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Missing the Boat · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a bramble Jam podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 2: On today's episode, we are discussing Missing the Boat, the
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  Speaker 2: final movie in the Winter Escape lineup from Hallmark, which
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  Speaker 2: originally premiered on Saturday, January thirty first, twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: movie like this one. Spoiler alert yeah. Hey. Also, if
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  Speaker 1: I like the inflection in the voice there. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: very much.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk Missing the Boat? Do you gotta send up?
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  Speaker 1: Since yes, Strangers Kelly and Parker both end up on
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  Speaker 1: the same Italian cruise, but after missing the boat during
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  Speaker 1: a stop, they are forced to team up and race
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  Speaker 1: across southern Italy to catch up.
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  Speaker 2: Missing the Boat is directed by McLean Nelson, marking his
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  Speaker 2: twenty first directing credit for Hallmark. He's also behind fan
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  Speaker 2: favorites like A Keller Christmas Vacation, Haul Out, The Halloween,
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  Speaker 2: The Magic of Lemon Drops, and Branching Out.
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  Speaker 1: I mean those are all like five star movies. Oh no, crazy,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I don't technically know if I rated them
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  Speaker 1: all five stars, but looking up the list, I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I like all those movies.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: This script comes from sisters Judith and Sandra Berg, who
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  Speaker 1: have written a ton of Hallmark stables, including The Wedding Cottage,
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  Speaker 1: All six Wedding Veil Movies, A Little Daytime Drama, and
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  Speaker 1: Love on the Sidelines. McLean Nelson also wears a writing hat.
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  Speaker 1: He previously contributed to scripts like Return to Office, A
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  Speaker 1: High Idelberg Holiday, and Haul Out the Halloween.
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Palaja plays Parker, adding a ninety third credit to
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  Speaker 2: his resume. We last saw him in A Grand Ole
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  Speaker 2: Opry Christmas, and coming soon he's pulling double duty directing
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  Speaker 2: and starring in Mimics Out in Theaters February thirteenth. Emilia
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  Speaker 2: Ollerup plays Kelly and brings sixty two acting credits to
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  Speaker 2: the role. Hallmark fans will know her best from Chesapeake
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  Speaker 2: Shores and Sign Sealed Delivered. We last saw her on
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark opposite Michael Rady in Catch of the Day, Breaking
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  Speaker 2: Girls Gone Hallmark News. Oops at did again for years
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  Speaker 2: this smooth Nobody told us, you guys got all up
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  Speaker 2: in our grill about Nile materer, and nobody told us
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  Speaker 2: that we were calling Emilia Emily for years.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, in our defense, it is spelled like Emily, but
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  Speaker 1: it's the Danish pronunciation. I hate. I feel sick to
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  Speaker 1: my core when we say somebody's naming correctly, like I
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  Speaker 1: feel terrible about it. When did she make this old?
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  Speaker 1: Megan sent me a reel of one Emilia Amelia artist
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  Speaker 1: time because in my head I see a right and
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  Speaker 1: so like like Amelia Badilia? Is that Amelia like that
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  Speaker 1: it's not quite right? Or like Amilia. Yeah, I can't
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  Speaker 1: get there. I will anyway, just to retrain our brains.
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  Speaker 1: I have to retrain my brain. I just feel terrible
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  Speaker 1: about it. But she sent Meghan sent me a reel
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  Speaker 1: from years ago where she like says it and I'm
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  Speaker 1: the club Erica table Nile, Mader Amelia. And if I
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  Speaker 1: did not watch an interview over the weekend, I would
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  Speaker 1: not have even had we would be sitting here calling
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  Speaker 1: her Emily. I know.
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  Speaker 2: I did a deep dive to try and find her
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  Speaker 2: saying it. I watched several videos until I found that real.
