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Love Strikes Twice · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a bonus episode
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  Speaker 1: of Long Story Short the podcast. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: and today we are discussing Love Strikes Twice, the fifth movie,
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  Speaker 1: no fourth, it's the movie in Hallmarks Fall Harvest lineup.
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  Speaker 1: I got things to say about where that it was placed.
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  Speaker 1: recap the latest Hallmark original movies. We launched our Countdown
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  Speaker 1: We talk about life and today Love Strikes Twice. If
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  Speaker 1: I just like jumped stole your line. I'm sorry, I
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  Speaker 1: just was like rolling down through it. I'm totally fine
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  Speaker 1: with it. It's all good. We have a couple of
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  Speaker 1: homework related emails this week, and I wanted to share
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  Speaker 1: the first one, which is feedback specifically related to Taking
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  Speaker 1: the Rains last week Hallmark movie. And it's from Heidi
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  Speaker 1: who says, my daughter does horseback writing and at both
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  Speaker 1: places that we have been writing. I stumbled over that sentence.
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  Speaker 1: They have their office right next to the horses. There
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  Speaker 1: are a lot of polls, use a large storagesed as
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  Speaker 1: their office that is right next to thoses are kept. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it seems strange, but they have a desk and supplies
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  Speaker 1: for riding.
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  Speaker 2: And then okay, go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: And then she says I love your movie reviews. I
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  Speaker 1: don't watch a lot of the movies once in a while,
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  Speaker 1: but I still love to listen to them, and says
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  Speaker 1: I would not be opposed to having Lifetime movie reviews. Also,
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  Speaker 1: I don't watch those either, but maybe I would consider
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  Speaker 1: watching one if it gets a good review. I would
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  Speaker 1: like to say that so Wehndy doesn't run away screaming
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  Speaker 1: mid podcast. I don't think we'll be taking on any
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  Speaker 1: new networks in the year twenty twenty one. We have
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  Speaker 1: our hands full of Hallmark. Would you agree with that?
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  Speaker 1: I would agree yes, but there is potential to expand
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  Speaker 1: perhaps in twenty twenty two. Thank you for your feedback.
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  Speaker 1: We have been asking if you guys like this these
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark episodes. They are very popular, just so you know,
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  Speaker 1: on our end, So we're trying to decide what the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two Hallmark plan is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so if you have thoughts, email.
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  Speaker 1: Us please if you want us to do.
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  Speaker 2: Like more of these, we need to hear it. I
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  Speaker 2: think I mean I need to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Wendy. Wendy needs your words of affirmation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, Okay, back to the offices in the
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  Speaker 2: stables in that movie, taking the reins, like she had
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  Speaker 2: literally this like a beautiful like desk chair sitting in like.
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  Speaker 1: Like her ergonomic chair is sitting on the hay in
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  Speaker 1: a pile of hay, Like.
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  Speaker 2: It was so ridiculous. So but I'm shocked. Maybe they
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  Speaker 2: just don't have, you know, the writer in her Heidi.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe like they just don't have like office space at
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  Speaker 2: the stables, so they just like make do with what
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  Speaker 2: they have. But Ray wants to sit in a shed
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  Speaker 2: all day long.
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  Speaker 1: Not I maybe horse people do.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know. Wow. Crazy.
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  Speaker 1: We also have some feedback from Sheila. She says two things,
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  Speaker 1: and these are both in regards to last week's Countdown
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  Speaker 1: to Christmas preview special, which if you haven't listened, it's
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  Speaker 1: there waiting for you. Give it a listen. And I
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  Speaker 1: had mentioned that Katie Sackoff is starring in a new
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark movie she's going to bring a new audience, and
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  Speaker 1: she said she was also in a western police show
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  Speaker 1: for a while. So because I had mentioned, like she's
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  Speaker 1: bringing that like that nerd demo with her Battlestar Galactica, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and then she's saying, I think the Hallmark movie she's
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  Speaker 1: in was either written, producer or directed by her fiance.
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  Speaker 1: And she's also in a newer Ish Netflix series Another Life.
