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The Cases of Mystery Lane · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: I'll take a holiday in in the b web over
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  Speaker 1: an ice hotel. True, sorry, no shriek to the holiday,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll love a free breakfast. Hey, everybody, Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and
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  Speaker 1: I'm a lifelong Hallmark movie fan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Wendy and Nice Smell, a news series for Hallmark
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  Speaker 2: movies and mysteries.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're reviewing the cases of Mystery Lane, a new
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  Speaker 1: mystery franchise that originally aired on Sunday, March nineteenth, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. If you want to connect with us outside
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  Speaker 2: sound like a lot of people when there are Hallmark
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  Speaker 2: Facebook groups out there that have like ten thousand, But
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  Speaker 2: I am so happy we've hit this milestone. I love
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  Speaker 2: the people that are over there. It's very engaged, very
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  Speaker 2: passionate people talking about Hallmark movies and actors and did
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  Speaker 2: you see that? And I love it. Girls gone Hallmark
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  Speaker 2: Facebook group. I agree with all of that. Let's talk
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  Speaker 2: some Hallmark news. I've got some ratings info for this
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  Speaker 2: week's movies. Tell me first up, winning team, A winning team.
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  Speaker 1: You're right if you know?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: It was number six in total cable viewers with one
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  Speaker 1: point three seven million viewers. Wow, that's real good. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the percentages of the key demo they haven't been doing
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  Speaker 1: as well in but they're getting more viewers than those
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  Speaker 1: with a higher percentage of the demo. And again, this
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  Speaker 1: really gets into like the advertising weeds and how those
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  Speaker 1: numbers shake out. But for me, as an observer who's
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  Speaker 1: not in the game, I'm like, I want to focus
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  Speaker 1: on numbers of people watching because like, screw eighteen to
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  Speaker 1: forty five, Like I'm almost out of that demo and
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  Speaker 1: I matter too. Okay, all right? Next up, for the
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  Speaker 1: Cases of Mystery, Lane had eight hundred and twenty four
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  Speaker 1: thousand live viewers. Now, something Hallmark is doing is they're
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  Speaker 1: airing these movies and mysteries movies a little bit earlier
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  Speaker 1: so they don't overlap with the Way Home. So it's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a double edged sword, right, Like
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  Speaker 1: they're not losing viewers because of the Way Home. But
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  Speaker 1: they might be losing viewers by airing it a little
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  Speaker 1: bit early, but I think that's still solid numbers compared
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  Speaker 1: to how movies and mysteries movies have been performing. And finally,
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  Speaker 1: The Way Home continues to do very well, with one
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  Speaker 1: point six million views on episode nine, making it the
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  Speaker 1: most watched non basketball program on cable. Wow, that's more
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  Speaker 1: than a winning team. Indeed, Wow, call it a hit.
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  Speaker 2: I would call it a hit as well.
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  Speaker 1: Last week we talked about the third movie in the
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  Speaker 1: Winter Castle series being made. It is called a winter
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  Speaker 1: Castle Romance. We have stars attached to that movie, Stephen
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  Speaker 1: who'sar who is related to something we're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about in a moment, and Katie Cassidy. We had originally reported,
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  Speaker 1: per information we received from Sleepy Kitty Pod, that it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't being filmed at the site of the original Ice
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  Speaker 1: Hotel movies, and that was true at the time, but
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  Speaker 1: they have now moved on to a second filming location,
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  Speaker 1: which is the location where the first two movies were filmed.
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  Speaker 1: This is a Christmas movie. You might recall that we
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  Speaker 1: didn't love Maybe It's Cold Inside No and Sleepy Kitty
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  Speaker 1: Pad themselves also called out like this wasn't a hit
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  Speaker 1: for the network, and they positive like why would they
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  Speaker 1: do this? Perhaps the play is maybe it's going to
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  Speaker 1: do better as a Christmas movie in the winter.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, I need to know the backstory of
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  Speaker 2: what happened to their filming location. Did it melt on them?
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  Speaker 1: No? No, no, no no. It wasn't that they like changed
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  Speaker 1: mid course. It was just that as information was coming in,
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  Speaker 1: they got olming somewhere else and now they're at the hotel.
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  Speaker 1: They just have separate famulations.
