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Love on the Danube - Kissing Stars (Encore) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Hey, friends, we are back with you another OnCore episode
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Speaker 1: of Girls Gone Hallmark. This time it's the Love on
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Speaker 1: the Danube series of movies. These originally aired back in
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Speaker 1: fall of twenty twenty four on Hallmark Plus and that's
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Speaker 1: when we reviewed them, but we are re airing our
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Speaker 1: reviews in honor of their premiere on the Hallmark Channel. Enjoy.
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Speaker 1: This is a bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Homewark,
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Speaker 1: a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
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Speaker 1: Hallmark movie fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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Speaker 1: Today we're discussing Love on the Danube Kissing Stars, which
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Speaker 1: is streaming exclusively on Hallmark Plus streaming platform. You can
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Speaker 1: com with your thoughts on the podcast on these movies.
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Speaker 1: And I would like to share an email from listener
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Speaker 1: Paula and regards to love on the Danube Royal Getaway. Okay,
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Speaker 1: she says, I enjoyed the podcast, but I have one disagreement.
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Speaker 1: This is the first one where the prince didn't become
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Speaker 1: the king. Not much, but it's something. She also says,
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Speaker 1: now I feel bad I'm not going on the cruise.
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Speaker 1: I could be the single older lady that you could befriends. Oh,
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Speaker 1: little Catherine Dish, you should be our own personal Betty totally.
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Speaker 1: You know, I notoriously don't like the Royal movies, right,
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Speaker 1: I know you've seen a bunch. Do they do they?
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Speaker 1: Does the prince turn into the king? Usually or he's
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Speaker 1: in line. I think that's often the case. I don't
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Speaker 1: know that we've ever seen one where he's just like Noah, Man,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it to my brother. That is a
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Speaker 1: nice point that he just kind of steps out of line,
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Speaker 1: goes against type. We have a handful of Hallmark News
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Speaker 1: and Notes items to share with you before we jump
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Speaker 1: into this episode. How I do, Tyler Hines told fans
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Speaker 1: on Saturday during a Instagram live which I admittedly watched.
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Speaker 1: He and his friend, photographer Joshua Schultz are putting at
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Speaker 1: a full color coffee table book which will feature two
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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three images of Tyler Hines. To put
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Speaker 1: it on your Christmas list. Put it on your Christmas list.
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Speaker 1: It's available for pre order right now and it costs
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Speaker 1: sixty five dollars. I did watch the reel he posted
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Speaker 1: promoting the book, and the reel alone is beautifully produced.
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Speaker 1: So of course, look, you could publish two hundred and
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Speaker 1: thirty three Instagram photos of Tyler Hines and the people
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Speaker 1: would buy it. This is going to be a sellout,
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Speaker 1: you know. I got to say so. I was watching
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Speaker 1: his live and it was really quite sweet because he's like,
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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, seven hundred people, eight hundred people, nine
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Speaker 1: hundred people, one thousand people are watching this, and he's like,
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Speaker 1: this may incredibly uncomfortable, and like just going on and on,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, come on, you're like the biggest
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Speaker 1: star on the network. I'm like, are you really uncomfortable
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Speaker 1: jumping on in Rahm Live just to talk about like
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Speaker 1: what you got going on? But it was kind of sweet.
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Speaker 1: And then also he did make a mention about the
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Speaker 1: number of fake ounce claiming to be him or people
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Speaker 1: ohos uh huh. And he had made mention of like
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Speaker 1: the official like Facebook group and like shout it out,
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Speaker 1: like I think he said Donna Joe over who who
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Speaker 1: runs the group and like stays real on top of
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Speaker 1: it and tries to like, you know, weed out the fakies.
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Speaker 1: So that's a full time job over there. I can
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Speaker 1: only imagine. I can only imagine. But anyway, it was.
