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We Wish You a Married Christmas · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy.
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Speaker 1: of a boost. Question. Yeah, those are really nice. Any
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Speaker 1: previous episodes. Yeah, God, we've watched a lot of movies. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Wow's what started as a teeny tiny bonus episode in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty where we are now. Look at this when
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Speaker 1: he's excited about Christmas movie. I watched all four over
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Speaker 1: the weekend. Yeah, believe it. I'm really pumped too. Normally
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Speaker 1: I'm like I watched the ones we're gonna watch, and
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Speaker 1: then I kind of feel like, don't creep on my
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Speaker 1: TV watching Hallmark. Beyond that, oh, it's hard to fit
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Speaker 1: like in four additional things like four two hours. I
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Speaker 1: know it's not two hours, but two hour movies on
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Speaker 1: top of your regular schedule. I'm like, I got Love
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Speaker 1: Is Blind new episodes too, Mutch, but I really wanted
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Speaker 1: to sit down and watch a movie that we weren't
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Speaker 1: even recording last night, so I know. And the other
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Speaker 1: thing too, is that I've been in our Girls Gone
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Speaker 1: Homework Facebook group and people there are talking about like, well,
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Speaker 1: how great this one was and how great this and
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Speaker 1: I was like, I go watch that really hyped me up.
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Speaker 1: I will say, Wendy has an exciting and oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: we've relaunched our Girls Gone Hallmark Instagram. I noticed that
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Speaker 1: you went in and archived all the old posts. I
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Speaker 1: did because I was like, oh, I this has a new,
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Speaker 1: fresh home, so let's give Instagram a new fresh home.
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Speaker 1: I like it. And I'm trying to do more stories
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Speaker 1: over there and more interactive things and breaking news and
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Speaker 1: maybe someday I'll put my face on yeah, but it's
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Speaker 1: I'm usually like doing this stuff like you know midday
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Speaker 1: where I'm I haven't taken a shower yet or some
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Speaker 1: you know I do. Well. I want to say, you're
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Speaker 1: killing it over there. I love it every time I
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Speaker 1: open up my Instagram and see that little blue circle
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Speaker 1: around our girl's gone homework and there's new content over there.
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Speaker 1: And she announced something new and exciting coming in December
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Speaker 1: in our Facebook group. I was like, that's brand new information?
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Speaker 1: Is I did? I'll tell you guys here. I want
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Speaker 1: you everybody to follow us over there because it's only
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Speaker 1: happening on Instagram. We're going to do like a bracket
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Speaker 1: tournament situation with all of the twenty twenty two movies,
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Speaker 1: So as soon as they end December nineteenth, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: launch it. You know, I've been my week's a little off.
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Speaker 1: I'm just busy this week. And when you announced the date,
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Speaker 1: I was like, that's ah, how did she come up
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Speaker 1: with that? Now I understand the movies will be over there.
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Speaker 1: He's in that the weekend right before, and I think
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Speaker 1: got you. I've been racking my brain trying to figure
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Speaker 1: this out. I think what we'll do is like a
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Speaker 1: blind draw of all the movies and then that's how
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Speaker 1: we'll fill him and then we'll do it in the
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Speaker 1: stories where like people have to pick like one the
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Speaker 1: other and I just whittle it down to like, what
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Speaker 1: was that bumped? I'm excited about it. As we mentioned,
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Speaker 1: we do have a Girl's Gone Hallmark Facebook group. It
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Speaker 1: is called Girl's Gone Hallmark. You can find it in
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Speaker 1: Facebook by searching, or Wendy always leaves a note in
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Speaker 1: our show notes along with everywhere else you can find
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Speaker 1: us throughout the internet. We would love to have you
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Speaker 1: join our group. It is a fun group. And now
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Speaker 1: that the super Bowl of Hallmark has begun, it's really
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Speaker 1: getting going in there. M let's do a little Hallmark
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Speaker 1: Channel News and Notes. Okay, Wewnny and I had some
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Speaker 1: serious fomo this past week totally because Hallmark is something
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Speaker 1: really great. I'm actually really happy for them. They screened
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Speaker 1: one of the Countdown of Christmas Movies, a Christmas Spectacular
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Speaker 1: at Radio City Music Hall, and had this beautiful premiere event.