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  Speaker 2: I think people have this like obsession intrigue about what
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  Speaker 2: it would be like to experience an ice hotel.
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  Speaker 1: Terrible, it would be terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's why they continue to make these movies. Sure
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  Speaker 2: not for me, No, thank you. Put me on a
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  Speaker 2: island somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: With a bed not made of ice anywhere. I'll take
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  Speaker 1: a holiday in in the b West over an ice hotel.
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  Speaker 2: True.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, no shack to the holiday, and I'll love a
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  Speaker 1: free breakfast. Okay, oh boy, you have some news to
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  Speaker 1: share for the people.
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  Speaker 2: If you're not following our Instagram, you should be because
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  Speaker 2: Thursday night we kicked off the first round of the
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  Speaker 2: King of Hallmark. We are crowning the King of Hallmark.
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  Speaker 2: What it is, It's basically like a March Madness bracket,
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  Speaker 2: similar to what we did at Christmas time. We're picking
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  Speaker 2: the King of Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: Basically.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny because the matchups, while random, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people are very heated about, you know, some of the
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  Speaker 2: particular matchups. How can we ever choose between Christopher Russell
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  Speaker 2: and Chris Polaha basically those down.
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  Speaker 1: The you know that kind of that is a tough call,
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  Speaker 1: by the way.
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  Speaker 2: So let me just I just like to reiterate that
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  Speaker 2: it was random. We did not purposely match these actors
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  Speaker 2: up against each other. And one of our listeners messaged
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  Speaker 2: me and she's she has a full criteria of how
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  Speaker 2: she's selecting me. I'm just picking who I think is
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  Speaker 2: the hottest.
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  Speaker 1: She had like.
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  Speaker 2: How vul horble they are when they are in a movie,
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  Speaker 2: Like do they act outside of their like box?
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, okay, well it's to each their own.
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  Speaker 2: However, you want to critique these men, how you see
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  Speaker 2: them moving on? Who you want to win? You do? You?
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  Speaker 1: I like that there's some thought put into it, very
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  Speaker 1: much on like first impression.
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  Speaker 2: Boom yeah, I'm like, does it make me feel funny
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  Speaker 2: when I look at his picture?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? I mean if they post a reel, do I
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  Speaker 1: potentially watch it over and over again so that I
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  Speaker 1: don't miss anything?
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  Speaker 2: Do I save it to my personal collection to revisit
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  Speaker 2: at a later time.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, that's what we're talking about here. Many people
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  Speaker 1: have asked for a lady's bracket, and okay, let me
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  Speaker 1: just say.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, woman a woman crime. I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: be moving honest right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Why is it? Why is it that I feel okay
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  Speaker 1: with the dudes, but I feel like we can't do
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  Speaker 1: it with the lady.
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  Speaker 2: I that's a good question. I would love feedback from.
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  Speaker 1: Our listeners on this. Yeah, should we do it? I
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  Speaker 1: just don't you know. I know, I know. At first
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  Speaker 1: I was like, totally would to the ladies, And now
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  Speaker 1: I'm like.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know. Yeah, I don't want people to be
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  Speaker 2: sliding into the DMS being like you are a woman hater,
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  Speaker 2: you are objectifying women. I don't. I don't know unless
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  Speaker 2: we make our own criteria of some but then it
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  Speaker 2: gets way too complicated. I just don't know. Come on
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  Speaker 2: If you're listening on Friday, you're still gonna be able
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk the cases of Mystery Lane, and let's
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  Speaker 1: start with a synopsis.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Bertie and Aldam Case find a way to
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  Speaker 2: keep the mystery in their marriage alive literally when the
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  Speaker 2: amateur Sluice are pulled into a murder investigation. Sorry, Amy
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  Speaker 2: Garcia and Paul Campbell.
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  Speaker 1: This movie was written by Joel Dovev and Margot Frowley.
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  Speaker 1: They are new to Hallmark and according to Paul Campbell,
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  Speaker 1: they had originally sold the script to network television, but
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  Speaker 1: it didn't get picked up. The Hallmark bought it. Well done, Hallmark.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I just followed the writers from our Instagram yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is their first everything that they've written
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  Speaker 2: as a team. I think individually they are writers as well,
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  Speaker 2: and they're actually real life married people together with the children.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, you didn't know that, did Yaha? Did not?
