An Unexpected Valentine (Hallmark Channel - 2025)

[00:00:01] Hi, I'm Brandon. I love Hallmark, love you, Harry movies. I'm Brian. I like Hallmark, love you, Harry movies. I'm Dan and I despise Hallmark, love you, Harry movies. And this is the Deck The Hallmark Podcast. Deck The Hallmark, it's this podcast. And friends host this podcast. Hope you like this jolly podcast. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Oh boy. Yep, we're here everybody. Happy February to you.

[00:00:39] Grab your brewskis. Grab your brewskis. It's February everybody. What are your thoughts on I'm on the blue ski, you're on the blue ski, everybody's on the blue ski. I blue skied this morning. Deck The Hallmark, the tough thing about blue ski is they're not very fond of videos longer than like 10 seconds. They're like we can't. Also, you can't make it easy with your handle. It's like .Bsky. It's blue ski. It's the blue ski. We're talking an unexpected Valentine today. Bob Buck came on the show last week.

[00:01:08] We've talked about the movie. We've now watched it. We're going to talk about it before we do. Brian, how was your weekend, buddy? Did you get in there? Did you bake a little bit? Did not bake a little bit? Did not. It's got my streak going. Yeah. How have you baked it all in 2025? Are you just not in it anymore? Does granola count? Granola does not count as baking. It goes in the other. All right. Then no, I just, I don't know what. Sorry, all the bakers. So you're making granola and I'm not bringing anything into the old office? Yeah. Well, this is a burnt batch. It was a little overdone.

[00:01:36] I want you to get out. I just think granola was one of your first bringings. You used to send that in the mail. It was the first thing I sent in. Yeah. A whole big bag of granola. I would take it home and not share it. That's right. We would eat granola that was sent to us from a random guy. From a random guy. We didn't have any back. And then we hired him. Yeah. Come on down. If your granola is as good as your, if you're as good as your granola. Turned out. I don't deserve you at your granola.

[00:02:01] So what, what, what's going on? Like, what can we do to help get you over the hump that is the 2025 baking fast? The, you know, holidays are a big push. Like you do a lot of stuff in the holidays. But you didn't really do all that much during the holidays. Oh. Aside from you made us. I did my normal amount. That's true if you're not lying. I did my normal amount. I didn't go crazy. You're right. I don't know. I don't know. I'm uninspired, I guess, is what it is. Yeah. So maybe spring rolling in will. Well, you know what? I think part of it is a big push.

[00:02:31] What the stuff it is is you're no longer on the, the tick tock. Yeah. The social media is a big influencer. And that's where you get their influence. The baking influencers. Not on any of them. Big talk. You just scrapped them. I, I poked my head in, but I'm not. You know what? I just, I just saw, I just watched a video of a guy who, um, made every, uh, meal he saw on, uh, that he got recommended on social media. That was the whole thing. Every time I see one of those videos, I'm like, someone has to be doing this bit where every time the set of it,

[00:03:01] they're sending a video, they're making it to see what it actually looks like. It just makes too much sense. Yeah. But you should do it for baking. I'm going to bake everything that I see for a week. Everything I see. For the vlog. For the vlog. For the vlog. For the vlog. That's a good inspiration. The problem is it's pretty much time consuming to not get paid to do it. It's inexpensive. Yeah. All those ingredients. Yeah, we're not paying for a thing. Yeah. You're just out of pocket. You're out of pocket. Does the equity of joy mean nothing anymore? Not as much, I guess, as it used to mean. Yeah. I don't know.

[00:03:31] I don't know. What do you want? Like besides that, the cinnamon thing. No, I just want you to be happy. I just want you to be happy. I think you're happiest when you're baking. When I'm baking. Do you think so, Brandon? Do you think he's happiest when he's baking? I don't know. I said it. Are you happiest when you're baking? It feels pretty good to bake. It's an outlet. It's an outlet. You know, everybody needs that outlet. Yeah. And I worry that you don't have that outlet now and now it's all just in. I should pick a recipe and try to, before next week, whip it up and see where. Okay. Now we're talking. Maybe not next week, but maybe the week.

[00:04:01] Maybe not that week. That would be tough to do. That would need to happen in probably 45 minutes. Yeah. Right. Do we have time? We don't have time. We don't have time. So within the month. Dan, how was your weekend? It was great, man. Had some fun. I'm a kid at a basketball game. Top three goofs from the weekend. What'd you got? Top three goofs? Yeah. Hmm. Well, our heater went out. Oh, that's a good goof right there. Yeah.

[00:04:24] So that's a bit, that's a bit, that's a top of the list goof. The, the waitress forgot our queso at Chewy's. That's a goof. That's tough. She really goofed there. She's new. We're going to give her a break. I remember her name. She didn't even know us, which, I mean, that should tell you how new she is. Yeah. Those two are real big up there. Yeah. Those are big goose. Really big goose. Those count double. That's four goose. Yeah. Forget the queso. I mean, that's, we'll go back because Chewy's is great, but right. One more time. Yeah. A reminder, you can

[00:04:53] watch us on Philo. You look good today. Thank you. I think you look good. Look at your voice popping today. Look at you on that screen. You can watch us on Philo and also you will be able to watch all of the Love Uary movies on the Homework Channel on Philo. So go ahead and join us. Philo.tv slash DTH. I think it's going to be a lot. I think it's going to be a fun month. I think it's going to be a fun month. I do too. I'm also fascinated to see how our interview with Bob Buck last Friday, which we all know went swimmingly, affects our opinions today of this. There's really no way to know

[00:05:23] that though scientifically because we would have had to have seen the movie pre-Bob and then post-Bob. I think we've got enough interesting post-interview, pre-interview movies of Bob Buck that we've seen. Okay. That how we react after his movies to compare it to this one. Okay. That's interesting. I listen. I'm open to, I'm always open to a good try him out where we're like, hey, what do we think about what's going on with this guy and that guy?

