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Where Your Heart Belongs · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a bonus episode
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Speaker 1: of Long Story Short the podcast. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy,
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Speaker 1: and today is our first work day of twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: two and we are diving headfirst into New Year, New movies.
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Speaker 1: WHOA I would like to stay For the record, Yes,
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Speaker 1: that Wendy was the one who made the announcement that
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Speaker 1: we would be continuing with Hallmark in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 1: So I claim I cannot be called for co work.
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Speaker 1: It's not your fault anymore. It never was your fault, actually,
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Speaker 1: because I think it from Yeah, well, it's funny you
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Speaker 1: bring that up. Because I have a friend who was
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Speaker 1: asking what I was doing today. I was like, well,
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Speaker 1: I'm recording podcast. I gotta do a homework. Oh she
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Speaker 1: goes homework still and I was like yeah, there's people
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Speaker 1: who listen to them. And she's like like how many?
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Speaker 1: And I was like, oh no, you didn't. Like I
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Speaker 1: was like, seriously, shots fire don't happen. I can't remember
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Speaker 1: what I said, but I was like, it's a lot,
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Speaker 1: So thank you, Thank you listeners. It's a lot. But
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Speaker 1: I was like, don't shame me. People find this entertaining.
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Speaker 1: Just because you don't like Hallmark movies. There are people
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Speaker 1: who do yes when people want to hear what we
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Speaker 1: think about them. So look, the podcast is an opt
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Speaker 1: in experience. Right when nobody's pulling it down and forcing
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Speaker 1: me to listen, I know. I was just not everything
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Speaker 1: is for everyone and that it's okay, Okay, I have
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Speaker 1: a proposal. Oh, I want to potentially change our reading system.
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Speaker 1: Oh oh, you made a face like you were worriedous?
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Speaker 1: Why did you get nervous? Okay? All last year we've
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Speaker 1: always ranked our movies on a four star system. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Why why I chose four stars? I don't know, because
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Speaker 1: I think it makes more sense for a five star
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Speaker 1: system in my brain because it's ABC, D and F right, Okay,
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Speaker 1: those are five letters and the four gets kind of late.
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Speaker 1: So I'm proposing a five star. Okay, a five star rating?
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Speaker 1: Are you okay with that? I'm into it? Okay, all right?
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Speaker 1: I like that? Is there anything else? We have a
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Speaker 1: Patreon tier that is just for our Hallmark listeners, and
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Speaker 1: you know, during the holidays that was very specifically extra
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Speaker 1: holiday movies because there were more movies than we could
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Speaker 1: ever possibly review. And if you're thinking, but there's only
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Speaker 1: one movie a week, now, what will you do? We
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Speaker 1: have a plan. We have a plan, and it's very
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Speaker 1: und brand for our habit of objectifying the men of
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Speaker 1: pal Mark. So I'm just gonna leave it at that,
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Speaker 1: and as those episodes drop, we will let you know.
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Speaker 1: But if you want to get in on that the
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Speaker 1: second they are available, I just like to say, as
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Speaker 1: a teaser for January, Tyler freaking high. Speaking of Christmas,
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Speaker 1: I don't think we can move forward New Year New
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Speaker 1: Movies without just a quick Christmas countdown to Christmas holiday
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Speaker 1: wrap up. Yeah, yep, I agree. I want to know
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Speaker 1: your top three movies. I knew you were going to
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Speaker 1: ask top three. Yeah, I get a look, they've bumped
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Speaker 1: countdown to Christmas off of the main page of the app.
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Speaker 1: Do they have Love Youary on there already? Oh that's
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Speaker 1: a fail. You think New Year New Movies is bad
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Speaker 1: Love Youary? Yeah? What was it last year? It was?
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Speaker 1: I don't it was not Loveuary though, Okay I did
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Speaker 1: not watch every movie this year. Uh huh Wow, I'm
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Speaker 1: actually kind of surprised to hear that top three. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna say, no particular order. Do they have to be
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Speaker 1: an order, No an Unexpected Christmas number one Christmas and
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Speaker 1: now this is tough for me. I agree? And can
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Speaker 1: I have a three way tie flirt? Yes? And it
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Speaker 1: might be the same Okay, I'm curious to see if
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Speaker 1: it's the same as mine because those two movies that
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Speaker 1: you just mentioned are in my top three as well.
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Speaker 1: And I kind of have a three way Is it
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Speaker 1: a three way time? Maybe a two way tie? Maybe
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Speaker 1: this is a top five. I'm just gonna call it
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Speaker 1: a top five, Hey, top five? Top five? Christmas House two, Oh,
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Speaker 1: I didn't see it. It was it great? It was great?
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Speaker 1: Oh good? And the two Sister Swap movies, oh, interesting, interesting.
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Speaker 1: I didn't really like the second sister Swap movie. That's
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Speaker 1: why it doesn't make my top five. Yeah, I think
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Speaker 1: I have a top four. Okay, Christmas Sale, no order
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Speaker 1: because honestly, the Tyler Hines movie blew every movie out
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Speaker 1: of the water for me. It was good from top
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Speaker 1: to bottom. Funny, great, story writing was great. I loved it.
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Speaker 1: Christmas Sale. What's the Tyler Heines movie called? An Unexpected Christmas?
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Speaker 1: And Unexpected Christmas? The first Swap? Yes? And the Santa
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Speaker 1: Steakout that's great. I'm scrolling through. I also really love
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Speaker 1: Next Stop Christmas, even though so did I. Even though,
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Speaker 1: as I said in that podcast episode, the last ten
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Speaker 1: minutes blew the entire movie for me. I did think
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Speaker 1: that was enjoyable for an hour and twenty three minutes. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I didn't hate that movie at all. No, it was fun.
