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Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 3: Welcome to Girls Go. I'm Hallmark, a Homark review podcast.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark movie fan. I'm Megan. Nope,
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  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. I'm Wendy. I'm your former Hallmark Oh
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  Speaker 3: my god. Today we're discussing hall of the Holly lit up,
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  Speaker 3: don't can't fully pronounce Hallmark? M mmm? You never have noticed?
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  Speaker 3: It always comes out weird. I notice it, and I say,
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  Speaker 3: You know I think that's like have you ever taken
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  Speaker 3: family photos and then you go to look at them
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  Speaker 3: and every member of the family it's the photo in
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  Speaker 3: which they look the best. And of course, as we're
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  Speaker 3: listening back, I'm listening to what I sound like. I
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  Speaker 3: wish you sound like. Quick little Hallmark housekeeping note from Wendy. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: we got a DM from a listener in Germany. Let
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  Speaker 3: me tell you what it says. It is a follow
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  Speaker 3: up to a Heidelberg holiday. If you recall, remember I
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  Speaker 3: was asking about the Heidelberg Market and how the overhead
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  Speaker 3: shots made it look very small. Honestly, you're looking at
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  Speaker 3: me like I'm speaking a foreign language right now. I
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  Speaker 3: remember that moment. So one of our listeners DMD us
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  Speaker 3: she lives in Eberbach, Germany. I'm sure I didn't say
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  Speaker 3: that correctly. Anyway, she said the market isn't that big,
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  Speaker 3: and she didn't even know it was a prestigious one.
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  Speaker 3: And then she also included that Heidelberg isn't that big
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  Speaker 3: of a city, but it's very touristy because of the
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  Speaker 3: castle so cool. So it's one of the smaller markets
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  Speaker 3: among the Christmas. Oh, it was just special to Heidi
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  Speaker 3: Heidelberg herself. Okay, well, let's jump in with a synopsis.
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  Speaker 3: Emily and Jared are excited to celebrate the holidays together
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  Speaker 3: as a couple on Evergreen Lane. Along with the other residents,
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  Speaker 3: is determined to make this year's Christmas celebrations the best yet. However,
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  Speaker 3: the arrival of Holiday Royalty to the neighborhood creates competition.
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  Speaker 3: Despite this, the residents are prepared to welcome their new
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  Speaker 3: neighbors and celebrate Christmas in style. Haul the Holly Lit
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  Speaker 3: up was directed by McLean Nelson, who has fourteen directing credits,
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  Speaker 3: including Speak of the Devil Itself, a Heidelberg Holiday, and
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  Speaker 3: of course the Og. Haul Out the Holly. Writer Chris
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  Speaker 3: Say has only six writing credits. Christopher has only in
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  Speaker 3: one previous homework movie, You're Bacon Me Crazy, which I
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  Speaker 3: really think needs to be on a future episode. I agree, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: he was not the writer of the first haul out
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  Speaker 3: the Holly. Now here's what else I want to add?
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  Speaker 2: What are you going to say?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing? I'm just listening. I don't know why. I leaned
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  Speaker 3: in closer to my MicroC and I was like, what
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  Speaker 3: do you got, Wendy? So I was trying to find
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  Speaker 3: some information about the writer with only six writing credits.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, he has There's gotta be something else
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  Speaker 3: more out here, right, especially with a big project like
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  Speaker 3: this one, right, And couldn't even find like his Instagram.
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  Speaker 3: And then finally found his Instagram, but I wasn't really
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  Speaker 3: sure what was him because it was a lot of
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  Speaker 3: like children, you know, of his children. As finally I
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  Speaker 3: stumbled across several articles and I gotta say, this is
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  Speaker 3: really cool. So Christopher say during the pandemic, his wife
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  Speaker 3: is an er doctor at a Los Angeles City hospital,
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  Speaker 3: and along with some friends, he founded a nonprofit called
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  Speaker 3: Dine one One that not only provided meals for healthcare workers,
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  Speaker 3: but also supported local restaurants. Nice, Like, how cool is that?
