Hallmark's Romance at Hope Ranch

Join Garry & Amy on this episode of Pour The Wine, It’s Rom-Com Time as they uncork Hallmark’s Romance at Hope Ranch. After dropping her daughter at college, Hope (Alison Sweeney) heads to Ruidoso, New Mexico for a fresh start: new ranch, new chapter, and plans to revive the Giddy Up Gala. Complication? Her ex Jack (Gabriel Hogan) has just set up shop in the same small town. Between empty nest emotions, ranch wrangling, and gala planning, Hope starts to wonder if love deserves a second ride. Does this romance gallop into the sunset or buck off early? Pour a glass and tune in now to find out. 

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Yes, we would.

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And I'm going to try to get through this without coughing.

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I know it's a year.

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It's got a little cold, or it's allergies or something. I don't know.

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Well, that's what's you know, it's hard to distinguish between because you got the flu, you got COVID, and now you have the color. I know.

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There's just a lot, a lot of stuff going on right now. Which one do you have? Well, I don't have COVID and I don't have the flu. I'm pretty sure it's just a sinus thing. But we shall see. We shall see. Should we get right to it today?

SPEAKER_00 1:23

Let's do it.

SPEAKER_01 1:24

All right. Today we're going to be reviewing the final Love You Werry film of 2026, Romance at Hope Ranch. It originally aired on the Hallmark channel on Saturday, February 28th, 2026. And it stars Allison Sweeney as Hope Morgan and Gabriel Hogan as Jack Bennett. And apparently Gabriel plays Norman in the Hannah Swenson series. And we have only seen one of the Hannah Swenson movies, right? And we're about to see two. There's going to be another one coming up pretty soon. We saw a pie to die for, and that was it. Um, I don't think he was in that one.

SPEAKER_00 2:04

No, he wasn't.

SPEAKER_01 2:04

I don't I don't remember seeing him, but apparently he is a character in there, and we did not know that until we started doing research for this one. Um, I need to mention that Allison's real life adorable daughter, Megan Sweeney, plays her daughter in this movie. She plays Maggie. And also appearing are Scott Martin as Tom Grayson and Stephanie Brand as Lori Bennett.

SPEAKER_00 2:32

And romance at Hope Ranch was directed by Taya Brian. And this is her Hallmark debut. Another debut.

SPEAKER_01 2:40

Another debut, yeah. Pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 2:42

I like how Hallmark gives people a chance, right? And it was written by Juliana Wimbles. Juliana has not only written but has also acted in and produced several Hallmark productions. A few of her other writing credits for Hallmark include Love on the Amazon, which I I actually liked. Um, This Time Each Year, and a Whitewater romance.

SPEAKER_01 3:07

Now we haven't seen a Whitewater romance, but we did see This Time Each Year. That's the Allison Sweeney and Nile Matter one.

SPEAKER_00 3:14

Right.

SPEAKER_01 3:15

Yeah. And we liked that one.

unknown 3:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:18

It was good. I enjoyed it. And like I said, I enjoyed uh Love on the Amazon.

SPEAKER_01 3:23

Love on the Amazon. And I think is her name Juliana, is that right?

SPEAKER_00 3:26

Yes, Juliana.

SPEAKER_01 3:27

She remember she makes an appearance in that one.

SPEAKER_00 3:29

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 3:30

She's on the boat. She's like one of the tourists. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Put yourself in the movie. I like that.

SPEAKER_00 3:34

Going to see the anacondas.

SPEAKER_01 3:36

Oh, that's right. That's right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:38

Not me, people.

SPEAKER_01 3:40

No, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 3:41

So let's go ahead and drop the synops on this one.

SPEAKER_01 3:44

Alrighty. Hope Morgan sets out to begin a new chapter of her life-fulfilling, her childhood dream of running a ranch in the picturesque town of Rudoso, New Mexico, and reviving the beloved Giddy Up Gala.

