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Ms. Christmas Comes to Town · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Megan and I'm your longtime Hallmark movie fan. I'm Wendy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your former Hallmark hitter. Today we're discussing Missus Christmas
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  Speaker 1: Comes to Town from Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Miracles of Christmas. Lina.
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  Speaker 1: Time out.
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  Speaker 2: Is it missus Christmas or Miss Chris?
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  Speaker 1: I thought she's Missus Christmas and then there's miss Holiday.
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  Speaker 1: Wait hold up, I'm prepared to stand corrected, Miss Christmas
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  Speaker 1: comes to Town. I do stand corrected. Today we're discussing
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  Speaker 1: Miss Christmas Comes to Town from Hallmarks Movies and Mysteries
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  Speaker 1: Miracle of Christmas Lina. If you want to connect with
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  Speaker 1: They have to be terrible. I don't think they're terrible,
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  Speaker 2: Additionally, I think it's really funny that she's like, I
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark where Saturday Night Live just did that, Like they
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  Speaker 2: did a really funny like skit over the weekend of
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  Speaker 2: this and this did come in before that skit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I get it. I like a murdery
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  Speaker 1: stuff too, So welcome fun. Hallmark News and Notes just
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  Speaker 1: a tiny bit of rating for Where Are You Christmas?
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  Speaker 1: Last week, they had one point seven seven million live viewers.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot, a lot. That was Hallmark's Saturday night
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  Speaker 1: movie for their opening weekend. This weekend, we don't have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of numbers, but we do have the initial
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  Speaker 1: numbers for mis Christmas Comes to Town, which was a
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night release, one point one million live viewers. They
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  Speaker 1: only had four percent of the demo, so that put
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  Speaker 1: them in at like one oh six. They had more
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  Speaker 1: viewers on a lot of shows above them, but they
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  Speaker 1: did not have a bigger share of the key demo,
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  Speaker 1: which is at eighteen to forty nine.
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  Speaker 3: So that's where we are.
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  Speaker 1: This is gonna happen when you have a Thursday night
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  Speaker 1: movie and people are going to be catching the replay.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to be catching it on Peacock, They're catching
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  Speaker 1: it on Friendly, They're going to be firing up their
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  Speaker 1: DVRs over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I appreciate a Thursday night movie. It makes my
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  Speaker 2: job here as a movie reviewer absolutely a.
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  Speaker 1: Little easier movie. Yeah, it's a little easier. I have
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  Speaker 1: a Hallmark News a note. Hopefully listeners listen to our
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  Speaker 1: review of A Kind of Magic, which was our final
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  Speaker 1: fall favorite movie that dropped yesterday, a review in which
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  Speaker 1: I said, this is a bad movie, but when I
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  Speaker 1: think you should watch, you loved it. I really liked it.
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  Speaker 2: That movie stars Nicky DeLoach and randomly, I'm listening to
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  Speaker 2: the new Britney Spears memoir the woman in me, oh really,
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  Speaker 2: and she brings up Nikki DeLoach of all people. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, I didn't expect Nicki DeLoach to be in
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  Speaker 2: my Britney Spears.
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  Speaker 1: Memoir World Colliding totally.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently I did not know this. Nicki was on the
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  Speaker 2: Mickey Mouse Club at the same time Britney was, and
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  Speaker 2: at that time it was like Brittany, Nikki DeLoach, Christina Aguilera,
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  Speaker 2: justin Timberlake, Carrie Russell wild Oh and Ryan Gosling too.
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  Speaker 2: Such a weird mix of talented people of nineties stars.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Anyhow, she went on to talk about Nikki moving on
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  Speaker 2: to an all girl group called Innocence, which is a
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  Speaker 2: real like late nineties girl group named Don't You Think So,
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  Speaker 2: And it was planned that Brittany was supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: in that girl group too, but then her mom, Lynn
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  Speaker 2: decided Brittany was better fit for a solo career. But
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  Speaker 2: I did look up the band Innocence on YouTube. There
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  Speaker 2: are some videos with Nicky DeLoach as like the lead singer,
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  Speaker 2: Like it's like a very like in a v formation
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  Speaker 2: and she's at the point doing her dance with her
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  Speaker 2: low rise jeans and her oh same kind of hairdoo,
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  Speaker 2: like very you know, very nickey Deloch hairdo.