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  Speaker 1: So still never heard of this actress. I actually became
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  Speaker 1: aware of Katie Sackoff via a podcast that I no
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  Speaker 1: longer listened to you because the host is not great,
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  Speaker 1: but the nerdist I heard her on a podcast episode
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  Speaker 1: and loved her and didn't know anything about her and
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  Speaker 1: loved her on that, so I'm also looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 1: In other Hallmark News, also from Sheila's, she says, your
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  Speaker 1: news about gac family and when calls the heart slash
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  Speaker 1: when Hope calls does not really surprise me. The author
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  Speaker 1: of the book series is very conservative and her books
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  Speaker 1: are exceedingly popular and evangelical fundamentalist circles. So there you
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  Speaker 1: have that.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 2: I love the feedback. Thank you for the emails, ladies.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. And with that, it's time for a synopsis.
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  Speaker 2: Oh right, love strikes twice. Workaholic Maggie's having marriage issues.
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  Speaker 2: She wishes for a do over and awakens fifteen years
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  Speaker 2: in the past. Will Maggie choose college boyfriend Rick or
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  Speaker 2: will she stay with husband Josh?
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  Speaker 1: And do you have some news and notes on this movie?
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  Speaker 2: I have a few, not a ton, I have a
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  Speaker 2: few same. The screenplay was written by C. J. Cox,
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  Speaker 2: who also wrote Sweet Home Alabama featuring Reese Witherspoon.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, I have thought in Alabama.
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  Speaker 2: I like that movie too, but I have thoughts. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'll share in a minute. Do you have Do you
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  Speaker 2: have any news and notes?
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  Speaker 1: I do have news and notes. Like you said, not
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  Speaker 1: a lot. We're back in Canada, guys. We loved Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: We're back in Canada, but no longer in Vancouver. We're
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  Speaker 1: in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A beautiful little town. I thought where
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  Speaker 1: they were coming.
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  Speaker 2: Me too, Me too.
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  Speaker 1: The water. Wyatt Nash, who plays Josh uh huh. He's
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  Speaker 1: been in a lot of things Riverdale, Dear White People.
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  Speaker 1: But he was also on Survivor.
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  Speaker 2: What season. I've watched a lot of Survivor.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, well, now you're asking the hard questions.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you can't just like throw that tidbit out there
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  Speaker 2: without some receipts. I need to know.
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  Speaker 1: I believe the Survivor kickstarted his acting career. He was
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  Speaker 1: on Survivor in twenty eleven.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay.
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  Speaker 1: He was on Survivor Redemption Island didn win. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: oh okay. And then his first acting credits are in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twelve, so you know, maybe he wasn't on Survivor
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  Speaker 1: for the right reasons.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like survi, are there right reasons to be
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  Speaker 2: on Survivor? That's a big question.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. But in twenty thirteen on a TV
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  Speaker 1: show called Mistresses, he played the hot naked.
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  Speaker 2: Guy and that's his credit.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty fifteen, on a TV show called Doctor Ken,
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  Speaker 1: he played the hot doctor. Oh look, He's had a
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  Speaker 1: number of named roles as well. But in twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 1: he was in Ford Versus Ferrari and his character was
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  Speaker 1: cool young buyer. So in fairness, he was on six
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  Speaker 1: episodes of Glow, sixteen episodes of Dear White People, seventeen
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  Speaker 1: episodes of Riverdale, so he has He has acting credits,
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  Speaker 1: but I just enjoy those.
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  Speaker 2: He's a working actor. I actually thought that he looked
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  Speaker 2: very familiar. But and I've watched maybe like one or
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  Speaker 2: two seasons of a Riverdale. I don't remember him from
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  Speaker 2: that show. Maybe maybe it's that Survivor credit that's, you know,
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  Speaker 2: triggering my brain, Like I knew him from somewhere, I
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  Speaker 2: just couldn't place it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was in later episodes of Riverdale, starting episode
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  Speaker 1: fifty seven, so oh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I only want to get that far. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: only the.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't have fake red hair on the show,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who you are those the first seasons.
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  Speaker 1: The first season is real good, but other than that,
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  Speaker 1: any made it out early second season?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: What else?
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  Speaker 2: One final note this The same production of this movie
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  Speaker 2: also produced a movie called One Summer, which premiered on
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark Movies and Mysteries over the weekend, starring Sam Page,
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  Speaker 2: who played Richard on The boll Type. And if you recall,
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  Speaker 2: I sent you a text and I said, this movie's
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  Speaker 2: real good and it has richer from the bull Type
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  Speaker 2: and he's all scruffy and scrumptious. So I was.
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  Speaker 1: Shocked because you were voluntarily watching a Hallmark movie that
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  Speaker 1: was not part of our review lineup right. But now
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  Speaker 1: it's all coming together for me.
