Branching Out (Hallmark Channel - 2024)

[00:00:01] Hi, I'm Brandon and I love Hallmark movies. I'm Brian. I like Hallmark movies. I'm Dan

[00:00:08] I despise Hallmark movies and this is the Deck The Hallmark Podcast!

[00:00:30] Wow, hello everybody. What a day. Sure is. What a day it is.

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[00:00:48] It's weird that we always break out the props for the most

[00:00:51] Inconsequential movies like we never do it on like a big it's not like the three wise men a baby

[00:00:55] We have a prop like for sure brought a baby on set

[00:00:58] We just do like a just like random movies like you know, I think branching out is inconsequential

[00:01:04] Do you think it's consequential they released it at the end of April in their schedule they have told us is inconsequential

[00:01:10] I'm not saying it's bad. I'm saying it's inconsequential. It's interesting

[00:01:14] It's great to be here. I don't know. I think the consequence was this yes

[00:01:20] Sure, it is a Tuesday today very excited to be back in the studio with my friends

[00:01:26] I haven't talked to you guys in a while though. So how was your weekend Brian? That's a good question

[00:01:30] I think I'm going vegan after this weekend really so that's what happened there. I saw a documentary

[00:01:41] Sorry, I'm half serious like I'm like gonna cut my change my diet quite a bit

[00:01:46] I feel like talk me through this cuz if I liked anything other than meat I could be easily talked into this

[00:01:52] I have not a lot to say to you yet. All I know is I need to to a jump

[00:01:58] Last straw what was in this documentary that made you go? Yeah, they're treating and they really really it's a treatment

[00:02:04] It's also just the detriment to the planet and environment and how it's so unnecessary

[00:02:09] It's like the detriment of the planet. That's mostly beef. Exactly. That's not chicken

[00:02:13] It's be chicken is how they're treating the chicken. Oh, sorry, Erin. Yes. Yes. That's a big part dairy. Yeah

[00:02:19] Yeah, so so vegan is not dairy either. Yeah, it's cows mainly that is the problem

[00:02:24] So I think we're gonna do I'm gonna find some nice small farms and I'm gonna cut you could eat chicken and still be on board

[00:02:31] With all that. Yeah, but the chicken industry as well. It's a little suspect. I have been more selective when I eat. Yeah

[00:02:38] I'm so I think that's where I'm gonna start

[00:02:40] I'm more like if I eat beef, I really make it count

[00:02:42] Yeah, I don't go out of my I don't eat it as much as I used to

[00:02:45] Yeah, I did read about that and I was like, well, I just don't in quick cold turkey cold cow

[00:02:50] No, yeah, absolutely. I but I'm gonna cut back

[00:02:53] Yeah, same and now I'm I went through this phase years ago when I first watched something lobsters because of this

[00:03:00] That's sort of a joke but also yeah a little bit. Yeah, you're from New England and you don't eat a lobster roll

[00:03:05] Yeah, I feel bad. I feel bad. So yeah, I think I'm gonna do a little shift the diet

[00:03:10] Eat some good some vegan vegetarian recipes that I can make staples in my house

[00:03:14] There's really good vegan butter. I can point in your direction cuz my wife

[00:03:18] Your wife because of all the great resources, yeah resource wise

[00:03:28] Yeah, that's the only yeah, so I might have some questions

[00:03:32] I might have to you know, meet up with her

[00:03:41] Wine and wine and vegan dine her that's right. That's right strictly for the better of the world and the planet

[00:03:50] Well, that's cool man good for more than you bargain for I would say right brain

[00:03:54] Yeah, I mean I'm interested to hear more. It's it would be I I'd have a really hard a really hard life

[00:04:01] There's no world where I could definitely not go vegan. It's it's I could give up beef if I had to yeah

[00:04:07] I could not go vegan that would be a huge leap

[00:04:11] Just a virtual impossibility. Yeah, it would be real tough out there. Yeah, where are we at with the impossible stuff?

[00:04:18] I've never even had that stuff. I've had impossible and beyond is it coming. Is it coming around the corner?

[00:04:23] It's great once it Aaron wanted to be here. You're an impart impartial

[00:04:28] I feel like I like the like a Beyond Burger or the impossible burger. Where's where's where have you had a good one?

