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Wedding of a Lifetime · 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 Wendy and
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Speaker 1: Wendy is the Hallmark newbie ish. I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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Speaker 1: I mean she's spend two years, two very long years.
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Speaker 1: I would not call me a newbie anymore. Today we
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Speaker 1: are discussing Wedding of a Lifetime, which originally aired on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: September seventeenth on the Hallmark Channel. If you want to
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Speaker 1: commitment to joining that. Before we talk about wedding of
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Speaker 1: a lifetime, let's talk about Hallmark. Okay, lots of Hallmark
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Speaker 1: stuff happening. Oh, I'm so excited, go for it. First step,
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Speaker 1: I have Alison Sweeney signed a multi picture deal with Hallmark.
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Speaker 1: She is set to star in a Magical Christmas Village
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Speaker 1: this year. She will star with Luke McFarlane, which that
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Speaker 1: may be his very last.
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Speaker 2: That's gonna be his last Hallmark movie, isn't it?
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Speaker 1: So we will definitely be tuning into that as well
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Speaker 1: as Marlo Thomas. I'm honestly surprised Alex Tweeney didn't have
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Speaker 1: a multi picture deal with Hallmark before this. I have
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Speaker 1: the note what took so long?
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Speaker 2: Like, I'm surprised she wasn't one of their first gets, right,
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Speaker 2: I look forward.
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Speaker 1: To her movies.
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Speaker 2: So this is kind of Hallmark News adjacent. Okay, So
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Speaker 2: you know Sleepy Kitty Paw on Twitter, which if you
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Speaker 2: guys are not if you're not on Twitter. Sleepy Kitty
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Speaker 2: Pot is some mystery person out there that has all
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Speaker 2: the Hallmark news. I mean more than Hallmark really, she
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Speaker 2: just has like news about every movie in production. Right,
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Speaker 2: It's incredible.
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Speaker 1: Actually, we did try to reach out to this person
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Speaker 1: at one time, and she gave us she or he,
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Speaker 1: we don't know, gave us the big fat no. Didn't
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Speaker 1: want to be on.
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Speaker 2: The podcast, very politely, but very politely. I wanted to
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Speaker 2: keep it real low key, like you know. Anyway. I
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Speaker 2: don't know where this person gets all this information. I
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Speaker 2: will leave a link to their Twitter in our show notes.
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Speaker 2: But what I wanted to talk about is up TV
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Speaker 2: announced today September twenty first, this is the day that
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Speaker 2: we are recording this episode, that they will have seventeen
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Speaker 2: new Christmas movies this holiday season, including a holiday music
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Speaker 2: special with someone I've never heard of before, a Christmas
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Speaker 2: docu series called Small Town Christmas, highlighting Christmas celebrations in
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Speaker 2: towns across the United States into it kind of into that, right, Yes,
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Speaker 2: I'm thinking that might kind of skew.
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Speaker 1: Do you guys watch that? Like Holiday light fight? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Do you think it's gonna be like that, like, are
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Speaker 2: we gonna be looking at Christmas towns in the middle
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Speaker 2: of summer? Like towns who are towns they visited that
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Speaker 2: have like decorated in the middle of summer for Christmas.
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Speaker 1: I kind of forgot that's how Christmas Light Fight does it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so like the neighborhood's noc decked out. It's like one
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Speaker 1: stand alone house. It's like happy July. Right. Well, I
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Speaker 1: guess I'm hoping that they are a year like they
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Speaker 1: did last year. But they did these while they were
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Speaker 1: in action, not that they were thrown up for Christmas
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Speaker 1: in July.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so okay, So there's that, and then of course
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Speaker 2: the return of the Seven Day Gilmour Girls Marathon.
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Speaker 1: Oh I love that, which I don't know why.
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Speaker 2: It's streamy, It's you can find it everywhere, right. It
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Speaker 2: is hosted by the actor who played Doci Docie's Taylor
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Speaker 2: Taylor Docie, Yes, and I was like they could have
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Speaker 2: totally hired us for that one hundred percent, like they're gonna.
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Speaker 1: Have trivia and this and that. I'm like, we could
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Speaker 1: have done that.
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Speaker 2: Yes, anyway, there is something about it, like knowing that
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Speaker 2: it's just on and you can turn it on.
