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Guiding Emily (Encore) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This week, we are looking back on some of our
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  Speaker 1: favorite episodes from the past five years in honor of
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  Speaker 1: our five year anniversary. Here on Girls Gone Homemark and
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  Speaker 1: our pick for twenty twenty three is Guiding Emily. Get
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  Speaker 1: your tissues ready, y'all. This one's a good one. This
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  Speaker 1: was a good movie. Sarah Drew is an absolute standout
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  Speaker 1: and has a dog, Garth's. Is that the dog? Same? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Garth the dog has a really interesting story. People had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of opinions about this movie. We had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of opinions about this movie. Matty Finocchio is the
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  Speaker 1: standout in this movie. So enjoy this throwback review from
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  Speaker 1: Girls Gone Homemark. This is a bramble Jam podcast. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan
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  Speaker 1: and I'm a longtime Hallmark movie fan. I'm Wendy and
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  Speaker 1: I'm a former Hallmark hater. Today we're discussing Guy by Emily,
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  Speaker 1: which originally aired on the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries channel
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  Speaker 1: on a Friday, September eighth. We love for you to
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  Speaker 1: connect with us. When you're not listening to the podcast,
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  Speaker 1: we're around. You can follow us on Instagram. We're both
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  Speaker 1: talking Girls Gone Hallmark at Girls Gone Hallmark and all
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  Speaker 1: Things Megan and Wendy non Hamewark related at Megan and
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  Speaker 1: Wendy jump into our Girls Gone Hallmark Facebook group. Lots
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  Speaker 1: of conversation over there this weekend. People had lots to
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  Speaker 1: say about the two new movies as weeme, yess, I
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  Speaker 1: loved it so much. Before we talk about this movie,
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  Speaker 1: I just have one little Hallmark news and note, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I have one too. Okay, go ahead, you go first.
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark actors Marco Grizzini and Alvina August welcome to Baby
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  Speaker 1: Girl together recently, Oh, Marco, he played the chef in
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  Speaker 1: that movie. Yeah, okay, right in front of me. Is
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  Speaker 1: that what you're saying of? Yes, who was also recently
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  Speaker 1: on Hearts in the Game. He also has a recurring
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  Speaker 1: role on Virgin River. Alvina August has only been in
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  Speaker 1: one Hallmark movie as far as I can tell, and
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  Speaker 1: it is a Second Chance at Love. And she's also
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  Speaker 1: had roles on The Good Doctor. Zoh. He's extraordinary playlist
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  Speaker 1: a TV series called Animal Control, Yes, starring Joel McHale.
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  Speaker 1: No idea who this person is, but I'm happy for them. Congratulations, Congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: I have a note. It might be a little bit old,
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  Speaker 1: but to Andy McDowell, who we know as what's her
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  Speaker 1: name on the show Dell on the Way Home, Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: last week I could not remember the name of the
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  Speaker 1: Way Home. I was like, I'm losing my mind literally Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: She recently quit Instagram, declaring that she's quote tired of
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  Speaker 1: the world. Of course, this was after the wedding of
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  Speaker 1: her daughter Margaret Qually and Jack Antonov and the mob
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  Speaker 1: that showed up to creep on guest Taylor Swift. That
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  Speaker 1: was real ugly. I know. I was very disappointed in
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  Speaker 1: the Swifties who created such a scene for that wedding, right, like,
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  Speaker 1: let her go to this wedding, Let people have their day. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: what my question is in your mind? Like You're the
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  Speaker 1: person waiting outside that wedding, I'm the swift waiting to
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  Speaker 1: see its gonna be like, oh my gosh, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for being here, be my new best friend. How is
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  Speaker 1: that going to endear you to her? You think she's
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  Speaker 1: gonna take a picture of you never You just want
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  Speaker 1: to catch a glimpse from far away after being hustled
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  Speaker 1: into a car. I don't understand the motivation there. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna be honest. So if you were the mother of
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  Speaker 1: the bride, would you be pissed off at the world.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be pissed. If I'm gonna meet a famous person,
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  Speaker 1: I want it to be organic.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I want to run into that person on the street
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  Speaker 1: and strike up a conversation. Like when you're dropping your
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  Speaker 1: dog off at doggy daycare and there's a super famous
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  Speaker 1: person who shares it's not doggie daycare, it's training. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: but yes, my trainer also trains a dog of a
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  Speaker 1: I guarantee every single person listening this is really really
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  Speaker 1: the demo for that person. I'm not going to out them,
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  Speaker 1: but would be like, oh my gosh, like better than tea.