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Speaker 1: I just have a note tear. When we first reviewed
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Speaker 1: The Santa Steakout. Yeah, you asked if Paul Campbell was
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Speaker 1: a Wowie's howe where you're going? Uh huh? And I
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Speaker 1: was like, Nah, he doesn't really do it for me.
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Speaker 1: He's come a long way for me. The fact that
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Speaker 1: he wrote an Unexpected Christmas makes me tingle in ways.
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Speaker 1: And his Twitter and his stance against Ghack family. Really,
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Speaker 1: he's had some singers on Twitter. He's funny. I agree. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's grown on me a lot now. I enjoyed him
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Speaker 1: in The Santa Steakout, but knowing him outside of that
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Speaker 1: movie has also made my esteem for him grow. Will
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Speaker 1: Paul Campbell show up on one of our Patreon months? Oh?
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Speaker 1: Is he on our shirt? He's not on our shirt?
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Speaker 1: Oh man, I know? Do you know what we're talking about? Friends?
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Speaker 1: We have a dude's the Hallmark shirt. Check it out.
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Speaker 1: Lincoln Show notes, I kind of feel like we may
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Speaker 1: need like several versions of that shirt so everybody gets
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Speaker 1: their like exact combination of dude that they want on
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Speaker 1: their shirt. Awesome. Why don't we jump right in with
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Speaker 1: a synopsis of this movie, which was called Where Your
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Speaker 1: Heart Belongs, stars Jen Lily and Christopher Russell. If you
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Speaker 1: can't tell, I'm killing time while Wendy pulls up a synopsis,
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Speaker 1: hold on, So Where Your Heart Belongs is about when
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Speaker 1: a New York marketing executive returns home to help her
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Speaker 1: best friend's wedding. She learns the hard way that love
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Speaker 1: and support of family and friends means more than she'd
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Speaker 1: ever imagine. Starring Jen Lily and Christopher Russell, this movie
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Speaker 1: was supposed to originally premiere on January fifteenth, and Hallmark
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Speaker 1: did a whole little switcheroo. I don't know when they
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Speaker 1: did it, but they swapped the perfect pairing with Nanzine
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Speaker 1: Nazanine Nasnin Contractor and Brendan Elliott with this movie. And
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Speaker 1: this is why I think, why now I have no
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Speaker 1: inside information, I am not sleepy kitty pop. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I think that they needed like the Jen Lily name
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Speaker 1: to like bring the viewers in for the new Year,
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Speaker 1: New movies. I think that it's interesting that you think
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Speaker 1: there was that much thought. I think perfect pairing wasn't ready.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's my guess. Perhaps that's my guess. I mean maybe.
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Speaker 1: But because they knew Jen Lilly was later in the
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Speaker 1: It's not like they didn't know we have they had
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Speaker 1: a Jen Lily movie when they created the lineup. True,
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Speaker 1: that's fair, But I'm just wondering if, like me, it
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Speaker 1: starts strong. Well, yeah, they're like, we're gonna put a
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Speaker 1: big name on the up top here. Plus, their countdown
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Speaker 1: to Christmas movies ended how many weeks ago, so they
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Speaker 1: got to bring in that countdown to Christmas audience and
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Speaker 1: they want to familiar face. Yeah, because I bet their
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Speaker 1: viewership trickled off towards the end there, you know, the
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Speaker 1: end of December for sure, if they were just reshowing
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Speaker 1: old countdown to Christmas, yeah, exactly. Now, so you know
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Speaker 1: they feel like Jen Lily is the gal that would
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Speaker 1: bring the viewers. Well. This movie was not only originally
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Speaker 1: supposed to air on a different date, it was originally
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Speaker 1: titled Something Different and the title was Love is Trending.
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Speaker 1: Do you have thoughts on that original title. I think
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Speaker 1: they should have kept it, as do I. They said
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Speaker 1: it like fourteen times at the end of the movie.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've realized. I didn't realize that.
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Speaker 1: Her assistant was like at the wedding, love is Trending. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: it was like, yeah, so I was like, ooh, they
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Speaker 1: changed the name after obviously where your Heart Belongs. I
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Speaker 1: don't even know what that means. It's so generic and
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Speaker 1: it could be used for so many of these movies
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Speaker 1: where they come home and they move, you know, they
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Speaker 1: go back home, they move. There's so many movies where
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Speaker 1: they are changing locations for their love interests that I
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Speaker 1: just think Love Is Trending made a lot of sense
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Speaker 1: with the premise of this movie. It's certainly more interesting.
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Speaker 1: It makes me want to watch it more than Where
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Speaker 1: the Heart Belongs. Where the Heart Belongs feels like when
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Speaker 1: where Your Heart Belong? Okay, it feels like when calls
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Speaker 1: the Heart. Yeah, totally, that's why I can't what's that
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Speaker 1: Selene Dion song called Well, I'm completely blank right now?
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Speaker 1: Brain Games. Brain Games throw back to Tuesday's episode Your
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Speaker 1: Heart Will Go On is the song. By the way,
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Speaker 1: it didn't come up. It just came to me as
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Speaker 1: I was typing in Selene. It did not come up.
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Speaker 1: I do think Love This Trending is a better title.
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Speaker 1: It is more memorable, and it is more fun. I agree.