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  Speaker 1: Really yeah, I just it's funny to hear that she sings,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't know if we've ever seen her in
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  Speaker 1: like a singing role on a Hallmark movie, have we?
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  Speaker 1: I don't trust my memory, but nothing pops behind. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's hear a synopsis forms Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, a shopping channel host known as Miss Christmas, receives
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  Speaker 2: a terminal diagnosis which inspires a multi city excursion set
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  Speaker 2: to spread Christmas cheer before her farewell broadcast, sorrying Erica Durance,
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  Speaker 2: Brennan Elliott, and Barbara Nevin.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of Erica Durant, she plays Amanda slash Miss Holiday.
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  Speaker 1: She has thirty nine acting credits, including Unexpected Grace this
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  Speaker 1: Year and last year's We Need a Little Christmas. She's
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  Speaker 1: been getting the tear jerker Hallmark Treatment lately. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: have a note about that.
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  Speaker 2: Brendan Elliott he plays Travis slash mister Winters, which I
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  Speaker 2: think is a real cute name. He has eighty three
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  Speaker 2: acting credits, including thirty episodes as host Graham on the
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  Speaker 2: television show Unreal. He started alongside Barbara Nevian in the
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  Speaker 2: Crossword Mystery series.
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  Speaker 1: Barbara Nevian, who plays Gail, Gail Storm a Lot going
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  Speaker 1: on and Miss Christmas. She has one hundred eleven acting credits.
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  Speaker 1: She started alongside Erica Durantz in twenty twenty twos North
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  Speaker 1: to Home. She's been all over Hallmark. She was in
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  Speaker 1: the Evergreen series, the Crossword Mystery series, the Hannah Swinson
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  Speaker 1: Murder She Bakes series, and of course Chesapeake Shores. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know how old she is? I looked it up. Well.
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  Speaker 1: I will just say that her skin looks fan freakantastic,
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  Speaker 1: So I'd like to know who her dermatologist is. Do
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  Speaker 1: you want to know how old she is? Yes, seventy.
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  Speaker 3: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I hope to have skin like her when I'm seventy, don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's going that way with skin like
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  Speaker 1: her at three.
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  Speaker 2: Mark Brandon plays James, and he has one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty the acting credits and too many Hallmark movies to
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  Speaker 2: count because Mark Brandon is busy. He was in the
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  Speaker 2: most recent seasons of Wynn Calls the Heart and Firefly Lane,
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  Speaker 2: which I feel is Hallmark adjacent lot of crossover. He
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  Speaker 2: was also in last year's Inventing the Christmas Prints and
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  Speaker 2: Fit for Christmas with Amanda Klutes.
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  Speaker 1: Fun fact. He was also in one episode of Unreal
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  Speaker 1: with co star Brendan Elliott. Yeah, this cast Chris crosses
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  Speaker 1: each other quite a bit. Chris Gautier plays Murray in
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  Speaker 1: a Hurry and he's well known to us as Todd
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  Speaker 1: from Date My Dad with his one hundred four acting credits.
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  Speaker 1: He's well known in the Hallmark universe too, from appearances
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  Speaker 1: in Retreat to You, Three Wise Men, and a Baby,
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  Speaker 1: Christmas House Christmas House two. I was so happy to
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  Speaker 1: see him on screen. Were you he opened up that
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  Speaker 1: door to that.
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  Speaker 3: What wasn't a bus?
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  Speaker 1: That rve?
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  Speaker 3: I just he just makes me happy. I like seeing
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  Speaker 3: him in things.
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  Speaker 1: He made a funny like dad joke Murray Christmas something?
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember that? Vaguely? I thought it was funny.
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  Speaker 1: Judith Maxie plays Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 2: Uh talk about chic. I thought she was like she
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  Speaker 2: epited me of chic. She has one hundred and one
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  Speaker 2: acting credits. She was also in Game of Love with
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  Speaker 2: the director of this movie, Jason Baroque Bork. Are you
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  Speaker 2: sure it's Bork and not Baroque?
