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We Met In December · 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: We're kicking off our Merry Thanksgiving reviews with We Met
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  Speaker 2: in December, which aired on Thanksgiving Thursday, November twenty seventh,
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  Speaker 2: and is currently available to stream on Hallmark Plus. This
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  Speaker 1: About shopping for a Homewark fan in your life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we drop our gift guides.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, great stuff over there.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of gifts. In the show notes of this episode,
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  Speaker 2: I'm also going to link our merch shop because we
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  Speaker 2: have dropped some new merch items lately that we would
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  Speaker 2: gifts for you to give yourself or the Hallmark holiday
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  Speaker 2: fan in your life. Let's cick off our discussion If
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  Speaker 2: We Met in December with a synopsis.
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  Speaker 1: Annie and Dave meet in a holiday hotel. Falling in love,
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  Speaker 1: They embark on separate quests to find each other, sharing
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  Speaker 1: wisdom and making significant life changes.
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  Speaker 2: Jonathan Wright directed We Met in December. This is his
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  Speaker 2: twenty sixth directing credit. His pastwork includes The Perfect Setting
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  Speaker 2: and True Justice, Family Ties, and he's also set to
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  Speaker 2: direct the upcoming single on the twenty fifth. Nina why
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  Speaker 2: Men wrote this screenplay. She's a longtime homework writer known
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  Speaker 2: for The Perfect Setting, A Carol for Two, Haunted Wedding,
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  Speaker 2: and Catch Me If You Clause Autumn Research. Stars as Annie.
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  Speaker 2: This is her twenty first Hallmark movie. She last appeared
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  Speaker 2: in Junebug in Summer twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Nil Mader plays Dave. This is his sixty ninth acting credit.
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  Speaker 1: Fans last saw him as Bail in the Providence Falls
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  Speaker 1: mini series. Keana Teresa appears as best friend Kate, with
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  Speaker 1: forty three acting credits. She's been featured in Flipping for
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  Speaker 1: Christmas and Family History Mysteries Buried Past Nora. She hand
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  Speaker 1: plays Gail David's mom. She's appeared in To Have Anti
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  Speaker 1: Holiday and My Dreams of You, and this marks her
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  Speaker 1: thirty six acting credit.
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  Speaker 2: Tera Yellend plays Violet. She has thirty seven acting credits
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  Speaker 2: and has appeared in Murdoch Mysteries, The Love Club, and
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  Speaker 2: ten episodes of The Hardy Boys.
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  Speaker 1: Laura Amercy plays Olivia. She's familiar to Hallmark viewers from
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  Speaker 1: her recurring role as June in Mistletoe Mysteries. This is
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  Speaker 1: her thirty first acting credit.
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  Speaker 2: Valentina Capitola plays Cora, Dave's niece. This is her fourth
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  Speaker 2: acting credit and her Hallmark debut. Let's take a quick
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  Speaker 2: break and we will come right back with our first impressions. Hey, Wendy,
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  Speaker 2: what was your first impression? Have we met in December?
