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A Little Park Music · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm
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Speaker 1: a former Hallmark hater. On today's episode, we are discussing
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Speaker 1: a Little Park Music, which originally premiered on the Hallmark
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Speaker 1: Channel on Saturday, April eleventh, twenty twenty six, and is
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Speaker 1: currently available to stream on Hallmark Plus. Hey, we are
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Speaker 1: emotional roller coaster guys defend things. But also I just
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Speaker 1: what changes we're gonna make, what changes we're not going
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Speaker 1: few little changes in this episode. I think so too.
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Speaker 1: But what's not changing is we're going to kick off
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Speaker 1: this discussion of A Little Park Music with a synopsis.
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Speaker 1: When a piano appears in the park gazebo, interfering with
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Speaker 1: important work, city manager Ali joins forces with rookie Copp
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Speaker 1: Ryan to remove it, only to find both music and
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Speaker 1: love are hard to resist. A Little Park Music was
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Speaker 1: directed by Peter Benson, who has a couple standout Christmas
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Speaker 1: movies in twenty twenty five, including Christmas Above the Clouds
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Speaker 1: and The More the Merrier. He's become a pretty familiar
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Speaker 1: name in the homemark rotation. Writing credit is shared by
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Speaker 1: Rick Garman and Heather Taylor. Garman's a familiar Hallmark man
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Speaker 1: behind the Cherry Lane Christmas Movies and The Groomsman, while
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Speaker 1: this appears to be Taylor's first for the network. Lady
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Speaker 1: j Maylee plays Ali. You probably know Where's Jess from
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Speaker 1: Chesapeake Shores, where she stuck around for all six seasons.
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Speaker 1: Bo Mierkof plays Ryan and surprisingly outside of this series,
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Speaker 1: Ride Rip, this is only his third Hallmark movie. Feels
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Speaker 1: like it should be more right. I agree, Francis flanagain
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Speaker 1: play shop owner Julia, and let's be honest, she's a
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Speaker 1: very familiar face if you watch a lot of Hallmark.
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Speaker 1: If you're looking for the full cast list, we've got
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Speaker 1: you covered. Check out our show notes at Girls Gone
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Speaker 1: Hallmark dot com. Hey Wendy, what was your first impression
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Speaker 1: of a little park music? I have two. I don't
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Speaker 1: know which one to go with. Why about I vote?
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Speaker 1: How are you going to vote? Well, we'll decide which
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Speaker 1: one goes into I don't know. Just hit us both.
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Speaker 1: Let me hear them both. Okay. My first one is
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Speaker 1: I spent ninety minutes yelling at the TV, just move
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Speaker 1: the fountain. Yeah. And my second first impression is, wait,
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Speaker 1: did I miss a Peter Benson cameo? Oh? Agree, I
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Speaker 1: couldn't find him and I watched this movie twice. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna talk about it, Okay. My first impression is I
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Speaker 1: think Officer Pruitt should join our hashtag no fun club.
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Speaker 1: You wanted to hate him, and you've understood his need
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Speaker 1: to follow the rules. The enneagram nine wing one in me,
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Speaker 1: that's you. Yeah, I had a real problem with his,
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Speaker 1: like jaywalking ticket. I'm gonna talk about it. Especially in
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Speaker 1: a small town, and can I start? I need to
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Speaker 1: I feel like I need to say something. Oh god, Okay.
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Speaker 1: I watched this movie twice, and a lot of times
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Speaker 1: we talk about watching a movie twice because like we
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Speaker 1: weren't really paying attention or we fell us whatever. No,
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Speaker 1: I watched it twice, fully focused both times, and I
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Speaker 1: really struggled with this movie. I need to set the
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Speaker 1: tone for this review. I had a hard time connecting
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Speaker 1: with it. The first time I watched it. I sat
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Speaker 1: in silence after watching it, thinking I don't know what
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Speaker 1: to say about this movie really, and on second watch,
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Speaker 1: my overall feelings honestly didn't change that much. Although I
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Speaker 1: did find some scenes and elements that I found enjoyable,
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Speaker 1: my overall impression is that I thought this movie had
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Speaker 1: some good parts that didn't fully come together for me.
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Speaker 1: The feedback that we got on social media, looking at
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Speaker 1: our Instagram comments was like two ends of the spectrum.
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Speaker 1: It was I loved this movie, This was amazing, And
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Speaker 1: I absolutely did not connect with this movie right. So
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Speaker 1: I'm super curious because I texted you before you had
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Speaker 1: seen it, and I was like, it's not working for me.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what to do so. I'm curious to
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Speaker 1: hear your takes with your likes. I see it looking
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Speaker 1: at my list of likes and wishes, the wishes is
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Speaker 1: a little heavier and I have more thoughts about it.