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  Speaker 2: Well, there you go. This movie was directed by Mike Roll.
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  Speaker 2: You might remember we mentioned his name at the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of the year. Do you remember, she says no. He
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  Speaker 2: has sixty one directing credits, including tons for Hallmark, not
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  Speaker 2: for Maybe My Dad.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, five episodes of Date My Dad.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we mentioned him because he is the father of
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  Speaker 2: actress Casey Roll, who played the art student named Lily
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  Speaker 2: in the Wedding Veil Inspiration. Ah, but he's like a
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  Speaker 2: prolific director. Tons of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Coming back to me now, But yes he did. It's
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  Speaker 1: all good. He did direct five episodes of the twenty
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  Speaker 1: seventeen hit Date My Dad.
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  Speaker 2: Hit. I won't commented any further.
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  Speaker 1: This was filmed in Vancouver but set in Massachusetts, and
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  Speaker 1: some eagle eye viewers looked up the town. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it's ever called out, but there was some male
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  Speaker 1: that had a zip code on it and they looked
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  Speaker 1: that zip code up and it's Wooster, Massachusetts where this
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  Speaker 1: was seent.
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  Speaker 2: Oh interesting, of course. Paul Campbell, he plays Alden. Case
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  Speaker 2: Campbell gave an interview where he said that he loved
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  Speaker 2: wearing the ridiculous disguises and playing the silly characters in
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  Speaker 2: this movie.
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  Speaker 1: He also said that this was like.
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  Speaker 2: A role he's been waiting for forever.
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  Speaker 1: He said that his dream role will be playing Andy
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  Speaker 1: Samberg's role in Brooklyn ninety nine, so this was his
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  Speaker 1: chance to do something in that vein.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I've never seen Brooklyn ninety nine. I have no
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  Speaker 2: idea like what he is referencing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I've seen exactly one episode. It's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like a goofy send up of a cop show. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Andy Samberg, you can envision the kind of
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  Speaker 1: copy might play.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, of course, of course.
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  Speaker 1: Amy Garcia plays Bertie Case in this movie. And Amy
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  Speaker 1: has eighty one acting credits to her name.
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  Speaker 2: She's a complete newcomer Debt to Home.
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  Speaker 1: She so like, she fits right in so perfect. Does
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  Speaker 1: that can't be correct? Yeah, but she's worked quite a bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she was in last year's Netflix holiday movie Christmas
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  Speaker 2: with You with Freddy Binch Junior. She also did eighty
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  Speaker 2: episodes of Lucifer, which is a show I'm not show
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  Speaker 2: you would like that to deal with and the Devil.
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  Speaker 2: You would love that show. Actually, it's great, Okay, And
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  Speaker 2: then she many years on the HBO series Dexter. She
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  Speaker 2: also does a ton of voice work.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think if she was gonna be in a Hallmark,
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  Speaker 1: she needs to be in the mysteries based on the
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  Speaker 1: kind of character she intends to play. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean.
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  Speaker 2: One small news and note here, Paul Campbell superfan Carolyn Richardson,
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  Speaker 2: also known as Hallmarky's Carolyn three on Instagram and co
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  Speaker 2: host of the Hallmarkys podcast. She started a petition on
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  Speaker 2: change dot org. I will leave in link.
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  Speaker 1: Change dot Org.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will leave a link in our show notes.
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  Speaker 2: She wants to get Hallmark to commit to turning this
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  Speaker 2: movie into a franchise, And at the time of my
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  Speaker 2: note taking, the petition was at four hundred and eight signatures,
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  Speaker 2: including the one and only Tyler Hines. I shared it.
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  Speaker 2: He shared it on his stories and then when I
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  Speaker 2: went to click through to leave my signature, while I saw.
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  Speaker 1: His pa was on there. I have one final news
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  Speaker 1: and note. Mmmm, that is that Matt Hamilton, who plays
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  Speaker 1: Officer Newton in this episode. Yes, also played Mark Laclark
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  Speaker 1: in Three Wise Men and a Baby Mark lack Clark.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I knew he looked familiar, but I could not
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  Speaker 2: place him.
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  Speaker 1: Also in our like six Degrees of Hallmark, he was
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  Speaker 1: in the movie North to Home, Oh, among others. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: and he's in the Babysitters Club. Oh, you're real Mark? No,
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  Speaker 1: what's his name?
