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Unwrap Hallmark’s 2023 Countdown to Christmas · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark or Homework Review Podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark movie fan. Wendy here,
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  Speaker 1: I'm your Hallmark hater, former Hallmark hater. Oops, Freudian slip.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're diving into the twenty twenty three Countdown to
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  Speaker 1: Christmas line up to give our thoughts, our first impressions,
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  Speaker 1: what we're looking forward to, and what we maybe won't
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  Speaker 1: mind if the DVR forgets to record it. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to connect with us outside of the podcast to
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  Speaker 1: talk all things Hallmark, you can find us on Instagram
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  Speaker 1: at Girls Gone Hallmark and if you just want to
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  Speaker 1: hear about our lives, my rants about life at the
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  Speaker 1: grocery store because I'm a forty four year old boomer.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently Wendy doesn't watch our Instagram story, she says, know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking talking about? All of us at Megan
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  Speaker 1: and Wendy jump into our Facebook group if you want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about anything Hallmark. We got a little tea
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  Speaker 1: over there. We're talking countdown to Christmas over there, fan
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  Speaker 1: favorite movies. It's Girls Gone Hallmark on Facebook now that
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  Speaker 1: countwend to Christmas season launches on Friday, October twentieth, a
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  Speaker 1: full eleven days before Halloween, and we worried maybe that
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark wouldn't come up with a full slate of movies.
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  Speaker 1: But never fear. Not only is the full slate, it's
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  Speaker 1: their biggest slate ever, with forty two movies across three platforms.
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  Speaker 1: I know this. All this mass here loses me. And
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  Speaker 1: then some say forty four if you count Christmas in July,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't, but that technically that was a Christmas
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  Speaker 1: movie they produced in the year twenty twenty three. So
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark is bringing it now. It remains to be seen
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  Speaker 1: the caliber of these movies. Yes, like a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these were looking forward to, but we don't know. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know. So if you want to know what these
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  Speaker 1: movies are actually like, you're gonna want to come back
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  Speaker 1: for all of our reviews. Yeah. Here's my problem too,
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  Speaker 1: is a lot of these movies are not loaded into
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  Speaker 1: IMDb yet, right, so I don't know who the writers are.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who the directors are, and for me,
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  Speaker 1: that makes a big difference. Absolutely, we will be publishing
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  Speaker 1: a calendar of all the movies we'll be watching and reviewing,
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  Speaker 1: so keep an eye on our Instagram for that, we
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  Speaker 1: will also be asking you to vote because some of
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  Speaker 1: these weekends it's gonna be hard to choose which movie
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  Speaker 1: to watch, So you'll get to vote on which reviews
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  Speaker 1: you want to see. And we're toying with the idea
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  Speaker 1: of continuing countdown to Christmas movie reviews into twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: four so we can catch all the ones we may miss. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so that's what's going on with us. Shall we dive in?
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it? You want me to go first? Sure? Friday,
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  Speaker 1: October twentieth on the Hallmark Channel. Checking It Twice stars
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  Speaker 1: Kevin McGary and Kim Matula. Do you want to hear
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  Speaker 1: a synopsis? I do. When a professional hockey player McGary
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  Speaker 1: is traded to his love interest's hometown team, he finds
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  Speaker 1: himself falling head over heels for a real estate agent.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. Well, let me give you my initial thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on this movie. Okay, one love the title. Okay, why
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  Speaker 1: because Christmas isn't in it? Like we're running out of
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  Speaker 1: like marry me at Christmas the Christmas. But I just
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  Speaker 1: think it's real cute. I love the idea of Kevin
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  Speaker 1: McGarry and Kim Motula starring together. Because they both have
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  Speaker 1: like an old Hollywood feel. To me. Kevin McGary is
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  Speaker 1: on when Calls the Heart, and I just he strikes
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  Speaker 1: me as like an old tiny actor. Obviously he's super
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  Speaker 1: handsome dude. Yeah, I just think he shines in those
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  Speaker 1: roles and kim Matula from Ghosts of Christmas always so good.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a fantastic movie. Again, when was that movie
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  Speaker 1: set nineteen fifties? Yeah, I just I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: good match. That's good. You know what I read when
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  Speaker 1: I see checking it twice? He's a professional hockey player.
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  Speaker 1: Don't hockey players like check? Like look at that check? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: nice little pun. Yeah, all right, okay. Next up, on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: October twenty first, on the Hallmark Channel, we have Where
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  Speaker 1: Are You Christmas? Starring Lindsay Fonseka, Michael Rady, Jim O'Hare
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  Speaker 1: or is it Jim o'ayre, and Julie Warner. Ready for
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  Speaker 1: a synopsis? Yes, After Addie, Lindsay Fonseca wishes for a
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  Speaker 1: year without Christmas, she wakes up in a black and
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  Speaker 1: white world and works with the town mechanic Michael Rady
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  Speaker 1: to restore Chris. I'm super into this one. You saw
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  Speaker 1: the movie Pleasantville, right, Yes, I did. Reese Witherspoon, Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: Toby maguire, Yes, that's what I'm hoping this like kind
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  Speaker 1: of the feeling is like it's almost like a parody
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  Speaker 1: is the wrong word, but it's like that like leave
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  Speaker 1: it to Beaver, but like not like a big wink. Yeah. Well,
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  Speaker 1: and also Michael Rady as a tone mechanic. I really,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so into that. We love Michael Rady. You need
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  Speaker 1: to only listen back to some of our episodes. What's
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  Speaker 1: that rescue movie? I don't know, it's with the Dog
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember. Love to the Rescue. Yeah, that was
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  Speaker 1: a great movie. Nikki Delouch, Yeah, great movie. I love
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  Speaker 1: Michael Rady. I'm excited for this movie me too. That
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  Speaker 1: might be the one of the weekend. Agree. Next Step
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  Speaker 1: under the Christmas Sunday, October twenty second, eight pm on
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark Channel, stars Jessica Parker Kennedy and Ryan Pavey. Did
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  Speaker 1: you hear that big SI from Megan? We've reached the
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  Speaker 1: first record scratch moment of the episode. Yes, a synopsis here.