SPEAKER_00 4:05

Oh, that's funny. And don't forget, we're probably going to drop some spoilers. So if you have not watched this movie yet, go ahead and turn us off. Go watch your movie. Come back. Let us know what you think. There you go.

SPEAKER_01 4:20

Spoiler alert. Spoiler alert.

SPEAKER_00 4:22

And thinking about let us know what you think.

SPEAKER_01 4:24

What did you think? You're going to put me on the spot first. That's me. Um, all right, let's go with the good stuff first. Um, I thought I love the scenery shots. I thought we got some beautiful, you know, shots of New Mexico. I believe they did film on location in Rudesso, I think. Um, and so we we had some really great shots. I always like it when there aren't green screens. Right. We kind of like the uh we like the on-location shoots. Um, I really enjoy, you know, I'm a little bit country, although I don't know about ranching and horses, but I did kind of I thought it was cool to incorporate the horses. I know Allison Sweeney is a big um, I believe she rides. I think maybe her daughter rides. So I I thought that that was that was really cool. Um I kind of get where the story was trying to go, although we'll get into that in a little bit. So I can appreciate that. Um, but you know, oh gosh, it just never got its footing for me, really. I hate to say it. I know, you know, like I said, I get where it was going, but it just felt sort of disjointed. Right. We got a lot of snippets of things, but nothing really fleshed out. I didn't really think there was chemistry, you know, between um I want to say Alice and Gabriel, but Hope and Jack. I just didn't I didn't get it. I thought we were gonna get more of a love triangle. That's just my expectation, you know, just based on what we saw for no other reason than that. So that's on me. But I, you know, I just felt like I was left with more questions and answers, you know, that that maybe we'll get to as we're talking. Right. Like, why was Tom carrying the sauces like that? And I know, you know, the giddy up gala didn't quite make it for me. So I just it just it definitely fell flat for me. And I was I was disappointed because I really I really thought this one might bring it home for the last Love Youary movie movie, right? Um, but it just it just didn't for me. And you know, Allison's great and everything, and her daughter was really great in it.

SPEAKER_00 6:42

I mean, I loved was this her acting debut.

SPEAKER_01 6:45

I believe I believe so. Okay, but I'd have to do a little research. But I thought it was great that she was in it, and I, you know, I've heard Allison talk about how you know her daughter's really gonna be leaving for college soon. So the scenes with her daughter, you know, dropping her daughter off at college you know, worked. And I just felt like, you know, in movies, you're always, you know, you're you're you start at a snapshot of where that person is in that moment of time. And I just I don't feel like we got any explanation. Like she dropped her daughter off, and then she's off to it, just it felt disjointed. That's the only way I know how to how to put it. But the scenery shots were really nice. And there were some funny moments. I'll I'll list a couple favorite scenes. So, what about you? What did you think about this one?

SPEAKER_00 7:35

Um, for me, this movie could be a great drinking game. Oh. Because every time they said giddy up gal gala, yeah, you take a shot.

SPEAKER_01 7:47

I know.

SPEAKER_00 7:48

And by the end of the of the movie, you would be having a good time.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

I know. And we saw what was the um the podcast, Do You Watch What I Watch? They posted something about how many times they said giddy up gala, but I'm like it was so true, it was so true. Go go check them out, they're great podcasters. We love listening to their reviews, but they did they posted something, I think it was on Instagram. Um it's actually pretty funny.

SPEAKER_00 8:17

It was funny, it was funny because I was thinking the same thing.

SPEAKER_01 8:20

Yeah, I mean, they could have at some point said, Yeah, I know we because we had talked about that, and it was so funny when we saw that they had posted that because I mean we'd have to go back and count. They could have just said the gala coming up, but I mean they literally said giddy up gala like every scene, at least a couple times.

SPEAKER_00 8:38

It felt like every other sentence had it in it. Yeah, I was like, okay, we get it. The giddy up gala. Um, I I kudos to um Megan Sweeney. I thought she did a really good job. Especially working along with her mother. I'm sure there were some nerves there. Um, I like it.