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  Speaker 1: I was too, and immediately got in to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that it was in fact that person. So for me,
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  Speaker 1: that's an interaction that I'm excited about, right because we're
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  Speaker 1: on an equal playing field, got it. I'm not like,
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  Speaker 1: please say hi to me and meet me and make
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  Speaker 1: me feel good, because I feel like sometimes as lovely
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  Speaker 1: as I think people are, I would worry the entire
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  Speaker 1: time that that interaction that I'm having in a meet
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  Speaker 1: and greet scenario isn't genuine Well, because you've paid for
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  Speaker 1: it now, Okay, but let me put you in this position.
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  Speaker 1: You and I are doing a podcast tour and we
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  Speaker 1: offer a view I ticket put it in the universe, Wendy. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead, it's gonna happen, and we've offered a VIP
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  Speaker 1: like meet and great options so people can which happens
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  Speaker 1: I do that? Yeah, I would genuinely be excited to
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  Speaker 1: meet anybody who was a listener of the show. So
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  Speaker 1: would I. But why do I assume that someone else
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  Speaker 1: meeting a fan of theirs wouldn't be excited about that?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Hey, Before we move on to our
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  Speaker 1: review of Guiding Emily, can we talk just quickly about
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  Speaker 1: a podcast review that we recently received.
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Sure, for me to pull it up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: First, I want to say thank you to those who
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  Speaker 1: have left reviews. We need them, we love them. They
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  Speaker 1: help us tremendously. We compliment sandwich this. Can we read
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  Speaker 1: a recent positive review? Yes, this is from listener Missy Faye,
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  Speaker 1: who says love listening to you guys. Every time I'm
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  Speaker 1: in the car, I plug in and Missy Fay, we
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  Speaker 1: love that. Thank you. So why don't you read the
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  Speaker 1: review that wasn't so great two stars? How do you
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  Speaker 1: do a movie podcast with no recap? They want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about movies without a recap, about what even happens
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  Speaker 1: in said movie. I'm so confused. I guess I have
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  Speaker 1: to watch the movie first to be able to even
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  Speaker 1: know what they're talking about. I just want to make
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  Speaker 1: it clear that we do not recap these movies. Correct.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a recap podcast. We review the movies.
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  Speaker 1: We always tell you what movie we're reviewing. We give
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  Speaker 1: a synopsis of the movie. It is highly suggested you
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  Speaker 1: watch the movie before you listen to her, or maybe
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  Speaker 1: our review will make you want to watch the movie.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not a recap. It's not a long form
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  Speaker 1: synopsis of the movie. But we do talk about what
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  Speaker 1: the movie is about, right. I think that's pretty typical
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  Speaker 1: for reviews to talk about the things they liked and
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  Speaker 1: the things that they didn't, but to not we're not
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  Speaker 1: going moment by moment. Yeah we're not. That's that's not
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  Speaker 1: our podcast. That's not our podcast. Yeah, and that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: I know. So if you'd like to flood us with
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  Speaker 1: reviews to bump up that rating, because you know those
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  Speaker 1: two stars are real painful. I know. Let's hear a
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  Speaker 1: synopsis of Guiding Emily. Yes. This movie follows Emily as
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  Speaker 1: she struggles to cope with her new reality after losing
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  Speaker 1: her sight, and Garth, a potential guide dog, struggling with
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  Speaker 1: his training. With a bit of help, both make headway
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  Speaker 1: in their important transitions. Guiding Emily was filmed in and
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  Speaker 1: around Vancouver, Canada, as well as in Victoria. Beautiful filming locations.