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  Speaker 1: Kat is scheduled for her first trip into space, but
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  Speaker 1: a sideline due to an accident. She meets a new
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  Speaker 1: man at the local planetarium, and together they must work
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  Speaker 1: hard to open a new exhibit by Christmas. So many
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  Speaker 1: things wrong with this movie? Well, I need to tell
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  Speaker 1: you that Wendy and I were together as she was
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  Speaker 1: writing our Countdown to Christmas post available at mangan and
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  Speaker 1: Wendy dot com, with all of her first impressions of
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  Speaker 1: these movies, and she read me exactly one synopsis during
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  Speaker 1: that time, and it was this one. Now do I
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  Speaker 1: have faith in Hallmark's ability to pull off a movie
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  Speaker 1: that contains an astronaut? Now? I love space movies, I
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  Speaker 1: love space shows. I hate all of that. This is
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  Speaker 1: not a space movie that you're gonna watch. He's a
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  Speaker 1: planetarium movie. And I worry about like green screen constellation.
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  Speaker 1: Oh boy, I don't know, Okay, okay, moving on? Oh
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  Speaker 1: what and a new exhibit by Christmas? I hate it? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I hate it. Yeah, yep, yep yeap. Next step, Miss
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  Speaker 1: Christmas comes to Town Thursday, October twenty sixth on Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: Movies and Mysteries. This is the first of Hallmark Movies
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  Speaker 1: and Mysteries. Stars Erica Durance, Brennan Elliott, Barbara Nevin and
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  Speaker 1: here is your synopsis. When Miss Christmas, Barbara Nevin, a
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  Speaker 1: shopping channel host, receives a terminal diagnosis, she heads on
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  Speaker 1: a multi city excursion to spread Christmas chair. You guys,
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  Speaker 1: I think we need our tissues for this one. And
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  Speaker 1: here's why. Do you know that Brennan Elliott's real life
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  Speaker 1: wife is going through a cancer diagnosis treatment situation right now?
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  Speaker 1: The extreme one, Yes, yes, And for him to take
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  Speaker 1: a movie that probably hits real close to home is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a hard watch. I think, yes, I am
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  Speaker 1: prepared for the tissues. I love Erica Durance, me too,
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  Speaker 1: and I love Barbara Nevin. Let's Talk Christmas by Design
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  Speaker 1: on Friday, October twenty seventh on the Hallmark Channels, starring
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  Speaker 1: Rebecca Dalton and Jonathan Kelts. The synopsis is as part
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  Speaker 1: of a Christmas competition to design a clothing line with
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  Speaker 1: a holiday theme, a fashion designer takes a moment to
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  Speaker 1: reflect on what truly matters in life. This movie was
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  Speaker 1: adapted from a book called Jingle Jammies. Are we guessing
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  Speaker 1: that she's gonna design Christmas pajamas? I mean, I love
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  Speaker 1: a Christmas pajama, but it sounds like clothing line no
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  Speaker 1: holiday theme, like I don't want a Christmas sweater. I
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  Speaker 1: could be into a holiday pajama line, although it's a
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  Speaker 1: real saturated market. What do you think. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: this movie sounds like a movie we've seen before where
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  Speaker 1: they're like making clothes and it just feels like an
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  Speaker 1: old Hallmark movie. Yeah, there's nothing about it that's making
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  Speaker 1: you want the fire, not one thing. Not one thing
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  Speaker 1: about it. No. Next step is Mystic Christmas Saturday, October
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighth on the Hallmark Channel, stars Jesse shram Chandler Massey,
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  Speaker 1: Patty Mirran, William R. Mosis. Here is your synopsis. As
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  Speaker 1: Juniper spends time during the holiday season, she reunites with
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  Speaker 1: the proprietor proprietor proprietor pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut. This
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  Speaker 1: happens while she is employed at the rehab center and aquarium,
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  Speaker 1: which are also located in the same town. Okay, first
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  Speaker 1: of all, Mystic pizza names throwback in nineties. But yes,
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  Speaker 1: but why are the rehab center and aquarium? Are they
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  Speaker 1: the same place? Or she's has dual employment? I think
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  Speaker 1: dual employment. Okay, I don't get this synopsis at all.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand the only two words that make sense
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  Speaker 1: to me are mystic and pizza. I love Jesse shram
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  Speaker 1: a lot Jesse shram slash not Anna Camp. Yes, why
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  Speaker 1: does she need two jobs if this movie does not
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  Speaker 1: include a Julia Roberts cameo, I'm out all right? Next up?