SPEAKER_01 8:58

Yeah, and that's pretty cool for Allison too, you know, to work with her daughter. I thought that was cool.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

No uh NEPO babies here, right?

SPEAKER_01 9:07

No Neppo. No, we're fine. No, that's fine. But you mean we're for Nepo babies, like we don't care. Yeah, you know what? Good ones.

SPEAKER_00 9:14

I would do the same thing.

SPEAKER_01 9:15

Yeah, yeah, I get it.

SPEAKER_00 9:16

If it's not breaking laws, then who cares? Right. Um, Allison Sweeney, I thought she was really good in this. Um, you know, Gabriel, I thought he was for his character.

SPEAKER_01 9:28

He was kind of quirky and funny.

SPEAKER_00 9:29

He was quirky and funny. Um I was kind of confused with Tom's part in all this. Um where you said the love triangle. I I really felt more like, and I'm just gonna go into the meat cute.

SPEAKER_01 9:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:47

Or what I thought was gonna be the meat cute was when she met Tom. Yeah, I thought there was something there, and I thought that this was the way it was gonna go for a while, but then like everything else, uh it like dropped off and didn't have an ending, right? I felt like. But we'll we'll talk about some of the things that I felt just didn't jive in this movie. Didn't I mean it's a movie I watched, I'm not gonna watch again on purpose, but if it's on, it's something I could keep in the background and just let it play. Right?

SPEAKER_01 10:28

Oh, right, right.

SPEAKER_00 10:30

Um but uh do you want to talk about the meat cute or what I thought was the meat cute or or no?

SPEAKER_01 10:38

Yeah, let's talk about it.

SPEAKER_00 10:39

Okay, so so um Hope arrives at the at the ranch and she's feeding the the horses, and she had she picks up a uh bale of hay and she turns around and Tom's walking in and they kind of bump into each other, right? Yeah, it's kind of cute. So I thought that was kind of cute. I thought that too. You know, they got to talking, and you know, they were she was talking about how she got the wrong feed for her horses, and he talked about how there's a new guy in town that owns the store, and he got his order wrong. And little do you know, it's actually her, it's Hope's ex, uh Jack, uh, who bought the store. So I I thought that it would have been a great meat cute, but it they I guess the stars weren't aligned for them too.

SPEAKER_01 11:32

Well, like you said, though we have that, and then it never really like you kind of think I I honestly thought it was gonna go where because then you know, like you just said, her her ex, uh not her ex-husband, but her ex boyfriend, right? He buys the the feed the feed and everything, yeah. The feed store, right? So now he owns the store in Rudesso.

SPEAKER_00 11:58

Right.

SPEAKER_01 11:58

And um he gosh, I got that. Excuse me, excuse me. Um so he he buys the store. So I thought maybe it was gonna be something where you know he would come around and realize they really weren't meant to be together, right? And that she would end up with Tom. That's kind of what I thought might happen. But then all of a sudden, you know, her friend comes into town, Lori, right?

SPEAKER_00 12:25

Which is his which is Jack's sister, sister, and then Tom's like, say you bye.

SPEAKER_01 12:31

And Lori's like, oh, I like him. Who is he? You know, and I it was just the weird, like Allison Sweeney's character never acknowledges that she, I mean, because it kind of looks like they have a little bit, you know, he's flirting with her a little bit, and they have a little, yeah. So I don't I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

Well, they they had that little ride out and in, you know, out to the little hillside, and yeah, they talked about how beautiful it was.

SPEAKER_01 12:55

Oh, that's right. Yeah, they did on the horses, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:58

And and it kind of was building up to something, and then it just boom, like you said, Jack's sister came into town and Lori, and it was like he totally was like, Okay, I uh like her now.