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  Speaker 3: I love it. He's like, I don't got time to
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  Speaker 3: write people, I'm too busy save in the world. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so I found that Instagram and then that like shuddered,
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  Speaker 3: like because obviously there wasn't a need for it anymore.
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  Speaker 3: But I was like, that's really freaking fool. He was
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  Speaker 3: profiled and I can't remember what magazine it was, but
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  Speaker 3: it was like a Los Angeles magazine and it was
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  Speaker 3: like Heroes of the Pandemic or whatever. Anyway, I love it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, doing good things and writing movies. We're back
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  Speaker 3: with our second episode, starring one miss Lazy Shabert this
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  Speaker 3: week as Emily. With one hundred and seventy five acting credits,
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  Speaker 3: It's safe to say Lacey is more than just the
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  Speaker 3: Queen of Christmas. She also appeared in a Mary Scottish
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  Speaker 3: Christmas and The Dancing Detective this year, in addition to
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  Speaker 3: reprising her role as Gretchen Wieners in a Walmart Black
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  Speaker 3: Friday commercial. You remember when I talked about that, I do.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was going to be a Super Bowl commercial.
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  Speaker 3: It ended up being a Walmart Black Friday commercial. I
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  Speaker 3: never even saw it. Have you seen it? In bits
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  Speaker 3: and pieces? Is Lindsay Lohan in it? She isn't it? Right?
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  Speaker 3: I think? Who's not in it? Rachel McAdam, Yeah, Regina
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  Speaker 3: George is not in it, okay, because she didn't want
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  Speaker 3: to be like that was the big Hey, maybe she's
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  Speaker 3: moved on. She's a love getting together. No, because the
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  Speaker 3: girl who plays quote the dumb One, what's her name?
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  Speaker 3: The blonde win Amanda Seayfreed. Do you don't see the
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  Speaker 3: Karen Karen? She's like an Academy Award nominated, Emmy Award
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  Speaker 3: nominated action and she was fan freaking tastic as Elizabeth Holmes.
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  Speaker 3: So good as Elizabeth Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: Why is good?
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  Speaker 3: Gonna play mouth? Today? West Brown plays Jared. His forty
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  Speaker 3: eight acting credits include a ton of Hallmark, But believe
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  Speaker 3: it or not, we've only reviewed two of his movies
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  Speaker 3: here on Girls Gone Hallmark. He dropped his Christmas jazz
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  Speaker 3: album this year, titled My Kind of Christmas. I forgot
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  Speaker 3: about that. I want to listen to it. It was
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  Speaker 3: really good. Can you recall the two movies we've reviewed
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  Speaker 3: of his, Well, it would be Haul Out the Holly One. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: a Nashville Christmas Carol starring one Candice Cameron. No Jesse
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  Speaker 3: shram Oh, that was our early days. I remember we
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  Speaker 3: did that with a guest. Okay, moving on Stephen Tobolowski
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  Speaker 3: plays Ned and I think Stephen wins the prize for
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  Speaker 3: the most acting credits of an actor appearing in a
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  Speaker 3: Hallmark movie, if such a prize exists. With two hundred
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  Speaker 3: and ninety credits, what hasn't he been in? He's a
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  Speaker 3: series regular on The Goldbergs, One Day at a Time, Californication,
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  Speaker 3: Silicon Valley, and Heroes, and we're glad to have him
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  Speaker 3: on Hallmark. Speaking of who we're glad to see back
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  Speaker 3: on Hallmark, Melissa Peterman plays Pamela. Melissa always lights up
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  Speaker 3: the screen in any role. Among her thirty eight acting credits,
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  Speaker 3: I'm tempted to fire up the series Baby Daddy on
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  Speaker 3: Netflix wruse. She appeared in one hundred episodes. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: her role as Barbara Jean on Riba is iconic. Two things.