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  Speaker 1: So freaking pretty. And you love Emily's house. Oh I
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  Speaker 1: have Mom's house. Oh please take me there, like I
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  Speaker 1: want to retire there, the garden, I sit on that porch,
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  Speaker 1: put me in front of that lake, like so pretty.
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  Speaker 1: It was gorgeous, so so pretty. Whoever lives in that
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  Speaker 1: real life house, I'm envious. This movie was based on
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  Speaker 1: the novel of the same name by author Barbara Hensky.
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  Speaker 1: It's also one of four in the series Nice. The
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  Speaker 1: guy Dog. Garth was played by Dog Owen, who is
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  Speaker 1: in found training to be a guy dog himself. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: how cute is the name Garth for dog? So cute?
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  Speaker 1: I was like, if we get a boy dog, I
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  Speaker 1: love the name Garth. That's a great name Garth Brooks. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's a great name, and they're not going to be
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  Speaker 1: one of many Garths at the Vet. Yes, like my
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  Speaker 1: dogs definitely are not the only Bailey and Coopers of
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  Speaker 1: the Vet. Roxy and Penny, Yeah exactly. Yeah, I know
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  Speaker 1: two other Pennies in my neighborhood alone. Sarah Drew plays Emily.
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  Speaker 1: She has forty nine acting credits, including a long running
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  Speaker 1: role as April Kepner on Ray's Anatomy, a show I
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  Speaker 1: have not watched in twenty years. She previously starred in
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  Speaker 1: Christmas in Vienna on Hallmark. Antonio Coopo plays best friend Matthew.
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  Speaker 1: He has seventy four acting credits, including a role on
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  Speaker 1: Unreal Bingo as well as Hallmark movies Love the Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 1: Day Parade, Garage Sale, Mysteries, A Glenn Brook Christmas, Christmas
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  Speaker 1: at the Golden Dragon, and A winning Team. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I think about when I see the title, A
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  Speaker 1: winning team, don't you? Okay, I'm not even not even
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  Speaker 1: mentioning it. Moving on. Eric McCormick, best known as Will
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  Speaker 1: Truman from Will and Grace, has seventy nine acting credits
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  Speaker 1: and voices the Dog of Garth. The screenplay was written
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  Speaker 1: by Betsy Morris Wes nine acting credits, including the Wedding
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  Speaker 1: Veil Inspiration from earlier in twenty twenty three, as well
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  Speaker 1: as A Kids Met Christmas and snow Coming. Okay, here's
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  Speaker 1: my question for you. Well, first of all, I asked
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  Speaker 1: you earlier off Mike. Did we enjoy the wedding veil inspiration? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's yes, we did. I don't think we didn't like
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  Speaker 1: any of them. No, I don't think so either. It
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  Speaker 1: was the Autumn Racer Round two. In the round two,
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  Speaker 1: it's so hard to explain. And I watched a Chismic
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  Speaker 1: Christmas last year enjoyed it too. Snow Comming is a
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  Speaker 1: movie I'm not familiar with. I'm like, is this a
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  Speaker 1: play on like Homecoming? I believe? So ya? Oh okay.
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  Speaker 1: Director Andy Mikita has thirty two directing credits, including episodes
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  Speaker 1: of Hallmark series Cedar Cove, The Good Witch, and Chesapeake Shores,
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  Speaker 1: as well as Virgin River on Netflix. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: Virgin River needs to be added to our bingo card
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  Speaker 1: now because I think so too, there's some huge crossover
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  Speaker 1: between the two. We need to do a news and
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  Speaker 1: notes bingo card. Okay, Hey, Peter Benson, another busy actor,
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  Speaker 1: plays dog trainer Mark. This is another actor who gets
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  Speaker 1: the best friend energy treatment. Matti Finocchio plays coworker hero
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  Speaker 1: Drew and with one hundred acting credits. This guy deserves
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  Speaker 1: a leading role in a Homewark movie. Give it to me.