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Speaker 1: It was kind of cute and I can't believe that
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Speaker 1: I watch I did. I saw the replay and I
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Speaker 1: did watch a little bit of it. He's just very natural,
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Speaker 1: and I think your point about him being charmed by
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Speaker 1: like the audience, I do get the impression that either
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Speaker 1: he's a spectacular actor or he is just kind of
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Speaker 1: a genuine dude who's not super affected by the fame
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Speaker 1: of it all, Like he can enjoy it. For what
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Speaker 1: it is. That is such a good point considering the
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Speaker 1: movie we're gonna review. Oh yeah, tie in, I have
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Speaker 1: some thoughts about that topic in particular when we get
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Speaker 1: to our review, but I agree. I hope he's just
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Speaker 1: like this good dude. Well, we'll find out in about
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Speaker 1: one month here. Last week we mentioned actress Bethany Joy
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Speaker 1: Lenz has a memoir coming out. It comes out on
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Speaker 1: October twenty second and is called Dinner for Vampires Life
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Speaker 1: on a Cult TV Show. I do think there's like
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a play on words there, right,
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Speaker 1: because wasn't she herself also in a cult for ten years? Yes,
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Speaker 1: you read the article on heavy dot com when I
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Speaker 1: was putting these notes together. Yes, I think it's a
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Speaker 1: play on words. It's but yes, she was involved in
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Speaker 1: some sort of religious cult during Well. Apparently it is
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Speaker 1: getting good early reviews and is on the New York
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Speaker 1: Times list of books to read this fall. I gotta say,
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of interested in reading too, You kind of interested?
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Speaker 1: I mean, I hope's like she spills the tea, but
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Speaker 1: like I doubt it, I doubt it, I bet it.
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Speaker 1: I hope she does tell me everything, tell me about
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Speaker 1: the cult. Tell me about your co stars and all
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Speaker 1: the juicy tales there are to tell They're right. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you read you read this next note because I know
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Speaker 1: you're gonna know how to say this guy's name, and
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Speaker 1: I know you have like a personal connection. Well, Drake Hodgson,
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Speaker 1: who if you are a Days of our Lives san
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Speaker 1: is one John Black. He did pass over the weekend
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Speaker 1: after our battle with pancreatic cancer. Alie Sweeney wrote a
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Speaker 1: message about it was very touching. There were a number
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Speaker 1: of members of the Day's community who came out. I
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Speaker 1: have a very good friend who has worked for Days
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Speaker 1: of our Lives since we were in college. Like he
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Speaker 1: was an intern there. That was his first real job
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Speaker 1: and he's worked there ever since. And as soon as
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Speaker 1: I heard the news, well, I was sitting at a
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Speaker 1: baseball game with my husband and he gets a text
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Speaker 1: from a friend and he was like, oh no, and
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Speaker 1: I said what happened? He was It's John, and I
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Speaker 1: was like John, who he goes? John Black? Anyway, I
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Speaker 1: immediately sent a message to my friend and he mentioned
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Speaker 1: just how devastated they all were. So our thoughts are
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Speaker 1: with the Days of Our Lives community. That is a
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Speaker 1: big loss, so sad. He did appear in the twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty homework movie Christmas Tree Lane with Alicia Whitt and
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Speaker 1: Andrew Walker. I know I've seen the movie, but I
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Speaker 1: don't know if I recall that scene. All right, Let's
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Speaker 1: talk Love on the Danube Kissing Stars with a synopsis. Savannah,
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Speaker 1: a publicist reluctantly works with Tripp, a celebrity who is
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Speaker 1: having trouble connecting with his fans, aboard a cruise promoting
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Speaker 1: his latest film, Sar Sarah Power and Brendan Penny. Peter
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Speaker 1: Benson directed Love on the Danube Kissing Stars. Peter Benson
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Speaker 1: is busy as both an actor and director, with one
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Speaker 1: hundred seventy acting credits and seventeen directing credits. His other
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Speaker 1: directorial projects include recently Blind Date, Book Club, The Santas Stakeout,
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Speaker 1: Sweet Carolina, and The Wedding Veil Expectations. Agnes Bristow and
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Speaker 1: Andrea Canning wrote the script for Kissing Stars. Agnes Bristow
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Speaker 1: has produced thirty one movies and has written eight, including
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Speaker 1: the upcoming My Sweet Austrian Holiday starring daughter Britney Bristow
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Speaker 1: and Will Kemp. Andrea Canning has twenty five writing credits,
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Speaker 1: including the Love Song installment of Love on the Danube.