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Speaker 1: I agree with you going into this movie. If you
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Speaker 1: remember when we did our April First Impressions, we kind
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Speaker 1: of like clowned on it a little bit. We're like,
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Speaker 1: what's this magical? Like piano? Like we didn't this was
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Speaker 1: so out of the box, right, But as I watched
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Speaker 1: this movie, I was like, Oh, this is so in
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Speaker 1: the box. Yeah, Mark, and I feel like we are
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Speaker 1: reaching for a storyline here, for a problem that is
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Speaker 1: easily solvable. Yes, I agree. Yeah, I don't want to
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Speaker 1: get too far into my wishes. I agree. I agree.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk what we did like about the movie. I
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Speaker 1: really enjoyed Lazy j Maylee and Bot mierkof together. I'm
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Speaker 1: a big fan of Lacey. I like the movies that
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Speaker 1: she does. Me too. I don't think she's on the
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Speaker 1: network enough. When I was looking back at her resume,
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Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, she's only done like maybe three
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Speaker 1: or four movies, like since Chesapeake Shores ended. Yeah, but
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Speaker 1: I do like her movies. I really liked that movie
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Speaker 1: she did last year with Oh the Sister movie with
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Speaker 1: Ashley Williams. Yes, it was a Christmas movie last year
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Speaker 1: where I traveled. I liked that movie a lot. I
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Speaker 1: like her, so I was excited. But also, if you recall,
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Speaker 1: I was like bo Mira Gough like he doesn't like,
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Speaker 1: doesn't leave a remarkable impression on me. But I did
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Speaker 1: enjoy him in this. I enjoyed them together. And let
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Speaker 1: me tell you what I enjoyed. I thought they had
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Speaker 1: a natural chemistry. It was not fireworks, but I thought
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Speaker 1: it was very watchable. And I also thought that the
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Speaker 1: dialogue that they had together that was written for this
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Speaker 1: couple felt very modern, like it was what people their
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Speaker 1: age would say to each other. Oh yeah, And I
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Speaker 1: was convinced that this couple, like I, it was believable
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Speaker 1: that they would continue to date like yeah after the
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Speaker 1: movie and you know, like in some weird fantasy world. Yeah. No,
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Speaker 1: I agree with you, and I the two of them too.
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Speaker 1: I really like Lacy J. Mayley. My notes say that
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Speaker 1: I would like to see her back in a series. Me. Yes,
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Speaker 1: But then I say, maybe I just need to watch
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Speaker 1: chest Peak sures. I just think she. I think her
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Speaker 1: characters really come through, like she develops them for me
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Speaker 1: on screen in a way that would be really watchable
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Speaker 1: in a series to see that character play out over
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Speaker 1: a long period of time. But to your point about
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Speaker 1: their dialogue, one of my favorite scenes is the stakeout scene. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I have that down too. It's the most fun scene
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Speaker 1: in the movie. It's the most fun that Ali and
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Speaker 1: Ryan have together. You know, they joke about a hot
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Speaker 1: dog being a sandwich and get out of my car,
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Speaker 1: and you know, they have these funny little conversations which
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Speaker 1: I thought, like you said, were believable and real, and
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Speaker 1: then it transitions into them having a little bit more
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Speaker 1: of a serious conversation, and she talks about the things
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Speaker 1: that are important to her in our relationship and what
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Speaker 1: she really wants, and I appreciate her saying like, this
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Speaker 1: is what I want out of a relationship, and later
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Speaker 1: in the movie where she's like, I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: get that from you, and I'm not going to try
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Speaker 1: and change you. Go live your dream. But also this
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Speaker 1: isn't going to work for me, so I'm gonna cut
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Speaker 1: it off here.
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Speaker 2: That's so mature, right, Yes, you know, instead of being
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Speaker 2: like this man I've known for three days is going
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Speaker 2: to move away and now I'm going to be mad
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Speaker 2: at him and stop talking.
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Speaker 1: She just handles it like an adult. I'm currently doing
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Speaker 1: a little rewatch of Summerhouse. Oh, and it's seas to
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Speaker 1: Know You in it's when West and Sierra both you know,
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Speaker 1: meet each other for the first time, and I seas
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Speaker 1: an eight. Yeah. I caught some day this morning that
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Speaker 1: she said they were talking about dating, and she's like, look,
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Speaker 1: I want marriage and kids someday, so I date intentionally.
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Speaker 1: She's like, I'm not just wasting time, and I was like, whoa.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how I missed that the first time.
