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Listener Mailbag - May · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark or Hallmark Review Podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a
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  Speaker 1: longtime Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 1: We are back with another mailback episode, Mailback Episode number three,
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  Speaker 1: where we are sharing your emails, your voice notes, and
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  Speaker 1: yor Collins about all things Hallmark and Girls Gone Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: Before we get to that, a quick reminder that we'd
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  Speaker 1: hear from you. You can email us Girls Gone Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: four nine three two nine eight zero nine zero. We
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  Speaker 1: will leave that phone number in the show notes. And
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we need to kick it off with
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  Speaker 1: a voice note since we have we have some let's.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited. I haven't heard any of these yet. First
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  Speaker 1: one comes from listener Wayne.
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  Speaker 2: This is Wayne, longtime listener, first sign caller, and I
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  Speaker 2: want to just tell you, for the first time ever,
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to something on the Hallmark. That is
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  Speaker 2: not like a Christmas movie. You all, I blame you
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  Speaker 2: for becoming a sign Field Delivered fan. And now I'm
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  Speaker 2: stuck because I'm all caught up and I'm just waiting
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  Speaker 2: and waiting and waiting for Saturday to come for this
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  Speaker 2: to move to the moon and back movie for seeing
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  Speaker 2: sign Field is Delivered. And on top of all that,
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  Speaker 2: now I'm worried because I don't like the last one,
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  Speaker 2: and what if I don't like this one? And so
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  Speaker 2: now I have that last thing in my head. Well,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm looking forward to the recap of this movie
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  Speaker 2: after I've seen it and so forth. For the first time,
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  Speaker 2: I'm joining everybody in the Facebook group. We're all gonna
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  Speaker 2: watch this at the same time. It's gonna be a blast,
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  Speaker 2: love them both. See you, You're amazing, And I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: hang up and listen to your response.
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  Speaker 1: Super fan. Wayne coming through the review of that movie
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  Speaker 1: did come out last week? Yeah, I was like, did
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  Speaker 1: we already talk about it? I really can't even remember,
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  Speaker 1: but well I'm trying to remember too, like if because
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  Speaker 1: Wayne's very active in our Facebook group, I'm like, did
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  Speaker 1: he even did he share his thoughts about the movie?
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  Speaker 1: At all, did he like it? Did he not like it?
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  Speaker 1: Remember he said Oliver was too brooty. That's right, like Batman.
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  Speaker 1: That's all he said. He didn't say if he liked it.
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  Speaker 1: I liked that movie. So spoiler alert if you haven't
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  Speaker 1: listened to art review of To the Moon and Back,
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  Speaker 1: we liked it. Yeah, go give it a listen. M hm.
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  Speaker 1: We have two science Filed Delivered comments from YouTube. The
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  Speaker 1: first one is from the Duchess, who said I loved
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  Speaker 1: both The Tale of Three Letters and To the Moon
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  Speaker 1: and Back. Life is messy no matter what your character,
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  Speaker 1: and I have enjoyed the dilemma's face by the postables
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  Speaker 1: over time. I thought oli Our's storyline to be more
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  Speaker 1: than feasible. With his own fatherhood looming, I thought it
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  Speaker 1: only natural that he would think about his biological father,
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  Speaker 1: and having the letters handed over to him was a
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  Speaker 1: great plot. I absolutely love this series and would love
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  Speaker 1: to see more stories.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't hate the storyline, No, we either at all.
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  Speaker 1: I liked it a lot. Before I move on to
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  Speaker 1: our next comment about Science fell Delivered, we have a
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  Speaker 1: commentary post on our website, Girls Gone Hallmark dot com
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  Speaker 1: right now about if this was the last movie, and
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  Speaker 1: we have gotten so many comments on a blog post,
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  Speaker 1: which does not happen these days anymore, Like nobody leaves comments,
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  Speaker 1: yeah anymore. And I did not publish half of them
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  Speaker 1: because half of them of the writers think weir Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: and they're mad at us for not promoting the movie
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  Speaker 1: and not and not saying if there's any more movies yes,
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  Speaker 1: So like we're not wrong, outlet, this is not the
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  Speaker 1: network you were looking for. Yeah, so anyway, our next
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  Speaker 1: comment is from YouTube, and it's from Mama. I can't
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  Speaker 1: read it. I should put my glasses on, Mama Labo.
