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Ride Season 1 Episode 4 Recap ‘Estella’ · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: What the hell is the title of this episode. It's
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Speaker 1: called Estella. Oh Stella? Dude, did you not see the NSA?
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Speaker 1: Oh hey everyone, Welcome to you Girls Gone Hallmark, a
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Speaker 1: Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy, and today we're
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Speaker 1: recapping Ride Season one, episode four, Estella. Before we get
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Speaker 1: into our thoughts on this episode, we'd like to remind
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Speaker 1: you you can find us all over the internet. We
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Speaker 1: are on Instagram as both Girls Gone Hamewark and Megan
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Speaker 1: and Wendy. We also have a exclusive Facebook group for
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Speaker 1: all you Hallmark fans. Come on over. It's called Girls
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Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark. You can also email us anytime at Megananwindy
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Speaker 1: the show, just a reminder, we appreciate everyone who's taken
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Speaker 1: the time to leave ratings and reviews in Apple podcasts.
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Speaker 1: We love your five star ratings interviews. Keep them coming.
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Speaker 1: Before we talk about Ride, I need to issue an
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Speaker 1: apology to what a Blanket Girl's Gone homework apology wait
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Speaker 1: on my behalf to unfortunately yet go ahead to one
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Speaker 1: miss Aaron craco Oh's name. We have butchered many many
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Speaker 1: times on this show without even in my case, thinking
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Speaker 1: that I could possibly be saying it wrong. There are
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Speaker 1: names that I'm certain I'm getting wrong. Never occurred to
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Speaker 1: me that I was getting her name wrong once crack Ow.
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Speaker 1: Does it sound right to you? Or it does sound
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Speaker 1: okay to you? Yeah? Sure, I know, I know, terrible Barker.
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Speaker 1: I do not judge anyone's last name. Do you know
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Speaker 1: what it's like to be a kid with a last
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Speaker 1: name Barker? Give me a break. Shout out to our
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Speaker 1: Facebook group who schooled us that it is Cracow crat Cow.
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Speaker 1: Am I seeing it right? Creco Craco like Gretco but Keiko?
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Speaker 1: Oh my, I can't. Oh god, I'm gonna need a
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Speaker 1: phonetic spelling in front of me. It's like nil materer
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Speaker 1: all over again. I know, I know. For the penetic
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Speaker 1: pronunciation in the Facebook group, we appreciate you. I thought
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Speaker 1: you were giving a blanket apology for our review of
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Speaker 1: the Wedding Cottage because I was off my rocker on
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Speaker 1: that episode. Wait do you hear the long story short
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Speaker 1: episode that calls out tomorrow? That's had us?
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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, yeah, I sounded absolutely manic, and
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Speaker 2: my apologies to everybody.
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Speaker 1: I really don't think so. But Girls Gone Hallmark brought
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Speaker 1: to you by jet Lag. You want to talk some ratings. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: So this past weekends Hallmark offerings, Wedding Cottage came in
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Speaker 1: at nearly two million viewers, which is a great showing
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Speaker 1: for a Hallmark movie. We always see like a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a lull, like January does really well and
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Speaker 1: then things kind of go like but Aaron Craik and
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Speaker 1: Brendon Penny The Heat and Ride experienced an uptick in
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Speaker 1: viewership with about the same percent of the key demo.
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Speaker 1: They had one point one plus million viewers on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: I gotta say I'm kind of surprised by that number
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Speaker 1: wheny's a hater and cannot possibly imagine anybody enjoying this show.
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Speaker 1: I will be honest with everybody. I really don't enjoy
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Speaker 1: this show. Like it does nothing for me. I don't
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Speaker 1: get excited about watching it. So it's so I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to come with my reviews as like with the
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Speaker 1: Hater Raid, but I just don't enjoy it. It's not
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Speaker 1: for me. That's okay, I like it. We're gonna need
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Speaker 1: to dig into that a little bit because I need
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Speaker 1: to know what you like about it Whenny's like, nothing's happening.
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Speaker 1: And here's why that is exactly. My first note on
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Speaker 1: my notes in front of Me says, my biggest complaint
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Speaker 1: is nothing happening is happening in the show Nothing. I
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Speaker 1: think there's so much establishment of care and place in
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Speaker 1: the first season of any show, especially like a drama
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Speaker 1: like this, that I don't think that's terribly uncommon. I don't.
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Speaker 1: It's fine that you haven't bought into them. I enjoyed
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Speaker 1: this family. I enjoy seeing where it's gonna go. I
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Speaker 1: mildly interested in these characters. It's not the first show
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Speaker 1: I turn on every week, but I'm not upset that
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Speaker 1: I have to turn it on and watch it week
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Speaker 1: after week. Well, I am definitely opposite of you. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So if you're unhappy about that, you can send your
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Speaker 1: emails to Megan and Wendy at Gmail. And I would
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Speaker 1: look back at the way home and tell you how
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Speaker 1: many episodes it took for them to finally get to
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Speaker 1: anything actually happening, like getting to the carnival, getting to
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Speaker 1: all of that. That's fine, but they built so much
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Speaker 1: suspense intention from episode one this nothing I have nothing,
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Speaker 1: Nothing is like where want for the past year. I
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Speaker 1: don't care and secret I just I don't care. I
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Speaker 1: don't care. I'm sorry. Well, let's hear a synopsis of Estella. Okay,
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Speaker 1: it's Isabelle's birthday period, Missy and Gus get closer, which
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Speaker 1: she agrees to give his niece a tour of the ranch,
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Speaker 1: and Valeria tries to work her way into the ranch
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Speaker 1: hand Boys Club via their traditional poker game. Let's start
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Speaker 1: with the beginning of that synopsis, with it being Isabelle's birthday.
