When Hope Calls: Brookfield 3.3

Cricket and I chat about the exciting third episode of When Hope Calls: Brookfield. We saw a stagecoach robbery, Constable Reynolds with a woman, and Ronnie in his jammies!

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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:18

Chatters, chatties, welcome home for a great American Chat, a podcast where we chat about great American media. I'm Chad Maurice with Cricket. Cricket, how you doing? How's your week going so far?

SPEAKER_02 0:31

It's going okay. Not too bad. I'm busy, but you know, not too bad. I can't complain.

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Can't complain. Okay. Are you ready to dive into this exciting third episode of one of the calls? Brookfield.

SPEAKER_02 0:47

You yes, I am.

SPEAKER_03 0:48

You and the Dono fans must have loved this episode.

SPEAKER_02 0:52

Oh, I'm sure we did. I know I did. I can't speak for all them, but I I'm pretty sure they probably did too.

SPEAKER_03 0:59

Mm-hmm. Uh do you know the title of this episode? You should, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:04

Brookfield? I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 1:05

Since it was that's the title of the show.

SPEAKER_02 1:08

I know. I don't know. I don't I don't remember. I always forget to look at this, and I did not look at it today. So maybe it's called Love Spell. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 1:18

That's your guess? Love spell?

SPEAKER_02 1:19

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:20

Oh, I thought you were gonna guess Trev. No, the title of the episode is Justice.

SPEAKER_02 1:30

Oh, that's right. It is Justice. You're right. I do remember that.

SPEAKER_03 1:34

Where did Love Spell come from?

SPEAKER_02 1:35

I was just making it up. I was just thinking of the episode, and that was the first thing that came to my mind.

SPEAKER_03 1:42

So the storylines in this episode, we meet Justine Marcel in this episode.

SPEAKER_02 1:51

Yes, we do.

SPEAKER_03 1:53

Yeah, somebody's here. Who's here? Hey, Victoria's here. Hey, Victoria.

SPEAKER_02 1:58

Hey, Victoria.

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Carter Williams arrives in town.

SPEAKER_02 2:03

Yes, he does.

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Nora's former boss. There's vocational day at the orphanage. And Sam's taking over the hotel and running, running it. And Ronnie's not happy about that. And then we have Wyatt not liking Hannah's clothing clothing designs. That's uh her design career there. That's that storyline continues from continued from the last episode. Which I have to say. Hey Melissa, Melissa's here. Which I have to say, out of all everything that was going on in this episode, that storyline was the one I was least interested in.

SPEAKER_02 2:43

Really?

unknown 2:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:46

Why? I don't know about you, but well, I mean, when you got all the other action and things going on, that one just kind of was overshadowed.

SPEAKER_03 2:53

It was just Yeah. Yeah. Well, not not really interested in that storyline. Because like it's like, hey, Wyatt, so she wants to design clothes and be a rancher. Get off her case. She can do both. I mean, what's that?

SPEAKER_00 3:07

Right.

SPEAKER_03 3:08

That's that's what I don't get about that story.

SPEAKER_00 3:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:12

All right. So the episode begins at the Lawrence Ranch with Hannah and Wyatt. Her investor for the collection she is designing is arriving from New York. And Hannah says her name is Justine Marcel. And Wyatt is a little annoyed that Hannah can't help with the chores. So I was kind of surprised. I thought that this Justine Marcel would be related to Nora's storyline. Yeah. And the the her boss bribing the judge. I thought she was gonna have something to do with that storyline.

SPEAKER_02 3:49

But she does Yeah, I kind of did too. Um I wasn't thinking it was gonna be for the um for the clothesline collection or whatever.

SPEAKER_03 3:57

Uh-huh. Yeah, that kind of surprised me. Yeah. Uh, I'm gonna let you take it over for what's going on over at the orphanage.

SPEAKER_02 4:05

So over at the orphanage, we see Nora, Jenny, aka Dolores, is back in the show. Yeah. Um, and some of the kids. And Nora mentions that she is taking the kids on a field trip because it's a vocational day. And Jenny and Dolores, she's fixing Wally's pants by hand because somebody broke the sewing machine. And that was a very nice singer sewing machine, by the way. Um, Jenny Dolores thinks it's a missing spring, and she thinks one of the boys did it. And so um her and Nora are sitting there talking, and and you know, they're like, oh, one of them will fess up. They always do, you know, Nora says. So um, but yeah, so the sewing machine's broken. We don't know what happened yet. Um, and then do you want me to keep going?

SPEAKER_03 4:53

Yeah, well, let me say I was surprised to see Jenny slash Dolores. I thought she was gone.

SPEAKER_02 4:58

I know we just talked about her the last time we did a recap. We're like, where is she?

SPEAKER_03 5:02

Yeah, because she wasn't in the first two episodes, anywhere.

SPEAKER_02 5:07

So yeah, I'm I was glad to see her.

SPEAKER_03 5:09

I was glad to see her again.

SPEAKER_02 5:11

Yeah, me too. I was too, but I was surprised.

SPEAKER_03 5:13

And did you notice how much older she looks and how much more mature she was? Yeah, she's uh grown a lot in the last year, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:22

Yeah, she really has. Yeah, she looked more mature, and even the way she presented herself, I think, was a little bit more mature than the last time we saw her.

SPEAKER_03 5:30

Yeah, that kind of surprised me. That she yeah, that she aged more than the other kids. Oh, I now now go ahead and continue.

SPEAKER_02 5:38

So then we see Nora and she's walking the kids into town, and um basically they're all talking about their jobs that they're gonna get in the different places, you know, and they're all kind of bragging about it. And then um one of them, I think it was Wally, he's like, Yeah, she did Dolores did a great job on my pants. And Nora's like, Yeah, she had to sew it by hand, and so she was like kind of prompting the kids to be like, you know, telling on themselves, but none of them fess up. So um, go ahead. Do you want me to do that one or you want to do that?

SPEAKER_03 6:11

Yeah, yeah, keep going.