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Speaker 1: It gives me that like young, youthful fun. However, however,
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Speaker 1: is that their demo? It's not? You know, so, Grandma
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Speaker 1: who knits while she watches Hallmark movies, does she want
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Speaker 1: to watch Love Is Trending? Or does she want to
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Speaker 1: watch have to scroll up where your heart belongs? I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I hear your point. It's a good point. I'd love
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Speaker 1: to know the focus groups happening behind the scenes a time.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, please hire us, We're not. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: want to be a fly on the wall when these
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Speaker 1: conversations be in the room. Yeah, totally. According to hetty
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Speaker 1: dot com, this movie was filmed in January twenty twenty one. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I saw that too, but that was also confirmed by
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Speaker 1: Jen Lily herself. Oh was it? Yes, because someone commented
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Speaker 1: on an Instagram photo and they said, oh, this must
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Speaker 1: have been a while ago, because you weren't showing, and
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Speaker 1: she said yes January. Yes, because she's currently pregnant. Right, yeah, right?
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Speaker 1: Do you think they shelved this movie. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what goes into the decision making. If it was filmed
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Speaker 1: in January or February. It could have been a February movie.
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Speaker 1: It could have been a spring movie, yeah, because there
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Speaker 1: was no snow in it, right, it wasn't winter at all. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: other than the fact that I do believe maybe you
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Speaker 1: tap maple syrup in the winter months. Oh, I gots
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Speaker 1: some interesting information on the Okay, Well, of course, this
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Speaker 1: was filmed in British Columbia. And one of my favorite
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Speaker 1: things as I was looking for information about this movie
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Speaker 1: are all the reviews that are like, hah, these dummies
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Speaker 1: can't even find a maple tree to use. They're like,
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Speaker 1: they're tapping an oak tree. They're tapping a cedar tree. Yeah, hilarious. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so let me ask you about that. I looked on
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Speaker 1: IMDb as well, and the reviews are not great. On IMDb.
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Speaker 1: There were a whole bunch of moment and they were
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Speaker 1: real bad, and a lot of them said like, that's
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Speaker 1: a cedar tree, that's an oak tree. I was like, well,
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Speaker 1: what kind of tree is it? Actually? It was definitely
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Speaker 1: not a maple tree, but like, what kind of tree
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Speaker 1: was it? I'm not a tree person. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I did think it was really funny at one time.
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Speaker 1: They're like, there's like moss on the trees, and I
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Speaker 1: was like, hmm, that seems weird, Like that doesn't seem
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Speaker 1: like the right kind of tree. But I don't know
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Speaker 1: anything about trees well, and shouldn't there be snow on
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Speaker 1: the ground in these winter months when they're tapping? But
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Speaker 1: they never really said what month it was. Maybe I
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Speaker 1: do think you taped trees in the winter. I believe
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Speaker 1: so maple experts please email us at Megan and Windy
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Speaker 1: at Gmail talk made that up. I had like a
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Speaker 1: real deep memory that I'm pulling up that I've read something. Anyway.
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Speaker 1: This movie also stars Christopher Russell, who was in a
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Speaker 1: bottom five movie of twenty twenty one for me, which
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Speaker 1: is Chasing Waterfalls, although I quite enjoyed him in this
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Speaker 1: actually too, he was also in Unreal And it's funny
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Speaker 1: because we've talked about some of the shows that get
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Speaker 1: a lot of these Hallmark actors. Once upon a Time
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Speaker 1: is one of them. Unreal as another week it is,
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Speaker 1: and really've had quite the Parade of Brennan Elliott has
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Speaker 1: been in an unreal Tyler Hines has been an unreal
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Speaker 1: And I wonder if it's just because they kind of
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Speaker 1: need a never ending stream of dudes for that show
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Speaker 1: that they just hot dudes. Yeah, maybe who are available
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Speaker 1: for an episode or two because they don't play major
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Speaker 1: recurring roles. But you know, I did look up Tyler
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Speaker 1: Hines on and he it was like five episodes, so
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Speaker 1: I don't But I watched that show and I don't
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Speaker 1: remember him, so I've seen. Yeah, let's talk first impressions.
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Speaker 1: Mac might be the most unlikable character in the history
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Speaker 1: of Girls Gone Hallmark and easily wins the Worst Friend
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Speaker 1: Ever award. I wrote, Wow, nobody got time for a
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Speaker 1: self absorbed friend like Matt. Get the fuck out. She
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Speaker 1: was an awful human being? Was she not? Like if
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Speaker 1: I was and Lily, I would be like, I don't
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Speaker 1: want to play that character. Like she's a bitch, she's
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Speaker 1: super self absorbed. She's the worst, the worst, You're the worst?
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Speaker 1: You know that give why would she take this movie?
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Speaker 1: Does this feel like a challenge comparison to the sweethearts
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Speaker 1: she typically plays? Well? This is my thought. One of
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Speaker 1: the very first Hallmark movies I watched in love is
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Speaker 1: called The Spirit of Christmas. I have not watched it
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Speaker 1: in several years. I have not watched it since we
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Speaker 1: started Girls Gone Homework, so I've never watched it with
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Speaker 1: that critical eye. It stars Jen Lily and it's a
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Speaker 1: very memorable one. Like people who have never seen any
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Speaker 1: Hallmark movie have seen the Spirit of Christmas and they
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Speaker 1: think they know what a Hallmark movie is about. It's
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Speaker 1: unfair because the Spirit of Christmas is about a woman
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Speaker 1: who falls in love with the ghost who then makes
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Speaker 1: the decision to stay alive and be with her. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. But we know that's not really
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Speaker 1: an requirement for Hallmark movies. But my question is, I
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Speaker 1: wonder if I should rewatch that and see because I
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Speaker 1: think Jen Lily plays unlikable characters. Do you recall her
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Speaker 1: in last year's January movie in the Snow She was
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Speaker 1: all washed out, I wretched, she was wretched and mingo
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Speaker 1: all the way too. I don't remember the character she
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Speaker 1: played in that movie. That was the first Gin Lily
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Speaker 1: movie I'd had ever seen, and I remember I was
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Speaker 1: super critical of her. Were like really yellow blonde hair,
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Speaker 1: and she was like so washed out. Yes, and that
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Speaker 1: was a terrible movie, bad to boot. But Mingo All
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Speaker 1: the Way was awful too. What I'm saying is I
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Speaker 1: think she plays unlikable characters. Okay, I was just gonna
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Speaker 1: say I don't think she's a great actress. Look, and
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Speaker 1: I said it before when we reviewed Mingle All the Way,
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Speaker 1: which ran the last weeks of Christmas. I didn't notice
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Speaker 1: that and I looked for it. Maybe she that was
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Speaker 1: a character choice for her. She's a sighing actor. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I just don't think she's that great of an actress. Well,
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Speaker 1: can we talk about what we liked? Okay, because my
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Speaker 1: first point is as much as I disliked Jen Lily's
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Speaker 1: character in this movie, I liked her. I found her
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Speaker 1: enjoyable to watch and charming on screen as long as
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Speaker 1: I didn't really pay attention to what she was doing
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Speaker 1: or saying. Does that make sense? It does not, But
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Speaker 1: neither does the plot of this movie. Okay, let let
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Speaker 1: me dig into this. Here, she's very pretty the look
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Speaker 1: at she's got these adorable dimples. Hill here she's got
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Speaker 1: these big like anime eyes, Like you know, she's super cute,
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Speaker 1: and I could feel like maybe women like watching her
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Speaker 1: because she feels aspirational in terms of you know whatever.