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Speaker 1: Her additional credits include A Merry Scottish Christmas, A Paris Proposal,
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Speaker 1: and South Beach Love. Sarah Powers stars as Savannah. Sarah
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Speaker 1: has thirty acting credits, including her role as Abigail on
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Speaker 1: the Goodwitch series. She reunites with Goodwitch co star Katherine
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Speaker 1: Disher in this installment of Love on the Danube. I
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Speaker 1: gotta tell you, I was like, I'm familiar with Sarah Power.
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Speaker 1: I don't think we've ever reviewed a movie with her,
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Speaker 1: So I went back through her IMDb and the last
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Speaker 1: movie I actually did watch with her, and it was
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Speaker 1: My Italian Christmas Memories, Yes, which we did not review
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Speaker 1: for the podcast, but it was so good. It was
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Speaker 1: so good. It was such a good movie. So now
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Speaker 1: I can put the name in the faces together because
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Speaker 1: I can't remember where Penny plays trip. This Mark's Brendan's
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Speaker 1: fifty ninth acting credit. We've seen Brennan in The Wedding, Cottage,
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Speaker 1: Family Practice, Mysteries in Mary Measure and Beverly Hill's Wedding.
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Speaker 1: Brennan stars in the upcoming a novel Noel, along with
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Speaker 1: Julie Gan in the Miracles of Christmas lineup once again.
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Speaker 1: Catherine Disher, Catherine Drysdale and Mark Holden return as Betty,
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Speaker 1: Teddy and the Captain Betty and Teddy. Gerald Kid plays
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Speaker 1: Rex Callahan. Jerald fifty seven acting credits include a long
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Speaker 1: running role in the series Casualty, as well as one
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Speaker 1: season thriller called Person's Unknown. Although this appears to be
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Speaker 1: his mark performance, he did appear in The Sister Bonifaces,
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Speaker 1: available to stream on BritBox. Katie Sheridan plays Ailah. We
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Speaker 1: last saw Katie on Hallmark in twenty twenty two in
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Speaker 1: The Royal Nanny. Since then, she has appeared in Frankenstein Legacy,
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Speaker 1: The Jury, Murder Trial and Bogieville. Johnny Welde plays Master
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Speaker 1: of Ceremonies Liam. Among his eighteen acting credits includes a
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Speaker 1: role in the Netflix series One Day, the Amazon Prime
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Speaker 1: movie People We Hate at the Wedding, and the Netflix
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Speaker 1: holiday movie Christmas at Mistletoe Farm. What was your first
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Speaker 1: impression of kissing stars? Well, three movies later, I'm convinced
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Speaker 1: this should be a one hour series. Oh, my first
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Speaker 1: impression is we did not get more boat stuff as
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Speaker 1: we had once wished. We did not. We did get
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Speaker 1: a lot of like boat branding in this movie, though, yes,
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Speaker 1: I noticed that lot lots lot thoughts. All right, let's
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Speaker 1: talk about what we liked about Kissing Stars. First of all,
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Speaker 1: I thought this was fun on a personal level. With
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Speaker 1: the Hallmark cruise looming about five weeks away, it feels
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Speaker 1: like the storyline can't be accidental in that regard. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: just to me, it seems like it's betta be inspired
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Speaker 1: by Don't you think? I do think so. However, my
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Speaker 1: favorite thing about this particular movie, and quite frankly the
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Speaker 1: trilogy of movies together, is the character of Betty. I
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Speaker 1: think Catherine Disher gives such a warm performance in this movie.
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Speaker 1: Particularly loved the way she reconnects with Rex, who's a
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Speaker 1: total Wowi's awie, and I think it gives us a
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Speaker 1: much richer look at her character and her past, and
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Speaker 1: so rather than being a supporting character, her story gets
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Speaker 1: rounded out in this moment, we get to root for
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Speaker 1: Betty instead of Betty being the cheerleader for love that
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Speaker 1: she has been in the past few movies. Yeah, I agree,
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Speaker 1: she is a real standout. Of course, all three movies.