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  Speaker 1: It's serendipity with a Hallmark filter.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, my first impression is this was a perfectly pleasant
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  Speaker 2: holiday layover with a frustrating number of delays. Let's talk
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  Speaker 2: what we liked about we met in December. May I
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  Speaker 2: start yes, I have a healthy list of likes and
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  Speaker 2: wishes for me. I think the premise is good. I
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  Speaker 2: like this idea every time, right place, right moment, wrong timing. Basically,
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  Speaker 2: it's one of those concepts for me that works time
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  Speaker 2: and time again. I like movies like this because you
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  Speaker 2: want to root for the universe to push the people
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  Speaker 2: back together.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Yes, For the most part, I think the movie
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  Speaker 1: honors that kind of framework. We have the magical night,
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  Speaker 1: the repeats of almost running into each other, the reminders
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  Speaker 1: of what they've learned about each other, like it's doing that,
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  Speaker 1: but like you said, lots of delace getting there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I liked the story telling method what telling the
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  Speaker 2: story of their night together in flashbacks and just giving
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  Speaker 2: us in pieces.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And I loved if I may jump, we see the
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  Speaker 2: end of their night at the beginning of the movie,
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  Speaker 2: but we don't see all of it. And I loved
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  Speaker 2: what we get. The reveal of Nile's hand slamming into
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  Speaker 2: that elevator door opening it and the kiss. Total highlight
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  Speaker 2: in this movie. Everything about the choreography, the kiss, the
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  Speaker 2: hand in the door, his face cupping, the way her
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  Speaker 2: ha reaches up to grab his hand.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was great. Yeah, I thought that was
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  Speaker 1: good too. I the flashbacks totally worked for me in
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  Speaker 1: this movie. I thought it was my favorite creative choice
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  Speaker 1: that they made with this movie. Yeah, drip feeding like
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  Speaker 1: the night, putting it all back together for us to
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  Speaker 1: watch it unfold. I really enjoyed that. And I liked
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  Speaker 1: the remembering details thread through the movie of like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: like he thinks of like is it Maggie's kettle? Like
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  Speaker 1: you know, he remembers and then they have this whole
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  Speaker 1: memory of the conversation. Whatever. I liked all the string
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  Speaker 1: of tiny moments me too. And I did like that kiss.
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  Speaker 1: I like that we the reveal of it like that.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was executed nicely. Yes, good good stuff. There.
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  Speaker 1: Here is something that I liked that maybe maybe you
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  Speaker 1: didn't clock on.
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  Speaker 2: Let's hear it.
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  Speaker 1: It was giving like grief light a little bit like
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  Speaker 1: the recent passing of their dad. I thought this was
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  Speaker 1: kind of a beautiful heart of the movie here, you know,
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  Speaker 1: this storyline about losing a parent and trying to make
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  Speaker 1: the holidays the most special, Like kind of hit harder
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  Speaker 1: with me than I expected it to, right. I thought
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  Speaker 1: that was very relatable to a lot of viewers.
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  Speaker 2: I think on a lot of levels.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, if I can tell you, we've been watching obviously
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  Speaker 1: a lot of finding mister Christmas around here. Yes, And
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  Speaker 1: Robbie's storyline of losing his mom has like set heavy
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  Speaker 1: heavy on my shoulder? Has it not on my shoulders?
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  Speaker 1: Set on your heart? Has set heavy on my heart? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I think I went into this movie like feeling
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  Speaker 1: those feelings and then we get the storyline and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, I have regrets anyway. Anyway, So I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was very relatable.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think it's easy to relate to the
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  Speaker 2: idea of like, if I do enough, like I can
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  Speaker 2: control this, like I can I can magic this with
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  Speaker 2: my to do list into the best Christmas ever exclamation point.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Directorial choice I liked was the side by sign screens,
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  Speaker 2: and I liked that they used it several times, showing
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  Speaker 2: that they were, you know, going through the same thing,
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  Speaker 2: but they hadn't quite found each other yet. I particularly
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed the one of them falling into their respective beds
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  Speaker 2: and glancing off to the side as if they were
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  Speaker 2: looking at each other. They're both looking at the empty space.
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  Speaker 2: I thought there was a nice directorial choice there by
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  Speaker 2: mister Jonathan Wright.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen that, we've seen that. Yeah, I remember you
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  Speaker 1: talking specifically about liking it too. Was it a Nile
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  Speaker 1: meter movie? Was it holiday hotline? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe I have the memory of a goldfish, so
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  Speaker 2: I can't say for sure, but that's a definitely good guess.
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  Speaker 1: I know Bilmore does it too, but I can't recall now.
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  Speaker 1: But that scene.
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  Speaker 2: Stood out to me as well too.
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  Speaker 1: That's so funny you say that, because I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this feels familiar and I like it.
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  Speaker 2: M m m hmmm.
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  Speaker 1: I thought the supporting characters rounded out the cast nicely.
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  Speaker 1: They had good friend and family dynamics here. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just you know, two lonely hearts wandering the city looking
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  Speaker 1: for each other. I thought Annie's best friend was MVP. I. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there was a great line shout out Nina when basically
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  Speaker 1: they're looking for Dave, her and her best friend, and
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  Speaker 1: they're like, we're so not going to yoga. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I love it, I love it, I love everything about that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I actually liked that bit about the several times they
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  Speaker 2: missed yoga because I felt like that was quite relatable,
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  Speaker 2: like let's find any excuse not to go and then.