[00:05:51] But do you think there's really any way to know that that's actually affecting him? Well, I have a theory. Oh, theory time. But he's got a theory. I don't want to give you my theory until I hear the hot takes. Okay. Fair enough. I can write it down if you'd like. All right. Write that theory. And then put it in a paper and we'll crinkle it up. We'll give it to Aaron. And then we'll get it in a year. We'll bury it. We'll go outside and bury it. I'll bake it in a pie. Yeah. How's that sound? I love that. I love that.

[00:06:21] Let's get to an unexpected Valentine, shall we? February 1st, 2025, coming into the month hot. Hallmark was like, have you heard about Valentine's Day? The holiday we created? Valentine's? Let's make some movies about it. February 1st. And it went a little something like this. It's Valentine's Day in the big city and everybody is in love. Everyone except for Hannah. Hannah is surrounded by Valentine's Day cheer because she works at Alouette Chocolate.

[00:06:51] Not Owlette. Not Owlette. The PJ Mask. Shout out. Shout out. Gecko. But Alouette Chocolate. She claims she's not over Valentine's Day, but I think we all know the truth. She's over it. We then meet, what's his name? Bob Buck. Bob Buck. Finn. I wrote down Finn and then I was like, I don't recall that name at all. But anyway, we meet Finn who is an artist. He's a photographer who also works as an Uber driver, if you will.

[00:07:20] Hannah ends up getting into his car and has to sit in the front seat because she gets a little tummy begins to hurt. While riding, Hannah finds an engagement ring on the floorboards. Whose ring? Whose ring is it? Thanks, boys. Anyways, Finn suggests that he'll just bring it to his boss. Somebody will claim it eventually. But Hannah says, no, that won't do. They're probably going to need it for tonight. It's the big night. It's Valentine's Day night. Someone might need it.

[00:07:49] And so Finn reluctantly agrees to help track down the ring owner, but they're going to have to make some stops along the way because he has some pickups that he has to do, including a massive bouquet of roses. That thing was huge. I wouldn't want that big thing. Anyway. What are you supposed to do with all that? Yeah. What are you supposed to do with it? Just watch him die slowly. They first go to a cooking class to track down a couple, but no luck there. I mean, they like each other, but hey, we're just getting to know each other right now.

[00:08:18] Then they head to the club and they find a single woman. And while she is going to manifest that that ring does belong to her, currently it does not. Finn keeps getting calls from his business partner, reminding him that he's supposed to be at an event for his latest photo exhibit. But who cares? Because the sparks are flying. They dance together to Love Shack in the club. Two bucks, money.

[00:08:46] Listen, I think once you dance to Love Shack, you're basically married at that point. Pretty much married. The night has everything. Police escorts. Everything. Thank you. Thank you, Love Shack guy. You're welcome. The night has everything. Police escorts for no reason, a bakery food truck, and a silly wire in Finn's car that's just getting loosey-goosey with it. Wire so silly.

[00:09:10] He remembers his day started with a guy who got into the wrong car. He wasn't even supposed to take him. Wrong car, baby. That's exactly right. He remembers that the guy was supposed to be going to a restaurant to make sure that it was good to go for the evening. So they rush over to that restaurant. They have to climb the stairs because the elevator is broken. Look at all those stairs. And they find them just in time. They call him over. They give him the ring. And he goes and he proposes.

[00:09:40] She says yes as the fireworks start going off outside. Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. Pop, pop, pop, pop. Thank you, Love Shack Guy. Love Shack Guy. They did it. So now what? They've done the mission. Roll credits, baby. I would think so, but not quite. Both of them have events to get to, work events to get to. And so I guess that's that. You know, he has to go and talk about his photos and she has to go and talk about her chocolate purse that she came up with. But that's not it at all.

[00:10:09] As they're at their work events, all they can do is think about each other. And so she's like, I got to go find this guy. But what she doesn't know is he's already on it. She walks outside to leave. Finn is waiting outside for her. He shoots his shot and they kiss and they celebrate Valentine's Day together. And that, my friends, was an unexpected Valentine. We did it. That's exactly right. Let's take a break.

[00:10:38] Let's take a break and we'll come back and we will break this movie down with four segments here on Deck the Hallmark. Hey, everybody. Welcome back. I hope you're doing well. I know I am. Yeah. You look great. We're talking. Your boyfriend's popping today. File on TV. Such DTH. An unexpected Valentine is what we're talking about today. I say we do four segments.

[00:11:08] That would be my recommendation today. What a fun idea. I know we've talked about it kind of changing it up, but I think four is what this movie needs. Okay. Let's start with the hot take. It's where we share exactly how we felt about this movie. We're not going to hold back and I will start with you, Brian. Brian, what'd you think? An unexpected Valentine. Yeah. An unexpected Valentine. Not an unexpected Valentine. Different movie. Not today. Bob Buck. Lay Shabert. What'd you think? Yeah. I thought it was a very sweet movie. I liked it.