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Speaker 1: I did like that we kind of got like a
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Speaker 1: like you said, like a concluded storyline with her. Yes,
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Speaker 1: she's great, she's super great. She should be in more
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Speaker 1: homework stuff. Yeah, and I agree with you too, Like
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Speaker 1: I did think this the through line here with the convention,
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Speaker 1: the rom con convention was funny. It's very meta. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and I do believe there's gotta be like it was
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Speaker 1: on purpose. It has to be. It's just funny. It
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Speaker 1: was just so funny. I was like, I can't believe
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Speaker 1: we're gonna be living that in the like the next
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Speaker 1: few weeks, right, And I just hope that the stars
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Speaker 1: don't act like Trip did. Yes, since it couldn't be bothered.
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Speaker 1: Are there things you liked? Yeah, you touched on both
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Speaker 1: of mine, but I have one more. I did enjoy
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Speaker 1: Brendan Penny and Sarah Power. I thought Brendan Penny was great.
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Speaker 1: I like, I like him in most things. I thought
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Speaker 1: the pairing with Sarah Power was solid. I didn't I
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Speaker 1: didn't think if they were like it wasn't like explosive chemistry.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, not hot and spicy. No, but
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Speaker 1: I did really like the bike riding scene. They're like
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Speaker 1: trying to get back to the boat and then they
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Speaker 1: take the bikes and it's like beautiful scenery and they're
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Speaker 1: like riding down like the shoreline or whatever. And then
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Speaker 1: they take a break and they share like how they
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Speaker 1: feel about each other. I was like, Oh, this is
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Speaker 1: so nice and refreshing. I like this. I'm like I
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Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, me too. I like that bike riding scene.
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Speaker 1: And she's like, oh, can we take a break. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: you don't look even a little bit tired, I know.
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Speaker 1: And honestly, I was like, how are these nott E bikes? Yes?
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Speaker 1: I was just gonna say the same thing. Are they
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Speaker 1: that electric? Could you not get a bird scooter in Budapest? Something? Something?
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Speaker 1: I mean, I would be more apt to reddit e
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Speaker 1: bike than like a real bike, you know, just for sure.
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Speaker 1: It's a long ride apparently, right, they're both really far away,
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh boy, anyway, I liked I like
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Speaker 1: that scene a lot. And actually in that scene and
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Speaker 1: I'm watching this and the way it was shot was
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Speaker 1: was really beautiful, and I thought, oh, this is why
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Speaker 1: people like Hallmark movies, because they're like dream I know,
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Speaker 1: five years later, you know, they're dreamy. Yes, can it
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Speaker 1: escape to it? Like they have these like perfect relationships
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Speaker 1: and these moments that you can't really access in real life.
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Speaker 1: I don't think, at least I don't. I think that's
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Speaker 1: a perfect summation of yes, why people come to Hallmark,
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Speaker 1: and kind of speaks to my thoughts on this collection
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Speaker 1: in general. I think overall these story movies, it does
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Speaker 1: say on the app they love in the Danube collection,
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Speaker 1: I do think there's certainly room for more of these movies.
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Speaker 1: I really like your idea of it being a one
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Speaker 1: hour series, which actually means like a forty four minute
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Speaker 1: episode series, because I think that's a little more interesting.
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Speaker 1: What I was trying to say is I think this
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Speaker 1: series was fine. Like watching it, I found them very
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Speaker 1: pleasant to watch and very easy to watch, and I
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Speaker 1: think it really does speak to being very classically Hallmarked,
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Speaker 1: with the beautiful setting, with the low stakes drama, the
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Speaker 1: tie in with some characters who we could root for.