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  Speaker 1: Calling him layover Dave, I ever did really funny too. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: If I may say to round out my list of likes.
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  Speaker 2: I think Autumn and Nile both looked absolute stunning in
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  Speaker 2: this movie. I'm not sure I've ever seen either of
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  Speaker 2: them look better, although niall as Bail was pretty topp
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  Speaker 2: tier and I particularly loved Autumn's red dress on their
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  Speaker 2: layover date.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, cute, right. I have two more likes, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna hit. I like the movie poster of
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  Speaker 1: this movie too, the movie poster, but the movie art
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  Speaker 1: for it. I think movie posters correct.
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  Speaker 2: I do too.
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  Speaker 1: It's so dreamy and magical. Yeah, yeah, I really liked it.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, she looks adorable in that red dress. To me,
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  Speaker 1: it was it was giving a little bit like love
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  Speaker 1: at the Thanksgiving Day parade. That's oh yeah level of.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah where she had that like vintag vibe. Yeah, a
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  Speaker 2: little bit.
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  Speaker 1: My final like was I thought their date was adorable,
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  Speaker 1: like s'mores by the fire pit and cute cocktails in
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  Speaker 1: Chicago at Christmas time, like these are all wins for me,
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  Speaker 1: Like it was eye Candy, I loved all that. I
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  Speaker 1: loved Chicago as the backdrop beautiful. I think about it
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  Speaker 1: every time I see it on my TV. About you
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  Speaker 1: and I being there and you wanted to go on
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  Speaker 1: that like river boat cruise, and I was like, what.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I suggested the riverboat cruise, and everyone's like, why
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  Speaker 2: would we do that? And then at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the week we saw the boats and everyone's like, why
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  Speaker 2: didn't we do that? I was like, hey, bozos, you
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  Speaker 2: said no.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I imagine that's what it was going
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 2: But I really wanted that my best friend's wedding moment.
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  Speaker 1: If we ever go back, we're doing it.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, Okay, I'll have a romantic boat ride.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I also in my legs, I must have at one
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  Speaker 2: point taken the note. It's my note, say Nile Mater's
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  Speaker 2: cute smile. He's got a great smile. That's all he does.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about Nile and my wishes, not
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  Speaker 1: in a bad way, not in a bad way. So
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  Speaker 1: we just activated all I know the hills, hold off
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  Speaker 1: on all the keyboard wires out there.
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  Speaker 2: Just hold on a second. Let's talk wishes. Why don't
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  Speaker 2: you go ahead?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm just gonna jump into it. We've seen devilish
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  Speaker 1: Nile as bail bail forever for me. I loved him
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  Speaker 1: in that character because it was so unexpected and we've
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  Speaker 1: seen romantic Nile. For me, in this movie, he kind
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  Speaker 1: of sat like right in the middle. I either wanted
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  Speaker 1: like sexier or more comedy, like I needed like he
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  Speaker 1: was just like nice guy, having seen like devilish Nile,
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  Speaker 1: like I kind of want more of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. Yeah, I mean, look, team Rustin over
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  Speaker 2: here wants the bad boy.
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  Speaker 1: Always.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I am kind of a.
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  Speaker 1: Bad boy fan, no kidding, but I love him. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's just adorable And you're right, he does have
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  Speaker 1: like this great smile and I love everything about him.
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  Speaker 1: He's under used in Hallmark movies. I think so too,
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  Speaker 1: not enough Hallmark movies with n own mater. What are
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  Speaker 1: some of your wishes?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't have any patients, and so the many
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  Speaker 2: near misses drove me a little bit to distraction. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I just I don't have any patience for it. And
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  Speaker 2: some people love that like slow Bur unless I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really want to Slowbur and like give me
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  Speaker 2: the goods. And so while I understood that we needed
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  Speaker 2: that final reveal and that that was where we were headed,
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  Speaker 2: I just was like, go back outside, turn around.
