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Countdown to Christmas Preview · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a bonus episode
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  Speaker 1: of Long Story Short the podcast. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: and today is our preview special of Hallmarks Count Down
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  Speaker 1: to Christmas series of movies. It is October first today
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  Speaker 1: as this episode is dropping, so of course it's time
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  Speaker 1: to talk Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like this is a bonus bonus episode, totally
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  Speaker 2: bonus bonus.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, who would have thought that.
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  Speaker 2: We would be previewing Christmas movies this time last year?
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  Speaker 2: Like this Girl's Gotten Hamewark wasn't even a thought in
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  Speaker 2: my brain.
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  Speaker 1: And there anybody who doesn't know This Girl's Gone Homework
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  Speaker 1: was Wendy's brainchild. Wendy had never watched a Hallmark Christmas
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  Speaker 1: movie to last season, and she said, hey, let's recap them.
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  Speaker 1: And that has turned into a thing that we've done
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  Speaker 1: for the entire year, and that has really resonated with
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  Speaker 1: our audience. The one thing we don't know is we
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  Speaker 1: don't know if people who listen to our regular episodes
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  Speaker 1: are also listening to Hallmark or if those two entirely
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  Speaker 1: different audiences. So if you want to shoot us email
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  Speaker 1: and let us know which of the two types of
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  Speaker 1: episodes you like and listen to. You can always do
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  Speaker 1: that at Megan and Wendy at gmail dot com.
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  Speaker 2: I also want to know if listeners of the Hallmark
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  Speaker 2: episodes want us to continue this in twenty twenty two, Like,
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  Speaker 2: do you love these episodes so much that you want
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  Speaker 2: to hear more next year?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Would you be sad if they went away?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Let us know because that's the possibility. Just thrown it
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  Speaker 1: out there. So for Hallmark twenty twenty one, Hallmark has
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  Speaker 1: said they will have forty one new Christmas movies.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's bananas to me. What was it last year?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, thirty something, But there are some things
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  Speaker 1: that may throw a wrench into those plants.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm listening.
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  Speaker 1: Before I get to that, I want to say, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't know how to watch Hallmark Christmas movies, Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: you watch on cable on the Hallmark channel. I do, yes,
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  Speaker 1: My cable provider does not have Hallmarks, so I watch
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  Speaker 1: on the friendly app frn dly. I really like that
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  Speaker 1: app because not only does it have live and on
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  Speaker 1: demand programming, but you can record movies, which then you
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  Speaker 1: can fast forward through the commercials and my favorite thing
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  Speaker 1: is I can open up the guide and if I
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  Speaker 1: have forgotten to record a movie that played in the
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  Speaker 1: last seventy two hours, I can tap back in the
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  Speaker 1: guide hit record. It's immediately recorded and available for me
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  Speaker 1: to watch. So I love that it has more channels
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  Speaker 1: other than the two Hallmark channels available, but I typically
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  Speaker 1: only watch the Hallmark channels. So if you are looking
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  Speaker 1: for a way to watch Hallmark, the Hallmark Movies Now
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  Speaker 1: app is not it That is not going to have
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  Speaker 1: the new Hallmark movie releases, with the exception of I
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  Speaker 1: Believe one. So don't buy access to that app unless
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  Speaker 1: you want older movies, because you're not going to get
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  Speaker 1: the new and the best.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I have a question. You said the Friendly app
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  Speaker 2: has two of the Hallmark channels. It has the Mystery
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  Speaker 2: channel too.
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh oh.
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  Speaker 2: And I think aren't some of the new movies going
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  Speaker 2: to be on that channel too? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: They always are, and I will be honest that I
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  Speaker 1: typically don't watch those simply because I do not have
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  Speaker 1: all the time in the world. Friendly has the Weather Channel, UpTV, Pixel, Hallmark,
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark Movies, and Mystery Hallmark Drama. Get TV byu TV
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  Speaker 1: Game Show Network, The Outdoor Channel, Baby First QBC. So
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  Speaker 1: they've got quite a few.
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  Speaker 2: Let me talk about the Hallmark app for just a second.
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  Speaker 2: I know you always like bag on it that they
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  Speaker 2: have just like standard you know photos in there, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Canva Photostock photos. This is the first time I'm really
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  Speaker 2: looking at it, and I'm looking at all the movies
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  Speaker 2: from Countdown to Christmas. Some of these don't even have titles.
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  Speaker 2: Movie number ten, movie number eleven, movie number twelve, movie
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  Speaker 2: number thirteen. Oh my god, I mean, way to put
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  Speaker 2: the cart in front of the horse here.
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  Speaker 1: So funny. Wendy's talking about the Countdown to Christmas Hallmark app.
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  Speaker 1: And if you want to keep track of the movies
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  Speaker 1: that are coming and when they are airing, that's a
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  Speaker 1: great way to do it. And it will also show
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  Speaker 1: all many of their past Countdown to Christmas movies, so
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  Speaker 1: if you want to know when those are airing, if
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  Speaker 1: you want, you can create a checklist of movies to watch.