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  Speaker 3: What is Baby Daddy? It's like a lighthearted Netflix sitcom.
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  Speaker 3: Does Melissa Peterman play the mom, the grandmother of the baby?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I assume so, I've never actually seen it. And Mariba
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  Speaker 3: is a show I've only seen like here and there.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that was my I loved that show. That's my
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  Speaker 3: Juanna Garcia Gateway Drug. You know, the whole thing is
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  Speaker 3: like her husband has an affair with Barba Jean, and
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  Speaker 3: then she and Barbara Jeane are Barbara Jean is the mistress. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: oh interest. She has a light in that show. Ellen
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  Speaker 3: Travolta plays Mary Louise. Yes, that Travolta. She has fifty
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  Speaker 3: She the sister of John She's related. She's in the
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  Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no, no, no, no sister. I think, I
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  Speaker 3: mean there is a striking resemblance there, for sure. She
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  Speaker 3: has fifty two acting credits and appeared in series like
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  Speaker 3: Charles in Charge, I watched That Love that show, Jonie
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  Speaker 3: Loves chaw Chi. She appeared in two shows with Scott
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  Speaker 3: Bayle Weird right, totally weird, alright. In addition to reprising
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  Speaker 3: her role as Mary Louise on hal At the Holly,
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  Speaker 3: She's reprising a thirty year old role on General Hospital
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  Speaker 3: as Gloria Curulo. Coming up soon, tell me about those
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  Speaker 3: Johnson's all right, So, Jennifer Aspen plays Jane Johnson, the Mom.
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  Speaker 3: She has eighty four acting credits, including forty four episodes
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  Speaker 3: as Dapphine in the series Party of Five with Lacy Shabert.
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  Speaker 3: What you didn't know that when I saw her on screen.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, where is this space friend? Daphne was
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  Speaker 3: Charlie's You said Dafine. I didn't know what that meant.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't say Daphne. You didn't roll about the table. No,
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  Speaker 3: I know. I'm not above it. Now you can in
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  Speaker 3: my head again. Sorry, the word is Charlie's stripper girlfriend
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  Speaker 3: that had a baby. Oh wow, that's a deep cut
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  Speaker 3: that I do not recall. She was in forty four episodes.
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  Speaker 3: Well wasn't he didn't he have another blonde long term
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  Speaker 3: girlfriend who became kind of like a mom to the
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  Speaker 3: kids to end up getting married. I don't know, I
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  Speaker 3: can't remember exactly. Okay. Seth Morris plays dad Joe Johnson.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't have as many acting credits as Stephen Tobolawski,
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  Speaker 3: but with one hundred and thirty eight. The dude has
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  Speaker 3: been in some stuff, including The Big Leap, a Fox
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  Speaker 3: one season series which I enjoyed, HBO's Veep, Netflix's Love
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  Speaker 3: The Good Place, Parks and rec The League. I could
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  Speaker 3: go on and on and on and on. The guy
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  Speaker 3: has been in a lot of stuff. He's busy, busy,
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  Speaker 3: and also, finally we got a quick cameo from Eric
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  Speaker 3: Maybe is who plays Alan, Pamela's husband. However, when I
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  Speaker 3: looked him up, his IMDb shows that he was in
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  Speaker 3: the first Haul out the Holly, and I don't remember
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  Speaker 3: him because he was only at the very end. He's
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  Speaker 3: gone the whole time, and she's like waiting, waiting, waiting,
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  Speaker 3: same thing in this movie though, Yeah, and she didn't
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  Speaker 3: think he was gonna make it home. It was a
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  Speaker 3: bigger plot point in the first one. Finally, how about
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  Speaker 3: the Hollywood two lit Up was filmed in Utah in
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  Speaker 3: September twenty twenty three. I have a reason for adding
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  Speaker 3: that note. Okay, let's talk first impressions. This might be
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  Speaker 3: the first movie of the season that has it all
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  Speaker 3: for me. Ooh, I wrote this sequel Slade. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: even use AI to write that. I came up with
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  Speaker 3: on my own, on my own, and I put slade
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  Speaker 3: sl A y ed, and then in parentheses put slade
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  Speaker 3: like SLPG. Let's talk about what you liked if this
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  Speaker 3: was your let me clarify movie season. So I, prior
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  Speaker 3: to this movie had like a top three, and I
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  Speaker 3: wasn't ranking them within that top three because there were
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  Speaker 3: different things I liked about them, and so my top
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  Speaker 3: three prior to going into this were missed it Christmas,
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  Speaker 3: a Heidelberg Holiday, and Santa Summit, and they were different.