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's nothing in between.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, you're right, you're right. It could be boor K,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not Baroke.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, my bad.
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  Speaker 1: This movie was written by Brooke Durham. Her fifteen writing
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  Speaker 1: and credits include The Royal Nanny and Hidden Gems. It's
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  Speaker 1: Time for Your Redemption.
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  Speaker 2: People hate me, I swear director Jason's forty five seconds ago.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you I have short term memory loss. Bork
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  Speaker 1: had ten second time. What ten seconds? I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that sounds dirty. It's not okay. Jason Bork fifty
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  Speaker 1: five directing credits.
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  Speaker 2: He is directing This Year's a World Record Christmas and
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  Speaker 2: in pre Protection has Whitewater Romance, written by Juliana Wimbles,
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  Speaker 2: who is a Hallmark actress turned writer.
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  Speaker 1: I think this might be a twenty twenty four homework title.
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  Speaker 1: I'm certain, like we don't. It's not coming out between
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  Speaker 1: now and Christmas. Whitewater Romance. It's not a national park
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  Speaker 1: I doubt. Oh no, this was filmed in Vancouver in
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  Speaker 1: late May and early June, likely to get ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the strike. They did try and push a lot of
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  Speaker 1: those titles through before they know if they'd be able
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  Speaker 1: to get waivers. Ten Second Tom for those who are
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  Speaker 1: still holding off for that reference, that is a reference
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  Speaker 1: to the Adam Sandler Drew Barrymore movie fifty First Date.
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  Speaker 1: Seen it? Oh? Okay, Yes, there's a when she goes
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  Speaker 1: into like a memory care facility. There's a man there
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  Speaker 1: who's short term memory resets every ten seconds.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so they call him ten second Tom. That's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be me.
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  Speaker 1: That is me often me every day. No, we speaking
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  Speaker 1: of ten seconds Tom. I didn't write a first impression
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  Speaker 1: of this.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, would you like me to share mine? What
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  Speaker 2: is going on with Brendan Elliott's hair? Oh, we'll talk more.
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  Speaker 1: My first impression of this movie is she doesn't have one?
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  Speaker 1: I got one? This is your dream job. I feel like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I remember.
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  Speaker 2: You telling me a long time ago that your dream
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  Speaker 2: job would have to be a HSM Like I'd be
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  Speaker 2: great personality, great at it.
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  Speaker 1: We would be a great Asha send team.
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  Speaker 2: You're like Miss Christmas, move over, Megan and Wady stepping in.
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  Speaker 1: Well. I want to say that when they dubbed Amanda
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  Speaker 1: miss Holiday and I was like, they should have called
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  Speaker 1: her mis Mistletoe. It's a cuter name than Miss Holiday.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, mister Winters, Mister Winter's a very cute name.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, miss Missletoe is miss let's talk what we liked.
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  Speaker 2: Barbara Nevan a real standout to me. I love that
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  Speaker 2: Hallwark continues to hire her for these roles. But with
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  Speaker 2: that said, I feel like she's part of a very
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  Speaker 2: small club. Yes, right, she plays a woman of a
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  Speaker 2: certain age in most of these Hallmark movies in series. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but casts a wider net. There are plenty of fabulous
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  Speaker 2: older women who can play this role.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great point. We love Barbara Nivin. I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: she's working. But when you look at the number of
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  Speaker 1: recurring roles she has, it does seem very clear Hallmark's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we need a woman of grandmotherly age. I call it Babs.
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  Speaker 1: Call it Babs, call it Babs, call up Babs, Barbara.
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  Speaker 1: I get it. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: However, I do find her amazing. I find her funny
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  Speaker 2: and charmings love her.
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  Speaker 3: No one can wear a.
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  Speaker 1: White cape like Barbara knivin Beautiful. I mean her skin fabulous.
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  Speaker 1: And I love that she uses the word and hone
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  Speaker 1: it a lot. She says the word honey maybe three
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  Speaker 1: times in this movie. Well, let's talk casting. I think
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  Speaker 1: the casting was spot on for this movie, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure there are other actors who could have done these roles. Justice.