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  Speaker 2: I saw the commercial while watching Trice, and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: that movie looks good and that guy's hot. He looks
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  Speaker 2: very familiar and it couldn't place him. I had to
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  Speaker 2: look him up. I'm only like halfway through, but it's
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  Speaker 2: a pretty decent movie.
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  Speaker 1: Well before we get to our first impression, I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: at the IMDb reviews for this movie, uh huh, and
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  Speaker 1: they are overwhelmingly positive for love Strikes tries twice, Love
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  Speaker 1: strikes twice. The majority of them are ten out of ten,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a couple nine's one six. But man, people
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  Speaker 1: loved this movie. This one says, what did I just see?
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  Speaker 1: It was on the Hallmark channel? But was it really
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  Speaker 1: a Hallmark movie?
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  Speaker 2: Ah?
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  Speaker 1: I'm traveling romantic comedy. But that's all it had in
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  Speaker 1: common with the usual Hallmark No pageant worth the hair,
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  Speaker 1: wardrobe and makeup. Here, just great writing, attended to detail,
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  Speaker 1: talented acting in fresh faces. So I would like to
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  Speaker 1: jump into first impressions. Sure, what's yours? Well, you just
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  Speaker 1: stole mine. My first impression was was this an actual
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark movie? And my first impression is does every fall
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  Speaker 1: Harvest couple have an emotional affair?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean yeah, we can get into that later, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a real running theme here we've got going on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah for sure? All right, what did you like about
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  Speaker 2: this movie? Well?
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  Speaker 1: Can we discuss your question? Is this a Hallmark movie? Okay, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it was. So you watched the movie
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  Speaker 1: before I did, and you said this is not a
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark movie. It's good, And then I watched it with
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  Speaker 1: my husband with that lens, but I agree that this
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  Speaker 1: didn't feel like a Hallmark movie. I agree with you.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with this reviewer, but I tried to find
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  Speaker 1: some information like Hallmark acquired. I couldn't find anything.
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  Speaker 2: Hmmm.
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  Speaker 1: So the answer to that is I don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: this really look if this is a Hallmark entity, you know,
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  Speaker 1: produced with Hallmark people, great, keep using those people, because
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  Speaker 1: there was so much great about this movie. If it wasn't,
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  Speaker 1: who'd you buy it from? Right?
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is what I was gonna say, because that
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  Speaker 2: movie one Summer that's on Movies and Mysteries, made by
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  Speaker 2: the same production company does not feel like a Hallmark
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  Speaker 2: movie either. Okay, so I'm like, did they get some
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  Speaker 2: kind of yeah, yeah two for here or what?
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I it to me did not feel like a Hallmark
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  Speaker 2: movie at all at all. I agree with you.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, So what did you like?
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  Speaker 2: I really liked the actress who played Maggie, and her
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  Speaker 2: name is Kate Katie Finland. Is that how used to whatever?
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  Speaker 2: Katie Finlay? Yes, I really liked her. I didn't love
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  Speaker 2: her hairstyle when she was like fifteen years younger, but
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  Speaker 2: I thought she was like a really good believable actress,
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  Speaker 2: and she there was like some comedic stuff and I
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  Speaker 2: thought she like totally handled that really well. And this
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  Speaker 2: is what makes me think white. It's also not a
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark movie because like we never see her in anything.
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  Speaker 2: Have we ever seen her in any other Hallmark movie? Ever?
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  Speaker 1: No, we haven't. She most recently was on Zoe's Extraordinary Playlist,
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  Speaker 1: and I really enjoyed her there. It's funny about her
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  Speaker 1: hair because that was like their way of making her
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  Speaker 1: look younger, right, like differentiating. But so I spent a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time actually thinking about her hair because I
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  Speaker 1: liked her earlier hairstyle more.
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  Speaker 2: But this straight, cute like bob that she had, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I was real cute.
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  Speaker 1: Were they making it curly? Like what's the other option?
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  Speaker 1: Like a wig? Because I don't know how else you
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  Speaker 1: make her look younger other than they kind of dressed
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  Speaker 1: her young when she's wearing like like a short overall situation,
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  Speaker 1: like you're trying real hard to make her look yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and don't. I don't think she's thirty seven either. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think she's as old as she was playing. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't think she's twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: I think she's thirty one.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So I just was thinking, like, how do
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  Speaker 1: you make her look younger? And I guess the other
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  Speaker 1: option is like a longer wig. No, I was glad
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  Speaker 1: they used her Honestly, I was glad they used her
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  Speaker 1: own hair instead of like a long wig to make
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  Speaker 1: her look.