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  Speaker 2: Our apologies genuinely totally.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, my name is Wendy, right, and there people
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  Speaker 1: have called me Wendy. Do you see you know the difference? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but that's how you pronounce your name. You know that, right,
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  Speaker 1: I pronounce it Wendy. You do not I do. You
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  Speaker 1: don't I do because I say Hi, I'm Wendy. No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't because I was Karon Wayan. I guarantee we
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  Speaker 1: have talked about it because you Oh, I don't like
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  Speaker 1: that one bit. Knowing that you guys have talked about name.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you why kind of pisses me off.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, No, let me tell you why on either
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  Speaker 2: Patreon or other maybe long story short. You came in
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  Speaker 2: hot one day and you're like, look, my coffee says Whitney.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, which happens a lot often.
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  Speaker 2: And so we were talking about it and Karen, my
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  Speaker 2: friend Karen listens and she was like, hey, I heard that.
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  Speaker 2: She's like, by the way, when I hear Wendy say
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  Speaker 2: her name, it sounds.
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  Speaker 1: Like she says that a lot. When I was in college.
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  Speaker 1: This I feel like I've told this story before I
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  Speaker 1: was in college. This dude sat next to me. He
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  Speaker 1: said what her name? I said, Wendy, and he's like,
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  Speaker 1: Wendy or Wendy and I said Wendy because like at
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  Speaker 1: that time, I was like I didn't really like see
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  Speaker 1: the difference. And he's like, how do you spell it?
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  Speaker 1: I tell him He's like, that's Wendy, which really lit
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  Speaker 1: a fire under my ass because I was like, don't
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  Speaker 1: tell me how to pronounce my name before I punch
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  Speaker 1: you in the face. Guys, I'm real hot today. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I have always made an effort since then to say Wendy.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the Windy slips out now and again, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: bothered by it. I'm never gonna correct somebody and be
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  Speaker 1: like you, I nd ie you. First of all, my
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  Speaker 1: maiden name is Williamson, and the fact that my parents'
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  Speaker 1: name meet ww really, oh bothers you Wendy Williamson. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's too cute and Rymy My.
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  Speaker 2: Maiden name is Barker, and my parents really love the
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  Speaker 2: name Rebecca. And then they said Becky Barker a few
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  Speaker 2: times and they realized that was not gonna fly.
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  Speaker 1: Good on them. Yeah, moving on. Amy Louise Pemberton plays
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  Speaker 1: Parker's sister, Emily, A true Emily. Amy Louise currently has
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  Speaker 1: fifty one acting credits and was last on Hallmark in
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three movie A Pincheff Portugal. She will
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  Speaker 1: appear in the fourth coming Scream seven.
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  Speaker 2: WHOA, I did not realize we were seven deep in
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  Speaker 2: the screen franchise. I guess there's money.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of controversy over this one. I guess
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  Speaker 1: because like the Jenna Ortega, who was in the last one,
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  Speaker 1: like dipped out on this one, so like it was
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of I think there's been production problems.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, seven, can you believe it?
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  Speaker 2: Trey Warner appears as Boss Adam. Trey has thirteen acting
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  Speaker 2: credits and this is his first role on Hallmark. Trey
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  Speaker 2: real active over on Instagram this weekend, trying to drum
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  Speaker 2: up on our Instagram, I know, all over the place,
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  Speaker 2: trying to drum up some chatter about the movie.
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  Speaker 1: Good for him.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take a quick break and come right back with
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  Speaker 2: our first impressions. Hey, Wendy, what is your first impression
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  Speaker 2: of missing the boat?
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  Speaker 1: This one really floated my boat. I just don't hate me.
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  Speaker 1: I had to. That's the same of the movie. The
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  Speaker 1: puns come on.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to pull a snare drum beat, will you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna try.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: My first impression is this is a cautionary tale for
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  Speaker 2: why you only book excursions directly through the cruise line.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I know you have said that there are like
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  Speaker 1: tons of tiktoks you can watch if people like boat
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  Speaker 1: runners running for the boat. I've never come across one
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  Speaker 1: of those in particular, like on TikTok. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: look for them. But when we went on our own cruise,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't disembark at all. No to the SPA. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't oh yeah, that's right, we did. It wasn't that
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  Speaker 1: we were like afraid of like missing, We just didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta admit I would probably be afraid of missing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's nerve wrecking.
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  Speaker 2: If you use a cruise sponsored excursion and something happens,
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  Speaker 2: they will wait for you, gotcha, or in some extreme circumstances,
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  Speaker 2: provide transportation if something significantly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because something like anything could happen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, But.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't, you're on your own.
