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Speaker 1: You would never mix up your peanut butter with watermelon,

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or even Taylor Swift with the piano. Guys, then again

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at work entertainment. Hello, and good morning you guys. How

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are you doing well?

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely fantastic and very excited to share a conversation with

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you because Missiletoe Murders is unique in the way because

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right here in Charlotte, we just started our Southern Christmas show,

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and I want you to know that I know it's

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not a Christmas shop, but I'm walking around and I'm

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watching people, which one of you guys is an investigator

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and we don't know it. You're a spy of some sort.

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Speaker 2: There's so much mystery.

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Speaker 3: Who is she lading?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 1: The way that you guys bring this story together. And

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I'm one of those people who really does enjoy pacing,

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and everybody that came together on this project, the pacing

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is there, and I want listener and viewers to understand

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that that this is not a rush job. Go and

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enjoy the experience.

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Speaker 3: I totally agree.

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Speaker 4: I think Ken Coopris is so amazing. He's such a

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good writer, such an incredible show runner. He knows how

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to craft mysteries in the most extraordinary way. You're always guessing,

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you really believe it's someone that then it doesn't wind

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up being you know, he just he has that formula

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down to a tea. And he also has a tremendous

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gift for creating character arc and character development and slow

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burn in a way that feels really satisfying. So yeah,

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I mean, I agree, the writers led by of course

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Ken Coopris, are just incredible on the show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. One of the things I mean right there, Peter

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is exactly what Sam Wilner is because we get to

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embrace who Sam is, and he is that detective that

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still sits here and says, hmm, there's something up with

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this Emily girl. But see, we all go through that

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in our everyday life. It's like Sam is one of us.

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It's at that hmm.

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Speaker 3: That's that's exactly I mean.

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Speaker 2: This is this is a heightened version of what we

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all go through when we're first getting to know someone. Right,

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everyone is inherently a mystery. Most people don't have as

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checkered or complicated a past. But everyone has a past,

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Everyone has a story, and any two people when they

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are coming together have to navigate what do they tell,

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what parts do they share, what parts do they hide?

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Speaker 3: And try and figure out how they can fit.

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Speaker 2: Into each other's lives. So even though this is like

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a like an extreme version of it, it's something that'll

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be familiar to everyone.

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Speaker 1: Now, Sarah, when it comes to Emily Lane, I mean,

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one of the things that I mean when you step

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into that that Christmas shop, one of the things that

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that people do when they get in did you look

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around when that set was put built for you? Did

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you did you go and look at the little trinkets

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and all the Christmas things? What's new this year? I mean,

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what what did you go through as an actor? And

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at the same time you're still that person, that regular

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person that goes into a Christmas shop.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah. The production design is just incredible. A lot

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of people have asked us, you know, when you're shooting

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a Christmas show in Springer in summer of what gets

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you into the holiday spirit? And I say, I just

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have to go into under the Missiletoe. My shop is

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so incredible and it's it has so many beautiful little things.

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I would go crazy in a store like them. If

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it was real, I may have pocketed one or two

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things to bring home. Maybe not, I don't know. That

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will also remain a mystery. But the other thing that

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I think is so lovely is that there's a real

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reason why Emily loves Christmas so much. And it's deep.

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It's not just you know, hot cocoa and chestnuts. It's

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like she Christmas to her is her last real memory

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with her parents and the last time she really felt

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like she had a home right and her whole journey

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has been since she was eight years old trying to

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find her way home. So Christmas for her.

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Speaker 3: Is just this like.

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Speaker 4: Echo of what used to be for her and an

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aspirational hope of what her life can become, or she

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hopes that it will become if she could just run

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far enough away from her passes.

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Speaker 1: To please do not move. There's more with Sarah Drew

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and Peter Mooney coming up next. It's found on Hallmark.

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Missletill Murders. We are back with Sarah Drew and Peter Mooney.

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This is the kind of story that really does have

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a classic vibe about it because it's one of those

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where's like, what I love about watching Missletill Murders is

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the fact that it's like, I'm going to be watching

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this movie for the next twenty five to thirty years

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because because there is that vibe about it. And I

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guess we credit Hallmark, but at the same time, I

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want to credit the two of you for bringing this

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storyline together.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, that's amazing, Thank you. That the tone is

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something we really we really try and navigate.

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Speaker 3: Carefully, like it's you know, takes place at Christmas, but

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it's also a bit of a noir.

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Speaker 2: There is the.