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Speaker 1: So I get that. Now, what about the movie? It
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Speaker 1: didn't storyline didn't make sense to you. We'll get into it.
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Speaker 1: There was a very there's a big piece of the
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Speaker 1: movie that doesn't make sense. Okay, all right, Okay, speaking
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Speaker 1: of editing our shirts, we're gonna need one that says
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Speaker 1: Christopher on it. He's a wowie's howie you know? Okay,
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Speaker 1: So I hated that movie he was in hated Chasing
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Speaker 1: wat I hated it so much. It was like, definitely
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Speaker 1: one of the worst. But maybe it was Cindy Busby
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Speaker 1: that made me hate that movie. I don't remember him
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Speaker 1: being like like a wowie zowie me right, But in
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Speaker 1: this movie, I was like, why did I shit on
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Speaker 1: you so hard? Because like you're super likable and easy
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Speaker 1: on the eyes, and then he had this character that's
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Speaker 1: like so giving and caring of this Max dad. You know.
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, week in the knees for
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Speaker 1: like a man who's like that, Yeah, no, he's got
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Speaker 1: to be on our shirt somewhere. Yeah, I hear you,
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Speaker 1: he does need to be on our Shirt's just gonna
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Speaker 1: be like twelve fun I have to get really close,
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Speaker 1: and it's so funny because it's like every boy's name.
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Speaker 1: It's like Christopher Tyler, Benjamin. Yeah, I gonna be like
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Speaker 1: any Randa, Like what the heck? I enjoyed the actress
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Speaker 1: Jill Morrison as best friend Olivia. Liked her too. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I didn't know her name. I thank you for doing
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Speaker 1: the leg work on that. I thought she has several
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Speaker 1: funny lines. I liked her a lot too. She did
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Speaker 1: a good job carrying this and putting Mac in her
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Speaker 1: place and her like, hello, look at me, like let's
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Speaker 1: have an actual conversation. Let me just stop you there.
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Speaker 1: That whole scene where she's like, look, I found my
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Speaker 1: grandmother's compact and then Mac breaks it. I was like,
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Speaker 1: I wait, and like the actress, what's her friend's name
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Speaker 1: in the movie, she just leaves it there and trusts
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Speaker 1: the door. Yeah, I was like, only the glass is broken,
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Speaker 1: Like pick it back up, carry the combacks. Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 1: I did like her. Okay, so this might be kind
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Speaker 1: of weird, but I didn't hate the angle in this movie.
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Speaker 1: Hear me out traditional marketing being edged out by influencers, right, yeah,
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Speaker 1: do we only understand this because we are been in
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Speaker 1: this space for a long time. Does the general public
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Speaker 1: not really fully understand like the power of the influencer
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Speaker 1: and how it's taking over the world. Possibly, Okay, I
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Speaker 1: would like to speak to that one. Okay. I do
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Speaker 1: think they're like making the big bad influencer role here.
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Speaker 1: They're like, she has no talent, she's inauthentic, which she's
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Speaker 1: what she says in the beginning, like don't they want authenticity?
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Speaker 1: And then I did think it was funny because they
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Speaker 1: were like, she's in the face of this brand and
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Speaker 1: then this brand and then this brand. I was like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: we get it, but here's where it doesn't hold up
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Speaker 1: for me. And this is in my wish But we're
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Speaker 1: talking about it now. What is her job? She's a marketer.
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Speaker 1: Why is her decorating a wedding beneficial to her job
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Speaker 1: as a marketer? I don't know. Look at those floral arrangements.
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Speaker 1: Sure you could sell my vodka brand. It doesn't make
19:40
Speaker 1: any sense. Now, there's nothing about like, she's not an
19:42
Speaker 1: event planner, right, Why didn't they just make her an
19:44
Speaker 1: event a celebrity event planner. I mean, other than the
19:48
Speaker 1: fact that somebody wanted to get in the dig influencers.
19:51
Speaker 1: This writer is like, I hate influencers. You guys are inauthentic.
19:55
Speaker 1: You'll sell out to the highest bidder, and plenty of
19:58
Speaker 1: them will. That didn't make sense, like, Oh, we're gonna
20:03
Speaker 1: get this celebrity DJ, and that's somehow gonna up your
20:06
Speaker 1: marketing game. Oh you're doing this big, fancy wedding and
20:09
Speaker 1: now people are gonna buy you as a marketer. They don't.
