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Magic in Mistletoe · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 3: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 3: Megan and I'm a long time Hallmark movie fan. I'm Wendy.
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  Speaker 3: all right. Let's hear a synopsis for Magic and Mistletoe.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely Harrington love that name is an author of a
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  Speaker 4: book series, but commercial success has left him a bitter recluse.
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  Speaker 4: As he returns to his home for an annual Christmas festival,
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  Speaker 4: he's joined by April, a publicist for the publishing house
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  Speaker 4: he works for. That sounds like an incomplete sence. I
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  Speaker 4: didn't write it. I pulled it from IMDb. But did
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  Speaker 4: it make sense to you?
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  Speaker 3: I guess it does. It feels like there should be.
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  Speaker 4: More, but it makes it I agree anyway. This movie
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  Speaker 4: stars Lindy Greenwood and Paul Campbell and.
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  Speaker 3: It was written by One Sky. Blair. Sky has just
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  Speaker 3: two movie writing credits, but she's an accomplished author and
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  Speaker 3: she had a dream to write a Hallmark movie. She
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  Speaker 3: won a bet writing competition, which led to her getting
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  Speaker 3: the attention of other networks, including Hallmark, and they picked
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  Speaker 3: up this script.
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  Speaker 4: This movie was directed by Paula l. Paula has nine
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  Speaker 4: directing credits, including last year's fan favorite in Mary Measure
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  Speaker 4: Whoop Whoop.
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  Speaker 3: Lindy Greenwood plays April. Lindy has thirty one acting credits,
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  Speaker 3: and we've seen her recently in Holiday, Heritage and Girlfriendship,
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  Speaker 3: both for Hallmark. She also stars in Shelved, which is
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  Speaker 3: a workplace comedy about employees of a library that is
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  Speaker 3: currently streaming on CTV, which is a Canadian streaming service.
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  Speaker 3: And can I tell you how hard I tried to
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  Speaker 3: find that show? Does that sound like exactly the sort
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  Speaker 3: of thing that I love?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I was shocked that you haven't said I've binge
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  Speaker 4: watched it and love it.
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  Speaker 3: I have tried. But if you are a United States
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  Speaker 3: viewer and you know of how I can stream something
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  Speaker 3: like this, I'm pretty techy, but I don't understand the
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  Speaker 3: whole like VPN nonsense. So hit us up in the DMS.
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  Speaker 3: Let me know, because I would love to watch that.
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  Speaker 4: Paul Campbell plays Harrington, and this movie Magic and Mistletoe
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  Speaker 4: is Paul's fifty third acting credit. His first Homewark movie
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  Speaker 4: was called Surprised by Love in twenty fifteen, and this
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  Speaker 4: is his fourteenth movie appearance for Hallmark.
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  Speaker 3: Oliver Rice plays Chris. I find and Oliver to be
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  Speaker 3: a bit of a Wowie Zowie, particularly some of the
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  Speaker 3: first Trappie photos posted in his bio on IMDb. He's
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  Speaker 3: most stranger to Hallmark, however, having appeared in a slew
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  Speaker 3: of movies, including The Wedding Planner Mysteries, Chestpeake, Shors, Aurora
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  Speaker 3: t Guarden Mysteries, The Baker's Son, Eight Gifts of Hankkah,
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  Speaker 3: The Wedding Veil, Expectation, and Nope, that's not even all
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  Speaker 3: of them.
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  Speaker 4: He feels like one of those actors that should have
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  Speaker 4: lead role. Billy, Yes, give the guy a chance, please.
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  Speaker 3: Amy tree Fry plays Lindsey. This is Amy's first Hallmark
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  Speaker 3: movie in her nineteen acting credits. But I did a
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  Speaker 3: little digging on her IMDb bio and two fun facts
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  Speaker 3: about her. Amy grew up on a peregrine falcon farm,
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  Speaker 3: and she has worked with unhunted paragrins her entire life.
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  Speaker 3: Any of our listeners have children who were Wildcrats fans,
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  Speaker 3: Because I will forever and always remember the peregrine falcon
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  Speaker 3: from my son's Wildcrats obsession.