SPEAKER_02 6:12

So then we see later, uh Jenny slash Dolores. She takes the sewing machine into Joe's store to see if he can fix it. Um, and he asks, you know, what happened to it, and she says, Well, I think it's a missing spring. Um, and then she looks at uh Wally and he says, Well, I didn't do it. And so, yeah, so they don't know yet what's wrong with it, but they know something happened to it.

SPEAKER_03 6:38

So yeah, I thought this vocational story was was fun to see the kids helping out the adults in their in the in the stores.

SPEAKER_02 6:48

I know that is kind of cool. It's like a mentorship almost, you know.

SPEAKER_03 6:52

Yeah, so we saw Wally at the general store and we saw Steve at the hotel, but we didn't see Art at the bakery.

SPEAKER_02 7:00

I don't even we see did we even see the bakery? No, yeah, I didn't think so. There was no scene of the bakery.

SPEAKER_03 7:06

When they were walking to town, Art said he's gonna be working at the bakery with Debbie, and the other kids were jealous. They said, Hey, how'd you get the bakery? I want to work at the bakery to be around all those sweets and bake goods, yeah. But they never showed him nope over at the hotel. Sam gets Ronnie out of bed because he has decided to open the hotel restaurant an hour earlier. He has also changed the menu. Ronnie says you are giving people more food for less money. Ronnie wants to talk about adding a third story, and Sam wants to talk about his idea, renting out the owner's suite, and Ronnie says, That's my suite, I'll be homeless. Hey, what what what do you think of Ronnie's jammies?

SPEAKER_02 7:56

Well, he had a robe over it too, and I was just like, Those are pretty nice pajamas, so he must live pretty well, you know.

SPEAKER_03 8:03

Uh-huh. Yeah, that was that was pretty funny. And fearless Fletcher was their first customer eating eating his hungry man breakfast.

SPEAKER_02 8:11

I love it. Every time they show him, and I remember when uh Cindy and Chris was on the podcast when you and I were interviewing that time, and he always she always said he always had food somewhere. And so every time on the show, when I see him eating, I always think about that conversation, and I'm like, Yep, there he is, he's eating it.

SPEAKER_03 8:29

Yeah, she said he's always eating on set. Ronnie says, There's no way we are not running my suite. Sam says, Okay, how about we we rename the hotel the Royal Gold Miner? Ronnie says, Absolutely not. Then Hannah walks up. Oh, what do you think about that name? The Royal Gold Miner.

SPEAKER_02 8:52

Uh, I don't really like it. Um I don't know, it just doesn't flow well.

SPEAKER_03 9:01

Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:02

It doesn't flow well.

SPEAKER_03 9:03

Yeah, Hannah walks up and she says she needs to rent a room for a special guest. Ronnie says we will give her the deluxe suite. Sam says, How about we give her the owner's suite? And Ronnie says, over my dead body. Hanna says, I want her to have a good experience while in town. And Ronnie says we will give her the royal treatment here at the Royal Brookfield, since that's the name of the hotel. Ronnie looks for the guest book, but Sam has it. And Ronnie is upset that Sam is just taking over everything. Yeah. Now I thought watching this episode, I thought Sam was a little out of line trying to run everything, trying to take over, and you know, I mean, Ronnie's been doing this hotel for years, and Sam just became owner in the last episode. Now he's taken over and wants to run the show.

SPEAKER_02 9:57

Yeah, I think he should have talked with Ronnie first. But you know, Ronnie, but in all fairness, though, Ronnie's not very approachable with new ideas either because he always shoots everybody down. You know what I mean? Or he finagles his way out of things or makes it his way and then tries to convince people it was actually their idea when it wasn't. So I kind of get why Sam did that.

SPEAKER_03 10:20

Um, but yeah, I I but yeah, he's making all these changes, and you're right, he's not discussing them with them.

SPEAKER_02 10:28

Yeah, he needs to discuss them with Ronnie for sure.

SPEAKER_03 10:31

Yeah. All right, you can talk about this next scene at the Okay.

SPEAKER_02 10:36

So in Clearwater, we see Justine and Buck, which I thought was a funny name when he said his name. Um, and later on it really was funny. Um, but in Clearwater, we meet Justine. Uh, she's waiting for the stagecoach to uh take her to Brookfield, and she meets this guy named Buck, who is also waiting. And, you know, she's like, he's like trying to introduce himself and she's like, Oh, well, what do you do? And he's like, Oh, I make women's dreams come true. And she goes, All women. And I just thought that was so funny. And then he's like, Oh, yeah. And then he like basically tells her he's got diamonds in his briefcase. And she's like, Well, I wouldn't be telling people that. Like, that's not a very good thing to be telling everybody. And he's like, Oh, well, don't worry, I have a gun right here. The company gave it to me to use, and I'll use it if I have to, you know. Um, he said, No one's getting these from me. And he goes, You can count on it, you know, and being all bold and like boastful about it, you know, and thinking he's a real tough guy, right? But that's all I'll say on that one.

SPEAKER_03 11:41

And when he says no one's getting these from me, you can count on it. That's a little foreshadowing of what's about to come later. Yeah, that is true. Now, that was never explained though. Why did he have these diamonds in his briefcase? He never said what he did for a living or anything, you know.

SPEAKER_02 11:57

No, he just said he's taking these diamonds somewhere. I don't know if they were.

SPEAKER_03 12:06

Maybe sell jewelry, maybe. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 12:08

No, that was a lot of diamonds. That's all I gotta say. Yeah, a lot of diamonds.

SPEAKER_03 12:13

Yeah, I like this buck guy. I thought he was funny.

SPEAKER_02 12:16

He was funny, but yeah, he's kind of quirky. A little quirky. I know, I know, a little silly, and a little dumb, if you don't ask me, because you know, you don't tell people you got a whole briefcase of diamonds, like I know.

SPEAKER_03 12:31

Out on the street, duck, yeah. Out on the street, Nora tells Michael that Carter Williams, her old boss, is on his way to town. Carter wants to talk to her. Michael says there is something I want to talk to you about. Before he can get it out, Constable Reynolds rides up and interrupts. Uh Reynolds says, I got a tip that Johnny Green is going to rob a stagecoach today. So they ride off. So it was never revealed what Michael was gonna talk to Nora about. I was wondering what that was.