20:13
Speaker 1: Those two things aren't related. It didn't make any sense.
20:15
Speaker 1: I didn't understand Tristan's angle, like, oh, let's tell everybody
20:19
Speaker 1: it's this exclusive wedding. Why. Yeah, No, you're right sense,
20:24
Speaker 1: And don't marketers hire influencers? That's a good point, Yeah,
20:30
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the idea here is like a
20:36
Speaker 1: brand can pay a marketing company to create an ad campaign,
20:39
Speaker 1: or they can pay an influencer a third and they're
20:41
Speaker 1: going to create their own, like influencer campaign. Sure, and
20:46
Speaker 1: they're gonna do their own photo editing and their own photography.
20:48
Speaker 1: You're on their own hair and makeup, and you don't
20:49
Speaker 1: have to pay for all of that. I think in
20:51
Speaker 1: this case they're at odds. But I don't think they
20:55
Speaker 1: fully understood what a marketer does as opposed to what
20:58
Speaker 1: an event planner does, right, And that's why I'm I
21:01
Speaker 1: was saying, like I kind of like the angle of
21:06
Speaker 1: that little particular, like go with that, get it wrong? Yeah, yeah,
21:10
Speaker 1: I like that angle too. And it's funny because we
21:13
Speaker 1: over the holiday break did a review of a previous
21:17
Speaker 1: Gen Lily movie, Mingle All the Way, which is about
21:20
Speaker 1: an app that doesn't age well. Because this sort of
21:23
Speaker 1: thing is very timely, and so it will be interesting
21:26
Speaker 1: to see how well this age is it won't. You know.
21:30
Speaker 1: She's got like her Instagram feed and her Pinterest feed,
21:32
Speaker 1: and she's constantly doing this, that and the other, and
21:34
Speaker 1: in a couple of years, who knows. Yeah, that's funny.
21:37
Speaker 1: It's just gonna get shelved somewhere, right, We're gonna be like,
21:40
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be a timeless movie, no, no, no, no. Okay.
21:45
Speaker 1: The last thing I did like about this there were
21:47
Speaker 1: a couple of really funny LOL lines for me, okay,
21:51
Speaker 1: and it is when they were all sitting at the
21:53
Speaker 1: dining room table and they were ragging on Max so
21:56
Speaker 1: hard cooking. It was really funny. I thought that felt
22:02
Speaker 1: very genuine I did. I did like that their laughter
22:06
Speaker 1: and their jokes that felt like, oh, yeah, you've had
22:09
Speaker 1: to eat her terrible cooking before. Yeah, I thought it
22:11
Speaker 1: was not just funny. Well, my biggest wish was a
22:14
Speaker 1: better und Wait are we talking about wishy now? You
22:17
Speaker 1: said that was the last thing you like. That was
22:19
Speaker 1: my like, okay, am I sorry, go ahead, you can
22:20
Speaker 1: talk about your wishes. So my transition was so smooth
22:23
Speaker 1: and then I'm sorry. My biggest wish, as we discussed,
22:28
Speaker 1: was the writer's having a better understanding of Max's job.
22:32
Speaker 1: But my second biggest wish is Tristan would cut fifty
22:36
Speaker 1: percent of the girls out of his vocabulary. It's almost
22:39
Speaker 1: to the point that I think it's problematic. Yeah, if
22:42
Speaker 1: it's an actress choice, fine, If it was a writing choice,
22:45
Speaker 1: I dislike it as I think they were trying to
22:47
Speaker 1: make him a caricature of somebody exactly. Yes, that's so
22:51
Speaker 1: perfectly well said, and I agree, here's some something I
22:55
Speaker 1: wished for. I thought it was almost too over to
23:01
Speaker 1: top with how much they were like harping on Mac
23:04
Speaker 1: about her being on her phone. Yes, yes, I'm like,
23:08
Speaker 1: she's working. People use their phones. She took two weeks
23:12
Speaker 1: off to come home and help you plan your wedding
23:14
Speaker 1: at the very last minute, leave her alone and it
23:18
Speaker 1: might just be like a personal gripe because like I
23:20
Speaker 1: hear it a lot too. But like, and that's why,
23:23
Speaker 1: Like when I'm with my people, like with you or whatever,
23:26
Speaker 1: like we can just be on our phones and it's
23:27
Speaker 1: not like a thing. But like when we're around family
23:30
Speaker 1: and they're like, you're always on your phone, Like this
23:32
Speaker 1: is how I conduct business. Hey, I said, so tired
23:36
Speaker 1: of the look up from your phone? Bs m h. Yeah,
23:39
Speaker 1: here's the other thing I wished for. There was zero
23:42
Speaker 1: chemistry between Mac and Dylan. Zero. Yeah. I found them
23:47
Speaker 1: likable as like, oh, high school buddies who come together
23:51
Speaker 1: to help make this wedding happen for their friends, and oh,
23:54
Speaker 1: she can appreciate him for what he's done for her dad.
23:59
Speaker 1: We're never going to get the Hallmark movie that allows
24:01
Speaker 1: us to acknowledge friendship love is a valuable, happy ending, right,
24:06
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna continue to hope for it because that
24:08
Speaker 1: would have been a nice ending. Here. I just thought, like,
24:11
Speaker 1: what does he see in her? She's so she never
24:15
Speaker 1: has a redemption until the last second. I mean, it
24:18
Speaker 1: is like the last five minutes, she makes this beautiful
24:22
Speaker 1: thing happen, but she's awful over and over and over again.
