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A Grand Ole Opry Christmas · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: This is a bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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Speaker 1: a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
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Speaker 1: Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. Today
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Speaker 1: we are discussing a Grand Ole Opry Christmas, which originally
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Speaker 1: aired on Saturday, November twenty ninth and is currently available
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Speaker 1: to stream on Hallmark Plus.
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Speaker 2: And you should stream it.
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Speaker 1: Spoiler spoiler alert. I'm really tempted to be like, that's
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Speaker 1: the episode, folks, go watch it again. Oh my gosh,
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Speaker 1: wouldn't it be funny for like five star? No notes?
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Speaker 1: synopsis of a Grand Old Opry Christmas. Gentry Wade, who
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Speaker 1: gave up music after her father's death and decades ago,
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Speaker 1: must confront her past when Nashville's Grand Old Opry invites
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Speaker 1: her to honor her late country star dad at their
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Speaker 1: Christmas celebration. Claire Nita Prum directed the film. She has
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Speaker 1: twenty one total directing credits, and Hallmark viewers may know
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Speaker 1: her work from Mystery Island, House Rules, Villa Amorey, and
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Speaker 1: Savoring Paris. The script was written by Hilty Bowen and
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Speaker 1: Tracy Andrene. Hilty has five writing credits, including The Beach
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Speaker 1: Read Murders and Living with My Mother's Killer. Those are
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Speaker 1: so opposite of this movie. Tracy has thirty nine writing
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Speaker 1: credits and also wrote Christmas at the Catnip Cafe and
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Speaker 1: A Keller Christmas Vacation. For this year's countdown to Christmas season,
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Speaker 1: Tracy Andrene out there working having a big year. Christopher
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Speaker 1: Palaha stars as Mac. He has ninety five acting credits
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Speaker 1: and three upcoming projects, including the film Mimics, which he
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Speaker 1: also directed, as well as American Hostage, a scripted podcast
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Speaker 1: adaptation for MGM. Plus I'm Excited for That. Nikki Delo
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Speaker 1: plays Gentry Wade. We recently saw her in Home Turf
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Speaker 1: in October, and she will also appear in the next
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Speaker 1: two installments of the True Justice Mystery franchise. Sharon Lawrence
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Speaker 1: plays Rita. This is her one hundred and twenty first
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Speaker 1: acting credit, and she has three additional projects currently in
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Speaker 1: the works. Hallmark viewers last saw her in the Christmas
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Speaker 1: House Movies. Since then, she has appeared in the series Dynasty,
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Speaker 1: Joe Pickett and Walker. Rob Mays plays Jet Wade. This
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Speaker 1: is his sixty third acting credit and appears to be
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Speaker 1: his first appearance on Hallmark. He also appeared in a
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Speaker 1: movie called a Christmas Murder Mystery and The Beach Read Murders.
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Speaker 1: Eliza Hayes Maher plays Young Rita. Eliza has eighteen acting
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Speaker 1: credits and has appeared in all three of the Haul
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Speaker 1: Out the movies. She was also in Hidden Gems and
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Speaker 1: Taking the Reins on Hallmark. James Denton plays Von Winters.
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Speaker 1: James is a regular on Hallmark, having appeared in seventy
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Speaker 1: five episodes of The Good Witch, as well as movies
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Speaker 1: like A Kiss Before Christmas and Christmas on Cherry Lane.
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Speaker 1: This film includes numerous cameos from Bill Anderson, Brad Paisley
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Speaker 1: Daly and Vincent Drew Baldridge, Jamie Johnson, Maggie Baugh, Meghan Moroney,
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Speaker 1: Mickey Geiton, Pam Tallis, Rhet Aikins, Writers in the Sky,
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Speaker 1: Susie Bogas, Tiger, Lily Gold and t Graham Brown. We're
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Speaker 1: going to take a quick break and come right back
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Speaker 1: with our first impressions. Hey, Wendy, what was your first
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Speaker 1: impression of a grand ole Opry Christmas? Oh? We got
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Speaker 1: a top tier Countdown to Christmas contender on our hands.
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Speaker 1: The bracket participants should be quickening their boots if we
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Speaker 1: even do it. Okay, go ahead, listen to our listener
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Speaker 1: mail bag episode this week. My first impression is make
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Speaker 1: room on that five stars, no nodes bench, Ted Cooper
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Speaker 1: for sure. What did you like about this movie? Look,
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Speaker 1: the heart of this movie is not the romance. The
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Speaker 1: romance was the cherry on top. Yeah. For me, it's
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Speaker 1: the dad and daughter story. And I cried the entire time. No,
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Speaker 1: me too. The scenes between Gentry and her dad, especially
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Speaker 1: when they're like writing the song together and then we
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Speaker 1: see Mac like filming it, which God, I love that.