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Speaker 1: And this is probably the fourth rewatch I've had of
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Speaker 1: this particular show. But my point is it's kind of
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Speaker 1: the same with this character, like she's like, look, I
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Speaker 1: know what I want. This is not going to work out,
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Speaker 1: so you know. Sorry. It is funny though, because she
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Speaker 1: has that relationship with the music store guy and she
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Speaker 1: isn't able to make that distinction there. I mean, she
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Speaker 1: finally does does she gets there, but she was kind
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Speaker 1: of letting that run in the background has like a
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Speaker 1: safety net, which you can kind of understand sure, sure sure.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of fun scenes, I like that gazebo scene too.
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Speaker 1: It's the steakout scene, yes, the gazebo steakout scene. Yes,
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Speaker 1: it got just like the tiny spit like hijiing see
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Speaker 1: just the touch. Yeah yeah, sure, which you know I
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Speaker 1: don't love. But I really like the shopping scene too,
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Speaker 1: when they were looking for furniture and like decor for
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Speaker 1: his house. Oh I like that montage as well. I
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Speaker 1: don't like that. Those always hit for me. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: then they were clowning on that cute little like bird painting,
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Speaker 1: which I realized was in his apartment later on. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was just cute, that's all. Is this where you
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Speaker 1: texted me and you said I want to go antiquing.
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Speaker 1: I don't think so, oh no, but I do want
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Speaker 1: to go antiquing, maybe because my house is it's bear.
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Speaker 1: It needs personality, and I keep landing on these tiktoks
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Speaker 1: of these women who have these personality filled homes. Feel you,
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Speaker 1: And when I tell you that I've lived in this
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Speaker 1: house for fifteen years, it feels embarrassing to say that
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Speaker 1: it's been fifteen years and there's no personality. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's literally in my house we're on the same page here,
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Speaker 1: and I think that's an A lot of people's houses
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Speaker 1: are builder grade and they maybe slap a few things
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Speaker 1: on the wall and they call it good. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I just want it to be filled with beautiful things. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I hear you. Anyway, I enjoyed that montage scene as well.
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Speaker 1: I would have liked to see like a little bit
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Speaker 1: more like it was. His apartment was still pretty bear
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Speaker 1: at the end of that makeover scene, but they did
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Speaker 1: add personality to it. I love how he's like, I
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Speaker 1: don't even have a plan. She's like, I'm gonna buy
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Speaker 1: you a fake one. Here are some other stuff I liked.
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Speaker 1: I did think this movie checked the box on the
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Speaker 1: spring aesthetic. Oh for sure. It was very beautiful to
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Speaker 1: look at. I thought it was really pretty and I
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Speaker 1: don't know if this set designer had put this much
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Speaker 1: thought into it. But there was a lot of blues,
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Speaker 1: and you know, Lacey's eyes are so blue. Like every
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Speaker 1: there were a couple of scenes, not every scene, but
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Speaker 1: there were a couple scenes where there's like a blue
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Speaker 1: door in the background or a blue potted plant or whatever,
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Speaker 1: and it just popped off the screen, especially with her eyes.
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Speaker 1: I don't know it just I thought it was very beautiful.
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Speaker 1: It was giving me, you know, seasonal spring, seasonal Yeah,
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Speaker 1: without like being like it felt fresh. Basically, I agree.
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Speaker 1: The colors were very bright, it was very crisp, very
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Speaker 1: beautiful to look at. I did find the character of
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Speaker 1: Ali relatable to a point, her hyper fixation on being efficient,
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Speaker 1: Like I felt that as a woman who just wants
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Speaker 1: to get shit done sometimes. And in theory, I thought
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Speaker 1: her backstory about her her childhood and explaining the need
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Speaker 1: for control like all that felt very relatable to me.
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Speaker 1: And I thought this was interesting in theory, But I
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Speaker 1: don't know for sure this is going to sound like
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Speaker 1: a wish. I just don't know for sure if we
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Speaker 1: needed it to be that deep in this movie, because
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Speaker 1: I'm like, what are we working, I'm going to talk
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Speaker 1: about it my wishes. I don't want to get too
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Speaker 1: ahead of myself. But I was like, Okay, I like
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Speaker 1: that we're dipping our toe into like finding out why
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Speaker 1: she is the way she is, but also the people
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Speaker 1: just are that way, Yeah, Like why do we need
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Speaker 1: to explain everything about everybody? Yeah, that's such your personality, right,
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Speaker 1: And finally, for me, my final like there is a
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Speaker 1: theme here to the movie that I that I enjoy
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Speaker 1: the importance of community and slowing down and being present
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Speaker 1: and not being on your phone all the time, like
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Speaker 1: the idea of having this shared space that could bring
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Speaker 1: people together. Like ah, like this theme. I do think
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Speaker 1: it's a little heavy handed in this movie. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: think we're really reaching for it. I mean, I think
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Speaker 1: the Gazebo's doing a lot of work here. And the
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Speaker 1: idea of community was really interesting to me. I really
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Speaker 1: stuck on the idea of community policing, and this idea
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Speaker 1: has taken root in my brain this weekend and I
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Speaker 1: keep returning to it. And I think my local police
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Speaker 1: department has a strong social media presence and they post
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Speaker 1: a variety of things, and they sometimes they're like, look
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Speaker 1: at this crime ring we apprehended, and sometimes they're like
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Speaker 1: making jokes about the number of tests in the city.