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  Speaker 2: And so this is why they tell you not to
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  Speaker 2: do that, because if something happens, if your tour bus
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  Speaker 2: breaks down or your donkey runs away, you are out
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  Speaker 2: of luck and they're not waiting they got things to.
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  Speaker 1: Do tonking, guys. That was my favorite scene in this
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  Speaker 1: whole entire movie. Okay, let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think we have slightly different takes on this
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  Speaker 2: movie in the same vein wrong Okay, Well, I was
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  Speaker 2: blown away by this movie.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say it right there. Oh nice? Okay? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I wait? In which way?
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  Speaker 2: I think Palaha and all are firing on all cylinders.
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  Speaker 2: They are acting with everything in them.
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  Speaker 1: They left everything on the screen. I agree.
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  Speaker 2: There are some scenes that stand out to me, if
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  Speaker 2: I may share them, please, when Christopher Palaja comes out
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  Speaker 2: of his chair, when the character of Kelly proclaims that
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  Speaker 2: she's never seen Star Wars. It's so great, what it's amazing,
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  Speaker 2: the best, and I appreciated the repeated Star Wars Godfather
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  Speaker 2: callbacks throughout the movie.
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  Speaker 1: Nicely done. Let me stop you there. Have you seen
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  Speaker 1: Star Wars? I know you have her? Yeah, have you?
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  Speaker 1: I've seen the first one, like as a child, the
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  Speaker 1: first one, the first I know there's like prequels, but
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  Speaker 1: like the one that came out when we were kids.
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  Speaker 1: There's three that came out when we were kids. The
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  Speaker 1: first one of the three, okay, came Out, not Return
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  Speaker 1: of the Jedi or Empire Strikes Back or whatever. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like very first one. I've seen that one, m but
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  Speaker 1: not as an adult. Then I have seen the one
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  Speaker 1: like with the introduction of like Ray and Kylo Rinn.
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  Speaker 1: I think that might be the same movie. What are
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  Speaker 1: you talking about?
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  Speaker 2: That's like movie seven. What do you mean you think
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  Speaker 2: it's the same movie. I've seen Kyler Ray and Kyler
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  Speaker 2: Ren in the same movie. Yes, okay, I've seen that one.
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  Speaker 1: Huh. I think that's it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I've seen Unfortunately all of them. Star Wars doesn't
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  Speaker 2: do it for me. Send your emails hello at Girls
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  Speaker 2: Gone Homemark dot com. I mean they're fine. I have
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  Speaker 2: Star Wars fans in my house. So yeah, I've seen
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  Speaker 2: I don't know nine ten how many are there, because
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  Speaker 2: there's like Offshoots Solow, which is the Han solo movie,
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  Speaker 2: and then there's Rogue one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, you and I discussed the incredible scene where Parker
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  Speaker 2: is on the phone with his boss Adam and he's stretching.
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  Speaker 1: So many stretching scenes in this movie. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if if you don't have like a sore back
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  Speaker 1: like I do, and I know Megan does. We have
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  Speaker 1: both gone to physical therapy for you know, women of
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  Speaker 1: a certain age, people of a certain age with lower
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  Speaker 1: back issues would recognize that figure four stretch the cat cow. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I just was like someone whether it's Chris or someone
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  Speaker 2: on this production staff, knew what they were talking about.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't just like those are back specific stretches. And
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  Speaker 2: I need to tell you my husband recently threw out
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  Speaker 2: his back and he went to physical therapy and he's
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  Speaker 2: been very diligent doing his stretches and he does them
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  Speaker 2: when he gets into bed at night, and he does
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  Speaker 2: one where he lays on his side and he like
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  Speaker 2: extends his arm all the way back in that chestnut sure,
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  Speaker 2: and I rage because we have a large bed, but
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  Speaker 2: he's six foot three, so he has a six foot
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  Speaker 2: three wingspan, so his hand for twenty reps on each
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  Speaker 2: side is coming into my space and I I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to wind down, and it's just this like
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  Speaker 2: whiff of air that's like like I got let me
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  Speaker 2: know when you're done, I'll be right back, like I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna go floss again or something. So anyway, it was
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  Speaker 2: a visceral moment For me, I laughed. Also, I burst
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  Speaker 2: out laughing when it cuts to Parker in the helmet
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  Speaker 2: and goggles on the vespa and she's like, we can't
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  Speaker 2: do this, and he goes, why do I look dumb?