[00:11:31] It was, I thought it was very down the middle as far as like a three on the scale of a rating. Like very traditional Valentine's story, I thought. And I was kind of surprised that I didn't mind the jaunting around the town. I thought I was going to be kind of annoyed by just running around the town because it was sort of like a scavenger hunt idea. Valentine's scavenger. Valentine's scavenger. That's right. But I didn't mind that. I thought they did that really well. There was more time in the car than I could have ever imagined.

[00:12:01] They were in the car. A lot of car time. Yeah. And it was pretty well done. Like it didn't feel like a really staged. I don't know. It felt good. Like it felt like they were driving through the city. So good job on the car filming there. I think that Bob, I paid because of the interview with Bob, I don't know if this feeds into your theory. I paid so much attention to Bob Buck in this movie. Yeah. And I laughed at him more, I think, than I would have if I hadn't known. It was like the same guy.

[00:12:29] It was like in this movie versus. They made him look older in the movie. Bob, don't take offense to that. No offense. They did. They made him look old. Like I don't know how else to explain that. Like it wasn't, he isn't older. They made him look like, normally you do an interview with somebody, they're going to look older than they do with all their makeup on TV. Yeah, yeah. But they made him look like he was like, I don't know. They just made him look like he was more his age probably. Maybe. Whereas in person, he looked a little younger. Maybe he put on more makeup for your interview than in the movie. Maybe he put on more makeup for our interview. Could have been.

[00:12:54] So the, I think that this, what was weird for me about this was the schedule placement. Like this, they came right out of the gate with a Valentine's Day movie and all the other movies don't really seem like Valentine's Day movies. Yeah. You know? And. Yeah. I mean, I've got a lot of hope for next week's wish movie. I mean, it's a fun idea. Yeah, the wish swap. Wish swap. But it's not Valentine's. Right. It's like a birthday movie. Right.

[00:13:23] They would do it on the 8th. That would be the Valentine's week one. So, and even in this movie, they talk about the day after Valentine's Day. There's kind of jokes made about the day after Valentine's Day. Could have aired it on the 15th. That's what I was thinking. So I thought the placement was weird, but maybe it's more such, since it is such a traditional down the middle three rating. Yeah. 2.5 out of five. Yes. 50%. Maybe it's like, it's different than the others that might not be straight up Valentine's story. So maybe they're like, let's get this. Let's start off the mouth. Or it's just a big show. It's Lacey Chabert.

[00:13:53] That's the other thing too. It's Bob Buck. It's Hallmark Channel Original. So I, yeah, I thought it was good, but very, you know, straight down the middle of Valentine's Day movie. So good job. 2.5 out of five. Yeah. An unexpected Valentine's is an unexpected success for Bran. There you go. Very nice. You're fired. Yeah. No, I thought this movie was a lot of fun. I appreciate the swing from Hallmark to make a movie that all takes place in one night. As you said, a lot of it taking place in the car.

[00:14:20] Dan, you even joked that this movie could have been filmed in less than 15 days because it's just so much, so much cars, so much of the same location, same wardrobe, all that stuff. So I think that that's really interesting. And I think that it worked. Now, I think a large reason why this worked is because of the heavy hitters that are Lacey Chabert and Bob Buck. In lesser hands, who can say how this movie would have worked? But Bob Buck was great.

[00:14:48] Lacey Chabert, as good as ever. She gave you a lot of... There's been some people, and by some people I mean one person, that thinks that Lacey might be getting too old for this. And I say, no sir, no ma'am. She was great in this. And I just thought that she was as energetic as ever in these movies where when you make as many as she can, sometimes you can... She does.

[00:15:14] Sometimes lesser performers she could not really go for it. And I felt like she really went for it in this movie. And once again, showcasing her comedy chops next to somebody who's clearly very funny. So I thought this movie worked really well for me. And the main reason why it did is the big swing and the fact that they had two capable

[00:15:38] leads that are capable of making this big swing actually be a homer and not a pop fly. Dan? Nicely done, Brian. You're really doing it with the illustrations. Thank you. The leads in this movie, they're great. Bob Buck. Lacey Chabert may... I don't know if she's ever been as relaxed or as comfortable. She's great. Bob Buck, charming as ever. Sarcastic as ever. Funny as ever. Effervescently funny. And really, really good.

[00:16:07] The rest of this movie is a map for me. It is either nonsensical or it's really frustrating. I still don't know if the purse at the beginning of this movie is chocolate or not. I'm sure we'll get to that later. There's some events throughout the evening that drove me nuts. We'll get to that later. The idea... They don't have enough for a full movie here, which drove me crazy. There's a montage of the six hours they spend together. They have about 60 minutes of a movie here.

[00:16:33] And they lean very heavily on the charm of their two leads. And listen, the January movies we just watched were the worst Hallmarks ever put out in January, in my opinion. And then you have a dude we just interviewed, who's charming as ever, with the queen of Hallmark, Lacey, in a really relaxed, just kind of like fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants performance. And that does work. So these two together are great.

[00:17:02] The rest of this movie, not nearly as much... You heard one person say big swing, another person say pretty straightforward Hallmark. I think that explains it. I think the idea is that this movie is supposed to be a big swing, but in reality, there's not quite enough there to do that. And what's there is too generically...