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  Speaker 2: I hear you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So what I liked about this movie is, and
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  Speaker 1: I have more thoughts on this, but I liked that
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  Speaker 1: Maggie ends up with Josh in the end. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as she goes, oh, interesting, that's all right, go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as she goes back in time and we
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  Speaker 1: start to meet Rick, I started to think, Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: really hope this is like the we found our way
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  Speaker 1: back to each other, not they like I made the
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  Speaker 1: wrong choice movie, I said, I do have I have
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  Speaker 1: some thoughts about that we can get to Well.
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  Speaker 2: Rick was kind of a douchebag, a total douchebag, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm glad that like she could see that like
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  Speaker 2: going back. But I honestly thought that she might end
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  Speaker 2: up with Rick instead of Josh at the end because
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  Speaker 2: she seems so unhappy or they seemed so unhappy in
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  Speaker 2: their marriage at the beginning, And I thought, you know,
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  Speaker 2: she's like, I need a do over. I mean, hey,
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  Speaker 2: people make mistakes when they get married to the wrong people.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought, well, this is going to be an
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  Speaker 2: interesting twist if she does get a do over and
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  Speaker 2: then picks the other guy. But you know, she ended
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  Speaker 2: up back with Morinal Josh.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and do you have anything else you like before
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  Speaker 1: I responded.
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  Speaker 2: To that accent. Two more little things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I really liked her parents. Yeah. I thought they were
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  Speaker 2: just enjoyable.
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  Speaker 1: Yea.
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  Speaker 2: And I hope that like my daughter will want to, like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, hang out or care about me.
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  Speaker 1: I stole you from injuring your back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly. And I also really really liked the
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  Speaker 2: relationship between Maggie and her brother Ash.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he's a brand new baby actor. Oh is he
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  Speaker 1: started acting like a year ago. I had very few credits.
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  Speaker 1: I really liked him.
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  Speaker 2: I liked him too, but it was all messy, like
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  Speaker 2: he looked the same in the time changed frame, like
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  Speaker 2: you know whatever. But he's like.
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  Speaker 1: A Brendan Fraser's baby brother to me, why he he
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  Speaker 1: looked like Brendan Fraser has that like Encino man feels
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  Speaker 1: to me.
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  Speaker 2: In se no man, oh wow, wow w throw it back. Yea, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I liked him though as an actor, I thought he
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  Speaker 2: was kind of funny.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I liked their relationship, and I liked that her
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  Speaker 1: going back in time and her do over wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: about her romantic relationship, that she kind of has an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to repair all of these other wrongs, and she
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  Speaker 1: protects her brother from this heartbreak, and she kind of
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  Speaker 1: starts to build up their relationships with their relationship in
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  Speaker 1: the future is on better footing. I liked. I liked
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  Speaker 1: all of that because I think a lot of us
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  Speaker 1: have those same regrets. Agreed, But like, oh, I wish
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  Speaker 1: I could have had a better relationship with this person
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  Speaker 1: for sure. I also though, am from the school of
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  Speaker 1: back to the future, and do you really want to
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  Speaker 1: mess with the past, because then that's going to affect
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  Speaker 1: the future, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: What were these effects?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it made me a little bit worried as well.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, your dad doesn't hurt himself, but now what's
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  Speaker 1: E thinking it's something worse gonna happen or right?