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, oh no, you did this on purpose? I
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  Speaker 1: did not. On Sunday, October twenty ninth, Juya Julia Noel
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  Speaker 1: samdedlesa like that, like that computer version of the Google
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  Speaker 1: pronunciation Julia, send your emails to Megan and Wendy at
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  Speaker 1: gmail dot com. They should have just called it joy Noel,
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  Speaker 1: it's too hard to pronounce. Look, but doesn't that mean
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  Speaker 1: it means Merry Christmas? Maybe it does. But we recently
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  Speaker 1: recorded a podcast with a guest who practically called me
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  Speaker 1: out on my inability to pronounce certain words and names,
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  Speaker 1: And now it's all I can think about. So have
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  Speaker 1: you noticed in this episode on like super tongue tied? No, yes,
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  Speaker 1: don't let it get in your head. It's my Roman
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  Speaker 1: Empire thought I started. God it's killing me. And this
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  Speaker 1: stars J C. Elliott and Brandt Daughtry. The synopsis is
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  Speaker 1: copy editor Leah and pragmatic reporter Mark head to France
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  Speaker 1: to learn about a mysterious artist behind a romantic Christmas painting. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: J c Elliott was great in last year's My Southern
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  Speaker 1: Family Christmas, which I know you did not watch, but
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  Speaker 1: I really loved it a lot, so I am looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to seeing her in this part. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: love brand Daughtry also, and I think we're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: like a Parisian setting, which I'm all about. I'm in
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  Speaker 1: all three of those things separately. J c Elliott, Brandt Daughtry,
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  Speaker 1: Paris Christmas Painting. On Thursday, November two, from Hallmark Movies
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  Speaker 1: and Mysteries, we have My Christmas Guide, starring Amber Marshall
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  Speaker 1: and beIN Male. Here's the synopsis. A college professor connects
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  Speaker 1: with a guide dog trainer after losing his eyesight and
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  Speaker 1: adopting a scene eye dog. Yeah, and I do believe
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  Speaker 1: this movie feature is an actor who is visually inherit.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's fantastic, but this sounds very similar to
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  Speaker 1: Guiding Emily. Yeah, right on the heels of Guiding Emily.
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  Speaker 1: I have to wonder if this is an acquisition, you know,
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  Speaker 1: one they've gotten the hopper ready to go in case
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: they needed to fill out this season. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: it's not gonna be great, but we've got two loss
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  Speaker 1: of eyesight seeing Eye dog movies very close to here
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  Speaker 1: on the line. Yeah, like worst early November in this
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  Speaker 1: movie that said, I like a dog movie, and I
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  Speaker 1: think this one could tug at the heart strings a little.
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  Speaker 1: Oh for sure. It's on movies and misery. Of course
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  Speaker 1: he's going to tug at the heart strings. Next up,
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  Speaker 1: Flipping for Christmas on Friday, November three on the Hallmark Channel,
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  Speaker 1: stars Ashley Newbrow and Marcus Rossner. I love Ashley Newbrow.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like she took she'd take a hiatus, but
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  Speaker 1: she was like Hallmarks, like top top star. But I
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  Speaker 1: think she's fantastic. And you know, we love Bede. Marcus Rossner.
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  Speaker 1: We're seeing a lot of him this season. It's working
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  Speaker 1: a lot right now. I'm so glad. I really enjoy him.
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  Speaker 1: The synopsis is right before Christmas, realtor Abigail agrees to
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  Speaker 1: help her sister with what she believes will be an
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  Speaker 1: easy flip of an inherited home. Things get tricky when
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  Speaker 1: the co beneficiary, Bo has a different idea. When we
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  Speaker 1: talk about like classic Hallmark. This is kind of We've
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  Speaker 1: been talking about this a lot in our Girls on
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  Speaker 1: Hallmarks reviews. This is giving me We're gonna have contention,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that could be done well, or it
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  Speaker 1: can be done in an annoying Yeah, we're gonna watch
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: these two fight over paint colors, right, yes, that stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. But and it's like very autumn in the vineyard.
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  Speaker 1: It's very automn in the vineyard. Co beneficiary. We'll see,
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  Speaker 1: all right, next step, this is the one the heinies
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  Speaker 1: are waiting for. Guys with the worst name of the
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  Speaker 1: entire lineup. You think, No, I think this doesn't wink
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  Speaker 1: in a not to Never Been Kissed? Of course I
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  Speaker 1: like it. Don't hate on me Saturday and I've never
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  Speaker 1: been kissed. Although, although deeply problematic, that's one of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite movies of all times. Okay, but he falls for
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  Speaker 1: her while he thinks she's a high school studio. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I just let those details to the side.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I should watch it as a parent of
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  Speaker 1: a high schooler, and then I might have other thoughts
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  Speaker 1: about it. I just taught my daughter yesterday about Mary
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  Speaker 1: Kayla Turner. Oh no, I don't know why was she horrified? Yes, good,
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: completely horrified, and then she locked them up online. But
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: you know Mary kay is since past I didn't. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: oh no, I don't remember what happened. But anyway, moving on,
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  Speaker 1: let's get back to Tyler Hines. Never Been Christ premieres
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  Speaker 1: on November fourth at apm on the Hallmark Channel. This
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  Speaker 1: star is Janelle Parrish, Pascal, I had to do, Joy
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  Speaker 1: Pascal La Month, Kidney's I'm sure It's butchered, my apologies,
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  Speaker 1: and Tyler Hines. Here is your synopsis. Best friends Naomi
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  Speaker 1: and Liz return home for the holidays and simultaneously enter
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  Speaker 1: a love triangle when they both reconnect with their high
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  Speaker 1: school crush, Chris Silver Never Been Chrissed. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: get it, I get it. They're both hot for Chris
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  Speaker 1: at the reunion. Is that what's happening? I guess it's
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  Speaker 1: not a reunion but just home for the holidays. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm worried this could veer into like hijinx territory, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: with like the two like trying to sabotage each other,
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  Speaker 1: like so they can get get to the Chris. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so they can be crissed. There's so many jokes here.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. Look if Tyler Hines does not have
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  Speaker 1: a Candy Hayne hanging from his mouth and this movie,
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  Speaker 1: I will revolt. And I bet you he does. I
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  Speaker 1: bet you he does. That's gonna be just for the fans.
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  Speaker 1: Next up, I'm looking forward to this one, The Santa Summit,
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, November fifth, on the Hallmark Channel. It stars
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  Speaker 1: Hunter King and Benjamin Hollingsworth. Three best friends take on
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  Speaker 1: the annual Santa Summit, a night when everyone bar and
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  Speaker 1: restaurant hops in Santa suits. Didn't we see this when
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  Speaker 1: we were in Denver? Didn't we remember we were walking around?
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  Speaker 1: I think you're right. And I've also seen Santa Coon
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  Speaker 1: in New York where it's a bar crawl in Santa suits.