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  Speaker 3: I felt like Mystic Christmas was like the right and
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  Speaker 3: the delivery was top notch. And I liked the different
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  Speaker 3: storytelling that we saw in Santa Seme. That was a
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  Speaker 3: totally different idea that was really well executed. Love the
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  Speaker 3: ensemble cast. Heidelberg Holliday was a really like warm, sweet movie.
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  Speaker 3: To me, this movie was everything. It was funny, the
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  Speaker 3: writing and the delivery was top notch. It had some
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  Speaker 3: really sweet, warm moments. It was a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: a different take on a Hallmark movie. It just did
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  Speaker 3: it all for me. I love hearing that, and I
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  Speaker 3: think a sequel is hard to execute well without remaking
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  Speaker 3: the movie, and this was a home run for me.
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  Speaker 3: It had the elements I loved in the first movie,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of delightful callbacks. It didn't just feel like
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  Speaker 3: the next year, we're doing it all again. Think there'll
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  Speaker 3: be a third. I would love a third. I think
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  Speaker 3: they could do it. I don't know how other than
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  Speaker 3: getting married, but like, yeah, but what they've done well
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  Speaker 3: is they've really utilized this ensemble cast nicely. I agree,
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  Speaker 3: Like they did introduce the new characters of the Johnson's,
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  Speaker 3: but then they elevated the ensemble cast. The supporting actors
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  Speaker 3: Steven Tobolowski Melissa Peterman had big roles last the first movie,
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  Speaker 3: but they utilized them so well having established those roles
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  Speaker 3: that I just think there's a lot more they can do.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a writer. I don't know what they could do. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but I do think there's room. They showed us that
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  Speaker 3: these characters can do more while still being true to
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  Speaker 3: the Evergreen Lane spirit. Yeah, tell me some things you
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  Speaker 3: liked well. Like my first impression said, I thought the
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  Speaker 3: sequel was better than the original. For me, I remember
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  Speaker 3: liking the original. I only watched it once last I
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  Speaker 3: haven't revisited. I remember thinking that that was like your
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  Speaker 3: favorite movie last year, right, it was one of us favorites. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: top three. This to me was very similar to last
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  Speaker 3: year's movie, except with the addition of the Johnson family,
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  Speaker 3: who I found so super unlikable but thought was really clever.