SPEAKER_02 13:06

I think he kind of felt bad from the previous conversation when she felt like he was like thinking she wasn't as as good of a person as you know she knows she is in a sense.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:18

And I think maybe he was gonna open up and you know, kind of tell her how he felt too.

SPEAKER_03 13:23

Yeah, because he already apologized in the last episode about he did, but I think it was still eating at him. I think he may have been gonna tell her that he had feelings for her or something.

SPEAKER_02 13:35

Yeah, I think so.

SPEAKER_03 13:36

Yeah, hey cat's here. Hey cat.

SPEAKER_02 13:38

Hey cat, hey Gene.

SPEAKER_03 13:42

Yeah, um, let's see. All right, you take this next one.

SPEAKER_02 13:49

Okay, so then we see Fletcher and Constable Reynolds, and you call him Debbie Downer Reynolds. And they're sitting there and he's like, I'm only gonna warn you one last time. And Michael's like, Oh, only one last time. Um, but anyway, he says a mounty can't properly do his job if he is falling for someone with a pretty face who wears fancy perfume. And Fletcher's like, Well, Nora doesn't wear perfume, she she naturally smells good, basically, is what he was saying. Um, and he's like, Well, she's got you pretty wound, you know, pretty wrapped up tight. And he's like, he starts changing the subject and he said, Uh, is your source about Johnny Green a good one? And Reynolds is like, Yeah, he told me where the robbery was going to occur, and he's like, Yeah, nice job, uh, changing the subject. I see what you're doing.

SPEAKER_03 14:45

Oh, Gene says he's not a downer. Yeah, he is. He's downer towards romance. He's a Debbie Downer.

SPEAKER_02 14:51

Yeah, but it might change, Chad. Just give it a couple more scenes.

SPEAKER_03 14:54

It might change. Yeah, yeah, it might change. All right, now we get the exciting stagecoach robbery here. So Justine and Buck hear gunshots while riding the stagecoach. Tough guy, tough guy Buck, who said earlier no one is getting his diamonds, hands them over faster than a speeding bullet. And speaking of bullets, he also hands over his gun. He gives it to Justine, who throws it out the window.

unknown 15:24

I guess.

SPEAKER_03 15:24

So I guess the stagecoach robbers can pick it up and use it. So they got an extra gun. The stagecoach gets robbed, the robber steals their jewelry, but Justine won't hand over her ring. But she eventually does. Fletcher and Reynolds are riding around and find the stagecoach. They catch the stagecoach robber, well, one of them at least, as he is making his getaway. The stagecoach driver, oh, this was hilarious. The stagecoach driver is knocked unconscious, and he just happens to wake up right when Reynolds rides up. And that was like so fakey. I mean, they should have had they should have had Reynolds go over and kind of shake him and shake him a little bit, yeah. Yeah, he just he just wakes up as soon as I'm gonna do it.

SPEAKER_02 16:14

I know it's like, oh, oh, you're here.

SPEAKER_03 16:16

Yeah, no, it was like, yeah, yeah. Obviously, someone off camera says, gave him a cue and said, Okay, wake up.

SPEAKER_02 16:24

Right.

SPEAKER_03 16:25

We woke up right when Reynolds wrote up. Oh, Jean's, oh, what does Gene say? Always says, Gene says, wait a minute. Gene says you can't be that handsome and a downer at the same time.

SPEAKER_02 16:37

I agree, I agree, Gene.

SPEAKER_03 16:40

Oh, yeah. Melissa says that uh Buck should have learned how to use his gun. Yeah, he said that uh he was afraid of guns.

SPEAKER_02 16:49

Yeah, if he's gonna brag about carrying it, he definitely should know how to use it, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_03 16:53

Yeah, I know. If he's afraid of guns, he shouldn't be carrying one.

SPEAKER_02 16:56

All right, I'm gonna let you carry diamonds for that matter.

SPEAKER_03 16:59

I know. All right, I'm gonna let you take over to this part.

SPEAKER_02 17:03

Okay. So let's see here. So then Justine, uh after Reynolds walks up to the Sage Co driver, he goes up to open the the Stagecoast door, and at the same time, Justine leaps out and knocks him down onto the ground, and she lands right on top of Mountie Reynolds, and she tells him, and then she jumps right up when she goes, Well, you're not one of them. And so she tells him which direction the other robber went. And I think she totally like messed up uh, you know, Mounty Reynolds, because he was just not expecting her, I think. And it really threw him for a loop for a second. So he and he was like, It's okay, ma'am. And he's like talking, and you could just tell he's like, Oh wow, this is different. You know, there's just you could see the difference, you know, in how he reacts to women normally and how he reacted with her. And so you could just tell he was a little flustered. So anyway, so she tells him which way the other robber went, and then he takes off uh and he tells her that another Mounty will come along soon.

SPEAKER_03 18:05

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, that was probably your favorite part of the episode, right? When she lands on top of him.

unknown 18:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:13

Well, I just thought it was so funny because I really wasn't expecting her to leap out like that. You know, and so it was kind of like it was a surprise for sure. Um, but it was their chemistry when they are in scenes together, is just I don't know, it's just so natural. It it takes the scenes to a whole new level. I mean, I can't explain it, but they do it in other movies too. But their chemistry and the way they act with each other, it's undeniable that they have this connection. I mean, they really do. I mean, but yeah, it was a great scene.

SPEAKER_03 18:48

Yeah, they've worked together several times. Yep. Oh, you you can keep going.

SPEAKER_02 18:52

Okay. Well, then Fletcher comes by and he puts uh the robber he arrested in the back of the stagecoach. And Fletcher, he doesn't have any of any of the loot on him, so Johnny must have it. He's talking to, and he's like, We can't, he's talking to Reynolds, and he's like, We can't put anyone in the stagecoach with the robber. So Buck runs up and sits up against with the stagecoach driver and leaving Justine to ride the robber's horse with Reynolds as a chaperone. So I thought that was a very good segue to making sure that Justine rode a separate horse with Mounty, you know, Reynolds.