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Speaker 1: This episode was sold as being about Isabelle's birthday. I
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Speaker 1: would argue, first, let's tell the listeners this is gonna
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Speaker 1: sound a little bit different than our topic ride recaps. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because you dies didn't like it before. Abslutely true. Let's
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Speaker 1: dial it way back. Okay, there's been a lot of
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Speaker 1: discussion about what we're gonna do next, like what are
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Speaker 1: we going to do after ride and what do you
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Speaker 1: want to see from specifically the Facebook group that's like
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Speaker 1: our focus group in there. We got a lot of feedback,
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Speaker 1: and we got an email from a friend of ours
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Speaker 1: and a listener of our show who suggested that maybe
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Speaker 1: the reason people didn't want more recaps from us was
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Speaker 1: that they don't like the recap format. And she didn't
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Speaker 1: come right out and say I don't like the recap format. Well,
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Speaker 1: I could read between the lines. We love you, Michelle,
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Speaker 1: And initially she said, why don't you ask the Facebook group?
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Speaker 1: And my knee jerk response was I'm not ready to
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Speaker 1: hurt my feelings by asking that quest. Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 1: But we did come back to it, and when it
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Speaker 1: comes down to what we want to create content that
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Speaker 1: you want, and ultimately the response was not we hate
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Speaker 1: your recaps. That's not what people said. They said, we
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Speaker 1: like listening to your podcast. Do what's fun for you,
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Speaker 1: And we kind of decided that the stuff that people
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Speaker 1: want is more of the conversation, like you could get
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Speaker 1: a recap on the internet, So we're gonna chat it up. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: all right, so let's talk Isabel's birthday. I mean, like
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Speaker 1: you said, they sold this episode as being Isabelle's birthday.
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Speaker 1: It could have just been a Tuesday. It was like
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Speaker 1: not significant to the story. I thought, Yeah, I was
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Speaker 1: waiting for some kind of big reveal, like why does
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Speaker 1: Isabelle hate her birthday? She just like the kind of
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Speaker 1: person who takes care of everyone else before she takes
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Speaker 1: care of herself. I think that's the answer here. It's
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Speaker 1: just like a character development thing, although it did give
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Speaker 1: us a vehicle to introduce Cody, who is our farrier,
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Speaker 1: which is a term that I looked up. Do you
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Speaker 1: know what a ferrier is? No idea. It's a craftsman
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Speaker 1: who shoes horses. Oh okay, played by the very handsome
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Speaker 1: James Tupper. You have nothing to say about that. I
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Speaker 1: always get James Tupper and James Denton confused, So yes,
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Speaker 1: before recording, I had to look him up to see
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Speaker 1: who I was dealing with here. So he's been in
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Speaker 1: homework movies like Mid Love Crisis, My Christmas Family Tree,
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Speaker 1: and he was in Mid Love Crisis with Terry Hatcher,
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Speaker 1: and we mistakenly reported that that was with James Denton.
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Speaker 1: They were in a movie together previously. We were wrong. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: fully imprinted on my brain as as such, like it's,
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Speaker 1: you know, like a computer chip gone bad. It's always
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Speaker 1: going to be in there now like that. I had
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Speaker 1: honestly completely forgotten about that mistake until you reminded me.
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Speaker 1: But he was also in Big Little Lies. Anyway, I
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Speaker 1: enjoyed that introduction of the character, because I get the
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Speaker 1: impression that we might be headed towards a little bit
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Speaker 1: of an Isabelle romance, I hope. So, yeah, did you
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Speaker 1: like them together? I did? It made me wonder, like,
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Speaker 1: how long has her husband been dead? She's just living
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Speaker 1: this like lonely life out there? Yeah, where their kids?
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Speaker 1: I'm excited that she's gonna have a little love interest hopefully. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I had wondered if perhaps one mayor Gus was sweet
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Speaker 1: on Isabelle. Do we haven't seen him in a while. Oh,
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Speaker 1: we haven't seen him since last episode. I haven't seen it.
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Speaker 1: I didn't watch last episode. I was traveling. You sorry,
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen him in a while. I think that's
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Speaker 1: a mismatch too, I tell you I do too. I
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Speaker 1: don't think they're a good match. But several things that
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Speaker 1: Gus has said have led me to wonder, is this
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Speaker 1: just a long time friendship that they've had and he
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Speaker 1: supports her in that way, or has he harbored feelings
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Speaker 1: for her for a long time, because he's made comments
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Speaker 1: that lead me to believe maybe, like even prior to
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Speaker 1: her marrying Papa McMurray, that maybe he's had a long
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Speaker 1: time crush on her. I don't think that's her match.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't go so far as to say gross, I'm
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Speaker 1: just not getting the wowi zowie vibes. Did I say gross?