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  Speaker 4: I have no idea what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: It's a PBS show. Amy also once wrote in a
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  Speaker 3: professional Rodeo as part of a three person pack horse
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  Speaker 3: race and still loves to ride whenever she can Wow. Also,
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  Speaker 3: Robin Bradley plays Mayor Lisa. My notes say Lisa has
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  Speaker 3: but no. Robin has forty acting credits, including appearances in
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  Speaker 3: Hallmark movies Christmas at the Golden Dragon and The Nine
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  Speaker 3: Kittens of Christmas. Finally, this was filmed in Vancouver. Oh
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  Speaker 3: that squirrel got fat. It's for winter, I know, I
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  Speaker 3: leave it in.
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  Speaker 4: Have you noticed squirrel sightings in I listened to it
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  Speaker 4: this morning and I was like, oh God, people are
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  Speaker 4: gonna be like, what the hell is literal about?
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  Speaker 1: Girl?
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  Speaker 3: The moment. So there's a wall behind my house and
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  Speaker 3: squirrels run back and forth, and lately they've been very busy,
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  Speaker 3: and every time they run by, they've got food in
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  Speaker 3: their hands. And the other day I saw a very
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  Speaker 3: heartwarming squirrel moment where one had an orange, he ate
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  Speaker 3: half of it, set it down, the other one picked
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  Speaker 3: it up and finished it. Ah sweet, very sweet. So
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  Speaker 3: your little squirrel friends are stucking up for the California
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  Speaker 3: non winter. It is actually quite cold here though I.
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  Speaker 4: Think it was forty seven degrees when I left the
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  Speaker 4: house this morning.
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  Speaker 3: That's chili.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, all right, first impressions. My first impression, I
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  Speaker 4: might be in the minority here, but I kind of
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  Speaker 4: liked a curmudgeoned Paul Campbell.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I thought you might and I have something
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  Speaker 3: to say later. My first impression is it's giving Dixie Chicks.
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  Speaker 3: Does that want anything to you? No, it does not.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna have to explain, I will, I will. Let's
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  Speaker 3: get into what we liked about this movie.
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  Speaker 4: So I liked the story about Harryington hating the commercial
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  Speaker 4: success of his book. I feel like I could understand that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's it kind of is an interesting take
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  Speaker 4: for a Hallmark movie. And it almost is like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like watch out what you wish for kind of you
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  Speaker 4: know what I mean? And I also didn't hate that
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  Speaker 4: Harrington was this like jaded, unhappy character, Like that's when
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  Speaker 4: we don't typically get in a Hallmark movie. So maybe
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  Speaker 4: it's just who I am during the holiday season.
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  Speaker 3: But I kind of enjoyed it. Well, let me just
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  Speaker 3: jump right to my digit see that, because I didn't
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  Speaker 3: have many, but I did really feel like My first
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  Speaker 3: thought was like, Wendy, is that you because not? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: listen to me, listen to me, listen to me, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: in a very different way than what you're talking about, though,
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  Speaker 3: when he gets upset about the tree and then his
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  Speaker 3: friends are like, man, you like it's okay that you
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  Speaker 3: have all these feelings about the holidays based on like
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  Speaker 3: your holiday past experiences. I felt like that, not so
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  Speaker 3: much the like holiday curmudgeon jokey part of it, but
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  Speaker 3: the like I'm carrying these all these past things, like
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  Speaker 3: I come into the holidays with like, it's not just
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  Speaker 3: about the tree. I don't want to use that word myself,
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  Speaker 3: but there's other things that color your memories.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, absolutely, I yeah, yeah, yeah, I certainly feel that
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  Speaker 4: and agree with you. I thought that representation was kind
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  Speaker 4: of nice, even though in the movie I was like,
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  Speaker 4: come on, dude, just accept the tree. Yeah, I know,
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  Speaker 4: and and I fear that maybe viewers are not getting
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  Speaker 4: that message, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know what I mean from this movie. Yes, I hear.
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  Speaker 3: I yeah. They wanted, like Paul Campbell to be like jokestart,
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  Speaker 3: Well so did I.