SPEAKER_03 19:26

So um, so at this time they could have done the robber on his horse and just escorted it with him, couldn't they?

SPEAKER_02 19:33

Just handcuffed, they could have, but there's a chance that he could have maybe got away. You never know.

SPEAKER_03 19:37

Yeah, maybe. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 19:39

You know, it is it is a series, Chad. And it was a new love interest, Chad.

SPEAKER_03 19:45

Did did uh Fletcher get in the back of the stagecoach with the robber?

SPEAKER_02 19:50

I don't I don't think so.

SPEAKER_03 19:52

He didn't?

SPEAKER_02 19:53

I don't remember him going in there. No, actually, now that you say that, I don't remember him getting in there because they could they shouldn't they couldn't have they shouldn't have left him in the robber in the stagecoach by himself, right?

SPEAKER_03 20:04

I don't remember.

SPEAKER_02 20:05

Yeah, unless he was handcuffed, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 20:07

Yeah, he was handcuffed, but I bet but yeah, I bet you're right.

SPEAKER_02 20:10

I bet it's under the assumption since they had the other horse, that was probably Fletcher's horse. So yeah, okay, but I never saw him.

SPEAKER_03 20:18

The other horse was the robber's horse. No, I don't think he got in the stagecoach, you're right.

SPEAKER_02 20:23

I don't even think the stage uh the stagecoach never even took off out of that scene. So no, it's still sitting there on the road, Chad.

SPEAKER_03 20:29

Yeah, you're right, because there would have been three horses. Yeah, there wouldn't be two empty horses, there was only one. Oh, oh, Melissa said he rode beside the stagecoach. Oh, did he? Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:41

Maybe he was on the other side. We couldn't see him, Chad.

SPEAKER_03 20:43

Oh, okay, okay. Maybe I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 20:45

I'm gonna have to go back and rewatch that now.

SPEAKER_03 20:49

All right, keep going.

SPEAKER_02 20:51

She said, Didn't you love when he said, I'm here to save you, ma'am? And she says you're a little late for that. That's right, Gene. I forgot about that line.

SPEAKER_03 20:59

Oh, that's right. I'm here to save you, ma'am. Oh, that's right. She says you're a little late for that. Yeah, you're right. And then Buck starts freaking out, and then Reynolds Reynolds says to to him, I think you're in good hands with with this one, you know.

SPEAKER_02 21:16

Right, right. So funny.

SPEAKER_03 21:20

All right, go ahead, finish this story.

SPEAKER_02 21:21

So then um, you see both of them on horses, and uh Maddie Reynolds he introduces himself and he to Justine and um he finds out that she's headed over to the Lawrence Ranch and he says, Well, I'll take you straight there instead of going through town. And so she's like, Okay. So yeah, it was a very good introduction. You could tell um Reynolds was just he just had this whole different demeanor with her. It was like he was not that wound up guy telling, you know, fearless Fletcher not to have a girlfriend. It was like a totally different man. Oh, yeah, Gina. Yes, Justine said buck up. Buck. That was my favorite. That's what I was saying earlier is about when I said his name was Buck. I'm like, that's what was so funny later. That's what I was gonna mention. So thanks for the reminder.

SPEAKER_03 22:11

Yeah, when yeah, yeah, and he jumped up, like you said, he jumped up and sat next to the driver. Oh, Gene says sparks were flying. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 22:22

Yes, they were.

SPEAKER_03 22:24

But I wonder how long Justine's gonna be in town.

SPEAKER_02 22:28

I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 22:29

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 22:31

Maybe, maybe she's gonna help her get her fashion store up and running.

SPEAKER_03 22:36

Oh, you think Hannah's gonna open a store in town?

SPEAKER_02 22:39

A clothing store?

SPEAKER_03 22:40

Oh. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what's gonna happen with that. So let's see. Carter Williams, Nora's boss, who is accused of bribing a judge, arrives at the hotel to check in. He thinks Sam is a bellhop and asks him to get his bags. Sam overhears his name and then tells Nora that Carter has arrived. So Nora meets with Carter at the hotel. He says Zoe, Noah's former co-worker, is lying. He never bribed a judge, and Zoe is lying because he caught her stealing from him. He claims she stole money from him because she was having family problems. She promised to pay him back, but instead made up all these lies about him. He says he came to town for two reasons. He says, one, so that Nora doesn't lose respect uh for him and to tell her the allegations are false. And two, he wants her to write a letter saying what he just told her is true and that Zoe is lying. Nora says that she will have to think about it. So when I heard this story, I thought this story just doesn't jive. Something doesn't sound right.

SPEAKER_02 24:00

Red flags were going up all around the tour.

SPEAKER_03 24:02

Yeah, you're right. Exactly right. And I think Nora knew it too. That yeah, she did. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:09

Yeah, I love that scene with her because she handled it so uh mature, but but also, you know, this is a mentor to her. You know, she talked about this guy and how she loved him in a sense of what he taught her and how she respected him in a sense, and you know, she was conducting herself so maturely, and I just felt like you could just tell he was lying, and she knew it.

SPEAKER_03 24:31

Yeah, I thought Cindy did a good job in this episode.

SPEAKER_02 24:34

Yeah, I did too. I did too. She had she had some more emotional um things going on, you know what I mean? But yes, her character and how she portrayed she did very well in this episode.

SPEAKER_03 24:45

This scene and then at the scene at the end. So Nora goes to see Maggie, tells her what Carter wants her to do. She tells Maggie she's not sure she believes him. Then she meets up with Carter again later in the hotel, tells him she will write this letter and have it to him later that day. He asks, What made you decide to write it? Nora, oh, this is where Nora like sticks the the shiv in him. Nora says, Because you were my mentor, uh I always looked up to you. You taught me about integrity and how a lie can destroy integrity. And Steve overhears this while he is pouring them tea and confesses about breaking the sewing machine.

SPEAKER_02 25:31

Right? She did so well that the young lad had to tell the truth.