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Speaker 1: I think these were solid, if not earth shattering. So
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Speaker 1: it's funny when I look at the collection as a whole,
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Speaker 1: the three movies, I like the first one the best
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Speaker 1: out of all of them, I think, But when I say,
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Speaker 1: like they should be a series instead, I can't help
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Speaker 1: but like harken back to the love boat, which was
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Speaker 1: mentioned in this particular movie. I think it would be
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Speaker 1: more interesting to get to like the brass tacks of
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Speaker 1: the story of the couple in forty four minutes rather
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Speaker 1: than it feels a little drawn out. For That's that
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Speaker 1: is why I'm drawn to the one hour format, because
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Speaker 1: I agree we don't necessarily particularly once this setup has
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Speaker 1: been made, like we get the whole boat situation. And
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Speaker 1: I think part of why this movie works for me
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Speaker 1: is because Betty's storyline was fleshed out a little bit more,
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Speaker 1: and so it gave us more to root for. But
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Speaker 1: I think, yes, one hour to get to the couples
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Speaker 1: and then we have a little bit It's like a
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Speaker 1: science seal delivered. Right, we could dig in more on
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Speaker 1: the relationships on the boat. If we're going to get
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Speaker 1: those characters week after week, we don't just have to
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Speaker 1: stick to them as like the captain and the cruise
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Speaker 1: director and them being like helping along the narration of
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Speaker 1: the love story. They can have their own storylines, right,
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Speaker 1: Teddy needs a love interest the cab right, the second
17:51
Speaker 1: chance romance? You know it can, Yeah, And Teddy's love
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Speaker 1: interest is probably gonna have to be on board, because
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Speaker 1: she said, like, I'm too transitor to be in a
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Speaker 1: relationship with the job that I have right now. And
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Speaker 1: I think, like, first, okay, two thoughts. One, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: necessarily have to be forty four minutes either because it's
18:09
Speaker 1: on streaming it they have a little more flexibility there.
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Speaker 1: It can it could be fifty two minutes, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean, Like they don't have to break for
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Speaker 1: commercial if it's gonna stay streaming, you know how, some
18:21
Speaker 1: like some Netflix shows will vary in their times, like
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Speaker 1: if an episodic series, for sure, it'll be like twenty
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Speaker 1: five minutes, twenty seven minutes, thirty one minutes. I think
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Speaker 1: the reason I noticed that The Chicken Sisters, for example,
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Speaker 1: is like set at like that forty four minute length.
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Speaker 1: And I think they Hallmark does it because they're like,
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Speaker 1: I got this other programming that I need to make
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Speaker 1: sure these are interchangeable when the time comes. But you're right,
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Speaker 1: they don't have to be, and then they could when
18:47
Speaker 1: that time comes, edit out those six minutes, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. They make it work exactly, But I
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Speaker 1: also think it leaves the door open for so many
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Speaker 1: like Hallmark guest stars to come in and like we
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Speaker 1: mentioned before, like a mystery or like you know, like
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Speaker 1: different directors or whatever. I just I think there's something
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Speaker 1: to play with there. Yeah, I don't know if I
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Speaker 1: don't know if I would be like interested in watching
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Speaker 1: like another three movies in this I'm Daniel before we're
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Speaker 1: on the same page there. Speaking of Hallmark stars, can
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Speaker 1: we talk wishes? Sure? I think there's a real missed
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Speaker 1: opportunity to not have some Hallmark cameos on board the
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Speaker 1: ship totally. I was like, you got all these other
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Speaker 1: b plot stars who don't really have a lot going
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Speaker 1: on other than Rex. Why did we not have fake stars?
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Speaker 1: So there's got to be someone who's available, someone in
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Speaker 1: the area. Yeah, I think so, like there weren't there.
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Speaker 1: Didn't they shoot this all at one time together? I
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Speaker 1: don't you might be right, I don't know. I just
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Speaker 1: would have enjoyed the Easter egg. Yeah, that would have
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Speaker 1: been a good ey Yeah, like the Easter eag idea.
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Speaker 1: So you know what I was thinking, And this isn't
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Speaker 1: really a wish, It was just an observation and I'm
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Speaker 1: just gonna drop it here. I didn't really realize at
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Speaker 1: first how the male leads in all three of these
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Speaker 1: movies are like pretty big Hallmark stars, right, oh uh huh.
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Speaker 1: And it's like a male driven story. I would be
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Speaker 1: interested perhaps and seeing it flipped to being like, or
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Speaker 1: could we get a big female name attached to the
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Speaker 1: next collection of movies? Yeah, it is heavy on the
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Speaker 1: male leads, especially in the second and third movies. Yeah,
20:43
Speaker 1: I have two more wishes. Okay, I'm back to Catherine Disher.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I so for me, it was weird that, like,
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Speaker 1: she was not romantically involved with the Rex. But if
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Speaker 1: she was going to end up with anybody, I thought
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Speaker 1: it was Reynold from the second movie. Oh uh huh,
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Speaker 1: not this, not this actor dude who was just on
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Speaker 1: the cruise. I just I thought it was weird. Well,
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Speaker 1: does it make you happy that they don't end up together? Though, yes,
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Speaker 1: it does because I think she's destined for Reynolds, That's
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Speaker 1: why I yeah, I think it still leaves that open.