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Speaker 1: They said they're gonna show like the entire series plus
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Speaker 1: a Year in the Life, the four movie. Yeah, the
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Speaker 1: four movies they're not movies, but the Year in a
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Speaker 1: Life episodes. Yeah. Oh that's fun. I don't think they've
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Speaker 1: ever done that. It must be new fun anyway. The
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Speaker 1: rumor is that Hallmark is probably going to announce their
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Speaker 1: countdown the care Smith's line at pretty dang soon. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Maybe by the time this has come out, we will
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Speaker 1: have some information. As soon as that information drops, we
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Speaker 1: will put together a countdown to Christmas preview episode with
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Speaker 1: our thoughts. I'm very excited. There's a lot of little
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Speaker 1: bits that we've seen that we're getting excited. Yeah, totally.
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Speaker 1: This is not a news and note, but a Hallmark
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Speaker 1: related question. Oh okay, are you feeling compelled to watch
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Speaker 1: Chesapeake Shores?
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Speaker 2: Holy crappolek, I have my note here. Chesapeake Shores commercials
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Speaker 2: look legit?
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Speaker 1: Yeah you mad? You made a post you posted in
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Speaker 1: our Palmark Facebook group and I was blown away.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so you probably don't watch the commercials, right, Well,
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Speaker 2: I've seen little bits.
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Speaker 1: It makes me want to watch.
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Speaker 2: There's something about the most recent commercials they show and
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Speaker 2: I can't remember his name. He's tweet Williams treat Williams
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Speaker 2: is in like at a attics anonymous meeting, and I'm.
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Speaker 1: Like, am I watching what?
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Speaker 2: It feels like soapy but kind of like real life
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Speaker 2: to you, like something we would have our parents would
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Speaker 2: have watched like weekly.
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Speaker 1: But it then't. It has like the daytime soapy feel
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Speaker 1: to it too. I don't know. I thought that show
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Speaker 1: got canceled. I think it did, and then they came
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Speaker 1: back to make season six.
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Speaker 2: Do I need to go back and like binge the
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Speaker 2: eighteen seasons of it or whatever it is. Every time
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Speaker 2: I think it's six. But every time this question comes up,
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Speaker 2: people come into our comment saying, yes, you should watch
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Speaker 2: that show, but that you should start from the beginning.
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Speaker 1: I might have to do. We need to do a
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Speaker 1: bonus series on Patreon recapping chess you maybe we do
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Speaker 1: way in Hallmark Friends, I have done one last comment
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Speaker 1: of the lovely Karen Pittman, who starred in Unthinkably Good Things,
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Speaker 1: the movie that we really liked, and after she tweeted us,
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Speaker 1: I did go back and re listen to the episode
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Speaker 1: just to make sure we weren't asshole and I was
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Speaker 1: comfortable with everything I had said about it. That was
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Speaker 1: a good one. There's not every episode I would want
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Speaker 1: to get a tweet from the actors. Yeah, totally. She tweeted,
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Speaker 1: I'm a fan of reviewers who take the story seriously
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Speaker 1: but not themselves. Thanks for this great review, Megan and Wendy.
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Speaker 1: I loved your take on the first offering on Hallmark Mahogany. Yay,
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Speaker 1: that's so lovely. First of all, that she even listened
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Speaker 1: right and then took the time to say thank you.
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Speaker 1: I know, I know it's lovely. It was super exciting,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, Meghan shared a tweet with me.
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Speaker 1: I was liked, damn super excited about it. Transitioning to
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Speaker 1: Wedding of a Lifetime Do you have a synopsis? Uh s?
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Speaker 2: Girl Back up here, A recently separated couple rekindles their
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Speaker 2: romance when they are inadvertently entered into a nationally televised
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Speaker 2: contest competing for an all expense paid wedding starring Jonathan
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Speaker 2: Bennett and Rock Do.
