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Marry Go Round · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a bonus episode
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  Speaker 1: of Long Story Short the podcast. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: and if you're good to the podcast, I am the
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  Speaker 1: life long Hallmark fan. Well, Wendy is the semi reluctant watcher,
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  Speaker 1: and every week we take a look at a recent
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark release and we share our thoughts with you. As mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: this is a bonus episode of our podcast, which means
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  Speaker 1: there's something that it's a bonus too. We have a
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  Speaker 1: regular podcast episode every Tuesday, and this week we talked
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  Speaker 1: about parenting and we got real deep and there were
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  Speaker 1: some tears, and we talk about if we're the parent
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  Speaker 1: we thought we would be and what is life going
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  Speaker 1: to look like after our children leave the house. And
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  Speaker 1: we have gotten a lot of feedback about it being relatable,
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  Speaker 1: so give it a listen if you haven't. Outside of
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  Speaker 1: to put it there.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's hitteror miss. It's not hitterry miss. I try
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  Speaker 2: to put as many great necessary show notes in there.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I forget certain things, like I'll listen back to
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  Speaker 2: the podcast and you're like, it will be in the
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  Speaker 2: show notes, and I'm like, that's not in the show notes. Oops,
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  Speaker 2: my bad. I have so many questions for you when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to this movie. Oh, we're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about but we'll talk about it later. I'm so curious.
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  Speaker 2: You can also email us at Megan and Wendy at
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  Speaker 2: gmail dot com. Do you want to talk Hallmark? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark News. I got something breaking news. Please, it's not
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  Speaker 2: that breaking. It's like two days ago. E News reports
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  Speaker 2: that Candice Camon Murray shared news about her newest Christmas movie,
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  Speaker 2: which will premiere on the GHAK channel in November. It's
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  Speaker 2: called A Christmas Present, A Christmas Present. The synopsis sounds
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  Speaker 2: like any other CCP movie, but it says, at the
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  Speaker 2: very end of it, and I'm quoting, through a series
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  Speaker 2: of transformative events, Maggie learns to embrace the reason for
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  Speaker 2: this season. Oh no, in the quote, so I'm expecting
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  Speaker 2: a heavy lean towards faith and family in this movie.
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  Speaker 2: She is also executive producer.
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  Speaker 1: Traditional Family Value.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Look, here's what I think about CCP going to GHAK
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  Speaker 1: good rint it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, so I guess you're not going to
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  Speaker 2: watch it?
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  Speaker 1: No, No, IM be able not to give GHAK any
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  Speaker 1: of my views, any of my eyes. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it is long for this world. I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think they're gonna make it okay.
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  Speaker 2: So that's an interesting point because I was thinking that too.
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  Speaker 2: My thought exactly was I can't wait till they fold
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  Speaker 2: and then all these who have signed exclusive deals with
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  Speaker 2: them are gonna be crawling back to Hallmark. And then
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh gosh, maybe our listeners will like
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  Speaker 2: be like Wendy's so hateful to think something like that.
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  Speaker 2: But but do you think CCB will come crawling back
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  Speaker 2: to Hallmark?
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  Speaker 1: Well, she is an executive with GHEK. She's not just
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  Speaker 1: an actress, right, Like, she has a big role. I
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  Speaker 1: don't wish for anyone's personal demise yea, No, but this
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  Speaker 1: is a channel that was founded on hate and exusionary programming,
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  Speaker 1: like they weaponize a term family friendly. So I just
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  Speaker 1: hopefully I'll go on to other projects. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if Hallmark is gonna welcome her back after she made
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  Speaker 1: such a visible exit. I'm not sure that Hallmark needs her.
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  Speaker 1: Her movies were not the top performing movies of the
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  Speaker 1: last several seasons. She's kind of been usurped as the
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  Speaker 1: Queen of Christmas. Y. Yeah, so let's just refresh things.
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  Speaker 1: Keep it moving.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going forward, not backward. I'm way into keeping
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  Speaker 2: it moving. It would be interesting to see if, like
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  Speaker 2: she says, you know, I can't go back to Hallmark
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  Speaker 2: because it's against everything that she believes in. But I
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  Speaker 2: wonder if like that paycheck out ways, I would hope
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  Speaker 2: that Hallmark wouldn't show her the money back.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that they've moved on from that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so do I.