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Speaker 1: These scenes gutted me in the best way, mostly because
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Speaker 1: she had been plagued with these questions from people from
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Speaker 1: fans since his death, what happened to your dad? Why
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Speaker 1: did he stop writing? And she didn't know the answer,
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Speaker 1: and like, what an incredible story to tell. I just
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Speaker 1: I just thought it was so unique and good, like
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Speaker 1: he chose me. Yes, Oh my god. Yeah, that final
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Speaker 1: scene with him where she's basically saying goodbye and she's
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Speaker 1: she's kind of giving him permission and reaffirming his choice, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: to leave the duo, leave music, and go be with
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Speaker 1: his family. And it's so touching, and there's part of
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Speaker 1: me that will always be like, no, I want him
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Speaker 1: to know who you are.
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Speaker 2: I want him to see like.
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Speaker 1: It was worth it because look who she became.
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Speaker 2: But it's it's so touching and she hugs him. Oh my,
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Speaker 2: I was weeping. Oh yeah, when she's yes.
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Speaker 1: They just have they just connect, They just they get
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Speaker 1: each other and she gets what she needed in that moment. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I agree. I want to say I talked about this
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Speaker 1: in our pop Culture Club episode on Patreon where we
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Speaker 1: talked a little bit about Hallmark this week, But I said, there,
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Speaker 1: in spite of this movie having all of the perfect ingredients,
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Speaker 1: for a recipe for success. Chris Ninki Tracy Claire. I
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Speaker 1: wasn't looking forward to this movie. I'm a nineties country fan,
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Speaker 1: and I wasn't excited about it, and I can't fully
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Speaker 1: put my finger on why. And when my husband sat
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Speaker 1: down to watch this movie, he made a face like, right.
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Speaker 2: We were both very wrong.
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Speaker 1: And I knew before watching, based on the first impressions
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Speaker 1: we were seeing on Instagram that I would be wrong
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Speaker 1: because enough people were raving about this movie. Oh that's interesting,
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Speaker 1: because I thought maybe they were just you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: a Palaha fan, you know this, But I thought maybe
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Speaker 1: we were just getting a heavy influx of big fans
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Speaker 1: of Nikki and Chris and they're like, of course, we
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Speaker 1: love it. Sure, that could have been a piece of it.
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Speaker 1: But for me, I watched this a full day after
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Speaker 1: it came out, and there wasn't a single negative review
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Speaker 1: in the bunch, and so I went in feeling like,
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Speaker 1: all right, we may be in for a good time.
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Speaker 1: And halfway through the movie, I paused and turned to
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Speaker 1: my husband and said, isn't it better than he anticipated?
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Speaker 1: And he was practically in tears. Also, he goes, especially
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Speaker 1: he really loved the father daughter moment. Yeah, you know
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Speaker 1: them writing songs together. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't say
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Speaker 1: this lightly. I was fully invested from start to finish.
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Speaker 1: You know me, Like Hallmark movies lull me to sleep
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Speaker 1: sometimes sometimes like I just tap out and like I'll
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Speaker 1: scroll on my phone and then realize the movie's over,
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Speaker 1: like it happens time and time again, like I was
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Speaker 1: in it. I was really in it. I love a
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Speaker 1: time travel twist. I think I've said it before. I
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Speaker 1: built More Christmas is one of my favorites. Obviously, we
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Speaker 1: have Chris in that movie, Who's he's so good and charming?
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Speaker 1: How does this hold up to a bit More Christmas
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Speaker 1: for you? It's equal, It's equal, it's different, right, you
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Speaker 1: know the time travel part of it here. I love
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Speaker 1: the the genre, which I don't say that lightly either,
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Speaker 1: because you know me, like I hate science fiction and
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Speaker 1: type stuff. Right, it's not like one point one jiggawats
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Speaker 1: science fiction. You're right, you're even though that's not really
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Speaker 1: science fiction either. So I'm always now drawn to like
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Speaker 1: any kind of Hallmark movie that has a time travel
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Speaker 1: element to it. But this one here, what I liked
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Speaker 1: about it is that we get both gentry and mac
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Speaker 1: traveling back together. Yeah, and there's something really satisfying with
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Speaker 1: them being like partners in crime, are and mutually confused,
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Speaker 1: mutually enchanted, mutually terrified at altering the timeline, like that
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Speaker 1: they're having this shared experience together and not operating alone.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: When he time travels, I was really for her. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and she's gonna have her buddy there, right, because that,
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Speaker 1: to me would be the most frustrating part is having
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Speaker 1: to figure out the logistics of how am I gonna
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Speaker 1: do this? And I can't talk to anybody about it?