[00:17:24] The chocolate thing drove me nuts, and the fact that they didn't really have enough substance here for a whole movie also drove me nuts. So yeah, better than the January movies. The best leads we've had all year. Aside from that, I don't have much to rate with that. I would have appreciated some more shenanigans, you know? Like, this felt like Hallmark watched Date Night and was like, what if we make it squeaky clean and nothing bad happens? I would have liked something bad to happen. There's no screwball here.

[00:17:54] It should be a screwball comedy, and there's just no screwball comedy. It just is... But the fact that it all happened one night, one car, one opportunity... She's everything you ever wanted. I really enjoyed that aspect of it. Let's get to all the feels. Brian Guy? Yeah, I got reminded of when I used to deliver pizza, and sometimes... Gosh. I know. You don't have to remind us, Brian. It's every week around here. Top of mind, man. Best job you've ever had. I've heard all about it. Once a pizza delivery boy, always a pizza delivery boy.

[00:18:24] This guy, his favorite job was delivering Domino's pizza. You know you can still do that, right? You can do that right now. You think I haven't thought about that? Only every day of my life. Man, talk about dream job. Okay? I drove for Uber in 2015 and 16, and it's not the best job I've ever had, but I would probably have done it for free. It was a blast. It's so fun. There's that. But my point... This is sort of in line with why that was so fun for you. Driving with... Sometimes I'd have somebody ride along with me, and it was so fun. Ice cube? Ride along?

[00:18:53] Yeah, just a ride. Yeah. Pick up ice cube. Sometimes maybe it was the guy who was working in the store, and we would shut the store down. Well, I took a delivery, and he'd come with me. God, Domino's in Danvers, Mass. Shout out to be the worst Domino. Hudson, New Hampshire. Actually, actually. Hudson, New Hampshire. Live free or die. Yeah, you're not getting your pizza very fast. So having somebody ride with you while you're cruising around working is so fun. So just watching Bob Buck have a partner ride with him, roll with him, do... Like, she'd get out of the car and do the running in.

[00:19:21] He'd just sit there, probably play with the radio, pick the right song for their... Just so fun. You're shutting down a Domino's pizza. That's crazy to me. It was when it was slow, close to the end of the night. We would... Maybe my buddy would just take a run or two with me, and we'd just hustle back to the store and hope we didn't miss any calls. No big deal. Were you guys both already high, or did you get high? No way. Dude, come on. Just take it seriously, Brandon. This is... I'm not joking. Yeah. I'm not joking around here. I apologize. High on delivery. You're getting around. God, come on. High on delivery of pizza.

[00:19:52] You shut down. So it was a good time. Open a big cup. Watch one too many movies, Brandon. Sorry. He's getting high. High on delivery of pizza. It's a serious job. You shut down Domino's while it's open. Best tip you ever got? Oh, that's good. Oh, man. I got a lot of good tips. I was a great driver. Most tips are great. Best tip? I don't know. It's just a number amount. I don't know. I'm not asking for advice or any other favors anybody did for you. I don't know. I just need you to tell me a number. I didn't do it for the tips, so I didn't count them. But you don't remember? I didn't count them? Somebody giving you $100 or something?

[00:20:22] No, I never got $100. Did you get a 20 spot? I got one time I heard about a guy who also brought beer along on a run for an extra, like, I forget. It was something arranged for $20 or $40 extra on top of the pizza tip. There you go. A little beer on the side there. I love how you're not copping to this so you don't get in trouble as a 42-year-old dude in South Carolina. I don't want to get anybody in trouble. Oh, my gosh. So that's all I'm going to say about that.

[00:20:51] Shut up Motel 6 on Route 111, Hudson, Hampshire. You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm talking about. You know what I'm talking about. Anytime I get to remember the time that Brian told us that he eats the Hershey Kisses with the nuts in them, makes me happy because of how crazy it is, the fact that you would put it in your mouth and lick around the nut. And I was reminded of that in this one because it's like the equivalent of Lacey working for a chocolate company and she's allergic to chocolate.

[00:21:20] Reminded you. I was like, oh, yeah, that's funny. And so my feels is thinking about that time that Brian said that dumb thing and we all laugh. Do you guys want to hear something crazy? I would love to hear something crazy. I almost sent this video to you guys on the New York Post. How did you find this video? This was on social media. Oh, he's back. I pop in. I think this was TikTok. This is kind of like when he stopped eating beef. He thought it more than any of us. Show us your screen time. Show it to us. It was pretty low.

[00:21:47] No, on TikTok, on the New York Post sports page, there was somebody. I forget who it was. He was demonstrating how he eats. I think it was Reese's peanut butter something. He eats the only the nut part spits out the chocolate. How do you do that? That's not possible. I don't know. After I had gone past it, I thought I should have sent it to these guys and I couldn't find it again. Thanks for thinking of us, buddy. I couldn't believe it. It was the opposite. But you know the page it's on. You said it's on the New York Post. Yeah, but I think it was buried in there. I couldn't find it quickly.

[00:22:17] So I said, forget it. It's not that big of a deal. Even though it's the weirdest thing. Opposite of what I do. Does he do it with utensils? No. So he doesn't use it. He puts it. He puts it. Bites it. Spits it out. He doesn't like milk chocolate, so he gets rid of the milk chocolate part. I don't know how this is possible. That's impossible. I'm not. It's impossible. Somebody gets in his mouth. Somebody's going to have to figure that out. I couldn't believe it. I'm like, this is the opposite of me. So I'm not as crazy, I don't think. Just because you found one other guy. Yeah. One is, I feel like, the tip of the iceberg. I feel like they're all going to flood in now. There are dozens of us.