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  Speaker 1: It's Christine. Yeah, I know Christine, she's in our group.
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  Speaker 1: Great review ladies, minor detail. Oh but they were filmed
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  Speaker 1: using block shooting, so they filmed both movies simultaneously. That's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: That's hard. We talked about that before, remember, how like
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  Speaker 1: how do you go from like one scene to another
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  Speaker 1: scene different movies, like different motivations. You know, they're like,
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  Speaker 1: let's film all the DLL stuff now, all the ramone
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  Speaker 1: stuff now, so difficult. She goes on to say, I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate your comment about people adding to IMDb. Personally, I
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  Speaker 1: find it frustrating to find out that anyone can add content.
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  Speaker 1: It takes my trust level of what I've read on
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  Speaker 1: IMDb down a few notches. I love that you call
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  Speaker 1: them a cozy family and feel like the show is
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  Speaker 1: a warm hug. I could see one more movie that
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  Speaker 1: shows the grand opening of the Postable sorry, the Postal
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  Speaker 1: Museum and the babies born. I agree. I think that
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  Speaker 1: would be a great wrap up. One hundred percent agree.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the IMDb stuff, okay. So on our
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  Speaker 1: review of Science Seal Delivered, we talked about IMDb, what's
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  Speaker 1: the word displaying indicating showing that Duchess Sarah Ferguson was
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  Speaker 1: in this movie? You and I talked were like, what
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  Speaker 1: the heck she was not? We never saw is this
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  Speaker 1: true content? Is it not true content? And that's where
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  Speaker 1: we left it. Cut to this past weekend, we get
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  Speaker 1: a message in our Facebook group from Christina. Christina writes,
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  Speaker 1: apparently this is the group where I need to explain
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  Speaker 1: what happened with the Sarah Ferguson credit on Science Seal
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  Speaker 1: Delivered to the Moon and back. Note from being Megan.
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  Speaker 1: This is long, but there's a lot of good information here,
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  Speaker 1: so I think it's worth reading it all I'd been
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  Speaker 1: a top IMDb contributor for over twenty years. I saw
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  Speaker 1: the new movie on April fifth, the Australian release, and
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  Speaker 1: I did what I always do after seeing a new movie.
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  Speaker 1: I went to IMDb. There wasn't much besides a landing
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  Speaker 1: page and a couple bit part actors linked. There were
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  Speaker 1: no photos at all, none of the main cast members,
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  Speaker 1: no plot outline, really nothing. So I started adding as
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  Speaker 1: much as I could, including all of the actors slash
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  Speaker 1: actresses from the credits. But as I was adding what
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  Speaker 1: I could, I assumed it was all temporary until Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: gave the official release info, which IMDb would use instead
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  Speaker 1: of what I submitted. You also have to realize that
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  Speaker 1: within a few days I had more than one hundred submissions.
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  Speaker 1: I was adding many other items too, like quotes and trivia,
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  Speaker 1: and with the way IMDb works, it can take up
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  Speaker 1: to five days before new submission show, so I never
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  Speaker 1: went back and checked everything because I was still assuming
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark would update it before the movie aired. When adding
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  Speaker 1: cast on IMDb, you type in the name and they
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  Speaker 1: somehow decide the most likely actor to link. It turns
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  Speaker 1: out there are about twenty Sarah Ferguson's on IMDb not
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  Speaker 1: all actresses, but production and crew too. Only two have photos,
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  Speaker 1: and it's possible the actress in this movie isn't any
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  Speaker 1: of them. I don't know why IMDb chose to link
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  Speaker 1: the Duchess, but the name is the same. The incorrect
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  Speaker 1: credit for the Duchess has been removed now. She goes
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  Speaker 1: on to say, I'm still shocked that Hallmark never provided
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  Speaker 1: an official release for the movie, so IMDb is still
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  Speaker 1: using the photos, plot outline, actors, actresses, and crew that
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  Speaker 1: I submitted. In all of my years contributing to IMDb,
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  Speaker 1: that has never happened before, and I'm still hoping for
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  Speaker 1: something Hallmark official on IMDb. There have been a handful
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  Speaker 1: of submissions on IMDb from others for the new movie,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not all for me. But as I've noticed
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  Speaker 1: in the past, there don't seem to be very many
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  Speaker 1: postable IMDb contributors. You are always welcome to become a contributor.