SPEAKER_03 25:36

Uh-huh. Yeah, and then Nora said something to him like, It's okay as long as you were honest.

SPEAKER_02 25:42

Yeah, at least you're being honest. And then and then you could see Carter throwing around in Carter's eyes, like, oh well, yeah, when you're sitting there with a a boy who now is confessing what he did wrong, and you're a man. I mean, he had a he had one of those moments, you know.

SPEAKER_03 26:00

Yeah, yep, yep. All right, you can take over, talk about Sam and Ronnie here.

SPEAKER_02 26:07

So Sam goes to Maggie's medical office and asks if he looks like a bellman. You know, he holds his shirt up like this, and she said, No, she says, You don't look like a um bellman. And he's like, Well, I don't look like a hotel owner either. And he complains that Ronnie is calling all the shots. And she says, Well, you both share the hotel 50-50, so you have equal power. So you guys better figure out a way to compromise because neither one of you has power. You both have equal 50-50. So you better figure it out, basically. And so he's like, You could tell he has this thought in his head, like he's gonna figure out how to solve that issue, and he leaves. So he goes, uh, he goes back to the hotel and he tells Ronnie that we need to compromise. And so his first part of his compromise is he tells him uh that they'll keep the name of the hotel. And then Ronnie's like, okay, and he shakes his hand, partner, you know, and he's like, Okay, well then we'll keep uh the gold miner special on the menu. And Sam says, and just so you know, you clearly know how to run a hotel, and he's like, That's because I live it 24 hours a day. So um, you want me to keep going?

SPEAKER_03 27:22

Yeah, keep going.

SPEAKER_02 27:24

So after Ronnie says Sam, uh, or after Ronnie says Sam comes up with the idea that he should live in the owner's suite, and and Ronnie chokes on his soup when Sam suggests it.

SPEAKER_03 27:37

Yeah, that was funny. He says, I think I should take over the owner's suite. Ronnie says, That's a fantastic idea. And then he jokes and he says, What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_02 27:46

Wait a minute, like what do they disagree to?

SPEAKER_03 27:48

What did you just say?

SPEAKER_02 27:50

Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 27:52

Keep going.

SPEAKER_02 27:53

Yeah, Melissa. That Jean too, yeah. She put in there the children always teach us a lesson. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:59

And then Melissa says Cindy is so wonderful with the children and checking on the children in between take talking to Carter. Yeah, that was nice.

SPEAKER_03 28:09

Oh, yeah, you can keep going here.

SPEAKER_02 28:11

Um, is this the later they find Nora?

SPEAKER_03 28:14

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:15

So later they find Nora on the street and ask for her. Now, who is this? It's Sam and uh Ronnie, right? Sam and Ronnie find her in the street and they're asking her for legal advice about how business partners can get along. And she basically says kind of the same thing that Maggie says. You two have to come up with an agreement on how to resolve disputes and I'll put it in writing. And they're like, That's it? You're not going to help? And they're like, What good is a lawyer for? And she, they're like, Thanks for nothing. Um, so yeah, they she didn't they didn't get the advice that they were looking for from her, and she looks, you know, puzzled, like, what do you mean? I was trying to help.

SPEAKER_03 28:54

Yeah. Oh, yeah, talk about this next scene here.

SPEAKER_02 29:00

Okay, so then we see Sam. He goes into the general store to buy some. You said lard. Is that like the cooking lard?

SPEAKER_03 29:07

It was lard, yeah. He went to buy a tuple.

SPEAKER_02 29:10

I saw this earlier and I was like, I was like, really? Is that what it was? Because I did not see that.

SPEAKER_03 29:14

At first, I thought it was a can of paint, but it was a can of lard.

SPEAKER_02 29:18

Okay, because I was confused too on that when I saw that. I'm like, okay, well, I'm sure Chad knows what he's talking about.

SPEAKER_03 29:23

That's what they cook the hungry man breakfast in.

SPEAKER_02 29:25

Oh, yeah, that's true for those pancakes, and yeah, that's true. Um, so he goes in to buy this lard and he uh drops a coin that Wally tries to hand him and gets an idea. Yeah, and so go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 29:38

I was gonna say that tub of lard is pretty gross. Yeah, it really was. Was it what who was that? Was that that was Wally, picks it up and drops it on the counter. And I'm like, oh wow, that's a lot of fat right there.

SPEAKER_02 29:51

Yeah, but that's what they cook with. I think that's why you know people still to this day have those coffee cans full of bacon grease and stuff because they leave it on their stove to cook with.

SPEAKER_03 30:01

Yeah, my dad always saved the bacon grease. Yeah, yep, and he would fry stuff in it. All right, keep going.

SPEAKER_02 30:11

So then Sam goes back to the hotel and he tells Ronnie, he said, We're going to flip a coin when we did we can't decide on something. And then Ronnie, you know, surprisingly agrees. And so they flip a coin to see who's going to live in the owner's suite. And guess who wins? It would be Sam.

SPEAKER_03 30:28

Yeah, so I'm curious to know where is Ronnie gonna live?

SPEAKER_02 30:32

I don't know. That's a good question.

SPEAKER_03 30:34

Yeah, and I can't believe he's not gonna put up a fight, he's just gonna leave his home. I mean, he lives there.

SPEAKER_02 30:42

I would be surprised because Sam and Maggie are together. So is Maggie gonna want to live in the hotel with him? Because I'm sure it's not as big as an actual house.

SPEAKER_00 30:53

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 30:54

So I don't know. I kind of wondered about that too.

SPEAKER_03 30:57

Oh, Jay's here. Hey, he wants to know. Did you change did you change your username, Jay? I don't know. He wants to know where my mounty hat is. Yeah, I know. I haven't had time to look for it.

SPEAKER_02 31:07

Well, Jay, let me tell you the story. No, just kidding.