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  Speaker 1: We've been there when that's happening. I love this. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited for this movie. I think it's funny
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  Speaker 1: to me because it feels like maybe the older demo
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  Speaker 1: won't quite right. Really love it, but it's it's probably
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  Speaker 1: for a demo that's younger than me. To be quite honest,
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  Speaker 1: I don't bar hop ever. Me no hired after the
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  Speaker 1: second stop for real, pour me into an uber after
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  Speaker 1: the second place Yeah, Yes. Next Up Mystery on Mistletoe Lane, Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: November ninth on Hallmark Movies and Mystery. This one stars
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  Speaker 1: Erica Sarah and Victor Wowys Howie Webster. Here's your synopsis.
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  Speaker 1: When moving to a new town, Heidi and her kids
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  Speaker 1: discover a Christmas mystery with the help of a local handyman. Look,
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  Speaker 1: we got some blue collar jobs here. Michael Rady's a mechanic.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Vixter Webster is a handyman. They're not all high powered
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  Speaker 1: executives being brought to the small down. I love Victor
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  Speaker 1: Webster to you so easy on the eyes. I will
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  Speaker 1: probably just watch it on cast alone. What is that
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: that is a ladder? Are they putting those lights up?
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Put enough Christmas lights on your house? Although my light's
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: do ble on my head before Halloween I need to
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  Speaker 1: call too. Next Up, Everything Christmas on Friday, November tenth
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  Speaker 1: on the Hallmark Channel, stars Catherine Burrell, Corey Sevier and
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  Speaker 1: Matt Wells. The synopsis Christmas Lover Laurie Joe and her
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: roommate head to yule Tide Springs for a long time
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  Speaker 1: reunion to honor her late grandmother and meet two men
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Carl and Jason along the Way. Oh boy, m h.
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  Speaker 1: I like Corey a lot, especially after last year's I
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  Speaker 1: can't remember the name of the movie right now, but
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  Speaker 1: I really liked it a lot. Oh Noel next Door. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: but this sounds like a driving movie with lots of
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  Speaker 1: green screen. And I hear you. A Christmas Detour is
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  Speaker 1: a CCB joint and one of my favorite, like older
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark movies, and they're in a car the whole time,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm keeping it open minds Okay. Christmas Island on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: November eleventh, on the Hallmark Channel stars Rachel Scarsten and
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Walker. Are you ready for the synopsis? After Kate's
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  Speaker 1: first private flight en route to Christmas Island in Switzerland
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  Speaker 1: gets diverted due to a snowstorm, she teams up with
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  Speaker 1: an air traffic controller to land her dream job. Is
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  Speaker 1: it Christmas? If there's not a stuck in the airport storyline?
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I guess not in Switzerland. Andrew Walker got the short
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: end of the stick last year with Maple Valley Christmas, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: but not in three Wiseman and Baby No agree. You
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  Speaker 1: think he's getting the short end of the stick in
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  Speaker 1: this movie. I think it could be great. You think
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be great. I think it could be great. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: but I see but but there's nothing about it that's
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  Speaker 1: screaming out to me at the moment. Me neither. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Next up, A Heidelberg Christmas on November eleventh on the
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark Channel, stars Gina Claire Mason and Frederick Brossier. Glass
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  Speaker 1: ornament maker Heidi heads to Germany to sell her items
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  Speaker 1: at the prestigious Heidelberg Christmas Market in Germany. During her trip,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: she connects with a local artisan, Lucas, who helps her
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: reconnect with her lost heritage. I want to go to
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: the Christmas markets in Germany so badly. M M. You
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: and I one year, we're gonna go. Okay, I'm calling
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: it now, okay, like when our children are grown. Okay,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: you and I are gonna go. Okay, but please let
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: it be filmed in Germany. Oh, that would be fantastic.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: It would have had to be filmed a year ago.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Like I want to filmed in the actual Christmas market. Yeah,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: it's not. It's not lower those expectations, girl, But Genia
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Clare Mason love her. Thursday, November sixteenth, on Hallmark Movies
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: and Mysteries. We have a world record Christmas Starry Nicky DeLoach,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Lucas bryant Ice Dolman. The synopsis is Marissa and Eric
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: encouraged her young son with autism, who is determined to
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: set a Guinness World record and has a chance to
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: do so by Christmas Eve. Now, since writing our blog
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: post about this, I have learned that Hallmark did, in
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: fact higher and wanted an actor with autism, and it
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: makes me so dang happy. Yes, the actor who plays
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: their son is a proudly autistic actor. So cool. Hooray yay.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Next up, on Friday, November seventeenth, we have Navigating Christmas
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: on the Hallmark Channel, which stars Chelsea Hobbs and Stephen
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: who's our recently divorced Melanie brings her son to a
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: remote island for Christmas, where she connects with the lighthouse owner. Anymore,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: So you're not excited for this one? I just I
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: just feel like a lighthouse owner is going to be
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: like a solitary, grumpy dude. Yeah of course. Yeah, and
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: so we've got that hurdle to overcome. Yeah, I hear you.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: All Right, Here's what I'm really excited for. Saturday, November eighteenth,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: at APM on the Hallmark Channel. A Merry Scottish Christmas
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  Speaker 1: stars Lacey Shaver and Scott Woolf, former siblings on Party
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: of Five. I can't wait. I'm really truly excited for this.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I'm so glad they're playing siblings. Oh God, that would
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: be so gross if they were like and I hope
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: they keep because they're traveling to reunite with their mother.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I hope they keep that sibling storyline at the forefront.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: This is on the Hallmark Channel. There's gonna be a romance.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Who are the romantic We don't even know. I don't know.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Is there an IMDb for this movie? We have James Robinson,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Fiona Belle, and Kelly Blaze as additional cast members, so
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: we shall see. I'm here for it. Will absolutely be
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: watching this movie. Do you think they filmed in Scotland?