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  Speaker 1: Let me know if you need help learning how. This
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  Speaker 1: isn't our Facebook group, so if you want help with that,
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  Speaker 1: hop on over there. And if never gives official release info,
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  Speaker 1: then I'll make sure that what we have on IMDb
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  Speaker 1: is as best and accurate as it can be. I
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  Speaker 1: have said for a long time that the back end
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  Speaker 1: of IMDb is not user friendly if you are a contributor,
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  Speaker 1: which I have an account signed up as a contributor
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  Speaker 1: because I put our podcast episodes on there. It's just
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  Speaker 1: not super user friendly, is it's it's just not super
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  Speaker 1: friendly user friendly. Somebody did ask in our Facebook group though,
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  Speaker 1: They were like, oh, I want to sign up to
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  Speaker 1: Anybody can sign up to be a contributor. You don't
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  Speaker 1: need any special like anything, right, But I think, like
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  Speaker 1: she says, when you put the information in, then it
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  Speaker 1: is reviewed by IMDb IMDb, and then it's plub published.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's wrong to assume that then Hallmark has
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  Speaker 1: a play in it somehow too, that they're checking the stuff,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't think that's how that works well. But
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  Speaker 1: then I wonder, I assume that there are certain contributors
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  Speaker 1: that have a different level of clearance that maybe IMDb
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  Speaker 1: is likely to, you know, if they have a Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: official PR person submitting information, perhaps that's going to take
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  Speaker 1: precedence over any other where they have the ability to
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  Speaker 1: request that certain things be removed. Sure based on their
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  Speaker 1: level of access. I would also imagine someone like Christine
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  Speaker 1: who's been doing this for twenty years, might have some
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  Speaker 1: flag on her account where it's like this person submits
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  Speaker 1: legit stuff, right, so they might be more likely to
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  Speaker 1: fast track her information. Right, But we don't know. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just spitballing here. Yeah, I have no idea like what
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  Speaker 1: that looks like. Are people in the IMDb office like
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  Speaker 1: they see a submission come through and then they just
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  Speaker 1: overlook it or is it like a full AI generated
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  Speaker 1: like approved not approved situation and like who knows? Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, I think it's fair to say take
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  Speaker 1: IMDb information with a grain of salt. We famously were
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  Speaker 1: caught with our pants down when we named the writer
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  Speaker 1: of a movie who was a totally made up name.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, I'm still embarrassed by it. So we often say,
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  Speaker 1: per IMDb, according to IMDb. We try and cross reference
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  Speaker 1: that with other information where available. Yeah, well, our early days,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't have access to official information, so we were
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  Speaker 1: strictly rolling off of Well now they don't publish official
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  Speaker 1: information unless we ask for it. So yes, sometimes we
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  Speaker 1: go old school and we just watch the credits and
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  Speaker 1: write things down that we do. I also had mentioned
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  Speaker 1: that IMDb is somewhat similar to like Wikipedia, like anybody
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  Speaker 1: can change a page, so you know how Wikipedia like
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  Speaker 1: somebody things are real funny when they're rolling in there
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  Speaker 1: and they will change information about like a certain actor whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's it's the same concept. Yes, so anybody could
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  Speaker 1: go into IMDb. I don't know how closely they are
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  Speaker 1: looking at the submissions. I have no idea. Correct. All right,
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  Speaker 1: that's a wrap on our science Sealed livered feedback. Our
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  Speaker 1: next email is from Sherry and she is writing in
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  Speaker 1: about our review of Dating the Delaney's, which fell during
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  Speaker 1: April's Fan Favorite Review months. Sherry says, listen to your
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  Speaker 1: Dating the Delaney's podcast. I agree, Rachel Boston is great.
