Pour The Wine, It's Rom-Com Time
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Hallmark's Adventures in Love & Birding
This episode of Pour The Wine, It’s Rom-Com Time takes flight with Hallmark’s Adventures in Love and Birding! Who knew a birding competition could feel this swoony? Garry & Amy are all smiles as they sip a cab and dive into a rom-com that unfolds like a peaceful hike with a breathtaking surprise view. With Rachel Boston and Andrew Walker’s effortless spark, grounded characters, and a nature-first aesthetic, this film proves that quiet charm can soar without ever losing momentum.
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Welcome to Pour the Wine. It's romcom time where we'll sip some wine and review all things romcom on the Hallmark Channel. Hi Amy.
Speaker 01:And I'm Gary. And I'm pouring.
Speaker 03:You're pouring. A cab sav. Yes. Yes. Today we're going to be reviewing Adventures in Love and Birding. It aired on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday, September 27th, 2025, and it is streaming right now on Hallmark Plus.
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Speaker 03:Shoot us an email at Popporthewine's romcomtime at gmail.com and let us know what you thought about the fall into love movies. Fall into love. We had the three groomsmen and adventures in love and birding. Right? Or you can email us about anything hallmarky related.
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Speaker 03:Ooh. That was that was jinx. Jinx.
Speaker 01:You owe me a ballow. Cap's head.
Speaker 03:Oh, right.
Speaker 01:Alrighty then. Who's in this one?
Speaker 03:You want me to drop the synops first?
Speaker 01:No, we have to know who's in this one first. Oh, okay. Then we drop the synopsis.
Speaker 03:Then we drop the synopsis. I'm off my game. Look at me. Look at you. No one. Give me my one. That's right. That's right.
Speaker 01:Take a sip before you get started. I will end the game.
Speaker 03:Here I was like, oh, you did it again. Look at you. I was all confident stuff. Oh, you got me. You got me.
Speaker 01:One for me, zero for you. Yes.
Speaker 03:Are you sure I'm at zero?
Speaker 01:Well, today.
Speaker 03:Okay. That might be fair for today, but I'm pretty sure I'm not at zero.
Speaker 01:Me, one, you zero.
Speaker 03:Okay.
Speaker 01:All right.
Speaker 03:Rachel Boston plays Celeste. She's been in Hallmark Productions, of course, for more than 10 years. Just a few include last year's Debbie McComer's Joyful Mrs. Miracle. She was in A Bit More Christmas at the very end. That little cameo with Wes Carr. It was so good.
Speaker 01:It was.
Speaker 03:The More Love Grows, Field Day, which also stars Carmel Amit, who is in this one too, who plays Brianna. Or Briana. Is it Brian?
Speaker 01:Brianna.
Speaker 03:Brianna. Sorry, not Brianna. Rachel Boston was also in Check Into Christmas, A Rose for Christmas, and A Gift of Miracles. She will be in a countdown to Christmas movie this year with Brendan Penny in The More the Merrier.
unknown:Oh.
Speaker 03:Pretty cool. Andrew Walker plays John. He's been starring in Hallmark movies for more than a dozen years. A few of his movies include The Reluctant Royal, Jingle Bell Run for Love and Honey. He plays Tom Schultz in the Curious Caterer Mysteries. He was in an unexpected Christmas. A Safari romance. And of course, the three wise men movies. He will be in three counted three Countdown to Christmas 2025 movies. Three wisest men. She's making a list with Lacey Shabert. And he makes a cameo in Holiday Touchdown, a Bill's love story. Talesa Mae Stewart plays Morgan. Morgan is Celeste's teenage daughter who's getting ready to go off to college. Maybe. She has a handful of acting credits. Most are shorts. And this is her Hallmark premiere.
Speaker 01:Oh, great.
Speaker 03:Mapuana Makia plays Eva.
Speaker 00:Eva.
Speaker 03:She has she plays the best friend of Celeste.
Speaker 00:Right.
Speaker 03:She has more than two dozen acting credits and was in one other Hallmark movie, The Christmas House.