SPEAKER_03 31:12

I keep forgetting to look for it, but I gotta look for it. So Cricket's gonna text me on my next day off to remind me to look for my mounty hat because I never remember to do it. Yeah, so I'm not sure what. Yeah, so Sam said something to Joe, right? About having Ronnie live with Joe take over, because I guess Sam lives with Joe. So he said something about maybe Ronnie can live with you. Take my room and we'll see if that really comes to fruition. All right, over at the Lawrence Ranch, there is a leak in the roof. Whoops. There's a leak in the roof, and the hay is getting wet. Oh, Victoria says Ronnie is going to live with spicy Tess in the barn. Alright, so there's a leak in the roof, hay's getting wet. Hannah gets back from trying to pick up Justine, tells Wyatt the stagecoach is late. He says he will, or she says she will help him spread the hay. Because uh Wyatt says it's gonna mold pretty quick. He talks about his rodeo injuries, uh, says he got pinned under a bull. His injuries ended his rodeo career, and Hannah's Hannah's uncle took him in and made him a rancher. Then Hannah shares her back injury, says she heard it, falling off a ladder while putting up a window display. Then Justine makes it to the Lawrence Ranch and wants to have her meeting with Hannah. Hannah puts the ranch's needs first and tells Justine their meeting will have to wait until tomorrow. Then Reynolds escorts her to town. And oh Jay says hello to you.

SPEAKER_02 33:13

Oh, hello Jay! Long time no uh text or whatever you want to call it.

SPEAKER_03 33:20

Yeah, he hasn't been on here in a while. Yeah, so that's about all nothing really exciting in that scene. Like I said, this was the my least least interested storyline in the episode.

SPEAKER_02 33:33

Well, and I think they had to not have it so exciting for them because Justine had to be exciting with with Constable Reynolds, see. So it had to be a little bit, you know, yeah, okay taken from them to give to them, see.

SPEAKER_03 33:45

Mm-hmm. All right, now you can talk about Justine and Reynolds and the conversation they have.

SPEAKER_02 33:51

Okay, so they make it back to the hotel where Hannah made Justine a reservation, and she tells um she tells him, she tells Reynolds she hopes to get her ring back, and Reynolds wants to know if the ring is from a fiance. And Justine is like, no, it was my grandmother's wedding ring. And Reynolds says, Well, we need to meet up again so I can get your witness testimony. And she's like, Well, why don't we meet here in the morning?

SPEAKER_03 34:17

Mm-hmm. But then we don't get to see their meeting.

SPEAKER_02 34:21

No, maybe that's next episode.

SPEAKER_03 34:23

Maybe, yeah, I was gonna say, maybe we'll see that in the next episode.

SPEAKER_02 34:27

Yeah, it looks it's something to look forward to, Chad.

SPEAKER_03 34:30

Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:32

They're drawing us in, see?

SPEAKER_03 34:34

Yeah, yeah. The episode ends with Fletcher stopping Nora on the street. Says, I need you to come to the jail. There is someone who wants to see you. In the jail is Carter Williams, and he confesses everything. Carter says, You made me want to confess, you reminded me why I wanted to be a lawyer. Nora asks Carter if she was a good lawyer, and he says the best. Then Nora exits the Mounty office, Fletcher asks, Is everything alright? And Nora says it will be. And then the episode ends with her walking off into the darkness.

SPEAKER_02 35:21

Yeah. I thought that was a good scene for her and Carter.

SPEAKER_03 35:25

Yeah, that was, yeah. Yeah, and like I said before, I thought um I thought um Cindy did a good job in that scene.

SPEAKER_02 35:33

Yeah, I did too. Kind of more emotional than we've seen probably in any of the scenes in this series, I think. I mean, if I can recall. So yeah, it was definitely uh I mean it was kind of emotional. Like, you know, here she's she gave and so much respect to this guy, and then to have him answer her, and it just probably just made her feel good and and you know, made her know that she's doing everything that she should be doing as a professional and as a human being, in a sense.

SPEAKER_03 36:02

Yeah, you could see Cindy had a little tear in her eye.

SPEAKER_02 36:04

Yeah, yeah, I could see some emotional.

SPEAKER_03 36:06

Was I a good lawyer?

SPEAKER_02 36:08

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 36:09

And and she said, or or were you just what did she say? Was I a good lawyer, or were you just like patronizing me or using me to or something or well, I forget what she said. Something like that.

SPEAKER_02 36:19

Yeah, I can't remember her exact words, but yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:22

Yeah, so I thought this was another good episode.

SPEAKER_02 36:27

Well, you know what my response is.

SPEAKER_03 36:29

I know, I know what you're gonna say. You're gonna say you didn't like the episode.

SPEAKER_02 36:33

This episode was phenomenal. Like, you know, come on now.

SPEAKER_03 36:37

And you know what? I think they just keep getting better. They do go.

SPEAKER_02 36:41

Oh, they really do, yes.

SPEAKER_03 36:43

Yeah, they keep stacking up and getting better each episode, I think.

SPEAKER_02 36:47

Yes. Well, last week when we saw it on the virtual screening, I had made a comment in there and I said, uh, watch out when when calls the heart, because we got four power couples coming on, man.

SPEAKER_03 36:58

Yeah, yeah. So yeah, I think the the show has found its stride and is kind of moving right along.

SPEAKER_02 37:05

Mm-hmm. I agree.

SPEAKER_03 37:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:08

And it was like I had talked to Gene earlier, I think this week, and we were talking about the episode. And the one thing that you know she had mentioned, and and I agreed with her also was it had so much movement in the sense of, you know, here was an action scene, and then we had another action scene, and you you just didn't have time to like sit and be like, Oh, well, this is going nowhere. It was going everywhere, and it was great.

SPEAKER_03 37:32

Except for the boring scenes between Yan and Hannah.

SPEAKER_02 37:38

But they really weren't that boring. He was kind of sticking up for her, you know. So you know, they they have to have some some scenes come down so the other scenes can rise.

SPEAKER_03 37:48

So you know, so yes, yeah, yeah. The stagecoach robbery in it, that was fun and exciting.

SPEAKER_02 37:55

Yes, yes, J Jim and Justine are bringing sparks.

SPEAKER_03 38:01

Yeah. Oh, Kat said it was well balanced, yeah, it was.

SPEAKER_02 38:04

Yes, very much so.