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: I hope so. I mean, I think Hallmark would give
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Lacey anything she wants. They filmed in Ireland for her
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Christmas at Castle Hearts. I think. I think if anybody's
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: gonna get the on location treatment nextcept we have Holiday
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Hotline on Sunday, November nineteenth. I am also looking forward
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: to this movie on the Hallmark Channel. It stars Emily
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Tennant and Niall Mater. Upon leaving London and working at
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: a cooking hotline, the butterbotline. Yup, Abby connects with an
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: anonymous caller, a single dad who Abby unknowingly is also
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: smitten with in real life. This is sparking so many
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: memories for me. There are really so many. Like one,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: there's a fantastic West Wing scene where the president calls
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the Butterball hot line, like he discovers that it's a thing.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I love that too. There was one Thanksgiving or something
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: really tragic happened in our lives. But because of that,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: my dad was the one cooking Thanksgiving dinner and he
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: had to call my mom's mom to be talked through
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: how to make it oh my, which just like gives
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: me that vibe. I love Thanksgiving. I just love I
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: love this idea. Everything is crossed that it's well executed.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Do you think this is a Thanksgiving movie? I mean
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: it does air on November nineteenth. Well that's a good question.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Is it a Thanksgiving movie? I don't know. I wouldn't
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: mind that mean either, it'd be kind of a departure,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: But I doubt it. You think they're cooking turkey for Christmas.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Probably on Wednesday, you guys Marco calendars, because a Wednesday movie.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: It's November twenty second. It's right before Thanksgiving, right A
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: season for family on Hallmark Movies and Mystery stars Brendan Penny,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Stacy Farber, Benjamin Jacobsen, and Asrael Dolman. Here's the synopsis. So,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: while Maddie's adopted son wants to meet his brother, Cody,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: who was adopted into another family, Cody's father isn't ready.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Why aren't they splitting up these children? As what I
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: want to know, You're a trap, your parent trap vibes maybe,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: but a Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, it's gonna be kind
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: of a misery. Yeah yeah, But Brendan Penny, I enjoy
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: his movies. I enjoy him, So I will probably watch
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: this good, watch it on mute, and we'd love it.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you know what. I'm gonna be out
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: of town. I was just gonna say, like, I would
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: probably watch this as I'm prepping Thanksgiving dinner. But I'm
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: not gonna even be home, so I'll be watching on
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: my phone from a hotel room. Except catch me a
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: few Claus. Thursday, November twenty third, at eight pm on
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the Hallmark Channel, stars Italia Ricci and Luke McFarlane. On
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the verge of her Big Break, aspiring news anchor Avery
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Quinn catches a home intruder wearing a red suit, claiming
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: to be Santa's son, Chris. What else do I need
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: to know? Luke McFarland playing Santa's son Chris, like Fred Clause,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: do you think is he a bad guy, a home intruder?
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Or is that a mix up? I mean it's Santa Claus,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: but it's Santa Claus. Sucks. Scott Callvin gets arrested as
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Santa Claus. Who the Santa Claus? I'm alan, I've watched
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: it a million years ago. I don't know the details
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: much every year. I don't think he's a bad guy,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: and I have high hopes for this movie. Okay, you
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: need to do the next one. Next up? Letters to
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Santa on Friday, November twenty fourth, on the Hallmark Channel,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: one of two movies airing this Friday. It stars Katie
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Leclerk and Rafael day laft Weddey. That was easy? What
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: were you afraid of? All those names? The Young siblings
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: use a magic pen from Santa to wish for their
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: parents to get back together. I mean, what's of divorce
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: happening stuff? Listen. I'm gonna tell you a quick story.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: When my daughter was in kindergarten, there was a girl
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: in her class whose parents were separated, and it was
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: around the holiday time and they were asking Santa or
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: they were making some sort of like project that said, like,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: what do you want for Christmas? And she wrote for
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: my parents to get back together. That's really what I
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: thought of when I when I read this. No, so sad.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I hope the magic pen makes it everybody come back together?
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: What what? But what if they're aupmant to beating? I know,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: I know sometimes people are better apart. I agree co
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: parenting right, Divorce is not a shameful decision. It's not
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: a morally inferior choice. Yes, but a lot of people
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: think it is. I understand. Okay. Friday, November twenty fourth,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: on the Hallmark Channel, Holiday Road, starring Sarah Canning and
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Warren sing that Christie, Yes, do you think this is
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: a nod to whatever that movie is? Do you guys
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: watch all the time Christmas Vacation? Yeah? Holiday Road yeah, yeah,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: but they play that in vacation, not crow to say vacation.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Here's the synopsis. A travel writer, a tech entrepreneur, a
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: devoted mother, and more strangers are stranded at the airport
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: for the holidays. They rent a van for an unexpected
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: road track. Ye. This is apparently inspired by true Vince Oh.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Megan told me to read a book a while back
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: called Five Total Strangers, same kind of story, but there
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: was like a murderer in that. I doubt we're going here.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I doubt it. I might be ended this one. Next up,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: we have another movie that's begging for a Julia Roberts
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Cameo Christmas in notting Hill Saturday, November twenty fifth on
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the Hallmark Channel, another double Hallmark Channel feature evening. It
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: stars Sarah Ramos and William Moseley. Usually too busy for love,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: famous soccer star Graham's life changes when he returns home