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Speaker 1: So many of the Hallmark stars were there in New
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Speaker 1: York at Radio City Rockefeller Center. I just I would
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Speaker 1: have loved to be there, not that there's any world
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Speaker 1: in which we could have been there. I would have
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Speaker 1: just loved to be there. It would have just been fun.
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Speaker 1: I think I saw some like people from the podcast world.
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Speaker 1: They're cover needed or they it might just be like
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Speaker 1: fan accounts. I don't know, but they weren't like they
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Speaker 1: didn't work for Homemark, right, So I'm like, please do
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Speaker 1: this again next year. I would love it if we
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Speaker 1: could somehow get on some body's radar because I want
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Speaker 1: to go cover it. Look, I'm gonna be really honest
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Speaker 1: with the listeners of Girls on Hallmark here. Girls Got
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Speaker 1: Homework started as a bonus episode. We never considered ourselves
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Speaker 1: a Hallmark podcast, but then we got to the point
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Speaker 1: where we had created ninety episodes. We have been doing this.
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Speaker 1: We're committed to doing it, so we made it its
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Speaker 1: own thing. We want to be a Hallmark podcast. We
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Speaker 1: want you to think of us when you think of
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Speaker 1: Homewark podcasts, and so that's why your engagement means so
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Speaker 1: much to us. That's why we love it when you
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Speaker 1: hop into our Facebook group and when you share us
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Speaker 1: with your friends. We're coming for you. Yeah, that was
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Speaker 1: a beautiful event. Like they were on that like city
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Speaker 1: bus thing and the double deckers dressed up and I
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Speaker 1: saw an I think you laughed at me, but Paul
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Speaker 1: Campbell in a tuxedo, I was wowie zouy. I wasn't laughing.
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Speaker 1: I was enjoying the moment. I thought. I gave some
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Speaker 1: fire emojis to that post. Yeah, no, I would not laugh.
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Speaker 1: I think Paul Campbell is definitely a wowie zowie. And
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Speaker 1: I think, look, Hallmark works really hard. There's a lot
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Speaker 1: of jokes about, you know, Hallmark movies. We have a
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Speaker 1: Hallmark movie bingo specifically because there is some predictability involved
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Speaker 1: in these movies. But we don't do these because the
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Speaker 1: movies aren't enjoyable. There's a lot of hard work that
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Speaker 1: goes into these movies, and I think that was a
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Speaker 1: really nice moment for them to be celebrated in such
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Speaker 1: a fun way. Yeah, totally. One last bit of Hallmark
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Speaker 1: Channel news and notes, we have a new exclusive signing
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Speaker 1: with the Hallmark Channel that is Aaron Cahill. Why do
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Speaker 1: you think that came so late? Oh? I have couldn't
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Speaker 1: begin to speculate that. Maybe you could late in terms
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Speaker 1: of what I just feel like there was a slew
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Speaker 1: of them at like in the summertime, so I thought, oh,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna they're trying to like lock these people down
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Speaker 1: for Christmas? Right? Is she in any Christmas movies this year?
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Speaker 1: I can't recall offhand right now. I would imagine they're
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Speaker 1: just constantly signing these on a rolling basis. So I'm
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Speaker 1: happy for it me too. What's our synopsis for We
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Speaker 1: Wish You a Married Christmas? Are you ready? A couple
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Speaker 1: goes to a quiet town to reconnect at Christmas on
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Speaker 1: the advice of their marriage coach, starring Marisola Nichols and
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Speaker 1: Christopher Poloha. Polaha, Dan, I try every time I've had
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Speaker 1: so much anxiety over the last like several days, save
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Speaker 1: for me again. Polaha, Polaha. But it's p o la
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Speaker 1: yeah laha. I fact, that's what I said. You said Paloha.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, guys, I'm gonna have to write a
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Speaker 1: hooked on phonics note right here on my computer. I'm
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Speaker 1: just going home, Chris from here on al let's do it, Okay.