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Speaker 1: Your say first step for News and Notes, writer Greg
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Speaker 1: Baldwin is a brand new baby writer. I saw that
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Speaker 1: he's written two episodes of Supergirl and wedding of a
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Speaker 1: lifetime's Supergirl even on anymore, I don't know, but I
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Speaker 1: should clarify. I'm certain he's written more than that, but
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Speaker 1: he has to publish writing credits on IMTB. Well done,
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Speaker 1: well done, question Mark. I think I mean more to
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Speaker 1: have a writing credit on our major Yes, okay, I
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Speaker 1: just want to clarification on it. That's all. He's the
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Speaker 1: solo writer. Yeah. Do I think this was the greatest
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Speaker 1: movie ever? We're not there yet, but okay.
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Speaker 2: Spoiler alert, this was obviously not obviously I don't want
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Speaker 2: to be like that. But film didn't Vancouver, British Columbia
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Speaker 2: also film during July twenty twenty two, so I'm guessing
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Speaker 2: the fall vibes were all post production.
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Speaker 1: Well, most of the fall vibes were via b roll,
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Speaker 1: like oh yeahing shots of the town, and I don't
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Speaker 1: think any of those were in Vancouver. I was actually
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Speaker 1: very much wondering where they might be. They're like, let's
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Speaker 1: see what we have in the archives. Yeah, we can
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Speaker 1: use got it? Got it, Brooke, dear say I might.
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Speaker 1: I was thinking about it this morning. I think she
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Speaker 1: might be my favorite Hallmark leading Like why I just
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Speaker 1: like her my hair.
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Speaker 2: No, I think she feels relatable to you because she
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Speaker 2: has long hair for real.
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Speaker 1: That's why I was watching last night and a great smile.
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Speaker 1: And she's a great actress. Yeah, I like her. Look
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Speaker 1: I did you once dropped a Diva? No, oh, that's
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Speaker 1: a great show she is in. She's in that but indirectly,
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Speaker 1: M like, there's like a body switching situation. It's a
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Speaker 1: great it's a really cute show. Okay, Two and a
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Speaker 1: half Men. She was in that show. Yeah, once Ashton
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Speaker 1: Kutcher joined the cast, and then Royal Pains might be
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Speaker 1: her longest running role. We loved her in Royal Pains.
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Speaker 1: I just I'm a fan. Well you know that.
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Speaker 2: That's interesting because I was looking at her IMDb.
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Speaker 1: She has only.
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Speaker 2: Done one movie this year. I don't know if she's
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Speaker 2: going to be any Christmas movies. I bet she will,
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Speaker 2: but one movie. I'm like, what else is she doing?
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Speaker 2: Why aren't you working more?
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Speaker 1: I'm just curious. The fans want her. I think you're
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Speaker 1: the fan club president. I just like her. I think
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Speaker 1: she feels real natural. It's to me. I agree, I agree,
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Speaker 1: I adre she's fun to watch. Mm hmmm hmm. What
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Speaker 1: other news and notes. Do you have anything you know
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Bennett. Every time I read an article about him,
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Speaker 1: he's tagged as Jonathan Bennett of Me and Girls. So
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Speaker 1: I dig into his IMD because Mean Girls is a very,
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Speaker 1: very it's an older movie. There's been a lot of
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Speaker 1: time to have a new Jonathan Bennett of reference. Just
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Speaker 1: that shit last week. Well, and it's a great movie.
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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna be honest, he has so he's having
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Speaker 1: acting credits on IMDb. However, in all fairness, many of
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Speaker 1: them are unrecognizable to me. So I really wanted to
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Speaker 1: be like Jonathan Bennett of something of late. Yeah, honestly,
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Speaker 1: you know what my mind went to, er, I'm should
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Speaker 1: that's older than me Girls. I don't know why. I
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Speaker 1: was like, that's why I couldn me What is currently on?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Of course, he started in Christmas House
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Speaker 1: one and two when he hasn't seen either of those.
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Speaker 1: I think they're great movies. He's great in them. Also,
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Speaker 1: I would just like to recommend his Instagram. He's a
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Speaker 1: prolific poster and he balances posting like behind the scenes
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Speaker 1: for his movies with uh personal shots. There's a ton
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Speaker 1: of photos of him and his husband. They're real cute together.
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Speaker 1: Just a just a recommendation, give it a look, all right,
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Speaker 1: are you ready for first impressions? I sure am. Let
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Speaker 1: me hear it. I want a pie dinner, me too.
