Absolutely Devoted to You (Hallmark Channel - 2026)

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[00:00:32] We hope you like this jolly podcast. Da da da da da da da da. Hello everybody. Oh my goodness. How are we today? Amazing. Yes? Amazing. No kidding me. I was hoping that you would be because it's Hallmark's 25th anniversary. It is. Dude, that's why I'm in a good mood. I know. It's been a... We're in the middle of a three week celebration for the 23rd. 24th.

[00:01:01] We're the first all the way there. And then you did a bit on the socials and everyone were like, it's not 21st, it's 25th. Yeah. That's what I get. Didn't land on. That's what I get for, you know, doing a bit within the bit. If you don't actually... But also, you've misspelled some stuff before. Of course. So I think people just were like... Of course. No, 100%. Brands. But you were doing a thing. I believe you too. Yeah. You were. I was. I actually like gave it. I was like, should I do this? Yeah. Yeah. Heck yeah. Never again. Never again. No more bits.

[00:01:31] No more bits. That's the end. We're not messing around. People don't want them. We don't want the bits. It's done. We are two out of three birthday movies. You get a weird two. You shouldn't be allowed to do it like that. The old photo negative peace sign there. What is that? The mirror peace sign? Out of three. Out of three. Out of three. I don't know. This is really hitting on YouTube. Yeah. Birthday movies. So far.

[00:02:01] Are you feeling jovial? Are you feeling birthday? Am I feeling jovial? Celebratory. I mean, my birthday was four days ago. Right. So, I mean, there was some carryover there. I'm not going to address it. No, don't. Absolutely not. Because Hallmark's birthday is more important. Hallmark's 21st. This is a Hallmark podcast. It's not a dance part. Okay. But like both birthdays are coinciding. What do you want from me? Right. Well, one's turning 25. That's right. I did not turn 25. No, you did not. A little bit older. Yeah. So, you know, it's important to celebrate the little things.

[00:02:30] For two reasons. For two reasons. That's exactly right. For two reasons. You know, two reasons. You might know what I realized not too long ago. What was that? Next, I think it's going to happen next year. I turn 26. 20, that's true. The 24th. I mean, it could happen this year. I'll have to do the math and really count things out. But we're approaching 2,000 episodes. Is that right? Yeah. We got to figure out how many of those were repeats. Because some of them are repeats. Some of them are things and whatnot.

[00:03:00] But we're getting there. We're getting there. I think it's going to happen next year. But that's going to be a big day. That's a huge day. Yeah. Who knows? We might take the day off. Take the day. We actually won't do it. What if our episode... We'll never do it. We'll go straight from 1999 to 2001. What if every episode... I do numbers like yours. That's great. Yeah, that's really good. What if every episode... No comment. Or the drop for Deck the Hallmark feed was a take the day off? There you go. Now you're talking. I don't think people would care about that. No, people love that show. All right. Are we ready?

[00:03:30] Shall we dive into it? Absolutely. Yeah, man. Good weekend. Good weekend. Thank you. You had a good weekend. You told me all about it. I asked you right before we went on. You went, what did we do? That was it. That was pretty much it. That sums it up. Go Sox. Great. Go Sox. Well, yeah. On a losing streak now though, aren't they? That's why you don't trade. That's what they get for winning so much. That's why you don't trade people when you're in the middle of a... That's right. You can't shake things up in the middle of a streak. You don't do that. I know that. I know that. You know. All right. Absolutely devoted to you is what we're talking about today.

[00:03:59] August 8th, 2026 is when it premiered. I don't know. 20, 20. 20. Two more. There we go. That's five. Yeah, man. That looks great. Three, five. Six. That's not a finger. You were down here. Like I didn't know if you were holding it up. Right. Was it up? Yeah. The movie kicks off with a morning show called Marie and Mason. Classic morning show situation.

[00:04:28] July 4th banter. You know it. You love it. We meet Caitlin who's the producer, segment producer on the show. Who really wants to get that executive producer promotion that is available. She's going in for an interview and with a lot of animal themed pitches. So she thinks we're really going to knock things out of the park. On the show, Marie is talking about her favorite 90s band. Absolutely. Yeah.

[00:04:58] She loves listening to their song hotter than July, lie, lie, lie. Every July she, she listens to this song and she has a big crush on the one of the singers, Derek. But the band isn't together anymore. Derek is busy working at a community center as you do. He's a chill dude. Doesn't want all of the attention. Okay.