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  Speaker 1: But like Wendy said, if you look at Countdown to
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  Speaker 1: Christmas twenty twenty one, only the first nine movies have names,
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  Speaker 1: only three have photos. So Hallmark is notorious for creating
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  Speaker 1: these movies right down to the wire. Some of these
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  Speaker 1: movies have not been filmed yet, haven't even started production.
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  Speaker 1: Those that have been filmed, they have not all been
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  Speaker 1: fully edited to their completion. And I said, we may
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  Speaker 1: have trouble getting to forty one. And the reason is IATZE,
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  Speaker 1: which is the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it is one hundred and fifty thousand people
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  Speaker 1: that are IATZE members are dangerously close to striking. These
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  Speaker 1: are the USIATZE members. The Canadian IATCY members are currently
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  Speaker 1: under contract. Depending on what you read, a strike is
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  Speaker 1: either likely or possible. So could that affect Hallmark? The
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  Speaker 1: answer is maybe.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if they would be like, I mean, because
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  Speaker 2: it with this big old press release out that they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have all these movies and blah blah blah blah
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  Speaker 2: that I haven't even been filmed yet, would they just
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  Speaker 2: fully etcro and be like, well, because of circumstances, we
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  Speaker 2: only have nine four or whatever I think.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I will say far more than nine are filmed.
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  Speaker 1: The majority of them have been filmed. There are still
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  Speaker 1: several that have not, but many have been filmed, so
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  Speaker 1: it would be more than nine. But could that slow
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  Speaker 1: down editing, sound mixing, all of that. All of this
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  Speaker 1: to say, I don't know the hallwork would say anything
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  Speaker 1: because Hallmark changes their schedule. Hallmark removes movies from the
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  Speaker 1: schedule completely. We know that we had a movie last
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  Speaker 1: year that was part of the previous year's lineup that
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  Speaker 1: just disappeared. We know that the lineup changes. So currently
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  Speaker 1: the plan is for Hallmark to release a new movie Friday, Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: and Sunday for ten weeks. We don't know if that
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  Speaker 1: will stay the same. We don't know are they going
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  Speaker 1: to perform well on Fridays typically They did Saturday and
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  Speaker 1: Sunday last year, and then they had a full week
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  Speaker 1: of movies the week of Thanksgiving, new movies every single night.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they'll change their minds this year. We don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I would not consider anything they have put out to
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  Speaker 1: be set in stone at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, because honestly they could. If these movies are
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  Speaker 2: filmed but not edited, they could just keep them until
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  Speaker 2: next year.
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  Speaker 1: Right absolutely? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Wow, crazy. I'm I'm interested to see how this unfolds.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to make one more comment, and I
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  Speaker 1: promise we're gonna talk about the movies. But does the
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  Speaker 1: acronym GHAK mean anything GAC Yeah, No, how about Bill Abbott? No, okay,
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  Speaker 1: So Bill Abbot is the former CEO of the Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: Channel and he stepped down Slash was asked to leave
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning of twenty twenty. There were commercials featuring
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  Speaker 1: same sex couples and at the pressure of some groups,
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  Speaker 1: he had them removed and there was huge backlash that
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  Speaker 1: those commercials were removed, and he is no longer with
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  Speaker 1: the Hallmark Channel. He is now running It used to
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  Speaker 1: be called Great American Country is now called GAC Family,
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  Speaker 1: and they are all about cell American culture, lifestyle, and heritage.
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  Speaker 1: And although I can't find anything that directly says this,
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  Speaker 1: the feeling they talk about family friendly programming till they're
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  Speaker 1: blue in the face, and that the feeling is that
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  Speaker 1: family friendly translates to heterosexual couples only. There will be
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  Speaker 1: no LGBTQ content on GHAK Family. The big news in
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  Speaker 1: the GHAK world. And I only say this because obviously
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  Speaker 1: he was related to Hallmark and this news is also
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  Speaker 1: a Hallmark adjacent is that When Hope Calls, which is
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  Speaker 1: a spinoff for When Calls, the Heart program that was
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  Speaker 1: on Hallmark, will be going to GAC family and it
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  Speaker 1: will be starring Lori Laughlin. True. So there was a
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  Speaker 1: snarky tweet saying, apparently ex felon means family friendly, so
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  Speaker 1: you can have gone to prison, but you cannot be
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  Speaker 1: gay to fall under their family friendly umbrella. So, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: quite frankly, good riddence, Bill Abbott. I don't think Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: is one hundred percent had it in the right direction
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  Speaker 1: this year, and we'll talk about that, but I do
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  Speaker 1: think they are taking the tiniest of baby steps.