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  Speaker 4: So oh, so let me tell you that, Like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it works a little bit out of order here, but
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  Speaker 4: it's okay. This movie was nothing what I expected or
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  Speaker 4: hoped for and listen, I'm treading lightly because I do
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  Speaker 4: not want Paul Campbell to come for us, so don't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is Paul Campbell, we love you.
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  Speaker 4: Truly.
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  Speaker 1: This is just.
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  Speaker 4: My thoughts here. When I originally read the synopsis for
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  Speaker 4: this movie, I thought Paul as a Recluse.
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  Speaker 3: Is going to be amazing.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was going to be straight up comedy,
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  Speaker 4: and I think it had huge potential to work in
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  Speaker 4: the comedy genre. And I'm not exactly sure what we got.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel me? I do, so let's stay out
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  Speaker 3: of order and let me just finish that thought based
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  Speaker 3: on something I my wish. One of my wishes for
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  Speaker 3: this movie is that it would have picked a lane.
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  Speaker 3: I at times it is a move and mysteries misery
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  Speaker 3: type movie with a sad dead parent storyline and holiday trauma,
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  Speaker 3: and at times it is a comedy in which Paul
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  Speaker 3: Campbell is, you know, refusing to play ball. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: not entirely sure which it was supposed to be. And
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  Speaker 3: I know things can be more than one thing, but
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  Speaker 3: I wanted them to lean in. I wanted more comedy,
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  Speaker 3: so did I.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I was expecting to So I feel like
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  Speaker 4: I was. I don't want to say let down. I
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  Speaker 4: just had other expectations. Yeah, well, let's yeah, circle back
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  Speaker 4: to our likes. Okay, Well, I loved the Kimberly sast
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  Speaker 4: Dead cameo in this movie, and the sort of wink
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  Speaker 4: and a nod that she gives about writing, and the
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  Speaker 4: little needling she gives to him as Harrington. I actually
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  Speaker 4: do a little writing myself, very much enjoyed it. He says,
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  Speaker 4: I write alone, and she says, maybe that's your problem.
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  Speaker 4: Did you watch this movie with anybody else? No, just me,
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  Speaker 4: So I watched with my husband, and I felt compelled
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  Speaker 4: to be like.
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  Speaker 3: They're writing partners. They write movies together. That's why. That's
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  Speaker 3: funny whatever. I mean, Yeah, he's like this this great
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  Speaker 3: information things. Yeah, she was great. I actually when she
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  Speaker 3: comes out kind of from behind him at the coffee shop,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, huh, look who it is. I love
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  Speaker 3: a cameo. That was a great one. I liked the
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  Speaker 3: I really like you moment at the end of the movie.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't they both said I really like you. That's okay,
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  Speaker 3: I like you. Yeah, that's appropriate too.
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  Speaker 4: But now I'm gonna jump ahead to wish I something
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  Speaker 4: didn't work between these two and I I don't. I
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  Speaker 4: can't put my finger on it. I just don't know
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  Speaker 4: if they were right in these roles.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: I just didn't feel any like chemistry between them, like
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  Speaker 4: at all at all. So I had a hard time
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  Speaker 4: like getting excited for these two like to get together.
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  Speaker 4: I just felt like, oh, check the box, these two
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  Speaker 4: have to end up together, because.
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  Speaker 3: I honestly at the Oh my gosh, your ring tone, yes,
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  Speaker 3: hold on a second, what is here? Excuse me? Your
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  Speaker 3: ring tone is Christmas music. I live in a house
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  Speaker 3: with other people. Hold on a second.
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  Speaker 4: Let me.