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  Speaker 1: Other favorite movies of mine that she did are The
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  Speaker 1: Last Bridesmaid also with Paul Campbell, and Stop the Wedding
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  Speaker 1: with Nile Mater. If you haven't watched or reviewed these,
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  Speaker 1: give them a try. We haven't done either of those.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't, and we got several messages recommending The Last
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  Speaker 1: Bridesmaid as they must watch me Rachel Boston, Paul Campbell combo.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe this summer, if there is time Cherry goes on
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  Speaker 1: to Wray, I also want to rewatch Never Kiss a
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  Speaker 1: Man in a Christmas Sweater. As you mentioned, I feel
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  Speaker 1: embarrassed every single time we talk about that movie because
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  Speaker 1: we were not kind to it. She writes. Ashley Williams
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  Speaker 1: usually elevates a movie. Maybe try it during Christmas in July.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for the great reviews. They're honest but kind, and
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  Speaker 1: your humor always brings a smile to my day, Sherry
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  Speaker 1: from Maryland. As a counterpoint to someone, we always every
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  Speaker 1: time Never because a man and a christ and cider
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  Speaker 1: comes up, we talk about how we need to re
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  Speaker 1: review it. We did get another message that was like,
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  Speaker 1: maybe just leave that one alone? Really, perhaps since best
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  Speaker 1: left alone, so we shall see what happens on rewatch
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  Speaker 1: of that one. Okay, I'm down for the last Bride'smaid.
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  Speaker 1: Hard time saying those two words together, last and bride'smaid
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  Speaker 1: together is a hard word combination. Yeah, goodenough for you,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. Or stop the wedding and I'd
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  Speaker 1: watch that too. Next up, we have an email from
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  Speaker 1: Rachel in regards to all things Baltimore. Rachel says, from
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  Speaker 1: Melissa and Rachel, who are lessons in Hallmark on Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: They are from Baltimore, Maryland. We heard a fellow listener's
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  Speaker 1: proposal of a Baltimore Ravens movie and we have to agree.
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  Speaker 1: Along with Baltimore's very deep sports fan culture, we also
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  Speaker 1: have thirty fourth Street, a street in the neighborhood of
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  Speaker 1: Hampden that is famous for street long Christmas display and
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  Speaker 1: the Lonock House tying in charitable causes. Maryland's only Ronald
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  Speaker 1: McDonald House is located in Baltimore, easily seen in the
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore skyline by its giant glowing heart. Rashad Bateman, a
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver for the Ravens, focuses a lot of his
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  Speaker 1: charildable work on the Ronald McDonald House and even hosts
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  Speaker 1: a Halloween party for the children there every year. We're
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  Speaker 1: nerdy about Baltimore history, so we loved the talk about
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  Speaker 1: the connection between Edgar Allan Poe and the Ravens team.
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: The Ravens are named after Edgar Allen Poe's famous poem
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  Speaker 1: The Raven. The ravens current mascot is named Poe. There
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  Speaker 1: is quite a following for Edgar Allen Poe in his work.
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  Speaker 1: His last Baltimore residence is currently a museum and historical landmark.
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  Speaker 1: When he died, he was found in a gutter in
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  Speaker 1: Fell's Point. It said that he was last seen at
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  Speaker 1: the Horse You Came In On Saloon, known by another
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  Speaker 1: name at the time Baltimore's oldest tavern, established in seventeen
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  Speaker 1: seventy five. His picture hangs in the bar today, along
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  Speaker 1: with a sign that says pose last stop. People also
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  Speaker 1: believe he and some other spirits still haunt the place. Oooh.
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  Speaker 1: He's buried in Westminster Hall. One of the most interesting things,
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  Speaker 1: which we also think would make an interesting Jane Mystery episode,
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  Speaker 1: is the Poe toaster. From about nineteen forty nine, at
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  Speaker 1: least the first time mentioned to two thousand and nine,
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  Speaker 1: a mysterious person or person's usually wearing black, would visit
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  Speaker 1: Poe's grave during the early hours of the morning on
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  Speaker 1: his birthday and leave a half full bottle of cognac
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  Speaker 1: and three red roses. The tradition continued each year until
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and nine before it mysteriously stopped. There have
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  Speaker 1: been theories, but the Poe toaster or toasters has never
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  Speaker 1: been identified. Hold on pause in my mind, I was
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  Speaker 1: like waiting for the toast connection not realizing it was
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: like a it's like a cheers toasting. Thank you. That's
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: from Melissa and Rachel. They sent along a photo of
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  Speaker 1: the Ronald McDonald House's largest fundraiser, the Red Shoes Shuffle,
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  Speaker 1: and the photo is with some of Baltimore's famous huns
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  Speaker 1: bringing it all back real huns, hjo nism. That's so interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Do I have so much knowledge of Baltimore now? I
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: know they do need to make a Raven's love story
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  Speaker 1: next year. I think that'd be super cool. And I
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  Speaker 1: really actually liked the idea for the Jane Mystery movie
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  Speaker 1: as well. Speaking of Jane Mystery, the third movie, The
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  Speaker 1: Murder at Mosby, is airing this week. It originally aired
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  Speaker 1: on Hallmark Plus. It is now going to air on
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark Channel Channel on Thursday night. Yeah. So interesting turn
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  Speaker 1: of events here. Yeah, and it's not in our mail bag,
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  Speaker 1: but I it is something I want to discuss here
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast since we're talking about mysteries right now.