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  Speaker 2: Final destination is still coming for you, right, Okay, talk
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  Speaker 2: to me about the Rick Josh all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So that falls into the what I wished for, and
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  Speaker 1: I wish I wished I had a better understanding of
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  Speaker 1: how Maggie and Josh's relationship was repaired, because this movie,
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  Speaker 1: the resolution is about ninety seconds long, and we get
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  Speaker 1: to the end and we know that she's happier, she's
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  Speaker 1: in a better job, she and Josh are happy. Right,
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  Speaker 1: She's not living this fast paced life. But I thought, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe maybe that's what she wanted. Maybe she really wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be partner in a big law of right. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he was clearly bothered by her ambition and the ways
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  Speaker 1: in which it negatively blew back on him, And there
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: was that moment She's like, I gotta make a work
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: phone call, and every single time he was so annoyed
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: by her work. And people don't change who they are.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Certainly circumstances can change. But I really wanted more of
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: an explanation of Okay, great, they live in a different
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: place and they are happy, but why what changed? Because,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: like you said, they were clearly unhappy with each other,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: and for me, it didn't feel circumstantial. These felt like
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: two people, especially Josh, who just were not on the
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: same page and were not really big fans of each
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: other and really couldn't feel figure out how to connect
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: with each other. Right, So what changed? Well, this is
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: my problem with it. He seems totally resentful of her
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: and her like ambition and her job and whatever. And
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: he's in a city he doesn't want to Well, maybe
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: he's in a city he doesn't want to be in,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: or he's unhappy with like what he's doing with his life.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: And then they're at the end they seem happier together
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: because now they're you know, in the town where they
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: were raised or whatever. But are they happier because now
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: he has.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Gotten his way?
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Like that? I don't like that?
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Is she genuinely happier because she has her own
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: practice at the end? Is that? Am I remembering that correctly?
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah? That's right.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Is she genuinely happier? Is that she wanted like
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: this smaller private practice or did she want to be
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: like the big shot shark lawyer who had to work
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: eighty hours a week in order to make partner at
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: this big farm. I mean, there's nothing wrong with wanting that, right,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: So I wanted, like you said, is this just the
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: hallmark wrap up? Oh? We're all going to be happy
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: if we go back to where our home was, where
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: our family is.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they needed a little more backstory on their relationship
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: and how they got there and what they were because
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: the whole movie was really about saving the library. It
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: wasn't like about their relationship, right per se. So you know,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: we got the backstory on the library and all that nonsense,
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: not their relationship. So here's something I wish for. Yeah,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: why is this movie at a fall harvest lineup?
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Hello, it's literally a summer movie. They use the word
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: summer home for this summer. They hop into watermelon shaped
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: floats at the lake. What is happening? The only thing
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: fall about this movie was the fall Harvest logo on
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the screen as it was playing.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Right right totally, I was like, there was not one
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: full element in this movie, Like I don't I don't understand.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I don't understand.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Other ones are like just to put some horses in
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: there and people think it's fall, like we're we're jacket
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: it's fall. At least those movies weren't blatantly summer movies.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I'm convinced they had enough money or people available, people
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: or whatever to make one movie for Fall, which was
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Roadhouse Romance and then everything else to everybody was busy
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: making Christmas movies for their forty one movie lineup, and
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: then they just like slotted these guys in the Fall
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: in the Fall. Because I never watched a Fall Harvest
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: lineup never ever, So you need to tell me did
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: last year? Was it fall related movies?
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I have never watched all six, right, I've never or
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: however many I've never watched the full lineup. The only
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: time I'm a devoted prior to this year Hallmark fan
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: is Christmas season. The rest of the year, every once
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: in a while, I'll watch a couple. But so I
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: can't answer that, but it does feel really strongly not Fall.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: And like we said, they have their biggest Christmas lineup ever,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: and so perhaps they were just too busy or the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: other side of that is part of me is overthinking it.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I'm like, how it's a little insulting to the intelligence
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: of the Hallmark movie watcher to say, like, just put
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: them in a Fall Harve, call it Fall Harvest. Nobody's
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: gonna say anything, because I think Hallmark knows who they are.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I think they know they're not the appointment television watch
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: where you put your screens away. I think they know
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: their throw on TV for a lot of people, right,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: So I wonder if they're like, hey, we're going to
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: lean into that. We're gonna be movies. We're gonna call
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: them Fall, Harvest. Nobody's gonna say anything, and if they do,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: who cares? Just throw them in there. Well I can
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and market them all together, and they can make it
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: seem like with their Palmark Checklist app. If you open
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: up the app, it's gonna ask you, let's create a
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: checklist for you, and I'm going to send you reminders
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: and pop them into your calendar for you to watch
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: these movies.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I'm disappointed in Hallmark.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I think it's Yeah, I wanted some like Fall.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I really wanted some like Halloween style festivals, Fall, pumpkin carving,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: apple bobbing, whatever. That's what I wanted, and I feel
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: let down.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I do not feel confident that we're gonna get any
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: of that.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: In South Beach Love, Oh, oh my gosh, this is
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: like one I definitely want to skip, but I'll watch
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: it South Beach Love, My goodness. Okay, anything else you
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: wished for?