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  Speaker 1: To me, it felt like the perfect trio for this
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  Speaker 1: heavy storyline. Wendy disagrees, she's over here, giving me big
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  Speaker 1: old thumbs down. Well, we're gonna talk about it, and
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  Speaker 1: wished for ward. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoy the cast, and you're right, I did think
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  Speaker 2: they are three outstanding actors. I just wish for different things.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I did enjoy the scene where I'm calling them by
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  Speaker 2: their real names. Erica meets Brennan, like can't remember their
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  Speaker 2: names right now, Amanda and Travis when they meet at
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  Speaker 2: the coffee shop and she mistakes him for her blind date,
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  Speaker 2: and I like that she like kind of went all
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  Speaker 2: in and was like thought he was having same, sat down,
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  Speaker 2: just unloaded, yes, never gave him a chance to like
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  Speaker 2: respond really.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I didn't really like that. She was like kind
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  Speaker 1: of him for that. Yes, he couldn't speak, He didn't
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  Speaker 1: lead you to believe anything. You didn't let him get
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  Speaker 1: a word in edge.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you never gave him the opportunity, So that's on you, babe.
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  Speaker 1: I did like that scene though. I thought it was cute,
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  Speaker 1: and I liked that he was charmed by her. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to being like, well you're a lot. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean as a woman who's never really been like
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  Speaker 2: picked up on at a coffee shop, I think I
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  Speaker 2: would be flattered if I was a single woman and
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  Speaker 2: some man came up to me and started talking to me.
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  Speaker 1: I would Yes, I talked back, took it appropriately. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: And I get why she was embarrassed. I would have
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  Speaker 1: been embarrassed too. Yeah, but it's not his fault. No, No,
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  Speaker 1: I agree. This felt like the most Christmas movie we've
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  Speaker 1: seen so far.
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  Speaker 3: And what is going on?
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  Speaker 1: Too much Christmas? Let me put in and my wish
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  Speaker 1: for well, we'll circle back to it. Well, look, she's
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  Speaker 1: Miss Christmas on a television show about Christmas, doing a
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  Speaker 1: tour about Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: Too much Christmas?
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  Speaker 1: Whereas this weekend's Missed at Christmas review coming soon. My
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  Speaker 1: husband found boring and not Christmasy enough, and I didn't
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: speak to him. You've come mad at him for it.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Not seriously, but I was like, do not come to
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: me with your negative opinions of Mystic Christmas. Spoiler alert. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the non hater over here was really living for the
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  Speaker 1: Christmasy feels we were getting from this movie, because I
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  Speaker 1: think we've seen a lot of movies so far that
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  Speaker 1: have not been very Christmasy fair points of course, this
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: movie was on movies and misery, because when do you
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: get a story where your lead is dying of metastatic
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  Speaker 1: brain cancer terminal diagnosy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, with that said, there's been a lot of talk
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  Speaker 2: in our Girls Gone Homework Facebook group about the scene
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  Speaker 2: between Gail Miss Christmas and her oncologist and that it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't realistic.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I would like to weigh in. I would like
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  Speaker 1: you to.
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  Speaker 2: As a former cancer patient myself, I think it's a
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  Speaker 2: possible conversation.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know the context as the viewer. We don't
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  Speaker 1: know what they had been working to leading up to
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  Speaker 1: this appointment. We do on the timeline, and it had
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  Speaker 1: been at least five years.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and she's like, I have the results of your
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  Speaker 2: latest MRI. So like they had been like tracking things right.
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  Speaker 1: And I liked that the oncologist was supportive of Gail's
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  Speaker 1: like decision, Like, I mean, her decision was like to
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  Speaker 1: go out and live life and enjoy like the last
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  Speaker 1: maybe two years that she was going to have.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought that was very realistic. I think some
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  Speaker 2: of the feedback was that a doctor would never be like.