[00:04:33] Um, I typically buy it from the grocery store and make it myself. Oh you make it yourself. There you go

[00:04:38] I mean it doesn't it tastes like

[00:04:41] It's it's infuriating how close like it

[00:04:44] It's one of those things where whenever they make like Coke zero or died

[00:04:47] Dr. Pepper tastes enough like dr. Pepper to where it tastes bad to me

[00:04:51] I'm sure I think they're trying to create the same flavor so much that I feel like I'm

[00:04:56] I just Kristen says it's good, but it's not much better for the environment due to process

[00:05:01] Oh, okay. So if the whole reason you're doing is it for the environment? That's yeah

[00:05:04] so I guess I'm on them but do in these documentaries do they tell you like hey in order for

[00:05:10] There to be a markable difference in

[00:05:13] You know the environment and whatnot. Here's how many people would need to take this leap. Do they give you those numbers?

[00:05:23] But I would

[00:05:26] Just gonna convince a few they bring their friends on board no

[00:05:30] No, but there is I'm at a point where there is talk about you know, the the number the whatever 1.5

[00:05:36] Degrees that we have to not separation. Yeah

[00:05:42] So yeah, but all you can do yes just do do your own thing and try to control your consumption

[00:05:47] I guess and Dan Cal Mitchell go

[00:05:51] Welcome to good bird. No to Kevin Bacon go. Oh Cal Mitchell. Yeah

[00:05:56] Man, that's a tough one. He was in Good Burger with

[00:06:00] Keenan Thompson. Okay

[00:06:02] Can I do SNL? Cuz then Kevin Bacon was on SNL. There you go. There's

[00:06:06] How you like me does it have to be movies or is it can you do I don't know

[00:06:09] I don't know the game. I don't know the rules. Let's talk about

[00:06:12] Branching out. I do know this this my weekend was great brain. Thanks for asking. I did hang out with you

[00:06:20] Brian this weekend, so it was actually pretty good weekend

[00:06:23] I hung out with the best Grays sure Grizzly and Gavin

[00:06:28] And then God had to come home at some point. Yeah, so I saw him there

[00:06:31] Yeah, but then why didn't you why didn't you come? I never heard a reason why you weren't there on Saturday night for game night

[00:06:36] Oh

[00:06:38] We I went to Pickens right of course. Oh, can you tell people did you stay for the husband calling?

[00:06:44] The well the huh is that what it was called husband husband calling?

[00:06:48] Husband calling contest we did not stay in the arena area for husband calling

[00:06:54] But don't you worry you could hear it throughout the entire festival now

[00:06:59] Explain husband calling go to in pickings the Azalea festival. Yes now explain husband calling because this was news to me as well I

[00:07:08] Mean I know what it is both tough for these guys

[00:07:10] So it is women get up on stage and they do their best

[00:07:15] Their best yell of how they get their husband's attention, and it's a bit like I think you would call

[00:07:21] Like a dog or something yeah, but but it always it seems because we looked up a couple videos

[00:07:27] It does seem like it starts with a with the name

[00:07:30] And then just degrading them and then the name at the at the back

[00:07:36] Come here right now. You're always so late come here now. You're always so late

[00:07:41] You big dummy

[00:07:44] The one woman that I hold one she hit an octave

[00:07:48] Oh, I didn't know humans could hear and I don't think she took a breath for like a full minute like that it just

[00:07:56] Reached the whole festival like we were a few streets away

[00:07:59] That's how pickings classes up all of their festivals

[00:08:02] That's right typically with some yelling of some sort you know the food trucks

[00:08:06] And that's kind of why I really wanted to go so was it primarily flowers food trucks

[00:08:10] And husband calling did not see a single as a lia

[00:08:14] FFH flowers food trucks and girls come running up to me with a sheet

[00:08:18] And they were like do you want to purchase some azaleas and I didn't trust anything hold on so there was an azalea festival

[00:08:24] And you didn't see any azalea that also you got it

[00:08:27] You don't you can't time when those things are gonna bloom crazy

[00:08:32] Yeah, purchase a lot I supported a lot of local businesses, so good some candles, but no like flowers to show for

[00:08:40] Smells like flowers, okay

[00:08:42] Enough that's definitely what they meant in the future I guess

[00:08:46] Strawberry cheesecake egg roll and it was a phenomenal what was that from everything egg roll

[00:08:52] Chicken mac and cheese from where where was that from from Mac attack? Oh, yeah, what's Mac? It has a new vegan

[00:08:58] I can't support that

[00:09:04] Are you're out you're out of no longer

[00:09:09] Smoking pigs and Pendleton, and it's amazing. It's probably the best

[00:09:15] Shop and I went over because they had like book themed tea blends and we got to talking they're gonna open a space here in

[00:09:24] Green office and they were like what are you doing Greenville?

[00:09:26] And I was like I work for this podcast and I told her about it and she goes

[00:09:31] Daniel and Haley and I was like not anymore not anymore

[00:09:35] We got some bad news for you

[00:09:39] them

[00:09:40] Do they want to sponsor the show?