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  Speaker 2: I have a note about gak TV, so I did
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  Speaker 2: not know anything about this. I don't know what gak
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  Speaker 2: TV is whatever until you just told me, and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, huh, that's interesting. That sounds familiar. I follow
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  Speaker 2: Jenny Garth on Instagram because I'm a nine o two
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  Speaker 2: one o homer, and she's been filming a Christmas movie
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  Speaker 2: which I was hoping was for Hallmark Channel. So I
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  Speaker 2: just went back to look at it and she tags
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  Speaker 2: GAK TV and I was like, m wham, won't be
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  Speaker 2: watching that.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, that's unfortunate. Wow, come on, Jenny, I know,
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  Speaker 1: but I wonder.
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  Speaker 2: How the actors feel about that, Like, are you gonna
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  Speaker 2: I as an actor. Hypothetically, if I was an actor
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  Speaker 2: and they're like, oh, we have this movie for GAC
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  Speaker 2: do you want to do it, and knowing like their
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  Speaker 2: stance on it, I would have to like back out
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 1: Like I agree with you, but also I'm not depending anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Is it possible that movies get started before they have
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  Speaker 1: a home, because I know, like one of the Lifetime
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  Speaker 1: movies this year was purchased from another channel, like it
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  Speaker 1: already aired somewhere on Canadian television last year, and it
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  Speaker 1: was purchased for a Lifetime, So I don't have any
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  Speaker 1: idea of the timeline of what Jenny Garth knew. But
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you. I were I an in demand actress,
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  Speaker 1: would not be going to GAG TV for their Christmas movies.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know how much they know at the time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh one wait, wait, wait, one last note and then
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  Speaker 2: we will definitely definitely get into the Hallmark preview.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I also saw the press release for Lifetime Christmas Movies. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And I gotta say, there's a lot of movies over
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  Speaker 2: there that I want to watch, starring a lot of
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  Speaker 2: actors who have been in Hallmark movies who are like
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  Speaker 2: actors I want to see on my TV. So I
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  Speaker 2: think I'm going to be splitting time between Homework and
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  Speaker 2: Lifetime this Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Lifetime has a lesbian Christmas movie, yes, Christmas Tree.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Home just works their LGBTQ storylines like in with
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  Speaker 2: other side stories.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let them be the lead. So yeah, there are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of I agree. Child Michael Murray, who you love,
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  Speaker 1: is doing Hallmark this year. Yes, Raba McIntyre is doing
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  Speaker 1: Lifetime this year. Yeah. Oh did I say Hallmark Chad?
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  Speaker 1: Michael Murray, Chad, I just have Lifetime.
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  Speaker 2: But so you know, who's the Cindy Busbies in that
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  Speaker 2: movie with him? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: So now as we move forward, we are going to
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  Speaker 1: discuss Hallmark movies. There are so many made for TV
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  Speaker 1: Christmas movies coming out. Most platforms will have their own.
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark and Lifetime are the two big ones. They are
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  Speaker 1: going to have the big lineups. But I can guarantee
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  Speaker 1: you Netflix will have their own, Hulu did their own
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  Speaker 1: last year. All of the services. Paramount is probably likely
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  Speaker 1: to have their own. They did last year. It's starring
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  Speaker 1: Wan Pablo de Pays last year, so they're gonna be everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: We will not watch every single one, but in our
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  Speaker 1: house we watch a lot of made for TV Christmas
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  Speaker 1: movies and with that, let us hop in. Okay, So
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  Speaker 1: the countdown to Christmas kicks off Friday October second with You,
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  Speaker 1: Me and the Christmas Trees. No Friday, October twenty second,
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  Speaker 1: correct October twenty second. Normally the first movie out is
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  Speaker 1: kind of like a tester. Last year was jingle Bell Bride,
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  Speaker 1: not a great movie. This year is very interesting to
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  Speaker 1: me because it starts danaka mckeller, a Hallmarks sweetheart. So
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  Speaker 1: it's maybe they are reversing their strategy. They want to
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  Speaker 1: come out of the Gate strong this year, just like
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  Speaker 1: Paul Harvest came out of the Gate strong with Tyler Ryanes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it stars Benjamin Airs, but it also starts Jason Hurr,
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  Speaker 1: who was her Wonder Year's co star.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that's real cute. Now are they supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be a couple or she's coupled up with the
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  Speaker 2: other dude?
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  Speaker 1: Correct? Benjamin Eyers I believe is her love interest. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm most excited about about this movie?
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  Speaker 1: Tell me that it was written by our pale Julie
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  Speaker 1: Sherman Wolf.
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  Speaker 2: Look, this is one hundred percent the reason why I
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  Speaker 2: will be tuning into this movie because I love Julie
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  Speaker 2: Sherman Wolf. We interviewed her here on the podcast. I
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  Speaker 2: will drop a link to that in our show notes.
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  Speaker 2: But I love the way she writes. She writes for
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  Speaker 2: me like I get her jokes. I love it. So
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  Speaker 2: I am definitely definitely watching this one.
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  Speaker 1: And this movie is set in the town of Avon, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: The first movie of January, which was Taking a Shot
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  Speaker 1: at Love. You see why I want to call Taking
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  Speaker 1: the Reins Taking the Reins of Love Taking a Shot
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  Speaker 1: at Love, also was set and filmed in that town.