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Speaker 1: And he really Look, I'm gonna talk about Chris, but
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Speaker 1: his character just comes up behind her and underneath her
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Speaker 1: and just supports her throughout this movie. He supports her dreams.
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Speaker 1: He pawns his watch so that they have money to
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Speaker 1: spend in the past. I just I really was charmed
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Speaker 1: by that by him or his character. Well both.
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Speaker 2: Look.
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Speaker 1: How good are Chris and Nikki in this movie. Oh,
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Speaker 1: They're fantastic total stars And I do think I love
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Speaker 1: I love Chris. I'm really excited for his MGM project.
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Speaker 1: I'm excited he's filming a Hallmark movie. I thought it
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Speaker 1: was really interesting how the Mary Thanksgiving weekend promos had
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Speaker 1: and they're like Chriss on location and they would cut
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Speaker 1: back and forth to him. But I just I'm a
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Speaker 1: big fan. I loved this pairing and I loved the
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Speaker 1: storyline that they were lifelong friends who have just missed
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Speaker 1: their chance. Ye're not ex's, They've always been there for
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Speaker 1: each other and they're just realizing or she's just realizing
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Speaker 1: he's always probably known who she is to him. But
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Speaker 1: this is Nicky's story, this is Gentry's story, And I
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Speaker 1: think Chris does a great job as an actor supporting
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Speaker 1: Nicki and as a character supporting Gentry. Yeah, there's no
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Speaker 1: push and pull fight for the spotlight. Yeah, their characters
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Speaker 1: have this really comfortable, lived in friendship. It made it
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Speaker 1: completely believable to me. Yeah. I just love them, you know.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know what I expected going in. I
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Speaker 1: was like, like you said, I wasn't like that excited
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Speaker 1: for it. I was just like, Okay, no, they blew
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Speaker 1: me away. Yeah, blew me away. Here's something that did
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Speaker 1: surprise me. I really loved the setting at the Opry.
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Speaker 1: I have not been to Nashville, but I now really
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Speaker 1: want to go to the Opry, and I felt very
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Speaker 1: drawn to the location as a character in the movie. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and I really was touched by the early scene where
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Speaker 1: Sharon Lawrence as adult Rita is describing the significance of
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Speaker 1: the wood flooring on stage from the original Ryman Auditorium
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Speaker 1: something about that. I saw a clip of that before
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Speaker 1: the movie aired. Normally, when I see a clip of
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Speaker 1: a Hallmark movie, I'm not that interested. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: be honest, I don't find Hallmark promo clips to be
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Speaker 1: all that compelling, especially when they're like sneak peek.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, that did nothing for the movie. I thought
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Speaker 2: that was so touching.
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Speaker 1: And then at the very end when she gets to
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Speaker 1: step into it and dedicate the song and the introduce
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Speaker 1: Brad Paisley coming out to sing her song, I was
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Speaker 1: really moved by the history of that place and how
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Speaker 1: important it is to that country music community. So a
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Speaker 1: couple of things here. I remember talking about it on
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Speaker 1: an episode we were talking about this movie. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: we must have been a Headliness episode, and I was like,
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Speaker 1: I've been to the opera, I've toured the opry I
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Speaker 1: have not I've toured the Rieman. Oh and so now
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Speaker 1: understanding like, oh, these two work together, right, Okay, now
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Speaker 1: I get it now the circle thing in the round,
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Speaker 1: like the middle thing in the round. I remember there.