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Speaker 1: This movie was filmed in Manitoba, primarily in Winnipeg. Gotta
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Speaker 1: tell you my Canadian geography not great. Wow, that's somewhere
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Speaker 1: that's not Vancouver. Yeah. Our two stars, of course, we
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Speaker 1: have Marycel Nichols, who I think is best known as
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Speaker 1: Hermione Lodge from Riverdale. I just learned that while doing
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Speaker 1: the research for this, and we mentioned it in our
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Speaker 1: preview episode. So once again, you don't listen to me,
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Speaker 1: you guys. You have to listen to our main podcast,
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Speaker 1: Long Story Short with Megan and Wendy if you want
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Speaker 1: to hear our ongoing bickering about how Wendy doesn't listen
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Speaker 1: to Megan. I really liked her, did you. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: we'll get to it. I enjoyed her too. You know,
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Speaker 1: this is not our first Christopher Palaha movie, but this
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Speaker 1: is the first time I realized he had roles in
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Speaker 1: both Wonder Woman nineteen eighty four and Jurassic World Dominion. No,
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Speaker 1: you saw both those movies. I'm sure I did. Wonder
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Speaker 1: Woman nineteen eighty four was not a good movie, and
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Speaker 1: if Jurassic World Dominion is the most recent, Jurassic World
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Speaker 1: also not good. But Christopher Palaha does not bear the
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Speaker 1: weight of those movies on his shoulders. No. This movie
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Speaker 1: was originally titled a Christmas disconne Oh. I like that.
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Speaker 1: I like the other one too, I like both. Christopher
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Speaker 1: Pulaha also has a recent book release. It's called where
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Speaker 1: the Sun Rises. It is the second in a from
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Speaker 1: Kona with Love series that he co authors. You can
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Speaker 1: get it on Amazon. I know. I'll leave a link
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Speaker 1: on our show notes if you always want to buy it.
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Speaker 1: I wonder if it's on audible. Oh would it be
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Speaker 1: great if you read like the male part, if there's
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Speaker 1: a male part in this movie? So on a heavy
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Speaker 1: dot com I read this. It was really I thought
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Speaker 1: it was really funny. Susie Keck, the owner of Crazy
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Speaker 1: Ladies Cafeteria in Manitoba, Canada, reported that production created a
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Speaker 1: beautiful set, including huge ornaments, a Christmas market and fake
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Speaker 1: snow I hadn't put on our Instagram. I was like,
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Speaker 1: I need to go to a Christmas market this year.
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Speaker 1: I want to go to a Christmas market. Yeah, we
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Speaker 1: might have something happening, yes, but don't you wish there
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Speaker 1: was one in our local city? Oh? Sure, I feel
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Speaker 1: like everybody could you one? Like? Why don't they do them?
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Speaker 1: I mean I think they Yeah, I think there are
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Speaker 1: where I don't know mind to be one. I want
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Speaker 1: to go to one. I want to walk around with
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Speaker 1: a hot chocolate or a hotsider and look at gifts
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Speaker 1: that I could buy people m don't you want to
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Speaker 1: do Yeah, you know I do. I think like it
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Speaker 1: happens like our church will do one, you know, stuff
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Speaker 1: like that. I don't care. I still want to go
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Speaker 1: to one. Okay, I wish I could like organize one.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why. I think it would be so great.
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Speaker 1: It could be like a fundraiser, like at a church
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Speaker 1: or a school or something. You're looking at me like
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Speaker 1: I'm crazy. I'm not. I love a holiday market. There
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Speaker 1: used to be one run by like the Junior League
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Speaker 1: over at the Fairgrounds. I went to that a couple
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Speaker 1: of years ago. I was during the day though, it
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Speaker 1: wasn't like a nighttime experience. Well, and it was also
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Speaker 1: like inside like in the fair It's not like an
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Speaker 1: outside with lights and fake snow falling around you, right,
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Speaker 1: I hear you, I hear you. It could be really cute.
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Speaker 1: So Paul Ziller directs this. He is directing three countdown
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Speaker 1: to Christmas movies in twenty twenty two alone, including Maple
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Speaker 1: Valley Christmas, Inventing the Christmas Prince, and of Course, We
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Speaker 1: Wish You a Married Christmas. He's also directed other Girls
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Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark favorites like Beverly Hills wedding and a movie
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Speaker 1: that I enjoyed that I don't believe Wendy has seen.