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Speaker 1: I think it was just a nice moment for her
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Speaker 1: to be seen, you know, ow he remembers that moment
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Speaker 1: that they had. I agree. I didn't feel like Rex
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Speaker 1: was endgame for Betty either. And then the other thing
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Speaker 1: is I was so pissed for Savannah when Trip denies
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Speaker 1: being in a relationship when he was questioned when he
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Speaker 1: was sitting on that panel, and if I remember correctly,
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Speaker 1: it was because he was worried about his like his
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Speaker 1: image as being a single leading man, right, uh huh,
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Speaker 1: therefore he can't be in an actual, real life relationship.
21:52
Speaker 1: So then it made me wonder, like how Calmon is
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Speaker 1: that like for an actor to have to lead a
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Speaker 1: very private life because he doesn't want it to ruin
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Speaker 1: like his image as a you know, like a rom
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Speaker 1: com guy. I was thinking a lot about not only that,
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Speaker 1: could I be in a relationship with someone who doesn't
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Speaker 1: publicly acknowledge it. Like, on the one hand, it's like
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Speaker 1: I don't want everybody up in my business, you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to be subject to like paparazzi photos
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Speaker 1: because someone's interested in the person I'm dating. But at
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Speaker 1: the same time, I also don't want you to deny
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Speaker 1: that we're in a relationship. Yeah, so I would not
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Speaker 1: like that at all. I think it's fraught top to bottom.
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Speaker 1: But my ego could not handle like you not publicly
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Speaker 1: acknowledging me no, as a partner, forget about it. No,
22:48
Speaker 1: no way. No, maybe you don't call this person by name,
22:52
Speaker 1: but I it would have been perfectly acceptable to be like, oh, well,
22:55
Speaker 1: there is someone in my life and it's new and
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Speaker 1: I'm just seeing where it's going, or something more eloquent
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Speaker 1: than that. You don't to be like that's her right there,
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Speaker 1: the love of my life after four days, but acknowledge it, Yeah,
23:06
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. I was wondering, like, do our Hallmark stars
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Speaker 1: do this? Like? You know, the one I can think
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Speaker 1: of is like Tyler Hines, right, we know nothing about
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Speaker 1: this man's personal life, and is that on purpose because
23:23
Speaker 1: he wants to convey this image, you know when he
23:26
Speaker 1: makes these movies of like he's this hot single guy.
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Speaker 1: But part of me is like, dude, I mean give
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Speaker 1: and not that this is even his thought process at all,
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Speaker 1: but I was like, give your fans a little bit
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Speaker 1: of credit, Like I think we can understand or see
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Speaker 1: the difference between like a character and somebody's real life.
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Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, with Tyler, my close personal friend, I've
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Speaker 1: never really considered it to be like I want to
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Speaker 1: maintain this image is a hot single dude, as much
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Speaker 1: as I felt like I just want to keep something
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Speaker 1: for myself because the fans would be all over that.
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Speaker 1: I could understand me, like, I don't want people in
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Speaker 1: on this part of my life. Not because I want
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Speaker 1: you to think of me as like a hot, single
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Speaker 1: available dude so you can live out your Hallmark fantasies,
24:22
Speaker 1: but like some things are just for me and not
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Speaker 1: for the fans. Sure for sure, Again, I probably wouldn't
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Speaker 1: be great at that either, though. Why am I not
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Speaker 1: in your Instagram feed bro? Because I'm sure he has
24:37
Speaker 1: a like a public one and then like a what
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Speaker 1: are they called it a fensta or something? So sure
24:45
Speaker 1: a spam account, you know. I think that's what my
24:48
Speaker 1: kid calls it. Yes, I have too little wishes. Okay,
24:53
Speaker 1: back to my first impression after your comments about not
24:59
Speaker 1: getting enough boats to in the first two movies, it
25:01
Speaker 1: was I was hyper aware of it. Watching this movie
25:04
Speaker 1: and the extent to which they spend so little time
25:06
Speaker 1: on the boat and have all of these cruise related
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Speaker 1: events off the boat, I thought was shocking. That's not
25:13
Speaker 1: going to be the case with our cruise. Another small
25:17
Speaker 1: thing is, as we mentioned, these are edited so that
25:22
Speaker 1: they can be made into TV releases, and so the
25:26
Speaker 1: commercial breaks are built in and this happens a lot.