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Speaker 1: You did? Oh? Sorry? But Cody has given me wowie zawie.
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Speaker 1: Give me that Cody Isabelle pairing. I need something steamy
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Speaker 1: to look at to get excited about. Another storyline that
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Speaker 1: Isabel's birthday kind of provided a vehicle for was we
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Speaker 1: meet Missy's mother in this episode. And honestly, prior to
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Speaker 1: Missy running into her mom, it didn't even occur to
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Speaker 1: me to think about Missy's Hamley. No, not not once,
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Speaker 1: and especially I didn't think that they were just her
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Speaker 1: mom was just living right in town, well like working
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Speaker 1: at the diner, the diner that they go to all
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Speaker 1: the time or whatever, like, never has run into her
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Speaker 1: in the last four episodes, m not once. Is this
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Speaker 1: the first time we get an introduction to Missy being
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Speaker 1: a former pageant girl as well? Yeah? I think so.
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Speaker 1: She had kind of like pageant adjacent experience with her,
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Speaker 1: like rodeo queen stuff, but that's certainly not the life
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Speaker 1: her mother envisioned for her. Like her mother is a
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Speaker 1: little bit more Abby Lee than Rodeo. Okay, well, I
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Speaker 1: the way that I had interpreted the whole conversation between
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Speaker 1: them is that Connie's super disappointed in Missy for following
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Speaker 1: her heart after these like ranch boys or writer boys
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Speaker 1: or whatever, and based on her own personal experience it,
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Speaker 1: she wanted more for Missy. She wanted Missy to be
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Speaker 1: be like this, you know, a pageant girl, don't throw
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Speaker 1: your life away on a cowboy, Missy. She had a
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Speaker 1: lot of we know that Missy's dad is gone. I
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Speaker 1: don't know that we know why. Gotta suspect if he
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Speaker 1: was in this world, giving him a mother's disdain for
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Speaker 1: this lifestyle. And she talks about like how you know
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Speaker 1: I can't drive on those dirt roads and I need
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Speaker 1: a color wash and an alignment every time I drive
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Speaker 1: out here. And she really wants nothing to do with
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Speaker 1: that life. And so if I was Missy, I'd be
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Speaker 1: like peace. Then, I don't know, like that's the life
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Speaker 1: Missy chose, Like the mom has to accept it at
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Speaker 1: some point, yes, now question Though the mom does arrive
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Speaker 1: at Isabel's small birthday gathering. She was invited by Missy
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Speaker 1: and Connie and isabel have a pleasant exchange, but Connie
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Speaker 1: clearly has some resentment towards Isabelle because she's like taken
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Speaker 1: over that mother figure in Missy's life. And earlier in
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Speaker 1: the episode, Connie sees the birthday cake this iss happy
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Speaker 1: birthday mom, that Missy's caring and it's for Isabelle, and
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Speaker 1: Connie talks to Missy about how like you turned to
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Speaker 1: Isabelle after the death of your husband, and I wanted
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Speaker 1: to be there for you. And I had two like
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Speaker 1: really distinct feelings here. One Isabelle was Austin's mom, like
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Speaker 1: they're grieving together, she lived on the ranch with her.
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Speaker 1: I understand her turning to her, but also I kind
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Speaker 1: of a part of me could understand. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to use the term feeling left out because that feels
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Speaker 1: like a crappy thing to say, like, oh, I was
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Speaker 1: left out after your husband died. But I think she
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Speaker 1: wanted to be maternal in that moment and couldn't. Here's
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Speaker 1: my thoughts. Did you notice after Connie comes to the
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Speaker 1: birthday party and her and Isabelle have like awkward conversation
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Speaker 1: about how hard it is to be mom, blah blah blah,
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Speaker 1: Missy and the next scene is then over apologizing to
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Speaker 1: Isabelle about Connie ruining her birthday, and I thought, who cares?
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Speaker 1: Why would isabel care that she's there? And then I
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Speaker 1: was like, what's the backstory? Uh? Maybe Connie had an
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Speaker 1: affair with Isabelle's husband at some point, fallen in love
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Speaker 1: with these cowboys. You saw how that turned out. Huh.
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Speaker 1: I did not make that connection. I assumed Missy's dad
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Speaker 1: was some sort of cowboy and left her mother. And
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Speaker 1: that's why, because we know Missy's dad's gone, She's like,
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Speaker 1: just like, your dad left. I just think it's weird.