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  Speaker 1: Just yeah, yeah, I just.
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  Speaker 2: Wanted them to to get it together, to figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: If I can piggyback on that, I agree, that's probably
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  Speaker 1: my biggest wish. You know, I'm I enjoy a misconnection
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  Speaker 1: type storyline, h But like you said, like I don't.
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  Speaker 1: There were too many of them, and I think they
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  Speaker 1: weren't big enough like I needed like remember when they're
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: at the they're at the choir show or whatever, and
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  Speaker 1: they're literally just like missing each other and yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, come on, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know it.
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  Speaker 1: Just I was like make it, make it bigger, like
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  Speaker 1: make it like make me feel like, oh geez right there.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to feel like more stakes. I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: feel like my life is going to fall apart if
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  Speaker 1: these two do not find each other again. Of course
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  Speaker 1: I know they're going to find each other again, but
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  Speaker 1: like make it feel that way. Well, I think I
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  Speaker 1: needed an additional wrench thrown in their path and not
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  Speaker 1: just that they can't find each other. But I'm sitting
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  Speaker 1: here thinking about like.
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  Speaker 2: What what would have made the waiting sweeter? And I
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  Speaker 2: think maybe like one of them needed to meet someone
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  Speaker 2: and have that moment of like, yeah, that was great,
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  Speaker 2: but like maybe it's not meant to be because we
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  Speaker 2: just keep missing each other. And so they have this
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  Speaker 2: like and we're like, no, she's not the way right,
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  Speaker 2: Like maybe we needed that, yeah, instead of this constant
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  Speaker 2: like the only missing piece is there not in the
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  Speaker 2: right place at.
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  Speaker 1: The right time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I did like it at the end when
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  Speaker 1: he comes into the church and he's sitting right behind her, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: like I like that. And then we get like the
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  Speaker 1: perspective from her angle, like from in front of her,
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: we see him behind her. I liked that. I was like, well, finally,
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  Speaker 1: as soon as you stopped looking, there she is. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's how it always works out, right, mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: I have two more wishes. One is about Autumn. I
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  Speaker 1: she's great. I enjoy her a lot. Also underused a
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  Speaker 1: homewark like she hasn't been in movie since twenty twenty four. No,
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  Speaker 1: I mean many of the actors have only been in
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  Speaker 1: one movie this, you know, per year or two. But
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  Speaker 1: to me, she's like super leading lady. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why she's not in like two movies a year. But
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  Speaker 1: that aside, her role here was like very even keeled
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  Speaker 1: to me, Like I wanted to see her like crack
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: in frustration or impatience a little bit something, Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like it's.
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  Speaker 2: Always incredibly well put together.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like have her crash out a little bit. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. And finally, for me, this is a
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: little bit like what you said, the pacing dragged a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. For me, there were moments where it feels
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  Speaker 1: like it's supposed to be very reflective, like that was
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  Speaker 1: the best night of my life, this is the person
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  Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be with, et cetera, et cetera. But
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  Speaker 1: I feel like for me as a viewer, the movie
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  Speaker 1: could have benefited from, like a little more like momentum building, yes,
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  Speaker 1: high stakes tension, yes, And that's where I land on
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  Speaker 1: the wishes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's talk to you. Just see that I have
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: a few Okay.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, this is not a true did you
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: see that? But I loved out loud because I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I'm Internet savvy enough that I could have found Annie,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: a lawyer who works in fashion on the internet in
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  Speaker 1: like two seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. How many Chicago fashion houses are there?
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  Speaker 1: Right? I mean, Dave and finance a little bit harder,
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  Speaker 1: but it's like fuing a needle in a stack of needles,
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  Speaker 1: A great line. Yeah, but come on, Annie in fashion
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  Speaker 1: a lawyer.
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  Speaker 2: It would have been easy enough, except that that's not
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  Speaker 2: her name, which we learned at the end.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but professionally she goes by mary Anne. Mm hmm,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: she goes by Mary Anne. Professionally.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like, I don't I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like you could have you could have found her.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Somebody could have found I could have found her. My
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: true digity that is the bubble snow, Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: And it was just a little bit inconsistent, like once
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  Speaker 1: in they're covered in it, like in the hair, and
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  Speaker 1: then the next scene nothing.