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  Speaker 3: The way that they added you know, Internet famous people
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  Speaker 3: without to the neighborhood. It just worked. It was so
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  Speaker 3: funny to me. I liked it so much better than
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  Speaker 3: just adding like a new neighbor wasn't like because then
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  Speaker 3: we're getting the same sort of like repeat of what
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  Speaker 3: we got last year. Right. I hated the Johnson's like
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  Speaker 3: so much. And do you ever have that like where
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  Speaker 3: you're watching something you hate a character so much you
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  Speaker 3: like want to throw something at the TV? Yes, I
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  Speaker 3: said Jennifer Asman as Jane john And is truly great
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  Speaker 3: at playing a character you love to hate.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And some of the reviews, especially some of the conversation
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  Speaker 3: in our Facebook group said it was almost uncomfortable to
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  Speaker 3: watch because it was so antagonistic, and I can absolutely
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  Speaker 3: see that. I thought it was so funny the way
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  Speaker 3: they did it need too. I don't love that, It's
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  Speaker 3: just like, isn't funny for me? Yeah? Yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know necessarily love mean and they were like snide and
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  Speaker 3: sarcastic and sneaky. I just thought it was the perfect
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  Speaker 3: foil to this like happy Christmasy town. I love that
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  Speaker 3: Ned was a defector and went to their side because
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  Speaker 3: he could kind of be the jingle Jared of their team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was really well executed too. And what
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  Speaker 3: I also loved is that their son Jimmy is the
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  Speaker 3: first to break away when Emily gives Jimmy the gingerbread half. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I really didn't think that scene was going to go
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  Speaker 3: that way, Like I thought he was still one of
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  Speaker 3: the bad guys. Yeah, and he takes it home and
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  Speaker 3: he's just so genuinely earnest about it. He's like, look,
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  Speaker 3: I have a ginger can we eat it? Yeah? And
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  Speaker 3: his gingerbread house, by the way, I don't do you know,
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  Speaker 3: but maybe you're making it with from scratch as opposed
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  Speaker 3: to from a box that's been sitting in a grocery store.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it's good. I liked that progression where he was like,
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  Speaker 3: you guys got to knock it off, like this isn't
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  Speaker 3: fun anymore. Yeah, And there's been a lot It's funny
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  Speaker 3: that you talk about like the Internet famous, because there's
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: been a lot of talk, especially on TikTok, about the
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  Speaker 3: damage that these like family bloggers are talking to their
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  Speaker 3: children something last night about it. It's very vocal right now.
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  Speaker 3: And it's also I think because a lot of these
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  Speaker 3: children are starting to grow up and hit their teens
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  Speaker 3: and have their opinions about it. And I thought that
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  Speaker 3: was interesting, like a kind of way to address a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of that. Yeah, I liked it. I agree.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta say this movie for me was full of
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  Speaker 3: like spot on one liners and raiser sharp dialogue and
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  Speaker 3: perfectly executed like you can't do like Melissa Peterman and
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  Speaker 3: Stephen Tobolowski like I got. It has to be from
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  Speaker 3: near years of being like on comedy shows, comedy show sitcoms,
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: you know where it's like fast replies. Do you know
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  Speaker 3: what I'm talking to? Uleblowski might be one of the
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  Speaker 3: greatest comedic actors ever, a great they're timing. Was so
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  Speaker 3: good who probably doesn't get enough credit because he's never
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  Speaker 3: the lead. Yeah, but he is so essential, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I love One Day at a Time. M hm. He's
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  Speaker 3: so good in that. Oh who does he play? And
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  Speaker 3: he plays like a doctor who the mom works for.
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  Speaker 3: But then he has a romance with the grandma. But
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  Speaker 3: for a long time they're just like friends and he's
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  Speaker 3: in love with her and like it takes but he's
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  Speaker 3: it's so funny. He's, like you said, his delivery just
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  Speaker 3: from his years of experience. I'm so glad he was
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  Speaker 3: in these movies. Yeah, I have a question. Okay, there's
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  Speaker 3: a moment early in the movie where Emily and Jared
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  Speaker 3: are together and they're a little frustrated over the way
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  Speaker 3: things are going. And he's like, I could make you
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  Speaker 3: a hot chocolate and she's like the hot chocolate window
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  Speaker 3: has closed, yes, And he's like, are you sure. She's like,
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  Speaker 3: we're done. And I felt like it was a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of a hallmark save euphemism, yeah, when she was like,
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  Speaker 3: it's not happening. Yeah, dude, you need to go home.
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  Speaker 3: You need to go alone tonight. I loved it. There
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  Speaker 3: was an interaction between Pamela and Ned they're like hiding
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  Speaker 3: in the house. In it they say something like I
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  Speaker 3: feel like I've been seen or something. This was so funny.