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  Speaker 1: This is the end of the road. But I do
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  Speaker 1: think that is a realistic conversation. It felt obviously I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a former cancer patient, yeah, but it felt to
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  Speaker 1: me like something you would say to a patient that
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  Speaker 1: you formed a relation and ship with. Yeah, this without
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  Speaker 1: being clinical. This is a hallmark movie, right, you need
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  Speaker 1: to have the conversation that's going to work for the movie.
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  Speaker 3: But this is the end of the road.
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  Speaker 1: There isn't anything else we can do for you, right,
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  Speaker 1: we can make you comfortable. All of this that feels
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  Speaker 1: implied during her final on screen Toby, I.
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  Speaker 3: Did cry, did you?
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: I didn't.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I'm a heart of coal, dude. You and my.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Husband he did he enjoy this movie.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: He liked it. But the other day we were sitting
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: outside and I was swatting away mosquitos and he goes,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe the reason they don't bite me is
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: because I'm so mean, Like I'm just a heart of stone.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: And there's that's me too. I think you're just a softie, apparently.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: I have one more scene I really liked, and it
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: was between Amanda and Gail, and it was the whole
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: conversation of her saying, you're the daughter I never had.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: I saw that was quite touching.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: And I do want to say I liked how quickly
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Amanda got over being left out of the news. Oh.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I did think her saying yourselfish was shitty. I got
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: words about it in the next but segment. I liked
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: that that wasn't the major source of conflict for her
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: in Travis, because Travis was put in a position where
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: it wasn't his information to tell. Well, yeah, and.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: There's all sorts of like privacy issues, He's not like
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: I was waiting for it. That's what I was waiting for,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: was Amanda being pissed off at Travis for not letting
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: her in on Like, really, the real reason why he
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: was there not his place.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: So let's talk what you wished for Okay.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: While I like Erica Durance, I feel like she needs
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: to do something else. This movie was a downer, the
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: one that she was in before Unexpected Grace, where like
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: her child died downer?
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Was it her child that died? Yes? But what's she
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: gonna do? Is girl a rom com? But that's not
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: on her Hallmark's like, you're good at this, I'm not Christiz.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: You said she needs to do something else. Hallmark needs
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: to give her something else. I don't disagree. I'd like
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: to see her in her rom come. She does have
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: serious face. She's like me, like, I don't have fun face. Yeah,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: so I would woar I an actress, I'd get the
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: misery treatment as well.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: And that's why it's kind of funny. She doesn't have
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: fun face. Why is she tapped to sell stuff on HSN?
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: I know it's not HSN whatever their channel is, Like
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: she's too serious?
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: She was okay in the end, I don't think so.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: When Miss Christmas wants Miss Holiday as she dubs her
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: to take over her role, She's like, I've always been
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: a behind the camera person and I thought, yeah, and
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: that's okay. Like some people are really meant to be
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: the ones running the show and not the ones starring
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: in the show exactly. I almost didn't want her to
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: be on camera me neither. I think they should have
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: put it Yes, mister Winters, Yes, yes, let him take over. Okay, y'all.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: The outfits on some of these characters were tragic. Tell
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: me more, Miss Holiday. Someone hates her that like skirt
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: and jacket situation terrible. It was. We hear it more
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: than once. Someone get Keith costumes on the case. And
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: when Travis comes on screen and his red suit, my
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: husband goes, whoa, he looks like the devil, like not not,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: where is my John brother di in sexy Santa suit?