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  Speaker 3: Won't decorate the tree, but they'll change your ring tone.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't even know it got changed. It was like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Turkey's gobbling at one point.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that is funny. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, what was I talking about these two in this role?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just I don't. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what it was. So, oh, this is
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  Speaker 4: what I was saying. I just felt like, sometimes like
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  Speaker 4: you have to have this romantic story. Oh, this is
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  Speaker 4: what my point was. I thought April and the guy
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  Speaker 4: that played Chris, the friend of I thought they had
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  Speaker 4: more chemistry from go when they first met each other.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, Oh, is this the pairing that's gonna happen,
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  Speaker 4: But then no, it wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Chris was. I really enjoyed him back to what
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  Speaker 3: we liked. So I liked that they closed two loops
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  Speaker 3: on this story, which doesn't always happen. So we have
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  Speaker 3: the opening scene with April's wish, I wish for a
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  Speaker 3: magical Christmas. And while I did think it was silly
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  Speaker 3: the lanterns, she said like, oh it's magical, like she
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  Speaker 3: got that now when she made that wish, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: come on, wish for something concrete, right, But they closed
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  Speaker 3: that loop and they wrapped up the Christmas fairy inspiration
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  Speaker 3: that they kind of teased early in the story. So
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  Speaker 3: I like things when they have a bow on them.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, this is my last light. I really enjoyed how
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  Speaker 4: this movie opened with the entertainment Tonight segment. I know
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't entertainment Tonight, but entertainment Tonight esque segment. I
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  Speaker 4: thought it was really funny and Harrington's viral tweet, I
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  Speaker 4: thought it was very reflective of like current day pop
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  Speaker 4: culture and how that's.
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  Speaker 3: Like news, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So I enjoyed that they opened it like that. It
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  Speaker 4: was like a fresh take for me. So let's move
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  Speaker 4: on to what we wished for. I know we've been
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  Speaker 4: sprinkling it throughout. Do you have any other wishes?
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  Speaker 3: Someone's always dead in these movies. There's too many dead
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  Speaker 3: parents or dead everybody's dead, people are dying. It's you
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  Speaker 3: can have hardship in your life. We talked about it before.
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  Speaker 3: When you've got like a single parent, the other parent
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  Speaker 3: doesn't always need to be dead. There's all just a
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  Speaker 3: lot of death and dying.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's other hardships to be had that don't have
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  Speaker 4: to do with somebody dying. Right, you could be depressed,
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  Speaker 4: like we haven't seen that explored, right, Yes, anything there's Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think they need to reel it back in on
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  Speaker 4: the number of dead people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. The I do want to comment that I mentioned earlier.
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  Speaker 3: I thought her I wish for a magical Christmas was
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  Speaker 3: a waste. My husband goes, oh, I wish for peace
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  Speaker 3: on earth? Oh no, I wish for peace on earth?
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  Speaker 3: Is that the wish you're gonna make a Christmas? When
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  Speaker 3: you're wishing on something and you're gonna write it down, Yes, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: well you're a better I am I'm not wishing for something?
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  Speaker 3: What would you wish for? Well, I'm obviously first of all,
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  Speaker 3: I would never write something like that down. That's humiliating.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm not gonna be like, I wish for new
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  Speaker 3: ug slippers. But I'm not gonna write I wish for
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  Speaker 3: peace on earth. I'm not, of course I wish.
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  Speaker 4: That, But think about how wonderful a world would be
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  Speaker 4: if there was people.
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  Speaker 3: Who are you?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: For real?
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  Speaker 4: When I drive to my daughter's school and to your house,
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  Speaker 4: there is a local uh it's a very big business,
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  Speaker 4: but they have this huge lit like peace sign on
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  Speaker 4: their on the roof of their building, and I was like, wow,
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  Speaker 4: you don't really see that anymore at the at the
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  Speaker 4: holiday time. And I was like, I do wish for
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  Speaker 4: peace on earth. It would be magical, right.
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  Speaker 3: I don't disagree, It's just Santa's not putting that in
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  Speaker 3: his sleigh. I'm on, you never.
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  Speaker 4: Know, Santa does wonderful, magical things.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what's happening here.
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  Speaker 4: H Okay, I have one other little wish for Okay,
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  Speaker 4: the entire party scene when they are in costume. I
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  Speaker 4: cannot take Harrington seriously in that ridiculous beard. Furthermore, April
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  Speaker 4: dressed up as a fairy. I'm like, did she just
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  Speaker 4: pull all that shit out of her suitcase? She they
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  Speaker 4: address it, she says, yes, I flew.