SPEAKER_03 38:08

Yeah, Jim, yeah, bringing sparks, but humor too, yeah. That's true, Gene. Yeah, bring some humor too. Yep. All right, so I've been thinking about we all know who's gonna wind up with who, right?

SPEAKER_02 38:24

Well, we think because I saw an episode preview and it showed the preacher with Nora again, so I don't know. Who knows? Maybe maybe uh Fletcher's gonna go off to the field. You never know.

SPEAKER_03 38:37

Yeah, he's not going anywhere. They just they just maybe he's gonna go to the field because maybe he's not.

SPEAKER_02 38:45

I don't know. I don't know. I hope not because I want him and um Nora to get together.

SPEAKER_03 38:51

Maybe there could be like a uh season cliffhanger where he where he like leaves town, maybe. Yeah, but he decides to go back in the field and leaves like a yeah. That's that's a possibility.

SPEAKER_02 39:02

Yep, yeah, yeah, very much so.

SPEAKER_03 39:05

So I was thinking about these couples, and I was thinking about my dream couples, okay. Couples that I would like to see together. Okay, all right, but then really think about this. Uh Sam and Hannah. Okay. Because I don't think I don't feel like a lot of chemistry between between Sam and Maggie. I don't know about you.

SPEAKER_02 39:30

I do, but it's not as strong as some of the other couples. I'll say that. I don't but I think they're good together.

SPEAKER_03 39:37

That kind of cough caught me off guard when was it last season or whenever they threw them together and they didn't even really know each other, remember when that happened?

SPEAKER_02 39:46

Yeah. Maybe she's just after his money.

SPEAKER_03 39:48

So I don't I like Sam and Hannah. I think Sam and Hannah should get together. I think they'd be a better couple. All right, ready for the all right, Maggie and Joe.

SPEAKER_02 39:58

Because he was too old for her.

SPEAKER_03 40:00

I know I missed their chemistry from the first season. Remember, they were they were so good together in the first season.

SPEAKER_02 40:07

I don't know. I can't see that one.

SPEAKER_03 40:09

You don't see that one, okay. No, I do Wyatt and Lucy, of course.

SPEAKER_02 40:15

Right. Jeez, too. Hold on.

SPEAKER_03 40:18

Because I think I think Wyatt's too old for Hannah.

SPEAKER_02 40:21

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_03 40:23

I mean, Hannah looks like she's like 25, and Wyatt looks like he's 40.

SPEAKER_02 40:29

I mean does not look 40, Jack. No, uh no. See, I like I like Hannah and Wyatt together.

SPEAKER_00 40:40

You do? Okay.

SPEAKER_02 40:41

I do.

SPEAKER_00 40:41

All right.

SPEAKER_02 40:42

I like Lucy and Wyatt, but honestly, I like Hannah. Hannah's just got the innocence about her, and and Wyatt's got that rough around the edges, but yet he's this really nice guy underneath. And I can see that he likes Hannah. So, no, I think there's another another relationship brewing under there.

SPEAKER_03 41:03

All right, all right. And then another one here, Nora and Reverend Daniels, even though we haven't seen too much of them. But they they were good in those scenes they had.

SPEAKER_02 41:15

They were they were good in those scenes.

SPEAKER_03 41:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:18

I'm not ruling that one out.

SPEAKER_03 41:20

You're not ruling that one out. Okay, okay, okay. And then the last one I came up with, you're gonna love this one. Constable Reynolds and Tess.

SPEAKER_02 41:30

All right, Chad, I'm off of here. No, just kidding.

SPEAKER_03 41:41

Definitely not. Yeah, everyone in the chat likes Wyatt and Hannah together.

SPEAKER_02 41:45

Yeah, you're outvoted, sorry.

SPEAKER_03 41:47

Yeah, I don't, I don't, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:49

Okay, well, on that note, who could we set up Lucy with?

SPEAKER_03 41:53

Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Lucy. Yeah, who would yeah, who's available for Lucy?

SPEAKER_02 42:08

Jesse Hutch. No, just kidding.

SPEAKER_03 42:11

He's in jail.

SPEAKER_02 42:12

I know.

SPEAKER_03 42:14

There's no one left, right?

SPEAKER_02 42:15

There's no maybe he'll maybe he'll get transferred to another location and hurt himself, and she has to take him back to town and they're stranded and they fall in love. You never know.

SPEAKER_03 42:24

Well, unless Nora winds up with fearless Fletcher, then Reverend is a little bit of a big thing. Oh, well, that's true. That is true. Yeah. But Lucy, Lucy's gotta be with a rancher.

SPEAKER_02 42:38

Okay, who says she's gotta be with a rancher? Didn't you watch the uh ever after movie when she's like, well, you know, a fish can't be with a bird, and he's like, unless you give it wings. So it's possible.

SPEAKER_03 42:52

Wait, what movie you talking about?

SPEAKER_02 42:54

Ever After with Drew Barrymore.

SPEAKER_03 42:57

Oh, what does she say?

SPEAKER_02 42:59

So she meets Da Vinci in the woods or something, and he's got these these um like wooden shoes, and you can walk on water, and so the guy's walking on water and she's swimming in the ocean or in the in the thing, and it was something about during this time, and she brings it up and she says, Well, a fish can't be with a bird, basically. And he's like, Well, unless you give the fish wings, then they both can have wings together and be okay. I think there was something along those lines in the movie, but it was it was really cute.

SPEAKER_03 43:29

I mean, you know, it was so oh okay, possible, all right, very possible.

SPEAKER_02 43:35

Now I'm gonna have to find that exact quote and read it to you next episode. We do.

SPEAKER_03 43:40

All right. Well, all right. So we both like the episode, but you don't like my couples. All right, no problem. Now we're oh, there you go.

SPEAKER_02 43:49

Did you see what Gene said? What she said, Lucy is great. Here's your next part, Chad.

SPEAKER_03 44:01

Yeah. Yeah. And should we reveal our mystery item?

SPEAKER_02 44:05

Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_03 44:06

I I I go first. I brought a bad one. I brought a bad one. I can only forgot to do it again. And I just remembered the last minute, so I grabbed this.