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: It was not the look you were opie for the
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: John brother to something better than red suit, red tie.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: It was not. It was It was like a child's
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: version of what someone would wear at Christmas. Yes, the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: only person who looked good in their on camera like
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: show within the show was Wsiness Christmas. She looked fantastic.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I thought so too.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: I absolutely hated when Amanda called Gail selfish for not
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: telling her about her current health condition. Again, as someone
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: who has been in this position and having to tell
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: people what I was dealing with, with my own diagnosis.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: If somebody called me selfish for not telling them like
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: it would have sent me. I would have been like, bye,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: we're not in each other's lives anymore. It is not
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: about you.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I just thought dump out that is, when you like
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: dump your trauma away from the center of the trauma.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I just was so pissed. I mean, I guess it's
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: probably realistic because people react in all kinds of certain
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: ways to bad news like that.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: But this is a mother figure to her. Can you
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: imagine saying to your mother, who has a limited life
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: ahead of her with metastatic cancer, you were selfish for
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: not telling me. No, I mean, oh, I agree. Oh
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: it made me so mad. On camera, we're bouncing back
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: and forth from the series to the trivia. I'm wearing
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: tiny red mics. Yes, I noticed, so distracting. Not cute
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: if you like, they put like the little red phone
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: caps over their tiny little lavalier mics. I hated it.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: You wish they were black. They should have Yes, they
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: should have faded into the background. They should not have
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: been obvious. It was not cute. If you need like
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: a Christmasy microphone, give them like a Taylor Swift be jeweled. Oh,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I like that prophone to hold in your hand. Yeah,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: but a lavaler mic should just yeah, but they need
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: their hands. Fine, then where a lava ratic? This red
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: looks like I'm hosting the dating game in nineteen seventy five, gotcha?
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Okay, so too many Christmas decorations. I had a reaction
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: when you talked about it. There were Christmas decorations all
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: over their RV or bus or whatever that thing was
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: supposed to be. The green room at one point was
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: like a tinted space. There were eight hundred Christmas trees
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: in it. Like, give me a break, that is not happening.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: I just it was like the set dresser just threw
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: up Christmas all over that stuff. I get that it's
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: supposed to be I don't like Christmas.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to this episode. Okay, they're in the
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: hospital and off goes Miss Holiday to run the show
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: because Miss Christmas can't do it. Yeah, and she goes
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: snow Travis, you need to stay in the hospital with her.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Why she's in a hospital. Why does she need her
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: rent a nurse to stay with her when she's in
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: a literal building full of medical professionals. And then right
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: before the show, she's like, you can go, I got
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: my dude here, dumb did you see that Donuts by
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Mail so bad? This whole scene of them decorating those donuts,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and then they had someone come in with like a
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: professionally decorated one for them to showcase at the end.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Not even that the one, her reindeer one, not look
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: like my eight year old child, her favorite little mags.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: They would sell those little reindeer donuts, sure, but the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: whole scene where they're trying to put the fast horrifying.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: But agree that was they were terrible. It's like, you
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: guys are terrible donut decorators. Get some better frosting for
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: them to use something. It was bad piping bag maybe something,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: but Donuts by Mail. I didn't even catch that. They're like,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: you can order these custom donuts. My husband goes, donuts
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: are good for like half an hour. Don'nut do not
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: travel well? No, they get super stale, Like you can't
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: freeze them. You can't. I understand there's a lot of
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: gourmet food items that you can ship. Donuts, ain't it.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Why didn't they make the cookies or something? I know
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: it was cute.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: I like where they were going, like, ooh holiday donuts,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: decorate your own donuts. Cute, poor execution.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: I want to talk about Brendan Elliott's hair. The last
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: time we talked about hair on an actor we just
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: got killed in our das.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Teach Girl.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not talking about like his real hair. I
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: was so distracted at the beginning of this movie because
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: he had these long, straggly hairs on his back that
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: were like over his collar, and I was like, what
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: is happening with this man's hair. Later it leads up
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: to he gets this glow up, he gets a makeover,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: and then all that.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Don't cut your hair before filming. Let it get stragged.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: It looked crazy.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: It was terrible. I didn't. At one point I took a.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Photo of it on my big screen TV and went
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: to post it in the Facebook group, and then decided
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: not to because I was like.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: They're gonna come for me there, little get so mad.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Let me see if I have it. Oh, oh my,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: it is it's like a mullet.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: No, that is that's that's a bad shot actually, because
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: there were times where he had his coat.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Up and it was like, that's what happens when your
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: hair grows and you need a haircut, And they had
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: to give him a haircut later in the movie, so
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: they had to let his hair be grown out. It
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: is not quite the raidable offense that Wendy is making
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: it out to be.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I found it distracting. I did not put it in
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: the Facebook group because I was like, somebody's gonna get
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: really mad at me. Well here podcast, Hey, send your
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: emails Megan and Windy at gmail dot com.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Twice this weekend we saw the same decorations. They were
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: inflatable Christmas ornaments the size of a large beach ball.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: They were in Mystic Christmas. Sawyer used them, and then
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: they were also at one of the stops. And when
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I saw them in Mystic Christmas, I paused the movie
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: and went to look for them online. Oh yeah, have
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: it at home too, you do? Yeah?