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Speaker 1: I thought there was some weird tension between Isabelle and
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Speaker 1: Connie and then Missy over apologizing for it, Like, what
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Speaker 1: is the story there? Oh? Yeah, I thought the tension
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Speaker 1: was just that there's like a weird like you're the
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Speaker 1: mother in law, you're the mom that's weird. I'm closer
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Speaker 1: to you. But we shall see. I I'm going to say,
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Speaker 1: I'm not buying into that synopsis yet, but all right,
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Speaker 1: we'll see. I'm hoping it goes that way because we
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Speaker 1: need something in the show. Some watch last episode, there
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Speaker 1: was a lot more drama last episode. All right, you
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Speaker 1: didn't even listen to the full synopsis. I'm sorry. You
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Speaker 1: got to see the final scene where Cash gives those
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Speaker 1: Rodeo dudes a piece of his mind. Oh I saw
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Speaker 1: it in the preview. Oh my gosh in the previously
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Speaker 1: on you need the last scene. We've got Valeria in
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Speaker 1: this episode. And I said it at the end of
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Speaker 1: last episode when we have a moment with Cash and
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Speaker 1: Valeria together and they're dancing that I think we're headed
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Speaker 1: toward a Cash and Valeria pairing. And everything in this
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Speaker 1: episode leads me to believe they're setting that up. And
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Speaker 1: I don't like it because because I don't like it.
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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I'm not ruining for it. Look,
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Speaker 1: lots of feedback from the Girls Come Home ourk community.
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Speaker 1: First season romances don't last, Like, we can't put Missy
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Speaker 1: and Cash together this season. Fine, Missy needs her rebound relationship,
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Speaker 1: so it needs to be with Gus before she ends
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Speaker 1: up with Cash. Fine. I'm actually fine with Missy and Gus. First.
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Speaker 1: I really like us. He's got that big, beautiful smile.
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Speaker 1: I'm here for it. M But I just I don't
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Speaker 1: there's something about the Cash Valeria pairing and the fact
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Speaker 1: that Valeria is Missy's former best friend who they're working
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Speaker 1: their way back to a friendship. This is I think
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Speaker 1: gonna complicate things. And Valeria is a big old liar,
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Speaker 1: so I'm not a fan. Well, I have two thoughts here.
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Speaker 1: One is like, are there no other available women in town?
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Speaker 1: Like He's like, oh, well, Missy is kind of off
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Speaker 1: the table, so who's left Valeria? You know vander Pump Rules,
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Speaker 1: Ranch Style, Easy Girl if you didn't know, vander Pump
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Speaker 1: Rules is my favorite reality TV show. So they all
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Speaker 1: date each other. I mean that's not as I know,
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Speaker 1: but like it's a little close to home. Cash, I
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Speaker 1: hear you, I hear you about this. I don't love
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Speaker 1: this pairing either. However, Valeria in this episode. What am
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Speaker 1: I trying to say here is she I liked her
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Speaker 1: more in this episode, I guess, and I have in
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Speaker 1: the previous three episodes. For some reason, I just thought
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Speaker 1: she was cuter. I don't know why, like real natural
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Speaker 1: and cute looking. But I also don't love her storyline.
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Speaker 1: I am intrigued though, when we get to the end
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Speaker 1: of the episode and we see her as a teenager
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Speaker 1: or child or whatever, and we learn that her name
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Speaker 1: is Estella, as she comes from a rich family. I
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Speaker 1: was like, okay, now I'm interested in Valeria. Yeah, what's
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Speaker 1: going on there? Well, let's talk about that really quickly.
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Speaker 1: At the birthday party, Tough does confront Valeria finally, and
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Speaker 1: he's been talking about it all episode, mostly with Julian
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Speaker 1: because he tried talking about it last episode with Cash
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Speaker 1: and Cash blew him off, and he's been talking to Julian,
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Speaker 1: and Julian's only role in this entire episode is to
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Speaker 1: be there for Tough to talk to him about Valeria.
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Speaker 1: Really justice for Julian, really, But he finally confronts her
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Speaker 1: when Valeria and Cash are having a moment and Cash
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Speaker 1: is like, could you wait, and he shows the stash
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Speaker 1: of ideas that he found, and she gets very upset
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Speaker 1: and she makes up what I believe to be a
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Speaker 1: complete lie about the reason she was on the run,
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Speaker 1: that she owed that bad dude money from gambling debts. Well,
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Speaker 1: I think, is this her big mystery that we finally
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Speaker 1: have now solved in like two seconds, I think, hopefully.