Speaker 02:Oh, okay.
Speaker 03:I know. These people keep popping up in their Christmas house. Yeah. She was in eight episodes of Family Law and 20 episodes of the Disney series Doogie Kamaloha MD. Isn't that cute? Off a Doogie Hauser, a young doctor. I thought that was a good one.
Speaker 01:That's funny.
Speaker 03:Carmel Amit plays Brina. She plays uh John's ex. Right. Right. Her hallmark work includes The Santa Class, Field Day, Wedding Every Weekend, Love Take Two, and The Haley Dean Mystery, Murder with Love.
Speaker 02:Ooh.
unknown:Okay.
Speaker 03:Jason Trem Tremblay plays Lazio. Laszlo. What is my problem tonight?
Speaker 01:I don't know. That's why you're zero and I'm one.
Speaker 03:I okay. All right. All right. I had to throw that in. Reading is hard. Sometimes words are hard, but reading is hard for me tonight. Jason Tremblay plays Laszlo. For Hallmark, he was in A Maple Valley Christmas. Curious Caterer, Dying for Chocolate. An Aurora Tea Garden Mystery, A Bundle of Trouble, and with Love Christmas. Just to name a few.
Speaker 00:Okay.
Speaker 03:Vina Sud plays Linda. She is in charge of the birding challenge competition. Yeah. She has very close to 200 acting credits. Right. Some of her Hallmark work includes Love at First Dance. She was in Darrow and Darrow, Darrow and Darrow in the Key of Murder. Reunited at Christmas. An episode of Chesapeake Shores, and an episode of Sign Seal Delivered. I found her pretty cool.
unknown:Cool.
Speaker 03:Lydia Campbell plays Andrea. She's been in many Hallmark productions, including Christmas with the Sings, A Sprinkle of Deceit, which was a Hannah Swenson mystery, Christmas at the Golden Dragon, Cut to Color and Murder. I feel like we just someone else was in that recently that we just read. She was in a few Aurora Tea Garden mysteries, and she was in the science seal-delivered movie The Impossible Dream.
Speaker 01:Oh wow.
Speaker 03:Emma Peterson plays Layla, and Andrea is a teacher, right? She's one of the teachers that works with Celeste. And Emma Peterson plays Layla, the other teacher.
Speaker 01:The two gossips.
Speaker 03:The two gossipy. Yeah, the two gossipers. Her hallmark work includes Nellie Knows Mysteries, A Fatal Engagement, Wedding of a Lifetime, Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas, Jingle Around the Clock, The Sweetest Christmas. And she was in a sign seal delivered movie. One in a million. Okay. Kurt Long plays Chris. For Hallmark, he was in Reality Bites, A Hannah Swenson Mystery, All I Need for Christmas, Three Wiser Men and a Boy.
Speaker 01:Okay.
Speaker 03:Always Amore. The Vows We Keep. And A Christmas Miracle.
unknown:That's good.
Speaker 01:Awesome.
Speaker 03:Pretty pretty cool. Keep in mind we don't name every single Hallmark work they've been in. There's just not enough time in the day. Correct.
Speaker 01:That is correct.
Speaker 03:Correct. Now, what's it time to do?
Speaker 01:Talk about the director and writers. Yes. All right. Adventures in Love and Burden. Burden.
Speaker 03:Burden. Now see you. See, I thought it was time to drop the synops again.
Speaker 01:No, it wasn't.
Speaker 03:I am like awfully.
Speaker 01:You are lost in time. Man.
Speaker 03:Okay.
Speaker 01:All right. Let's try this again. Adventures in Love and Birding was directed by Michael Robinson. He's directed a ton of Hallmark movies. A few include An Unexpected Valentine, A No Novel Noel, Holiday Crashers, Love's Greek to Me, The Blessing Bracelet, Long Lost Blessing?
Speaker 03:The Blessing.
Speaker 01:The Blessing. What did I say?
Speaker 03:Blessing.