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Speaker 1: You know. It's just there's a clear effort to be
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Speaker 1: of the people. Yeah, you know, and they have coffee
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Speaker 1: with a cop and all of these things come on
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Speaker 1: down to this demonstration and it's so interesting because not
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Speaker 1: to get too deep, but like policing has been very
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Speaker 1: in the news in the conversation the last several years
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Speaker 1: and the role of police officers, and my feeling is
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Speaker 1: like there's bad people in every profession, right, nobody is
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Speaker 1: all one thing or another. But the idea of I
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Speaker 1: liked how Officer Ryan had to come from this role
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Speaker 1: of like being in control and being the overseer to
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Speaker 1: being part of the community and working alongside them. And
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Speaker 1: this is a much deeper conversation than we have here
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Speaker 1: on Girls Gone Homework. But I've been thinking about it
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Speaker 1: a lot, and I think it's an interesting way to
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Speaker 1: be I like those thoughts. Thank you. I can't help
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Speaker 1: but think of movies surrounded about community though, and if
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Speaker 1: we think back to To for Tea, that movie was
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Speaker 1: really centered on community. Yes, I want a space like that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I don't hate I like the idea
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Speaker 1: and two for Tea as well as of having a
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Speaker 1: community space, so I can I can kind of get
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Speaker 1: on board with it. With this piano situation in this
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Speaker 1: gazebo nonsense, but yeah, like I'm not really showing up
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Speaker 1: for the piano. That's not the thing that's gonna bring
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Speaker 1: me there. But I do like the idea of having
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Speaker 1: some sort of central location that brings people together around
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Speaker 1: a shared experience. Yeah. Part of me is like, well,
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Speaker 1: is that something that you need a small town for, Like,
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Speaker 1: do you need a Luke Steiner? Do you need a
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Speaker 1: you know? Do you have any other likes? Yes? I'm
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Speaker 1: sorry one. I thought there was some really unique filming
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Speaker 1: angles in this movie, really, I tell me anymore. Not
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Speaker 1: so much angles. But there's a couple scenes. For one,
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Speaker 1: the stakeout scene is shot from so many different cameras. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I hadn't noticed. And then there's another one. I think
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Speaker 1: it's the final time they're surprised by the piano at
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Speaker 1: the gazebo. You see Ali walking up and oh what
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Speaker 1: and the camera like whips around to the other side
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Speaker 1: instead of just doing like a cut from Ali to
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Speaker 1: the piano. There were just some fundaments had Peter Benson
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Speaker 1: I hope's choice. I hope so he was really working
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Speaker 1: behind the camera. That's why he had no cameo. He
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Speaker 1: had to have been in one of those communities scenes, right, cool.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but I did. I don't know either. Hey,
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Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we're going to come
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Speaker 1: back to talk about our wishes. Well, it's time to
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Speaker 1: talk about our wishes on my list is unfortunately a
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Speaker 1: little bit on the longer side. Okay, why don't you start.
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Speaker 1: This isn't a wish, this is on me. This wasn't
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Speaker 1: a magical piano. This was a mysterious piano. In fact,
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Speaker 1: halfway through the movie, I paused, I got this synopsis
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Speaker 1: and I thought, oh, it says mysterious. We read that
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Speaker 1: as like pianos out there, like did it did it?
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Speaker 1: Did it like just playing? You know, like a couple
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Speaker 1: walks up and it plays like a romantic song and
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Speaker 1: kids walk up and it plays like some sort of
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Speaker 1: mischievous music. That's not how it was it all. So
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Speaker 1: it was different than what I anticipated. That's on me.
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Speaker 1: But we were like, it's going to be magical realism
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Speaker 1: with this. Oh yeah, did you say that boofs into
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Speaker 1: the gazebo instead of you know, antiquchap ladies grandson wheeling
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Speaker 1: it in in the dead of night. Also, how is
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Speaker 1: he getting it there because we own a piano and
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Speaker 1: have to hire people to move it. Oh, you don't
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Speaker 1: find it believable that he's pushing this down the blacktop
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Speaker 1: street and like building a ramp to get it into
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Speaker 1: the gazebo. Yeah, how heavy? Are they? Very? Yeah? That's funny.