[00:22:46] Now they get the algorithm working for me. Love Shack. And is Love Shack guy here? No. Okay, this doesn't sound like him at all. It sounds like a different guy altogether. Imposter. The banter between Chabert and Bob Buck is great. The whole movie, some really funny scenes, and I did enjoy that. Let's do this. Let's take a break. Okay. I think we should take a break, and then we'll come back, and we'll get to the way we wanted to what the Hallmark here on. Deck the Hallmark.

[00:23:26] Just eat peanut butter at that point. Yeah, just do it. I don't know why. No, he doesn't like chocolate. No, he doesn't like the chocolate part. I know. But just eat, what you're saying is just eat. If all you want is the peanut butter, this is the hardest way to get it. Or just eat the chocolate if the peanut butter's that good. Just try to get some of it out, but you're going to have some milk chocolate on it. There's no way around. Yeah. It's a weird move. Let's talk about the way it was. That's why we're talking about what in the soup made us go away. What? I'll start with you, Brian. Yeah, the pizza looked terrible, right? Oh, my God. It looked disgusting. Who's delivering that? Yeah, that's what I want to know. Fire them.

[00:23:56] Yeah. Please shut that store down. Gross. You're going to need some beer for that pizza. Allegedly. Sheesh. Canada just can't do it. And if you're listening in Canada right now, please message us a good pizza place. Because every time we see a pizza from a Hallmark movie made in Canada, it looks like I would rather just fast. I don't. It looks terrible. It was so gross looking. Yeah, it was very unappetizing. So he's just not going to make any real pickups.

[00:24:25] He's got deliveries that he's doing sort of. I'm glad that you brought this up. This is my big holdup with this. This whole thing is that they are doing his pickups. Yeah. Throughout this movie. They are doing the balloon pickup. They're doing the one where they get all the stuff from the bakery. Like, they're doing his pickups. Yeah. A couple. Yeah. All the ones he has scheduled, they are doing. Right. But they are doing them taking their sweet, ever-loving time. Yes.

[00:24:52] And I could only watch this movie as the recipient of one of those deliveries. Oh, man. And it was driving me nuts. Yeah. Like, it's just a quick paint and pose. Just pose. It'll be really funny. I'll paint you. It's just a quick bite of pizza after you wait eight minutes for it to cook. Minutes add up. It's just a quick love shack dance in the bar. It's just a quick run to the cookie. No, it is not. No. Nothing's quick. Time is- Imagine watching that person on the app. Oh, you see the car stop.

[00:25:21] Like, you are- Surely the app's broken, right? This is why- If I need an update? I literally don't trust any of those apps. Yeah. Like, it just- It's the opposite of Brian delivering Domino's. They don't- Thank you. They are just making every stop. Wherever he's supposed to have all this stuff delivered to, all of those people are just- He doesn't care about them anymore. Yeah. He's not doing his job well. He's not doing any of it well aside from wooing Lacey Chabert. And if that's number one, then great.

[00:25:49] But as someone who's thinking about the people waiting on their balloons or whatever they're getting, this movie just made me out and out angry that Bob Buck's like, we got to tell us. Just go ahead and do the Heisman pose. It'll be fun. Or like, oh, it's eight minutes on the pie. Well, we'll wait. We don't want to get anybody just eight minutes. No, it is not. It's a lot of time. Guys, you can't do- You have a job to do. This is why when I drove for Uber, I was really, really good at it. Yeah. Because I was like, we're getting- On top of it. Yeah, that's right. Let's move. Yeah. Absolutely. And it never left you.

[00:26:19] I think if they told, hey, we're falling in love, they would understand. It's the falling in love class. The people waiting? Yeah. There should be a button. If you're a driver and you're falling in love with someone, there should be a button on the app that says, hey, it might be a little late. I'm falling in love. I'm falling in love. I'm falling in love situation. I'm falling in love situation. You get one of them. You get one a year. Just one? You get one a year. Okay. One a year. Or cancel your delivery. Like, stop delivering, right? Like, just stop working.

[00:26:49] Yeah. He said he had those too and he never did any of those. What a lousy night. So that was just- He said he had scheduled pickups and deliveries. He said that earlier. He didn't pick up anybody after that. That was really hard to get over. Maybe he meant scheduled pickups as in the stuff that he's going to deliver. Could be. Yeah. Could be. Driving with that car full of balloons, just, that's so dangerous. Like, he couldn't see a thing. Can I tell you this? Hey, Brian's back. I don't want to brag about my car, but it's got one of those rear view mirrors that has a camera in the back. Oh, that's helpful.

[00:27:17] So it doesn't matter what's going on back there. So maybe he's got one of those. But trying to turn lanes, you can't see out the side windows with those things. Are you looking out your shoulder? I mean, that's like- I feel like there's mirrors. The side mirrors are on the outside. You can't trust those things. You gotta look. You can't trust the mirrors? You gotta look. Are you okay? I always look. You do a double check. That is what they teach when drivers that. Somebody out there is still waiting on their people. I don't want to buy pizza from Dominus. Never. No. No way. We can joke about a lot. Not my pizzas.