SPEAKER_01 13:15

Yeah, and what's weird is like when Lori first gets into town, doesn't she say, doesn't um hope say something to her like, let me tell you about you know Tom? She's like, tell me about this, Tom, or something like that. When they, you know, so she kind of knows that Hope maybe has this connection and there's no like acknowledgement of no, you can just you know go for it. I don't have any, you know, he's he's cool, but he's a neighbor, and that's all he's gonna be. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 13:39

It was like a weird yeah, it dropped off real quick.

SPEAKER_01 13:43

Yeah, yeah. All right. Did you did you have any favorite scenes that you want to talk about?

SPEAKER_00 13:50

Not many, but I thought when when Hope was on the phone talking to the the company, um, so she had a website that would book rooms for for the ranch for the gala. And she noticed that the rooms were double booked, so she got on the phone. And uh, you know, I I can relate to this because you're trying, you're waiting for the the automated system to t to say press two for what you actually need, right? But she's sitting there going, talk to repro or talk to representative or you know, overbooked rooms, and you know, I can relate to that. And I feel that's how it is.

SPEAKER_01 14:35

And by the end, I'm always screaming, representative!

SPEAKER_00 14:38

I just want to get somebody on the phone, and then it goes into something else, and then me, I start going, I hate you. Just give me somebody I can talk to. But I could relate to that, and I and I thought I thought that was a pretty cute scene. Appreciated that, yeah. Yeah, what about you? What was my name?

SPEAKER_01 14:55

I like there's a scene where Hope is setting up her table outside and like her to-do list. Yes, and Jack walks up and he's like, Hey, I brought your 250 pounds of feed. And she's like, I ordered two 50 pound bags of feed. And he's kind of like, Oh, he was like, Yeah, too. And I just thought, I thought at that moment, I really did think they had really cute banter in that scene. You know, he kind of ends up making her laugh, and you know, because she's trying to do everything on her own and she's annoyed that he's there. And I just thought that that particular scene really worked between the two of them. I thought, yeah, and I really didn't think they had a lot of chemistry in this movie, to tell you the truth. I didn't feel like the fire chemistry, but in that scene, I thought it was it it worked in that particular scene. I thought he was kind of funny, you know, and and he wasn't he was a little over the top, but it wasn't terrible, you know, in that moment. So I kind of I appreciated that.

SPEAKER_00 15:56

Well, he had the that personality where I don't think it's a nervous personality, but when things aren't going right, you he he kind of joked. Yeah, and it kind of sets her off in some of the scenes, but he's just he is who he is, yeah. But man, them belt buckles, okay.

SPEAKER_01 16:14

Oh yeah. Well, the first one was a lot. The first one was a lot.

SPEAKER_00 16:19

Because I'm sorry, you go down to tie your shoes, that thing's ramming you in the gut. So I'm just what is the deal with the big belt buckle? Okay. I mean, the first one explain that to me.

SPEAKER_01 16:29

It toned down after the first one. Because remember, he's like, How do I look that was actually kind of funny, you know, because he's trying to overdo it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:37

Yeah, he gets the hat, the shirt, the pants, the jeans that are too tight, the big buckle, and the sh boots that he's trying to break in, but are hurting his feet at the moment, right?

SPEAKER_01 16:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:48

Um, another one of mine was when I kind of like when so hope lost water to the house, not to the stables, but to the house, which again is one of my jeers that I'll talk about. Okay. But I so she she goes to the store, to Jack's store, and she kind of overhears somebody talking about, you know, why is she doing this or whatever, one of the townspeople. And then Jack comes over and says, Do you need some help? Do you have a plumbing issue? And she kind of explains it. And he said, Well, you're gonna need to get somebody, a professional, to fix that. So the next scene is is um her, I guess um Tom agreed to help. And Jack had gotten with the mayor to get blueprints of the the way the water was laid out, the pipes and everything. So they were talking, and Tom was like, Well, I'm gonna need some help. And she's like, Okay, I can help. And he's like, No, I need somebody that's got these long dangly arms. And she goes, Oh, okay. And I just thought it was real cool that they both kind of got together, even though at first there was, yeah, there was a little bit of You mean Tom and Jack. Tom and Jack. There was a little bit of not a little rivalry, but there was something there. And I just liked how they both came together and kind of got the the pipe fixed.