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: Mark?
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  Speaker 1: Lea Clark fan. Name is Mark Hamilton, who plays Mark Hamilton. Mark,
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  Speaker 1: you're a big fan, huh, I'll follow him on our
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  Speaker 1: I think for you plays very funny characters. He was
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  Speaker 1: hilarious in this movie. What was your first impression?
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  Speaker 2: I liked this more than the Curious Caterer franchise.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no mystery here. This is a hit. Yeah, no
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  Speaker 1: mystery here. You're funny.
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  Speaker 2: Love it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about what we liked. I think we've got
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  Speaker 1: another case of spot on casting. Oh for sure. Paul
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  Speaker 1: Campbell is the perfect goofy comedy investigator, as we mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: like after reading his dream role, this is perfect. He's
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  Speaker 1: so good in this role. Amy Garcia is the perfect
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  Speaker 1: matchup as his like more buttoned up, serious focused wife.
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  Speaker 1: I'm taking all my likes. I'm sorry, Like the more
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  Speaker 1: Campbellton role is this? The casting across the board is
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  Speaker 1: so good. The woman who plays the wife, everybody. I
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  Speaker 1: fully believed the assistant as the murderer, Like, at no
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  Speaker 1: point was that like a leap for me to make
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  Speaker 1: so good casting amazing? Okay, did I steal it.
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  Speaker 2: All a little bit, but I'll I'll dive deeper. I
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  Speaker 2: loved Paul Campbell throughout this movie. His dry humor is
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  Speaker 2: where it's at for me. I just love a good, dry,
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  Speaker 2: sarcastic funny man. But I also thought he was fantastic
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  Speaker 2: in some of the vulnerable parts of the script, the
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  Speaker 2: marriage stuff, the figuring out what he wants to do
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  Speaker 2: with his life stuff, when he was saying goodbye to
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  Speaker 2: his treasured robot stuff. I liked him a lot. I
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  Speaker 2: thought he did a perfect job of putting those two
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  Speaker 2: things together. And I'd like to say we saw a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of this character in the Santa Steakout, yes,
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  Speaker 2: but this was like a full lean in, full throttle hair.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Great point. Let me tell you what else I
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  Speaker 1: really liked about this movie.
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  Speaker 2: I love that it was a comedy mystery film, and
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  Speaker 2: I didn't realize like that is a actual particular genre. Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to look it up. I needed some more
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  Speaker 2: like examples. So of recent We've Got Knives Out and
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  Speaker 2: Murder Mystery with Jen Aniston and Adam Sandler, those are
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  Speaker 2: considered comedy mystery films. Okay, in the nineties there was
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  Speaker 2: Ace Ventura, which is a little more hijinxy but you know,
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  Speaker 2: and the movie So I Married an Axe Murderer. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: And then in the eighties in the same genre we
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  Speaker 2: had Fletch, Pink, Panther, and Clue. So I'm here for
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  Speaker 2: this genre on Hallmark Movies and mysteries. I really liked it,
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  Speaker 2: especially with Paul Campbell attached, because he is a great
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  Speaker 2: comedic actor. Yeah, and I feel like in that category
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  Speaker 2: of movies, this really like rises to the top. It
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  Speaker 2: certainly is competitive with all those theatrical releases, don't you think. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I also want to know, and you already talked about her.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Amy Garcia was awesome hiss birth. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: love that name, Bertie. I think it's such a cool name. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: agree with you that the casting was great for her.
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  Speaker 2: She had great energy and great comedic timing. Yes, And
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  Speaker 2: they would be throwaway lines that were funny, like, for example,
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  Speaker 2: she said something about like killing it or something. She's like,
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  Speaker 2: see what I did there? Like it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I just really enjoyed her, I thought, I wrote down
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  Speaker 2: initially she's as cute as a button, and then I
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  Speaker 2: looked up her age and she's in her forties, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, that probably feels offensive to like a
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  Speaker 2: woman in her forties who has worked like she has
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  Speaker 2: uh huh, but she's so cute as a button.