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Speaker 1: I think you're right that she was lying about all
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Speaker 1: of that, about the poker debts and whatever. But earlier
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Speaker 1: in the episode when she's playing poker, like you can
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Speaker 1: easily see that she kind of zones in on Julian
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Speaker 1: as being like an easy target because he's never played
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Speaker 1: poker before. And I was like, oh, okay, okay, here
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Speaker 1: is that what she's been doing? Is this her big
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Speaker 1: secret that she's whatever? But I think it was too
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Speaker 1: easily resolved. If that's what all the fake id's and
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Speaker 1: stuff had her running away and all that stuff has
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Speaker 1: to do, yes, And it doesn't answer the question of
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Speaker 1: what she was doing for Tucker Clark and why Austin
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Speaker 1: was involved, because we know the reason she leaves is
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Speaker 1: because Austin knows something about her, and Austin also needs
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Speaker 1: some help. So maybe what he knows is that she's
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Speaker 1: got gambling debts. Maybe that's a piece of it. But
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Speaker 1: what was she doing for Austin? Like, where does he
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Speaker 1: factor in when she leaves in the middle of that
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Speaker 1: rodeo in the first episode. Yeah, I'm still hoping that
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Speaker 1: she was like pregnant with Austin's baby and then went
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Speaker 1: away to have a baby and then came back. God,
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Speaker 1: I don't I'm probably not saying that too. I don't
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Speaker 1: think that's it either, it's probably not either. Nope. So
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Speaker 1: she tells this whole story and she takes the IDs,
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Speaker 1: and we later at the end of the episode see
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Speaker 1: her flipping through the IDs and she stops on one
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Speaker 1: named Estella, and we get a flashback of a younger Valaria,
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Speaker 1: who really the only thing they've done to make her
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Speaker 1: look younger is put her in this like prim little dress.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, maybe needed, I don't know, something with her
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Speaker 1: hair or something in this big, beautiful home where like
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Speaker 1: a housekeeper has summoned her upstairs to where her apparently
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Speaker 1: dying mother is in bed. I mean, that's that's the
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Speaker 1: assumptions I'm making of this scene. And earlier in the episode,
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Speaker 1: we had seen Cash and we'll talk about this kind
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Speaker 1: of like make a snide comment about people with money,
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Speaker 1: and Valeria is quick to jump to their defense and
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Speaker 1: she's like, she didn't ask to grow up like this.
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Speaker 1: I thought that was a nice tie in. Knowing we
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Speaker 1: know about Valeria is that she's apparently a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a princess herself. Yeah, there was another tie into
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Speaker 1: when Missy was complaining about her mom and then it
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Speaker 1: was something like, well, at least you grew up with
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Speaker 1: a mom. Oh yeah, at least you have a mom
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Speaker 1: mm hmm. That's a great point. Again, this is more
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Speaker 1: questions and answers, right, like do any of them know
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Speaker 1: this about I mean, her name was Estella? Like do
19:40
Speaker 1: they know who Valeria is? Like what's the story she's
19:43
Speaker 1: made up about the loss of her parents? They obviously
19:46
Speaker 1: don't know that she's come from money, She's been working
19:48
Speaker 1: as a ranch hand. There's a billion more questions and
19:51
Speaker 1: answers about Valeria's storyline at this point. Yeah, like how
19:54
Speaker 1: did Missy and Valeria meet? Did they meet at like
19:58
Speaker 1: university or did they meet like in town or do
20:02
Speaker 1: they not know anything about each other? Yeah? What the
20:06
Speaker 1: hell is happening? Great points. I want to go back
20:09
Speaker 1: to Cash and Valeria for a second now. When they
20:13
Speaker 1: were I thought, these two idiots are completely tearing up
20:18
Speaker 1: the field in that I'm like, what the hell is
20:21
Speaker 1: happening here? Like, first of all, she works this ranch, right,
20:25
Speaker 1: and then they're in this like golf car or I
20:27
Speaker 1: know it's not a golf car. I don't know what
20:29
Speaker 1: it is. But they're like doing donuts all over the
20:32
Speaker 1: field and tearing it up. How disrespectful. Yeah, don't they
20:36
Speaker 1: need that field, Like, aren't sheep gonna need to graze
20:39
Speaker 1: somewhere or cows? They just completely destroyed it. The city
20:44
Speaker 1: I live in. If it's raining, they won't even let
20:46
Speaker 1: you play soccer on their field, I know. So I
20:50
Speaker 1: think this was a bad move unless they were about
20:52
Speaker 1: to raise that field now. In this same scene, Cash
20:57
Speaker 1: gives advice to Valeria about like how to be a
21:00
Speaker 1: boss to the ranch hands. Yeah, and he tells her like,
21:04
Speaker 1: be more like you a cool and fun person, And
21:06
Speaker 1: I just was like, yeah, you're not selling me on
21:11
Speaker 1: the fact that you're falling hard for willmus Bell exactly.
21:16
Speaker 1: Can we talk about Valeria working her way into like
21:22
Speaker 1: the whole like poker game situation. Yeah, breaking in with
21:26
Speaker 1: the boys, So it's obvious she's like takes her job
21:30
Speaker 1: seriously and she's super annoyed that these dudes are always
21:33
Speaker 1: just like standing around and talking and she's like working
21:35
Speaker 1: her ass off, which I fully can stand behind. Mm hmm,
21:39
Speaker 1: But like, why is she trying so hard to be
21:42
Speaker 1: one of them? Is it just a she wants to
21:45
Speaker 1: earn their respect? Yes? All right, which was again the
21:49
Speaker 1: whole thing with the episode you didn't watch last week
21:51
Speaker 1: because the entire time, like tough tells her that, like,
21:55
Speaker 1: you didn't earn this job, and all the ranch hands
21:57
Speaker 1: think so as well. And she has this big project
22:00
Speaker 1: to take on and she doesn't ask anybody for help,
22:03
Speaker 1: and it takes her a couple of days and she
22:05
Speaker 1: does it all by herself because she doesn't feel like
22:07
Speaker 1: she has the right to ask the ranch hands for help.