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  Speaker 1: The cut is incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out to director McLean Nelson and Paulah has deadpan delivery.
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  Speaker 1: Of it so so good. Yeah, I agree. There are
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  Speaker 1: so many funny parts, like if this movie fully committed
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  Speaker 1: to the comedy, like we get rom Calms, but this
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  Speaker 1: felt like full comedy with a whiff of I usually
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  Speaker 1: laugh out loud at Homewark movies. I laughed out loud.
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  Speaker 1: You know what is funny too, is that it was
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  Speaker 1: and we've kind of touched on it already, but it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't just like situational humor, like it was dialogue driven,
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  Speaker 1: but like joke dits right. And I know McClain nelson
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  Speaker 1: wrote this with Judithandra Yeah, two other writers. But if
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  Speaker 1: you go back to the Halloween, same vibes there, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: same funny dense jokes. Is that right, dnse joke it is?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, I've got the laptop withdrawals and he does
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  Speaker 2: it with his binkers like that's so relatable. It is
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  Speaker 2: so relatable. Whenever Wendy and I got to town. By
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  Speaker 2: the end of the trip, we're texting s were like,
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  Speaker 2: I just want to get back to work.
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  Speaker 1: So much fun.
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  Speaker 2: I have so many ideas I just can't wait to execute.
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  Speaker 1: Forget fun, that's fun. I love the train scenes and
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  Speaker 1: he's trying to get comfortable and like Chris is obviously
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  Speaker 1: a big man, and like you're in this middle seat
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  Speaker 1: and it's so there's so much physical comedy and we
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  Speaker 1: never see pala hot like like.
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  Speaker 2: This, so they let him be romantic, but they just
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  Speaker 2: let him loose in this one, and I love it.
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  Speaker 2: And I wondered, I was like, whose choice was this?
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  Speaker 1: Was this director choice telling him like really want you
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  Speaker 1: to lean into the to the funny or was this
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  Speaker 1: Polahas choice of like, Okay, Parker's a little bit buttoned
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  Speaker 1: up at the but still like quite literally, quite literally,
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  Speaker 1: but still like a funny guy, like he leans. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I know it's dad jokes too, but it wasn't like cringy.
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  Speaker 1: It worked. My point is I like, I wonder who decided,
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  Speaker 1: Like this is how this this character of Parker. And
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  Speaker 1: then there are moments where Chris just gets back into
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  Speaker 1: the pocket that we're familiar with, where he gets kind
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  Speaker 1: of like that low gravelly like Chris Palaha energy when
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  Speaker 1: he when they're at that lunch and he's telling her
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  Speaker 1: about how he's divorced, Like he just gets into that.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, well, there's there's very you know,
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  Speaker 1: But I also like this funny guy too. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: very well rounded. Enjoyed his character and h the execution
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  Speaker 1: of his character as Parker, Like I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: really great. I agree with you. If I could talk
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  Speaker 1: about funny scenes that I really liked, I mentioned that
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  Speaker 1: the donkey scene I thought was really funny. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: are donkeys attracted to carrots? Like that? Would they? Would
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  Speaker 1: they walk forward like that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean that's I kind of felt like it
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  Speaker 2: was a joke. But also I was like, how sad
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  Speaker 2: that donkey never gets that carrot?
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  Speaker 1: It is sad, You're right, But when he when he
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  Speaker 1: like he's Chris's character, Parker is so excited, like he's
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  Speaker 1: tying the donkeys up. He's like really excited to go
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  Speaker 1: with Kelly to see the waterfall. Like I love that
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  Speaker 1: they were like both very both very like hyped on
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  Speaker 1: these on these things. It wasn't like one is kind
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  Speaker 1: of like a cromogion and oh yeah, but he's all
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  Speaker 1: excited and they turned around, the donkeys are gone, and
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  Speaker 1: then they start busting ass up this hill to go
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  Speaker 1: chase it, and his half lies off, and I just wondered, like,
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  Speaker 1: did that just happen? Like his half because he's and
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  Speaker 1: they like impropped it a little bit, like my hat,
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  Speaker 1: and she says.