[00:09:43] Not right now. They're I get other upstarting like a brick-and-mortar business. What better way?

[00:09:49] You think we don't have a movie review today, you know what I mean? Oh, sorry, uh branching out

[00:09:53] I also tried boiled peanuts for the first time. What'd you think they're the best? Yeah. Thank you

[00:09:58] You can live here. You're you you you can live here slimy welcome slimy wet slugs

[00:10:03] Yes, that was how you do it. That is yes, and I stand by that decision will stop again

[00:10:07] I make my own boiled peanuts or I only buy them from places on the side of the road

[00:10:10] There's only two places that I might eat vegan but boiled peanut season is actually made in November

[00:10:14] So we're getting into the season where they're gonna get really good because you can't get green peanuts

[00:10:17] Unless it's that during that time of year and that's when they're really really good

[00:10:20] Well, if you just let me know when they're really really good. I'll go out and find some

[00:10:23] I'll bring you some dance and suffer bowl

[00:10:28] Green paint I've got I've done all the research. Oh my gosh. I love I love a food

[00:10:33] I want to share it with somebody and you're making fun of me. Yeah salty slugs

[00:10:37] Oh, they're diluted or the slimy slugs is what you guys are eating. Yeah

[00:10:44] Thank you

[00:10:47] I do branching out. Thank you Aaron branching out originally aired on April 27th, 2024

[00:10:56] We get a full minute plus credit sequence to kick off this movie

[00:11:00] But it's okay because it was cool. Then we meet Amelia. Amelia is a mom who is just crushing it. She's making lunches

[00:11:08] She's putting it in a lunch tin that is most definitely not supposed to be a silhouette of Taylor Swift

[00:11:16] We then meet

[00:11:18] TJ who is supposed to be a

[00:11:21] Professional guitarist he auditions for a big tour though does not get that gig

[00:11:26] Amelia's daughter Ruby is given a family tree project. Amelia is clearly very nervous about her family

[00:11:34] She asked her teacher if she can do a different

[00:11:36] Projects and explains in great detail why she doesn't want to do this project and her teacher says sorry kid gotta do it

[00:11:43] So she gets in the car

[00:11:45] She tells her mom that she wants to try to find out more about her biological dad her mom

[00:11:51] Reluctantly shows her a piece of paper and an audio clip that she has of his donor interview

[00:11:57] That's all the information that we have to go off of Ruby

[00:12:01] Really wants to find him now that he she's seen all this information, but Amelia

[00:12:06] Explains that she can't request contact until she's 18 years old when Ruby finds out about genetic registry test

[00:12:14] She insists on taking one

[00:12:17] Amelia reluctantly agrees so a couple weeks later the results come in and Amelia privately looks at the results before

[00:12:24] She shows Ruby and she and there's one relative Sophia Cruz

[00:12:30] Which is TJ's mom she looks her up and it turns out that she runs a popular farm nearby

[00:12:36] So she goes to the farm and she sees a guy who's clearly clumsy just like Ruby

[00:12:43] She goes to talk to him and shows him at the file and he's like, how'd you get that?

[00:12:48] You have a daughter TJ's the dad and

[00:12:52] He's like I really would like to meet her

[00:12:55] So they meet and it actually goes really well

[00:12:57] They're both so excited to meet each other Ruby asked TJ to come and speak at the school

[00:13:04] For the project and he says I'll let you know he does let her know that the answer is no

[00:13:11] She's feeling a little bit overwhelmed by all this stuff, but after good kick in the pants by his dad

[00:13:16] He decides he's gonna show up last minute

[00:13:20] Afterwards Amelia is like you can't just flip-flop back and forth. You're a flip flop if you're gonna be a part of my daughter's life

[00:13:26] They start hanging out with TJ's big family

[00:13:28] Now this is a big change pace for Amelia and root and Ruby Amelia

[00:13:33] You know doesn't really have any I know had her mom

[00:13:37] But that was it dad left when she was very young and so doesn't really have much of a family

[00:13:42] So this is all very very new so things are going really well

[00:13:45] And he takes her takes Ruby to a music shop

[00:13:48] He shreds and this famous musicians manager is there and invites him to audition for a gig that's happening in town

[00:13:57] He goes to make dinner for Amelia and Ruby and tells him the big news that he got the gig

[00:14:04] They are pumped for him later that night

[00:14:09] He and Amelia end up kissing big ones

[00:14:17] Everything is cool when you find your daughter

[00:14:20] It is time for the gig and he crushes it and is offered a six

[00:14:26] month

[00:14:27] No a six on the sixth month

[00:14:31] He'll be given

[00:14:33] a

[00:14:35] What?