Speaker 01:Blessing. Blessing. The Blessing. Long Lost Christmas. An unexpected Christmas. And two episodes of Chesapeake Shores. Several Hayley Dean Mysteries. A shoe addict's Christmas.
Speaker 03:Aww.
Speaker 01:Yeah, isn't that pretty interesting?
Speaker 03:Well, he's got a long list. He does. He does.
Speaker 01:Well, this was based on a book, Birding with Benefits, by Sarah T. Dubb, and Nicole Baxter wrote the teleplay. She has 23 credits, and all but one are for Hallmark. If you include An Unexpected Valentine, Two Scoops of Italy, Blind Date Book Club, The Vows We Keep, A Pinch of Portugal, Christmas at Graceland, Home for the Holidays, and Love at First Bark.
Speaker 03:That's pretty cool. Kind of explains why I will tell you my feelings about this movie.
Speaker 00:Okay.
Speaker 03:Based on what I just heard, the director and the teleplay. Because we have liked a lot of the movies that you just named.
Speaker 00:Yes, we did. And yes, we do.
Speaker 03:And yes, we did. And yes, we do.
Speaker 00:Yep.
Speaker 03:What's interesting here is um we just listened to uh Ashley Williams had a did a live Instagram.
Speaker 00:Right.
Speaker 03:And she had on Angie Nolan, who is part of Ashley Williams' Make Her Mark program. So she is shadowing directors and then will eventually direct her own Hallmark movie.
Speaker 02:Right.
Speaker 03:And she actually shadowed Michael Robeson.
Speaker 02:Yeah.
Speaker 03:Right. I thought that that was pretty cool. She gave a lot of insight. So if you can go find that interview, it's really good. It's a good look. It's a it's a great interview. We always love Ashley Williams. And it it was kind of cool to hear Angie's take on things. And it sounds like she's been in the business actually for a long time. Right. She's been an AD forever. She says she started around in her teen years, right? And she got on a show that I guess is still on, maybe 20 plus years.
Speaker 01:Right.
Speaker 03:Right.
Speaker 01:Yeah, that was impressive.
Speaker 03:And yeah, part of what she said, what which I thought was fascinating was she was she started when she was 17, and it wasn't until her what mid-30s when she worked with a female director.
Speaker 00:Right.
Speaker 03:So I thought that that was really, really cool. And she gave some insight, and it kind of sounded like Michael was was a really great director to Shadow, which is always nice when you have a mentor who helps you along the way.
Speaker 01:Right.
Speaker 03:Right.
Speaker 01:And doesn't act like you get in the way.
Speaker 03:Well, right, right.
Speaker 01:You know, and teaches you the ropes, teaches you the right way, not the wrong way.
Speaker 03:It was pretty cool. Yeah. And he actually she talked about the two cameras.
Speaker 01:The two cameras. The the the the tent where they go in the inside to watch that's the dailies. The dailies and stuff like that. No, well you you learn a lot of terminology from these two to these.
Speaker 03:Yeah, because we're not in the business and we don't know the lingo necessarily. But she talked about like the A camera and the B camera.
Speaker 01:Right. But she called it, what did she say? The bird camera. They called it the bird camera, right? The B camera was the bird camera, which I thought was really, really cool.
Speaker 03:Yeah.
Speaker 01:You know, they nicknamed these things. And he let her like her direct. I think it was three scenes, right? It was three scenes.
Speaker 03:Yeah, with the B. She did he she did a lot of like what they call the B role. Right. Right. So she she does the first scene of the house. Right. Right in the outdoor, like um Celeste House in the backyard at the beginning.
Speaker 01:And then what were the other two scenes that he let her they just got done birding? I I think it's in her neighborhood.
Speaker 03:Yes, maybe.
Speaker 01:And at the car, when they're at the car talking about trivia night.
Speaker 03:Yes, that's right. She was shooting that one. And then she did one with she did one in the bathroom with Celeste and her daughter Morgan when it right before Andrew gets there, right? And it's kind of cute because they run down the hallway together. It's a really cute quick scene. Yeah. So I thought that that was really cool. So go find that and listen to it.
unknown:Yeah.