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  Speaker 1: Our friend Eric over at Hallmark Mysteries and More made
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: a funny video. I don't know was it just for
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  Speaker 1: us or was it it was his socials?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, he believes that Hallmark Mystery Channel is going
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  Speaker 1: away that they are phasing it out, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: come on on, what evidence. Well, now that I see
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  Speaker 1: that the Gene Mysteries is going to be on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: Night on the Hallmark Channel, I'm like, maybe he's onto something. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They simulcast Mystery Island on Mystery and Hallmark Channel, right,
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  Speaker 1: they aired Science Sealed Delivered on Hallmark Channel, not Mystery. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the evidence is mounting. Yeah, it sure is. How do
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  Speaker 1: you feel about that? Do you like having this separate
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  Speaker 1: mystery channel or does it matter to you? I don't.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter to me. The only concern that I
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  Speaker 1: think mystery fans would have would be that there would
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  Speaker 1: be fewer less mystery content coming their direction. What if
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  Speaker 1: they just made Thursday Night's Mystery Night, it'd be great. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean people who love Hallmark mysteries love Hallmark Mysteries,
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  Speaker 1: and so I think that's the only argument to be made,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't think anybody's out there saying like we
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  Speaker 1: need two channels, because there's certainly when you look at
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  Speaker 1: how much content on Hallmark is syndication, like the Golden
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  Speaker 1: Girls and that sort of thing, there's certainly plenty of
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  Speaker 1: room right to add in a movie. Sure, I agree. Okay,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: we have a voicemail from Era.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Magan and Wendy. Good morning. This message is from Era,
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  Speaker 3: just calling to say I am super excited about the
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: new hotline. I think it's really fun idea. Really looking
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: forward to hearing everybody's messages being played on future mail
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: bag episodes. So I wanted to call and see your
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: guys' thoughts on homes Where the Heart is? You know,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: I heard you guys were watching it. I was curious
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: if there was any standout episodes that you girls liked.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: My particular favorite was the second episode with the design
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: elements that were kind of like a cool lounge vibe.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I thought it was really fun. So these type of
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: shows are usually not my jam, but I just have
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  Speaker 3: to say it's super fun. Luke McFarlane is so charming.