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Did we have any information about how Maggie or why
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Maggie and Rick's the first time. Did I miss it?
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I don't think so. I'm trying to remember. They run
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: into each other in the office of the building and
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: they're kind of like where and they just say like
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: it was her like college boyfriend or something. I don't
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: know if they ever did get into specifics of why
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: they broke up.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, did he proposed? Did you know what? I don't know.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I'm curious how that timeline was different from the original timeline.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: That's all.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. They don't want you
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: to know these answers.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: No, they don't know.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: They don't That's all right, let's get into did you
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: just see that? I have a few Okay, First of all,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: when Josh and Maggie go back to their hometown or whatever,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: and they're like driving through like the town square and
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: what was once the library is now like it was like, yeah,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: I'm like, what the hell it looked like they returned
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: to like city that I don't I don't know, I can't,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know where the right words, but like, you know,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: just went and broke Basically, it's like a one library
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: is not going to like make a city turn bad.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: The library storyline was so odd to me because they
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: made it clear that they had already rebuilt another library,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: and so it wasn't that there wasn't the library. They
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: were just really dedicated to this piece of land, not
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: going to the developer. And look, I would not really
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: want like my beautiful library turning into a dollar store either,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: not that I'm not a fan of the dollar store,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: but you know, I like to preserve a little history.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: But I didn't really understand. Okay, once they've won this
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: injunction against this shady developer, what are they then going
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: to do with this space, because who owns it? And
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: where are they going to get the money to develop
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: into something they would like to keep?
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I mean we find out later what they do with it,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: but I don't even remember. It was so anti climactic.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: But anyway, yes, okay.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: It was just weird whatever. I mean, Like, there's some
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: cities that don't have a library, but they already established
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: that there was a library, So it's like they were
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: more concerned about the historic building, right, which I kind
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: of understand a little bit because we live in near
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: like the Orange Circle, right, there's a lot of historic
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: buildings down there, and yes, I think I would be
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: kind of bummit if they like tore those down for
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: like high rise living or something like that, but not
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: enough till I don't know. Maybe it's because I just
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: don't care about things, but I don't know. It just
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: was a lot of the story. I agree.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Anyway, did you hear the Brian Adams?
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Was it everything I do?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, look at that real music, but
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: not by the actual artist. But we rarely get it
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: by the actual artist, if Bobo Brian Adams.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: But but we did get real music. I honestly didn't
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: notice and music. I usually noticed the music in movies.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I did not notice in this one. But it was
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: during their like the.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: It was midway through the movie, but maybe it was
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: at the original like the twenty fifth anniversary part.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: At the party. Yeah, that's what I was trying to remember,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Like it was at the party. Did you notice that
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Maggie wore the same exact necklace in every scene? It
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: did not notice that it was an and it only
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: is a necklace that reminds me that you have. It's
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: kind of like one of those like interlock chain necklaces
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: that are kind of fouler right now.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: It's so funny. I did notice that, and I was like,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: that wasn't popular fifteen years ago, right, those are very
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: of the moment. You can get them at target.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Uh huh. It was in every scene. I was like,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: it wasn't in like the future or it wasn't in
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: the current day scenes. They were in the past scenes.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, because at the party scene in the
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: current day, she was wearing like a fancy or a necklace, right,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: and then when she goes from like hitting her head
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: in the past to waking up in the future, she's
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: wearing like an updated version of the same dress.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Oh I didn't notice that.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like it's the same style, same like roughly the
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: same cut, it's the same color, but it's just Yeah,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one version interesting.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Interesting. Did you notice how like cheap the lockers were
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: in their fancy golf club when they were trying to
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: like still that briefcase, Like if you if this was
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: going to be like a nice golf club that I
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: would assume that these people would belong to. There's no
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: way they're like these like high school lockers or whatever.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: They're that close together. You're not butt to butt with
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: the person changing behind.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: But oh not God. But I actually did really like
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: that scene because it made me nervous watching it. I
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: was like, they're gonna get caught, They're gonna get caught,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they did a good job. I thought it was
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: a little too long, but agree, agree, agree, agree, But
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: they did a good job building suspense in that scene.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Uh huh.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Although the fact that Rick had no idea was Maggie