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Speaker 1: I'm mean too. I love this scene. We gotta tell you.
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Speaker 1: I loved that seeing you me too? What yours? I
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Speaker 1: felt baited and switched and pissed about the premise of
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Speaker 1: this movie early on. Really talk to me. As we
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Speaker 1: all know, don't watch commercials, so I had only seen
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Speaker 1: like bits and pieces that looked like just them participating
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Speaker 1: in this fun wedding competition. I didn't realize that they
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Speaker 1: were participating as a couple who was no longer together.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting that early heartbreak. And you know, I
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Speaker 1: don't love the we're gonna lie to our families and
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be all this subterfuge going on. So I
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Speaker 1: just don't like the I gotta run through town and
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Speaker 1: pretend like I still live there, nonsense, climb through the
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Speaker 1: window and get in my pajamas or whatever. Yeah, you
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Speaker 1: know what I call that? Hygiens? Oh I got that.
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Speaker 1: I got that word written more than once.
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Uh let's talk about what we liked
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Speaker 2: about this movie.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: First, that for me, I very much enjoyed Brooke and
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Speaker 2: Jonathan together. But mister Bennett came to play I thought
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Speaker 2: he was so great with the physical comedy in this movie.
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Speaker 1: They were both great.
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Speaker 2: They had a couple scenes where they were when they
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Speaker 2: were trying to escape out.
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Speaker 1: Of the hotel that was very funny.
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Speaker 2: But when Jonathan Bennet was trying to squeeze between like
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Speaker 2: a column and the wall, He's like eh, and he
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Speaker 2: couldn't fit. I just thought it was hilarious. On the
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Speaker 2: flip side, yeah, I really enjoyed the tender heart moments
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Speaker 2: that these two had together.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I liked them very much in it.
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Speaker 2: Did I think they had like super wow chemistry? No,
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Speaker 2: But I thought they were good actors together.
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Speaker 1: I agree. I agree with all of that. In the
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Speaker 1: opening scenes, I thought there was excellent tension between the
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Speaker 1: two of them in the restaurant, on their walk home,
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Speaker 1: in their early like morning and after work interactions. I
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Speaker 1: thought they did such a good job of selling I
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Speaker 1: was like, I believe this, this is a couple who
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Speaker 1: inter rut right. So let me just say I really
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Speaker 1: liked this whole like, I didn't see that coming me. Well,
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Speaker 1: I mean it was like.
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Speaker 2: Red flags when they were like, we're been together for
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Speaker 2: ten years and I was like what. And then the
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Speaker 2: scene when we were walking home and he's like, I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna sleep at the shop tonight or whatever, and I
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Speaker 2: was like, Oh, this is a relationship that has really
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Speaker 2: gone stale, and it.
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Speaker 1: Felt very like relatable.
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Speaker 2: Yes, And I was like, didn't see that twist coming, yeah,
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Speaker 2: because I thought I was going to be like about
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Speaker 2: like they just got engaged and they were trying to
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Speaker 2: get into it whatever, you know.
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Speaker 1: So I actually like that twist. So I will say
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Speaker 1: that I liked that play on it. Also. I think
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Speaker 1: it freshens it a little bit. What I didn't like
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Speaker 1: when I talk about that in my first impression is
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Speaker 1: that it immediately meant we were going to Hyjiink's land.
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Speaker 1: You know. I liked, this relationship has gone stay. I
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Speaker 1: think it could have very easily been we've been married
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Speaker 1: for ten years and we're in this place. Yeah, but
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Speaker 1: then what kind of competitions are we gonna do? No,
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Speaker 1: I understand, you know, yeah, but that it didn't feel
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Speaker 1: far fetched to me that they could have gotten to
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Speaker 1: this place right. And also I think there it very
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Speaker 1: easily could say like how did they let ten years
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Speaker 1: go by? But life happens well, and they addressed that.
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Speaker 2: I know there was like illness and injury and all
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Speaker 2: kinds of like stuff.
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Speaker 1: Had happened once you're just in this place of just living.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we should start planning a wedding is not
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Speaker 1: really right.
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Speaker 2: I was actually kind of surprised for Hamemark that they
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Speaker 2: had these two living together, you know, they it's kind
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Speaker 2: of funny. So on one hand, they have these two
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Speaker 2: living together like and not married whatever, Fine.