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Speaker 1: You're right about magical versus and mysterious. I did wonder
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Speaker 1: for a minute. I was like, is this supposed to
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Speaker 1: be a mystery. I think it is supposed to be
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Speaker 1: a mystlite, I think. And the next week's this week's
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Speaker 1: movie about the letters is a mystery too. I think
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Speaker 1: I think these are mystery adjacent. Hmmm. I would like
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Speaker 1: the mystery homemark, mystery stance. Yeah, please weigh in. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: what did you think? Let us know if you would
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Speaker 1: consider this a mystery or not. My biggest wish, and
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Speaker 1: I've said it before, this is such a solvable problem.
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Speaker 1: The entire movie hinges on something that could be fixed
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Speaker 1: with let's put the fountain somewhere else in the park, Yes,
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Speaker 1: end of story. But this central conflict feels to me
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Speaker 1: artificially stretched, like we are now filling the time with
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Speaker 1: what are we gonna do with the piano and the
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Speaker 1: gazebo and the grant and everything's hinging on the park
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Speaker 1: can have more than one focal point totally, and in
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Speaker 1: fact that makes it richer and more interesting, and people
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Speaker 1: are more likely to come there if oh, there's the
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Speaker 1: nice gazebo with the piano, and oh I can go
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Speaker 1: sit by the fountain, and oh this is an instagrammable moment,
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Speaker 1: and oh how peaceful I can walk. Come on, yes,
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Speaker 1: it's not Central Park now. I was so annoyed by
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Speaker 1: all of that. I was also I was annoyed by
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Speaker 1: the shop owner Julia played by Francis Flanagan. At the
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Speaker 1: top of the movie, she stops Ali and she's like, hey,
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Speaker 1: did you is by paint application going to be you know,
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Speaker 1: accepted or whatever they wanted to bring like vibrancy back
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Speaker 1: to downtown. But all that hinged on this grand right. Well,
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Speaker 1: now we know that it was that lady kind of
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Speaker 1: sabotaging it. Yeah, it was her fault. I'm like, why
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Speaker 1: couldn't Ali just be like, look, we're trying to get you,
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Speaker 1: like all the approvals and we want to revie downtown too,
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Speaker 1: but it hinges on this grant and therefore at XYZ,
20:04
Speaker 1: so stop doing your freaking nonsense and bringing this piano
20:08
Speaker 1: in here. Also, that scene was very much giving when
20:11
Speaker 1: Jackson becomes the town selectman and Gilmore girls and like
20:14
Speaker 1: he can't go anywhere without people bothering him. I was like,
20:18
Speaker 1: these small town This woman was like, people need to
20:20
Speaker 1: get off their phones and start smelling the roses. And
20:23
Speaker 1: I was like, well, you need to take your own
20:24
Speaker 1: advice and allow Ali to have a little work life balance.
20:29
Speaker 1: Like when she's walking down the street, she's like, Oh,
20:32
Speaker 1: we just say good morning and talk about the weather. Well,
20:34
Speaker 1: that's partially on you, Like, why does Ali want to
20:36
Speaker 1: engage with you if she knows that engaging with you
20:39
Speaker 1: means you're gonna brate her and badger her for an
20:41
Speaker 1: answer to no, talk about that when she's at work,
20:44
Speaker 1: when she's in front of your store. She let her
20:47
Speaker 1: be Ali Ali a public servant. Yeah, I agree. Do
20:54
Speaker 1: you think that the reason that all of the songs
20:56
Speaker 1: that they played on the piano were old timey like
20:59
Speaker 1: when the Saints go Marching in was because the rights
21:01
Speaker 1: for other songs were too expensive? Probably I hadn't clocked
21:04
Speaker 1: that while watching it, but yeah. Probably. Did they sing
21:07
Speaker 1: Happy Birthday too? No? Happy Birthday is very expensive? No,
21:10
Speaker 1: I think it's free now all recently. Yeah, I think so, okay,
21:14
Speaker 1: because I remember in the past people like, don't sing it,
21:17
Speaker 1: we're gonna get dinged. Yeah. No, I think they can
21:19
Speaker 1: use it now. I think it's in the public domain.
21:22
Speaker 1: That's the word, because when the Saintskull Marching In is
21:25
Speaker 1: in the public domain. I looked, Oh, who was the
21:29
Speaker 1: girls singing at the end? I don't know, I should
21:33
Speaker 1: zammed that song. It didn't come up. I was like,
21:34
Speaker 1: I feel like we should. It was such a It
21:37
Speaker 1: was the daughter right of the mom who was singing.
21:39
Speaker 1: Who had that moment? No, anyway, I don't know. Yes,
21:43
Speaker 1: Happy Birthday to You is in the public domain as
21:45
Speaker 1: of twenty sixteen. Oh interesting, okay, you know I get it.