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Speaker 1: Dave girl who's the leasing our food fighters, did a
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Speaker 1: really cool documentary. I think it was on HBO. I
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Speaker 1: can't remember the name of it. I will find it
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Speaker 1: and I will put it in our show notes. But
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Speaker 1: he did this whole thing in Nashville, and they talked
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Speaker 1: about being in the round and like how the musicians
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Speaker 1: like sit in this round circle and like I can't
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Speaker 1: remember specifically if he was talking about this, like I
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Speaker 1: don't remember. I don't don't remember. But when it got
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Speaker 1: brought up in this movie, I was like, oh, this
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Speaker 1: is ticking some boxes of things like I remember from
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Speaker 1: the past, and like you was super drawn to the
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Speaker 1: history of it and wanted to know more. I thought
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Speaker 1: it was very compelling. Also, in speaking of country music,
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Speaker 1: I'm a country music girl. Yes, I'm going to confess
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Speaker 1: that I didn't know all the artists on site, but
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Speaker 1: I did love all of the singing that we got
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Speaker 1: and all I liked all of the cameos, and I
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Speaker 1: think it's very natural. I'm going to talk about it,
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Speaker 1: and did you see about you know, the location a
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Speaker 1: little bit more. But I love country. I wasn't expecting
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Speaker 1: to like a movie about country music. I don't know why,
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Speaker 1: but I did love all of the singing. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: throw something way back and you probably don't know. You
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Speaker 1: and I we love like nineties country music.
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Speaker 2: Huh.
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Speaker 1: This movie nails the throwback vibes almost perfectly. First of all,
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Speaker 1: our director can't be more than like forty years old. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: like I think she was probably be born after nineties
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Speaker 1: country music, did you? I loved the when they walk
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Speaker 1: into that party, the three of them, and Nikki's in
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Speaker 1: that like sequin dress with I burst out laughing because
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Speaker 1: they look good, but they look ridiculous. Can we save it?
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Speaker 1: Can we save it? Okay? My point is, do you
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Speaker 1: remember the nineteen ninety five country music movie called Pure
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Speaker 1: Country and it has George Strait in it? I do it.
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Speaker 1: This movie reminded me of that, Like if you were
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Speaker 1: talking like.
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Speaker 2: They captured the vibe.
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Speaker 1: They captured the vibe perfectly. Look go back and watch
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Speaker 1: that movie. I think I've only seen it once. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if it holds up. I don't couldn't even
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Speaker 1: tell you what it loves to buy right, it's that
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Speaker 1: song you can lead a heart to love, but you
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Speaker 1: can't make it fall is in that movie. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I think so.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but it had There were things about
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Speaker 1: this movie. The big hair, the mention of Shania Twain
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Speaker 1: is in the room with us, like that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 1: The whole nineties country energy was spot on and I
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Speaker 1: loved it. I loved it, loved it. Here are some
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Speaker 1: other things. I liked. Rob Mays as Jet Wade I
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Speaker 1: thought was excellent casting. I was like, who's this guy? Like,
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Speaker 1: he played this nineties country dad so perfectly.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Question, Yeah, he's not singing it's Brad. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Actually I know that's Brad Paisley's song.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I couldn't find it, but I asked my
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Speaker 2: house on.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, that's Brad singing as Ben Wade. I she
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Speaker 1: zammed it and it did come up as Brad Paisley. Yeah, okay,
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Speaker 1: that's what I thought. Yeah, I didn't realize he Brad
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Speaker 1: Paisley has two songs in this movie.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I didn't realize that because he'd been Hallmark's been promoting, like,
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Speaker 1: you know, the Hallmark Christmas Song of the Season. Basically,
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Speaker 1: but there were two songs in this movie, yeah, which
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Speaker 1: then I had to go on to Spotify and I
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Speaker 1: was like, where can I listen to these? I don't
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Speaker 1: know if I found them. You said you've never been
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Speaker 1: to Nashville before. No, they had beautiful, gorgeous shots at
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Speaker 1: the city, the Batman Building, like you know that, right, Okay?
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Speaker 1: I thought it was good. The backstage stuff at the operation, like,
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Speaker 1: none of it felt fake to me. Question, you've been
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Speaker 1: to bars in Nashville or that opening scene where they're
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Speaker 1: in Gentry's bar and those guys are in full country gear.
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Speaker 2: Did that feel genuine to you?
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Speaker 1: Like really they're like that country Yeah, in the hats
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Speaker 1: and every That's good to know. Yeah, that's good to us.
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Speaker 1: The city has so much tourism, but it also has
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Speaker 1: so many locals too, so like, I mean, yes, there's
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Speaker 1: people who are like kind of cosplaying a little bit
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Speaker 1: like where they're they're but I've seen some real cowboys. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: not cowboys, but you know, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 1: we're all in Yeah. Yeah, did Gingry's dad know? I
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Speaker 1: don't know. I part of me is like feel like
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Speaker 1: he did know that that was her, you know, especially
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Speaker 1: at the end when he's like asking basically for confirmation,
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Speaker 1: like was your dad a good dad? Right? What? Uncle
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Speaker 1: Vaughn knows? Yeah, well yeah, So I'm like, look and
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Speaker 1: then the aunt aunt Rita, I was like, did she know?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't and honestly, and you look,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't even matter. No, it doesn't even matter to me.