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Speaker 1: I don't care. I lived with my husband before I
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Speaker 1: got married. But then on the other.
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Speaker 2: Side, like they didn't show them like kissing at all,
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Speaker 2: and they did have like these weird like almost kisses
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Speaker 2: where it's like you've been together ten years, Like there
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Speaker 2: shouldn't be like this, we're.
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Speaker 1: Gonna kiss, but we're not going to kiss that. I
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Speaker 1: don't know. When they walked home, I thought it was
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Speaker 1: very weird, even though they weren't going to sleep in
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Speaker 1: the same house, so they kind of just went like
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Speaker 1: get bye. Yeah. In their early breakup scene when they're
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Speaker 1: like this isn't working, I got so emotional. Did you,
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Speaker 1: Jonathan goes, can I have a hug? And she says yes,
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Speaker 1: and they're both crying. I really believed them. I thought
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Speaker 1: they brought their a game in that moment. I agree.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was good.
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Speaker 2: But I was like it was just so adult like
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Speaker 2: to me, like, I don't know, something's got like trigger it,
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Speaker 2: Like do you can you imagine just being Let's just
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Speaker 2: say hypothetically, you're with your spouse. You've guys have been
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Speaker 2: together a lot of years and it's not working anymore.
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Speaker 2: Does he just come home and you go, this isn't
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Speaker 2: working anymore?
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Speaker 1: Well, I think what makes it easier is they're not married,
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Speaker 1: so like the breakup is easier on paper.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but they obviously are in a home together. I
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Speaker 2: know they are a family clearly.
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Speaker 1: I mean from the very beginning, there was not a
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Speaker 1: happy moment between these two. They had just gotten very stale.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, it was believable to me, like this
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Speaker 1: isn't working. I think there should have been maybe a
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Speaker 1: step between this isn't working and we're over, and it
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Speaker 1: should have been like is there a reconnection there? Right?
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Speaker 1: I wasn't that surprised that it was this isn't working
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Speaker 1: I just thought like.
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Speaker 2: There needed to be like a trigger, Like there was
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Speaker 2: what was like the catalyst for her to be like
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Speaker 2: this isn't working.
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Speaker 1: But I think it was everything and she's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: it's our tenth anniversary. But when we got engaged and
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Speaker 1: we don't even care, it's you know, like we come
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Speaker 1: from work and we go our separate ways, and I
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Speaker 1: just think it was all those things.
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Speaker 2: Added up and try to be married for twenty one years,
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Speaker 2: Like that's a I get it.
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Speaker 1: But I just you know, at some point you're like, Wow,
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Speaker 1: this is not working for me anymore. I don't think
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Speaker 1: every relationship ends with the bang. Okay, that's probably fair.
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Speaker 1: Anything else you liked? Yes, one last thing, no two? No, sorry,
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Speaker 1: one last thing, no two?
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Speaker 2: You guys, I have notes, but I'm like, did I
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Speaker 2: already mention this?
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Speaker 1: Okay? I love their actual wedding ceremony on the hilltop
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Speaker 1: at the very end.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, beautiful. They both looked gorgeous. It was a gorgeous setting.
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Speaker 2: It was like my dream wedding because there's just like
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Speaker 2: a handful of people there who really love you.
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Speaker 1: As a couple. It was just beautiful.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I loved it so very much. What would have
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Speaker 2: mait it great if there were something dogs there.
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Speaker 1: Yes, you know, something like that. I just loved it.
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Speaker 1: We did.
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Speaker 2: You did mention that you thought the Fall scapes were
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Speaker 2: b roll. I was happy that we finally got a
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Speaker 2: Fall looking movie, even though.
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Speaker 1: I had like zero to do with the season. Like
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Speaker 1: the movie right, the plot wasn't the plot had nothing
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Speaker 1: to do with Fall. No, I yes, agree on both
18:51
Speaker 1: counts what we wished for mm hmm. This goes back
18:54
Speaker 1: to an earlier comment you made. I thought Jonathan and
18:57
Speaker 1: Brooke did a fantastic job with all of the hyjiin
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Speaker 1: scene nonsense that they had to do on the show.