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  Speaker 2: Like, leave it.
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  Speaker 1: It just was so funny and he's grabbing us back,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, ew, I thought it was so funny.
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  Speaker 1: And you guys know how I hate hygiens and this
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't play like that at all at all. It
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  Speaker 1: was true like I am watching a comedy. Loved it,
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  Speaker 1: loved it. Let's talk chemistry between these two. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: have been in a movie together many many, many years ago.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't like talk about that at up top, but
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  Speaker 1: I thought they were super dynamic together. Me too, felt
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  Speaker 1: very believable if these people had met each other, you know,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: they they clicked around away. They when she meets like
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  Speaker 1: his sister in the restaurant at the beginning, and she's like,
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  Speaker 1: somebody's kind of an odd bird, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: that's my brother, guys, I'm dying. Yeah. I also need
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  Speaker 1: to talk about how great I thought Amy Louise Pemberton
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  Speaker 1: was as Emily. She was so funny too, so funny.
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  Speaker 1: And even the boss Adam, who could have come off
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: as like super toxic blowhard, yes that he was real
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: funny too, everybody.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: I liked that relationship a lot between Emily and Adam.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: I thought that they brought a lot of humor. But
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I also liked that they allowed Emily to push him
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: to be a better human and a better boy. Yeah,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: and he makes That's what I commented on Instagram. He's like,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: hope you like Adam, and I was like, great redemption
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: arc for that character. Yeah, he has a line where
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: he says, I let opportunity get in the way of honor.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: I loved that we're so deep from Adam. We mentioned
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: this a little bit about being buttoned up. I think
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: the visuals are doing a lot in this movie. I
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: noticed it Kelly's hair goes from straight to curly, like
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: when she gets into vacation mode, and then it stays
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: that way, and that's I loved that. I was like, Oh,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: it's a little freer, a little more fun and then
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I feel like my favorite look for Chris was the
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: outfit that Kelly buys for him in the hotel and
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: he comes out and I'm like, oh, he looks like
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: he's in vacation. No, it still looks professional professional, Yeah,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: but like the shirts on tugs and it's a little
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: I just I thought the.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I thought the visuals were doing a lot here. I
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: think so too. Can we talk about the visuals of
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: where they shot this? Oh my gosh, can we go
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: there please? Yeah? And what cruise line is this? Because
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: that cruse ship was gorgeous. Oh my god, I think
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: it's in my digit see that. But her room was
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: huge mine too. I thought her company really sprung for
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the big digs. Tell me what, what was her job exactly?
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know. She was trying to decide if this
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: was a a good business acquisition. Yeah, I was confused.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: I I thought like she was like a travel writer
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: at first.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Well, they couldn't call her the secret shopper, So I
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: think the idea was like she was going to write
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: the review of this cruise line and if the review
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: wasn't good, then the investors would pull out.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: It was a little confusing. Did you like the scene
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: where there's a train strike she gets all norma ray
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: up on. Yeah, it was fun.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: I liked it.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I liked it. I was like, Okay, a little far fretched,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: but whatever. Like I was just rolling with it too.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: I was just I thought it was it was very funny,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: very funny.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I have one last like and it's I just thought
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: they did an absolutely adorable travel montage of Parker and
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Emily and Kelly at their first cruise stop.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Yes, the fun picture through was so fun. Do you
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: have any wishes? I have two? Okay, baby baby wishes.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: There's a couple of little like leaps that you're trying
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: to make me believe she loses her job. But then
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: like it's like all that at the end happens very quick.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: It'll work together everything one of them. I mean, that's
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: like what big happy that is one Hallmark Bow put
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: it on it and send it. You know. It doesn't
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: negate the movie at all to me. The green screen
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Waterfall truly rough.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's in my digit see that. I don't really
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: know how to I just wrote there's something so odd
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: about that waterfall one.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I'm like, they were in a beautiful like lo cow
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: maybe it's not a waterfall. Maybe they're seeing something else,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe there is a waterfall there. There has
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: to be.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense. But I was like, why is
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: that this weird waterfall in the desert way? Where's the
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: waterfall coming from?