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: to notting Hill for Christmas and meets a woman visiting
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: who doesn't know who he is. You know, American women
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: would be like, don't know who like a famous British
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: soccer player is. I could meet a famous baseball player
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: and wouldn't recognize the ninety nine of them out of
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: one hundred, right, So sure do you think they filmed
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: this one? I hope so on location. Hope, we'll see.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: How do you feel about this one? I'm into it? Okay, Hey,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I got the good one. Saturday, November twenty fifth, at
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: eight pm, haul Out the Holly Lit up Stars. This
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: just brings me so much joy that we have a
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: whole cast returning Lacey Shavert, Wes Brown, Steven Tobolowski, Melissa Peterman,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Ellen Travolta, Seth Morris, Jennifer Aspen. Whoo. This is a
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: sequel to last year's haul Out the Holly. Emily and
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Jared are excited to spend the holidays together as a couple,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: regardless of the new residents moving in on Evergreen Lane. Hi,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Jinks and Zeus, do you think we're gonna get a
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Wes Brown Christmas song playing in the background? I hope so,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: because that's sexy coroner's voice. I'm gonna fire that up
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving, getting a little christmasy West Brown in my house.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: You're not gonna be in your house when I get
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: home from like, Okay, I hope so. I hope it's good.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: I hope it's good. I'm really looking forward to this movie.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I loved Haul Out the Holly. I thought it was
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: the best comedic movie of last year, and the supporting
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: cast was so great in a glass year. So I'm
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: hoping this is good. But I have a feeling it's
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: gonna be high on hijinks, stuff I don't really like.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: But I hope fun way. I hope in a fun way.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I hope we get some cameos. Yeah, yeah, tell them
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: what you read, Tell the listeners what you read about
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: that that Hallmark is planting Easter eggs, actors, moments, nods
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: throughout their countdown to Christmas movies, things to keep you engaged.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they're doing anything with that, if
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: there's like a game or if it's just like, oh
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: my gosh, Tyler Hines is the waiter in this movie,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: kind of a moment, right, But those are fun. I
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: like when they do that, and so I'm looking forward
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: to that. I think Lacey Shubert should be given more
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: opportunities to do comedies. She just was great in this
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: movie last year, So I'm ready for this. On another note,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: on Sunday the twenty sixth, on the Hallmark channel, We
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: have Our Christmas Miracles, starring Alex Paxton Beasley and Dan Jeannotte.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: When single mam Olivia has is secretly entered into a
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: mural contest by her mom, she partners with the teacher.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Will okay, I like a teacher school setting. H think
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: it could be cool. I love Dan Janette, Hello Penstripe.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Everything else about this is making me go skip. Yeah,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: but it can't be that bad because it's leading into
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: the big movie of the year. I agree. And last
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: year's in Mary Measure, I didn't have high hopes for
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: like competing lee clubs, but that was great, super good,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: So prove me wrong. At eight o'clock that night on Sunday,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: November twenty six is a Biltmore Christmas, probably the most
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: anticipated movie of the Christmas season. Yeah. They sort of
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: filming in January. And for Hallmark to even like discuss
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: a movie so early, do we need a synopsis? I'm
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: going to give a synopsis even though everybody knows who's
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: in that movie and what it's about. But it does
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: star Bethyty joy Linz, Christopher Paul Laha, Jonathan Jonna, Finn Frakes,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: and Robert Picardo screenwriter Lucy Hargrove lands her dream job
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: writing the remake of a beloved holiday movie classic filmed
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: at the historic Biltmore House in nineteen forty seven. While
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: visiting the estate for inspiration, she discovers the ability to
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: travel to the original set of His Mary Wife and
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: connects with one of the film stars. So we've got
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: one of those movies where like she's like sort of
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: time traveling and connecting with the person who does not
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: exist in current day. But somehow they'll end up together
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: at the end, right, Oh hopefully not. Yeah, excellent porn,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: excellent points. I don't know how this is gonna work.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: I'm so excited for it, though I've waited all year.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: I can't wait to see. Bethany Joy Lenz is an
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: absolute star. She is so good in these movies. Obviously,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Christopher Palaha is fantastic too, but I Bethany Joy Lenz
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: is like top tier Hallmark actress. For me, h, this
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: is almost like the Lacey Shabar moment, you know. Yeah,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Lacy gets two movies, so it's okay. Next up on Thursday,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: November thirtieth, time for her to come home for Christmas.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: During Shane Grim's Beach, Chris Carmack and Grace Lear. Carly
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: heads to a small town to lead a church choir
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: at Christmas time, facing her first holiday season without her mother.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: While there, she connects with the man back in town
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: after serving in the army. I'm just done. Look, this
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: movie could be fine without the time for her to
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: come home. Nonsense like give it something else. Yeah, a
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: holiday homecoming? Look at that? Fine? I just am like
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: pushing back on the Blake Shelton of it all. Yeah,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: but otherwise it could be fine. I just yeah, I agree, Okay.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Freddie December first, on the Hallmark Channel My Norwegian Holiday
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: with Rihanna and Fish and David Elson Dorn the snopsys
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: is JJ. She is grieving the loss of her grandmother
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: and jumps at a chance to join a new friend
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: on a trip to Norway to discover her grandmother's history
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: and look into how she landed a troll figurine from
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: his hometown. What how does the troll figurine fit in? Whatever?