24:28
Speaker 1: It's not even when she's standing in the bridle salm
24:30
Speaker 1: with her friend forcing her to try on these hideous
24:32
Speaker 1: dresses and trying to tar dress. That sounds like get
24:36
Speaker 1: the f out, Like if you and me were at
24:39
Speaker 1: a bridle salon and you're like, yeah, you need to
24:40
Speaker 1: wear this dress. You are not a friend. No, she
24:43
Speaker 1: came out in a dress that she loved. That's that's
24:45
Speaker 1: it the end, not like, oh kid, you please let
24:48
Speaker 1: me take a picture and post it. And that moment
24:50
Speaker 1: with the dresses was the only one that kind of
24:53
Speaker 1: tied in with her marketing job, because it's like, oh,
24:56
Speaker 1: I can be like a faux influencer if I get
24:58
Speaker 1: her into this dress. Right. Didn't make sense with the
25:01
Speaker 1: DJ didn't make sense with any of the other stuff
25:03
Speaker 1: that happened. Are you ready for digit see that? I am?
25:05
Speaker 1: And if some of it is did you see that?
25:07
Speaker 1: And some of it's just complaints? Okay, So is that
25:11
Speaker 1: actually a pot pie? Is that the saddest dinner you've
25:13
Speaker 1: ever seen? White? Beige, beige, beige, there was nothing else
25:18
Speaker 1: on the plate. Everyone had a slice of beige pie
25:20
Speaker 1: on their plate. There was no salad or fruit or nothing,
25:24
Speaker 1: a roll, nothing. No, I mean, what do you serve
25:27
Speaker 1: with pot pie? It is kind of like a meat
25:29
Speaker 1: because it has it's like a vegetables, a vegetable and
25:32
Speaker 1: it's a protein. So I guess I don't know what
25:34
Speaker 1: you serve with pot pie, but maybe put it on
25:36
Speaker 1: a not white plate. They were just on these like
25:38
Speaker 1: solid plates with this sad piece of pie. Put them
25:42
Speaker 1: on a smaller plate. I don't know, but it it
25:45
Speaker 1: looked like a very sad dinner. I actually don't remember
25:49
Speaker 1: looking at the pot pie, but I remember the scene
25:51
Speaker 1: because I was like, pop pie sounds good. I know
25:53
Speaker 1: I do. I would eat a pot pie right now,
25:57
Speaker 1: but the food styling left something to be desired in
26:01
Speaker 1: that scene. Okay, this was happened at the very beginning.
26:04
Speaker 1: Mac and her friend they leave New York. I don't
26:08
Speaker 1: know if they run in the car or what, but
26:10
Speaker 1: they get in the car. I guess I wish you
26:12
Speaker 1: guys could see us, right. I felt like a video game.
26:14
Speaker 1: They're like, she pulls into traffic, but she doesn't even
26:19
Speaker 1: like look over her shoulder or look at a mirror
26:21
Speaker 1: or anything.
26:22
Speaker 2: It just went like, you know, it's like digital screen
26:27
Speaker 2: and you're a terrible actress if you can't do something
26:30
Speaker 2: that you probably do in a car all day long.
26:34
Speaker 1: It should be like a muscle memory. At this point,
26:37
Speaker 1: you're gonna look over your left shoulder to see if
26:39
Speaker 1: there's traffic coming before you pull onto a New York
26:42
Speaker 1: City street. God, I can't stand these movies sometimes. So
26:49
Speaker 1: they have their bachelorette party campfire, yes, and then the
26:53
Speaker 1: two friends get up to go get water to put
26:57
Speaker 1: out the fire, yes, which is a guess by those
27:01
Speaker 1: are not logs that are burning and is a gas tire.
27:05
Speaker 1: It was so stupid. I was like, why wouldn't they
27:07
Speaker 1: just give them another excuse to get up so they
27:10
Speaker 1: could like talk a lottly like oh, we're gonna go
27:12
Speaker 1: get more drinks or we're gonna go like we need
27:15
Speaker 1: more marshmallows, or speaking of marshmallows, you do not play
27:19
Speaker 1: have I never have I ever whatever with the marshmallows.
27:22
Speaker 1: It's the saddest like get together ever. Like I'm not
27:25
Speaker 1: saying like get ham sandwich on shots, but like it's
27:30
Speaker 1: supposed to be a Bachelorette like send off, like make it.
27:35
Speaker 1: Can they not do booze on TV? They know they can't.
27:39
Speaker 1: They should have had them drinking homework wine and like
27:43
Speaker 1: eating marshmallows. Oh my god, I would just imagine how
27:48
Speaker 1: terrible you would feel. And then they moved. They're like,
27:50
Speaker 1: we gotta move to some mors for this one. I know.
27:53
Speaker 1: She's like, this is the seventh more I've eaten. And
27:55
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, I'd be like sick
27:57
Speaker 1: as a dog on the ground. No, thank you. I
28:01
Speaker 1: That whole scene was like so sad. And then I
28:03
Speaker 1: was like, oh, are those two chicks in the wedding tube. Nope,
28:05
Speaker 1: they weren't. They weren't. They weren't like bridesmaids or anything. Okay,
28:09
Speaker 1: But then they go to the bar and meet up
28:10
Speaker 1: with the dudes and Olivia is dancing with her fiance,
28:14
Speaker 1: Mac and Dylan are dancing, and then in the background
28:18
Speaker 1: the two friends are like dancing together. Did you see
28:21
Speaker 1: They're like dancing like one spin the other. That's just
28:25
Speaker 1: like sad. Totally. Picture being in that moment where you
28:28
Speaker 1: like show up at the bar with your friends and
28:30
Speaker 1: like two of them have dates and like you and
28:32
Speaker 1: your other friend are like, all right, I okay maybe,
28:35
Speaker 1: but like also it's a bachelorette party, like they couldn't
28:39
Speaker 1: like find some dudes to dance without a bar. Okay.