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  Speaker 1: She is. That's not that's not wrong. We learned early
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  Speaker 1: on that at some point Bertie had considered divorcing Alden,
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  Speaker 1: and in spite of that, the relationship is not uncomfortable
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  Speaker 1: to watch. There are some scenes where they're not connecting,
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  Speaker 1: like Alden tries to have a conversation with her as
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  Speaker 1: she's on her way to work. But it feels more
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  Speaker 1: like things that would happen in a real marriage as
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  Speaker 1: opposed to like, does it feel manufactured. It's not like
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  Speaker 1: there are antics to try and convince us there's trouble
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  Speaker 1: in paradise. We can see through the fact that he's
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  Speaker 1: hiding the fact that he's in p high school and
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  Speaker 1: we don't know right away why that is. I thought
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  Speaker 1: that was really well done. I love that we started
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  Speaker 1: with a married couple. Yeah, there's not this like will
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  Speaker 1: they or won't they were there. We get the satisfaction
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  Speaker 1: of their relationship, but they have their own stuff to
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  Speaker 1: work through. And finally, this is a me thing. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I get very lost in these Hallmark mysteries, and at
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  Speaker 1: the end I find myself going, I'm sorry, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what happened or why they did such a nice
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  Speaker 1: job A of weaving the story in a way that
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  Speaker 1: my apparently pea brain can understand, and b of recapping
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  Speaker 1: all of the steps that went into the various crimes
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  Speaker 1: that were committed at the end that I felt very satisfied.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't like, oh, I need to rewind and figure
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  Speaker 1: out what happened, so brava.
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  Speaker 2: Well you will see here two things that you mentioned
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  Speaker 2: are in my wish for I just have one more
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  Speaker 2: life that I want to share. I thought the writing
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  Speaker 2: was great. Let me give you four examples. Every interaction
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  Speaker 2: between Alden and the air quotes Cop had me laughing
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  Speaker 2: out loud. And it didn't just end once like they
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  Speaker 2: did it throughout the entire movie. I thought it was
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  Speaker 2: so funny Alden's disdain for coworker Kyle and all his
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  Speaker 2: quips about like I'm Kyle and I like to run
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  Speaker 2: five k's for fun, Like every single time I laughed.
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  Speaker 2: I loved it, and I wondered, like, is that writing
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  Speaker 2: or is that Paul Campbell doing that? You know, I
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: want to know how much extra he brought to it,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: just because I think he's phenomenal Alden's disdain for fellow
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: PI Rick and all their interactions.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I call some glasses.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah at the top, Oh, so you can read, and
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: like it just was so funny.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: And he's so proud of himself too, Like he like
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: chuckles to himself when he says it.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: When Rick saves Alden and he's holding a gun on
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Paula and he's like, dropped that turkey baster, it was
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: like the perfect beat, Like it was great. Yes, And
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: finally when the FBI agent busts Alden and Bertie and
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: he finally lets them go, he tells Alden he should
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: stick to Reddit, and I almost died.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Yes, thank you for saying that someone who loves Reddit.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: I was like, yes, I had read it in my
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: notes and I just wrote read it because that's the
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: kind of terrible note taker I am. And I couldn't
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: remember the line. I just remembered laughing out loud. So
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: thank you for that. I would also like to point out,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: in addition to the writing, the fact that Paul Campbell's
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: character Alden is a failed cryptocurrency investor just kidding.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: And if you've noticed, like in the garage where his
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: work who his work area was like there was all
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: these kind of like nuggets of like what it looked
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: like he has done in the past. There was just
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: one area that had all these like rolled up papers
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: and now I don't know what that has any relevance too,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: like what he does out there, but I just there
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: was like I was like, Oh, that's his man cave. Yes,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: that's his workstation.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I liked that they didn't try and like
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: glorify like they show them opening and closing the garage
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: door a multiple points, Like I just was like, yes,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: this is a garage. Floor was stained. I don't know
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: if you noticed this that I.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Didn't notice the floor stained. No, it's a garage, all right.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Let me talk about what I wished for. Yeah, and
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: it's on two subjects that you kind of bumped on.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: The first one is I wish I had a better
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: understanding up top why Birdie would have drawn up divorce
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: papers like when he finds them at her desk. I
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: felt like it was kind of out of nowhere. It
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: might have just been a me thing. Did I miss
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: the whole like that she was upset with them that.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: No, they she lost all their money at But I
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: feel like, you know, that's funny. I liked it. I
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, there's trouble in paradise.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: There was nothing that, like, there were no clues that
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: they were unhappy in their marriage, with the exception of
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: like he got up and made her breakfast and she