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  Speaker 1: You know he uh shared our Instagram recently. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, give this guy leading role and it
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  Speaker 1: was he re shared it with like praying hands. I
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  Speaker 1: love him. I love him. Mate. Toby Levins plays dead
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  Speaker 1: fiance Connor and has appeared in both Unreal and Once
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  Speaker 1: Upon a Time, as well as a ton of homework
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  Speaker 1: supporting actor roles. It's time for first impressions. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I have a video. I have a well it's given
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  Speaker 1: me an audio clip. Here can I play it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: This is it's a deep cut. I really don't know
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  Speaker 1: if many people are gonna get it, but here it goes.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of endearment, Shirley McClain one of the best
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  Speaker 1: scenes ever. But I thought that Emily's mom was giving
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  Speaker 1: Shirley McLain energy in this movie. Yeah, because Connor was
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  Speaker 1: such a dipshit. She's like for six hours. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: just thought, like I thought there was some parallel, parallel energy.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: My first impression is but one word, and it is redemption.
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  Speaker 2: Totally tale.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about what we liked. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: just love so much about this movie. Let's just put
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  Speaker 1: it out there. But I'm going to start at the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: I loved the relationship between the woman who raised Garth
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  Speaker 1: and baby puppy Garth and when oh she said goodbye Cry. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that tracks because you were training a puppy right now.
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  Speaker 1: You found that very relatable, I'm guessing yeah, except that
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  Speaker 1: dog is way better behaved than my dog. You mean,
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't take your dog into a restaurant and be
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  Speaker 1: like down under under the table. Yet I see dogs
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  Speaker 1: at home deepot, and I'm like, Nope, we're not there yet.
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  Speaker 1: Someday we're not there yet. You will, You'll get there someday.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of I very much like this movie too. While
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  Speaker 1: I was watching it, I texted Megan. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: have you watched Guiding Emily yet? It's so good. Usually
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  Speaker 1: we don't do a lot of that. Sometimes I'll text
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  Speaker 1: you and be like this is real bad or this,
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  Speaker 1: but this one was really good. And this is what
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  Speaker 1: I liked so much about it. When Garth says this
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  Speaker 1: is the last time she'll see me, it set up
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  Speaker 1: such good suspense for me because it tells the audience
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  Speaker 1: Emily's gonna lose her sight at some point, but we
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  Speaker 1: don't know how or when it's going to happen. So
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  Speaker 1: for every like scene after that, there's like a car ride,
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  Speaker 1: She's crossing the street like, I'm like, how's it gonna happen?
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  Speaker 1: How's it gonna happen? And then spoiler alert if you
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  Speaker 1: haven't watched the movie, skip right through this part when
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  Speaker 1: the rock falls and hits her in the head. I gash,
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  Speaker 1: like this, I did this. It was so good. I agree,
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  Speaker 1: I agree, it was so good. Look, we just touched
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  Speaker 1: on this. I loved Mattie Finocchio's best friend energy in
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  Speaker 1: this movie. And while I want to see him play
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  Speaker 1: the lead in the main love interest, he just shone
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  Speaker 1: in this movie the way he showed up for Emily.
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  Speaker 1: He had these like kind of funny comedic moments, but
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  Speaker 1: he also was like this rock behind her, and he
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  Speaker 1: was like, we're gonna kind of push you along the
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  Speaker 1: way and step back when it's time, but we're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna let you just crawl into a hole and give
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  Speaker 1: up on the line, that's the kind of friend you want. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I loved it. And then he makes an app that
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  Speaker 1: you can hear the scratch, the sound of crossing something
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  Speaker 1: off your to do list. I knew you would love it,
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  Speaker 1: as I did.
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  Speaker 2: Love that.