Speaker 01:It was it was really really interesting. You really learn a lot about what goes on behind the camera.
Speaker 03:Good for her. Yeah. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 01:All right. So now it's time to drop the synopsis.
Speaker 03:Finally, it's my time to drop the synops. Here we go. A single mom agrees to be the partner of a bird enthusiast for a birding competition, but misunderstands the assignment and tells everyone she's his new girlfriend instead of just his teammate.
Speaker 01:Hmm.
Speaker 03:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 01:And like we always say, if you have not seen this one yet, because it just came out last what Saturday, please stop the podcast, go watch it, come back, listen to our podcast, or listen to our podcast, and then go watch it. And then go watch it. Right. See how close we are in describing or reviewing what actually happened throughout the movie.
Speaker 03:Right. And we didn't read the book, so I don't know how it compares to.
Speaker 01:Hopefully we were cl hopefully it's close, right?
Speaker 03:Oh yeah. Yeah, you never know. All right. Well, what did you say the book is called? Birding with benefits?
Speaker 01:Birding with benefits.
Speaker 03:They probably had to, you know, it might not be hallmarky. It is in a way. Maybe they had to the benefits part.
Speaker 01:Yeah. All right.
Speaker 03:Alrighty.
Speaker 01:So what did you think? What was your first date?
Speaker 03:My what I what did I think? Well, you know, I was pleasantly surprised at how much I really loved this movie.
Speaker 02:Yeah.
Speaker 03:I mean, I expected it, I expected to like it, but what I wasn't expecting was just how really effortless the story would flow. Yes. How nice and even keel it was, how great the supporting cast would be, and of course how incredible the chemistry was between Andrew Walker and Rachel Boston. I agree. It was so so good. And then you wrap all of that up in birding. Like, who would have thought?
Speaker 01:I know. See, that that's the thought I had going into this.
Speaker 03:Yeah.
Speaker 01:Like, was am I gonna like this? But honestly, this was like a breath of fresh air.
Speaker 03:It really was. That's a great way to describe it.
Speaker 01:The visuals of nature with birds and being in the woods for me was like this calming effect.
Speaker 03:It was a calming effect, right?
Speaker 01:It wasn't like because we've been reviewing a lot of like Christmas ones where it's really like up and down and up and down. Yes, you know, and it's giddy and it's it's fun.
Speaker 03:There's a lot going on in your you're trying to get out of here. You know, in every scene, there's a lot going on.
Speaker 01:But this it was outdoorsy, and the I I felt like the chemistry like you between Rachel and Andrew was just really, really good. It was so good and just so it wasn't it was funny because it was supposed to be like a he didn't know it was supposed to be a fake uh thing, but they I I thought the timing and how long it took for them to really uh gel together, I thought was perfect.
Speaker 03:Well, I didn't think I thought it was quick. Well, I didn't think it was I actually didn't think it was long. I thought they clicked right away.
Speaker 01:They clicked right away, but they but they yeah, I guess. Yeah, you're right. One for you and one for me. No, I just felt like it's your opinion.
Speaker 03:I just felt like in the world. It seemed natural.
Speaker 01:Yes, that's I guess that maybe that's what I was trying to say. No, I think that's a great way to it happened naturally.
Speaker 03:Like it was effortless.
Speaker 01:Because there are some people that are out there and they see each other for the first time, and that relationship clicks.