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: We put them out every year the last couple of years. No,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: we don't put them in the pool. We put them
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: in the front yard or in the backyard. They like
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: just nestle nicely. They don't blow ay or anything.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Well, these the ones I found are like beach ball materials. Yeah,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: so are ours. I want them in the pool, like
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: floating around. I'll look cute. So I even showed my husband.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I was like, we need these, they're cute. We just
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: buy them off of Amazon. Yes, that's where I found them.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I found them very cute. You get them like them.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: What's awesome is they deflate, so they like deflate down
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: to flat you know what I mean?
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Yes, but I feel like, do they not get faded
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: in the mind? Would be in the sun all season long. Well,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: then you buy new ones. Nice. Yes, I'm going to
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: buy some, Okay.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: I would like to shout out Michael and our Facebook
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: group for pointing out that Amanda goes into the bathroom
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: and the RV as her bedroom door. Now, I read
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: this before I watched the movie. I don't know if
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: I would have caught it myself, but it was clearly
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: the bathroom.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Hmm. You didn't see she's like, I'm going into my room.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: It was the bathroom. The bathroom. Well. Michael also pointed
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: out that when they're filming and they're supposed to be
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: on the road, the RV has all the bumpouts open.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know what a bump out is, so.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Is it like those things that like slide out so
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: where they were sitting, like at the kitchen table, when
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: the RV is in motion, that's all collapsed in, so
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: they would not have like the full kitchen table. It's
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: much narrower in that area. And then when it's stationary,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: you slide the out, so you're sliding out like a
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: kitchen table or a kitchen island. You're a big seating area.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: They clearly had all of that open when they were
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: supposedly on the road, which you cannot drive.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: With those open.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: He supposedly made a gourmet dinner too while they were
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: That's what I was saying. I was like, there's no
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: way you have access to your stove while the you
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: can't cook you can while then you don't have like
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: what you're running a generator and a moving vehicle. No, No,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I said the same thing. I said, there's no way
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: you're cooking while on the road and your RV is
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: like stocked the pantry is stocked with Well that I
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: could understand. People live in an RV. They're not living
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: in the RV though.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: They slept in it, yeah, but they're not living there.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: I would imagine these people are like dining out.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that was not so unusual to me that
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: they would make a meal in an RV. They're gonna
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: have like the seasonings and the like. What did they make?
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Awesome? That hard to make a pasta.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Catchtory pasta Christmas? Oh?
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: That was real cute If you put Christmas in the title,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: I was like, that's cute. I'm going to make Christmas
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: sticky buns like.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: I do every year.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Are you ready to rate this?
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Well? Yeah, and I know that our ratings are going
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: to be markedly different after this discussion. What did you
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: give it? Two point seven five?
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Three point seven five?
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Wow? What? This is one of those movies that I
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: found very pleasant and enjoyable to watch, and I felt
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: like it gave me the.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: Christmasy feels in a good way.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: I didn't hate it.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: It was just fine.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I will say for listeners, if you have skiptomistic Christmas,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: make it your mission to watch it before our review
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: drops tomorrow. I think it is the surprise winner of
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the season. WHOA, those are big words. It's early not
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: going to be a better movie, I think October thirty.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying there's not going.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: To be a better movie.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I'm saying I think it's the biggest surprize of the season. Okay,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: we still have haul out the Hally too, we still
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: have Tyler hind movie.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: We have what's his name?
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Left the network came back ten minute, Tom Ramos, I
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: know who you're talking about. I can't remember his name.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Luke McFarland. Luke McFarland. There's so much good to come,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I know, but I'm expecting good from that. This is
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: my dark horse. Okay, thank you for listening to this
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: episode of Girls Gone Hallmark. As mentioned, We're back tomorrow
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: with a review of myssed It Christmas featuring costume designer
• 30:23
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