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  Speaker 1: I love him. I thought Sarah Drew was incredible. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not familiar with her. When I was looking through her IMDb,
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  Speaker 1: I saw that she had played a mom on the
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  Speaker 1: free Form show Cruel Summer the first season of it,
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  Speaker 1: which is a really good show. Second season didn't like
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  Speaker 1: so much. First season was really good, and I was like, ah,
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  Speaker 1: that's the face. But I thought she was incredible. I
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  Speaker 1: found her so believable. She is a great actor. There
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  Speaker 1: were several scenes that just sent me, let me go
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  Speaker 1: through them, please. When she wakes up in the hospital
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  Speaker 1: room and she's like freaking out a little bit, but
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  Speaker 1: like it is like asking questions, like what happened? When happened?
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was really good. After they take the
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  Speaker 1: bandages off and she still can't see and she's like,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say anything. I was crying. I don't cry
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  Speaker 1: during Hallmark movies hardly ever. I usually fall asleep. I
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  Speaker 1: did not fall asleep in this one. When her jerk
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend says he's moving to Tokyo and she's like, you
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  Speaker 1: need to leave, like right now? I was like yes.
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  Speaker 1: And even her interactions with the neighbor girls Zoe, like
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  Speaker 1: she's so warm and like sweet to this girl, like
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  Speaker 1: she has just been blinded. She has lots, but she
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  Speaker 1: she's so like offering advice.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, it was just so good.
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  Speaker 1: We mentioned Gray's Anatoy. She was on that show over
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  Speaker 1: ten years, on a dramatic show, getting those acting chops.
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  Speaker 1: She had this storyline on Grey's Anatomy where she was
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  Speaker 1: pregnant with the baby who had a condition that was
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  Speaker 1: not compatible with life. Oh and she played a very
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  Speaker 1: hardcore Christian on that show who didn't believe in abortion
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  Speaker 1: and who didn't and there's this really incredible scene where
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  Speaker 1: she finds out what like that the baby has and
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  Speaker 1: how she's going to have to deliver that baby, and
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  Speaker 1: her mother in law and her husband are with her
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  Speaker 1: and she's like, how am I going to do this?
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  Speaker 1: I saw it on TikTok the other day. Do you
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  Speaker 1: ever see people share like clips of TV shows on TikTok.
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  Speaker 1: It's a weird tid of TikTok to be on because
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  Speaker 1: she'll get like a sixty second clip of a TV
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  Speaker 1: show and you're like, wait, now I need to see more.
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  Speaker 1: And as you've watched it, you'll start getting more clips,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'm like, why don't I just go watch
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  Speaker 1: the show now, I've watched five minutes of the show
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  Speaker 1: via sixty second clips. Anyway, and it was good. She
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  Speaker 1: could scene. She's great. She's great. I'd love to see
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  Speaker 1: her in more Hallmark movies. I wonder if she will
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  Speaker 1: or not. I don't know. I think she could. I
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  Speaker 1: think she's great. I thought Maddie really brought it again
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  Speaker 1: in the comedy. His line, I've watched a lot of
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  Speaker 1: unsolved mysteries and this is always how it starts to
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  Speaker 1: Connor was a real singer to me, speaking of real singers.
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  Speaker 1: The food server who helped her not once but twice
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  Speaker 1: in this movie, when she comes back to the restaurant
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  Speaker 1: she's with Matthew now, the server says like the Kane
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  Speaker 1: isn't the only new upgrade. I was like, I love
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  Speaker 1: the lines in this movie. I loved Lindy. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned it earlier loved her mom, Martha played by Christine Willis,
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  Speaker 1: when she just lays into Connor for being like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to say that Connor was a jerk. I
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  Speaker 1: actually thought Connor was a really nice guy until like
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't cope. I thought he was a nice guy
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  Speaker 1: until she got hurt. But you don't just get to
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  Speaker 1: be a nice guy for the good part. It's in
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  Speaker 1: sickness and in hell. I agree. He fell down on
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  Speaker 1: the job, as she said. And that's one of the
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  Speaker 1: things I liked about this movie that I often don't
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  Speaker 1: like about movies where they start off in one relationship
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  Speaker 1: and end up in another. I thought they did that
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  Speaker 1: really well. She was all in on that relationship with Connor.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't like they were a bad match. They clearly
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  Speaker 1: seemed like they were good for each other in a
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: lot of ways. She was still committed to him, even
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: once the crack started to show when he seemed to
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: not be willing to and I want to talk about
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: this and did you see that? But there were some
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: signs that he was struggling to do what she needed
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: him to do. Obviously, one of the most obvious is
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: when she gets left alone for six hours. What the hell?