Speaker 03:Well, but it wasn't like love at first sight, it was just like a kindness, right opening, a willingness to get to know somebody. That's sort of where it started. That's the way it seemed instantly. Although, you know, he was probably attracted to her and she was attracted to him. She was like, Oh, he's not bad looking, you know. But I mean if we talk about Andrew Walker for a minute, you know, we just we just watched him in Jingle Bell run, right? And he plays this cocky character and and some of the characters we've seen him in, like even the reluctant royal, he's kind of this over the top, goofy, and he's great in those two, right? But he this is his role, this is him and at his absolute best. Like he was so good, and I actually think this movie, this is Hallmark at its best, right? Yeah, just the flow of it. Yeah. So I, you know, and with with Andrew Walker, I listened to him. Um, he was in a podcast. Uh he was interviewed on the podcast Heartful of Hallmark. Okay. It's a real it was it's a really great interview. Go watch it. And he was just, it was so cool to hear his take on uh, you know, the filming. He loved the location. He talked about the birding, of course. And what's interesting in is he and his wife, he said they they uh are renting this house. And like every morning they have this, like uh they're next to a bird sanctuary. Right. And so they literally have their binoculars and they look out their window and sometimes they go birding. Although he said, you know, he doesn't really know all the birds and like they just enjoy just the quiet, the peace, the the he and his wife come walking. And he said, you know, maybe it's kind of his age now, too, because he's like, you know, what mid to late 40s, and you know, you do like you have different interests and you wanna, and it's just calming. And I thought that that was that was so cool, you know, for him to say. And he also talked about how he and Rachel had worked together two other times. One was in an ER episode that was a very serious episode. How crazy is that that they did, and that was like I don't know how long ago, 20 years ago or whatever. Um, and then they worked again like eight years after that on a lifetime Christmas movie, and now this is eight years later, they got to work together again.
Speaker 01:They cannot wait so long to work together because they're so good together. So good. Their chemistry is so good.
Speaker 03:So, yeah, so that's worth a listen if it's heartful of Hallmark. Um it it was just a really good interview with him. He he was great in it and fun, and you know, so go listen to it. Go listen to it, yes.
Speaker 01:All right, let's dive into favorite scenes.
Speaker 03:You want to talk about the meat cute?
Speaker 01:Oh, yes, let's talk about the meat.
Speaker 03:Let's talk about the meat cute.
Speaker 01:That was funny.
Speaker 03:That was it was really good.
Speaker 01:I I actually thought so she gets a text from Celeste gets a text from um Andrew. John of or John of what he's gonna be wearing at the at the contest where where they're meeting. And she just she's like, I don't have time for that. I'm just gonna take a selfie. And and she takes a selfie.
Speaker 03:So like a woman, she's like, I don't know what I'm gonna be wearing yet, you know.
Speaker 01:And that's what she's gonna wait until the morning of the picket. So she takes a selfie. But when they meet, he doesn't realize that she's there thinking she's supposed to be his fake girlfriend. Right. And the look on his face.
Speaker 03:His face, yes, I agree.
Speaker 01:It was so funny, and he had a lot of those throughout this movie. Yes, like these, like, huh?
Speaker 03:Yeah.
Speaker 01:Are you serious? Like, what did you think?
Speaker 03:I I I thought it was really cute and fun. And you know, we always we always say we watch it twice, right? Right? We watch the movie the first time to enjoy it and the second time to take notes, and I did not notice the misunderstanding between Celeste and her best friend.
Speaker 00:Oh, when they'll walk in the parking lot.
Speaker 03:Because Eva's asking her to take her place in the birding competition with her friend John. He's been through a terrible breakup, right? And Celeste misunderstands and thinks she's supposed to pretend to be his girlfriend. And I didn't notice it the first time, but I sure did the second time. And then I was and that, you know, and that's why Andrew was or John was kind of surprised. So it it was, it really worked. It was cute, and they immediately run into his ex. Yeah, you know, so all of that kind of combined together, I thought really, really worked. How many spotted owls would you give the me cute?
Speaker 01:Um, I would actually give this one a four and a half. Because I I really thought it was good.
Speaker 03:It was good.
Speaker 01:I thought it was good, and he genuinely was surprised. Yeah. So all right, well, let's dive into favorite scenes then. Let's do it. So I just have to say, my favorite scenes are of them just walking over and just talking about their lives growing up. Yes, the beautiful locations they were in. This is why I liked it. Yes, there wasn't a lot of bells and whistles, the scenery, nature, the sounds of nature, and they're relating to them. And he's telling her, yes, let's just slow down. Yeah, we'll get the count of the birds as it as the day progresses or progresses. Because you know, Celeste's worried about everybody else is running around trying to get birds and trying to document them. And he's like, Let's just do it, let's just do it. And that and they have great conversations. Yes, every scene with them walking around is a great conversation.
