Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Lesson in Murder (Hallmark+ - 2024)

[00:00:00] Hi, I'm Brian and you know me, I love Hallmark Plus Mysteries. Brian, you know me, I like Hallmark Plus Mysteries. I'm saying you know me, I despise Hallmark Plus Mysteries and this is the Deck The Hallmark Podcast. Deck The Hallmark, it's this podcast. And friends host this podcast. We hope you like this jolly podcast. Well, hello everybody. How are you?

[00:00:37] How are you? How are you? Never been better, Brian. Feels good outside? Feels real nice outside? Do you say nice? Is fall here, Dan? Fall's here, Brian. Of course it's here to stay. I mean, it's here for about a week. In a week, buckle up that down the hatches because it's Christmas season for Halloween. It's hard to believe. It's hard to believe, but I'm excited. I'm excited about Christmas.

[00:01:08] How about Hallmark Plus? Throw in the Roar Key Garden out there with no warning. No warning at all. Which seems to be par for the course for them. How about Three Groomsmen the weekend that Christmas movies start? I have a feeling they're in a lull over their heads over there. No! I don't know. I don't know. And we're not, though. They have the problem with the content, not you guys. We are fine. We're working 12 hours a week over here. It's fine.

[00:01:36] We're fine. Everything's fine. Everything's fine. It's fine. But yeah, whatever. We'll do it. And I guess there's another one also. What? I don't know if we're going to get to that. There's just too much. Is it out already? I think it came out. What day is today? Is today Friday?

[00:01:51] Yeah, today's Friday. So it came out yesterday. Oh, I don't think we're getting to it next week. We've got between the previews and the rankings and the other stuff. The Haunted. The Haunted. Mansion. Haunted Wedding. Haunted Wedding. Haunted Wedding. It's very nice. Haunted. So nice. And then the kickoff. I don't know when we do it. The kickoff. The marathon. We'll get to it in 2027, I believe.

[00:02:16] We're scheduled to get to that Aurora Tea Garden. But let's do this one first and then we'll decide. Is it worth it? Sure. That's a great idea. You know there's always those weeks in March and June where we don't have anything. I'm sure they'll come back around. Yeah. It'll air probably on the network around then. That seems to have a good strategy. But we're excited about the holiday season. Hopefully you'll join us. Marathon is a week away. DykeTheHomeward.com slash marathon will be live next Friday.

[00:02:46] 6 p.m. Starting at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. 3 p.m. Take an early day. West Coasters take an early day. Take the day. That's right. It's Friday. Take the whole day off if you want to. Yeah. Why wouldn't you? Christmas movies will be on all day on the Hallmark Channel. We will be live starting at 6 p.m. Eastern for 20, what it was? 26, 7, 8, 28 hours. Yeah. With only two movies that helps us a little bit. That's right. That's right. But we're going to have a lot of fun. We've got so much fun planned.

[00:03:14] And, of course, the entire DykeTheHomeward family will be with us, which if you listen to the first preview episode, that's a preview of things to come. It's going to be a ton of fun with all of us in the same room, not virtually in the same room, in the same house. It's going to be the same room. It's going to be a ton of fun.

[00:03:36] Brian, what are you going to be for Halloween? What's kind of tickling your fancy?

[00:03:39] I'll probably be similar to what I'm doing now, like a lumberjack, something like this, like a flannel shirt.

[00:03:46] I'll be the brawny guy. I'll just put a red flannel on.

[00:03:48] There you go.

[00:03:49] Be good to go.

[00:03:49] Something real simple like that.

[00:03:50] Yeah.

[00:03:51] I'll also be probably a candy tester as well.

[00:03:53] Dan, when will you be comfortable with me beginning to put lights on the outside of my house?

[00:03:58] When would make you okay?

[00:03:59] Christmas lights?

[00:03:59] I think reasonably for someone that loves Christmas as much as you, I've just come to expect and accept November 1st.

[00:04:07] Okay, so I can begin working on it the week of Halloween so I can turn the switch on.

[00:04:12] I don't know where I fall there.

[00:04:14] I think for me, if you see me out there, the day after Thanksgiving, I get my tree and Christmas starts.

[00:04:19] I understand.

[00:04:19] But for you, I've just come to accept the fact that November 1st is about right.

[00:04:24] If it was up right now, I'd be pushing a fit.

[00:04:26] Right, but will you be mad at me if I'm out there the week of Halloween?

[00:04:31] I mean, I'm going to probably say something.

[00:04:33] Yeah.

[00:04:34] See something, say something.

[00:04:35] Yeah, of course.

[00:04:35] Are you going to help me this year?

[00:04:37] With your lights?

[00:04:38] Yeah.

[00:04:38] I have my old lights to deal with.

[00:04:39] Yeah, but you help me.

[00:04:40] I'll help you.

[00:04:41] I scratched your back.

[00:04:41] I scratched my back.

[00:04:42] Yeah, that sounds like a blast, guys.

[00:04:45] You have fun.

[00:04:45] I got so many boxes of lights in.

[00:04:49] Do you get more blow-up yard things that are gigantic?

[00:04:50] I didn't do any more blow-ups, but I'm making the full transition to color lights outside.

[00:04:56] You are.

[00:04:56] You know what?

[00:04:57] I have some bulbs for you.

[00:04:58] The old school ones if you want them.

[00:05:00] I don't have a lot, but I have some.

[00:05:01] The problem with those is they get so hot.

[00:05:04] They get so hot, and they break all the time.

[00:05:06] I'm excited.

[00:05:07] I've got some.

[00:05:08] So I should just trash those.

[00:05:09] I've got some LEDs that are supposed to be the same type of vibe.

[00:05:15] You know how sometimes you see color LEDs, and you're like, that's not right.

[00:05:17] Absolutely.

[00:05:18] I can't wait to check.

[00:05:20] We'll definitely have to test them out.

[00:05:22] I'm vlogging the whole thing.

[00:05:24] I'm vlogging the whole thing.

[00:05:25] It's going to be a great vlog.

[00:05:26] It's going to be amazing.

[00:05:27] The testing phase doesn't count towards them being on for the season, so you can test them

[00:05:32] all week.

[00:05:32] Yeah, the test doesn't count.

[00:05:34] But what I got a kick out of is the day, the evening that the hurricane came.

[00:05:40] Remember that?

[00:05:42] I got so many boxes delivered of Christmas stuff, and I'm like, oh, okay.

[00:05:46] Yeah, hurricane season.