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Speaker 1: Good Morning Christmas. Just set my friendly recorder for Good
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Speaker 1: Morning Christmas. It's like a news second day. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Allie Sweeney stars And someone mentioned it in our Facebook
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Speaker 1: group and I was like, oh, I'm going to go
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Speaker 1: back and check that out. The director also did Chris's
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Speaker 1: movie last year, the twenty twenty one A Dickens of Holiday.
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Speaker 1: Oh Yes, which was not one of your favorite twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty one movies. I remember not liking it, right, I
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Speaker 1: remember the one scene towards the inver he was in
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Speaker 1: like a monologue situation. Yeah, and he was excellent. Now
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking, do I want to go back and watch it?
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Speaker 1: I might, Yeah, I can't remember, though, like overall, like
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Speaker 1: the movie wasn't great, though I liked it. I think
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to go back. I feel like this
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Speaker 1: year I'm watching with different eyes. I'm not watching with
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Speaker 1: such a critical like naysayer hater eyes. You know what
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Speaker 1: I mean. You're not like you gotta win me over,
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Speaker 1: You're meeting them halfway. Yeah. I remember us being a
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Speaker 1: team divided over a Dickens of a holiday last year.
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Speaker 1: I really like that, so I would encourage you to
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Speaker 1: watch it with fresh eyes. Especially Gosh, Chris Palaha is
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Speaker 1: just such a wowie zooy Oh my god, I'm so
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Speaker 1: freaking hut. And you know he has an eighteen year
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Speaker 1: old son. I did not something about that. He's got
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Speaker 1: three children, I think, but an eighteen year old son.
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Speaker 1: I was like, he's not the son. Chris is like
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Speaker 1: a man, right, like a family right. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I'm I don't know. He's really good looking and on
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Speaker 1: his Instagram lately he's got like a full beard. Yeah
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Speaker 1: stop objective. Ye. It was written by Nicole Bax. She's
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Speaker 1: got sixteen writing credits, none of which I'm personally familiar
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Speaker 1: with or that we've reviewed. Are you ready for first impressions? Yes?
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Speaker 1: Go ahead enough already with the alpacas, What is the
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Speaker 1: freaking point they were in the movie poster? It wasn't
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Speaker 1: even like relevant to the story. They're cute. I have
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Speaker 1: a digit see that too later on about it, let
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Speaker 1: me do. My first impression is this is nothing like Shmigadoon. No,
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Speaker 1: yours wouldn't been a better movie if it was more
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Speaker 1: like Schmigadoon. No, No, I would have been too hijinxy
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Speaker 1: And I don't say that as a It's not a knock.
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Speaker 1: I just was getting that feeling from the preview, and
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Speaker 1: then that's not the movie it was, so I stand corrected. Okay,
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Speaker 1: what did we like about We Wish you a married Christmas?
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Speaker 1: I kind of have a big list, so I'm ready
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Speaker 1: for it. Buckle up, folks. This was a romantic drama. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I don't can't recall a romantic drama that we've had
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Speaker 1: of reason, you know, there's always some sort of like
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Speaker 1: romantic it's they're mostly romantic comedies, right, This was a drama,
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Speaker 1: and I just applied Hallmark for giving us some depth.
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Speaker 1: Yeah one in that vein, I loved exploring this concept
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Speaker 1: of this married couple. They used the line that they
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Speaker 1: felt like they were alone together. They had been married
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Speaker 1: for a long time. You and I have been both
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Speaker 1: married for a long time. I'm not knocking either of
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Speaker 1: our marriages, but the reality of marriages that it has
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Speaker 1: its peaks and valleys, right, And I know some people
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Speaker 1: were like, oh, this felt like a downer. This It
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Speaker 1: did not feel like a downer to me at all.
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Speaker 1: It felt very realistic. And hopeful to me, But it
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Speaker 1: didn't feel like they were glossing over the reality of
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Speaker 1: a multiple year marriage and what that does to your relationship. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: a total side note that I just thought about while
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Speaker 1: we were talking. Here do call how long they had
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Speaker 1: been married. I don't. Something in my mind tells me
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Speaker 1: thirteen years. It was in the teens, I believe. And interesting.
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Speaker 1: They didn't have any children and was not even like
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Speaker 1: mentioned at all, which is who cares. But well, I
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Speaker 1: liked that they didn't have to make that qualifier. We
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Speaker 1: didn't have children because this is just who we are.