19:04
Speaker 1: They sold it. Nevertheless, lots of hyjiin see nonsense. My
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Speaker 1: number one pet peeve in a Hallmark movie is hyjiins.
19:12
Speaker 1: I especially hate the music that is played behind this
19:15
Speaker 1: the scene. It's like, this is hijink. We're letting you know.
19:21
Speaker 1: This is is silly. This is silly.
19:23
Speaker 2: And I thought this movie leaned too heavily on the silliness.
19:28
Speaker 2: And maybe a lot of people liked it IMDb reviews
19:32
Speaker 2: like liked all that stuff. I think I'm just no
19:34
Speaker 2: fun because I was like skip skip skip skip, don't
19:38
Speaker 2: want to watch this skip skip I hear you, so, Yeah,
19:42
Speaker 2: I skipped through a lot.
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Speaker 1: Of the competitive scenes. I thought the storyline with the
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Speaker 1: bitchy city couple wasn't brought to fruition mm hmm. She
19:51
Speaker 1: clearly had it out for Jake and Darby, but she
19:54
Speaker 1: doesn't do anything about it other than just sneer at them.
19:57
Speaker 1: And I felt like we were building to something where
19:59
Speaker 1: she it's like gonna go to the producers about them.
20:03
Speaker 1: And I don't know because there's one scene where Darby's
20:05
Speaker 1: talking to her mom and her mom is giving her
20:08
Speaker 1: advice and the city girls like leaning in, like all
20:11
Speaker 1: but cupping her hand to her ears to wear carefully
20:14
Speaker 1: and she like raises an eyebrow, but it never goes anywhere,
20:17
Speaker 1: And I don't know if that's a scene that was cut.
20:19
Speaker 1: Yeah maybe, but I felt like, I mean, I hated them.
20:22
Speaker 1: They did a real good job of playing unlikable people,
20:25
Speaker 1: which was their role, just not like and then it
20:28
Speaker 1: went nowhere.
20:29
Speaker 2: To further ad I thought this movie needed less competition scenes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
20:35
Speaker 2: I thought most of the scenes were over the top
20:38
Speaker 2: and unwatchable.
20:39
Speaker 1: Oh inspired, okay, you know, like them smacking each other
20:43
Speaker 1: with an inflatable pole into a phone pit.
20:46
Speaker 2: No, I don't like any of that stuff, but I
20:50
Speaker 2: think if you're gonna do it, do it well. I
20:53
Speaker 2: thought the production of these competitions was too simplified. Here
20:58
Speaker 2: you have eighteen people on a tiny little stage trying
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Speaker 2: to have an egg race or whatever.
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Speaker 1: If you're gonna do it, do it. Yeah. I'm not
21:08
Speaker 1: expecting Survivor esque competitions, like they don't have a budget,
21:13
Speaker 1: I'm sure, but it just was like and then all.
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Speaker 2: This is happening on a morning news show?
21:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, what am I watching?
21:24
Speaker 2: Like?
21:25
Speaker 1: Is it? Tell me?
21:26
Speaker 2: Is the morning news show like Good Morning America when
21:28
Speaker 2: there's actual like news segments cut in between these things?
21:32
Speaker 2: Or am I watching like Regis and Kelli or whatever
21:36
Speaker 2: that show is called now where it's like a whole
21:39
Speaker 2: episode could be dedicated to this.
21:41
Speaker 1: Uh huh, what am I watching? You tell me? I
21:44
Speaker 1: felt like it was like the Today Show. I feel
21:46
Speaker 1: like the Today Show could easily have done this wedding
21:48
Speaker 1: of a lifetime nonsense, and I feel like they have
21:50
Speaker 1: done where you like, vote on what the couple gets,
21:53
Speaker 1: but it's not this. You end up with an ugly wedding.
21:56
Speaker 1: It's like the couple chooses their top two or three
21:58
Speaker 1: things and then people get to vote, so the couple's
22:01
Speaker 1: going to be happy regardless. I felt like it was
22:06
Speaker 1: a Today Show style show, okay, but we just never
22:09
Speaker 1: got the Newsy se. It just like was so much.
