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the door and I went to the backseat and he
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: was just sitting there and I kind of just like
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: leaned in and he just put his face next to
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: my face, and I applied all of those human emotion.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Are you just tired because you've been playing with other
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: dogs all day? Are you like, don't make me go bad?
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: What right? So? And I it took me like he
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: goes back tomorrow, but it's taken me a full six days.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I really was like, no, we're not doing this anymore.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Stop it, which obviously I know is the wrong choice.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: And I do think he genuinely liked it. But I
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: applied all of those human notions to him. Don't you
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: need somebody to be like, no, that's not what a
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: dog is thinking. Well, and that's why I asked you.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: I'm like, are we doing the wrong thing? Is this terrible? Really?
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: My answer was no, I sleep over it. Oh my gosh,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: my goad. I've laid awake being like, oh gosh, are
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: you ready for did you see that? Yes? I just
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: have a couple two little things. Okay. In the hospital.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: When Emily first wakes up, Connor's in a suit. Oh okay,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: he's in like a sport coat and a work shirt. Okay.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I don't understand the timeline. They were hiking. He was
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: in hiking clothes. She goes to the hospital, she has surgery.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: At some point he's left the hospital, so maybe she's
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: been there for a day or two before she's conscious again.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: M hm. You went to work during that time, apparently, So,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: like I understand, maybe her mom comes and she's like,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: go home, take a shower, and you come back, but
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: you're still in like sitting in the hospital. Close. Yeah,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: that to me was like such a foreshadowing of who
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: his character was When I saw that, Like, this is
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: your priority that you're already working. Yeah, how it couldn't
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: have been more than forty eight hours? Yeah, good catch.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: What's your other one? Emily says, sprinkles don't go on donuts,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: And what kind of wild take is that? Right? That's
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: my donut of choice. I love a sprinkles. I love
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: many donuts. I do not have a one true donut,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: but I love a sprinkle. Who sprinkle donuts are very popular,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: I know, I love a sprinkle. That was so weird,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: what a weird note? I only have one? Did you
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: see that? And it was once hen where Emily's wearing
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: bandages and sunglasses, and it's shot from the side, and
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I can see that the bandages like far enough away
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: from her eye that like she's I could see her
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: eyelashes blinking. Oh interesting. You know, obviously she's not like
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: walking around with real bandages taped to her eyes. I mean,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: they are real bandages. My point is like they're probably
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: not like really stuck on tightly. I just thought, well,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: that's weird. Maybe they're just blocking the light. They're not
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: actually like because she had graduated at one point they
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: were like fully wrapped around her head, right, and then
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: she graduated too. They were just over her eyes, right,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Maybe she had graduated to like a looser bandage that
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: was blocking the light but allowed some airfla. I got
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: a question too as I was watching. I just just
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: thought about this. They didn't show her at all getting ready,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: getting dressed for the day, showering, any sort of like
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: self care stuff. Yes, And maybe it's just because it's
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: difficult to show that. She didn't want to portray a
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: blind person as a sighted person, you knowing your clothes
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: on right exactly. I was actually like wondering, like, oh,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen any of that stuff, And then now
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: with some perspective, I'm like, oh, maybe because it would
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: have just maybe been in poor taste. I don't know. Yeah,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I'm always curious about details like that. I love logistics
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and like the how to behind things, right, And there
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: was one moment where she was learning to use the
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: walking stick and she was wearing this really cute outfit.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: She had like these like stripey pants on, and I
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: was like, what's the what's the logistics there? Right? I
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: did notice her clothes, they were all very cute. Let's
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: rate this movie, okay, I'm ready five stars. Did you
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: I gave it four point seven to five, and it
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: was just because of the voiceover. I giving it four
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: point seven to five because it feels wild to give
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: a movie five stars. I can't think of. There wasn't
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: anything I didn't like. I always loved it. Okay, See
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: I feel like a jerk knocking it down a little bit.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: You didn't love the dog, It's okay. I loved the
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: movie though. I thought the movie was incredible. And why
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: is it on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. And I'm gonna
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: say it, Hallmark and Movie Mysteries puts out better movies
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: than Hallmark often. Yes, what the heck? I don't get
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I don't get it. What Multiverselatemark drama movie. But it
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: was on Movies and Mysteries because cable subscriptions sometimes includes
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: the Hallmark channel, but not Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. And
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: they want you to bump up that that extra Okay,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: that's my guess. Whatever, that's my guess. That's why I
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: love all the movie. I would totally watch it again,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: me too. Thanks for listening to this week's episode of
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Girls Gone Hallmark. You heard our reviews earlier this episode.
• 31:29
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