[00:05:23] Caitlin goes to talk to her boss, pitch the animal things, but the pitch never really happens because her boss is a real talker. But when the plan to bring in the lifeguard dog for their end of summer bash falls through, Caitlin seizes the moment and decides to just randomly pitch getting absolutely. Yeah. To perform at the end of the end of the summer bash. She pitches that if she makes this happen, she gets the EP gig.

[00:05:51] Her boss says it's a deal. Is there a catch though? Probably not. I mean, yeah. She loses her job if she doesn't get it. Yeah. You know, it takes her hot. It does seem that way. It takes her really hot. So she gets the livelihoods of a lot of people. Yeah. Yeah. Got it. She gets a hold of three of the four members of absolutely. Yeah. And they're like, absolutely. Lance. Joey. Uh, but Derek, the other guy is elusive.

[00:06:21] Derek is elusive. Yeah. Uh, she tracks him down at the community center and he is very against the idea of doing this. This is absolutely no. Absolutely. No. She takes some time and comes back with a plan, a deal. If you will, if he does the reunion show, she'll help him with the community center variety show. Oh, also, if you don't do this, everybody that I work with will lose their jobs.

[00:06:49] So just kind of let that sink in. And he says, if you boost ticket sales, we'll see what happens. Yeah. Does he ever say yeah, absolutely. Yeah. No, no, I guess not. Uh, so that's good enough for her though. They announced the reunion show on the morning show, leaving out if Derek is going to be there or not, because things are still foggy. Right.

[00:07:17] Naturally, Caitlin and Derek start hanging out outside of the community center. And he opens up about leaving the band because he couldn't connect with the fans on a personal level. And she opens up about why she loves her job. Why the morning show is her deal. He goes to talk to his coworker and she's like, we both know that you're not doing this reunion show. So stop stringing this poor girl along. Preach girl. Uh, the morning show hosts decide to just announce that Derek is going to do the reunion

[00:07:45] once advertisers stop, start dropping when they hadn't announced it yet. So we just gotta, we just gotta announce it. It's too long. Word gets to Caitlin about the announcement while she's with Derek. She does not tell him the bad news though, is that ticket sales for the writing show. They're not skyrocketing. Uh, so she hatches a secret plan, but one of the boys that's Derek mentors starts feeling guilty about keeping this secret plan from him.

[00:08:14] So they decide to invite him to rehearsal with the boys from the community center. And absolutely. Yeah. And absolutely. Yeah. He gets real mad. Turns out the boys already knew that he was in. Absolutely. Yeah. They don't care about that. And he's like, well, I'm still mad at you for telling them. He tells Caitlin that even though the show is now sold out, the variety shows now sold

[00:08:43] out, he's not doing the reunion. She's real sad. He makes up with the band and surprises Caitlin and all of America by showing up for the performance and crushes it. Caitlin gets the promotion. Derek gets to talk about the community center on the TV. And he announces that because Caitlin, because of Caitlin and this morning show, the community center is fully funded for another year. I love to hear it.

[00:09:11] They all go to celebrate and Derek talks to Caitlin. They both apologize for how they handled things. He sings hotter than July softly to her while they dance and they kiss big ones. And that my friends was absolutely devoted to you. We did it. We sure did. We're going to take a break. We're going to come back. We're going to break this movie down with four segments. Close.

[00:09:39] Four segments on the other side of the break here on. Thank you. Mark. Hi, everybody. Welcome. We're talking about absolutely devoted to you. Very excited to break this one down. We're going to start with a hot take. Sort of share exactly how you felt about this episode. We do not hold back. And I'll start with you, Bry Guy. Bry, thoughts on this movie? Mm-hmm. Yeah, a few. A few thoughts on this movie.

[00:10:09] First of all, I feel like I got to start with a little DTH board business. Well, yeah. I think we got a quorum here. This is good. This is a quorum? Yeah. Motion to consider any 90s-themed movie that doesn't have a flashback. Just stricken from the record. Second. Thank you. Second. All in favor. It's in law. So moved. Holy cow. Dude. You can't do this. I want to throw something through my TV. You can't do this. Cannot. This movie's okay overall. Had an okay time. But the poster looked like Saved by the Bell.

[00:10:39] It looked so fun. We both creamed this movie based on anticipation on that poster. The 90s poster. Dude. Poster. Neon and whatnot. The whole movie. All the stuff. Shapes. Zigzags. Lightning. Everything. I could hear the Saved by the Bell on that poster. 100%. Nowhere to be found. And we all, like, they tricked me too, because we were getting near the end and he was up on that stage and it got foggy. And I'm like, here we go. Here it is. Here's the flashback. We're going to see what happened. No way, Jose. Not even. Nope. I was so bummed. I was so bummed. No.