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Speaker 1: I just was curious what you thought my biggest worry
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Speaker 1: going into this movie, and you talked about it a
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Speaker 1: little bit where the cameos. I was very worried it
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Speaker 1: was going to be like a parade of who do
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Speaker 1: we have here and like a you know, like a
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Speaker 1: full remember me talking about it like it was gonna
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Speaker 1: be like a superstar extravaganza, and we got it a
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Speaker 1: little bit in the Aaron Khill like tour scene. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I liked it.
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Speaker 1: It was a little bit like behind this corner we
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Speaker 1: have this and oh my god, Henry have this and
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Speaker 1: this is not a I was surprisingly not annoyed by it.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be like every second because
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Speaker 1: the list was long of it was Harry, are you
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Speaker 1: ready to move on to wishes?
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Speaker 2: I got none.
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Speaker 1: I have two Nikki's silver dress in that party scene
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Speaker 1: was not it. I looked at who the costume designer
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Speaker 1: was because I was like, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: They feel like they did the research.
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Speaker 1: Me too, me too. But I also felt like that
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Speaker 1: was a nineties interpretation of what like a country diva
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Speaker 1: would wear. It leaned to costume me for me a
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Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, I did feel like they came in
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Speaker 1: in costumes. I did laugh out loud when they walked
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Speaker 1: into that party of three of them. I just thought
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Speaker 1: they were off the charts. I thought that I can't
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Speaker 1: even remember, Sorry, Chris, I can't remember what Chris was
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Speaker 1: wearing at all. Rita, young Rita. I thought her look
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Speaker 1: nailed nineties. Yeah, it was Nicki's that dress, which is
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Speaker 1: so I was like, I don't, I don't what is
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Speaker 1: happening here. If they didn't have that like flower thing
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Speaker 1: on the front of it, I think it could have
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Speaker 1: maybe passed. But I don't know. Your other wish somebody
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Speaker 1: that needs to check on the security guard. I felt
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Speaker 1: bad for the man. These people are disappearing right in
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Speaker 1: front of his eyes. It's no big deal. It's no
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Speaker 1: big deal. Yeah, And even like even when Chris comes back,
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Speaker 1: like he's just sitting there on the stage, like, nobody
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Speaker 1: was like, where did this dude come from? By the way,
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Speaker 1: do you know that security guard's name is big Fella?
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Speaker 1: I did not.
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Speaker 2: That's how he's credited on IMDb.
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Speaker 1: Big Fella Ela. Yep, that's all I have for my wishes.
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Speaker 1: You have like zero literally zero? Great, let's talk. Did
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Speaker 1: you see that?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I only have a couple. Okay, one I referenced Chris
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Speaker 1: wears a red and black shirt. Then he comes on
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Speaker 1: screen and I was like, look at that shirt and
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Speaker 1: my husband goes, that's Garth Brooks and I was like,
19:44
Speaker 1: e pieces and I had to google it man oh man,
19:47
Speaker 1: and I did Instagram story who wore it better? And
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Speaker 1: Chris responded, ah, you got it now.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if it was intentional or not, but
19:54
Speaker 2: feels like it had to have been.
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Speaker 1: Feels like it had to have been. Sure. Who can
19:58
Speaker 1: see that shirt nineties country and not think that Garth
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Speaker 1: Brooks album cover? I ello weld. When I saw your Instagram,
20:05
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I didn't put the two together.
20:07
Speaker 1: Thank you for doing that. I thought it was great.
20:09
Speaker 1: Thought it was great. One of my digit see that
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Speaker 1: is when Gentry and Mack are baking cookies. With their
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Speaker 1: cousin with the cousin Rita. She's the cousin, right, she's
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Speaker 1: her dad's cousins so she was her aunt, right, Yeah,
20:25
Speaker 1: that's right. They make the cookie that I make every
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Speaker 1: single year, which is a peanut butter blossom. Oh uh huh.
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Speaker 2: We just made them in our house.
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Speaker 1: You don't put the hershey kiss on the cookie before
20:36
Speaker 1: it goes in the oven, even notice it would be
20:39
Speaker 1: a melted puddle. They they had it was rock cookie dough.