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  Speaker 1: In other Hallmark news, we are currently in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the Fall into Love programming, which is really programming
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  Speaker 1: in name only. They put some leaves on a chiron.
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  Speaker 1: They run it below the movies, but we've yet to
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  Speaker 1: really see a Fall movie. Looks like that might change,
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  Speaker 1: because in October we have two movies that at least
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  Speaker 1: the names are very Fall specific, Like on Saturday, October eighth,
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  Speaker 1: we have Pumpkin Everything, Oh God, And on Saturday October fifteenth,
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  Speaker 1: we have Autumn in the City.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, names alone Ottom in the City. Is that intrigues
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  Speaker 2: me the most? Pumpkin Everything?
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  Speaker 1: What is that even about? Yeah? I just looked at
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  Speaker 1: the titles and I thought, well, all these were trying.
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  Speaker 1: Here is a synopsis of Pumpkin Everything. Amy, an up
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  Speaker 1: and coming novelist, returns to her hometown to look after
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  Speaker 1: her stubborn grandfather Tom and his pumpkin themed store while
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  Speaker 1: confronting an old flame from her past. Stars Taylor Cole,
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  Speaker 1: Corey Severe, Michael Ironside, Corey Severe, we've seen recently. He
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  Speaker 1: was in road Trip Romance, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And Taylor Cole wasn't she? And she was in that
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  Speaker 2: Miami movie. Yeah, Miami movie.
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  Speaker 1: No, I can't stand Look, I just want to say
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  Speaker 1: that a pumpkin themed store is dustined to fail all
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  Speaker 1: but eleven months out of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, dumb, like a Christmas museum that opens on Christmas Eve.
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  Speaker 2: If you know you know that? Go on.
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  Speaker 1: Autumn in the City. Stars Amy T. Garden and ever
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  Speaker 1: and Roderick. Okay, I'm in for Amy T.
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  Speaker 2: Garden.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who Evan Roddick is optimistic. Piper gives
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  Speaker 1: herself two months to find her passion in New York
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  Speaker 1: City as she bounces between temp jobs, she and her
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  Speaker 1: jaded neighbor discovered the beauty of the city together. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I can get down with that me too, Okay, Is
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  Speaker 1: it supposed to be New York City?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Filmed in Vancouver? Likely?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Another Hallmark News with Wendy and I were discussing the
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  Speaker 1: Emmys earlier this morning, and I love the show Abbott
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  Speaker 1: Elementary very much. Wendy has watched it and enjoys it.
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  Speaker 2: I do enjoy it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They did well at the Emmys, both Cheryl Lee Ralph
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  Speaker 1: and Quinta Brunson one Emmy's and if you haven't watched
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  Speaker 1: Chryl Lee Ralph's Emmy acceptance speech, it's a tear jerker hartially,
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  Speaker 1: just because of the reactions of those around her. The
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  Speaker 1: entire audience gives her a standing over right, everyone's so
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  Speaker 1: excited for her. I saw footage of her children from
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  Speaker 1: up above just like going absolutely bananas when she won,
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  Speaker 1: which was very exciting. Cool. I had heard that Quinta
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  Speaker 1: Brunson wanted to put her in the show and wrote
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  Speaker 1: the role specifically for her, which I love too. Did
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  Speaker 1: a little pruisal. Ever. IMDb, she has over one hundred
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  Speaker 1: acting credits, including Hallmark movies like Christmas Comes Twice and
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  Speaker 1: Christmas in My Heart. In the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: I remember Christmas Comes Twice. That was like the first
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  Speaker 2: holiday season that I heard your stomach. That was the
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  Speaker 2: first holiday season that we reviewed movies. Yes, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: familiar with the other one. Though you did not watch it.
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  Speaker 2: I did it.
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  Speaker 1: It was a nice it was a fine movie. It
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  Speaker 1: was she plays someone's mother. Of course.