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  Speaker 1: Julie Shermanwolf lives in Connecticut herself. This is the town
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  Speaker 1: that made Wendy think, Hey, I'm gonna move to a
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  Speaker 1: small town and we're gonna run a coffee cart. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: So this story is Olivia is Connecticut's resident expert on evergreens, who,
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  Speaker 1: just days before the holiday, agrees to help Jack, a
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  Speaker 1: fourth generation Christmas tree farmer in Avon. A mysterious illness
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  Speaker 1: has befallen their furs, causing them to die out and
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  Speaker 1: threatening his family's one hundred year old business hold On,
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  Speaker 1: Wait for the Wait for the pun. As Olivia tries
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  Speaker 1: to get to the root of the problem and extends
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  Speaker 1: her stay in town, she and Jack spend more time
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  Speaker 1: together and feelings begin to develop. I love a Christmas
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  Speaker 1: tree farm Christmas movie. I'm excited for this. I know
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  Speaker 1: the answer to this. But is this a skip or
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  Speaker 1: is this a watch?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? This is a watch for me, Watch for me.
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  Speaker 2: I love the idea of a Christmas tree farm too.
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  Speaker 2: I think mysterious illnesses with trees is fair believable. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm super into it. I don't I can't tell you
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  Speaker 2: that I've ever seen Danica mcckellor in any other homework movie.
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  Speaker 2: I know she's been in a ton I don't really
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  Speaker 2: know her as an actress other than The Wonder Years,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't know about casting so much. But I
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  Speaker 2: am excited about the story and the setting.
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  Speaker 1: Same same yay. Next the next night, Boyfriends of Christmas Past,
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  Speaker 1: and the stars are Katherine Hayni, Kim Raymond a Black,
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  Speaker 1: and Paul sun hung Lee Raymond a Black. Did you
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  Speaker 1: look at the photos?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't recognize any of these names.
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  Speaker 1: He was in Ginny and Georgia and he played the
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  Speaker 1: restaurant owner. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I really liked him in Ginny and Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Me too. I am so excited. First of all, let
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  Speaker 1: me just say thank you for this diverse cast. We
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  Speaker 1: have three three non white stars of this film. The
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  Speaker 1: synopsis is very brief. Leading up to Christmas, marketing executive
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  Speaker 1: Lauren is visited by the ghosts of four ex boyfriends.
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  Speaker 1: She must learn to open up her heart or risk
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  Speaker 1: losing her best friend, Nate. I'm excited for this movie
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  Speaker 1: has kind of like a Christmas Carol feel like he
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  Speaker 1: ghosts of boyfriend's past. Uh, this is a watch for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is definitely a watch for me. I love
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  Speaker 2: Christmas Carol themed movies. I liked there was one last year, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the Nashville one, Yes, which I loved, So I like that.
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  Speaker 2: And I like of boyfriend's past. That's kind of fun.
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  Speaker 2: So I am definitely definitely looking forward to this one.
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  Speaker 2: This will be a watch for me.
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  Speaker 1: And next The Santa Steakout starring Tamara Mawe Housley, Paul Campbell,
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  Speaker 1: and Joe Pantaliano Joey Pants.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why when I saw that he was
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  Speaker 2: in this movie. I immediately said, of Joey Pants, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why he has that nickname, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't I know that wasn't he in the Sopranos.
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  Speaker 1: No idea he was in the matrix is what's listed here,
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  Speaker 1: But it's possible.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just I have a feeling like Howard Stearn
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  Speaker 2: calls some jowey pants. Anyway, whatever, he's a good actor.
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  Speaker 2: He's one of those actors that you recognize his face,
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  Speaker 2: but he don't know what exactly like his name is
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  Speaker 2: or what he's been in, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So this is so fun to me. Tanya is a
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  Speaker 1: police detective who is reluctantly partnered with fellow detective Ryan
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  Speaker 1: to solve a recent string of heists taking place during
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  Speaker 1: high profile holiday parties. They go undercover as newlyweds moving
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  Speaker 1: into the vacant house next to mister Miller, the jovial
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  Speaker 1: chair of the community's Christmas committee and the prime suspect
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  Speaker 1: in the case. As Tanya and Ryan partake in the
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood's holiday happenings to keep up appearances and crack the case,
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  Speaker 1: they get swept up in Christmas before they know it.
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  Speaker 1: Their cover story is a couple in love starts to
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  Speaker 1: become reality. This is fun to me. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: it's a little bit different than some of the things
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  Speaker 1: we've seen. I love Tamara. Fun fact, Tia is in
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  Speaker 1: Miracle and MotorCity on Lifetime this year, so both sisters
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  Speaker 1: have a Christmas movie. I'm excited for this. This is
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  Speaker 1: a watch for me.