22:11
Speaker 1: And they have not welcomed her as their boss. And
22:15
Speaker 1: so she now, if they're gonna make it work, she's
22:18
Speaker 1: got to earn their respect. All right, let's move on
22:21
Speaker 1: to missing Gus, and I'd like to say justice for
22:24
Speaker 1: his niece Sophie. First of all. Okay, they're there for
22:28
Speaker 1: like Missy's gonna give them a writing lesson, is that correct?
22:32
Speaker 1: At first said that she was gonna teach her like
22:33
Speaker 1: some trick riding, but they're just out on the horses. Yeah,
22:37
Speaker 1: And then they're like, let's go down by the river,
22:39
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. I was like, oh my god, people,
22:42
Speaker 1: I hope she didn't fall into the river, Like why
22:44
Speaker 1: aren't they looking at the river first? Once the girl
22:46
Speaker 1: goes missing, Like everybody's up in the whole family's up
22:50
Speaker 1: in arms. We have this missing child on our ranch.
22:53
Speaker 1: Nobody's really looking for her. Why wouldn't Why wouldn't they
22:57
Speaker 1: like call the police, Why do wouldn't they nothing, They're
23:00
Speaker 1: all looking for her. They all go out on the
23:02
Speaker 1: dover and look for her. Just now, girl, Yes, let
23:05
Speaker 1: me tell you you did not watch as closely as
23:07
Speaker 1: I did. Here Isabelle standing at the farm or she's
23:09
Speaker 1: waiting for another animal to give birth. She went back
23:13
Speaker 1: to the barn in case Sophie came back there, and
23:16
Speaker 1: she was like, I hate standing around here. I wish
23:17
Speaker 1: I could be looking, but someone needs to be here
23:19
Speaker 1: in case she shows up. And then James Stubber shows
23:21
Speaker 1: up and they're just standing there talking like, oh my god,
23:24
Speaker 1: a child is lost on our farm whatever ranch farm,
23:27
Speaker 1: I don't know. And are you just glossing over this
23:29
Speaker 1: is another show where a large animal is giving birth. No,
23:33
Speaker 1: I'm not. We have not talked about poor Goldie giving birth.
23:35
Speaker 1: At least they don't show it this time. We just
23:36
Speaker 1: at the end of the Yes, that scene of Elliott
23:41
Speaker 1: with his hand in that cow on your brain never
23:45
Speaker 1: recover from so. And then you have Tough and Julian
23:51
Speaker 1: and they're just like they're riding the horses around looking
23:54
Speaker 1: for him, having a conversation about other stuff about Valeria
24:00
Speaker 1: has the time somehow. I know they should there should
24:02
Speaker 1: be more urgency. But if she's in the river, she's gone, right,
24:06
Speaker 1: So yeah, Well, Missy Shocker finds her in the treehouse
24:13
Speaker 1: and they have like this sweet movement, and I felt
24:15
Speaker 1: kind of bad for that little girl because she just
24:18
Speaker 1: wanted to stay there. It was so sad. Oh don't
24:22
Speaker 1: even go home to my mom and her new husband.
24:25
Speaker 1: So sad. How do you feel about this Missy Gus connection.
24:30
Speaker 1: I don't hate it, partially because I like Gus so much,
24:34
Speaker 1: like I like his character more than I like Valeria's character.
24:38
Speaker 1: He was real sweet to Missy in the last episode.
24:40
Speaker 1: They had a little bit of a moment towards the end,
24:43
Speaker 1: and I'm into it. Are you into it? I mean
24:45
Speaker 1: it's a nice placeholder. I guess, yeah, this is not
24:49
Speaker 1: her forever romance. There's no way I see him actually
24:53
Speaker 1: buying this ranch and being around long term. I could
24:57
Speaker 1: be wrong about that. Again, I don't think this is
24:59
Speaker 1: her romance. I don't think it's Gus and Missy forever.
25:03
Speaker 1: But I do think he's a nice, pretty face for
25:05
Speaker 1: her to enjoy is her first romance after her husband. HM,
25:10
Speaker 1: because we know that there's more to Valeria and Cash's
25:14
Speaker 1: relationship than what we've seen. We don't know all the details,
25:18
Speaker 1: but there's more there and that needs to be unpacked. Yeah.