Speaker 03:It's so funny that you say that because I have every one of those scenes as my favorite scenes. I wrote them all down because I'm like, just their, like you said, just their conversations, the things they talk about, them getting to know each other, the fact that he is always getting her to slow down. And this competition is very important to him because he wants to win the money to start his own bird guiding business business. Yeah. And because he wants to leave the nine to five desk job, he real this is his passion. But he's not, he's competitive, but he's not overly competitive. He is truly just enjoying doing it and loving it and being out with her and teaching her his passion. And and he doesn't let the competition get in the way of that or interfere with that.
Speaker 00:I agree.
Speaker 03:Right, which I thought was great. It was so good.
Speaker 00:That's why I loved this.
Speaker 03:I mean, when she's sitting and she's wearing the don't don't talk to me, I'm burning sure, you know, and then she gets him one eventually. I mean, it all just, you know, it it all just worked for me.
Speaker 01:It did. It really did. And so my second one was the bowling alley scene.
Speaker 03:Yes, I have that one too. Well, how can you not mention this scene, right?
Speaker 01:I mean, Andrea and Layla are so funny because they don't think Andrew, or and I say anything, I keep calling him Andrew. John, but John is that much in or is not into Celeste, right? And he overhears them in the conversation when he's trying to get her some some food or some candy from the from the counter. So he goes back and he's sitting there telling her, you know, I apologize, I haven't been into it like I should have been.
Speaker 03:Because they're trying to fake it still for a friend, so they'll get off her back, right? She wants to get off.
Speaker 01:They both agree to kind of give a show.
Speaker 03:Yes.
Speaker 01:And it reminded me of a Grease scene, right? The movie Grease, yes, where um Olivia Newton John and John Travolta are kind of like kissing, and everybody's like, they're into it, right? Yeah. And you can see Andrea and Layla. Layla's got a uh uh what is it, licorice? And Andrea's got a uh fountain drink, and they're all their heads are cocking back and forth.
Speaker 03:Well, because they're watching the chemistry between John and Clay.
Speaker 01:It's so well shot.
Speaker 03:And I what I what I what I thought was great was he's like, you know, I can fix this, but I need to get closer to you. Is that okay with you? Yes. Right. So he steps in and like you said, he apologized, apologizes to her, and that whole scene, the way he moves her hair, right? They talk, you know, and she says, not that you would notice. And he said, I notice everything.
Speaker 00:Everything about you.
Speaker 03:That reminded me of my favorite scene in Dawson's Creek. Remember the dance, the prom, the not prom prom where Pacey and Joey are dancing, and he tells her the earrings are not really her, you know, but this bracelet is really you. Right. And she's like, because he says, you know, you said your mom gave it to you or whatever. And she's like, How do you you remember that? And he says, I remember everything. And I'm like, oh my gosh. And you and Andrew, when John says, I notice everything, I was like, Yes, that's a it just everything worked in that scene. The chemistry, the music slowing down, like because you had faster-paced music and then it slowed down in that moment and then it picked back up. It was so well done.
Speaker 01:It was.
Speaker 03:And fire chemistry, by the way, even though they were faking.
Speaker 01:Oh, yeah. All right. You got another favorite scene?
Speaker 03:Well, we've talked about a lot. I loved when he shows up at her house when they're going to do the birding, and we don't have to talk about the actual birding. But he, you know, and Morgan's kind of like there's a tall, nerdy surfer guy. I just thought that was so cute. That's that's like a and then Celeste is like a little tongue-tied in front of him because she kind of does really like him, but they're still kind of faking it, you know, and then they go, and then they go birding in the backyard and they have more of those moments that we've already talked about. But yeah, yeah. So that would be another one. I loved the montage of them birding.
Speaker 00:But yes, that was. Right?