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  Speaker 3: I love all his little personal touches that he does
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: with his fun little woodworking tools, with the engraving of
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: the fireplaces and everything is so fun. Looking forward to
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: hearing what everybody else's thoughts are. Thanks, girls, have a
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: good day.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: I watched the first episode. I may have the second
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: episode might have been on the background. I haven't sat
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: down and watched it. I remember really enjoying the first episode.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: I really like Luke McFarlane a lot, and it's nice
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: to see him in like his a non actory role. Yeah, Like,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: he's obviously passionate about this. I don't want to like it.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Sounds like I'm diminishing it when I say his hobby
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: of woodworking, I mean I think, well, I think he's
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: found a way to make his hobby meaningful, well meaningful,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: and like he's made it part of his career, right,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: you know, found a way to add in this passion project. Yeah,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I mean I like that Hallmark gave him a space
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: to do this. But behind the scenes here, there's a
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: lot of stuff that I don't get to watch simply
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: because we're not reviewing, and our review schedule is so
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: heavy some weeks that I just don't have the downtime
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: for like a fun, casual watch. Yeah, that is my
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: issue too, Like, I mean, you want to behind the scenes.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: This week we are recording She's counting Guys twelve episodes, yeah,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: over two days for three different podcasts. And I'm not like, oh,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: feel bad for me, that's just our workload, Like that's
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: our job, and the reality is a lot of that
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: watching for me takes place during like my TV watching hours,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: like on the weekends, during the evenings, like I would love.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: You know, our friends at Deck the Hallmark live the dream,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Like they come into the office and they, you know,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: do their watching during business hours and and you know,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: one of these days, all our kids are going to
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: be in school and I'm going to be like, it's
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: nine o'clock Monday morning, I'm coming over, let's watch Harsh. Yeah,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: we'll eventually get there, but yeah, I agree with what
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: you said. I've watched one and a half episodes of
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: the series. I really liked it. I would absolutely continue
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: watching it. Last night, I was having one of those
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: feelings as I was I turned on Netflix and there
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: was a new series I wanted to watch, the four
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: season series YEP, and I was like, oh my gosh,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: because I need to watch the new episode of Hacks.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: I need to watch need to the Valley after show,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I need to watch your Friends and Neighbors. I have
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: all of these things that I want to watch, and
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I'm man all day watching Hallmark stuff, and I was like.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: I can't.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: There's not enough time in the day.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. And spoiler alert, this episode that you're
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: listening to right now comes out the same day as
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: our review of our first Impression Chesapeake Shores episode, and
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I was like, I want to keep watching that. I'm
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: four episodes deep in pat show. I was like, almost
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: turned that back on last night. So I did turn
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: it back on last night. And you know what justified
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: it is that I was like, I don't have to
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: pay that close attention to it.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I simply was just like, oh, I'm really interested in
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: this family dynamic, so yeah, watch how it unfolds, but
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I don't have to watch for it. Did you see
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: that or whatever? It's different, guys. We have another voicemail
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: from Michelle. She's stuck in Hallmark Plus.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Hey, I love your new voice feature. This is Michelle
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: clean up the voice notes in regard to your posting
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: about the different options to stream now that her Hallmark
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: is leading Peacock. One thing I noticed that I did
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: not see and that you may or may not know
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: as a benefit to the Hallmark Plus subscription is that
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: you can link it to your Hallmark rewards and every
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: month you get five dollars off a purchase in store
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: or online, and there's no limit. It could be a
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: five dollars purchase and all you have to do is
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: play the tax. Also, you get a free online custom
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: greeting card which is a four to ninety nine value,
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: and I have used those every month to either send
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: a card to my son or to family members. There's
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: hundreds and hundreds of cards that you design online. You
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: add your own text, and you can even upload a photo.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: And it is a physical card. It's not a digital card.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: It's a physical card that gets mailed to them. They
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: receive it in the mail. So if you have a
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Homework Plus subscription, you are paying eight dollars a month.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: If you do it monthly, if you pay for a
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: year in advance, you're paying six dollars and sixty some
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: odds cents a month, but you're getting ten dollars in
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: two pounds and rewards. So if you actually buy homework
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: cards and you send cards to people, they're basically paying
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: you to subscribe to the Homework Plus because you come
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: out on the positive each side.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Whenever I log in, every time I log into homock Plus,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: it's like activate benefits the top. I've never time, I've
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: never linked it and then I see like stream and
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: redeem on some of the Obviously I use Homemark Plus
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: quite a bit. Maybe I should be activating some of
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: these benefits. Do you go buy physical cards? I like