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: It didn't It was odd to me. The whole thing
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: was it was like fake right, Well I think so,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: but I don't know. It just looked weird. It looked weird.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I just don't know why. Like movies, movies, Hallmark movies
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: and water in particular.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Are I don't get it together. So my only wish, Look,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: it wouldn't make sense for the story. But as soon
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: as Parker's boss is like you got to delay her,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: I'm like, Parker, you have the opportunity to do the
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: right thing here and just be like, look, I'm gonna
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: be fully upfront with you, like this is my boss
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: asked me to do. I'm not doing that, like we're
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: trying to.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Get you back. And his actions spoke to that.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: When he sends her ahead to the airport, she had
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: the opportunity to make it back in time. But and
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: I again, there's like no conflict without it. But it
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: is the predictable conflict. Yeah, as soon as he says that,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: I'm like, well, that's gonna come out that he was
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: told to do that, And.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I've never loved that. That's all that's tuck. Did you
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: see that? My number one is largest cruise room ever? Indeed,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: indeed we've talked about it about it, the running gag
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: about his back hurting, we have already talked about it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: But like even like where he like crouches down to
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: lay down on the cement, She's like, okay, we're doing
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: that here. I loved it. I loved it. Lines that
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: just absolutely fry to me. You already talked about I'm
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: having laptop withdraws. Don't go analog on me. We've been
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: talking a lot about being more analog and twenty twenty six.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I just thought that was a really funny rest see
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: dad humor I really liked And at one time he's
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: having a Parker's having a conversation with his sister on
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: the phone and he's like, struggles of a beautiful mind.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: I just thought it was really funny, really really funny.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Those are my only I didn't even have any like
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: terrible did you see that's? Well?
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: My big digity, that was what the heck is up
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: with the waterfall? I still don't fully understand what was
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: going on there. My next you did you see? That's
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: our courtesy of listeners from Instagram follower Maggie. She says,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: h parker sister Emily is using a very old cell phone.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: She says, it's the kind of iPhone that still has
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: like the white stripe and a button along the bottom
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: of it. She's like, what's up with that props department?
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: A button on the bottom? Yeah, well, what was the
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: button on the bottom for? I remember button? Remember the
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: oh that button?
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Interesting.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: We also from listener Diane emailed us. I love Diane's email.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: It says, I knew I was all in with your podcast,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: but as soon as the clothes were different between the
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: lunch and the horseback ride to the waterfall, I thought,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: that's did you see that? Even went back to make sure.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: So I also went back to look, and it is true.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: They are at lunch and then she convinces him to
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: join her on her waterfall expedition and they are in
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: different clothes. She's wearing a dress at lunch. Of course,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: it makes sense, but when would they have changed. They'd
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: have to get back on the boat. Obviously they didn't.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: They're in more donkey riding appropriate clothing. Nice catch, Diane, Yes,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: when'd you write missing the Boat?
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: I gave it four point seven five stars. Look, I
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: gave it five stars. It was a hey start to finish.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Let's talk real quick about January as a whole. Yes,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: this is your favorite, you loved it. You this was
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: your favorite movie. But January as a whole wrong, real strong.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I agree. I'm sure listeners can like rank them based
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: on Yeah, really gonna.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Tell you what's in last place? You can listen to
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: our reviews. But this this was a big winner for me.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: January overall was great. I'm actually really looking forward to
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: February two. Me too. And as of this morning, they
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: did drop the announcement that there is another mystery coming
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: in March.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Hannah Swenson, you think they're doing mystery March. I don't know.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: They might be. The mystery is maybe they're still figuring
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: outta you know, the two announcements.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: We have our back to back mysteries in the middle
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: of March, and Nelly knows mysteries Anna Hannah s Whinson.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: So we'll let you know once we know more about
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: the March lineup. Thank you for listening to this episode
• 25:34
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• 25:36
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• 25:44
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• 26:01
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• 26:15
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