[00:11:09] You have to flashback. You have to. Why even tell us it's the 90s? Take the 90s out of it. This is almost a very 90s Christmas or whatever, which was more of an offense. Yep. Because that's in the title. But this is up there. 100%. Yeah. Totally misleading. Yeah. I wanted, obviously, more 90s. I wanted more boy band nostalgia. I wanted a lot of practice. Like, I wanted those guys going to town. He didn't practice once. No. Not a single time. We didn't get a single rehearsal of him. That's how you know he's good. I guess.

[00:11:39] So I wanted him just with the towel around his neck, like, oh, it's been a while gone, guys. You know? We didn't get any of it. It's sort of like, and it had this realization. Down here, you don't have the store, the Christmas tree shops. Do you? This store? We have heard of that. We had the Christmas tree shops on Woodruff Road, but they closed. They closed everywhere. A couple years ago. So the front of them, it looks like unique shops. Yeah, no, this is a great call. A ton of fun. Yeah, I see what you're doing. A ton of fun. You're like, I want to go to that shop. It looks unique. It looks so great. There's going to be so much Christmas in the truck.

[00:12:09] There's so much fun stuff. And then you walk in and it's just a buzzing warehouse with the fluorescent lights. It's just one giant space. And it's always one giant space. And so that's what I have to just understand every time I get a cool poster or a cool different idea. I'm walking into Christmas tree shops and I got to just tone it down. Or they undersell us. Like occasionally they'll undersell us and it will be way more than we expected.

[00:12:38] All I can do is control my expectations. Yeah, I do like that analogy. It's really good, dude. Her associate, Sarah, was great. I love her in these movies. Megan Heffern, her and TJ had great chemistry. We had a real choreographer. Linda Boyd, who played Lucille, was great. The manager. I thought she was. I want her in a Christmas movie as like a Mrs. Claus working magic behind the scenes. I couldn't find her on IMDB either. Oh, really? Yeah, I found her. Oh, I found her. I didn't do the research. I thought she was really good. Really good.

[00:13:08] So overall, I mean, it's pretty good. But big asterick stepping all over this one here. Uh, I hear what you guys are arguing. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I hear what you guys are arguing. You play one decent song at the end and Brand is sold. I did love the song. The song's an absolute bang. I hear what you guys are saying and you guys are right. Like they need to stop doing this. If you guys are going to talk about how this is such like a 90s boy band and then you don't really show us any footage from the 90s. Like that is, that's morally wrong.

[00:13:36] Um, but I absolutely love this movie. Uh, I had so much fun with my, this movie and I'll say this. Uh, yeah, the song is great. And, uh, all the people that you mentioned are wonderful in this movie. Jesse Metcalf is so good in this movie. This was inspired casting by the casting director of this movie. He works and Jesse Metcalf does not always work for me. We have not seen Jesse Metcalf in a Hallmark movie in quite some time.

[00:14:04] This was inspired because I absolutely bought Jesse Metcalf as jaded 90s boy band singer. Absolutely bought it. I thought him and Kim had great chemistry together. The kiss at the end. Delightful. Could have done without him singing to her while he slow danced, but that's either here nor there. I love this movie and I'll be honest with you. This might be my favorite of the year. This is insane. I had so, I had so much fun with this movie. I don't know why it's that crazy. I don't know why it's that crazy. I'm happy. I can tell you why.

[00:14:33] Yeah, it was an absolute blast. Before that, if you take the last 10 minutes of this movie, this movie is like bottom five. No. The last 10 minutes of this movie, different story. Is it my turn? I don't want to say. No, go ahead. Yeah, I didn't think this would come in handy, but Trolls 3 did it better. I mean, this is Trolls 3, except they're not all brothers. And I also love Trolls 3. And Trolls 3 from start to finish, a banger. The song Perfect Harmony, a banger.

[00:14:59] All in all, a much better movie across the board. I'm thrilled Jesse Metcalf worked for Brandon Gray. I'm thrilled. The last five minutes of this movie have a really fun song and a great kiss on the beach, albeit after he sang his single from 30 years ago to her. The last five minutes of this movie has something. Like, the kiss is great. The song is great.

[00:15:28] The previous hour 20, as many wait what's as I've had in a movie. And shame on you for trying to tell me this is a 90s movie of any kind. Shame on you for not using this song earlier. Go watch that thing you do. They play you the song a thousand times. Don't tell me. If I heard Hotter Than July all through the movie, it may help it some. Unfortunately, we didn't. I'm literally pulling against this community center staying open. I wanted it to close.