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  Speaker 2: This is definitely a watch for me as well. I
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  Speaker 2: love the like mysterious take on it that there's undercover
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: couple and also in one of the cast pictures that
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: I see in the background, they have like a full
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: wall of pictures and like strings attached to like pictures,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: you know, like a diagram, Like yeah, like a missing
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: person's type, Like, yes, you know, I'm into it.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: I'm fully into it.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: This is gonna be a weekend full of Christmas movies
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: for me.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, these are all watches for me.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Jumping to the following weekend, we have Christmas in Harmony.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Stars Ashley Murray from Riverdale, Luke James, Loretta Devine, Michelle Williams, Yes,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Destiny's Child Michelle Williams, and Basil Wallace. The synopsis is
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: very short. Harmony is tricked into auditioning for the Holiday
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Chorus directed by an ex boyfriend. By Christmas Eve, they
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: could be harmonizing in the key of love. This gets
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: the Cheesiest Synopsis Award for me again love a diverse cast,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: the short synopsis makes me worried. It's not always the
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: kiss of death, but sometimes it means we don't have
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: enough content to keep things moving and interesting. However, we
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: do have a deep list of stars. We don't just
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: have the two love interests. So sometimes that can keep
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: things moving with side things going on. Sometimes that means
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: there's too much going on. Yeah, and look, I'm glad
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: we have Michelle Williams who can actually sing. However, my
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: feeling is that singing competition movies can go south quickly.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Is that what your impression is of it, that it's
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: a singing competition movie?
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Not you're right, not necessarily just you know, the holiday chorus,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know, like we have the Nashville Christmas Carol,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: but the actual stage portions of that movie were terrible
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: if you recall. Sometimes the production value misses something for me.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: But for some reason I had read this as like
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: a chorus in a church, like.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I think you're right. I don't think it's
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: a competition. I'm just saying I think there's some sort
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: of holiday coorse. I do think it's some.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Sort of performance, But we'll see. How do you feel
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: about Is this a watch for you? Or is this
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: is a real maybe for me? Em this is like,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: let me turn it on and see it and if
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: it is not what I want then.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Okay, guys, I gotta tell you this next
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: movie Saturday, October thirtieth, Coyote Creek Christmas. The synopsis is
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: a Christmas around the world party helps two people find
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: love at home.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know what that means, but I know
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: who the cast is in this, and that alone makes
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: me want to watch it.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Yeh. Stars Janelle Parrish, who was in Right in front
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: of Me another Julie Sherman Wolfe movie, and Ryan Pavey,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: most recently from a little daytime drama. Although that was
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: not his strongest showing. I think he did a great job.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: That was not a great movie in my opinion. You
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: love Ryan Pavie, I do. I like both of these actors,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: and so I again the one sentence synopsis, how are
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: we going to make a movie out of a Christmas
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: around the World party. Is this Does this entire movie
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: take place during the party? That could be kind of fun.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Is it planning for the party? Are we going to
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: get two in the weeds with the details. I love
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: the idea of a Christmas around the World party. Honestly,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: if I think about I think homemark, you could have
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: gone one step further and made it Holidays around the world,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: just saying, not that Christmas isn't celebrated around the world,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: but I think that's fun. But show me your little
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Dutch us and the holiday food traditions around the world.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I went to. It was either a wedding or an
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: engagement party where the couple had met, like on an
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: around the world cruise. Yeah, like it didn't actually happen,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: but I think it did. And they had food stations
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: from all the places that they had been. That was
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: really cool. So I'm kind of getting those vibes. But
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I wrote skip what.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna skip a Ryan Page movie.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I know. I'm sure we'll be recapping this side note.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Our current plan is to recap one movie a week.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Popular demand will determine if that number increases. Yes, so
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: let us know what you think, guys and maybe we'll
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: let the people vote.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: I love that idea on Instagrastagram.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Yes, all right, Sunday, October thirty, first Halloween. Okay, okay,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: this movie is called Christmas Sale and this is like
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the nerd bait movie of the season. It starts Katie
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Sakoff from The Mandalorian, but she was also in Battlestar Galactica,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: which many people have strong positive feelings about. Patrick Sebang
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Oh lord, I'm so sorry, Sabogi or sebog Way. I
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: will look that up. From Firefly Lane. That's not a
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: nerd movie. That's just a Netflix adaptation of a book
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: by Kristin Hannah and Terry O'Quinn from Lost. Katie Sakoff
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: has a strong cult following. People love her. Our friend Sheila,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: who listens to this podcast but does not watch Hallmark movies,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: sent us a message upon seeing the announcement that she
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: would be in a movie and said, this will be
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: my first Hallmark movie.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I have no idea who this actress is.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: If you look her up, she might be familiar to you,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: but again, she kind of has like a face that's
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: very specific to these shows. You never watched Battlescuard Galactica, did.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: You No, No No.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: So that's not what this movie's about. It's when Liz
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: returns home to take care of her estranged fathers. She
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: is determined to give her daughter a perfect Christmas and
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: reconnects with her best friend. What are your feelings about
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: a sailing?