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  Speaker 2: It was the one and only holiday movie featuring women
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  Speaker 2: of color, one of the few. I'm hoping that's different
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  Speaker 2: this year. Yeah, bring on the diversity.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we don't really have a lot of additional countdown
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  Speaker 1: to Christmas information. Yet they're holding out till the very
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  Speaker 1: last minute.
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  Speaker 2: Guess so they're trying to button down the details themselves.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready for a synopsis?
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  Speaker 2: I am? Are you ready? Abby is a successful executive
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  Speaker 2: moving to Paris and planning to marry Edward. Life is
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  Speaker 2: perfect until she learns her divorce to high school sweetheart
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  Speaker 2: Luke is not exactly official news.
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  Speaker 1: And no, it's about Mary go Round.
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  Speaker 2: The title of this movie always is a throwback to me,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm gonna ask and we may have had I'm
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  Speaker 2: having super dat chavvy right now. Either we've had this
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  Speaker 2: conversation before. Okay, because Megan and I grew up like
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  Speaker 2: adjacent to each other. Didn't know it. Our towns were
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  Speaker 2: adjacent to each other in.
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  Speaker 1: The same town. Actually, you grew up bananahih Mills. Are
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  Speaker 1: you a Bana Miils? I thought you were at Phillip
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  Speaker 1: Park until I was in high school.
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Interesting, Okay, So you remember Marry Me Bridle of course. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: my neighbor owned that place.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but it was.
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  Speaker 2: Mary, not in a R y. It was m E
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  Speaker 2: r r y like Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: It was I believe so because we always made like a.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's m A r oh that's okay, my bad.
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  Speaker 2: I knew something want Mary m A r y Mary
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  Speaker 2: Me Bridle. It looks like it still exists, not in
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  Speaker 2: that same location anymore. But anyway, the title of this
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  Speaker 2: movie reminds me of that Bridle shop.
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  Speaker 1: I actually got something for my wedding from that Bridle shop.
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  Speaker 2: Did you all right? So, Mary Grand what kind of
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  Speaker 2: news and notes do you have?
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  Speaker 1: Well? Amanda Schule, who plays Abbe Foster. Of course I
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  Speaker 1: know her best from Center Stage?
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  Speaker 2: Dude, are you reading my notes? Center Stage is one
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  Speaker 2: of my top five favorite movies, so I always watch it.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, let's meet to you. According I love that movie.
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  Speaker 1: The final scene. I mean, it's so unbelievable with her
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  Speaker 1: like immediate costume changes of color.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, but it's so good. So that movie came
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  Speaker 2: out in the year two thousand, which really like twenty
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  Speaker 2: two years ago. I sat in the movie theater Oh
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  Speaker 2: with my friend Tracy after work when I loved her.
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  Speaker 2: It has great music in it has great dancing in it.
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  Speaker 2: I just love that movie so much.
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  Speaker 1: Probably is problematic with like the teacher student relationship, for sure,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: She also had a recurring role on Suits, which is
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  Speaker 1: the show my husband and I liked very much.
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  Speaker 2: I saw she was in Pretty Little Liars Too, which
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  Speaker 2: I only watched like the first couple seasons of I
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  Speaker 2: don't remember her when I watched it. Your dog is
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  Speaker 2: snoring if you can, it's so dank cute.
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  Speaker 1: We also have Brennan Elliott in this movie, who plays
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  Speaker 1: Luke Walker, and Brennan Elliott announced on Twitter recently that
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  Speaker 1: he started filming his quote very special Christmas movie on
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  Speaker 1: August twenty ninth, but he's not allowed to share more,
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  Speaker 1: but he will when he can, and he believes will
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  Speaker 1: premiere in December. So I am he is a Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: leading dude. I am glad to see he'll get a
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  Speaker 1: Christmas movie. I think Hallmark could be kinder to him
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  Speaker 1: in the scripts that they give him, oh, because I
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  Speaker 1: think he can do better than what he's given. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I was first introduced to him in twenty twenty one's
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  Speaker 2: Open by Christmas, which also start the girl from Days of.
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  Speaker 1: Our Lives Allie Sweeney.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I really liked him in that movie, but since
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  Speaker 2: then has kind of fallen flat for me and what
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  Speaker 2: I've seen. He was in like The Perfect Pairing, which
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  Speaker 2: was like a wine movie.