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Man seriously and walks away from her when she's in
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: the bathroom. Could you even imagine this phone call is
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: so important I have to walk outside and leave my
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: recently blinded girlfriend on her first day out in it. No,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: I just it's outrageous. So I thought they handled that
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: and that relationship was fully wrapped up before she even
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: began to have feelings. And whether or not she had
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: feelings for that friend before, it's not set up that way.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: It's just she genuinely was her best friend, right, and
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: she saw him in a different light after the fact.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I thought that was well done. I agree. It wasn't like, oh,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I have this relationship waiting in the wings for me
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: as my other one falls apart. Yeah, that's what I
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: was worried about when it started. I was like, oh, no,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Megan's gonna hate this because she's gonna jump relationships. But
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: I really didn't. I think they did it well. Yeah,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: And I also liked that Matthew showed up for her
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: as a friend and wasn't there with ulterior motives. And
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: even the first time when they almost kiss, he kind
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: of like puts that distance between them and to me,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I'm reading more into it, but it felt like he
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: was not trying to take advantage of this situation, like
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I'm here altruistically as your friend, not in the hopes
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: of getting this reward, so to speak. I really appreciated
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: that they had cast that included blind actors. Oh yeah,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about that in a minute. Okay.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: The other thing is there's some real Wowisowis in this movie, Dude,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with before this weekend, Antonio Coupo and
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Toby Levins who plays Connor, Like I know he was
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: like not a great character, but I think these men
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: are quite handsome. Oh, agree, agree, let's talk wish Okay.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I want to go back to the disabilbility elephant in
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: the room, Okay, and I just because people are talking
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: about it, this is an ongoing conversation we have here
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: about should characters with disabilities be played by actors with disabilities?
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: And typically I'm in favor of that strongly. Yeah, this
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: was a different case because you've got a character who
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: was sighted in the beginning of the movie and had
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: to go through the process of losing their sight. And
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I'm personally and I don't really get to be the
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: person to make that call, But as a viewer, I'm
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: okay with the choice to use a sided actor for
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: her role, particularly again to your point with using blind
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: actors to play other blind actors in the movie. Oh,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: how do you feel about that? While I was watching,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: there was a little bit of like push and pull
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: of what I was thinking. But I was like, well,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: how else would they have done it? You have a
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: sighted person who tragically becomes blind. I suppose the argument
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: is a blind person could have played a sided person. Okay,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: that's fair. That's fair too. I guess it's not a
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: clear line for me from this case. Okay, I opposed
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: to Chandler Massey's character in a previous movie. That was
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: a very clear line he should not have taken that role. Yeah,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: what's the feedback ban on that? Where are people landing
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: on that? I've seen people on both sides sides? Okay.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I don't want to be the person who's like, hmm,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter to me in this case. Sarah, you're
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: such a great actor. I don't want to say that.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I just what do you do in this case? I
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: don't know, gotcha. I thought they did a nice job
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: of talking about all of the modifications person who has
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: lost their sight can use. They talked about like descriptive
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: audio on television programs, And they showed her going through
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: the School for the Blind and her friend creating the app,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: And I was really interested in her desk set up.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: He's like, Oh, I've got a cup holder for your
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: coffee mugs. You don't accidentally knock it over on your desk. Yeah,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting. I think that's interesting too.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I get a little how do I say it?