21:54
Speaker 1: I did think the man who sang when the saintsku
21:56
Speaker 1: Marching In was quite charming, so it's not his fault
22:00
Speaker 1: that they had to pick, you know, a song from
22:03
Speaker 1: the nineteenth century. Our piano loving kid needed some higher stakes.
22:10
Speaker 1: I lolled to be quite on. I don't mean to
22:13
Speaker 1: be a jerk. But his name is Sam and he
22:17
Speaker 1: explains to Ryan that the dad got rid of their
22:20
Speaker 1: piano at their home because football was taking up too
22:23
Speaker 1: much time, and now he's secretly longing to play. I
22:26
Speaker 1: was like, football is taking up too much time, so
22:30
Speaker 1: we have to get rid of a piano in your home?
22:33
Speaker 1: YEA A break okay, I won't talk about that as all.
22:37
Speaker 1: Sam comes riding up on his skateboard and I was like, oh,
22:40
Speaker 1: this is It was so funny because the image I
22:42
Speaker 1: had of Sam when he wrote up was very different.
22:45
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is like the troublemaker kid
22:47
Speaker 1: who doesn't want anybody to know he's like secretly into
22:49
Speaker 1: the arts. Thought the same thing. Come to find out,
22:52
Speaker 1: he just has to like play piano on secret because
22:54
Speaker 1: his dad's going to be mad. Like it's a Friday
22:57
Speaker 1: night light situation, right. Yes, I could not have cared less. Also,
23:02
Speaker 1: I got so in my head because I was like,
23:04
Speaker 1: I don't like the idea of making kids, especially high
23:08
Speaker 1: school kids, focus on one thing. I don't think it's healthy.
23:11
Speaker 1: I don't like you need to have more than one interest.
23:14
Speaker 1: I think that's a recipe for burnout. Yeah, to be like,
23:17
Speaker 1: this is your thing, focus on it. There was no
23:19
Speaker 1: reason for him to be worried about his dad's reaction
23:21
Speaker 1: other than the fact that his dad went completely Who
23:24
Speaker 1: gets would of a piano in our house because your
23:26
Speaker 1: son's busy? Yeah, I don't. I can't sit down and
23:28
Speaker 1: be like like play a little bitdy, I'm gonna take
23:32
Speaker 1: away the piano because you need to focus on football.
23:36
Speaker 1: Is so weird, and he's like, I love you, I
23:38
Speaker 1: just want you to be happy. Okay, this is what
23:42
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, artificially stretched. Yeah, of course, Ugh, what
23:46
Speaker 1: are your other wishes? I hated that Ryan was pushing
23:51
Speaker 1: Ali to change. Oh in what way? Well, I think
23:55
Speaker 1: there's a fine line between helping someone grow and then
23:59
Speaker 1: why are you like this now? You need to be different,
24:02
Speaker 1: Like I'm going to force you into a yoga class
24:04
Speaker 1: because you need to like slow down, slow down. Like
24:08
Speaker 1: if she is a high strong wants to be hyper efficient,
24:13
Speaker 1: let her be who she is. She's a full ass adult.
24:17
Speaker 1: Just let her be who she is. And I hate
24:21
Speaker 1: that most of our Hallmark movies do play out in
24:26
Speaker 1: a way where the women need to be softened by
24:30
Speaker 1: this man. And I can't stand it. Yeah, it's interesting
24:35
Speaker 1: because she was willing to accept that he wasn't the
24:37
Speaker 1: right person for her right and he maybe was not. Yes,
24:43
Speaker 1: I was bugged by that. Also. I just watched a
24:46
Speaker 1: documentary over the weekend, like a four episode documentary where
24:51
Speaker 1: they solved to murder from a clip on a ring
24:55
Speaker 1: doorbell cam. You're telling me there's No, there was one
25:00
Speaker 1: camera in this movie, and Ali gets up on from
25:03
Speaker 1: the vantage point to try to see into the park.
25:07
Speaker 1: They couldn't figure out who was moving the pianos into
25:10
Speaker 1: the gazebo. Nobody's got like it. Nobody seem lumbering down
25:16
Speaker 1: the street. They would have heard it. You know, I
25:18
Speaker 1: can hear my neighbors taking their trash cans out. You
25:20
Speaker 1: would absolute literally hear the piano going down the road.
25:23
Speaker 1: Ever since, I seem worse crime solved on next door,
25:27
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? My mom solved a crime
25:29
Speaker 1: with her ring camera. Did she? Yes? Yes, someone's mail
25:35
Speaker 1: was stolen and they were sorting it in front of
25:37
Speaker 1: her house, and she called the police and was like,
25:40
Speaker 1: I don't know if you want this. They came in
25:42
Speaker 1: out of the ring camera footage. They went they had
25:44
Speaker 1: just happened. They went found the woman down the street
25:47
Speaker 1: and arrested her because she had multiple packages in her car. Wow.