25:22
Speaker 1: I have a couple digit see that moments. Yeah, I
25:24
Speaker 1: mean too, go ahead, Okay. The first one is when
25:27
Speaker 1: they are playing poker. We have these two random dudes
25:30
Speaker 1: playing poker with them, and in front of them, they
25:33
Speaker 1: have like plates full of cheese puffs, like Cheeto puffs,
25:39
Speaker 1: like a mound of them. Yeah. Like then I had
25:42
Speaker 1: to rewind it and look at it again. They have
25:45
Speaker 1: potato chips on there too, But I was like, that
25:47
Speaker 1: is so bizarre, Like I don't hate a Cheeto puff,
25:50
Speaker 1: but it was just bizarre, Like they had a a
25:53
Speaker 1: paper plate a mound of them, so weird. Yeah. And
25:57
Speaker 1: also they're gonna get all over the cards, like cheese
25:58
Speaker 1: puffs are right, put a pretzel out there. It's not
26:01
Speaker 1: gonna leave a residue all over your hands. Gonna be
26:04
Speaker 1: licking your fingers and then touching the cards. Gruss. When
26:07
Speaker 1: Connie is at Isabelle's party and she bounces, she leaves
26:10
Speaker 1: behind a whole glass wine. I know. I hate it
26:13
Speaker 1: when they do this. They get a drink and then
26:15
Speaker 1: there's a read This happens all the time, Like she
26:18
Speaker 1: just poured you a glass wines. She probably had to
26:19
Speaker 1: open the bottle because they're all drinking beer. And my
26:23
Speaker 1: last one is when Tough and Julian are setting up
26:28
Speaker 1: the poker table for the poker party. Yeah, they have
26:31
Speaker 1: this super non sexual moment like he goes like he
26:36
Speaker 1: puts his arms on his shoulders and I was like, oh,
26:38
Speaker 1: this is this is as close as you are going
26:40
Speaker 1: to get on this show. Yeah, they're really really easing
26:43
Speaker 1: me and slowly to that relationship. I just was like,
26:46
Speaker 1: come on. I mean, Tuff did like turn around and
26:48
Speaker 1: give him like a glance, but like I was like,
26:52
Speaker 1: this is this is it, and we're not gonna this
26:54
Speaker 1: is It's not gonna go beyond this. No, all right,
26:57
Speaker 1: I have a couple did you see that slash comments
27:01
Speaker 1: that I need to make that don't fit it anywhere else.
27:03
Speaker 1: The first is we learned that Julian and I believe
27:06
Speaker 1: this is the first time we learn it is a
27:08
Speaker 1: It's a bronc rider, which is different than a bull rider,
27:10
Speaker 1: and I was like, Julian says, broncs are different than bulls,
27:14
Speaker 1: and I was like, how, well, bronx are horses, that's
27:17
Speaker 1: how So here go the two doing ranch stuff dummies. Honestly,
27:23
Speaker 1: as much as I hate bull riding, I gotta say
27:25
Speaker 1: bronco riding makes me even more uncomfortable. So I really
27:27
Speaker 1: hope we don't see that. I'm so sorry, Julian, just
27:30
Speaker 1: just be a pretty face. In the very beginning of
27:33
Speaker 1: the episode, Missy is worried that Frontier is going to
27:37
Speaker 1: fire her. Oh yeah, and then we never hear another
27:40
Speaker 1: word about it. Well, you know, I didn't watch last
27:43
Speaker 1: week's episode, so is there any Oh my gosh, yes,
27:49
Speaker 1: there was Frontier conversation about Yes, so Frontier is going
27:53
Speaker 1: to do this piece on Missy as a trick rider,
27:55
Speaker 1: and they're like, we want to see your suicide drag.
27:58
Speaker 1: And she has not been on a horse. This is
27:59
Speaker 1: a whole the whole theme of the last episode. She
28:01
Speaker 1: has not been on a horse since Austin's death, and
28:04
Speaker 1: she blames herself for Austin's death. And she knew something
28:07
Speaker 1: was up that day and she let him ride anyway,
28:11
Speaker 1: and right before he Rode. He caught her in Cash
28:13
Speaker 1: like having a moment even though nothing was happening. She
28:16
Speaker 1: knew that that through him, and so she has blamed
28:18
Speaker 1: herself for Austin's death and as a result, hasn't gotten
28:21
Speaker 1: back on a horse since then as a trick rider.
28:25
Speaker 1: And they want to see this suicide drag like. They
28:28
Speaker 1: want to go straight to the hardest trick that she
28:30
Speaker 1: can do. And she does like one training session with
28:33
Speaker 1: Cash and it doesn't go well, and then the Frontier
28:37
Speaker 1: people show up to take the video. She bails out.
28:41
Speaker 1: She can't do it, and she's like, look, I've got
28:44
Speaker 1: a mental block. I'm not mentally ready for this. It's
28:47
Speaker 1: too hard. Like I would be happy to show you
28:48
Speaker 1: training or other tricks or building up to it, but
28:51
Speaker 1: I can't do this. Since she's like, well, I've seen
28:53
Speaker 1: JB fire people for less. Oh god, so stupid. So
28:57
Speaker 1: she thinks she's gonna lose her Frontier ambassadorship as a result,
29:01
Speaker 1: and we only get it in the very beginning of
29:04
Speaker 1: the episode, and then that's it. You're trying to tell
29:07
Speaker 1: me that Nike would take away their deal with Michael
29:11
Speaker 1: Jordan because he can't fly through the air anymore and
29:14
Speaker 1: do a slam dunk like he gets the yips because
29:17
Speaker 1: Missy has the yips. What the hell are the yips?