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I don't hate it, But where are they? Where does
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: this take place at? Though?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Would it be on the West coast because you know.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Well there's lots of you know, Vancouver's coastal, so I know,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: but I'm talking like on the East coast.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, if it takes place on the East coast, how
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: are you sailing at Christmas time?
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: It's freezing cold?
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm. You could do it on the West coast?
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Like could this be like a California movie takes place
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: in California?
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: My concern is that we may get green screenshots if
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: they're on the water.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I'm very curious to see how the sailing is done.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I like the idea of sailing in the movie, depending
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: on how well it's done, like put them actually in
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the water. Do they have the budget and the ability
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: for that? I don't know, but I do feel like
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: this is a great pull of non Hallmark movie actors
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: to try and bring in a new audience. Yeah, this
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: is a watch for me. Is it a watch for you?
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: It's no, not really.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: So I worry about this one because it is on Halloween.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I worry that they buried this movie. That said, I
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: don't watch any of these movies live for the most part,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: so you know what, the time that it's on doesn't
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: really bother me personally.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I record them all me neither me neither. This isn't
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: a real maybe not for me?
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Okay. Jumping ahead to the final weekend that we have
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: specific dates for, we have November fifth, open by Christmas,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: starring Alison Sweeney, Sammy from Days of Our Lives, Erica
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Durance from Smallville, and Brennan Elliott from Christmas in Vienna.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I only know Allison Sweeney.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know ye else. She's another Hallmark darling. She's
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: in Countdown to Christmas every year. There when Nikki finds
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: an unopen Christmas card from a high school secret admirer,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: she and her best friend Simone search to find and
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: thank the anonymous author. Guys, I like this premise. I'm intrigued.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I'm intrigued. This is a watch for me simply because
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: you know it's Alison Sweeney. You may or may not
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: know this. My husband is a huge Days of Our
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Lives fan. A very good friend of mine has worked
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: for Days of Our Lives for the past twenty years.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: It was my high school soap. But my husband still watches.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Fun fact, they have brought back the Marlena is Possessed
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: storyline of twenty years ago. And you know, I like Sammy.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I like Alison Sweeney. I'm into this premise of this movie.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Does she still play Sammy on Days of Our Lives?
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Ocasia? Oh really?
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Oh wow?
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: She kind of comes and goes. But I do believe
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: she's currently on the show. And what I like is
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: that we're not seeing. We're not seeing so much in
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the synopsis, which doesn't mean they're not in the movie.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: We're not seeing a lot of goes back to her
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: hometown and gets like sucked in. Now, that doesn't mean
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: that's not happening this she's high school secret admirer, but
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: that happens a lot. Like goes back to her hometown
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: and then stays forever because she realizes small town life
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: is for her. I feel like we wishful thinking. I
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: think we might hopefully, maybe we're turning a page Hallmark,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: We'll see. Do you care that I'm just reading all
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: of these Nope, Okay, I am so excited for this
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: next movie. So excited. Saturday, November six, Next Stop Christmas
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: stars Lindsay Fonseka Fine Chandler Massey, also from Days of
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Our Lives, Leah Thompson and Christopher Lloyd.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Is this back to the future?
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: It is a time travel movie. Angie wonders what her
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: life would be like if she had married a former
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: boyfriend who became a famous sportscaster. She takes a train
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: home to spend Christmas with her family and inexplicably finds
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: herself ten years in the past. With the advice of
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the train's enigmatic conductor played by Christopher Lloyd, Angie he
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: has the choice chance to revisit that Christmas and learn
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: what and who is truly important to her. Hello, Leeann
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Thompson and Christopher Lloyd. If they could get a Michael J.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Fox cameo, I would love that, but I understand that
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: he's not into that anymore.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: He's not into what cameos are acting.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Acting.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Oh really, has he been hired fully, I.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Don't Maybe he does cameos, but I'm guessing a Hallmark
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: could not afford him.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: H huh.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I'm so excited about this. Back to the Future is
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: one of my husband's favorite movies. He watches all through
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: movies every October. I can't wait. I'm really excited for this.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: So are we going to.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: See Christopher Lloyd as like crazy Doc mcstefan's or whatever
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: his name, what's.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: His name down? Doc Brown? Are we gonna see him as.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Why did I just have the Has your husband ever
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: been Doc Brown for Halloween?
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: No? Is that like a perfect Halloween costume for him?
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I should tell him, I'll tell you.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: The other thing is like, are we gonna are we
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: gonna hear like lines from Back to the Future?