[00:15:56] He's in charge of four kids with driver's licenses. I don't, what do you want from me? No one could be doing less with more. I, it, this was bad. I think Kimberly Sustad's good in virtually everything she's in. I thought she's, I thought she was too good for this movie and a wasted opportunity with a banger song and a really good supporting cast and a good kiss. But the rest of this hard pass, an absolute hard pass.

[00:16:25] And I can't believe I creamed this movie. It's crazy. Well, you're going to Australia next week with the fish. So man, it's going to get better. Yeah. Yeah. 100%. It's time for all the feels where we talk about what in this movie gave us feels. Let's start with you, Brian. Well, Brian, looks like we're in our tape measure era. They did it again. They did it again. I couldn't believe it. And I can't believe it's my feels because it was so funny the way that they did this.

[00:16:52] And Megan Heffern, who played the character, Sarah is so funny. And like the tape measure scene, the way that she just was just, it was ridiculous. You know, they played it for laughs and they obviously had really good chemistry, the two of them. So she wanted to be doing it. Whatever the boy band boy is. TJ. TJ. Yeah. It looks like he got into real estate after the boy band thing because the house looked pretty nice. So that was the feels for me. I thought that was great. It was funny.

[00:17:19] It was also contextually funny that they just did this in a different movie and we were like, what is this thing? You just posted the real. Yeah. You have to do another one. Another one. So that was my feels. Obviously, the song is a ripper. Love it. And I have listened to it since it's on streaming. But two, I really liked the line. This is like the second ish time that they have hung out. And he's like, we should go do something or whatever.

[00:17:49] I don't remember the context, but then she says, you trying to date me? I think you might be trying to date me. And I liked it. I like, I love the playful energy there. And he doesn't really know what to do with it. And I just thought I just, I might've been, I thought that that whole scene was wonderful. Dano. Yeah. So I know that she does keep the fact that his bandmates are working with the kids of the community center.

[00:18:15] Um, and I, that does undercut a little bit of my feels, but for most of the movie, my feels was this, normally this plot is her lying. Yeah. And like, she got shows up and she lies about why she's there. She lies about the community center. She doesn't tell him about her jobs, but like when they meet, she's like, I need you on board for this thing. Why? I might lose my job. Like the fact that they did that part of it early.

[00:18:43] I did like now the rest of this, I've got plenty to say, but I did enjoy the fact that as someone who's trying to get a promotion and a lot is riding on it and you would think she would do whatever it took, including lie and be just wrong, like treat people wrongly. She didn't do that. Like she came in and was like, you know, and it is crazy. And I guess this could have been my hot take. It's too broad to be a weight. What? But like this guy literally has just stopped hanging out with all of his boy band friends

[00:19:13] and doing any boy band stuff with no actual ill will or hatred toward any of them. He's just doing it because he thinks he can't give back to the community and he doesn't want to be in the spotlight and it's a very weird take for a character. And I know that's not Metcalfe's problem, but like that doesn't make any sense, especially in a movie that also has really honest conversations early on about why she's doing what she's doing. So I did appreciate that. All right. Let's take a break. We'll come back. We'll get to the way. What?

[00:19:43] Oh, hey there. Sorry. We were busy, but you guys are back and we're talking about the weight. What? The weight. What? Let's talk about it. These are things in the movie that made us go. Wait, what?

[00:20:13] I'm going to start with you, Brian. Brian, what you waiting on what you wasn't? So my first one, I'm hoping you guys can clear this up for me before I use it as a weight. Because that would be so embarrassing. That would be really embarrassing for you. This new show, this morning show, is this a national show or is this a regional? Who knows? This is a great question. They never establish how big. What town are they in? New York. New York. Don't know. What? Long Island. Got it, got it. Near East Coast. I think it's local. It could be a local.

[00:20:43] But it's big in New York. All right. Because they talk about the competitors like Emily at Today or something. Yeah. Something that's like Today Show adjacent. Right. Okay. I would say local to the New York area. All right. Because they were... It's like the morning show in New York one. It's the WTN show in New York. Big, big, big ratings in New York. That's right. Because of that, it's big ratings. Sure. It makes a big deal. Because it was like hyper local stories and it seemed like they were bigger. A lot of animal content. Yeah. A lot of local animal content. That's right.