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  Speaker 2: It is constantly snowing in this movie.
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  Speaker 1: M hm.
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  Speaker 2: Why does it need to be snowing every single freaking day.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: It doesn't need to be snowing every day. And my
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: digity that in regards to the snow is it's snowing
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  Speaker 2: in bright sunshine. It's snowing when the night sky is
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  Speaker 2: absolutely clear. I mean, it's too much snow. We didn't
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: need the snow all the time.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny because you know, we don't live in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder does it snow all the time in Chicago?
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  Speaker 1: I mean every single day the time, every single day,
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  Speaker 1: every single moment of the day.
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  Speaker 2: It seemed like a lot of snow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it was like the terrible bubble snow.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah h that was just like getting our actors well.
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  Speaker 2: And at one point they're out at drinks on their
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: layover and they're sitting like it's snowing on them. I
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: was like, I don't think they'd be sitting in the
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: snow outside.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Well, you know. That was my thought with that Melt
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: your Heart at Christmas movie, like are you trap seen
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: over feat of snow at a craft fair? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know either.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. My last did you see that? Is
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: like I'm a softy for Silent Night? Anytime it plays
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: like I am a puddle. Uh huh, I don't know why.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: So the end when they're in the church with the
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: silent night and the dim lights and the candles, I
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: thought that was a very moving, beautiful scene.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: You know, my mother in law's birthdays two days before
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Christmas and we go to church with her. Her church
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: does a Christmas Eve eve service and they do a
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: silent night with the candles, and I always find it
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: very moving in spite of my complicated church relationship. That
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: is always a very lights off, candles on. It's a
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: touching moment. I agree. I really liked that about the
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: silent night scene though. If you watch at one point,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Autumn singing and she's not singing the part we're hearing
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: like her mouth is doing like ee, and there's no
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: movement for the consonants. Oh anyway, I'm sure they had
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: to shoot it many times, right, So it's they just said,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: do something generic that we can clip it in here
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: and no one's going to pay attention except for Megan,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: who's annoying. We touched on all the rest of my
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: I did just see that's oh no, we didn't. Their
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: layover lasted a proximately four Hallmark days. It's one night.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: They go on like eight dates. Yeah, for sure, Like
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: she even has an outfit change. They decorate a whole ballroom.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, there are multiple locations. It was a lot
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: of locations. You know.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: It was very relatable where he wakes up and he's like, oh,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: I set the alarm for seven totally.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I know I wrote way well been there. However, this
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: is just a me thing. In the beginning of the movie,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: when She's rushing for the airport and he Dave's not there,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: and she's talking to the reception desk like can you
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: tell me his name? Can you tell me his room number?
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Can you give me his information? And I thought, if
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: this were me, I would be like, maybe he just
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: left without me.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: If this hall Mark he ghosted me.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it bounced absolutely. Maybe the first meaning intensity was
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: too much.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Maybe he's a married man and was like AFO out
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: of here.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, that would have absolutely been my thought. If he
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: did not show up, I was like, I would not
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: have been like give them my information. I'd be like,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: oh man, I am embarrassed.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, you know, I also have to say
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm pleasantly surprised by some of the scenes, especially
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: when they go to he goes to the Christmas tree
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: farm and he's like, hey, does it did an Annie
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: come here? And blah blah blah, And the guy's like, yeah,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I'm not giving you that information.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, good, good.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: We're not just giving out random information about people strangers
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: to you know, other strangers.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Christmas magic does not trump all common sense. Okay,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: what did you rate? We met in December?
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I gave it three stars.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I gave it three point two five stars. Thank you
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: for listening to this episode of Girls Gone Homework, a
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Bramble Jam podcast. We've got reviews dropping fast and furious
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: this week, of all of them Merry Thanksgiving weekend movies,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: so check back for that. We'll see you next time. Goodbye, bye,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: all right friends, before we go, just a quick heads up,
• 21:07
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• 21:13
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• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Bye