28:43
Speaker 1: There was the word foreclosure stamped on an alma. You guys,
28:51
Speaker 1: if you get a foreclosure letter, it's from the bank
28:54
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be in a bank envelope or their
28:56
Speaker 1: mortgage or whatever urgent. Yeah, it's like I'm sure. Oh,
29:02
Speaker 1: and here's the other thing, Like she was supposedly not
29:06
Speaker 1: supposed to have been home in ten years. Ten years,
29:09
Speaker 1: you're not gonna go see your dad. You live, it's
29:11
Speaker 1: not that far away in ten years since her mom died.
29:13
Speaker 1: They make some Yeah, they make some sort of like
29:15
Speaker 1: statement like that, so her dad has been coming to
29:18
Speaker 1: New York. Not a chance she hasn't seen her dad
29:20
Speaker 1: in ten years. No, come on, her dad who runs
29:22
Speaker 1: a farm and definitely can't get away right like apparently
29:25
Speaker 1: by himself plus Dylan. Another thing is they would take
29:30
Speaker 1: these aerial shots of the farm. Uh huh. I didn't
29:32
Speaker 1: see any trees. It just looked like flat, Like I
29:35
Speaker 1: don't understand. It's not a farm that you get maple
29:39
Speaker 1: syrup from. Maybe I don't know forest of maple forest.
29:44
Speaker 1: I have no idea. The only thing I know about
29:46
Speaker 1: maple syrup is I watched Winter House, which is on
29:49
Speaker 1: Bravo and Luke. If you guys watched Summerhouse, you guys
29:53
Speaker 1: know who Luke is. He taps this tree and that's
29:56
Speaker 1: the first time I've ever seen like, I didn't know
29:59
Speaker 1: that's how you got maple syrup. No freaking idea. I
30:01
Speaker 1: had no idea, so it felt fake when they were
30:06
Speaker 1: doing it in this movie based on what I saw.
30:09
Speaker 1: Winter's tapping an oak tree. Yeah, and I don't even
30:12
Speaker 1: know if they were tapping a maple tree and syrup
30:16
Speaker 1: come out, I don't remember. I have no idea. Does
30:19
Speaker 1: it just like pour out into those like jugs that
30:21
Speaker 1: they have hanging there? Well, I get the impression that
30:23
Speaker 1: it comes out slowly because they like hang them and
30:25
Speaker 1: walk away. Mm hmm. I don't. I don't know my
30:28
Speaker 1: maple syrup harvesting knowledge. I like it, I don't know
30:32
Speaker 1: anything about it. So multiple times they take totes of
30:36
Speaker 1: items and drop them off at the at the church.
30:39
Speaker 1: It was like one point in the beginning where they
30:41
Speaker 1: drop off like some really hideous fell flowers. Yes, yes, yes,
30:44
Speaker 1: And then there's a later point where Dylan and Olivia's
30:49
Speaker 1: fiance whose name I forget Sean is it Shane? I
30:52
Speaker 1: don't remember, are dropping off items at the church. It's
30:55
Speaker 1: the most random collection of shit in those totes. Someone's like,
30:57
Speaker 1: bring me a tote from your garage so we can
30:59
Speaker 1: carry some shit to the church. What are you bringing
31:01
Speaker 1: here to decorate? It's like these half full. It doesn't
31:05
Speaker 1: even it doesn't even make sense, like bring table linens
31:08
Speaker 1: or napkins or vases or candles or something that's not
31:12
Speaker 1: like random shit in the box. Is that where they
31:14
Speaker 1: were having the reception at too? At the church did
31:16
Speaker 1: seem that way? But I don't know, I don't I
31:18
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, because the DJ thrashed it. Okay. That's
31:22
Speaker 1: my other question is like I didn't really understand why
31:26
Speaker 1: was the DJ at the church and holding a rave
31:29
Speaker 1: because his deal was that like this was his how
31:34
Speaker 1: he was going to promote, So this is what he goes.
31:38
Speaker 1: This is something about like this is how I'll do
31:41
Speaker 1: it for free. I can have this other party. Excuse me.
31:44
Speaker 1: First of all, no DJ is playing a wedding for exposure,
31:48
Speaker 1: especially not a celebrity DJ. And second of all, no
31:51
Speaker 1: DJ is now playing a second pre party as his
31:55
Speaker 1: quote payment for that free exposure. What like, please hire
32:01
Speaker 1: somebody who has any clue what's happening. My gosh, I
32:04
Speaker 1: will consult for free. I'm so stupid. I have very
32:09
Speaker 1: little understanding of how the celebrity world works. But I
32:11
Speaker 1: can talk to you about influencers and who's doing stuff
32:14
Speaker 1: for free and who's not. I just I did not
32:17
Speaker 1: understand that at all. And she was so upset that
32:19
Speaker 1: they like deface the tree or what did they even do?
32:23
Speaker 1: They like put a heart around it? Yeah, something, I
32:26
Speaker 1: don't know. They weren't pissing on it, Like I don't
32:28
Speaker 1: want to selfie in front of it. I don't know.