[00:21:11] So I guess I'll table that one because we are not sure. I... I... The anchors, they get emails from sponsors directly. Which is insane. While on air. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, we're running the whole thing. Right. And then the co-host is getting emails from advertisers. It's just either... It's a two man idea. It's a commercial break. Either it's as big as Decta Hallmark. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:21:41] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It can't be both of those things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. The Fund is like a friend call for a bunch of people at the ConOucos and people like it was just been like, he wenturas like, oh man, Petco's out. I haven't used my 15% off yet. Oh, I loved them. When they went to get the vouchers from the pizza guy, he's like, here, I'll give you guys a slice while I'll get those six papers.

[00:22:09] And he hands them like loaded slices like pepperoni, meat lovers. That's right. You go to town, like... This is 10 in the morning? 9 in the morning, I think. I will say this. I know that in New York, one of the things I love about New York is you can find most any food at any time. However, Brandon and I were in Brooklyn for five days and most pizza places don't open until noon. Yeah. We wanted our usual 11 o'clock lunch and we couldn't find a pizza place. This is an on the boardwalk besides some water

[00:22:38] 9 a.m. slice of pizza. Yeah. That doesn't look a bit like Long Island. I've been there, but maybe I'm wrong. They've cleaned it up. Yeah. They clean it up for the summer. It's the 9 a.m. pizza. Speaking of the boardwalk, you know what we don't do enough is a daytime boardwalk dance. God. I couldn't believe. Just a slow dance on the boardwalk. This guy was like, I've got it. The first date is, I'm going to go back to that boardwalk with the 9 a.m. pizza when the sun is high in the sky. Yeah. Get on out there. And I'm going to dance by the table.

[00:23:07] What are you doing, sir? What are you doing? The only way to make that The answer is crushing it. Crushing it. The only thing to make that look normal and smooth is to sing your single to her. Oh, man. Later. Good God. Man, what a move. What a mess. He's been doing that for 15 years. Yeah. Dude, I slow dance with my wife and I sing the Christmas Thriller song and she loves this. I play a video of you doing the dance and you're singing for my life. Christmas.

[00:23:39] Well, you got your kickoff idea for the video this season. It's still on top. But we're watching Can you think you can get Metcalf to sing that song? No. Metcalf won't do anything for us. Are you kidding me? Well, he might. I don't know. Yeah, he knows. I don't think he knows who we are. He's been a few years. He has no clue. And we've met him in person. Very nice fellow. Yeah. That was it for me. Wow. I have... Look at me. Wait, what's that? You ready for me here? Wow. Wow. I'm going to have to cut him back. Oh, boy. That happens when I watch this movie by myself in complete silence. Right.

[00:24:09] I'm just locked in. He actually gets work done. That's what happens. I'd much rather hang out with my buddy Brandon and us have a laugh and rewind silly parts. But I'm over here just... Try to cap it at two like we used to, Dan. How about that? I've tried to use some during Brian's. So there you go. All right. I got a couple. One, you mentioned her best friend and TJ seem to really like each other. They go over to his house and then what I assumed was like the next day at work.

[00:24:38] She says that they've been on a couple dates. They're in a full-on relationship. They are moving. Yeah. They're feeding each other food. How'd they get a couple dates and that quickly? That's incredible. Nighttime morning. Nighttime morning. The morning pizza because everyone, he does that. That's an absolutely, yeah, staple. All the guys in the band take their new boot things to get 9 a.m. pizza. That's one place they still get a free slice. That's exactly right. He still loves some. I found it crazy that's like Marie announcing

[00:25:08] that Derek was going to be do the performance. Like he, she announces it and she gets the text, doesn't tell him that that's happened and then it never comes out. Like it never comes up. Like, hey, you told, you told everybody that I was doing this. It never came up. No. Not once. That Marie just went ahead and announced it. So I guess that's good. How, but no one texted him. No one was like, dude, that's so exciting that you're doing this. Like nothing.

[00:25:38] He's so unplugged, brother. He's off the grid. This is my favorite one though. Imagine for a second your favorite 90s boy band is getting back together and they're going to do it on let's just say Good Morning America. Sure. You tune in and it starts with some teenagers that you don't know. That's right. Singing. Yeah. And you're like, am I being tricked?

[00:26:07] It is such a bold move to start this giant reunion with teenage boys that no one cares about. If you want to have the teenage boys do the dance in the background, knock yourselves out. Heck yeah, brother. Love it. No, they're from the center. But starting with them with them singing. They're singing the song. That's not a reunion. I'd be mad. I wouldn't make it. I'd turn it off. I'd turn it. I'd be like, oh, this is a joke.