SPEAKER_01 18:16

And well, well, Jack had already asked Tom to go and help. So when she shows up there, he's already there helping because Jack has asked him to. Right. Yeah. So yeah, that was kind of cool.

SPEAKER_00 18:28

And that's when you kind of get that's when that whole love thing starts to change.

SPEAKER_01 18:32

So between what about you?

SPEAKER_00 18:34

You get another bet between Tom and and um hope, that's when you see that okay, there's no hope for that ratio. Right. So what about you? You have another one?

SPEAKER_01 18:47

When good grief. Okay, I'm gonna try to get through this. When she's talking to Jack and asks him for help finally, and he's like, What's that? What can you say it again? So it's like just those little moments I thought worked, they were kind of cute, and you can Yeah, that was a cute scene. It just showed that they had history and right, you know.

SPEAKER_00 19:08

So even though 10 years had passed, but I like at the end of that, he goes, Hey, next time just call my cell.

SPEAKER_01 19:14

Yep. So he was kind of he there were moments where he was kind of funny, and yeah, yeah. All right, that's that's it for me.

SPEAKER_00 19:22

My last one is when Ranger the Horse finally gives in to hope and he kind of puts his head up against her cheek. And I thought that was sweet. So that was the end of my cheers.

SPEAKER_01 19:33

There you go. Well, like I said, I mean, I don't know about ranching very much, and I really don't know about horses, so I can't speak to how accurate some of that stuff was, you know. I mean, right as far as the writing and the you know, all the other stuff. So and the chickens, which I know we're gonna get to.

SPEAKER_00 19:51

We're getting ready to talk about the chicken. Oh, all right.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

So let's go into cheers.

SPEAKER_00 19:58

Um I really don't have any.

SPEAKER_01 20:06

I think some of the I I talked about them at the beginning. The the some of the shots were beautiful there.

SPEAKER_00 20:12

Yes, they're the shots were beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 20:14

Um the fact that Allison got to work with her daughter, Megan, I thought was really cool. Okay, so I do have some cheers. Um, I get where it was going, you know. She's, you know, about you want to be strong, you want to be independent, but sometimes you do have to ask for help. And it's hard for a lot of people. It's been hard for us in the past, but sometimes you have to ask for help, and people are usually more than willing to help. So I kind of get the storyline, you know, about where they were going. I'm not sure that Jack buying an uh a business where he knew she was moving to doesn't speak to stalkerish, but you know, we can get to that. I mean, it worked out, but I'm like, I mean, you know, that was a little risky. Um especially since it had been like 10 years, so right. I can, you know, I can appreciate that. Any any tears from you that I no, no, I covered them right. I covered those right.

SPEAKER_00 21:10

I loved the ranch, I love how in the background was the hill. It was very beautiful. Yeah. Um I loved the barn. I thought the outside was cool. They kept it rustic and on the inside they had redone everything. I thought that was nice.

SPEAKER_01 21:29

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 21:29

But that's about it for me. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 21:32

All right. So let's get into Jeers. What were some things that didn't work for you? What do you want?

SPEAKER_00 21:38

You're chopping at the bit to talk about some of this I can tell. Bethany. Do you remember Bethany? Yes, I don't unless you know it went on IMDB, you would not know who Bethany was because she was the woman in three different scenes that kind of just walked by and hope had handed her an admitted. One time. She was the woman in the store talking to uh the one girl that Jack had hired that works for Jack about how she doesn't understand why, you know, uh hope is doing this. And then in the end, she brings in because it was a buffet in the town pulled together and everybody up gala. For the giddy up gala. And she bought, I think it was mac and cheese and was okay. I didn't understand that character and why she was angry at first.

SPEAKER_01 22:33

And then well, she was kind of snotty almost, like a snob, you know. Like she was like, Oh, what is she doing here?