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  Speaker 3: He goes, where did you get this? She's like, I
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  Speaker 3: come prepared. He's like, you flew with us on a plane. Yes, no,
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  Speaker 3: I know that.
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  Speaker 4: They address it, But those wings are like Victimia's secret
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  Speaker 4: huge angel wings.
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  Speaker 3: They are not collapsing into a suitcase. I agree. I
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  Speaker 3: hated that.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I hated that, But him and that beard, I
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  Speaker 4: just like he. I was like, pull the beard down
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  Speaker 4: and talk to her please, Like I realized like he
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  Speaker 4: was trying to be like incognito at this thing, because
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  Speaker 4: you know, he's this famous author and oh my god,
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  Speaker 4: earlier he almost just got mobbed by a whole bunch
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  Speaker 4: of people.
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  Speaker 3: Are rude Christmas elness. No, okay, look, show me a
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  Speaker 3: writer who would get mobbed like that. I know this
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  Speaker 3: is his hometown, so he's like the hometown hero and
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  Speaker 3: everyone loves his books. But dude writes Christmas novels and look,
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  Speaker 3: I'm currently reading a Christmas novel. Love Christmas novel. No
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  Speaker 3: one's gonna mop him on the street. And if they
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: see him at the town Christmas party, they're gonna give
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: him like a sub nod. That's gonna that's gonna be
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: the end of it. M h yeah. Contrast this small
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: town with like the small town that Kimberly Sustad lived
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: in in to all good Night. If these people are
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: truly your people, they're gonna give you the space that
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: you need. Mm hmmm, yeah, I agree. All right, are
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: you ready for my did you see that moment?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: I get them back to my first impression. Yes, April
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: gets in a cab and she's talking about Harrington's books
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: and the cab Dover's like, yeah, I read them write
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Daughter every night until I saw that tweet and then
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: I threw it in the trash. It very much reminded
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: me of the Dixie Chicks outright. Or people were like
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: throwing their CDs in the street and driving over them
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: with their cars, as if that's really gonna stick it
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: to them, the thing that you've already paid for, you're
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: now destroying because they had an opinion that was different
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: from yours. That's that's where my brain went.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Okay, Devil's advocate here, Uh, don't you think this is
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: a reflection of the Harry Potter author JK.
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  Speaker 3: Rowling. No, I don't. And here's why. Saying Christmas is
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: too commercial it's very different from me from a person
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: who doubles down on very hateful opinions like Christmas is
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  Speaker 3: too commercial? Isn't a hateful opinion? I agree, continuing to
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: deny the existence and the validity of a group of
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: humans is stronger.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: Okay, you don't think the inspiration came from JK.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Rowling? Though?
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: Maybe?
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe, certainly. I don't know.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: I don't know either. I'm not advocating.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: I'm just was.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Some of the commentary I've read on this movie was like, oh,
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: this is Harry Potter, right, So I just wanted to
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: see what your thoughts were on that.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I hear what you're saying. I think it could
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: have been the inspiration. I don't think it. She's garbage
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: and I love Harry Potter, so I said it come
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: for me?
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: I have two digitsies. That's one is they use Paul's
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: real photo from IMDb Twitter profile pic I thought was
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: kind of clever, yes, And the second one is.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: More of a question. Is cinnamon sugar on a some
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: more a thing. I really thought about needing to try
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: that after the fact, I love us more.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: Well, when I saw that they were like sprinkling, I
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: thought they were sprinkling salt on it too, I.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Was like, what that's incressing? Salt, though I could see
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: would probably be pretty good.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then he said it was cinnamon sugar. I
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: love a cinnamon sugar. Give me a cinnamon sugar.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Toast anytime, me too. You know, cinnamon and chocolate are
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: good pairing. So I bet maybe we should try it. Yeah,
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: so whip it up, whip it up?
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: What did you rate this movie? I gave it two
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: and a half stars.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: I gave it two stars.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: I really like Lindy Greenwood in this role. I think
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: she's a great actress. She's the star truly.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Just something, just the whole thing didn't connect and work
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: for me. I don't know, it was a little disjointed. Well,
• 22:23
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• 22:25
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• 22:27
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