22:12
Speaker 2: It was like so too much, Like did it take
22:16
Speaker 2: over a week? Was this like a week timespan? I look,
22:19
Speaker 2: these are details that don't matter to the movie, I know,
22:23
Speaker 2: but I'm just hung up in them.
22:24
Speaker 1: Okay, I think they.
22:25
Speaker 2: Should have included a same same sex couple me too,
22:28
Speaker 2: Like hello, I really despised the morning show hosts.
22:33
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, yes, yes, I just.
22:37
Speaker 2: I am so tired of like passive aggressive comments, especially
22:41
Speaker 2: like husband or I'm sorry wife to husband about like
22:45
Speaker 2: what a schmucky is or whatever.
22:46
Speaker 1: It just gets so old and funny. It is not funny.
22:50
Speaker 1: I used to remember that show Everybody Loves Raymond. They
22:53
Speaker 1: used to do that all the time on that show.
22:55
Speaker 1: I couldn't like stand that show. I did not understand
22:57
Speaker 1: it's appeal.
22:58
Speaker 2: I thought it was very funny, but she hated him,
23:01
Speaker 2: Like I just I could never be in a relationship
23:04
Speaker 2: with my spouse who like made comments that were so
23:09
Speaker 2: disrespectful like, I just hated it.
23:11
Speaker 1: And they seem to play it for comedy when it's
23:14
Speaker 1: the woman hating the man, but it's like borderline abuse
23:17
Speaker 1: if it's the other way around, and I feel like
23:20
Speaker 1: it's when women do it too totally. Nobody wants to
23:23
Speaker 1: listen to that. I know. I agree, like, Oh, my
23:25
Speaker 1: husband's such a dope, then why are you married to him?
23:28
Speaker 1: I saw this tweet the other day that was like,
23:29
Speaker 1: so many of you people are in relationship with people
23:31
Speaker 1: you wouldn't even be friends with, Like what is happening?
23:34
Speaker 1: And I was like that that breaks it down completely,
23:37
Speaker 1: Like you don't actually like this person. If there's such
23:40
Speaker 1: a dope, it's not working for us. Yeah, that's the breakup.
23:44
Speaker 1: I saw a really funny tweet about the morning show hosts.
23:49
Speaker 1: They tweeted a gift of Elizabeth Banks and John Michael
23:52
Speaker 1: Higgins and pitch perfect when they're judging, like they have
23:56
Speaker 1: this real antagonistic relationshipah, And I was like, that is
23:59
Speaker 1: really fun because those two like hated each other, right,
24:02
Speaker 1: I used to hate each other. But John Michael Higgins
24:06
Speaker 1: is kind of like the clueless, like just makes ridiculous,
24:09
Speaker 1: terrible misogynistic comments. The entire time, and she's like, wow,
24:14
Speaker 1: you are a misogynist at her.
24:15
Speaker 2: Like, So that's interesting because that is like I enjoy
24:21
Speaker 2: watching that this I did not.
24:22
Speaker 1: But they're not in a relationship, Like it's okay for
24:25
Speaker 1: these two pitch perfect judges to hate each other because
24:27
Speaker 1: they're not going home and pretending like they've got a
24:30
Speaker 1: happy family. Yeah, exactly, all right, did you see that
24:34
Speaker 1: I have? I have?
24:35
Speaker 2: They're mostly complaints really. When they're at their beautiful wedding,
24:40
Speaker 2: Jake pulls out two plane tickets from his jacket to
24:43
Speaker 2: tell us now bride that they're going to New York
24:47
Speaker 2: or whatever. It almost looked like product placement, but it
24:50
Speaker 2: obviously wasn't you know what I mean. It just was
24:53
Speaker 2: so weird, like this tight shot on these plane, these
24:57
Speaker 2: two plane tickets.
24:58
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is the point of I thought that
25:01
Speaker 1: was a really weird scene all together, because he was like,
25:06
Speaker 1: we're going to go to New York and then I
25:07
Speaker 1: don't remember what she said she was going to do.
25:09
Speaker 1: Oh she had had some kind of contact for his
25:13
Speaker 1: ski school. I'm like, yeah, at your wedding, you couldn't
25:15
Speaker 1: have talked about this last night. It was way weird.