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  Speaker 1: A bad movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, give him better roles. Like, I don't
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  Speaker 2: remember specifically what I liked about him and Open by Christmas,
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  Speaker 2: either he was funny or I don't know. I just
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  Speaker 2: remember being like drawn to him.
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  Speaker 1: He plays the host on Oh Yes, Unreal correct Reel,
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  Speaker 1: and I like that character because it's definitely trying to
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  Speaker 1: be Chris Harris. Chris Harrison. I was like, Jeff is
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  Speaker 1: wrong for her Bachelor host. Yeah yeah, but that's definitely
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  Speaker 1: who his character was designed off. Oh I think he
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  Speaker 1: plays kind of that slazy, gross host.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I just bought more from him, and I think
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  Speaker 1: he can do more. And then I see photos of him,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, look, you're so handsome, but they kind of
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  Speaker 1: make you like real milk toast in these Hallmark movies.
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  Speaker 1: That's perfect, and I think he could be a little
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  Speaker 1: more smoldery. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the other thing though, I just noticed that him
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  Speaker 2: and I were born the same year, hm, which I
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  Speaker 2: am forty seven years old, and I need him to
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  Speaker 2: play roles that are age appropriate for him. M hmm,
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  Speaker 2: Like you know they sometimes will put him in well no,
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  Speaker 2: let me think now, I might be eating crow because
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  Speaker 2: open by Christmas. Why do I want to call her Sammy?
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  Speaker 1: Is that her name? Life?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god? Okay, Alison Sweeney. She's a woman of
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  Speaker 2: a mature woman.
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  Speaker 1: She's our age.
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  Speaker 2: But what I want from home Mark is not movies
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  Speaker 2: featuring thirty year old men and women who have never
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  Speaker 2: been married before. And I want movies that are made
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  Speaker 2: with people my age.
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  Speaker 1: I do hear what you're saying. I don't want this
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  Speaker 1: first love, yes, second chance romance, change of life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've lived right.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see the aspirational version of my forty something
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  Speaker 1: self in these movies exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why I want to see Brennan Elliott in
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  Speaker 2: like a divorced dad or yeah, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: something like that less milk toast. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This movie was directed by David Weaver, who has directed
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  Speaker 1: a ton of Hallmark movies twenty since twenty sixteen, he
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  Speaker 1: has over thirty directing credits, most recently A Royal Runaway romance,
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  Speaker 1: Butler's in Love and Open by Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Christmas. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I also a raise a glass to love. I have
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  Speaker 1: one final note about this movie. That is the theme
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  Speaker 1: park and the Merry Go Round feature heavily.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: According to Amanda Schule, the theme park is a real location.
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  Speaker 1: It's an actual theme park.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 1: I could not find any information about what theme park
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  Speaker 1: it is. However, the Merry Go Round in the theme
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  Speaker 1: park are separate locations. The Merryground is more of a museum.
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  Speaker 1: It's a one hundred year old structure, but it is
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  Speaker 1: not in the same location as the theme park.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you for that note, because they were calling
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  Speaker 2: that like a carnival, right with like theme park ride.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. I was like, this is not a carnival
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  Speaker 2: that a local community story on. This is an established
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  Speaker 2: business apparently. I have a question for you thinking about
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  Speaker 2: first loves. Were you dating somebody when you were eighteen
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  Speaker 2: years old?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Could you imagine having married that person?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: Right, eighteen is so young. I'm not saying like it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't work out, like, but I think your priorities at
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  Speaker 2: eighteen are so friend than they are as you get older,
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  Speaker 2: even like post college. Yeah, there no.
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  Speaker 1: Shade to that person, who I doubt is listening to
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  Speaker 1: this podcast, but he would not.
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  Speaker 2: Have wanted to marry me either, right right, Now, here's
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  Speaker 2: my next question. What if your daughter or a son
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  Speaker 2: came to you at eighteen and was like, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: get married.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's so hard because I just don't think
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  Speaker 1: you know who you are, right, But at that point,
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  Speaker 1: whose decision is it?