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Speaker 1: They got Jerry. Yeah, oh my god, that dog and
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Speaker 1: he was in the parade. I just thought that was
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Speaker 1: stop it. It is in my list of like when
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Speaker 1: Chris pull out hat screams Jerry during the parade. It
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Speaker 1: is the highlight of the movie for me. I rewound
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Speaker 1: it and watched it again. They're just total stage moms
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Speaker 1: for their dogs. We would totally do this thing. Oh
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Speaker 1: my right, gosh. I loved that scene and Jerry did
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Speaker 1: not care. He was like, what other guys, that's my baby?
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Speaker 1: Oh my god. It was so funny. And there was
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Speaker 1: another scene too, when we were talking about Jerry and
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Speaker 1: the lady goes, oh, as in Jerry Garcia. I think
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Speaker 1: it was a lady. It might have been a dude.
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Speaker 1: I can't remember. But the person says like, oh, Jerry
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Speaker 1: like Garcia, and she goes no, like Ben and and
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Speaker 1: I was like, I had to rewind it because I
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Speaker 1: was like, wait, what what did you say? And then
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Speaker 1: I got the joke. It was quite funny. I just
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Speaker 1: think Christopher Paula has such a great delivery in this movie,
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Speaker 1: has a real dry, humorous delivery. There's a moment where
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Speaker 1: they're at the Christmas Market, I believe, where they're at
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Speaker 1: a Christmas event and there's a silent auction or some
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Speaker 1: sort of auction, and they are going to be like,
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Speaker 1: let's go see what the hot ticket items are, and
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Speaker 1: he goes I know I'm dying to see what the
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Speaker 1: hot ticket items are. But his delivery is so great. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know what is funny is I was rewatching a
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Speaker 1: scene in this movie because I was trying to get
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Speaker 1: the names of the innkeepers, which we'll talk about in
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Speaker 1: his second Vincent Bryan, Yeah, Vince and Brian, and it's
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Speaker 1: they're checking in. The couple is checking in, what is
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Speaker 1: their names in this Their names are Becca and Robbie. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so Becca Robbie are checking in and it was the
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Speaker 1: whole thing about the two rooms or something, and they
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Speaker 1: were like ribbing each other about like snoring. Do you
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Speaker 1: recall this? So they had this like back and forth
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Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, you should hear her snore
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Speaker 1: and he's like, well, only on my back or whatever.
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Speaker 1: And it was it was really funny because it felt
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Speaker 1: very relatable. But do you remember we just watched a
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Speaker 1: wedding of a lifetime, Yes, and they had the couple
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Speaker 1: who were like the newscaster and they were so nasty
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Speaker 1: to each other, and it was the same kind of ribbing,
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Speaker 1: but this was different. It was more of like what
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Speaker 1: a real couple, right would talk to each other? Was kinder,
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Speaker 1: not mean spirited? Yes, yeah, exactly. Anyway, I appreciate that. Well.
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Speaker 1: On that note, I love Chris Paalaha and Marie soil
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Speaker 1: Nichols together. I think they were a great pairing. I
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Speaker 1: would absolutely watch more of them. I love them both individually.
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Speaker 1: I didn't feel like one was carrying the weight of
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Speaker 1: the other. And I thought their chemistry together, Oh so
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Speaker 1: that's interesting, Like I thought their chemistry was good to you,
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Speaker 1: but it wasn't like, in my mind a definition of
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Speaker 1: like chemistry is like this hot passion. Right. What I
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Speaker 1: thought was great between them is there was tension, and
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Speaker 1: in good tension too. I just thought they played so
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Speaker 1: well up off of each other, and some scenes were
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Speaker 1: so incredibly heartbreaking. To me, I was like, this should
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Speaker 1: be a real movie. And you know what I mean
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Speaker 1: by a real movie, guys, theatrical really Yes, yeah, I
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Speaker 1: hear what you're saying about chemistry, And to me, I
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Speaker 1: don't in my mind, I don't equate it necessarily to
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Speaker 1: like this hot, fiery passion. It's just how comfortable they
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Speaker 1: are with each other, how real they seem together, And
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Speaker 1: I don't think this movie had a need for a hot,
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Speaker 1: fiery sort of passion. They were talking about this long
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Speaker 1: time love. Yeah, yeah, how about that same with the therapist.