25:31
Speaker 1: I've seen this happen a lot. I haven't seen it
25:32
Speaker 1: happen recently, but that one of the edits was really weird.
25:35
Speaker 1: Trip and Savannah are having a conversation and they're walking
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Speaker 1: and he's talking about what she wants and she's like,
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Speaker 1: I want to be loved, I want to be happy,
25:43
Speaker 1: and then cut to commercial. I was like, it's a
25:45
Speaker 1: real awkward edit right there, Like there's no closure on
25:48
Speaker 1: that moment. Yes, so it's weird. It happens a lot.
25:52
Speaker 1: They're like, we don't know how to end this scene,
25:54
Speaker 1: and we got a cut of a time there we go,
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Speaker 1: no big deal, ready for to see that? I am,
26:03
Speaker 1: did you clock Hallmark Jenny in her Trip? Can we
26:07
Speaker 1: get a Selphie cameo moment? Totally? She hadn't major cameos
26:12
Speaker 1: that there was one. She was behind Catherine one time,
26:15
Speaker 1: like waiting in line, and they showed her like up
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Speaker 1: close several times. Yes, like she had a line and everything.
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Speaker 1: That's really fun. I love that for her. Pretty cool, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: super fun. I was excited. I also loved that giant
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Speaker 1: Budapest Airports. I'm like, that looks cgi'ed on there. It
26:37
Speaker 1: totally did. I was going to lie. I forgot, I
26:40
Speaker 1: was going to look up like the Budapest airport. Yes,
26:45
Speaker 1: I swear we've seen whatever building this is in many
26:49
Speaker 1: other Hallmark movies used for the airport scene before, just
26:54
Speaker 1: this like glass fronted building with along sidewalk for taxis
26:58
Speaker 1: to be pulling up in front of many times. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, is that the smallest airport you've ever seen?
27:04
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, crazy, let's use this doctor's office frontage
27:08
Speaker 1: as our airport scene. At one point, Brendan's character is
27:13
Speaker 1: wearing like those leader Hosen song or whatever. Oh uh huh.
27:19
Speaker 1: I and I had like forgotten like he had the
27:22
Speaker 1: socks on, and then I see him in this like
27:25
Speaker 1: next scene and I thought he was wearing like compression
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Speaker 1: socks and I was like, oh, that's interesting. It was like,
27:31
Speaker 1: no dummy, no dummy, it's part of the German costume here.
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Speaker 1: That is fun. I didn't hate it though. I thought
27:37
Speaker 1: it was kind of cute. I didn't hate it either,
27:40
Speaker 1: and I thought it was real light and funny. When
27:42
Speaker 1: he does that dance with the dudes in the dear garden,
27:46
Speaker 1: it was fine. I was cute. That was cute. What'd
27:48
Speaker 1: you rate this movie? I gave it three point two
27:52
Speaker 1: five stars. Oh that's more than I thought. I gave
27:55
Speaker 1: it three. Well, I was looking back my last You know,
28:00
Speaker 1: there's no rhyme and reason at all. I gave the
28:04
Speaker 1: last one three and I didn't really like it, so
28:06
Speaker 1: I was like, well, I have to give you this one,
28:08
Speaker 1: oh a little bit, because I liked it better than
28:12
Speaker 1: that one. So anyway, there we are. Well cool, thanks
28:17
Speaker 1: for listening to this episode of Girls Gone Hamewark. That's
28:20
Speaker 1: a wrap on the currently released episodes of the Love
28:24
Speaker 1: on the Daniel trilogy, but we will continue our Homemark
28:27
Speaker 1: Plus coverage. Stay tuned to our weekly schedules for what's
28:32
Speaker 1: coming there. We'll be back tomorrow with The Chicken Sisters,
28:36
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