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: like bounced, But that to me, I thought it was
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: more of he was jealous of Kyle the coworker. So
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I didn't really see like there was like trouble in
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: paradise between them.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: But I think that is the point, is that he
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: didn't know either.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Mmm. Good point.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, good point.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: And I appreciate that they tell us why at the end,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: like what had happened there and why she did that
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: and what she was upset with, and they had a
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: very adult conversation about it. Mm hmm. For me, the
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: story gets a little complicated midway through when they're trying
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: to figure out how the mob guy and the co
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: worker are connected, and then you add Paula on top
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: of that. But I agree with you that they did
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: a really good job at like reminding the viewers here,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: this is what we're working with. It perfectly tied into
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: like their murder board and all that stuff.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: So that's all I've had wished for. My only wish
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: is something you already bumped on, and that this needs
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: to be a series. It was set up perfectly to
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: be a series. It stands alone. But I think the
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: way they set it up now they're gonna work together
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: a little bit, and they've got this whole like mob situation.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I feel like it lends.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Itself to quite a few stories to tell, right, Okay,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: so did you have any digite that's I didn't I have.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: I have a couple, but they're mostly just commentary.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Throughout the movie, the number of snacks all then eats
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: while he's doing surveillance. I feel seen.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Because again, super relatable. I would have totally done the
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: whole thing.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: And it was just like one thing after another, Burger fries,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: chips Like I was like, yeah, yeah, I loved it,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: loved it, loved it, loved it. Tell me how old
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: that Kia is he's driving because it has a key ignition. Oh,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: it wasn't that old of a vehicle, and made me
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: wonder this Kia's the car brand? Do they actually have
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: key ignition still instead of a push button? Anyway, several
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: times he took the key out of the ignition and
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: then when he tries to like drive away, he's like
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: fumbling to put the key in the ignition. I was like,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: why are you just first of all, if it has
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: a key ignition, just leave the key in the cognition,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: don't take it out.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyway, it was just funny.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Free more things, Okay, the old lady with the gun. Yeah,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: when she like cocks the gun and then gives him
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: a wink. I loved it, loved it, loved it, loved it.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: That's so funny. It made me so nervous. I'm like,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: that's a big gun. I don't like guns, Like I
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: don't want them averring.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: I totally agree with that, but it was just so funny.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: She was like, oh, but we felt like a a
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: very strong statement for that little old lady. That big
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: gun I was to be like a pistol, like a
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: like an old timey pistol. She's like got a ghack
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: with little smith and wesson with its like little grooved.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: I do know what you're talking about.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Something from Back to the Future Part three, mm hmm, okay.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Two more things.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: The coffee maker. Now, didn't we see this like exact
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: coffee maker in a movie recently where they were like
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: a steamer.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: And all that.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: I swear it's the exact same coffee maker. It was
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: like the same color. I don't remember which movie it
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: wasn't it might have been a wedding veil movie.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, where she couldn't.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Get the coffee the Italian coffee maker to work without
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: her husband. Yeah, I could just be putting the two
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: and two things together. Anyway, nice coffeemaker for like.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: As well, she's an attorney.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Fair And finally when they go to the apartment buildings
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: and he's dressed up as the pizza guy with his
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: and he presses the buzzer and he has this crazy
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: like she accent. Well they're in Massachusetts, right, mm hmmm.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: And I was like, that's funny.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: There's nobody has like a definitive, like thank goodness accent.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: And she goes, this is exactly what I thought, what
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: accent are you doing? And in my head I said,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Kevin McGary, Oh no, all Gamble's doing a bad accent
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: of Kevin McGary's bad accent.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Anyway, Anyway, highly enjoyable movie. Well let's rate it, okay,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I think you might be surprised.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, you go first, five stars, no gas Ooh, I
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: gave it four point seven five just because I got
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: a little bit mixed up in the middle and had
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: to rewind it a couple times to figure out, like
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: the who they were talking about. Sure anyway, very much enjoyed,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: very very very much enjoyed.
• 25:53
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• 25:57
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• 26:00
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• 26:02
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• 26:06
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• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Bye bye,