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Speaker 1: Shout out Pascal Hutton. She was in you had Me
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Speaker 1: at a Loha, You Had Me at a Loha. I mean,
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Speaker 1: she's used to playing like a lead in these in
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Speaker 1: these rights, so it was weird. I thought, Okay, did
19:06
Speaker 1: she have some sort of connection with like the director
19:08
Speaker 1: or the writer or whatever. But I couldn't find one,
19:10
Speaker 1: So I don't know. Maybe she just was in town
19:14
Speaker 1: and like she played the therapist. Sure, I don't know.
19:18
Speaker 1: I just thought the scene was so funny because they
19:19
Speaker 1: were fighting about the freaking microwave, and like that's what
19:23
Speaker 1: like couples fight about, right, So I mean in my
19:26
Speaker 1: house we fight about stupid. Absolutely, So I just enjoyed it.
19:31
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. Did you love Vincent Brian? I still
19:35
Speaker 1: love Vincent, Brian Claude Knowlton and Brian Sills. I thought, huh,
19:43
Speaker 1: and I shout out Cindy the toe truck window fixed
19:46
Speaker 1: her too, like every time he asked her and she
19:48
Speaker 1: was like one word, like yeah, I really liked getting
19:51
Speaker 1: ready montage, him picking out a shirt, her putting a makeup.
19:55
Speaker 1: I thought it was the last for me. Is just
19:58
Speaker 1: I just thought I had great writing, great banter between
20:01
Speaker 1: all the characters. It was a good script. I didn't
20:06
Speaker 1: think it was a downer. I didn't either. I was
20:08
Speaker 1: like rooting for them exactly. I think something can be
20:12
Speaker 1: realistic without being depressing. Yeah, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, this
20:17
Speaker 1: is gonna be a weird segment for me. What did
20:18
Speaker 1: you wish for? Less alpacas and Okay, I just like
20:24
Speaker 1: I said at the top, I don't understand why it
20:26
Speaker 1: was promoted so hard about these alpacas. I'l paka your bag.
20:31
Speaker 1: I don't know whatever it said. I just I didn't understand.
20:34
Speaker 1: It was such a small portion of the movie. But
20:37
Speaker 1: that's funny. I don't have an answer for you. They
20:40
Speaker 1: didn't bother me. They I mean, they didn't bother me.
20:42
Speaker 1: I thought it were silly when they were doing the
20:45
Speaker 1: like alpacas are sending you a message situation you did,
20:49
Speaker 1: but too it didn't make me laugh when Becca and
20:53
Speaker 1: Robbie go in to do their own little Becca and
20:57
Speaker 1: Robbie Graham to their families, I think, and they were
21:00
Speaker 1: like trying to chase the outpack of his mouth with them.
21:05
Speaker 1: I could have taken or left the alpacas. I just
21:09
Speaker 1: don't know, like there has to be some sort of
21:12
Speaker 1: animal in these movies. I know, you know what I
21:15
Speaker 1: wanted to say, Jerry not on Jerry should have been
21:18
Speaker 1: on a poster, right, Okay, I wanted to say more
21:22
Speaker 1: thing about Jerry in my likes. I liked that they
21:24
Speaker 1: had a dog in the movie, and that they didn't
21:26
Speaker 1: forget about the dog. The dog became this like through line,
21:28
Speaker 1: They're like, I'll get back and take care of Jerry.
21:30
Speaker 1: Or they showed them walking Jerry. It wasn't just like
21:33
Speaker 1: he was there as a prop. They followed it through
21:36
Speaker 1: in every scene, like Jerry wasn't just an afterthought. He
21:39
Speaker 1: wasn't like left in the hotel room for a week. Right.
21:41
Speaker 1: I appreciate those kind of little details because then I'm like,
21:44
Speaker 1: where's Jerry. Justice for Jerry. He should have been in
21:47
Speaker 1: the post. I should have been the poster. I wish
21:51
Speaker 1: I got ten out of ten. No notes, really, there's
21:54
Speaker 1: nothing to wish for. Well, that's all I have is
21:56
Speaker 1: about the alpacas too, That's all I have. Did just
22:00
Speaker 1: see that. I just want to say this, and I'm
22:02
Speaker 1: not stealing your line. What I think you can put
22:05
Speaker 1: a microwave in an island. Yeah, my microwaves, my mom's
22:10
Speaker 1: microwaves in her island. I think that's a pretty common thing.