32:30
Speaker 1: You carved your initials in front of a tree. You
32:32
Speaker 1: don't own it anything. Anybody could come along and do
32:35
Speaker 1: something to it. It's not in your backyard in a
32:38
Speaker 1: public place. Look, I really think we need to become
32:41
Speaker 1: script supervisors for Hallmark and tell them when this doesn't
32:45
Speaker 1: make any sense. Yeah, here's the last thing I have
32:48
Speaker 1: to say. Mac confronts Dylan right and basically accuses him
32:56
Speaker 1: of like running her dad's business into the ground. And
33:00
Speaker 1: he's like, no, I think you misunderstand it. And she
33:03
Speaker 1: was like huffs and puffs and walks away, and I
33:06
Speaker 1: was like, and he still loves her at the end,
33:09
Speaker 1: like that's a huge accusa. This guy's shouldering the mortgage
33:13
Speaker 1: of the farm. And she was like, you're running my
33:17
Speaker 1: dad's farm into the ground. Uh. Yeah, she sucked. Also,
33:23
Speaker 1: if you have a minor heart attack, you just have
33:25
Speaker 1: a doctor come give you a house call and say like, yeah,
33:27
Speaker 1: had a heart attack, stay in bed. Yeah. I didn't
33:30
Speaker 1: understand that either. The doctor diagnosed a heart attack from home,
33:33
Speaker 1: Like don't they need some sort of angiogram or EKG
33:36
Speaker 1: or something. I don't know, he's got medicine, just relax. Yeah, weird.
33:43
Speaker 1: So do you think she is she gonna now stay
33:46
Speaker 1: in that town and do what exactly? Did she say
33:50
Speaker 1: what she was gonna do? She canna become a maple influencer,
33:54
Speaker 1: turn her marketing. I was so glad this movie was over.
33:57
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, what is really funny is
33:59
Speaker 1: like in the kitchen getting something and then I heard
34:01
Speaker 1: that they're rolling the credits and I'm like, shuld I
34:04
Speaker 1: miss it? I can rewind it. I was like I
34:07
Speaker 1: don't know what happened this movie. Also, did you notice
34:10
Speaker 1: that weird bowling they were doing? No, I didn't. They
34:14
Speaker 1: were bowling with they were holding your hand like like
34:17
Speaker 1: botchy balls. Well I looked up. Either they were either
34:20
Speaker 1: playing duckpin or candlepin. Both are played with much smaller balls.
34:24
Speaker 1: They have no holes in them. You hold them, yes,
34:26
Speaker 1: similar to baudi ball you roll it. I've never seen
34:29
Speaker 1: that in that like finger holes. Yeah, I've never seen No,
34:31
Speaker 1: I didn't really notice that. I got one more last last?
34:34
Speaker 1: Did you see that? And you are going to be
34:35
Speaker 1: the only one who can appreciate it. They get to
34:38
Speaker 1: town and the first thing that they want to do
34:40
Speaker 1: is go drink a huge, giant ass chocolate milkshake. And
34:43
Speaker 1: I was like, oh god, Megan and I we would
34:47
Speaker 1: not be able to do anything after that. And I'm
34:52
Speaker 1: watching them drink it, I'm just like, oh, need to
34:55
Speaker 1: separate hotel room off. I know. Whenever they do that,
35:04
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, that's so sad. Okay, guys, hey, this
35:08
Speaker 1: is just the beginning. No, we got to rate it
35:10
Speaker 1: shit in my new rating system. Well, I'm not changing
35:15
Speaker 1: my rating. I'm not. I'm not either. Well Okay, I
35:19
Speaker 1: already Okay, whatever, what did you? Two stars? Me too? Oh?
35:22
Speaker 1: Which is a D. That's how I have to equate
35:27
Speaker 1: these things in my brain. I'm like, this was a
35:30
Speaker 1: terrible right, it was awful. Okay. I need you to
35:34
Speaker 1: go back and watch New Year's Resolution from twenty twenty one.
35:37
Speaker 1: There have been so many movies that were worse than
35:40
Speaker 1: that movie. Okay, wait, I'm gonna look at let me
35:42
Speaker 1: look on the homework AP and see if it's available. Yeah,
35:44
Speaker 1: I bet it's airing this week. It probably is. If
35:47
Speaker 1: you're new to the podcast. This is Wendy and I
35:51
Speaker 1: hated a New Year's Resolution last year. Hated it, hated
35:54
Speaker 1: it so much. It is replaying on January sixth. I'm
35:58
Speaker 1: gonna rewatch it and give it ane another try. Big
36:02
Speaker 1: Big claims. This is the beginning of New Year, New Movies,
36:06
Speaker 1: and next week I am looking forward to This is
36:09
Speaker 1: The Wedding Veil starring Lazy Shabert with special guests Autumn
36:13
Speaker 1: Research Alison Sweeney. Because this is going to be a trilogy, Okay,
36:16
Speaker 1: so they are each going to get their leading lady
36:18
Speaker 1: moment Sisterhood of the Traveling Veil. Basically, indeed, I have
36:23
Speaker 1: a problem though, Okay, because they're already promoting Love Youary,
36:27
Speaker 1: but the two movies that go in this trilogy are
36:32
Speaker 1: going to be premiering in February. They are, yes, plus
36:38
Speaker 1: a rerun of the first one and one other new movie.
36:43
Speaker 1: Oh well, guess what that means? You get a week off.
36:46
Speaker 1: Why didn't they just show them back to back to
36:52
Speaker 1: back in February? Love ever After? Is that's what it
36:56
Speaker 1: was called? Yes, it's Love Youary. I saw a commercial
36:59
Speaker 1: part last night. Interesting. Now, just because they're promoting that
37:02
Speaker 1: now on January third, doesn't mean that's how it will
37:04
Speaker 1: be come February first. Sure, true. I am hoping that
37:08
Speaker 1: the wedding veil will be a redemption for Christmas at
37:10
Speaker 1: Castle Heart. They did Lacy dirty in that movie. I
37:14
Speaker 1: really enjoy her, so I'm looking forward. I really enjoy
37:18
Speaker 1: the other two actresses too too. I hope please be good, Please,
37:22
Speaker 1: please please be good. Yeah. I'm hoping it's like a
37:25
Speaker 1: sister swap wedding veil situation, like just something different, Yeah,
37:31
Speaker 1: just different. Please be good, Please, please please be good.
37:33
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37:37
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