[00:05:47] I'm glad that the hurricane and the debris and the trees down didn't get in the way of

[00:05:52] this stuff getting delivered.

[00:05:53] Through wind nor rain, no sleet nor cane.

[00:05:57] Let's talk Aurora Teagarden, shall we?

[00:05:58] Aurora Teagarden, a lesson in murder originally dropped on the Hallmark Plus on October 3rd, 2024,

[00:06:06] and it went a little something like this.

[00:06:10] There's a receptionist.

[00:06:11] She is at work late at night listening to some knockoff Ed Sheeran.

[00:06:17] When she hears bang, it's not a gunshot.

[00:06:21] It is a bang, though, and so she assumes that it's someone back there working, so she goes

[00:06:27] back to see what's going on.

[00:06:28] I thought everybody went home.

[00:06:29] When she goes to investigate, she walks into this room, and it's all messed up.

[00:06:34] Everything is thrown down on the ground, and suddenly she is attacked from behind with

[00:06:40] some poisonous gas.

[00:06:42] Oh, no.

[00:06:43] Cut to Aurora Teagarden.

[00:06:45] She is teaching a class on poison.

[00:06:48] That's right.

[00:06:49] It's a poison class.

[00:06:52] That girl is poison.

[00:06:54] That's right.

[00:06:54] She plays that in the background.

[00:06:57] After class, she is talking to a student named Kevin and asking Kevin why he is so tired.

[00:07:03] He's like, oh, yeah, working hard, baseball and stuff.

[00:07:06] His girlfriend, Jenny, walks up.

[00:07:08] Jenny actually is the one from the block.

[00:07:10] Do you remember?

[00:07:11] Oh, she's just Jenny from the block?

[00:07:12] She's just Jenny from the block.

[00:07:13] Oh, my goodness.

[00:07:14] Don't worry about the things.

[00:07:15] Dude, I heard she used to have a little.

[00:07:16] Now things are different.

[00:07:17] Now, I know.

[00:07:18] It's a turnabout.

[00:07:19] It's a fair play.

[00:07:20] She's got a watch.

[00:07:21] And on their way out, Aurora overhears Jenny complaining that a guy named Owen is following her.

[00:07:29] Kevin says, I'll talk to him.

[00:07:30] He's my friend.

[00:07:31] And she's like, I don't think he's your friend.

[00:07:34] Aurora is talking to Professor Lindo when her last TA walks in.

[00:07:40] His name is Cal.

[00:07:41] And Cal is mad at Lindo because she refuses to give him a letter of recommendation.

[00:07:47] After he was caught doing up to no good with the greats.

[00:07:52] Doing up to no good.

[00:07:54] That's exactly right.

[00:07:55] Aurora goes to catch a shift at the diner.

[00:07:58] And while there, she's flirting up with the cook, Daniel.

[00:08:01] And he asks her out.

[00:08:03] But right after that, Arthur, the cop who is also into her, also asks her out.

[00:08:08] Oh, my gosh.

[00:08:09] To be Aurora right now.

[00:08:11] Am I right, boys?

[00:08:12] You're right.

[00:08:13] When we then see Tanner, Tanner is another kid.

[00:08:19] And Tanner is in a fight with Kevin.

[00:08:21] And what is up with these guys?

[00:08:22] I don't know.

[00:08:23] Afterwards, Kevin's coach says he's in big danger of not passing the class, which you know what that means, everybody.

[00:08:30] No baseball.

[00:08:32] Aurora agrees to give him help.

[00:08:35] If you come to the diner, I'll help you out.

[00:08:37] I'll tutor you.

[00:08:38] I'll help you get your grades up.

[00:08:40] When she sees his car outside the diner, she's waiting on him to come in.

[00:08:45] He doesn't come in.

[00:08:46] So she goes to check on him.

[00:08:47] And he dead.

[00:08:49] He dead.

[00:08:49] He dead.

[00:08:52] Aurora and Professor Lindo are there.

[00:08:54] And they immediately jump to murder.

[00:08:56] This is clearly murder.

[00:08:58] When Owen is questioned by the police, he's like, how long I got to be there?

[00:09:03] I don't want to be here anymore.

[00:09:05] How long until I can leave?

[00:09:07] Aurora spots Tanner, the one that Kevin got in the fight with, celebrating that he's going to be shortstop again.

[00:09:14] Oh, my gosh, buddy.

[00:09:15] Yeah, boy.

[00:09:16] Do it behind a closed door.

[00:09:18] It comes out that Kevin was, you guessed it, poisoned.

[00:09:24] Apparently, Kevin was the one that turned Cal in for messing with the grades as a TA.

[00:09:32] So there's some motive there.

[00:09:34] He works at the Pizza and Play, which is not only a happening spot, but it's where all the baseball players go.

[00:09:42] They go and they get their protein shakes there.

[00:09:44] You get a milkshake with some protein powder in it.

[00:09:46] Yeah, that's what they have in place.

[00:09:48] That's exactly right.

[00:09:49] And it also happens to be the last place that Kevin was seen.

[00:09:53] And he was with Tanner.

[00:09:55] He was with Jenny.

[00:09:57] And all of it was caught on video.

[00:10:00] They all do suspicious things in this video as well, such as Cal looking real suspicious, putting the stuff in.

[00:10:08] Tanner knocking the milkshake over.

[00:10:12] Jenny adding packets of something into the milkshake.

[00:10:16] There's several shady characters here.

[00:10:17] Yes.

[00:10:18] Yes.

[00:10:19] But I would say Tanner is now especially suspicious when it comes out that his mom owns the dentist office that was broken into last week.

[00:10:29] The break-in from the beginning of the movie.

[00:10:31] And that the poison that was in Kevin's system when he died was stuff that didn't just use.

[00:10:42] Sodium nitrite.

[00:10:42] Yes.

[00:10:43] So all signs are pointing to our boy Tan there.

[00:10:47] Aurora is at school late one night and catches somebody stealing something from the professor's office, but she's not able to figure out who that is.

[00:10:55] The detectives feel like all the suspects are lying, so they're going to have to interview them all again and try to see if anybody will slip up.

[00:11:07] Things are looking real bad for Tanner after a label from the poison is found in Tanner's folder.

[00:11:13] Oh, man.

[00:11:13] That's tough.

[00:11:14] But Tanner has insisted, I didn't do anything.

[00:11:17] I don't know anything about that.

[00:11:19] Aurora is back at the pizza and play and notices that the security camera location changed right before the time where Tanner came in.