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know, I know, I know, And then
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk more about the mom later and her interference
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  Speaker 2: with that. So as I watched this movie, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: who do I relate to? More? The mom here, who
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  Speaker 2: I thought was a terrible person. Or do I support
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  Speaker 2: this eighteen year old girl wanting to forge her own
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  Speaker 2: way and her own relationships? You know?
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  Speaker 1: Now, my husband and I met and fifty three weeks
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  Speaker 1: later we were married. Six months later, six months later
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  Speaker 1: we got engaged. Six months later we got married. And
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  Speaker 1: the kids are like, yeah, but you guys got married fast.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, seventeen years later we're still married. But there
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  Speaker 1: is no rush. Just live your life right, do not
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  Speaker 1: have rush. And I do think we are seeing a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a turn. But I'm telling you, when
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  Speaker 1: I got married at twenty five, so many of my
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  Speaker 1: friends were married.
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  Speaker 2: Oh me too. I felt a pressure at twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: d am married. Yeah, I was. I remember feeling like
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  Speaker 2: depressed because like so many of my friends were getting
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  Speaker 2: engaged and I was like, it's still hadn't happened. And
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  Speaker 2: I was with my current husband, my current husband, my
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  Speaker 2: first husband, my now husband then, but I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I want to get engaged too. I know.
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  Speaker 1: My husband's like, you just wanted to get engaged. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: that's not true. We didn't just want to get engaged,
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  Speaker 1: but I did. I did feel that pressure. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: I hope my kids don't feel that at twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: when you are still essentially a baby. I know, I know. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what's your first impression of this movie?
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  Speaker 2: I kind of touched on it in just a few
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  Speaker 2: minutes ago. But could the mom be the most unlikable
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark character to ever exist?
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  Speaker 1: An excellent point, and you I wished for the pace
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  Speaker 1: of the second half throughout the entire movie. What's that mean?
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: That was poorly paced. The first half was slow. I
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  Speaker 1: don't even remember was it. Here's what happened the first
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: half of the movie. There's so much set up. It's
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Abby has this job, and her job is moving to Paris,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: and Abby's getting married, and here is her fiance and
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: she is that she's not actually divorced, so she can't
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: get her marriage license, so she has to go home.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: And here's her ex husband who left her when she
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: was eighteen, and now her mom has a secret, and
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: she's acting weird, and oh, by the way, her ex
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: husband is also acting weird and like there's something she
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: doesn't know. But it's been twenty freaking years. There's just
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: so much setup and nothing is actually happening.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: I need you to recap every movie like that from
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: now on, because that was amazing. I loved it, Okay,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: I understand, I understand. So I get the sense you
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: hated this movie.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Tell me what you liked. I didn't hate it. I
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: love it. Nie Ruthie's band actually good.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, they were amazing. I was expecting a band.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: I didn't expect like two girls on a guitar. Yeah,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: but it was great. I thought this movie was really pretty.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: To look at the scenery, the carnival and I'm gonna
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: say carnival. The homes were visually appealing to me, and
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: it like was ticking those fall boxes for me, even
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: though it wasn't like set during fall, right.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: It wasn't not fall, yes, like it was obviously summer,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: like we get sometimes.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Right, And I have a note here and now, since
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: we just talked about like living in the same city,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: maybe maybe we've talked about this before too watching this,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: and maybe it was just this time of year. But
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: like when I was in high school.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: The local Catholic church totally San Antonio's Carnival.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Antonio Festival every September was such a huge draw for
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: the community. They had rides, they have food. I remember
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: they had a beer garden for like the parents, and
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: like the parents went to the beer guarden and all
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: the kids would just ride the rides and hang out
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: and play, and like it was. I had looked forward
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: to it every September after school started. Yeah, loved it
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: so much, and like, wish my community had something like that. Yeah,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: and this movie made me feel that, Like I was
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: like feeling very melancholy, like I want a carnival. I
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: want a carnival. Damn it.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: We had a move.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Why can't we have one where we live.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: It's just more fun to have it in a small town,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: you guys.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: I think I need a new shirt that says I
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: want a carnival. Damn it. I need a fall fast