25:18
Speaker 1: Like we could have had a separate conversation the night before.
25:21
Speaker 1: Cut in that scene where they're like, Okay, now we're
25:27
Speaker 1: back together, we're happy, and these are the things we're
25:30
Speaker 1: going to do to make our lives together better and
25:33
Speaker 1: appreciate each other. I thought it was weird. Agree, I thought.
25:37
Speaker 2: It was weird too, And still don't really understand. Are
25:41
Speaker 2: they moving to New York or are they staying there
25:44
Speaker 2: for ski school or ski school happening in New York?
25:47
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't either.
25:48
Speaker 2: And she's going to be an influencer in New York.
25:51
Speaker 2: She didn't do that in whatever small town she lives in,
25:54
Speaker 2: because that's what she was getting hired for, right, I
25:56
Speaker 2: don't science influking.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she got her kitchen backdrop. She can take it anywhere, dude. Yeah.
26:03
Speaker 2: And first of all, I left out loud when it ruffled.
26:08
Speaker 2: That's the only stuff that we would laugh about, right.
26:10
Speaker 2: And then she's like, I don't have thirty followers. I
26:12
Speaker 2: was like, oh, what I would give for thirty followers away?
26:14
Speaker 2: If I had an Instagram live?
26:16
Speaker 1: Oh live? Yeah? Yeah. Well but then there was a
26:18
Speaker 1: funny that's a funny did you see that moment? Because
26:20
Speaker 1: she goes and see you next time, and like her
26:22
Speaker 1: friend is walking and she's like sorry, sorry, sorry, and
26:24
Speaker 1: she's still walking, walking, walking on and the camera is
26:26
Speaker 1: still not off, but they're pretending like it's over. Yeah, yeah,
26:31
Speaker 1: I know.
26:31
Speaker 2: It just was like, yes, details that probably you and
26:37
Speaker 2: I would don't even care about.
26:40
Speaker 1: Did Jake really need to sleep in a display tint
26:43
Speaker 1: in his store? I went together for ten years. Their
26:45
Speaker 1: breakup was very amicable. He couldn't have slept on the
26:48
Speaker 1: couch in their home until he found a place to go. Now,
26:51
Speaker 1: I know when he says I'm going to sleep at
26:52
Speaker 1: the store, I thought he had a pull out couch
26:54
Speaker 1: in his office. Uh huh, I'm gonna pop a tent
26:57
Speaker 1: in the display and sleep in there. It's stupid, real dumb.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't even like they're a fighting. There
27:03
Speaker 2: are people who are like fully separated that live in
27:05
Speaker 2: the same home forever because it's too expensive to get
27:08
Speaker 2: divorced or move or whatever, or.
27:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, you need time to find a place.
27:12
Speaker 2: Finally, why if the audience voted at the end about
27:16
Speaker 2: like her dress, why would they pick that dress?
27:19
Speaker 1: Why would you pick a beautiful why would you pick
27:22
Speaker 1: any bride to wear like a hideous dress? Was it couture?
27:26
Speaker 1: Was it supposed to be? I thought it was because
27:28
Speaker 1: he said it was like from the runway.
27:30
Speaker 2: Oh whatever, her hair and these pigtails. I just hated
27:33
Speaker 2: the whole look altogether. So glad that that didn't work out.
27:37
Speaker 2: And then they show this scene where Jake like walks
27:41
Speaker 2: into what's going to be their wedding ceremony and you
27:44
Speaker 2: never see what he sees. He's just like freaking out
27:47
Speaker 2: by like what he's looking at.
27:48
Speaker 1: I can kind of see like lights that are like bright.
27:50
Speaker 1: How could it have been so bad? Like what?
27:54
Speaker 2: What would have made him turn and run out? That's
27:58
Speaker 2: what the audience would have voted on dumb bait and switch.
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Speaker 1: I agree. What did you rate this movie two and
28:05
Speaker 1: a half stars? Well? I gave it for what after
28:08
Speaker 1: all that, I really liked it. That doesn't make any sense.
28:13
Speaker 1: I've got lots of complaints, but felt like it was
28:14
Speaker 1: super enjoyable to watch. It's not a five, it's a beat.
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Speaker 1: I really liked watching. It was a real cute movie.
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