[00:11:32] I'm sorry, where Kevin came in and Kevin died.

[00:11:34] So that's weird, huh?

[00:11:36] And Cal's the one that's changing the cameras.

[00:11:38] Almost as if he wanted the camera to be pointing in that direction.

[00:11:43] Which, when she comes back, Cal is holding Sally, a girl who works there, as hostage.

[00:11:51] And Cal's like, you are going to figure it out eventually.

[00:11:54] So here we are.

[00:11:55] And the whole gang is there, aside from Jenny.

[00:11:58] Jenny didn't have anything to do with it.

[00:12:00] But Cal, Tanner, and Owen, they are all there.

[00:12:05] And they all basically worked together to kill Kevin.

[00:12:10] And they would all do different things so that it was hard for them to track it down as to who was the one who had done it.

[00:12:19] But ultimately, she is able to get into a little bit of a chase and a run.

[00:12:24] Knocks Cal down.

[00:12:25] All this good stuff.

[00:12:27] She's being chased.

[00:12:28] And she is cornered.

[00:12:30] And there's a knife.

[00:12:31] Someone's got a knife.

[00:12:32] Someone's got a knife.

[00:12:32] And just as things are about to go from bad to worse, Arthur shows up and arrests those bad guys.

[00:12:41] Woo-hoo!

[00:12:42] Aurora saves the day.

[00:12:43] Everyone is impressed.

[00:12:45] And Aurora is impressed with her boys.

[00:12:47] And that, my friends, was Aurora Teagarden.

[00:12:51] A lesson in murder.

[00:12:54] He always forgets the mysteries.

[00:12:55] I always forgot the mystery.

[00:12:56] I always forget.

[00:12:57] It's implied, I guess.

[00:12:58] Let's take a quick break.

[00:12:59] We'll come back.

[00:12:59] We'll break this movie down here on Deck the Hallmark.

[00:13:03] Deck the Hallmark.

[00:13:05] Mystery.

[00:13:14] Back.

[00:13:14] We're talking Aurora Teagarden.

[00:13:16] The new Aurora Teagarden, mind you.

[00:13:20] A lesson in murder.

[00:13:22] Hallmark Plus.

[00:13:24] Let's share our thoughts on it with a little segment I like to call the Hot Take.

[00:13:28] It is where we share exactly how we felt about this movie.

[00:13:31] We do not hold back.

[00:13:33] And I will start with you, Brian.

[00:13:35] Brian, what did you think of Aurora Teagarden?

[00:13:38] This is the second of the new iteration.

[00:13:41] The prequel.

[00:13:42] We only covered one of the originals.

[00:13:43] Yes, we only covered one.

[00:13:44] It was the one with now made.

[00:13:45] We've now officially seen more.

[00:13:47] Yes.

[00:13:48] Of the new one.

[00:13:49] But what are your thoughts on this one?

[00:13:50] A surprise drop?

[00:13:51] A surprise release?

[00:13:53] Was it a good surprise?

[00:13:54] They're trying to get rid of them.

[00:13:54] What did you think?

[00:13:56] Yeah.

[00:13:57] I love this.

[00:13:58] Yeah.

[00:13:58] I love this.

[00:14:00] I love this.

[00:14:01] I was going to say, I don't want to spoil it.

[00:14:03] So if you haven't seen it, stop this and go watch it.

[00:14:05] But the synopsis kind of did that.

[00:14:07] So even if you haven't seen it and you're just relying on this for a review, like I would

[00:14:12] definitely go check this out.

[00:14:13] Like stop this, go check it out.

[00:14:14] Because it almost doesn't do it justice.

[00:14:16] Just talking about the surprise.

[00:14:18] I wrote down in my notes, I had to pause this movie.

[00:14:22] Go tell Diana what I wrote down when this all happened.

[00:14:25] Because I wrote down, everyone is so guilty.

[00:14:28] It's a quote, Alonzo, drippy with guilt.

[00:14:30] Drippy.

[00:14:31] Love it.

[00:14:31] Yeah.

[00:14:32] I kind of hope this...

[00:14:33] Guilt drip.

[00:14:33] Got that guilt drip.

[00:14:34] Yeah.

[00:14:35] It's obvious.

[00:14:35] The guilt faucets just full glass.

[00:14:38] I kind of hope this is a conspiracy with them all working together.

[00:14:41] So you liked it so much because you guessed it?

[00:14:43] I nailed it.

[00:14:44] I couldn't believe it.

[00:14:45] You nailed it.

[00:14:45] It was so like, it felt so good to be like, thank you for not trying to like just pigeonhole this on one person.

[00:14:51] Like everybody was so guilty.

[00:14:53] It lined up so perfectly for them to all have done it and been involved.

[00:14:56] And that's what they did.

[00:14:57] And it was awesome.

[00:14:58] And running through the pizza and play, through like the obstacle course, running around that whole end was like exactly the buildup.

[00:15:07] I was kind of bored at points leading up to it.

[00:15:09] But the payoff was so well done.

[00:15:11] I was enthralled the whole time for the ending there.

[00:15:14] And it was so worth it.

[00:15:16] I was so satisfied at the end of this movie.

[00:15:19] Very cool.

[00:15:20] Okay.

[00:15:21] I liked it.

[00:15:22] Best mystery of the year, Brian?

[00:15:24] Oh, boy.

[00:15:26] Maybe.

[00:15:26] Right now, yeah.

[00:15:27] It's my top choice for mystery of the year, I think.

[00:15:30] Ahead of cases.

[00:15:31] Case of mystery lane.

[00:15:33] Oh, man.

[00:15:34] Right now, I bet at the end, cases will come ahead because cases, the whole thing was fun throughout.

[00:15:40] But this twist, I was so psyched at how this ended.

[00:15:43] Yeah.

[00:15:43] I feel like they just nailed it so perfectly.

[00:15:45] So right now, maybe it's like an inch above.

[00:15:47] An inch above.

[00:15:48] An inch above.

[00:15:49] Brian?

[00:15:50] Yeah.

[00:15:50] I liked it a good amount.

[00:15:53] I liked it a good amount.

[00:15:53] I did like the reveal.

[00:15:56] I was wrong.

[00:15:57] I thought that it was Jenny.

[00:15:59] I thought Jenny had done it.

[00:16:01] One thing I didn't mention in the synopsis, there are some things about it that I didn't

[00:16:06] necessarily like.

[00:16:07] I didn't like that.

[00:16:09] They were like, how do we wrap this up?