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: damn it.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Take me to your fall festival.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Yes, So it just was visually very pretty.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: I liked Leo stepdad Leo when he tells Abby's mom,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: it's not about you. I love that. I loved that,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and I don't I don't know what it is about
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: a stepdad more than a dad character that I like.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I would have liked it in a dad character too,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: but I liked it. He was on Abby's side, and
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: he wasn't afraid to be like, what is going on
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: with you? Early on the mom's acting weird and he's like,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: is something going on? He was able to be on
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: both of their sides while doing the right thing right right.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I loved Leah.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I liked him too. But there was this one line
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: that he said to Abby about like forgiveness, and I
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: was like laying it on a little thick dude, Like
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: he was telling her, like to forgive her mom basically.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because there's no I get I mean, I get
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: that because her mom was terrible and we should talk
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: about that. But I think that's more of like a
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: gift to Abby, Like it's not gonna holding that and
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: being angry about that. It's not going to benefit you.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean like she needed to hold
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: her mom accountable. And I think she did hold her accountable.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: She wasn't like I forgive you, She was like, you
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: hurt me.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I felt like I could identify with that mom.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Like I was like, no, not that I could identify
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: with what you're saying. I was like, I might end
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: up being that mom, you know what I mean. It
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: was like a real wake up call. I was like
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be that mom. I don't want
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: to be that mom that medals.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: No.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I really liked Amanda School. I think she's a solid actor. Yeah,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: and she plays things very like, very non hallmarky for me,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: it's not like this, Oh everything is wonderful and you
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: know what I mean. She's very even cute. However, I
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: thought there were times in this movie that it should
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: have had more emotion from her, and she was upset
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: about things, but like I would have flipped the f out. Yeah,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: you know if I found out like my parent had
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: lied to me for twenty years. So anyway, I still
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: think she's like a really good actor.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I liked both actors separately, but I had a hard
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: time rooting for them together.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Oh you didn't like them together at all? No chemistry
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: between them or what. I thought they were fine interesting.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I wasn't desperate for them to end up together. Okay,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: you desperate for her and Edward to end up together.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: No, sometimes they pit the fiance. He was about to
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: become the ex fiance as a bad guy, and they
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: didn't do that. I thought they made Edward a perfectly
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: fine guy, and I thought his reaction was reasonable, Like,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: you never told me you were married, and then when
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: he shows up, he's like, if you have unfinished business?
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I liked that instead of being like, what's going on here?
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: So then can we move on to what we wished
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: for them? Yeah, because I have that note exactly. I
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: thought they did him dirty in this movie. Oh he
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: was played by Zach Santiago. I mean, he was such
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: a good guy, but almost a pushover when he comes
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: and sees them dancing at the concert and he tells
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: her if you haven't finished business, but he was too
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: nice about it. You're getting married, and you're invested in
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: a relationship, and you're going to be moving to a
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: different country with this person, and.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I just expect more.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Of a fight. I guess I can't imagine like telling
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: you my husband, no, I couldn't have unfinished business.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: You that I'm not that person. But I did like
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: that he was the bigger person. I felt like that
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: was the action of someone who's like, the end goal
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: is I want to be with this person, and so
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: what are the steps I need to take. I want
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: her to be here if she wants to be here,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: and not because I'm forcing her to make a decision
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: or angrily confronting. Yeah, I just was like pushover the mom. Yes,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: her eighteen year old I thought it was kind of confusing.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: She gets into college and her mom wants her to
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: go and doesn't feel like she'll go she's married.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I guess did she not know that.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: She had applied for college before she got married? Why
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: could they not go to college together?
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: I mean he could have gotten a job or went
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: to community college when she went to Princeton.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what I understood the mom's concern, Like, you're eighteen,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: don't throw your life away. You have this huge opportunity.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: But if you're that mom, wouldn't you feel like you
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: could go to your kid and be like, hey, what's
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: the next step here? Like how when we support you,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: you have this great opportunity. What's that gonna look like
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: for you? Guys?