[00:26:37] Out of protest. This is a joke. Mom, dad, this is a joke. Rest in peace for a weird one. It's just teenagers up there calling themselves absolutely yeah. Man, they've aged great. Crazy. This is crazy. There he is in Skin Mason. Skin Mason for sure. It's incredible. Dano? You know what? I will say this. The movie did not come through on the promise of the 90s theme. It did come through on the guaranteed troop homecoming. Thank you.

[00:27:05] What are we doing here, guys? That did not come out of nowhere. This movie has a troop homecoming that they decide to hide in the background. You never see. They load this gun at the beginning of the movie. They talk about it. They talk about the dad coming home. And then instead of having the moment where the dad comes home, he just walks up with his kid and he's like, I heard you knew somebody and pulls some strings.

[00:27:35] And also, this movie about a boy band from the 90s coming back together. Why is there a troop homecoming in this movie? I don't know why we did that, guys. I don't know. And then did it so incredibly poorly. It's maybe the first troop homecoming in history with no uniform. Yeah. There's no uniform. Yeah. That could have been literally anything. Street class. My dad's away on business. My dad's stuck somewhere. He got waylaid here. If you're not going to have the uniform on and the big thing, why did they do it?

[00:28:05] I just don't. I heard it and I was like, man, they're going to throw a troop homecoming in here. That's crazy. And then they kind of just were like, Abhor, don't do it. Don't do it. It was actually just the scouts. It's crazy. They were busy. Yeah, it was troop 483 in Pasadena. Yeah, yeah. Great, amazing troop. Dude. Per capita. Yeah. Most troop-wise. Most troop worked. For sure. I know what the scouts do. Scouts honor. What was it? Is this one? It's scouts honor. They're good for it.

[00:28:35] Yeah. It's fine. They're good for it. What's the manager's name at the community center? What's her name? Lucille. Lucille. She was so defensive, like didn't give her any information about dude at all. And then the next day, Sustead shows up with a chocolate mocha frap and she's like, you can do whatever you want. Heck yeah. I don't care. This is a vault. My lips are sealed. You have what? One frozen chocolate coffee drink? Yeah. Never mind. Honestly, I got that.

[00:29:05] Have at it. I felt so seasoned in that moment. You kept somebody on the right day? You guys want to get, if it's fall time, bring me a PSL and I'll tell you whatever you want to know. I will tell you anything. Anything goes. I'll sing for you. This community center apparently, based upon the supplies I saw around the community center, has pickleball, a gym and fitness center. It does not open until 9 a.m. Kick rocks. You are, shut it down. Shut it down. And also, also, your center is open

[00:29:35] at 9 and people are waiting to get in, but really, it's just four dudes that probably can vote and they're just hanging out there. Maybe this center should close down. And then we find out that Jesse Metcalf, those four kids are in an after-school care program in July. What is going on in this movie? I don't like, guys, if your community center runs an after-school care program for four teenagers in July and no one else can get in before 9 in the morning, it doesn't need saving.

[00:30:05] It needs intervention. They all go to the all-year school. They go to the all-year. No one talks about them. They're trying it out. It's crazy. It's on air. She's the producer. Megan wants to meet this guy so badly. Why not just go, you know what you should do is tell everyone about this thing and then they'll buy tickets for it and then everybody wins. She doesn't ever do it. She does brag that she was captain

[00:30:35] of her volleyball and basketball teams simultaneously. Congrats. Those are in separate seasons. It doesn't matter. That means nothing. I don't like, what in the world? Rear out. Who wrote it? Who wrote that line? It's still impressive. It is. She was training. She's very good. Obviously. They walk in, Jesse Metcalf and Kim says they walk in to see the four boys practicing. It is a mess. It's like my kids after they watch Ninja Turtles. It doesn't make any sense. None of them are together.

[00:31:04] They're all over the place and they finish with a big, one of them punches, one of them kicks and Jesse's like, looking good fellas and I have expected a narrator to be like, they weren't but we didn't get that and that's unfortunate and then last but not, least, I swear that performance, oh, I see what you did there, that performance at the end of this movie took place at the community center and then at the end of the performance they're in the studio. I think it was live from the community center.