20:43
Speaker 1: They pressed their thumbs in it to make the dnt
20:46
Speaker 1: and then they put the hirshey kiss on and then
20:48
Speaker 1: they put it in the oven. And that is not
20:49
Speaker 1: how you make them. No, it is not you bake
20:52
Speaker 1: the cookie. You put the kiss on as soon as
20:54
Speaker 1: they come out of the oven. And that's how they
20:57
Speaker 1: get that shiny look too. Yeah, And that's when their
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Speaker 1: best is when they're just out of the oven and
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Speaker 1: their chocolate's melty on top of it, especially the only
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Speaker 1: time I like them, once the chocolate has hardened back
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Speaker 1: into a kiss, not into it.
21:10
Speaker 2: Huh.
21:10
Speaker 1: I have more, Yeah, Max. Grandma is named Hilty the writer,
21:14
Speaker 1: or she's not the writer, she's the yeah, one of
21:17
Speaker 1: the writers. One of the writers is also named Hilty.
21:20
Speaker 1: I like, when you put your own name in it.
21:24
Speaker 1: My next did you see that? And final one is
21:26
Speaker 1: also about the name Gentry. Kind of love this name,
21:31
Speaker 1: love this character name. And I was like, well, it
21:33
Speaker 1: has to have some sort of like country reasoning, some
21:37
Speaker 1: sort of connection. So I looked it up. I don't know,
21:40
Speaker 1: this is all I found. There was a female artist
21:44
Speaker 1: in the US in the late sixties who rose to
21:47
Speaker 1: fame and her name was Bobby Gentry. She was a songwriter,
21:50
Speaker 1: And I thought maybe. And then in the late nineties,
21:53
Speaker 1: early two thousand, there was a country duo group named
21:58
Speaker 1: Montgomery Gentry. Sure, but this would have been like later.
22:02
Speaker 1: I don't know, it doesn't matter, but yeah, maybe they
22:04
Speaker 1: took inspirations on that. Yeah. Yeah, do you have any
22:07
Speaker 1: other did you see that?
22:08
Speaker 2: Yeah? I have a couple.
22:09
Speaker 1: They're not digite that, They're just fun facts. I really
22:12
Speaker 1: enjoyed the tributes that Nicki and Chris did to each
22:14
Speaker 1: other on their Instagram, throwing it back to their first
22:17
Speaker 1: project together, North Shore, many many many years ago. Yeah.
22:21
Speaker 2: Also, I thought this was very interesting.
22:23
Speaker 1: I read an interview with Nicki talking about filming at
22:27
Speaker 1: the Opry and the opry was still functioning daily as
22:31
Speaker 1: they were filming, So she says her call time would
22:34
Speaker 1: be nine pm for hair and makeup. We wouldn't be
22:36
Speaker 1: able to start shooting until after the tours backstage were
22:39
Speaker 1: done and the show was over. Sometimes that would be
22:43
Speaker 1: eleven and sometimes that would be midnight. Then we would
22:45
Speaker 1: shoot all the way until the next day at eleven am,
22:48
Speaker 1: go home, get a few hours of sleep, and go back.
22:50
Speaker 1: So when I tell you that, it was the hardest
22:53
Speaker 1: schedule that any of us has ever worked, and everybody
22:55
Speaker 1: did it with such an incredible attitude and joy in
22:58
Speaker 1: their hearts. As hard as it was, there was not
23:00
Speaker 1: one single complaint on that set. That's nice.
23:04
Speaker 2: Did you notice our friend Denise.
23:05
Speaker 1: In the movie. No, there were a lot of a
23:09
Speaker 1: ton I wonder where she was. Denise message us, we
23:12
Speaker 1: can go back and catch you. Yeah, there is an
23:15
Speaker 1: extended cut on Hallmark Plus. I tried to watch it,
23:18
Speaker 1: and Hallmark Plus was being buky. Hallmark Plus was not
23:21
Speaker 1: working for me last night, I either, and I didn't
23:23
Speaker 1: want to watch it for this review because I didn't
23:25
Speaker 1: want to have scenes that not everybody had seen. Yeah,
23:28
Speaker 1: but I may go back and look because I heard
23:30
Speaker 1: there were some good additional scenes there.
23:34
Speaker 2: Well, I think we've given it away. What did you
23:36
Speaker 2: rate Lovely.
23:38
Speaker 1: Christmas and gave it a five star? Worried me there
23:41
Speaker 1: for a second five stars? Good stuff. Thanks for listening
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