SPEAKER_02 44:18

It's probably keys or an apple.

SPEAKER_03 44:21

And what's Jay say? I look forward to hearing your take on the show and seeing Cricut again.

SPEAKER_02 44:27

Thanks, Jay.

SPEAKER_03 44:29

So I grabbed this last minute this morning.

SPEAKER_02 44:32

Okay. What is it?

SPEAKER_03 44:34

I know you can guess it.

SPEAKER_02 44:39

It's either a biscuit or it's tea.

SPEAKER_03 44:41

I couldn't think of any items.

SPEAKER_02 44:43

Biscuit tea. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 44:46

Alright, you ready? You ready? Can you see it? Can you see it? Oops.

SPEAKER_02 44:52

Oh, it's a coin. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 44:54

It was a coin. I tried to flip it. I couldn't catch it.

SPEAKER_02 44:57

Hey, it's still something. It's still a coin.

SPEAKER_03 44:59

It's a coin to represent the coin bar between Ronnie and Sam.

SPEAKER_02 45:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:05

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 45:06

Alright, so you ready for mine?

SPEAKER_03 45:08

I don't know where it flew. All right. I gotta let me guess yours.

SPEAKER_02 45:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 45:12

Let's see. Well, how can I guess it? Because I don't remember what was in the episode. Uh let's see. You bought oh, you brought a tub of lard.

SPEAKER_02 45:23

You're so funny. No, I didn't even know that was in the show until you had that in your notes. Are you ready for it?

SPEAKER_03 45:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:32

Pajamas!

SPEAKER_03 45:34

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 45:36

I've been wearing them the whole time, Chad.

SPEAKER_03 45:38

I didn't know those were pajamas you had on. I thought it was. Yeah, they're pajamas, see? Oh, I didn't realize that. Oh, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_02 45:44

Yes. Well, you made a comment about the sun and the moon, the stars, and I was like, oh well, well, the stars aligned for Justine and Jim, so you know it's appropriate.

SPEAKER_03 45:51

So kind of celestial pajamas. That is a good one. It was right in front of my eyes, too.

SPEAKER_02 45:56

Yep, right in front of your eyes. Didn't even know.

SPEAKER_03 45:59

I can't even see what's right in front of me.

SPEAKER_01 46:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:07

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 46:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:10

I didn't know what else to do. And I was like, you know what? I'll just put on my pajamas.

SPEAKER_03 46:14

That's a good one because Ronnie, Ronnie was wearing his PJs. Sure was. Yeah, that's really good.

SPEAKER_02 46:20

What better way to relax on a podcast than wear pajamas?

SPEAKER_03 46:23

Yep. Yep. So there's a um a screening of the next Jay didn't like my coin that I brought.

SPEAKER_02 46:35

I just read that. Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt you. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 46:38

So there's a screening of the next episode.

SPEAKER_02 46:41

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 46:42

In 13 minutes. Sure is. On Great American Pure Flix's YouTube channel.

unknown 46:50

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 46:50

And also on the Pure Flix website and app. So if you want to catch that, Wyatt and Hannah are going to be watching it with Bill.

SPEAKER_02 47:00

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 47:02

And then it also airs tomorrow, right? On Great American Pure Flix. Start streaming.

unknown 47:07

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 47:07

And then of course Sunday night on Great American Family. Ronnie's coming to your house, cricket. That's what Victoria says.

SPEAKER_02 47:17

He better bring the popcorn.

SPEAKER_03 47:21

The coin was a la good last-minute mystery item. Oh, see, Kat liked it. Thanks, Kat. Yeah, it really was.

SPEAKER_02 47:27

It was it was in there.

SPEAKER_03 47:28

Yeah, it was in the episode. Yeah. So we'll have to see what happens in the next episode. Is Justine still going to be around? I'm guessing she will be, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 47:38

I hope so.

SPEAKER_03 47:39

Yeah, we didn't.

SPEAKER_02 47:40

She can't make an entrance like that and not come back.

SPEAKER_03 47:42

I mean, yeah, yeah. We didn't see Tess in this episode. I wonder if Tess will be seen in the next episode.

SPEAKER_02 47:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 47:51

Because what's going on? Nothing's going on with her. They they caught the guy that kidnapped her, and then that was it. That was the end of her. She gave money to Lucy's father, remember?

SPEAKER_02 48:01

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 48:03

Yeah. Um I wonder if we're ever gonna find out what uh Grumpy's invention is. I wonder if I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 48:12

I hope so.

SPEAKER_03 48:12

I wonder if they're gonna drop that storyline if we're ever gonna find out what it was.

SPEAKER_02 48:17

I don't know. We'll have to wait and see.

SPEAKER_03 48:19

I know. And the other thing I was wondering, how many episodes are we getting? Are we only getting six episodes?

SPEAKER_02 48:25

I think that's what they said, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 48:26

Because that's what we got last season. I thought I was hoping they would do more.

SPEAKER_02 48:30

I know, I was too. But you know, maybe I mean, because that's just not enough.

SPEAKER_03 48:37

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 48:38

Not enough. Yeah, we need more.

SPEAKER_03 48:42

So we're halfway through then. I know, it's so sad, Chad.

SPEAKER_02 48:46

If there's only six, I'm already sad. See?

SPEAKER_03 48:48

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, hopefully your boy will be in the next episode.

SPEAKER_02 48:56

I know, and I'm like, I wonder when they recorded all these, because you know, he has a mustache now in real life, I think, still.

SPEAKER_03 49:03

So like, did they record all of them last fall? Because you can see all the you can see all the fall leaves in the background, which is really nice. I like seeing all the fall colors, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:11

I like seeing that for the time period, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 49:13

Yeah, so they shot it last fall.

SPEAKER_02 49:15

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 49:20

So that's it, hopefuls. Thanks again for being here, and we will see you next week. Uh oh, yeah. We will see you next week. Until then, you keep the faith, keep smiling, keep your friends close, and keep your great American family close.

SPEAKER_02 49:40

Bye, everybody.