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I like? Rannon Fish? Yeah, she and Tyler Hans gave
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: off some like serious fireworks. I have a good friend
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: whose husband is Norwegian. They both lived in Norway. They
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: speak Norwegian and they travel there every year. They make
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Norwegian foods, so I might make her watch this with me. Well,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: you know what's funny is that my husband is Danish
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: and I know they're in different countries or next door.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: I think there is. I might have some similarities there.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: So I am interested in watching this one h except,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: and that's a Royal Christmas on Saturday, December second, on
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: the Hallmark Channel, starring Brook d'Orsay and Will Camp, two
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Hallmark favorites for me. When tabloid journalist Charlotte requests an
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: interview with a famously private count, not knowing he fled
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: town years ago, the royal family convinces their groundskeeper to
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: pose as him. Okay, okay, okay, okay, is Will Kemp
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: the ground ski? Yeah, I know that I have to
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: like shake out my hands right here to talk about this.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Brook darsay and Will Camp are two top tier Hallmark actors.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Royal movies are real iffy, and that's all I'm gonna say.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: I want them to be amazing. I'm sorry, and I
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: don't like any Royal movies. I just don't get down
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: for it. It doesn't do it for me. Sunday December third.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Christmas with a Kiss stars Michelle Morgan, Ronnie Road Junior,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: and and Jamie M. Kalka. Here is the synopsis. This
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: mahogany film follows a woman who returns home for her
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: family's Christmas carnival, unexpectedly meeting a photo Jorenaline. I love
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: a mahogany storytelling. I love Ronnie Road Junior. It's been
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: a real white cast of characters up until this moment.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Thank you for saying that. I mean it's December third.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: I know we're like seven weeks into the countdown to Christmas. Moment.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Now again, we've seen diversity in other ways, but I
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: know Hallmark's like, we're trying here right, Like we've got
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: a visually impairadoctor, we've got a hearing a paradoctor, we've
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: got an actor with autism, and we've got an actor
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: and hus as a wheelchair. I get it, but's sometimes
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I need to try a little harder. Yeah. One of
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: our listeners, she goes by Peebe. She DMed me and
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: she said, we are now going backwards with diversity. I
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: think Hallmark is using the mahogany as a crutch so
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: they don't have to add any other diversity whenever. I
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: was just thinking that as you were pulling that up,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: that they've Okay, now we've got this mahogany line, so
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: we don't have to make our other casts diverse as
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: diverse as we once did. Like we're chucking the box
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: with mahogany. It should happen more naturally. I agree. I agree.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Next up to Alla good Night on Thursday, December seventh,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, starring Kimberly's Sestad and Mark Gunnime.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: The synopsis is after a small town photographer saves a
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: man's life, she learns he's in town to buy her
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: family's parkland, the location of the annual Christmas celebration. I'm torn.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, we love Queen Kimberly lover this is real,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Like big bad boy's gonna buy the small town business. Yeah,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: not always my favorite, but if anybody can pull it off,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Sastad can whatever. I'm watching it on name alone, like,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: isn't that funny? Is that funny that you've become this person? Yeah?
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Oh, I'm watching that Kimberly Sessaid movie. I
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: don't care what it's about. I just love her. Yeah,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: we recently got a dm about the evolution of our show,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: and I think if you start with Jingle Bell Bride
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: and I was a fan of these movies, but not
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: a fan to the point that I knew many of
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: the actors. And now yes, I will absolutely choose to
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: watch or not watch a movie based on the actor,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: and it changes my feelings about the movie on the
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: actor or the writer or the director. Totally, you guys.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Magic and Mistletoe Friday, December eighth, stars Lyndy Greenwood and
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Paul Campbell. Look, I love Paul Campbell. I'm actually hoping
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: that Kimberly Sasaid wrote this movie. Mm hmmm. Here's the synopsis.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Successful yet recluse author Harrington returns to his hometown for
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: an annual Christmas festival, where he must face his publicists,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: therefore damage control. Another movie I'm watching based on name alone.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Paul Campbell play a recluse author. Bring it on, I
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: can see it now. Tyler Hines, the gamer in the basement,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Paul Campbell, the reclusive author. Yes, yes, well done. We'll
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: absolutely watch this next up. I'm so excited for this,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: me too. Christmas on Cherry Lane on Saturday December ninth,
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  Speaker 1: on the Hallmark Channel. Big Cast Catherine Bell, Jonathan Bennett,
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  Speaker 1: John Brotherton, Aaron Khill, James Denton, Vincent Rodriguez The Third. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: there's so much to love here, so much, I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know where to start. First. Let's start with Catherine
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  Speaker 1: Bell and James Denton being reunited. Those two start on
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  Speaker 1: the Goodwitch together. That was movies and then a series
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  Speaker 1: my daughter and I watched like multiple seasons, and then
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: she kind of graduated to like to all the boys
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  Speaker 1: I loved before. Yeah, hello, John Brotherton, I believe he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be paired with Aaron Cahill, Jonathan Bennett, with Vincent Rodriguez.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Let's get into a synopsis before I go on. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Three couples at different parts of life navigate big turning
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  Speaker 1: points in their lives over the holidays. Look, I'm here
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  Speaker 1: for it, here for it. It's gonna be good. I
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  Speaker 1: think this. I love a big ensemble cast and it's
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  Speaker 1: like packed. It's not like two stars and some filler.
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  Speaker 1: It is packed ensemble cast. I love it. I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: for that one Round and Round Sunday, December tenth, at
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  Speaker 1: eight pm, Stars Vic Michael Oh, Mikellis, Michaelis, Michacham, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Brian Greenberg and Rick Hoffman. Brian Greenberg, Megan doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: this A former One Tree Hillstar with Bethany Joylyn's We're
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: getting lots of One Tree Hill Stars lately. I think
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: this might be his first Hallmark movie. I did trying
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  Speaker 1: to google and couldn't find any other Hallmark movies on
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: his resume. Here's the synopsis. When Rachel is stuck in
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  Speaker 1: a time loop up Wendy's out, we're living the night
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  Speaker 1: of her parents' Honoka party. She leans on a boy
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  Speaker 1: her grandmother is trying to set her up with to
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  Speaker 1: make it out. Okay, I might be into it. Did
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: you watch that Peacock Show with Natasha? No? I didn't.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about. Russian Doll. It's kind
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: of the same thing. I don't like time loop, It's
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: too sci fi, But you know I like I like
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  Speaker 1: the story of like a boy. Grandma's trying to set
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  Speaker 1: you up, Bubby's trying to set you up with a boy,
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  Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? Didn't you like The
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  Speaker 1: Train Movie? Which I did? But that was such a
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: throwback to back to the future. That's why I like that.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Maybe no, but I feel like calling us a time loop,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: like they're not hopping in like a tartist and traveling
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: through time. She's just gonna like wake up the next morning.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be more like Groundhog Day. Okay, I'll watch
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: it next up. Heaven Down Here on Thursday, December fourteenth
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  Speaker 1: on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. The stars of this movie
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  Speaker 1: are Crystal Joy Brown, Tina Lifford, John Reddinger, Richard Harmon,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: and Felicia rashad. Our synopsis is for people find themselves
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: stranded in a local diner on Christmas Eve amid a snowstorm.