22:14
Speaker 1: I understand what he was talking about, like because it
22:16
Speaker 1: made it sound like it was going to be on
22:18
Speaker 1: top of the island, and I do understand, like, yeah,
22:22
Speaker 1: that's in the way, but my microwave is in the island. Yeah,
22:28
Speaker 1: so I had to do a little Internet research on
22:30
Speaker 1: my did you see that? Okay, the alpacas again were
22:37
Speaker 1: freshly shared. They were, and al pacas, according to the Internet,
22:41
Speaker 1: are typically shared once a year, right before summer. Yes,
22:44
Speaker 1: which definitely correlates because this movie was filmed in May
22:47
Speaker 1: and June. Yes. Anyway, I just I thought it was funny. Yes,
22:52
Speaker 1: there's no alpaca continuity in this movie, if you're looking
22:55
Speaker 1: for that. IMDb actually also notes that as a goof
22:59
Speaker 1: in this movie that takas are freshly sure in which
23:01
Speaker 1: happens in the spring. I swear didn't steal that, I
23:04
Speaker 1: believe you. So proud of myself that I was like,
23:06
Speaker 1: that's interesting. Wouldn't they need their like fur or whatever
23:10
Speaker 1: it is for Vermont? Yeah, in the wintertime. Yeah. Yeah,
23:14
Speaker 1: So they did address this, but before they said it
23:17
Speaker 1: out loud, I was like, is that a one float parade?
23:21
Speaker 1: And then yeah, it's a one float parade and she goes, well,
23:25
Speaker 1: maybe it's gonna come back or long, and the Mechanic's
23:27
Speaker 1: like nope, yeah right. First of all, the hotel room
23:31
Speaker 1: that they checked in was one of the nicest hotel
23:33
Speaker 1: rooms I've ever seen. For like a two bedrooms apartment
23:37
Speaker 1: and then and then they were like when they're in
23:40
Speaker 1: the room and they're like, really two bedrooms or I'm
23:43
Speaker 1: assuming each room has a queen or king sized bed,
23:48
Speaker 1: then they have twin beds in there. Why couldn't they
23:51
Speaker 1: just Auzzie and Harriet in one room together and the
23:54
Speaker 1: bed that was there? Right? But I gotta say I
23:58
Speaker 1: don't mind a separate room sometimes because I snore and
24:02
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear crap about it the next day.
24:04
Speaker 1: Everybody gets a better sleep. I like to be able
24:06
Speaker 1: to spread out. Here's the thought. Maybe they addressed it.
24:09
Speaker 1: I don't know. But their TV doesn't work? Yeah? Do
24:13
Speaker 1: we think that's intentional? Like on these therapist book hotel
24:17
Speaker 1: rooms that they're like cut their TV so that they're
24:20
Speaker 1: forced to interact with each other. Yeah, but didn't they
24:22
Speaker 1: watch that movie together? I think that maybe lends itself
24:26
Speaker 1: more to like, let's watch a movie together instead of
24:28
Speaker 1: let me turn on sports and you disassociate. Yeah. Yeah,
24:33
Speaker 1: I think it was probably intentional. I wonder if there
24:35
Speaker 1: was a line about that was cut. Are you ready
24:37
Speaker 1: to rate? I wish you had married Christmas? Is it
24:41
Speaker 1: too soon for four stars? No? I gave it four stars.
24:44
Speaker 1: I gave it four and a half. Nice. I thought
24:47
Speaker 1: this great, solid start to the weekend. I know it
24:51
Speaker 1: was on Saturday night, but it was the first movie
24:54
Speaker 1: that we were going to review. Yeah. I thought it
24:58
Speaker 1: was solid acting, solid scripts, same looked great. I feel
25:04
Speaker 1: actual joy in my heart about this movie, about these
25:07
Speaker 1: movies it is. I'm very excited for what's to come.
25:11
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25:14
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