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Like, I don't know, you know, because but even like
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Next Stop Christmas is almost feels like a line from
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Back to the Future, like Next Stop.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: The Future sieteen fifty five. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, I'm
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: into it. I hope, So, I hope, So, I hope
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: they lean in hard, Like look, I'm telling you right now,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: we got to recap this movie, and I'm hoping. Look,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Candice Cammon Barret's movie last year her. Yeah, that movie. Yeah,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: not a great movie.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: What Yeah, it was so good. One of the fun
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: things about it. We're all the Wizard of Oz Easter eggs,
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: and so I'm hoping this has that feel because I
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: want to go into it like I want to Okay
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: for those all right, all right, all right. The final
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: movie with a release date Sunday, November seventh, The Christmas
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Treasure starring Jordan Sparks Michael Xavier. And oh that's it,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Jordan Sparks, Michael Xavier. Okay, I know who Jordan Sparks is.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: American IDOL alumni.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Michael Xavier was on Christmas Comes twice. And Beware
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: of the Midwife. The synopsis is make excuse Me. After
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: opening a one hundred year old time capsule and meeting
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: a charming chef, Lou questions whether or not she should
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: move to New York after Christmas and further her writing career.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I would like to say this. There have been a
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: series of Christmas and Evergreen movies, and one of the
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Christmas and Evergreen movies featured this hidden time capsule slash
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: advent calendar that they happen to find behind it all. Yeah,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I remember, and I would. My note for this movie is,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: please make Time Capsule more believable than the pristine, hidden
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: sixty year old advent calendar in Evergreen that we are
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: supposed to believe was just built behind this wall and
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: nobody knew it was there and is in perfect condition.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Make me believe it, right. I absolutely agree with you,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I have. I have no thoughts on Jordan's sparks. I mean,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: she's an American idol alum. Is she going to sing?
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I don't think they like to. They like to have
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: these American idol alums sing. Although Kelly Pickler was in
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: a number of Hallmark movies and they usually have her sing.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: So the Jordan Sparks I think actually has talent. So
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: is this a watch or a skip for you?
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: This is a skip for me.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. Charming Chef, I don't know.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: We'll see I mean it's a Sunday night movie, like
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: uh huh. I will perhaps throw it on, but yeah,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: or watch it later. I mean I will definitely record it.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: But if I turn it on and I'm like no,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: I'm out or fits not on one of the ones
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: that we are officially going to review.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: I hear you.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: This synopsis doesn't really do it for me.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So beyond that, we have several movies that Hallmark
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: has announced. We know of other movies that they haven't
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: specifically announced, but they don't have release dates. The first
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: is Christmas at Castle Heart, which is in Ireland and
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: actually filmed on location. Stalls Lacey stars Lacey Shaper and
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Stuart Townsend.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Stuart Townsend, Why do I know that name?
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: He was in Salem. Have you seen Salem?
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: No?
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Brook Bennett goes to Ireland for Christmas to search for
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Irish roots. While there, she meets Aiden Hart, Earl of Glaslow.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Mistaken for an elite event planner, she's hired to host
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: his castle's epic Christmas party. I am just hoping we
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: get lots of authentic Irish accents, you know. I am
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: here for any movie filmed in Ireland. I love it.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: We loved as luck would have it this year, although
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: that had an incredible cast. I'm excited for this movie.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Well, Stewart Stuart Townsend is Irish. He is from Ireland.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Excellent.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Now I know the name is because he was with
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Charlie Stern.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: For a little while.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: They were Okay, a couple for several years. Okay, yeah,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: this is a yes for me.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Likely we have Queen of Christmas Candace Cameron Beret starring
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: with Fuller House co star John Brotherton.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Don't know who that is?
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: He played the vet, the other vet. Oh he was
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: super cute. Yeah yeah, And the Christmas Contest ex says
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Lara and Ben compete in a Christmas contest to win
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: money for the charity of their choosing. The city watches
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: them battle and choose what is more important, victory or love.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: This is a watch because cand Is Cameron Beret and
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: John Brotherton have that good like, joking antagonistic chemistry from
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Fuller House, and if they bring it to this movie.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: I don't always love like the ex's battling storyline, but
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: I think the too could make it work.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: I will definitely watch that just because of Candace Cameron
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: for sure. I mean, she makes a pretty good Christmas movie.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: So agree this next movie, I exclaimed out loud with
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: four people working in my house as I was reading
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: this press release. I am so excited to announce that
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: we are getting the Christmas House to deck those halls.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Did you watch the original Christmas House?