[00:27:46] But we don't joke about Hudson, New Hampshire pizza. Absolutely not. If the store's open, I'm going to deliver that pizza. Are you kidding me right now? If somebody shuts it down, never mind. Still doing it. Yeah. Well, yeah. In that case, you're going to be a little late. He just wasn't even- They weren't even trying to pretend they were delivering to a different brownstone. No. That's the same. No. Real bad. It's the same. Real, real bad. Which, it worked really well. Like you said, a few number of set, like locations. Like, that's great. That helps a lot, but they could have taken down the light decorations that were so obvious. Yeah. It was so clearly the same place.

[00:28:16] The last one was just a check engine light comes on. He pulls over immediately. Like, you're- Who do you think you are? You let- I am. You let that thing run for a week or two to make sure it's real. Yeah. Sometimes those things- Like, it'll just pop that. A lot of Hondas, this is now way off track, but a lot of like early-odt Hondas, if you didn't have the gas can clicked on all the way, the check engine light would come on. It's too sensitive. So you just, like, you don't just pull over right away. You're not resetting that yourself either. No. You gotta take that somewhere, they gotta pull a coat on it. Yeah. But mostly you just wait it out.

[00:28:46] You wait it out. You wait it out. Everybody's waiting it out. Yeah. I got a few. How do you- You like baking. Oh, you did at one point. You still, yeah. Have you ever seen a bakery food truck where they bake the stuff in the food truck? Oh, bake in it. Yeah. I don't think so. It seems like it's real risky. Yeah. Because the- Like, when baking, the oven's gotta set- Like, you can't just bake in any oven, and if they park on- Like, with baking, you need that consistency.

[00:29:15] Get those ovens back there just, like, joss around. Just joss around. That's just a mess. All that temperature control. I like- I mean, I'm not a- I mean, I've- Yeah, I just don't know if I've ever seen it. I don't know if I've ever seen it. I've never seen it. Not with an oven. No. I'd like to see it, though. That'd be nice, though. I'd like to give it a shot. I'd like to just give it a shot. Isn't that fresh, warm cookies? Uh, can you believe that? I mean, can you imagine that? I can't believe that. I can't believe that. I'm looking for it. Maybe that's what I need to do. There you go.

[00:29:45] The fella who lost the ring in the first place. Getting to the restaurant, sitting down, going through the date, and not realizing that he lost his ring until right before he proposes. I don't know if you remember the day in which you proposed. Brian, probably not. Dan, I bet you do. Yeah, Brian doesn't. Brian doesn't. But that whole day that I have the ring on my person, I'm like, is it still there? Yes. Like, every couple of minutes, I'm like, is it still there? Is it still good? Like, that's all you're thinking about all day.

[00:30:15] The box was ginormous. Is I can't lose this. That's right. So I'm going to check it every couple of minutes. He makes it the whole day without once double checking that the ring is in his pocket, which is insane to me. This guy has another level of trust in his pockets than I do. But it's also a double open ring box. It's a double open ring box. The box is ginormous for this ring. Which I didn't like, by the way. I didn't like the box. I didn't like the box. I didn't like the box. But also, there's no way to carry that in your jacket pocket and not feel it all.

[00:30:44] All day. Yeah. That's insane. I don't know how you make it that whole day without realizing that the thing that you need for the night is not there. Also, I got a kick out of the fact that she just gets proposed to and gets distracted by fireworks. Classic. This poor guy is just like, oh, no. She's going to say no. She's going to say no, isn't she? Will you marry me? One second. Ooh. Oh, that's tough. That's tough. That's tough for him.

[00:31:14] I was confused as to. She goes to her work event and she's like giving a speech. And at one point, she's talking about like the magic of chocolate or whatever. And she says something. And then she's like, or something that special somebody gets you just for you. And then people laugh at her when she says that. Chocolate's a lot of things. It could be this. It could be that special thing that special somebody gets just for you. And people laugh like she is at the Chuckle Hut.

[00:31:44] That's funny. That's good. That's good. Clean comedy right there. Very weird audio. And also, shout out to that same radio DJ who started the movie and ended the movie. She worked all day DJing that radio station. And we love her for that. That's the commitment that you get in New York City. Those radio DJs are working all day long. Dano? We have to talk about this purse that Lacey is pitching. First of all, is it real chocolate or is it purse for chocolate? Does anybody have any clarification on that? I think it was chocolate. Made of chocolate.

[00:32:13] I thought it was made of chocolate. I look at the end. So it's a purse you carry around that is chocolate and you carry it in your hand all day? I don't think you're supposed to use it as a purse. I think it's something that you give to some of that special somebody. Or maybe you joke stuff. It's a, hey, I got you a purse and then you eat it. I thought the purse. Is it chocolate? I didn't think the purse was actually made of chocolate. Let us know in the comments. Brainwild Jam Plus.

[00:32:40] Can I then suggest to you, this is worse than, you know, at Christmas time. They're like, we have this Christmas thing we want to market on Christmas Eve. She is pitching this purse on Valentine's Day. That's true. On Valentine's Day, she's like, here's what I got for Valentine's this year. It's a Valentine's purse, chocolate purse, chocolate inside it. It's going to be great for Valentine's Day. You're way late. You're way late, lady. They pitch it that night. That night. It's an event. It's like an event.

[00:33:10] Everyone's already purchased all the chocolate. Like, it is, you can't do that. Is it for next Valentine's Day? That's the thing I didn't know. Yeah. I thought maybe it would have been better if that first meeting was like, sales are through the roof on this thing or whatever. I don't know. At one point, Lacey says, and this is one of these lines that gets thrown away thinking nobody's going to listen. But she goes, I'm not sure. I'm not sure about luck or fate. Here's the thing is, I understand that you're not sure about those, but you side on one or the other.