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: My thought is like I'm curious as a viewer about
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the modifications. Yes. However, sometimes, like you know, when movies
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: are trying to teach us something and it comes off
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: as I guess maybe like the closest example of recent
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: is like The Love and the Great Smoking Mountains. Yeah,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: but did it feel like that a little bit to me? Oh?
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Because I felt Love and the Great Smoking Mountains to
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: me felt like and now a moment for learning? No? Oh, okay, yes,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I agree it was happening in that movie. In this movie, No,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: it was not happening like that. I thought it was
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: done well in this Okay, that's yes, that's how I
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: maybe want to learn more yes, it didn't feel like
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: they were taking a break from the story to teach
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: me something. Yes, I'm glad, I clarifyed, do you have
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: anything you wished for? I do just one. I'm not
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: sure I needed the voice of Garth oh regards. I
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: so disagree. Okay, you didn't enjoy it. I thought it
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: was cute, and I enjoyed his story, but his story
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: was so secondary to like, Sure, what was really happening
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: in this movie? Now, I'm very curious about the books
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: in that book series, like how that like develops. First
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: of all, when we have this talking dog, very cute.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I loved all of it. I love dogs. I'm here
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: for it. I thought, oh my god, this dog is
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: going to die. Oh I bet it happens in one
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: of the older book series. What do you think in
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: like the later book series. No, right, well, you know
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I did think when they're like it takes two years
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: of training, which makes sense, like you can't give a
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: puppy to a person who needs care. Yeah, that they
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: need to be fully dialed in on their training. Sure,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh man, two years in a lab
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: that maybe lives for Yeah, I know that made me sad.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I just thought about that. I don't know, like, I
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: just what did you think about the voiceover? So I
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: kind of loved it. So when I when we were
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: looking at this movie, when we were doing our schedule,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I saw Eric McCormick and I thought, oh my gosh,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Eric McCormick in a Hallmark movie. And then it said
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: as Garth, and I thought, oh gosh. I thought it
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: was First of all, Eric McCormick really shown as a dog.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Boys thought he was great. I love I didn't think
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: it sounded anything like him. Oh interesting, okay, but that's
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: just me.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: The other thing is I thought it was real cute.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I thought it added a little bit of sweetness and
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: light to the movie. I thought it helped us tell
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Garth's story a little bit more. Like I don't know
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: how else you would have. You couldn't made that connection
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: to Ken only, yeah, you couldn't. So because obviously the
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: woman's not gonna be like we saw you in a
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: coffee shop two years ago, totally totally what Garth remembers,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: which of course is silly and coincidental. I didn't mind that.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I didn't mind the like Garth remembers her throughout his life. Well,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: that she imprinted on him. Oh then I start to wonder, like,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: is does that really happen with dogs? You know, I
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: had lost a dog this summer, so like I think
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: about like what that dog thinks about? And then here
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: we have like this voiceover this dog is putting like
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: human thoughts to what dogs really feel or think. You know.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I know, well, okay, I hear you. Because last week
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: my dog did his first day real day at the
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: trainer and it was a little rough day for him.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I think a long day. M hmmm. They're nice to
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: him there, to be clear, I just think it's a lot,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: a lot of hard work. And when we got out
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: of the car when I got home, I like opened
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the door and I went to the backseat and he
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: was just sitting there and I kind of just like
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: leaned in and he just put his face next to
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: my face, and I applied all of those human emotion.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Are you just tired because you've been playing with other dogs?
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: All day? Are you like, don't make me go back right? So?