[00:16:11] And it's like, well, just have Cal be like, basically give up and show up and hold Sally

[00:16:16] captive.

[00:16:17] Like that.

[00:16:17] Pizza cut to the neck.

[00:16:19] Works every time.

[00:16:19] Oh, man.

[00:16:19] And it's like, you don't have to do that.

[00:16:24] You don't have to do that.

[00:16:26] And you are in a pretty good place.

[00:16:30] A reminder.

[00:16:31] Aurora is not a cop.

[00:16:32] The police are so unsure about what's happening.

[00:16:37] Yeah.

[00:16:38] Yeah.

[00:16:38] Just let it play out.

[00:16:40] Just let it play out.

[00:16:41] So that I didn't like.

[00:16:42] Once again, great criminal advice from Bran.

[00:16:44] I'm not saying he did it or would.

[00:16:46] No.

[00:16:46] I'm saying he, if Deck the Hallmark's presented by Phyla, I'm saying that he could do it

[00:16:51] and would do it better because of the tips he's been giving you.

[00:16:54] Um, and I didn't like the Jenny who I didn't write this in the synopsis, but she wrote a

[00:17:01] paper on, on the poison that was used on her boyfriend to kill him.

[00:17:08] And it turns out it's literally just a coincidence.

[00:17:12] Uh, she didn't really write it.

[00:17:14] She didn't really write it.

[00:17:14] I didn't, I didn't like it.

[00:17:17] I didn't like that.

[00:17:18] But overall, I, this is what I'll say.

[00:17:20] I like this Aurora.

[00:17:21] I think that she's a really engaging character.

[00:17:24] Skylar Samuels.

[00:17:25] Yeah.

[00:17:25] She's fantastic.

[00:17:26] I think she's crushing it.

[00:17:27] And I think that the, the little love triangle we have going on right now, I think that that's

[00:17:31] working.

[00:17:31] I think, I like the fact that that's happening out of the gate.

[00:17:35] You know, we're not wasting four or five movies getting to this whole like, uh, love thing.

[00:17:41] That's a part of all of them.

[00:17:43] Uh, for better or worse, there is a love component to these movies.

[00:17:46] And so I like that we're getting to it.

[00:17:48] And I, I, you know, both of the guys quite swell.

[00:17:52] And so it's, uh, you know, I like, I like both of the guys.

[00:17:55] And so, um, that's a tough spot to be in the, the mystery itself.

[00:18:00] Uh, I, I do like the idea of all three of these guys being in on it.

[00:18:04] I just thought, I wish there was another way that we could have gotten to the, Hey,

[00:18:08] this is how we're doing it.

[00:18:09] Instead of Cal just holding Sally, your Sally captive and, uh, admitting to everything to

[00:18:17] Aurora.

[00:18:17] I didn't like that, but the mystery itself, I thought worked.

[00:18:21] There's a lot to be desired for me in the execution of this plot.

[00:18:25] And I'll get to that in a second.

[00:18:26] But the good news here is I don't disagree that it was an interesting murder mystery.

[00:18:31] And that is so rare.

[00:18:33] And that makes it, if not the best, one of the best mysteries of the year.

[00:18:38] The, the actual case is a good case.

[00:18:40] The conclusion is a good conclusion.

[00:18:44] And Aurora T garden, the character is great.

[00:18:46] And the love triangle is the best love triangle Hallmark's had since Lucas and Nathan.

[00:18:50] Uh, it just is.

[00:18:51] So those things do work.

[00:18:53] I hate the fact that they had this great ending where three people work together and they do

[00:18:59] such a terrible job.

[00:19:00] In my opinion, the rest of the movie, uh, overt going above and beyond in dump, like the guys

[00:19:07] celebrate, like, like it's not like they all are trying to look guilty so that the spotlight

[00:19:13] can't be on one of them is that they're begging to be brought into the office.

[00:19:16] Like they, they just don't trust the viewer with the premise.

[00:19:22] I think it should have been a little bit harder to figure out.

[00:19:24] I think they shouldn't have given themselves up so easily.

[00:19:27] And so throughout the way, there's some really dumb police work and some really dumb acting

[00:19:33] by people that committed murder if they want to get away with it.

[00:19:35] And that does detract.

[00:19:37] However, wrote Skylar Samuels is great.

[00:19:40] Love triangle is great.

[00:19:41] They tried something with this having three people do it.

[00:19:45] That's fun and different.

[00:19:46] The case was interesting.

[00:19:47] So you could do a lot worse.

[00:19:49] And I'm either Hallmark is overwhelmed, which could be true with Hallmark plus, or they're

[00:19:55] getting rid of these movies.

[00:19:56] They didn't know where to put them in.

[00:19:57] They're just putting them out before Christmas.

[00:19:59] And that scares me a little bit because I would much rather see this than another Hannah

[00:20:04] Swenson mystery.

[00:20:06] Uh, then a lot of other mysteries.

[00:20:08] I, I, I gotta be honest, this curious caterer cases of mystery lane.

[00:20:13] Like they're kind of the, the cream of the crop right now.

[00:20:17] I think those are all really good mystery wheels.

[00:20:20] I, I'm, I'm frustrated with Hallmark plus because I think that they're just over complicating

[00:20:26] things.

[00:20:26] They are.

[00:20:27] I think all that people really wanted was a subscription service that they could watch

[00:20:33] the movies without having cable.

[00:20:36] Yeah.

[00:20:36] That's what they wanted.

[00:20:38] Yeah.

[00:20:38] But Hallmark is still very linear and they don't want to, they don't want to make their

[00:20:44] providers upset, which is fair.

[00:20:46] And we appreciate as people that are on filo, we appreciate that they still care about linear

[00:20:52] TV.

[00:20:53] I think you, what I, what I don't think is necessary is for you to create extra movies that you just

[00:21:01] are like, well, I guess we can just throw it on Hallmark plus.

[00:21:03] I, I feel like Hallmark plus can be a place where you have a big selection of movies and

[00:21:10] maybe the newer ones come on a week later or something that still gives the linear, um,

[00:21:17] uh, population what they are wanting, which is the live plus three.

[00:21:21] And then I, I think that their unscripted stuff is made for, uh, the app.

[00:21:28] I think it makes sense if they're going to do these TV shows, these unscripted, these reality

[00:21:32] shows, it makes perfect sense for those to land on the app and for them to do it weekly.

[00:21:36] Cause it keeps people engaged on the app.

[00:21:39] I just think they're overcomplicating it.