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  Speaker 3: I just thought the dialogue was great. At one point,
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  Speaker 3: I thought, Lacey, well we talked about Lacey. The squirrel
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  Speaker 3: is just eating so many oranges. This is the fourth
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  Speaker 3: time I can run by with that orange where if
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  Speaker 3: they're an orange tree, I actually think it's that house
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  Speaker 3: right there. They have like a fig tree and they
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  Speaker 3: have grape vines. Maybe they have like a little kumquat tree.
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  Speaker 3: Every time you're just running back and forth storing up
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: for the winter. When the Jolly Johnson's like come out
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: to that Christmas tree lighting, which I had a problem
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: with last year or too. I don't understand why you
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: have a Christmas tree in the center of your cul
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: de sac, But how does that word? Does that plug
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: into you? Guys? Like these are questions I think about.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: But they did it again this year. And then the
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: jolly Johnsons come out and then like light those big
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: fireworks and all, you know whatever, and Lacey gives us
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: face like what is happening here? Like and I thought,
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: oh good, Like she's having the same reaction I'm having
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: to these people. So I was like felt very connected
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: and I thought she was great in this role. Wes Brown,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: his being so enamored by the Johnson's was so funny
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: to me. Yeah, Like he loved them so much he
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: couldn't write get mad at them. Yes, because in contrast
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: last year, he's all over Lacey and giving her like
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: citations and this, and then he's so structured and rigid
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: about like the HOA rules and then he just folded
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: for these people. This year, it was I thought it
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: was very funny. I agree, very funny. And finally, the
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: one last scene that I really really loved is when
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Lacey's parents arrive to kind of save the day, and
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: it's that slow mowalk that her dad's doing. I died.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: He fully bypasses the hug from her and he's just like,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: no nonsense, right down to business. Thought it was so funny.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: I thought that was nice. I'm glad they brought them back.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: I was wondering when they're like silver and Gold are
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: coming in, and I was when I thought it might
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: be a cameo. Oh yeah, yeah, but that was nice.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: It was nice. Did you like anything else? I thought
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: the proposal was really sweet. It was sweet. It was sweet.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: It was well executed. Everyone's there with their sparklers. It
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: fit into the theme of the movie and the theme
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: of the moment. I'm like, are they gonna get married
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: next year? Are we gonna see Lacy in another wedding
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: movie next year?
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Okay, so my wish is at the hall at the
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Holly franchise replaces the Time to Come Home franchise. Oh yeah,
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: bye bye, Yeah there is another one this year, right,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: oh yeah, my wish for I thought it was a
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: fun and funny movie. There isn't much I wished for,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: but this, like, literally when I turned it off. I
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: was like, that was so funny on Saturday night. That's amazing,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: I know, But I wonder if there are wishes from others,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: like those of a different Oh, yes, let's talk about that. Okay.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: My last further thought goes along. It says, or those
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: who find more to de season other than decorations, cookies
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: and parties. So let's talk about the face part of it.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: So there's a provision in their bylaws put there by
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: her father that says, like, you're exempt from the rules
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: if you don't have like the emotional or physical ability
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: to take it on. Do you remember this part? Yeah?