[00:33:40] Like, you just side on one or the other. If you don't answer, like if you're a luck person or a fate person, then you've answered it. Like, you can't just say, I think things just happened. That's luck. That's what that is. You can't say, I don't really know about those two things. You, by the way you live your life, either believe everything happens for a reason or you don't. You can't just be like, ah, neither. There is no neither there. If you say neither, it's luck. You're in on luck. That's what you're in on.

[00:34:08] And you're in on luck of the draw, happenstance. And if you say fate, you're in on fate. You can't be like neither. That's not a response to this question. Right? Right? Where, what do you call it when you think everything that happens, happens for the reason of it being against you? Larry David. That's where I'm at. That's about where I fall. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you are, you believe in negative fate. I guess that's... Curb your enthusiasm. That's where it would be. Rena says it's chocolate and that there are companies that do this. Great.

[00:34:36] Which I found one, Lilac Chocolates. There it is. I just don't know who's... Life size. So cool. That's awesome. It's crazy. I need to say this because we've given a lot of credit to the car scenes, but guys, if traffic is ever like this in Manhattan on Valentine's night, everyone should move to Manhattan. It was smooth sailing. The overhead shots until the last one of the movie are just empty streets.

[00:35:05] And what I'm imagining is about eight o'clock at night on Valentine's night in Manhattan. Traffic is amazing. It couldn't possibly look better. The streets aren't... No one's working on the streets. There's no streets closed. There's no one stopped. Everyone's just moving. They're just pulling up to curbs and parking. It's really a utopia out there in Manhattan. It is... It's literally like after I am legend. I think 90% of the people are gone. There's a new tax in Manhattan. That's right.

[00:35:34] That they just rolled out. Which is true. So it helped. So maybe it's really working. It is. You don't want to drive in Manhattan anymore. It's the opposite of what Manhattan is in virtually every way when it comes to traffic. And then I do need to make clear, and this is unfortunate, and I love Bob Buck, but there is a definite world and read of this movie where the guy taking candids of this random stranger he just met all night in order to kill her later exists.

[00:36:02] He's snapping a lot of candids in this movie of Lacey. And as the movie goes on and they start to clearly have something, it gets, I guess, a little bit more acceptable. But he's got them all through the night. He is one hour photo-ing this girl, and I just... There's something about it being a real camera that is off-putting. Yeah. Like if somebody's taking pictures, you know, you're hanging out with someone and they're taking pictures on your phone, like you don't really think twice about it now. But when they've got the full limbs out, and they're like...

[00:36:31] But if you take Bob Buck out of that car and put in like Willem Dafoe, like everybody's like, he's going to kill her. Willem Dafoe can take pictures of me any day. Any day he wants. And I love Willem Dafoe. To be very clear, I'm just trying to use an example is all I'm doing. And then this is the most egregious of montages in the movie that I've ever seen. Whenever we get a montage at the end of an 83-minute movie, I'm always like, time filler. This is a montage of the... And I'm going to give them all the benefit of it out here. Of the six hours they've spent together in their lives.

[00:37:00] And they're remembering all the good things and the funny things. And it is insanity that they've known each other for under half a day. And they're doing a montage. Unearned. Undeserved. Absolutely not. No way, no how. It's all I got. It's time for what the hallmark is. We wonder what could have been. Maybe have it get so clear. Any questions that we still have that we're wondering about? We'd like some answers to. Mm-hmm. Brian? Mm-hmm. Why was he driving such a jacked SUV? Is this his car?

[00:37:30] Is it a... He goes and picks it up at a service? You know, in New York, a lot of Uber drivers... Like, there's services that buy these cars, and they lend you the car for the service. That's the only thing I can think, is that it's not his vehicle. I'm pretty sure it was part of the taxi, like New York City taxi company's response to Uber kind of taking their business. Oh, got it. Was to kind of move it, because it's basically then a taxi. You just use Uber as you get. Yeah, I hope that's the case. Because I was just thrown by this guy. An artist. I'm pretty sure it's not his car. So, okay. That would make sense.

[00:37:59] Yeah, I want to know if... All of this was clearly New York City, right? No, totally. Yeah. Did you see the traffic? Of course it was. Based in New York City. Okay, got it. Are Valentine's Night fireworks a thing in the city? I've never heard of Valentine's Night fireworks, but this seems great. You go up to this nice restaurant at the roof, and you get to watch fireworks with the one you love. If it's not a thing, it should be a thing. It's very nice. But I just want to know, is it real?

[00:38:28] Does it really happen over there in the old city? Dano? Yeah. I want to know what happens in this relationship about five or six months down the line when Lacey realizes he's never going to make it as a photographer. Oh, come on. He's making it. He isn't. He's trying. One couple of background actors that are clearly not interested in his photo as he's talking to them about it. Right. His pictures aren't good. He just is not, if this is what he's choosing, he's not going to make it as a photographer.

[00:38:58] Now, she might not care. He looks like Bob Buck, and he's charming as all get out. But, you know, she is on a very specific career trajectory. He is not. And that's fine. But let's not pretend the guy has a career as a photographer. That's just, that's a fool's errand. I mean, you know, you can do this. What you don't know is that it's actually Bob Buck's favorite job he's ever had. Wow. Yeah. I get that. It doesn't matter. When you're living in it, you might as well stay in it. I hope he sticks with it. We did it, everybody. Congratulations to us.