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the idea of this digital card that they print out
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: in sense. Yeah that's kind of cool. Yeah, I like
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: that too. I mean I walk into a Hallmark store
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: all the time, like there's they're in the mall. I
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: still like to walk into a Hallmark Gold Crowd store,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: so maybe I would use my five dollar coupon. I
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: do think their cards are superior cards. The selection. I'm
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: actually honestly surprised how many there are, given how many
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: brick and mortar stores like don't make it. Yeah, Pretty
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: City just close their doors, right, so obviously they're meeting
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: a need although there's anybody in there never It's interesting.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you. This is not a plug for
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Hallmark Plus or Homewark card stores whatever, but one I
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: feel like in our Facebook group that people were talking
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: about that they received some sort of like gift box
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: a while back. It might have been holiday time. Yes,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I don't remember, I know what you're talking about. I
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: don't remember when it was, but it we were like
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: we didn't get anything. Yeah, and everyone was like, did
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: you activate your rewards account? So that's the reason why, right.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: The other thing, what was I going to say about
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Hallmark stores? I don't. I don't remember other than I
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: like shopping a Hallmark store. I think they have good
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: gifts in there as well. They've got quite the Gilmore
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Girls collection in there, I know they had. I kept
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: getting served an ad for something that I wanted to
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: buy you, but I thought it might be annoying. It
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: was like a mug on a mug warmer, but like
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: every time you lifted up the mug, it like said something.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: But I was like, oh, that'd be like really Gillmore
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Girls related, like yeah, CALLI coffee coffee. That was like,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: it's a cute because it's like a Luke's Diner mug
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: on like a mug warmer. And I was just like
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: envisioning you like sitting here like with your because that's
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: why I don't drink coffe unless I'm gonna sit and
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: drink it. Drink drink it because I don't like it
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: it get it's cold, mm hmm. But I was like,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: if it says cufa coffa coffee I were trying to
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: pick it up. That's super annoying anyway. Longtime listener Peebe
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: commented on our review of her pen pal. She writes, Megan,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I completely agree that No Tomorrow is amazing, fantastic show.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: That's right. Reminding me again, it's on the CW It's
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: on it was, It's on Netflix one season wonder. Yes,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I hope it's still on Netflix. I would have to go.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: It's ten episodes. As we just complained, we don't have
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I know you don't have watch them, but anything but
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: like download it for a plane flight or something, Okay,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: And she goes on to say, Windy, go watch it.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Also writes if you haven't, if you all haven't watched Gallivant,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: you should. Mallory jen Sorry, Mallory Jensen and Joshua Sassy?
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Is that how Sass are both in it? These are
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: our two leads In her pen pal as well, she
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: says it's kind of like Monty Python type show, period piece,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: ridiculous comedy, fun songs, crazy antics, all around, a good time.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I responded, would hate this. We got a lot of
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: much like The Last brides Maid, we got a lot
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: of feedback after her pen pal that people. We absolutely
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: missed the gallivant connection between them, and they recommended us
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: watching it. I believe it's only one season and it
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: is on Hulu. Okay, that's another thing. I'm like, oh,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: gotta go watch that. I mean, he was a real
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: hot piece, so I'm maybe I would maybe, I mean right, Okay.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: We have a follow up email from Michelle after our
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: episode of The Good Witch, also very much in mine
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: with what we've been talking about.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: I'm not coming for you. I'm only halfway through the episodes,
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: but please, please, please, you have to at least watch
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: a couple of the Goodwitched movies before the series, even
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: if you just watch the last one or two, because
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: a lot of things that you guys are questioning, like
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: where snim? There's more to the story. It all happens
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: in like the last two original movies. I think, Megan,
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: I think you and your daughter would enjoy watching this together.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: There's only seven, It's like one a month.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Watch the end.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Goodwitch people are like scienceell delivered people. We are loyal.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Call you out, but I'm not gonna call you out
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: from my friend. Okay. Two voice notes, one morning, finish
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: the episode. Wendy here is your encouragement to watch more.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: I think you would like it. It does get more magical,
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: it does get more mystical. There are tendencies to be
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: very wholesome because it's the wholesome family, nothing big and scandalists, right. However,
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: you may opt for the special Halloween episodes. Maybe just
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: watch the Halloween episodes because they have more mystical magical stuff.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: I do agree with the one person that wrote in
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: about the final season just being and that it kind
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: of went off the rails to final seasons, but do
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: give it a shot. I was up for seeing, yes
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: review this until I remember Chesapeake Shores, and I would
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: much rather you reviewed Chesapeake Shores. Chessa Peake Shores, as
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: my previous email states, is amazing. I'm really enjoying this
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: new first impression and look forward to hearing Moore have
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: a great day.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I have a question for Time Out. Okay, what's your question?