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Absolutely? But instead she got in the middle of it.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: If you don't leave her, it'll ruin her life.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, way to put it on.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Now. My question to you is your luke, and the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: mom comes to you and says, if you don't leave her,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: it'll ruin your life.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: If I'm an eighteen year old luke, I'm like GTFO lady.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but if you if you do leave, do you
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: never say anything to her? Even when she comes back
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: in town, she's like, you left me. You don't at
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: that point say.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Like your mom is a bare laly Yeah, absolutely, say like, well, actually,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: what loyalty does he have to the mom? None?
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because she wasn't thinking of him.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he looks like the bad guy all the
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: last twenty years.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, Okay. My other question is, you are eighteen,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: you get married, you're only married for a month. Twenty
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: years later, you're engaged, you start dating someone. Is it
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: a big deal to be like, Yeah, I had a
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: marriage at eighteen and it didn't last. No, Like when
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I was a literal child, I got married, it didn't
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: work out for whatever reason. And I'm sure she's embarrassed,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Like she woke up one day and he was gone, Yeah,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: but now you're an adult and you can be like,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: well that really sucked.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: I didn't keeping that the secret. I didn't think that
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: was necessary. I felt like he could have known that
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: she was married, and then it comes out like, oh,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: turns out we're not actually divorced, and I gotta go
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: back adding in this whole secretive piece. Yeah, felt unnecessary.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: You know what.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: I one last thing I kind of wished for in
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: this was that they didn't really show us. I need
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: them to show us, like what made their marriage as
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: teenagers so wonderful?
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Their relationship?
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, their relationship, Like all we ever see is them
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: on the merry ground either right, exactly, only see it
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: like the proposal. Yeah, but what was so wonderful? I
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: just needed more context.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I'm ready for did you see that?
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I got one? Just one? Okay, and it's more of
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: a complaint.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, there's the scene towards the end of the movie.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: When Abby's giving Edward the ring back and Edward tells Abby,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: I deserve all of you, and I'm like, shut up,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: men don't deserve women. I just wish the line was
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I want all of you, you know, because he didn't
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: want to be with her, because she was like torn
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: between like him and Luke, right, And I just thought
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: it was like gross to be like, I'm such a
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: good guy, I deserve all of you.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: That's so funny. We had such a different read on
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: him because that line, to me, I was like, well,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: this is such a departure from like take care of
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: your unfinished business. All of a sudden, he's like kind of.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: A hard, moody mermaid.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but switch the roles if she's like if it's
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the complete opposite situation. He has this former wife that
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: he's still hung up on, and she says, I deserve
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: all of you. I think it makes sense, Like I'm.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Hung up on the word deserve, but I think you.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Do deserve one hundred percent of the commitment of your
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: partner if to commit to them.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, I agree, but I think, yeah, the read is different.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: I just felt like he was like, I'm a good guy.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: I deserve all of you.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And so you wanted him to do the self
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: deprecating thing like one of us, Like when she goes
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: you're a good guy, he leans into it instead of
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: playing it off. I just felt like there was this
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: like guilt trip that he was throwing on be fourth
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: right and say like I want all of you, you.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Know, I We're splitting hairs here.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: In the beginning of the movie, Luke walks into a
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: store called Joe's Hardware, and it looks very much like
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the General Store and the Christmas to Evergreen movie, specifically
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Letters to Santa, which I don't think you've seen. Stars
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Jill Wagner. No, they do a makeover on the general store.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: I would bet money that's the same location.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Interesting.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Secondly, in the opening of the movie, Abby is carrying
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: her dress while also carrying a cup of coffee and
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: she's like, I don't trust them with my address. I'm like, lady,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: you're holding a cardboard cup of coffee. What were you doing?
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: This is an accident we need to happen totally. I
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: really thought we were going to have a hijinc moment.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Oh. So glad we didn't, or maybe I wish we
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: would have too, because this movie was a won't won't.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Wah Do you have a rating?
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: I gave it two stars?
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Me too?
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Next week, Oh my Heart sings. Next week is Wedding
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: of a lifetime starring Jonathan Bennett and Brook Doors. Everything
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: about this makes me happy. We have two actress that
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I love. We've got a competition, so we know that
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: hopefully this movie will move, move, move. I'm looking forward
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: to it a redemption story. Before you go, you can
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: leave a review, leave those five star ratings and you're
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: written review. Use have a great week, everybody.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Bye bye
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: H