29:20
Speaker 1: What does that mean? The yips is like my husband, Yeah,
29:23
Speaker 1: he'll know. I guarantee you text him right now. Okay,
29:26
Speaker 1: spell that? Like why y ips? Just ask me if
29:29
Speaker 1: he knowes what that is. The yips are in sports
29:31
Speaker 1: when an athlete can suddenly no longer do a skill
29:35
Speaker 1: that used to be able to do, and they apply
29:36
Speaker 1: it to pitchers a lot, like they can't pitch anymore.
29:39
Speaker 1: And there's not really necessarily a physical reason for It's
29:42
Speaker 1: not like they have an injury. They just mentally can't
29:44
Speaker 1: do this thing. And so they say like Missy has
29:46
Speaker 1: the yips, and they never brought back up the whole
29:49
Speaker 1: potential losing the ambassadorship being okay, cash on the fake
29:54
Speaker 1: ball kills me. Did you see this? Yes, but I
29:59
Speaker 1: don't remember it being a st out moment. They've got
30:01
Speaker 1: like this ranch hand like like making the fake mechanical
30:05
Speaker 1: bull buck. I know it feels like, look, maybe this
30:11
Speaker 1: is a standard bull riding practice situation. It just feels
30:17
Speaker 1: like a child on the seesaw. Oh that's funny. Is
30:21
Speaker 1: the ranch Hand standing there with like a Natari joystick,
30:23
Speaker 1: like trying to like he's like a lever underneath the
30:27
Speaker 1: back of the barrel that he's like shooting up and
30:29
Speaker 1: down to make the metal bull buck. It's not even
30:34
Speaker 1: actually like mechanical junk yard ball. I vaguely remember it.
30:42
Speaker 1: And given that Cash is that actor Bohmerkoff is not
30:47
Speaker 1: an actual bull rider, they're not like going that hard.
30:50
Speaker 1: It's not like this metal bull is actually bucking all
30:53
Speaker 1: that hard because his stunt double isn't in the scene.
30:57
Speaker 1: And so it just amused me. And finally, so tiny
31:00
Speaker 1: Abo the close captioning spelled. They say the word debt
31:02
Speaker 1: eight hundred times in one of the final scenes, and
31:04
Speaker 1: they spelled it dept every single time, ever single time.
31:08
Speaker 1: I'm like that, they're not even a word that's an
31:10
Speaker 1: abbreviation d ep department. Yes, was that unfriendly or did
31:18
Speaker 1: you use it on YouTube? TV two TV? Oh, and
31:23
Speaker 1: I have another notes here, we do get a name
31:26
Speaker 1: for our unnamed ranch Hand. Now, as for the last episode,
31:29
Speaker 1: he did appear on IMDb, but they didn't call him
31:31
Speaker 1: his name until this week. His name's Nick Victor Okay
31:34
Speaker 1: is the actor we still have our unnamed mustached ranch hand,
31:37
Speaker 1: and he is not on IMDb. This is his second episode.
31:41
Speaker 1: That's the Cheetoh puff guy. He's he's got some lines,
31:44
Speaker 1: but he has not had a name as far as
31:46
Speaker 1: I can tell him the past two episodes. He was
31:47
Speaker 1: a real dick in last week's episode, though, well you
31:49
Speaker 1: know what. It's also funny too, is that character Nick.
31:52
Speaker 1: Like we learned he has played football and was also
31:54
Speaker 1: in the military, And I was like, what the hell
31:57
Speaker 1: is your name? Dude? Pu I know your whole backs out,
32:00
Speaker 1: but I still don't know your name. Yes, they call
32:02
Speaker 1: him Nick multiple times in this episode. Sorry I missed it.
32:05
Speaker 1: Who you're riding for this week? I got no one?
32:07
Speaker 1: How about you? I hate this show and I refuse
32:12
Speaker 1: to play your stupid games. I mean I kind of
32:17
Speaker 1: enjoyed Tough for like calling out Valeria finally at the end,
32:21
Speaker 1: but I kind of like Valeria for being annoyed with
32:25
Speaker 1: her ranch hand due who weren't doing anything. Yeah, I
32:29
Speaker 1: think it's Valeria for me too, and she I liked
32:33
Speaker 1: her when she's like, hey, we got work to do,
32:34
Speaker 1: and then I like that she's like got the situation,
32:37
Speaker 1: which is that they don't respect her, and she figures
32:39
Speaker 1: out a way to get in with them by kicking
32:42
Speaker 1: their ass in poker. M h. I think she was
32:45
Speaker 1: a very complex character in this episode, so I agree
32:48
Speaker 1: if I co sign on this writing for Valeria, Thank
32:52
Speaker 1: you for listening to this episode of Girls Gone. Hallmark
32:55
Speaker 1: will be back next week with a brand new movie
32:56
Speaker 1: review and a brand new recap of Ride. Maybe and
33:00
Speaker 1: he will grow to love this show as the season
33:02
Speaker 1: goes on. Or maybe her hate will just fester like
33:05
Speaker 1: a bad shoe horse. I was shoe. We were trying
33:09
Speaker 1: to do a horse pun there. Okay, you were gonna what?
33:15
Speaker 1: I was counting down the episodes to number ten. We
33:18
Speaker 1: still have a lot more to go, a lot more
33:20
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