SPEAKER_00 22:39

Yeah, it just there was like no character build for her, and I just it did not work for me. I just I couldn't understand.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

Well, you couldn't it it was like there was no that again, there were so many things to me that weren't fleshed out, and I know you only have like an hour and what 20, 40 minutes or whatever it is, and you know, you can't do it all, but it just this film just really showed where things were just kind of lacking a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 23:05

Right.

SPEAKER_01 23:06

Yeah, I mean, I you kind of get, and then she does come around in the end, but I felt like the way she was emotionally in the end didn't match up with the rest of you know, we sort of got no, like instead of just being, hey, you know, I'm here, I should have, you know, but she was almost like tearing up. It was it was odd to me. I don't know it was odd.

SPEAKER_00 23:27

100%. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

What about you?

SPEAKER_00 23:29

I can see that. What was one of your gears?

SPEAKER_01 23:31

Um, why did the barn say co ranch?

SPEAKER_00 23:35

C O E that's a good question.

SPEAKER_01 23:38

I that bothered me the whole time. Maybe it came out. I don't really know. We kept seeing it. The barn was called that, but it's the Gideop Ranch, it's Hope Ranch. She hung up her little Hope Ranch sign that Jack had made. I didn't, you know, it was something that bothered me. Um okay. So does she have like a, you know, she's she says she's invited all these people to the Gideop Gala and they're all good and they're booked salad or whatever. Where are they staying? Were there different rooms? Was it a bed and breakfast?

SPEAKER_00 24:08

Like what That was my question.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

Was it part of a hotel? Like what I have no clue.

SPEAKER_00 24:14

That's another part that I was so lost about that. What I know a couple guests stayed inside the house, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 24:23

Well, she and she even says to her daughter, her real life daughter, and her daughter in the She's like, Oh, I'm sorry you had to give up your room, you know, or whatever. And I'm like, are there just like five rooms and like when you say your book salad, is it like 20 rooms in that book? I didn't understand that. I was I know I agree.

SPEAKER_00 24:39

I agree with you a hundred percent.

SPEAKER_01 24:42

Um go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 24:44

Another one was the chicken, okay? Houdini is what she named them. Like, I mean, I guess I kind of get the the metaphor of you know, being free, um being independent.

SPEAKER_01 25:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:01

But I didn't get why. What like come on? It was conf yeah, I agree. This thing was locked completely in a shed. There's no way it gets out. I I mean, I don't know. I think that didn't work. And even at the end, it's like, okay, I know you're trying to be cute. Oh, the very last shot of the did not work for me. Oh no, I love the chicken. I thought he was cute. It just did not work.

SPEAKER_01 25:30

I mean, I think you know, you have the storyline too of empty nest syndrome, right? Like her daughter's going to college. And they kind of touched on that a little bit. And then, you know, um Maggie has Maggie the daughter has an issue at college because she's overwhelmed and she doesn't want to ask for help, which is much like her mom. So again, I mean, I kind of get where they were they were going with that, but it just, you know, and then the whole giddy up gala, right? I didn't, you don't really understand why it's so important. Right. Like, right, I just I didn't get the feeling like, oh, that's so cool. And then you have the giddy up gala, and I'm just going rolling with my jeers here.

SPEAKER_00 26:09

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 26:10

Um you have the giddy up gala, and I'm like, I don't understand. Is it just like the honky tonk that the like what's special? What's more special about that, except it's in a different location?

SPEAKER_00 26:21

Well, you know, the mayor, the mayor brought her some some paperwork or for like permits for hay rides and and horse rides and all this other stuff. And none of that was outside of the world. None of it would be a good idea.

SPEAKER_01 26:34

That's a good point, too. That's a really good point too.

SPEAKER_00 26:37

I just it just you know, it just didn't pan out.

SPEAKER_01 26:40

That's why I said we have so many questions. We have so many questions.