25:52
Speaker 1: Went the night in jail. Wow. I mean, I'm sure
25:54
Speaker 1: there are some who would be like, would call my mom,
25:57
Speaker 1: you know whatever, But that person was stealing mail, Yeah,
26:02
Speaker 1: stealing packages and yes, checks and whatever, birthday card money.
26:07
Speaker 1: I don't know. Never send cash through the mail. That's why, right,
26:10
Speaker 1: never send cash through the mail. Yeah. Yeah, and that
26:15
Speaker 1: speaks to a police torment that has plenty of time
26:17
Speaker 1: on their hands to handle it. Yes, yes, look to
26:22
Speaker 1: your point about manufactured drama, the dispute between the diner
26:26
Speaker 1: owner and the dance studio. I was like, why do
26:28
Speaker 1: we get three conversations about this? Yeah, let me tell you.
26:31
Speaker 1: I was in pilates the other night and there's a
26:33
Speaker 1: karate class next door, and I can hear them the
26:37
Speaker 1: entire time. Nobody's bitching at each other floors to share
26:42
Speaker 1: a wall. Yeah, I can smell your pancakes. Get out
26:45
Speaker 1: of town, can smell those terrible pancakes. I don't like
26:49
Speaker 1: hearing music through the wall. Oh, it hadn't occurred to me,
26:52
Speaker 1: a person who works in dance, to move my speaker
26:55
Speaker 1: to the other wall. I know, dumb stuff. Anything else
27:01
Speaker 1: not for my wishes. Hey, let's talk to you to
27:03
Speaker 1: see that poor LACEYJ. Malee had to wear these crop
27:08
Speaker 1: jeans in basically every scene. I mean, I'm wearing a
27:12
Speaker 1: capri jen right now. I love them, but like almost
27:15
Speaker 1: every scene she had them on different top, different jacket.
27:17
Speaker 1: You know, wardrobe a limited on this movie. Just yeah, hey,
27:22
Speaker 1: is it normal to take a yoga class where the
27:23
Speaker 1: instructor isn't modeling the poses? I have only done very
27:26
Speaker 1: beginner friendly yoga classes, so Ryan was having to show
27:31
Speaker 1: her like oh, Warrior one, Warrior two, and the instructor
27:35
Speaker 1: was walking around. I know yoga instructors will walk around
27:37
Speaker 1: to like correct your form, but usually like they're showing
27:41
Speaker 1: the pose. Maybe it was an advanced class, maybe at
27:44
Speaker 1: a community center, though problems like you should stick around? Yeah, Oh,
27:48
Speaker 1: we can't put that piano in here, it's too crowded.
27:52
Speaker 1: Why does the yoga teacher have an opinion on where
27:54
Speaker 1: the damn piano goes? I do kind of understand that, though,
27:58
Speaker 1: because people are probably just always trying to dumb stuff
28:00
Speaker 1: in there, and you're like stop stop, Yeah, but you
28:03
Speaker 1: don't own the space. No, go get your own studio then, lady, Sorry,
28:11
Speaker 1: you had mentioned how difficult it is to move a piano. Yeah,
28:17
Speaker 1: aren't pianos like temperamental? Like can they be outside? Okay,
28:21
Speaker 1: isn't this Washington state we're in as well? I? Yes,
28:26
Speaker 1: the whole time, I'm like, they can't have that piano outside.
28:28
Speaker 1: It's gonna get ruined and then they do have the
28:30
Speaker 1: discussion of like I'm gonna get a weather proof piano,
28:32
Speaker 1: which I looked they exist. Oh okay, so I don't
28:36
Speaker 1: know what they cost. I would imagine they're much more
28:38
Speaker 1: expensive or maybe there or lower quality. I don't know
28:42
Speaker 1: one or the other. I didn't look that far. They
28:44
Speaker 1: do exist, but yes, I was thinking that before they
28:48
Speaker 1: had the weather proof piano discussion. The mayor was like, oh, well,
28:52
Speaker 1: it's the weather's good now, and I was like, yeah,
28:54
Speaker 1: even when the weather's good, it's like dewey at night.
28:56
Speaker 1: It's yeah. Anyway, yes, that would be problem. I just
29:00
Speaker 1: can't imagine why you would want an outdoor piano. Are
29:03
Speaker 1: people that excited about the piano? It's novelty, right, it's
29:08
Speaker 1: short lived experience. Look, it's you know. You and I
29:11
Speaker 1: did talk about the Nordstrum piano guys, and it was
29:16
Speaker 1: nice to have the live piano player walking through Nordstrum.