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: And I was wondering if that was going to be
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: where they covered this also, like or if Christmas simply
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: isn't your jam, Like they didn't even need to make
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: it that deep, like you just simply don't wish to participate.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: I kind of wish that they had gone further with
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: that and like addressed it. You have driven up my
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: street today. I live on a bit of an evergreen lane. Yeah,
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: and my neighbor across the street rents this whole lift
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: and like, in addition to all the houses getting in
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: on it, the light poles are lit, and there's lights
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: going across the street, and there's a tunnel of light.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: There's a whole thing. We have neighbors a couple houses away.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: The house has been for sale, and obviously that house
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: is the only house on the street without lights on it.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: They moved in yesterday. Oh boy. So everyone was like, Oh,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: what do you think is going to happen? And one
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: of them neighbors was like, oh, we'll give them a
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: couple days. And I thought like it was kind of
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: a joke. And there's a whole light competition in our neighborhood.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: And we were like, oh, we'll set up the hot
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: chocolate station in their front yard. This is before anybody
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: moved in. But then I thought leave them alone. Like
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: part of me is like, yeah, of course I want
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: everyone to participate in this thing that's fun for me,
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: But not in a thing that doesn't have any meaning
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: to them. Sure, not on a thing that maybe they
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: find super annoying that they don't celebrate this holiday. And
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: now they're on this street that is overrun with lights. Yeah,
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I don't know, and I've never met this person. I
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: have no idea. Maybe they'll light that shit up tonight.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Yeah, I just wonder, like, I mean,
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: it doesn't have to be that deep movie aside. I
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: thought it was a great movie, but then when like
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: really look into it, like, it's a great movie for
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: me because I celebrate Christmas. But if I didn't celebrate Christmas,
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: would I hate this movie? Would I hate the street
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: that I lived on? Because it's like that, you know,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: full of lights and craziness. And yeah, I mean I
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: think you can excuse the movie for existing because you know,
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: if something isn't for you, just don't watch the movie.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: But living on a street like that is harder to escape,
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: particularly when you've got the h OA with very specific rules.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Every house must have a thirty six inch nutcracker, et cetera,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: et cetera. You know, your lights must be led. All
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: of this. I think they had a real moment to
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: casually address it in a throwaway away that most people
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: wouldn't even have, but it would have been meaningful. Yeah,
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: So do you think they should if they make a third?
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Should somehow well? Is that going to be the third
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: where they've I got someone who's like, y'all not everything,
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: it's for everyone. I would love that. Actually, Yeah, how
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: are they gonna handle it. I don't know. I would
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: love that, all right. Moving on to did you see that? Yeah?
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: I have two? Me too. When Lacey's parents return to
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: the home on Evergreen Lane to help, the mom says,
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: we watched Christmas at Graceland on the airplane, which is
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: a twenty eighteen movie starring Wes Brown and Kelly Pickler. Now,
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: of course I didn't know that, but I thought that's interesting,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: so I googled it. I said, Wes Brown movie. I
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: just thought it was funny. Yeah, and they did. Lacey
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: did the same thing in last year's Haul at the
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Holly where she's watching like, oh yes, it a Brendan
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Penny movie. Brennan Elliott a movie she was in or no, no,
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: but she starred with him in a number of got it,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: got it? You're right. I had forgotten about that. Also
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: on Twitter, someone had pointed out that there was snow
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: on the ground, but none of the trees bushes are roofs.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: And usually this is a sticking point for me, like
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: when it doesn't look realistic. But it was also summer
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: in Utah. I'm like, you gotta do. I'd rather have
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: no snow on the trees or roofs than plastic geek
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: cartoony looking snow agree. Yeah, I agree. The realty company
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: that sells the Johnson's home is Home for the Holidays Realty.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: That's a terrible name eleven months out of the year,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Like who wants to shop at home for the holidays
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: realty in March? Yeah, just a little note. When the
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: gnome speakers are put out, they wake up in the morning,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: they discover it light outside. Jared walks over to the
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Johnson's home and it is dark as night when he
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: arrives at their house.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: I didn't even realize, like either the clouds had rolled
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: in or they filmed this at dusk, but it was
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: shockingly darker in that funny, short, short span of time. Yeah,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: because they show Net out there doing yoga, not really
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: doing yoga, but so after that scene when he finally
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: makes it over to the Johnson's it's dark.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Interesting, I haven't seen all right? Is that it? Yeah?
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: What did you rate this movie? This is my first
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: five star of this season. Wow, four point seven five
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: stars for me. I thought it was really good, very funny.
• 27:22
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• 27:25
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• 27:39
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• 27:42
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