[00:31:34] That's what they said but then, but Megan and Mason are in the studio and then the performance I was confused of this too because I wrote down why are they throwing it to the community center and then they walk in. They threw it to the community center they do the performance and then afterwards everyone's on stage at the set together. Yeah, it was confusing. Studios across the street. And I was just like, wait, real quick. And then the boardwalk with the 9 a.m. pizza is right down the, but like Megan's all talking about how much she wants to meet Dean or Devin

[00:32:04] or whatever his name is and then they're not even going to be there and then they are there. I was very confused by that. That's all I got. All right, it's time for What the Homework is where we wonder what could have been. Chopped it in half, by the way. Combined a few. I really did it. Oh, I thought, I was like, there was magic? No. I thought it was chopped the body in half. It's time for What the Homework is where we wonder what could have been. Maybe have kids to clear any questions we still love. What are we still wondering about? That's what this segment is for. Big burning questions, Black Guy? Yeah, actually mine is, I really want an answer to this.

[00:32:33] Can absolutely yeah even do this? Because they were, They don't own anything. Right. It's a great question. Do they? I didn't think about it until just now. That's a great question. Can they, because he made it clear like we got nothing. They don't own any money. Nothing. They probably don't even own the name. No. They probably can't even say the name. Right. Like was this cleared? This goes along with a big thing that I wanted was just all the logistics in this movie. Like how did that happen? You should watch Trolls 3. I love clarification. They get into it. It's the perfect, perfect. Because they might have been performing

[00:33:03] and then got a letter, a cease and desist or immediately owed money to a record label because they don't owe anything. Well, the agent, what happens at the end of this movie is that the agent shows up and is like, you guys either owe millions of dollars or you got to sign this to go back on tour. And then he's back. 100% perfect. A nice thing he tried to do is pulled him back in. Yeah, no, that's mine. Not that, but like what is next for us? Yeah. Yeah, there's no way. You scratch that itch, get out there, you perform, you sing the song,

[00:33:32] get the buzz. They got to perform again, right? Bring the buzz back. Yeah, they got to perform again, right? Maybe at the variety show that night. Oh, yeah. You guys want to stick around? They got other songs. People might not know them, but they got them. They got them. They got one album at least. Yeah. Yeah. So I want to hear more songs and I want them to go on tour and just maybe just a few stops. Maybe do a cruise. Oh, a cruise. Maybe do a cruise. What are we doing? Absolutely. Dano? Yeah, so I mentioned it in my hot take, but I do want to like put a finer point on it. Okay.

[00:34:01] They did write a boy band song that was very catchy. Yeah. Even if you hated it, it like, it stayed in my head for hours after I finished watching it. And here's the thing is, I didn't know the tune of it until the last 10 minutes of this movie. And I think that's the cardinal sin of any movie about a one hit wonder, like band of any kind. Like I should be so sick of that song. It should be such an earworm that I should be singing along in the finale. And I just want to know with all the stuff that we got in this movie,

[00:34:32] did, did it just get cut out or were they trying to save it? I honestly don't understand how this wasn't a huge part of this movie. Like the opening scene being the music video with all of them in nineties gear, that goes a long way for me to make it a better movie. Yeah. I just, I didn't, I didn't get it. I didn't understand why we had to wait to hear that song when it should have been pervasive. It should have been the song that everyone's still kind of like, like my kids still know bye, bye,

[00:35:02] bye or whatever. Like that should have been what we like knew and we were ready for by the end of this movie. And it wasn't there. And I'm confused as to why. I hear you brother. Um, all right, it's time for double decker of the week. It's where we dive deep into a life of a double decker who has signed up for Bramble Jam plus. Uh, Dan, so many people have joined us for 45, 45. We don't, we're still talented up. Uh, and I think there's still time. So there is go to Bramble Jam plus.com sign up.

[00:35:30] You get so many great things, uh, ad free podcast and an amazing community. Stickers, live video, watch along movie chat. So much more early access to Bramble Fest next year. That's exactly right. There's discounts on merch. We are going to be doing the, uh, the donkey raffle. That's coming up later this month. We're doing it. We got approval. Uh, Dan, who do we have today though? Dan, Brian's going to tell us about. Oh, we got the shoop. Everybody. Baby,

[00:36:00] shoop. Baby, shoop. Go on and doop. Sarah shoop. Yeah, Sarah. Sarah shoop. So Sarah, something I figured out here doing a little research on Sarah shoop is, Sarah's made a big life decision recently. This is not a business that Sarah started. It's just in the life. It's a life. Hashtag life update. Life update. Just a big choice. Uh, Sarah's decided to become an organ donor. She's going to give away actual full size pipe organs to people.