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Speaker 3: Bigger overarching mystery and the love story, but then also

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these great, twisty, little self contained mysteries that.

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Speaker 2: We get to solve every two episodes. So it's a

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lot to kind of calibrate. So that means a lot

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that it feels like it's landing.

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Speaker 4: We have so much fun on spec together. We just

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laugh our way through every single day, and we have

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the most beautiful community on the show. It's a very

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loving set with a really beautiful team of leaders, a

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very collaborative atmosphere, and we all just literally laugh from

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the moment we arrive on sege the moment we go home,

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and then probably after laughing about the things that we

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laughed about earlier. So you see, you can see that

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love and camaraderie. I think through the screen. I think

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it's very palpable because that's a real thing. We're all

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really fostering that energy on set.

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Speaker 1: Well, you can feel it on this side of the

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flat screen, and I hope you guys have seen it

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as well in the way you're going whoa, whoa, Because

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it's like a writer who puts a book together and

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they come back a couple of years later and they go,

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I wrote that, whoa, And I feel like that this

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Missiletol Murder says the same thing. It's like, whoa, we

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landed that one. Good jop dude, thank.

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Speaker 4: You for saying that that. I am so proud of

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the show. And that's my reaction when I watch it.

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I just go like, it's better than the sum of

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its parts. It's all the pieces working together seamlessly creating

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a thing that really makes you feel something. And I

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you know, having the trifecta of really loving going to

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work combined with really proud of the job, combined with

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people really enjoying the show is a trifecta that doesn't

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come around very often, and we don't take that for granted,

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and we don't take that lightly. We all feel really

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grateful that we get to be a part of something

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that has all three of those elements.

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Speaker 1: Well, just because it has the snow and just because

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it has the Christmas shop, I have my Christmas tree

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up year round because I celebrate Christmas every day. So therefore,

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when you talk about that you're going to have, you know,

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the Christmas vibe and stuff. I'm going, well, that's just

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that's going to be my February fourteenth, that's going to

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be my July twenty first. And I think that this

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is one of those shows that you can watch it

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at any time and you're not going to be going, well,

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we got thirty days still Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Oh I love that because Yeah, I think I think

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it is a story that you can sort of pop

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into any time of the year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 2: You know, even though we're wrapping up season two on Friday,

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it's out there on Hallmark.

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Speaker 3: Plus.

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Speaker 2: If people are hankered for a little Christmas murder, come

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you know, February and March, we're out there.

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Speaker 4: But also beyond the Chris murder, it's the relationships I

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think that make people keep coming back for more. You

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care about these people, you care about how these relationships

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are growing and developing. And that's universal. That's any time

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of the year. You don't need to have a Christmas

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tree up to enjoy taking a like romantic journey or

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a friendship journey with these characters that are really compelling.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but don't you think though, it's because we see

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ourselves in what you guys are doing. It's almost like

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you sat in the same coffee shop as us and

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you were kind of like watching what we're going through.

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Because I mean, the storylines, I'm going, how do they

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know that what's going on here? Oh? That?

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's always the hope, that's always the aim

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is to reflect, to mirror back. When when we watch something,

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we want to engage, we want to feel pulled into

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the world. So that's that's huge, That's that's our you know,

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number one aim.

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Speaker 4: My greatest my greatest joy in acting and in producing

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and all of these things is to make people feel

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less alone when.

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Speaker 3: They watch whatever.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah, yeah I can feel saying that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I I feel like you're You're reflecting back

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the thing that I always hope that I get to do.

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Speaker 3: When I tell a story.

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Speaker 1: See, that's that's why the people when when they are

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watching it on Hallmark, go ahead and send a text

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to a friend. You can watch it together, figure out

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a way to where you can bring We live in

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this this digital world. Let's just all watch it in

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real time and then talk about it.

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Speaker 3: I love that.

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Speaker 4: Yes. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about you guys?

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Speaker 2: To find out about us?

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Speaker 4: Well, I am on the Instagram at uh at the

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Sarah Drew, so I'm always updating that there. You can

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always go to IMDb to see what work we're up to.

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Speaker 2: Peter, you can't find anywhere.

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Speaker 3: I'm a mystery online mystery.

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Speaker 2: It's because I actually, out of the two of us,

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it's ironic that that I play Sam because I used

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to be a spy, so I've had to.

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Speaker 4: Throw the.

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Speaker 1: Well, please come back to this show anytime in the future.

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The door is always going to be open for you.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much for having will.

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Speaker 1: Be brilliant today.

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Speaker 4: Okay, you too,