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: I did not, but I will watch it on a
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: repeat because I'm super excited about this.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: So this stars Robert Buckley, Anna I or Jonathan Bennett,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: who's my favorite, Sharon Lawrence, Treat Williams, and Brad Harder.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: So the synopsis is the Mitchell brothers compete to see
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: who can create the best Christmas house. I have totally
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: forgotten the premise of the previous movie, but my understanding
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: their parents had this like Christmas house that everybody would
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: like walk through every year, and I believe they were
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: selling it. But what was nice is there were like
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: three couples in the movie, and they each had their
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: own storyline, and one of the couples is a gay
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: couple and they are about to adopt, and so I
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: hope we see that baby in this movie. I loved
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: this cast. It was a fun movie and I'm glad
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: to see them coming back. I'm excited.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited for that one too.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Here's what I'm not excited about, Oh right, The Nine
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Kittens of Christmas.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: The title alone is a big fat no for me.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: This is a sequel. It's a sequel to the Nine
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Lives of Christmas, which I watch to God. This is
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: a skip for me. I'm sorry cat Lover, Zachary and
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Merrily are thrown back together at Christmas when they're task
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: with finding homes for a litter of adorable kittens. I'm sorry, no,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: thank you. It feels like a joke to me. It
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: feels like what SNL would tie Christmas movie. I agree,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Oh my god. But if it was puppies, I might
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: watch it. I mean, I'm sure there's a puppy movie.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: I like cats. This is the first one was fine.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: It doesn't need to be a sequel. Wow. We also
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: have Sister Swap a Hometown Holiday and Sister Swap Christmas
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: in the City. Is that two movies? And on movies
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: starring actual real life sisters Kimberly Williams Paisley and Ashley Williams.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Ashley Williams your recall from Never Kiss a Man on
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: a Christmasweater, which was not good. These are two movies.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: They are interconnected. They are basically it's a crossover movie.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: It says that they will share some scenes, there will
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: be scenes from different perspectives. What I can't figure out
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: and if anybody knows the answer to this, I think
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: these are both on the Hallmark Channel and not one
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: on movies and mysteries. But I don't know that is
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: my understanding. I am a little nervous.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: It sounds complicated.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: I'm less worried about it being they said the movies
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: will stand alone. You do not need to watch one
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: to understand the other. Great, Okay, here's my concern. Earlier
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: this year or the end of last year, I read
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: the novel Midnight Sun. Midnight Sun is the first Twilight
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: novel told from Edward's perspective. Now I read all four
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Twilight novels. I enjoyed the novel I enjoyed them. They
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: were a fun read for me. I'm not telling you
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: they're the greatest books ever written. I enjoyed them. I
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: watched all the movies. I was excited for this book
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: to come out, and for the first fifty or so pages,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: it was kind of nice to be back into that world.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: But what I didn't need was a page by page
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: read telling of the book from another character's perspective. I
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: didn't need four hundred pages of that. It got old
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: very fast, and I worry. I hope that they don't
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: overlap these too much. I hope they're not like, oh,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: we're gonna just because sometimes Hallmark movies don't have enough
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: content to be one movie right, much less too right. Yeah,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: so that's my concern with this movie. I love Kimberly Williams, Paisley,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: I like Ashley Williams, but never kiss a man on
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: a Christmas. Weater was such a stinker that I'm going in.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: And that's not her fault. It was a poorly written movie.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: It was a rushed movie. It was thrown together. It
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: didn't make a lot of sense. There were a lot
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: of holes. So I hope this is being talked about
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: so much, and I hope they do her right. I
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: am cautiously optimistic about these two movies. Okay, Okay, So
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: that brings us to a close of everything that Hallmark
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: has officially announced. However, we know there's a lot more coming.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: I just ran down stairus. I'm out of breath, guys,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. We know we're getting a Tyler Hines movie
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: called An Unexpected Christmas.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, where's the Tyler Hines movie? But
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: if I'm glad that there's one on the schedule.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, We're getting a movie starring Pat Monaghan train called
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Christmas in Tahoe.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I hope he sings.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: I love him, me too. Okay, We're getting another Nikki
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Diloch movie called Christmas for Keeps.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, We're getting a Terry Hatcher movie from Superman. Yeah,
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: from Deessford Housewife, but yes, yeah, same throwing it way back.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, that's a real deep cut on
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: a Hallmark Movies and mysteries. We are getting a Holly
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Robinson Pete movie called Christmas Bond, which has an autism
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: storyline and features an actor with autism. This is near
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: and dear to her heart because she has a son
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: with autism. So I like we've talked a lot about diversity,
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: how it's not just like different skin tone, and I
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: like that we have neurodiversity coming to Hallmark. Yes, me too,
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Me too.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Do you have a movie that you are most excited.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: About most excited about? No? I feel very level across
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: the board.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: So, okay, is there anything that you haven't seen announce
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: that you're hoping for?
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: M Well, is there a Christmas in Evergreen movie this year?
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: I have not seen anything, And honestly, I'm relieved because
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: I think they were reaching real deep and the fourth
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: one was not good.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, last year's was terrible. So I don't know.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: I just I want.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Something that's just entertaining and in the season of Christmas
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: and is not hokey, has good music, a little bit
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: of chemistry, you know.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with all of that. I hope we
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: see a lot of our favorites come back. I'm excited
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: for some of the newcomers, especially these newcomers that have
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: a new audio says that they're bringing over. I hope
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: they bring new life to the movies. I'm excited to
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: see the rest of the lineup. So you know, we'll
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: be here every week again. If you want more than
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: one recap from us, let us know Megan and Wendy
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: at gmail dot com and we'll be back next week.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: We're still in Fall Harvest. We're talking Love Strikes twice.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: We've got three more Fall Harvest movies coming at you
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: this year, so stick around. Have a great weekend, everybody.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Goodbye bye.