Speaker 03:How they got the shots of the birds, and and because, you know, before that point, they're talking about the birds they're seeing, they're naming them. Right. Right. And then at this point, we kind of see the name of the bird on the screen as they're walking it. I just thought that that was just a great way to put in more birds and get that in there. I thought that that was really cool.
Speaker 01:How beautiful were some of those birds. I mean really beautiful.
Speaker 03:Yes. Did you have any other favorite scenes?
Speaker 01:Trivia night.
Speaker 03:Yes, I had that one too. We are samers. Now, we try not to at the end of this one, we were like, you said, This was so good. You just couldn't contain it. And I said, I know, I feel the same way, but that's all we're gonna say about it until we talk about it on the podcast. Yes. So we I mean it's so funny we have all the same.
Speaker 01:Well, I just love it. Sometimes we're the same. Sometimes we just love when they're all the same. When they first met at the bar, the trivial bar, and they were talking about the clothes, which was kind of interesting because you would never think of that. I did not. She wore muted colors, which is usually what a female bird looks like, is they're muted. Right. And the male, which uh John, he was wearing this purple shirt, right? Looking all dapper and everything, and they they had talked about that.
Speaker 03:Right.
Speaker 01:And I thought that was such a great scene.
Speaker 03:It really, really was. And then when they actually do the trivia, and she, you know, she knows an answer, she gets all excited. She's like, the student has become the teacher, or whatever, you know. And then probably one of your favorite phrases what? When he says, Go forth, young Jedi. Oh, yeah. Because she knows the tiebreaker question, you know. I thought that that was really, really cute.
Speaker 01:The hummingbird, that was good.
Speaker 03:Yes.
Speaker 01:But one interesting thing, I didn't know the peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on on the planet.
Speaker 03:I did not know that.
Speaker 01:I did not know any of the uh birding treatments, and it has a diving speed of over 240 miles per hour.
Speaker 03:Oh, you looked it up?
Speaker 01:Yeah. Oh and the maneuver is called a stoop when it's going for its prey. I had to look it up because when they said that, I'm like, how fast is this bird? That's 240 miles an hour.
Speaker 03:That's crazy.
Speaker 01:You talk about the aerodynamics of this bird. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 03:I thought it was it was crazy when they said the hummingbird can fly as fast as a car or something. You just don't I don't think of it that way. I was like, what?
Speaker 01:And then that is that blows your mind. Yeah, that piqued my interest right there. So there you go. You have any more favorite scenes?
Speaker 03:I just, I mean, I don't have any. I I I liked I loved so much of this movie. There were just funny, you know, one-liners. There were just so I could go into it all night. I love the best friendship, you know, the daughter, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, like I could talk about that. There were some scenes that really were I just I thought it all worked.
Speaker 01:Yeah, especially when Morgan walked in on her mom, who was sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 03:Yes.
Speaker 01:And she noticed all her books, and she was kind of going through the sketches of the birds that they had seen so far.
Speaker 00:Yes.
Speaker 01:And that kind of gave her that that um that push because she was the motivation. The motivation to finish her uh her art for the gallery. Yeah so I thought that was really, really good.
Speaker 03:All right, let's talk cheers and jeers.
Speaker 01:Okay, you go first.
Speaker 03:You want me to go first? Yes. My biggest cheer, just the this movie hit its stride from the very beginning for me and until the credits at the end. Literally, really loved, loved, loved the music and the song. I'm big on the music all throughout, was great. The pacing of it. I loved it. It reminded me a little bit at the beginning of um the the way it was like uh My Big Fat Greek Greek Wedding. Right. There was a certain scene in my uh there's a scene in my Big Fat Greek Wedding um where just the music reminded me of that. And I meant to look up to see if maybe it was the same composer or whatever, but I yeah, so this movie kind of hit it on all cell and I I I I think so. I mean it was firing on every single one. What about you?
Speaker 01:Cheers. I I just love how they constantly lifted each other up when they were feeling down. She would she would tell him, you know, you need to take that leap of faith, open up your business because this is something that you're passionate about. And she kept saying, and you already have one student or one customer, and you have another one, which was uh, I can't remember the guy they met in the woods when they're walking.