29:20
Speaker 1: It it was nice. But you don't gather and dance
29:22
Speaker 1: in front of them. Oh. Sometimes they would be like
29:25
Speaker 1: playing a familiar song and you're like, oh, that's nice.
29:27
Speaker 1: I have an idea, you know how, like locally we'll
29:30
Speaker 1: have like a summer concert series. Why don't they have
29:32
Speaker 1: the piano come out for like a summer concert series,
29:36
Speaker 1: because now the gazebo is essentially unusable because there's a
29:39
Speaker 1: piano in the center. I forget about having your wedding
29:41
Speaker 1: there because now there's a piano there. Yes, and who's
29:44
Speaker 1: moving the piano? Can't prose there at the pianos in
29:46
Speaker 1: the way. Oh my goodness. My last beef was did
29:52
Speaker 1: you see that? I know it is. It's the jaywalking ticket.
29:56
Speaker 1: My husband recently said, like, jaywalking tickets are not a
29:59
Speaker 1: thing anymore. Oh, and I was like, what So when
30:02
Speaker 1: I saw this in this movie, of course I googled it.
30:04
Speaker 1: In California, it's not totally a ticketable offense unless you're
30:12
Speaker 1: like disrupting the flow of traffic or whatever. I did
30:16
Speaker 1: like in Washington State though, it can be so, but
30:20
Speaker 1: still who gives a ticket for jaywalking? And I like
30:23
Speaker 1: that she tried to flex, like her position, and he's like, yeah,
30:27
Speaker 1: but again no fun club. Yeah. And I did not
30:32
Speaker 1: like the jaywalking ticket either, especially because there was not
30:34
Speaker 1: a car coming. There was no danger to anybody. She
30:36
Speaker 1: was not disrupting the flow of traffic or creating an
30:40
Speaker 1: unsafe situation for anybody. So two Lane Road, at one
30:44
Speaker 1: point bo As Ryan says, I'll see you at the
30:46
Speaker 1: finish line. I was like, come on, let's got to
30:48
Speaker 1: be a call back to his movie. I caught that too,
30:51
Speaker 1: But that's the only connection. It would make more sense if,
30:55
Speaker 1: like it was the same production team or director or
30:58
Speaker 1: whatever who did that movie. It is weird, but it
31:00
Speaker 1: also is like the finish line is a weird phrase
31:05
Speaker 1: to use because there's no finish line. You know, I'll
31:11
Speaker 1: see you at the end. I'll see you at the end.
31:14
Speaker 1: I know. She she have said like not if I
31:17
Speaker 1: don't see you at Testapeake Shores first, and then you
31:19
Speaker 1: know it would have been I don't know, Ali get
31:24
Speaker 1: the text that says you got this. Her font is
31:26
Speaker 1: at like one hundred, which honestly, Grandma's over here really appreciates.
31:29
Speaker 1: We were just I think is on the no no, no,
31:31
Speaker 1: no no no. It was half the screen three words. Look,
31:35
Speaker 1: I can never see a text on screen. I appreciate it.
31:38
Speaker 1: Yesterday and my daughter was like, why do you have
31:40
Speaker 1: so many different glasses. I'm like, well, this one is
31:41
Speaker 1: for this and this one is for this, and I
31:43
Speaker 1: need to get progressive. So I can have one pair
31:45
Speaker 1: of glasses that does all of these things. When they
31:49
Speaker 1: walk into Francis Flanagan's store, Julia's store, isn't it a
31:55
Speaker 1: secondhand store? Yeah, I look like pottery barn. Literally, my
31:59
Speaker 1: notes say it looks like a pottery barn inside there
32:01
Speaker 1: with there's multiples of several objects. And I had just
32:05
Speaker 1: that day been inside a good will, which I understand
32:09
Speaker 1: goodwill secondhand not the same thing like a consignment store
32:12
Speaker 1: can be beautifully staged, but you typically don't have multiple
32:18
Speaker 1: of the same bowl, multiple of the same base, next
32:21
Speaker 1: to each other. Yeah, they're donating these things. Finally, when
32:28
Speaker 1: the group of elderly walkers starts dancing to the piano music,
32:31
Speaker 1: they all look like they're all doing the Charlie brown
32:33
Speaker 1: snoopy dance. Yeah, they're just like bop inside to side.
32:37
Speaker 1: That's it. What did you rate this movie? I gave
32:39
Speaker 1: it two and a half stars. I did too. Ooh,
32:42
Speaker 1: I feel really bad about it. Yeah, because we love
32:45
Speaker 1: Peter Vincent. I like all the players in this movie,
32:49
Speaker 1: but you know, sometimes they just don't land all right.
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