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I did not believe.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, gave me a break.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Still has her short hair.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: I mean like she looks exactly the same from she's
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: wearing that big old diamond ring he gave her.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Maybe that just speaks to like, oh, we don't even
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: like notice the help, right, Like we're.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Just oh yeah, true, true, true, true true.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: By the way, I don't use the word the help.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: I'm just suggesting that that's how these people would refer to.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Them, right, I understand.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: So at one point, when they're like doing their like
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: they got their like war room, doing research on this developer, Yeah,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: she sends the girl who will be her brother's future wife.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: She's like, oh, go downstairs, Ash has great WiFi.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was like, wait.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: A minute, it's twenty let's say, it's twenty twenty one,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: so this is two thousand and six. That's like, so
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I looked it up. Wi Fi enabled devices came out
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: in two thousand and four, which to me, I was like,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: really it was that long ago, like we've had but
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I think it wasn't necessarily like everybody had Wi Fi
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: every I don't know, so they would have had Wi
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Fi in their home. But then she was like, just
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: wait and see what it's like in the future. There's
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: no way it was actually any good at that point.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were trying to do a lot of that, like, oh, apps,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: apps are going to be big in the.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Future of those dumb games.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly, I hear you. There was one scene
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: when Maggie's dad was texting. You know, of course you're
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: on texting on like a flip flow where you had
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: to like press press, press, press, you know whatever. But
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: anyway she tells them like, text with your thumbs, it's easier.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: I thought that was really funny.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Your thumb dad. Yeah, I liked that.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so there were for me, there were like a
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: lot of like little funny lines in this.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I thought it was funny and I thought it
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: was relatively fast paced. What going on? I could have
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: used like less library and more anything else.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Well, did you like the the like courtroom scenes or no?
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Not really?
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: I thought there were too many of those. Also, yeah,
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: there was one too many of those. And something about
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: like the way that she would like lay her hands
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: on the desk while she was like talking to the judge.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you noticed it, but it was
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: like she was like barely reaching the table, but like
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: it was like this you know, power pose that a
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: lawyer would have. It just was kind of funny.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I feel like they were going a long way to
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: proving like Maggie knows what she's doing. She is a
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: real lawyer, right right exactly. I mean I didn't need
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: to be sold. We already know she's on the partner track,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: so yeah, I wouldn't do it, all right, Are you
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: ready to rate this movie?
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: I am. I gave it a three stars, So did
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: I WHOA, Well, that's I.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Think our first. The same for Fall Harvest.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: I think so because there was another movie that I
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: rated three stars. I was higher than yours. But yeah,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: you know, I want to take away half a star
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: because it was not a Fall movie.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: But I thought I was good though, Yeah, do I
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: care more that it's not a Fall movie or do
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I care that it was enjoyable to watch? Right? And
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: what's interesting is my husband he was like, oh, it
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: was okay, like he thought it was cute. He will
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: rarely say a bad thing about a Hallmark movie, because
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: he was like, how dare you be smarted? The good
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: name of Hallmark? But yeah, I think he watches the
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Fall movies for Fall. He wants to feel like, oh,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: let's move there, and obviously we didn't really get any
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: of that in this movie.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think you're going to be moving to
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: South Beach next week.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Definitely not. So that's a safe watch. I get so
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: nervous watching these Christmas with them because they're all like
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: small town and then they all are like rediscovering how
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: great it is to get away from life in the
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: big city and slow down, and the whole time he's like, see, see,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: so I need a lot more city set movies this.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Year, Hallmarks. Right, you need something set in southern California, Right,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Santa Steakout, that's great, Like, no part of that is
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: going to scream like small town, you know. Yeah, let's
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: hope not Yeah, the Nine Lives of Christmas. Oh my god, Chris,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you can't do it anyway?
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: All right, guys. Next week we will be back with
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: South Beach Love, the fifth out of six movies in
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Hallmarks Fall Harvest but not really series. We are counting
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: down to the Countdown to Christmas, which starts on October
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: twenty second. Have you seen the cute Hallmark commercial that
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: has like kids trick or treating and then people opening
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the door to a Christmas party in the back?
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: I have very funny.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I loved it. I was like, it's good to know
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: who you are, make fun of yourself a little bit.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: This is I think so too.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I love it too.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: We'll be back next week with that. As always, you
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: can email us your thoughts on these movies at Megan
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: and Wendy at gmail dot com. If you know if
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Hallmark bought this movie from someone, let us know and
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: we'll see you next week. Have a great week, everybody.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Goodbye bye,