Speaker 03:I think it was Fred.
Speaker 01:Fred. And I just thought it was so good. And he would always tell her what a great person she was. And in fact, I think he said it's kind what she was doing for him.
Speaker 03:Yeah, it was kind. That was right at the very beginning. It was at the beginning. Very beginning.
Speaker 01:So I just felt like you know overlooking the water.
Speaker 03:Yeah.
Speaker 01:And so that was my cheer.
Speaker 03:The way she got excited when she saw a bird at first, she's like, oh, and she and I, you know, another cheer of mine, since we're kind of talking about it, was just how she dove. She went all in, right? So she's a teacher, so she bought these books. I love that she bought the gear, the hat, the clothes. You know, she wanted the she went all in. She wanted she's like, I want the pants with pockets, you know, the pockets and the binoculars. And I just thought I thought that was just a really fun, cute part of the movie.
Speaker 01:Especially when she told her friend Eva, you're you bird, you're birding, and laughed about it. And she's like, Who are you now? You have all this gear.
Speaker 03:Yeah, I thought it was the I loved the um the whole notion. We've talked about it, slowing down, enjoying the moment. That was really a theme throughout the whole thing.
Speaker 00:That was my other cheer.
Speaker 03:And another cheer kind of along with that was the mother-daughter relationship. So you have Celeste and you have Morgan, and Morgan's supposed to be going to college, but she hasn't really told her mom yet. And she just wants to slow down, take they call it a gap year now, but let's just say you're not going to college for a year, or maybe never. You just gotta figure out what you want to do, right? And that's okay. You don't have to go right into college. And we never used to always believe that, but we've come to that now. And it's an you know, as a parent, it's hard. I just and I loved that Celeste wasn't mad at her. It was like, you can talk to me. Like this, you you need to do what you need to do.
Speaker 01:Well, that was kind of the theme of the movie is you raise your young and you let them, yeah.
Speaker 03:The whole birding part of it, right? The whole bird part of it.
Speaker 01:Well, yeah, and then at the end of the day, and and one other thing before we wrap this up is I didn't know that larger birds um are more are uh more it's more common for larger birds uh that live longer lives to stay in a relationship than the smaller birds. I didn't they say that? Yeah, well, I looked it up because I was interested in it because he kept talking about how you know like birds are with with humans. You know, they mate, they watch out for each other. Yeah, you know, they they hunt for food. I just I just thought it was interesting.
Speaker 03:Anyway, yeah, I thought that was cool. Well, they used a lot of like at the end when he says the red-wing, what is it, the red-winged blackbird, he does like the red-winged blackbird, he doesn't want to lose sight of her. Right. And she says the bird analogy really works. You know, it's so cute. You know, that's what I was thought. That was that's what I was talking about. That was things like that, and then uh like when she says, um like after they first meet, I was talking about their quips and everything, and she says it's like a chicken with its head cut off, and she goes, Oh, that's a bed. Yeah, and that's like you know. There were just so many great, great moments in it, you know.
Speaker 01:Yeah. All right. So let's do this.
Speaker 03:Yes.
Speaker 01:How many feathers would you give this one?
Speaker 03:Uh, do you want to do jeers? Did you have any jeers?
Speaker 01:I didn't have any jeers.
Speaker 03:I didn't have any no notes.
Speaker 01:I just moved on from that.
Speaker 03:I I had See now you're doing it. Yep. No notes.
Speaker 01:I had none. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. So how many feathers would you give this one?
Speaker 03:Out of five. Five. I would give it ten.
Speaker 01:Okay.
Speaker 03:No, I'd give it five. I would definitely give this one a five. It's one of my I have enjoyed a lot of movies this year so far, but this has got to be top.
Speaker 01:Yeah. Top two.
Speaker 03:One of the top ones for sure. For sure.
Speaker 01:And I give it five, too.
Speaker 03:Yes. All right.
Speaker 01:So is that a wrap?
Speaker 03:That's a wrap.
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Speaker 00:Cheers.