[00:36:30] That is the idea. Yeah. But just one at a time, like one piece at a time. What do you mean? One piece. Like one pipe. You see in an organ. Those things are humongous. She can't do that. Where is she getting all of the organ material? Places that have organs. Churches. Churches have organs. Like if there's a. Is she breaking it in churches? Is she stealing? On their organs? It's more a donation that she's. She's asking for donations of organ parts. Yeah.

[00:36:57] And if you don't give, she'll just take because she's donating them. So where does she donate them? It's just a people who she thinks need organ. She's. But it's just pieces. Pieces at a time. A paddle for you. Yeah. Eventually it'll add up to. A pie. So she's like the Robin Hood of organs? She's 100% what she's going for. She robs. She got a deal on a Robin Hood costume and was like, I got to figure out what to do with this thing. Oh, she does it in the costume.

[00:37:26] Wow. She does want to get caught and be found. I mean, she got a Robin Hood costume and her first thought was. Organ donor. Organs. Yep. Yeah. You might not know this information, but is she also like a traditional organ donor, like in a traditional sense? Oh, it sounds like she has a good heart. I have a senior ID, so I wouldn't know that. She's got to be an organ donor. I would think so. She sounds like an organ donor. She does sound so nice. I mean, yeah. I mean, we've never questioned the shoop. You know what I mean? Is there a Mac? Like, how do I sign up to get?

[00:37:56] Because I'm open. Oh, you are. Yeah. To receive it? Yeah. How do you sign up to receive the donation? I think it's a lot of people who are just looking like they need organ in their life. So if you start posting videos. You have to look like you need an organ in your life? Right. And it's like code. Looks like brand. I'll be honest with you. Like any organ would really do you good. Where are you putting an organ? I'd figure it out. Yeah. You could put an organ, like, anywhere. You could put an organ anywhere.

[00:38:27] Almost anywhere. I did have. I had an electric organ. I had an electric organ for a little while before I had kids. Was that when I moved out of your house? I think so. Yeah. That was a heavy, heavy beat. That's the problem. Yeah, you asked me to help you move, and I thought, it's just brand and caitlin'. You feel like I had nothing to do. I mean, that's like nothing. I showed up. We did it, man. Yeah. Went to Zaxby's afterwards. It was a whole thing. You earned that. Yeah, man. Yeah. I don't know if I paid for you, Zaxby's. No, you didn't. Yeah. It's all right. It's fine. I'm not. It was a hard time in life. I'm not mad about it.

[00:38:56] We were all doing our best. We were all doing our best. Yeah. You'd have done the same for me. Listen. This is not. Listen. Probably. Did he have a piano and an organ? Yeah. Yeah, he did. Did he have a vehicle to move them? He had a moving truck. He had a moving truck. Oh, man. Yeah. A piano and an organ. That's right. Yeah, he had both. I had both. Yeah, he had both. Both. I thought it was just him and Caitlin. I'm like, there's no way they have that much stuff. When I was married, my first year, this is our first year marriage. We didn't have anything. We had one couch. No, no, no. This is a big.

[00:39:25] You had accumulated some things. You probably had like an L-shaped couch too, dude. I want to say both the piano and the organ were free. Somebody, Holly in the chat says it's weird how much this feels like improv. And I don't know if that's about this. I swear to you, all of this happened. No, 100%. I showed up with one other buddy, Dave, to help Bram move. And we were like, this is 45 minutes. Max. I have to imagine afterwards, you guys were like, what in the world? We sat down at Zaxby's and we were like, that was way more than we thought it was going to be. I mean, I'm still happy.

[00:39:55] I know. I apologize. No, no, no, no. There's no need to apologize. You're young. You're wild. You're free. You're like, this is going to be fine. It's going to be fine. We'll get it all. We'll knock it all out. My back feels great. And I remember that truck wasn't enough. And then was it your mother-in-law? Somebody had a truck with a trailer hitch attached that was supposed to carry outside tools. Okay. But they had bungee corded tons of stuff down. Do you remember this? No, I don't. I remember it being just jam full and being like, man, there's not enough space for anything else anywhere. Yeah. We did it, man.

[00:40:24] It was dark by the time we finished. In fact, I did a piano in the dark. Yeah? Yeah. That's the best way to do it. You were dancing in the dark. Oh, no. I had to get it out of a basement. You were dancing in the dark. No, the piano was upstairs. The organ was in the basement. That sounds right. Piano's a living room. You have to go up full set of stairs. Windy. Yeah. There was a little garage though, wasn't there? Yeah. I didn't go up the Windy stairs. Yeah. Well, we did it, everybody. Congratulations to us. Do us a favor. I see that hand. Do us a favor. Come on back tomorrow. Just one of you.

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