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: And I it took me, like he goes back tomorrow,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: but it's taken me a full six days. I really
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: was like, no, we're not doing this anymore stop it,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: which obviously I know is the wrong choice, and I
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: do think he genuinely liked it, but I applied all
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: of those human notions to him. Don't you need somebody
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: to be like, no, that's not what a dog is thinking. Well,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: and that's why I asked to you. I'm like, are
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: we doing the wrong thing? Is this terrible? Really? My
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: answer was noble. I sleep over it. Oh my gosh,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: my goad. I've laid awake being like, oh gosh, are
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: you ready for did to see that? Yes? I just
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: have a couple two little things. Okay. In the hospital,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: when Emily first wakes up, Connor's in a suit. Oh okay,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: he's in like a sport coat and a work shirt. Okay.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I don't understand the timeline they were hiking. He was
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: in hiking clothes. She goes to the hospital, she has surgery.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: At some point he's left the hospital, so maybe she's
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: been there for a day or two before she's conscious again.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: M hm.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: You went to work during that time, apparently, so, like
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I understand, maybe her mom comes and she's like, go home,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: take a shower, and you come back, but you're still
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: in like sitting in the hospital clothes. Yeah, that to
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: me was like such a foreshadowing of who his character
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: was when I saw that, Like, this is your priority
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: that you're already working? Yeah, how it couldn't have been
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: more than forty eight hours? Yeah, good catch? What's your
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: other one? Emily says, sprinkles don't go on donuts, And
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: what kind of wild take is that? Right? That's my
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: donut of choice. I love a sprinkles. I love many donuts.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I do not have a one true donut, but I
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: love a sprinkle. Who sprinkle donuts are very popular, I know,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I love a sprinkle. That was so weird? What a
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: weird note? I only have one? Did you see that?
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: And it was once? You know where Emily's wearing bandages
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: and sunglasses, and it's shot from the side, and I
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: can see that the bandage is like far enough away
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: from her eye that like she's I could see her
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: eyelashes blinking. Oh interesting. You know, obviously she's not like
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: walking around with real bandages taped to her eyes. I
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: mean they are real bandages. My point is like they're
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: probably not like really stuck on tightly. I just thought, well,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: that's weird. Maybe they're just blocking the light. They're not
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: actually like because she had graduated. At one point they
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: were like fully wrapped around her head, right, and then
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: she graduated too, they were just over her eyes, right.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Maybe she had graduated to like a looser bandage that
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: was blocking the light but allowed some airfling. I got
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: a question too as I was watching. I just just
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: thought about this. They didn't show her at all getting ready,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: getting dressed for the day, showering, any sort of like
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: self care stuff. Yes, And maybe it's just because it's
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: difficult to show that. She didn't want to portray a
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: blind person as a sighted person, you know, utting her
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: clothes on right exactly. I was actually like wondering, like, oh,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen any of that stuff. And then now
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: with some perspective, I'm like, oh, maybe because it would
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: have just maybe been in poor taste. I don't know. Yeah,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I'm always curious about details like that. I love logistics
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: and like the how to behind things right. And there
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: was one moment where she was learning to use the
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: walking stick and she was wearing this really cute outfit.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: She had like these like stripey pants on, and I
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: was like, what's the what's the logistics there right. I
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: did notice her clothes. They were all very cute. Let's
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: rate this movie, okay, I'm ready five stars?
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Did you?
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I gave it four point seven to five and it
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: was just because of the voiceover giving it four point
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: seven to five, because it feels wild to give a
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: movie five stars. I can't think of. There wasn't anything
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I didn't like. I loved it. Okay, see I feel
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: like a jerk knocking it down a little bit. You
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: didn't love the dog, It's okay. I loved the movie though.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: I thought the movie was incredible, and I use it
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, and I'm gonna say it,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Hamewark and Movie Mysteries puts out better movies than Hallmark often. Yes,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: what the hell I don't get I don't get it
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: what multiverse relate Hallmark drama movie. But it was on
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: movies and mysteries because cable subscriptions sometimes includes the Hallmark
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: channel but not Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. And they want
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: you to bump up that that extra Okay, that's my guess. Whatever,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: that's my guess. I love all the movie. I would
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: totally watch it again. Me too, Thanks for listening to
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: this week's episode of Girls Gone Hallmark. You heard our
• 31:36
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• 31:41
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• 31:45
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• 31:49
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• 31:50
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• 32:02
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