[00:21:41] Like groomsmen shouldn't be on Hallmark plus.

[00:21:44] It should be on TV.

[00:21:45] Yes.

[00:21:46] And, uh, I just don't understand it.

[00:21:47] But what do I know?

[00:21:48] I'm a podcaster, not a TV executive.

[00:21:51] I also, it's very clear.

[00:21:52] They put the Hannah Swenson on Friday night when old people will watch it and they put

[00:21:56] the new Aurora tea garden on plus where the younger people are more likely to watch.

[00:21:59] Like that's the one saving grace I have here is this is a far better movie than the Hannah

[00:22:03] Swenson movie, but at least they are trying to play their base, but you're 100% right.

[00:22:06] They're not doing it.

[00:22:07] Correct.

[00:22:07] Um, let's get to all the fields, shall we?

[00:22:09] Where we talk about what in the city gave us feels, uh, Brian, you already talked a little

[00:22:13] bit about how excited you were that you were smart.

[00:22:15] Uh, but any other fields?

[00:22:17] Yeah.

[00:22:17] I had a name tag feels, I guess I would call them at the pizza and play.

[00:22:22] Everybody's name was a play on food.

[00:22:24] And I thought that was really funny.

[00:22:26] I don't remember seeing that.

[00:22:27] Um, Kevin, uh, Kevin Smith as Ricky is a very John Michael Higgins in this.

[00:22:33] Oh my gosh.

[00:22:34] That's a brain stealer.

[00:22:37] That's mine.

[00:22:38] Can I, can I please, please, please.

[00:22:40] I thought for all the money in the world, Kevin Smith was a cameo.

[00:22:44] I thought he was going to have the two lines.

[00:22:46] Yeah.

[00:22:47] And then he's not, my man showed up to be, I'm going to low ball it F on the call shoot.

[00:22:52] He's F on the call shoot.

[00:22:54] There are, there are at least five, six people that have more to do than he does.

[00:22:58] And not only does he crush it, he's hysterical.

[00:23:01] He's funny.

[00:23:02] He lends something to the movie.

[00:23:04] But then when he throws her the keys in this movie, there's a slight moment where you're

[00:23:10] like, holy crap.

[00:23:11] Yes.

[00:23:12] Did Kevin Smith murder this dude?

[00:23:16] That's right.

[00:23:16] Just a brief minute.

[00:23:17] That's right.

[00:23:17] And it's real.

[00:23:18] Yes.

[00:23:19] I thought it.

[00:23:19] Did you think it?

[00:23:20] I didn't think it because he's just so darn nice.

[00:23:22] But now that you said it, I should have thought.

[00:23:24] He's like, I got to get out of town right now in the middle of the night.

[00:23:26] It was so weird.

[00:23:27] Here are the keys.

[00:23:27] I got to drive right now.

[00:23:28] You're like, yes.

[00:23:29] Dude, if Kevin showed up to wear a bow tie, wink in the gun, F on the call sheet, and be

[00:23:35] the murderer, would have been brilliant.

[00:23:37] Yeah.

[00:23:37] But I loved Kevin in this movie and am here for it.

[00:23:41] So great.

[00:23:42] Yeah.

[00:23:42] Yeah.

[00:23:42] It was great.

[00:23:43] You mentioned it a little bit in your outtake, Brian, but the scene where Sally's running

[00:23:47] through the play set area and being chased is really great.

[00:23:51] Yeah.

[00:23:51] And I have a suspicion that they had the idea for that.

[00:23:55] And that's how they were like, well, how do we get them to the pizza place?

[00:23:59] Yeah.

[00:23:59] And how we get them is they're just going to admit to everything to Aurora.

[00:24:03] And so I'm frustrated that that's how we got there.

[00:24:06] But the scene itself, like utilizing all of the pizza in play is a really great idea.

[00:24:13] And it was really fun.

[00:24:14] So, and I thought it was shot well as well.

[00:24:16] Do you think the pizza's any good at pizza in play?

[00:24:18] No, I think it's more emphasis on the play.

[00:24:19] More play.

[00:24:20] Yeah.

[00:24:20] More on the play.

[00:24:22] Let's take a quick break.

[00:24:23] We'll come back with the way, what, and the what, the hallmark here on.

[00:24:25] Deck the Hallmark.

[00:24:36] Everybody, we're talking Aurora Tea Garden.

[00:24:38] We're talking about a little, little poison.

[00:24:41] I don't know what it's called.

[00:24:42] Poison Week.

[00:24:43] A Lesson in Murder.

[00:24:44] A Lesson in Murder.

[00:24:45] We did it.

[00:24:46] It should have been That Girl is Poison or something like that.

[00:24:48] That was really good.

[00:24:49] Let's go do the wait, what is what we're talking about.

[00:24:52] What in this movie?

[00:24:53] Let's go wait, what?

[00:24:53] I'll start with you, Brian.

[00:24:54] All right.

[00:24:54] Mine are in order of ridiculousness.

[00:24:57] Oh.

[00:24:58] Number one, Tanner Swing.

[00:25:01] The guy at the batting cage just was Tanner.

[00:25:03] And dude.

[00:25:04] Barrett.

[00:25:04] Like take a few practice cards.

[00:25:06] Yeah.

[00:25:07] Just go off camera.

[00:25:08] Oh, man.

[00:25:09] Let somebody, Kevin knows baseball pretty well.

[00:25:11] Give him a couple.

[00:25:12] Let somebody teach you how to take a few hacks there.

[00:25:15] Like fake an injury or something.

[00:25:16] Something other than what you did.

[00:25:17] So distracting and bad.

[00:25:19] It made Marcus Rosner's golf swing look epic.

[00:25:50] Aw.

[00:25:52] Big pizza cutter.

[00:25:53] We need you, Seth.

[00:25:54] Like I literally couldn't believe that anyone would be free.

[00:25:57] If somebody puts that to your neck, immediately fight back.

[00:26:00] Oh, 100%.

[00:26:01] Immediately fight back.

[00:26:02] 100%.

[00:26:02] It was one of the dumbest things.

[00:26:04] There's knives in that establishment.

[00:26:05] Yes.

[00:26:05] It's a restaurant.

[00:26:06] Heavy stuff.

[00:26:07] Anything.

[00:26:07] A pizza cutter.

[00:26:09] It was so funny.

[00:26:09] It's like a cold in your pantry.

[00:26:11] We need a new one pizza cutter.

[00:26:13] Not a restaurant.

[00:26:14] Maybe Cal brought one from the store.