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  Speaker 1: Movie is inspired by Mickey Guyiten's song I Believe the
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Same Name. Are you familiar with that song? No? I
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: don't even know who Mickey Guiton is. M I kind
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  Speaker 1: of like the idea of a movie that takes place
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  Speaker 1: all in one everything from the diner. Yeah, Felicia Rashan Yeah. Friday,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: December fifteenth, The Secret Gift of Christmas stars Megan Or
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  Speaker 1: and Christopher Russell. Here is a synopsis. A personal shopper
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  Speaker 1: connects with a new client looking to find the perfect
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  Speaker 1: gifts for her daughter, to reconnect. Oh my heart. This
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: actress is from Chesabeake Shores. She was like the lead
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: with the long, beautiful brown hair, and she played little
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Red riding Hood on Once upon a Time. Oh she's stunning,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: indeed dunning. I love Christopher Routhel, okay, but the synopsis
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: was that sarkasady No, I love Christopher Russell. I'd love him, Okay?
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Is he the personal shopper? I don't know that looking
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  Speaker 1: to find okay, gifts for her daughter to I think
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  Speaker 1: he's the person. Maybe he is. I like that. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'm more into this now. I'm into it just because
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  Speaker 1: I'm always looking to reconnect with my daughter. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: the daughter is young here and not like a teenager,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: But wouldn't it be cooler if it was a teenager
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: because it's hard to connect with teenage girls. Yeah, why
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  Speaker 1: would the daughter be young? How have you lost connection?
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: Unless she's like traveling a lot. I don't know. I'm
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: gonna watch just at a pure curiosity now, all right?
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  Speaker 1: Next up, on Saturday, December sixteenth, on the Hallmark Channel,
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  Speaker 1: we had sealed with a list starring Katie Finlay and
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  Speaker 1: Evan Roderick. Carly is determined to get through her list
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  Speaker 1: of abandoned resolutions from last year, and enlists the help
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: of coworker Wyatt. Now, Wendy famously, you've hated a New
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Year's resolution? Are you going to be into this like
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: montage of like I'm gonna run a five k and
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: doesn't organize my closet? I always feel like that around
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: New Year's I love a fresh start. So but do
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: you feel like that, like in December first you're like, oh, crap,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't do any of that. Oh I've already been
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: feeling that way. Yeah, I've been thinking about like pickleball,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: brain games from years ago, things we've talked about on
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  Speaker 1: our other podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Sunday, December seventeenth,
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  Speaker 1: on the Hallmark Channel, Friends and Family Christmas stars Humberly
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Gonzalez and Ali Liebert Whoo. Here's the synopsis. Bridgit and Amelia,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: set up by their parents, pretend that they are dating
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: to make their families happy for the holidays. Meme, I
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: just love the same sex female relationships. I'm this Hallmark.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: I'm so stoked for Ali Libert. Humberly Gonzalez is drop
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: dead gorgeous. I really know who that actress? Why their
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: holy Canole here for it. MMM. Miracle in Bethlehem, Pa
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  Speaker 1: airs on Thursday, December twenty first, at eight p m.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why I said that on Hallmark Movies
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  Speaker 1: and Mysteries. This stars Laura Vandervoort and Benjamin Ayers. This
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: is a day Spring movie. The synopsis is successful. Marianne
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  Speaker 1: Brubeck adopts a daughter right before Christmas. When bad weather
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  Speaker 1: lands her and her new baby stranded in Bethlehem, PA.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: Their only option is to stay with the innkeeper's brother, Joe,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: a quintessential bachelor. I mean, the new baby in Bethlehem
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: at the inn. But bend Man Ayers hit us over
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: the hood with it that it's a religious movie. No,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: I I'll watch it. I mean, I think it sounds
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: nice when it's first impression. If this movie is racking
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: me up, she wrote, hopefully Joe has a few extra
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Romance university sweatshirts to keep the stranded baby and mama
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: war No shade, No, absolutely not. I love it. Last
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: movie of the count wild that they had like this
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: one and Thursday movie. Wow. Okay, that's a wrap on
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: our thoughts on countdown to Christmas. I gotta say I'm hyped.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: I am hyped fifty percent hyped right now. I just
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: want to get through the fall season before we can
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: get look at all those feelings are coming back. I
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: don't show me a Starbucks Red cup yet. I'm not ready.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: They had a animatronic Santa Claus today is September twenty
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: second in my grocery store that talks this morning, like
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: as you walked, why say like, ho ho ho there,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: take a look. I don't know. It was like it
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: on a cracker display. You're like, well, it was raised
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: up so his feet is like knees were at my
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: eye level. So I like looked up to see, like, oh,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: that's Sanna. But then I kept walking. I wasn't a
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: hurry too early. I did have that dot it's too like,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: I don't even might have Halloween candy yet. I bought
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: some yesterday that you'll save for Halloween or just a
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: sung on until then. I bought the marshmallow pumpkins mellow cream. Yes,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: we bought those two. That's it's Halloween candy, not Halloween candy.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give out Halloween candy for the house. We
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: have those two. I also bought Werthers makes a caramel,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: apple caramel, like a soft caramel. About those those are
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: pretty good. I bought the Target branded of those ones. Oh,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: because I'm eight hundred years old, so I buy my
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Werthers caramels. I just want to get through fall and
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: then you'll be hyped. We'll see Thank you for listening
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: to this episode of Girls Gone Hallmark. We hope you're
• 47:33
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• 47:35
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• 47:44
  Speaker 1: see you next week. Bye bye.