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Do you envision a world in which we start reviewing
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Chesapeake Shores episode by episode? This was my concern. Were
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: we not clear that we were not going to move
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: on and review these whole series. I think people have hope.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, if anything, well, Okay, after watching a good Witch.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I could totally get into this
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: now we just talked about it. We've watched the first
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Chesapeake Shores. I'm like, I could totally get into that.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: So I don't know where would that even go in
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: our schedule. I don't know at the end of the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: first Impressions run. Maybe January twenty twenty six, maybe, I
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, how many episodes a week do
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: you guys want from us? Email us let us know,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: because some people it's five in the podcast space say
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: there are too many. You know, five is too many.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: People don't tune in every single day for five hours.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah that if you're publishing five episodes a week, your
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: entire audience is definitely not listening to all. Yeah, they
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: get like burned out on it. So I'm I mean,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I would love some feedback from our audience, from our
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: regular listeners, like what what do they want from us?
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: What do you want? I mean, we can't. I know,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: some days, some weeks we do put out five, but honestly,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: like right now, we're rerunning Chicken Sisters that was recorded
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: six months ago, so that's easy to drop five episodes
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: when we're doing that, we're putting six episodes out this week.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Oh but but Jane is also a rear, so okay,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: but yeah, so what okays, let us know, just let
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: us know what do you actually want? We don't want
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: to oversaturate too late, Okay. Our next email is from
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Sendy and it is about receiving phone calls late at night.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: This was our our sign sealed Deliver episode, we thinks.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: She writes, I was cracking up when I was listening
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: to the podcast this morning and one of you mentioned
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: how you were younger you weren't allowed to be on
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: the phone past nine pm, because that was my AD's
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: rule for me too. Are we sisters, Cindy? And if
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I was on past nine o'clock, he would pick up
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: the extension from the living room and just say it's
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: nine o'clock and his deep voice ello wow. I about
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: died from embarrassment each time that happened. I also wanted
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: to add I once I got a phone in my
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: room and wanted to talk past nine or have someone
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: call me, I would go around and turn the other
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: ringers off so someone could call me. This feels very
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: much like my high school shenanigans. I did too. Did
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: you have a clearphone. I had, no No, I had
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: like a what looked like a office cone, like an
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: answering machine, phone machines situation where I would play a
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: song on the outgoing message Yeah, I mean, come on, guys,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: it was Aerosmith for a little time. I missed those days,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Sindy innswer email. I had one of those clear nineties
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: phones that lit up and I just grab it quickly
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: and talk quietly. I can remember getting caught in my room,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: like I was definitely supposed to have gone to bed,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: and I'd still be on the phone. My mom would
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: open the door and just like look at me.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I'd be like, I gotta go yep. I think I
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: also had, before I had the phone in my room,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: my own phone line. Dad would pick up the phone
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: too and be like, what are you doing on the phone? Wow? Embarrassing.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Well this speaking of phones, we've just been talking about
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: college a lot. I was in college, like pre I
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: had a cell phone, but it wasn't a cell phone
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: used to call people. It was like an emergency cell phone.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: And our in room phones had like ten foot long
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: chords on them, so you could like maneuver around. Yeah, yes,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: and you would know if you were on a private call,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: because like the cord would be like stretched to the
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: door and like would be sitting outside the door, so
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: you could get away from your roommates and have a
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: private phone in the hallway where everybody's walking by. It's
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: not private. But because you were talking shit on the
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: room maids for all, No, you know you're talking like
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: your boyfriend back home. Sure, sure, sure you didn't have
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: a cordless phone or because that was it was a
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: dorm Yeah, it was dorm issued, got it. That was
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: back like I we had Oh my gosh, you know
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: our kids have it so good because when I was
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: in college, we would send these like mass voicemails, Like
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: if you were in like an organization, I could like
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: send a message to like everyone on whatever. And that's
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: how you got your room from. Like we didn't email.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: We had email, but that's not how we communicated with people.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: You'd like listen to your voicemail and be like, I
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: have a meeting tomorrow. So funny. Anyway, Blasts from the
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: pan good old days. Well, this has been another blast
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: of an episode. We love listener mailback episodes. We love
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: your feedback. We super loved the launch of our listener voicemails,
• 33:58
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• 34:01
  Speaker 1: The phone number is in the show notes below. We
• 34:04
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• 34:07
  Speaker 1: the more of these episodes we can produce. We'll see
• 34:09
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• 34:24
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