[00:26:16] He bought a new one.

[00:26:17] He was like, let's.

[00:26:18] Fresh off the shelf.

[00:26:19] He loves a theme.

[00:26:21] He's like, we're going to be in the pizza place.

[00:26:23] When we make homemade pizza at home and I use one of those, I'm always like, we're going

[00:26:26] to need a new pizza cutter.

[00:26:27] You're going back and forth a few times.

[00:26:28] This isn't cutting through dough.

[00:26:30] It's not cutting through dough.

[00:26:32] I just.

[00:26:32] No.

[00:26:33] Pathetic.

[00:26:33] That was one of the toughest parts of this movie was my man shouldn't be admitting he's

[00:26:37] done anything wrong.

[00:26:38] He's giving away all the info and he's holding someone at pizza cutter point.

[00:26:42] Yeah.

[00:26:42] Not a weapon.

[00:26:43] Oh.

[00:26:44] So that was great.

[00:26:45] This kind of threw me.

[00:26:47] They're in a true crime class and not a single student shows interest in.

[00:26:52] None.

[00:26:53] A true crime event.

[00:26:55] Yeah.

[00:26:55] Why not?

[00:26:55] Somebody in your class is dead.

[00:26:57] Like this is prime.

[00:26:58] Like true crime.

[00:27:00] Get to work.

[00:27:01] Like involve everybody.

[00:27:02] Nobody is trying.

[00:27:04] And the professor, Lindo, Lindy, I forget her name.

[00:27:08] She says she's going to, if this murder isn't solved, she's going to cancel the class.

[00:27:12] Yeah.

[00:27:12] We've got to talk about it.

[00:27:13] Go ahead.

[00:27:14] That'll do it.

[00:27:15] That'll fix murder.

[00:27:16] Like it's.

[00:27:17] Okay.

[00:27:18] Go ahead.

[00:27:18] Because I was just like, that's a dumb line.

[00:27:20] Why have that line?

[00:27:21] Is a place for, is all this glorification of criminal behavior good for society?

[00:27:28] Does it spurn more, spawn more murders?

[00:27:32] Does it spawn more true crime?

[00:27:33] But not from you, Hallmark.

[00:27:34] Not from the people with a mystery network.

[00:27:38] No.

[00:27:38] You don't get to do this.

[00:27:40] You don't get to have a true crime class that is the bedrock of our main character's reason

[00:27:46] for doing this.

[00:27:48] I know she's a librarian, but this is the thing.

[00:27:50] You don't get to act like you're over there weighing the ethical quandary that is a true crime.

[00:27:57] No.

[00:27:58] No.

[00:27:59] You don't get to do it.

[00:28:00] If you want to say, hey, this guy died.

[00:28:03] He was in my class.

[00:28:04] Maybe we should shut it down.

[00:28:05] Fine.

[00:28:05] But questioning whether or not it should exist in general is, you can't even see your lane from there.

[00:28:14] That was terrible.

[00:28:16] Yeah.

[00:28:16] That was so tone deaf.

[00:28:18] I couldn't believe they did it until we were supposed to take it with a straight face.

[00:28:21] I can't wait until Hallmark takes on Grand Theft Auto.

[00:28:24] Yeah.

[00:28:24] Is there too much violence on the video games?

[00:28:27] Or are romances presenting an unrealistic portrayal?

[00:28:34] What if they did that in an episode?

[00:28:36] What if the next Tyler Hines movie is like Tyler Hines wondering if he should...

[00:28:42] He's a screenwriter for romance movies.

[00:28:44] That's right.

[00:28:44] And should we really present this as what romance is?

[00:28:47] Can you imagine?

[00:28:48] Like, stop it.

[00:28:49] That's a Hallmark plus.

[00:28:50] Get out of here.

[00:28:51] For sure.

[00:28:51] Did that even clock with you?

[00:28:52] No, I didn't.

[00:28:53] The true crime?

[00:28:53] Oh, my gosh.

[00:28:54] As soon as she started with it, I was like...

[00:28:56] I was just like, you know what?

[00:28:57] This is a good conversation.

[00:28:58] It's needed.

[00:28:59] It's needed.

[00:29:00] It would be like if we were like, should we make fun of movies?

[00:29:03] Like, what are you doing?

[00:29:05] There's too many podcasts.

[00:29:06] Yeah.

[00:29:08] Is that it?

[00:29:09] Yeah.

[00:29:10] Guys, first of all, Hallmark needs to work on how they're starting these movies.

[00:29:14] This is the second time in a row where the opening sequence has bothered me.

[00:29:19] Because I'm just like, what's...

[00:29:20] This was better than the last one.

[00:29:21] It was better than the last one.

[00:29:22] But I don't know why this woman is sitting in a dark office.

[00:29:28] Is it after hours?

[00:29:30] What is she doing?

[00:29:31] She's just got her headphones on.

[00:29:33] Is it me time for her?

[00:29:34] I think everybody, women especially, in a dark office.

[00:29:37] That's where they really do that.

[00:29:38] Is this one of those situations where, you know, after the office closed, she just listens to her music for like 30 minutes to decompress?

[00:29:48] It's her time.

[00:29:48] I don't know.

[00:29:49] But she is sitting in a dark office with no real explanation for as to why.

[00:29:54] And they don't want you to ask.

[00:29:57] They don't expect you to ask.

[00:29:59] But I'm asking.

[00:30:00] Why?

[00:30:01] Why?

[00:30:01] The detective, not Arthur, but the boss.

[00:30:06] Yeah, his boss.

[00:30:07] Crow?

[00:30:07] Crow?

[00:30:08] Christmas with the darlings.

[00:30:09] He needs to meditate.

[00:30:11] He has an anger problem.

[00:30:13] He has an anger problem.

[00:30:15] And like, I'm concerned about him.

[00:30:17] I'm concerned about him and the way in which he lashes out at the people around him in situations.

[00:30:26] And it's rubbing off on Arthur.

[00:30:28] It's rubbing off on Arthur.

[00:30:30] Poor little innocent Arthur.

[00:30:31] Our sweet little Arthur at one point lashed out.

[00:30:34] And the guy's back there in the background.

[00:30:35] I'm like, yeah, that's my boy.

[00:30:37] Come on, man.

[00:30:38] That's my guy.

[00:30:38] Come on.

[00:30:39] Just like, just take a few minutes.

[00:30:41] Maybe after hours in a dark office.

[00:30:43] Put on your headphones.