[00:39:26] Valentine's is still a couple weeks away, but we did it. Double Decker Rub the Week. Double Decker Rub the Week. It is Double Decker of the Week. You can sign up. Come on over. Brainwildjamplus.com. You'll get all sorts of bonus goodies if you sign up for the Double Decker Tour or higher. And we'd love to have you. And one of the perks is that we dive deep into the life of the Double Deckers. And we try to, anybody can be like, oh, they're left-handed. A big whoop, aren't we all?

[00:39:56] Well, at least two of us are. But, you know, but Brian does the deep, deep dive to find out things that you don't even know that anyone could know yet. That's the beauty of the Double Decker of the Week. Dan, who do we have today? This week we have Heidi Levine. Heidi Levine. Yeah, Heidi has Adam's sister? No, no relation. No relation there. You wish, though. I mean, imagine. I'll say this much. She'll be loved. You know what I mean? I do. Heidi, actually, this is something she hasn't really shared with a lot of people.

[00:40:25] It's sort of an intolerance, if you will, in her life that she's lost a lot of great relationships over. She's lactose intolerant is the problem for Heidi. That's fine. Listen, today it's easier than ever. It is. You know? It's gotten better. I don't know. You don't think so? Can you? That's a little, yeah. Can you say that one more time? I just want to be clear. Lactose intolerant. Did you say lactose intolerant? Lactose intolerant.

[00:40:55] Is she not accepting of people without toes? That's right. And Heidi is super sensitive about this, so let's not make it weird. Okay? So wait, she doesn't... If you don't have toes, she can't be around you. That's right. And the part that's tough in this situation is there are people she really likes, and they don't even know that she doesn't... Why the relationship failed. Well, I feel like this could actually go for... You can't? Because I would...

[00:41:24] I never... I wear shoes always. That's right. I always wear shoes. Yeah. In the pool. Has she ever been in a really long-term friendship, and then she suddenly sees that they don't have to get in a situation where she can tell... How does she do that? I want to be very clear. How does she do that, Brian? We are totally cool with anyone with or without toes. I want to be very clear. That's where we stand on this podcast. That was... That felt a little low. It felt forced. That's...

[00:41:53] Oh, yeah. Okay. My bad. I just want to say we're not lactose intolerant. No. We're certainly not lactose intolerant. Absolutely not. But Heidi, on the other hand... Other foot? Yeah. She was on the other foot. How does she find out early? How does she get ahead of it? Or a toilet vent if you want. I will. I will. She'll do things like... If you go to her house, when you walk in, she's got a bed of coals, and she's like, we got to do a little bonding exercise. She's got a bed of coals? Yeah. You step on the hot coals real quick.

[00:42:23] So usually... I mean, that right there... So to be friends with Heidi, you have to go over to her apartment, and then you have to walk across a bed of hot coals? Yeah. Don't tell her landlord. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. And if you're not going to do that, first of all, it's sus. Heidi, I'm so sorry. Super sus. Super sus. If you walk across those coals in her apartment. I wouldn't do that. You wouldn't do the coals? No, I wouldn't do the coals. So you wouldn't be friends with Heidi? I would just be like, let's go out. Like, I'm still down to be friends with you, but I'm not walking across the coals. And she'd be like, I'm just going to change my shoes. Can you come in for a second? And you'd say, no? I'm not going to go in?

[00:42:51] I would wear socks. I think she could tell, though. The sock's kind of flopping around. If I go to someone's house and they say, can you take your shoes off? I'd be like, absolutely, I can take my shoes off. Yeah. And then I would have socks off. If they then say, can you please take your socks off? I'm immediately being like, what? Something's going on. Right. Something's afoot. Yep. That's right. You know what I mean? I know what you mean, man. It's just, that's what I'm saying. It's a tough intolerance for Heidi. That's tough.

[00:43:21] Has she ever considered just like. Maybe being better? Yeah. Like putting in the work and maybe trying to like, maybe having one friend who doesn't have toes. Putting one foot in front of the other. From what I can see, Heidi doesn't see any reason to change. Wow. Yeah. Man, Heidi may cancel. This is crazy. Yeah. She still thinks that they're people. They're just not for her. Yeah. Yeah. She just can't stand being around them. She can't stand it. They usually can't stand right either. But we're all fully toed. So I think we're, hey, you can stay here. We're fine.

[00:43:50] Dan, are you full toed? I'm full toed. Yeah. Yeah. Full toed here. Aaron, full toed? Yeah. Okay. Phew. You can come in here anytime. Anytime you want, Heidi. Anytime you want to. What if somebody loses a toe through some sort of. Are we saying if you have nine toes, Heidi's out? Yeah. How many toes is. If one toe is gone, forget it. Wow. Forget it. She has no toe. I don't. What? No tolerance. You lose one toe, you lose a friend in high. My toes is intolerant. Man. If you lack a toe, forget it.

[00:44:21] Yeah. Really mean to her, but really good bit. I like this. This is very funny. But, you know, that's tough. That's tough out there for those. That's your job. Yeah. With under 10 toes. Right. Stand up. Oh, you can't. You can't. Let's be done, shall we? Yeah. We're going to be done. No, that's not true. But we'll be back tomorrow. It's going to be a lot of fun. So come on back. Until then, maybe the first to wish you a Merry Christmas.

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