SPEAKER_00 26:45

Yes. Um let me give you another one. The fence, the fence kept coming open, even though she wired it shut.

SPEAKER_01 26:52

I just I I well I thought I thought too that there it was gonna be like, are we going for something nefarious? Is somebody opening it up because they don't want her there? Like that's where my mind was. And then yeah, I didn't and then she eventually figures out how to really secure it, right? On her own because she wants to do things on her own. And you know, I get it. I get it.

SPEAKER_00 27:15

But but then you have her strawberries that were eaten by a deer, which you never saw deer anywhere.

SPEAKER_01 27:22

Oh, that's right. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 27:24

Because when she first noticed it was gone, I was thinking, ooh, Sue, it is nefarious, right? Somebody's somebody's doing something. The gate's being left open, you know. Nope. A deer ate it. Nope. I'm like, okay, there was never any deers. How did it did it hop over the fence because the fence was closed? Again.

SPEAKER_01 27:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

And then let me do my last one.

SPEAKER_01 27:47

Okay, your last one. Go for it. You got the floor.

SPEAKER_00 27:50

If you're gonna buy a house, a ranch, or some kind of property, are you not gonna have it inspected? Because I just felt like when the water broke, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 28:00

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:00

And then you have Tom who said, Yeah, the previous owners never fixed the problem. And I'm thinking, and then inspection, wouldn't that have been one of those things they look like?

SPEAKER_01 28:09

Well, yeah, he said the duct tape only lasts for so long or whatever. But I mean, so maybe you can presume that it was working when they did the walkthrough. I mean, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 28:20

Oh, I do have one more chair.

SPEAKER_01 28:22

Okay, oh my gosh. Okay, you're not done yet.

SPEAKER_00 28:24

And that was when they were inside the barn. It was uh Lori, Hope, and um uh Hope's daughter. And some guests come in, and you know, Hope's like, I'm gonna give you a tour. And then Megan was like, No, mom, let me do it. And she's like, Okay, so these these guests have their luggage, and their first place they go, you would think, would be to their rooms or to the house to check in and go to your room. But she takes them to the stables with yeah, yeah, that was kind of fun.

SPEAKER_01 29:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:01

Okay, I'm not trying to be picky, but I know I want to go put my suitcase away before I hop into a stable where it's kind of hot and smelly and all that.

SPEAKER_01 29:11

And I feel so bad because you know, we we like Alice and Sweeney. We love the two Barcelona movies and you know, the Hannah Swenson. And in fact, we're looking forward to the next one, Sugar and Vice, which is coming up. So Allison has two back-to-back movies, and you know, you win some and you lose some. This one just you know, I appreciate where it wanted to go. I just don't think it got there. No, it didn't. That's I have to say not for me.

SPEAKER_00 29:38

So any more jeers?

SPEAKER_01 29:40

No, no.

SPEAKER_00 29:42

All right, so out of five quarks, how many would you give it?

SPEAKER_01 29:48

I would give this one probably two and a half.

SPEAKER_00 29:54

Two and a half?

SPEAKER_01 29:54

Yeah. Okay. What about you? How many quarks would you give it out of five?

SPEAKER_00 29:59

I I'm gonna give it two and three quarters. Oh, you're going almost three. Almost three. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 30:07

Because you know after all those years.

SPEAKER_00 30:09

Yeah, I know. But you know what? I the I love the acting. I just don't think the direction was there. Or yeah, or the story kind of didn't get flushed out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:19

You know, not that it wasn't well written, but it just didn't quite make it.

SPEAKER_00 30:23

It just didn't pan out. So I'm gonna go with two and three quarters. Yeah, I like the mother-daughter thing too.

SPEAKER_01 30:29

So yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_00 30:30

I thought that was cute.

SPEAKER_01 30:32

That's cool. All right.

SPEAKER_00 30:33

So is that a wrap?

SPEAKER_01 30:34

That is a wrap.

SPEAKER_00 30:36

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SPEAKER_01 30:41

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