[00:30:44] And headphones and open up the Calm app or whatever you have to do.

[00:30:47] Just breathe through it, buddy.

[00:30:50] Breathe through it.

[00:30:51] And sweet, sweet boy Tanner.

[00:30:53] Buddy, you cannot go out in public and yell, I'm shortstop!

[00:31:01] After you can't.

[00:31:02] Like, you deserve everything you have coming to you.

[00:31:06] If you are not smart enough to just not for a week, for two weeks.

[00:31:14] It is the week of, and he's out there with whatever it is.

[00:31:17] It's very soon after.

[00:31:19] His teammates should be like, you're taking a chance.

[00:31:23] Nobody seems upset about that.

[00:31:24] For me, that goes in tandem with, is it Cal, who's the TA?

[00:31:30] Won't even shake hands with Roe at the beginning of this movie.

[00:31:33] Like, I think the movie is like over the top trying to make you think they're the killer.

[00:31:39] And it's terrible.

[00:31:40] Him being like, oh yeah, shortstop's open, mofos!

[00:31:43] Oh yeah, it's crazy.

[00:31:44] I think that they wanted to put so many of those in there because they were sure that

[00:31:52] no one would guess at all three would be in on it.

[00:31:54] That's right.

[00:31:54] They are asking for it.

[00:31:57] Absolutely, yeah.

[00:31:57] They're being like, you wouldn't damn write that down and tell your wife which you.

[00:32:00] That's right.

[00:32:00] You wouldn't pause this movie and tell her.

[00:32:01] And you did.

[00:32:02] And I did.

[00:32:02] I did do that.

[00:32:03] You did.

[00:32:04] So, gotcha.

[00:32:05] Gotcha.

[00:32:05] Dana?

[00:32:06] Yeah.

[00:32:07] Yeah.

[00:32:07] You know your first clue that there may be some foul play and this guy may be dead in

[00:32:11] his car?

[00:32:12] His car's not in a parking spot.

[00:32:16] The parking lot has spaces everywhere.

[00:32:18] Yes.

[00:32:19] This car is just in the middle.

[00:32:22] Imagine going to a restaurant and a car just being parked in the middle of a row.

[00:32:27] At least he made it into the parking lot though and isn't just out there.

[00:32:29] But like, they killed this dude and they didn't move.

[00:32:31] They just, like, that is your first, like, you should, someone should have called this

[00:32:38] in already.

[00:32:39] It shouldn't take this long.

[00:32:41] My understanding was they, like, he drove there.

[00:32:43] Yeah.

[00:32:43] And then the boys had killed him.

[00:32:45] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:32:45] And then his car sat there until Roe is like, hey, let's go check this car out.

[00:32:50] Not because it's out in the middle, just because there he is.

[00:32:52] There he is.

[00:32:52] He hasn't come in yet.

[00:32:53] No one noticed that the car's blocking up all the parking lot.

[00:32:56] Nobody complained about that.

[00:32:56] He's literally, there's a car behind him that's stuck there.

[00:32:59] I saw that, yeah.

[00:32:59] Like, it's so terrible.

[00:33:02] Like, you should probably, but to be fair, these are the worst police officers on the

[00:33:06] planet.

[00:33:06] I actually think Arthur's boss is angry all the time because Arthur is such a dummy,

[00:33:11] dumb, dumb.

[00:33:11] Yeah.

[00:33:11] Yeah.

[00:33:12] He's so stupid.

[00:33:13] You're right.

[00:33:14] Sweet boy.

[00:33:15] So stupid.

[00:33:16] At one point, all right, he does all the following.

[00:33:20] Roe is a librarian.

[00:33:21] They make it very clear she has no jurisdiction to be investigating any of this.

[00:33:25] And it's not like most Hallmark Mysteries where, like, Vic Webster's a prosecutor, so he just

[00:33:31] shares information with her.

[00:33:32] Whatever.

[00:33:33] It's probably not allowed, but he does it.

[00:33:35] This is a police officer in an active investigation.

[00:33:38] He shows her a tox report.

[00:33:40] Just full on, like, would you take a look?

[00:33:44] He tells a, they go to Jenny's house.

[00:33:47] Arthur shows up and goes, hey, why are you talking to her?

[00:33:49] She's a suspect in the murder.

[00:33:51] Jenny doesn't even know it yet.

[00:33:53] But he tells Roe she's a suspect.

[00:33:55] It's on and on all movie.

[00:33:56] And then late in the movie, he has the gall, or as Brandon would say, the gall.

[00:34:02] He has the gall to tell Roe he can't give her any information.

[00:34:08] He's like, Roe, I just can't give you any information.

[00:34:10] Bro, you've been doing it all movie.

[00:34:11] All movie, you've been just handing her private police business on a regular basis.

[00:34:16] So very impressive that you think that you've not done any of that.

[00:34:19] He's just not very bright.

[00:34:21] I don't know how else to say that.

[00:34:22] He just, he isn't very bright at all.

[00:34:25] At one point, Roe says, there are some leads you just can't follow as a cop.

[00:34:29] You can't follow a feeling.

[00:34:30] I think Arthur says that to Roe.

[00:34:32] Yes, yes.

[00:34:33] And Arthur, I need to let you know, that was pretty much detective work for the majority

[00:34:37] of our history of the United States.

[00:34:38] You can 100% within the bounds of legality.

[00:34:44] Follow a hunch.

[00:34:46] That is not like good detective work requires evidence and also putting pieces together based

[00:34:54] based upon getting in the mind of who could commit that crime.

[00:34:58] Like, the idea that you can't follow a feeling is crazy.

[00:35:02] Now, you can't illegally obtain information based on a feeling.

[00:35:07] But getting onto Roe for using her intuition is insane.

[00:35:13] Like, you're the worst police officer.

[00:35:16] The only reason I think she should choose, what's the other guy's name in the love triangle?

[00:35:19] We don't know.

[00:35:19] Oh, that's a good question.

[00:35:21] It's Arthur.

[00:35:22] I wrote it down.

[00:35:23] I'm going to say Stevie.

[00:35:24] The reason Roe should choose Stevie and not Arthur is because Arthur is not smart enough

[00:35:29] to be with Roe.

[00:35:29] That is why she should choose Stevie or whatever his name may be.

[00:35:34] We could also call him Daniel.

[00:35:35] We could call him Daniel.

[00:35:36] Yes.

[00:35:36] Of course.

[00:35:37] Is his name Daniel?

[00:35:37] Great.

[00:35:38] Daniel's smarter.

[00:35:39] I don't know what to tell you.

[00:35:42] And then lastly, there's a line in this movie that I think was added for levity, and I just

[00:35:48] hated it.

[00:35:48] And it was, one dude's talking to the cops.

[00:35:51] He's like, we always go to the pizza and play afterwards.

[00:35:53] And the older cop looks at Arthur and goes, is that the place with the robot mouse?

[00:36:00] We know Chuck E. Cheese.

[00:36:02] We all know Chuck E. Cheese.

[00:36:04] You're not going to confuse pizza and play with the mouse-themed pizza restaurant that

[00:36:11] is infamous in our country.

[00:36:13] Put some respect on it, please.

[00:36:14] You can't be like, pizza and play?

[00:36:16] Isn't that the one with the giant animatronic mouse?

[00:36:19] Oh, no.

[00:36:20] That's Chuck Edward Cheese, or entertainment cheese, as some call him.

[00:36:25] You're not going to be like, are you kidding me?

[00:36:27] It's named after a mouse.

[00:36:29] He's got to be doing a bit.

[00:36:30] He isn't.

[00:36:31] He's very serious.

[00:36:32] Is that the one with the mouse?

[00:36:33] He's always serious.

[00:36:34] Here's my question about pizza and play is, do you think it's possible at that establishment

[00:36:39] for kids to be kids?

[00:36:41] I think a kid could be a kid there.

[00:36:43] But also, that actually is another way.

[00:36:44] What is?

[00:36:45] Gavin keeps referencing this 10-year-old dance party.

[00:36:48] Who has a dance party at a Chuck E. Cheese?

[00:36:51] Yeah.

[00:36:52] Like, arcade, bowling, yes, yes, pizza, yes.

[00:36:55] Well, you're asking for trouble to have a dance party at a Chuck E. Cheese.

[00:36:59] I push back, and I say, my sweet Gavin had his birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese last

[00:37:05] year, and there is a dance component.

[00:37:07] There's a dance floor.

[00:37:08] Okay.

[00:37:09] Chuck comes out.

[00:37:10] Great.

[00:37:10] They do a dance.

[00:37:11] Okay.

[00:37:12] Okay.

[00:37:12] What Gavin's describing, though, I think is not that, but good for Gavin having a dance

[00:37:16] party at Chuck E. Cheese.

[00:37:17] Shout out to Chuck.

[00:37:18] Yeah.

[00:37:19] Charles Everett Cheese.

[00:37:20] Shout out to you, sir.

[00:37:21] Madame.

[00:37:22] Sorry.

[00:37:22] It's time for War of What the Hallmark.

[00:37:24] It's where we wonder what could have been.

[00:37:25] Maybe having some clarity questions we still have.

[00:37:27] What are we still wondering about?

[00:37:28] There's one big one that we have to, please someone get to it before me.

[00:37:31] What do you have?

[00:37:32] Okay.

[00:37:32] Well, I have a real small one first, which there was a song playing when Edward and Ro

[00:37:36] were having a very personal conversation, and Shazam did not find it, and it was infuriating.

[00:37:42] It was a really cool song.

[00:37:43] I hate when Shazam does that.

[00:37:44] If anybody caught that, please, brian at deckthehallmark.com, do not sign me up for anything else.

[00:37:48] My inbox is basically full.

[00:37:51] How, what happens after, do they turn on each other for deals?

[00:37:55] What are the deals that happen?

[00:37:57] 100%.

[00:37:58] This is the one.

[00:37:59] That is my biggest thing.

[00:37:59] Yes.

[00:38:00] What happened?

[00:38:00] And I'm going to get more specific with it since we all have the same one.

[00:38:02] Yes.

[00:38:03] I don't have that.

[00:38:03] Oh, you don't.

[00:38:04] Okay.

[00:38:04] That's my big one.

[00:38:05] I'm just left like, I can't believe they didn't feel a sound.

[00:38:07] More specifically, Owen.

[00:38:09] Owen.

[00:38:10] Mm-hmm.

[00:38:10] We are to assume at the end of this movie, Owen feels bad for conspiring to and successfully

[00:38:18] committing murder, which is what he did.

[00:38:22] He's a murderer by the law.

[00:38:24] He's the murderer.

[00:38:25] He is one of three.

[00:38:27] They're all would be on trial for murder, right?

[00:38:31] He feels bad and helps Roe at the end of this movie.

[00:38:35] And we are left assuming that Owen just kind of is a good guy now.

[00:38:41] And I just need to know what that looks like in the prosecution room.

[00:38:45] Yeah.

[00:38:46] Is he not being tried because of his good deeds, even though he conspired to and successfully

[00:38:52] did commit murder?

[00:38:53] Or is he getting a lesser sentence?

[00:38:57] Yeah.

[00:38:57] Fascinating because Owen is made to be a good guy at the end of this movie, and it was crazy

[00:39:01] to me.

[00:39:02] Yeah.

[00:39:02] Yeah.

[00:39:03] Mine is, Kevin does allude to, when they're talking about the sugar packets, and he's like,

[00:39:12] we don't have sugar packets anymore after the birthday party in July with the sugar packets.

[00:39:18] Things got out of hand with the sugar packets.

[00:39:21] Sugar packets, yeah.

[00:39:22] I would have loved for there to be some security footage as to what happened.

[00:39:26] We know that he has a lot of security footage.

[00:39:29] But what happened?

[00:39:31] Yeah.

[00:39:31] What happened with the sugar packets?

[00:39:33] That is a good one, yeah.

[00:39:34] In July.

[00:39:35] I thought he was going to say since COVID.

[00:39:36] I literally thought he was going to say since COVID.

[00:39:38] I did too.

[00:39:39] He said since the birthday party in July with the sugar packets.

[00:39:41] Like, what happened?

[00:39:42] Dance party.

[00:39:43] Sugar, dance.

[00:39:43] You do the math.

[00:39:44] It led to, what could have happened where they say we can't allow this to happen again?

[00:39:50] We got to get rid of the sugar packets.

[00:39:52] Like, that's going to keep kids from being kids.

[00:39:54] Yeah.

[00:39:54] Where a kid can be.

[00:39:55] That's what I'm saying.

[00:39:56] Maybe you can't be a kid there.

[00:39:57] We do, everybody.

[00:39:58] Congratulations.

[00:39:59] We'll be back next time with another one.

[00:40:00] Until then, remember the first to wish you a, what?

[00:40:02] Merry Christmas.

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