[00:14:37] He's offered a six month store

[00:14:39] Yeah, yeah, not a six month. Yeah, what were you doing? You said six?

[00:14:44] Yeah, yeah, I did I know what it is. He'll be given a tour on the sixth month

[00:14:48] He says yes, but is clearly conflicted about this he tells Amelia and she tries to be supportive

[00:14:54] but is clearly freaking out and

[00:14:58] She leaves with Ruby. She tells Ruby that it'd be better if they don't see TJ anymore

[00:15:03] Because clearly his lifestyle is she's just gonna be gone all the time and it's just be better this way

[00:15:08] After a good kick in the pants from her best friend

[00:15:11] She invites the family to show up last minute to Ruby's big family tree presentation

[00:15:17] They show up Ruby crushes it and afterwards TJ tells Amelia that he's got an approval to come home every two weeks on

[00:15:25] Tour even though they're gonna be in Europe. It doesn't matter. Come on

[00:15:29] Amelia is thrilled and says that she wants him to keep

[00:15:33] Seeing Ruby and I'd like to keep seeing you too

[00:15:36] And they kiss big ones in the hallway of the school for everyone to see and that my friends was

[00:15:47] Let's take a quick break and we're gonna come back and we are gonna break this me down with four segments

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[00:17:34] We're talking about branching out the final homework movie from the month of April

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[00:18:22] Let's talk about branching out

[00:18:24] Let's start with a hot take is where we share exactly how I felt about this movie and we don't hold back

[00:18:28] And I'm gonna start with you Brian Brian my vegan fellow soon to be soon to be vegan fellow vegan in training

[00:18:35] Yeah, I t. Yeah, what did you uh, what'd you think?

[00:18:39] Yeah, I thought this cast was really really good the little girl Cora Bella who played Ruby. Oh, yeah, come on phenomenal

[00:18:47] This will probably be the last time we see her

[00:18:49] She's too good for the give her the deckie and let her yeah move on. It's a world deckie right now

[00:18:55] Yeah, you good luck so good her timing

[00:18:59] Seeing like I thought she was good and then I saw her up against another kid actor in the movie and I'm like, oh

[00:19:04] Boy otherworldly good. Yes great. Yes

[00:19:08] Thomas senior are you kidding me right now that yeah that guy Wow

[00:19:12] Oh

[00:19:14] Holy cow salt and pepper eyebrows

[00:19:16] That's what she's got look forward to it Thomas junior. You're not you can be in more shit

[00:19:21] Yeah, too much jr. Doesn't look nearly as good as this guy's always age, you know, it takes him

[00:19:27] It takes a little while I feel like so I

[00:19:30] Feel like this is a one in a million maybe like one in a billion chance scenario

[00:19:36] This works out a way that it kind of trillion. Yeah hundred trillion

[00:19:41] Like you got it go full speed into this jump in this family like all on board

[00:19:47] This was great

[00:19:48] It could not be a better situation

[00:19:50] For her and for Ruby and for Thomas actually to for her to be such a good mother

[00:19:56] And for Ruby to be such a great daughter the best kid probably in the world

[00:20:01] I

[00:20:02] Think that yeah, this is the best case scenario for this

[00:20:07] Scenario like other than it'll never go this good

[00:20:10] So no in this case like this is great. I enjoyed this movie. I thought they did a really good job

[00:20:16] It was really well done. It's sort of a good PSA

[00:20:20] for people who like if you don't want to be a

[00:20:23] Parent and you're not like and you don't want to go to jail

[00:20:25] Don't do a DNA test and don't let anybody in your family do a DNA test and put it online

[00:20:30] but if you're cool with like maybe having a kid or going to jail because

[00:20:34] For whatever you've done you can submit your DNA online, but just be careful

[00:20:40] Or against these DNA comes would you ever do one? No, no this guy rejects all cookies all the time

[00:20:46] So is just you can't but the problem is there's got somebody under his mattress right now

[00:20:50] So in my dressers or next to my mattress I do can we just be really clear here and like maybe also don't commit crime

[00:20:57] Yeah, yes. Why are you sticking up for the criminals here?

[00:21:01] I'm just saying whether you did a crime or not or some of your family didn't do the crime then it won't matter

[00:21:07] That's right

[00:21:08] Somebody in your family could have done a crime and then any DNA and your family could lead the back to them

[00:21:16] Protect your criminal family criminal

[00:21:19] No, obviously the crime don't do the crime obviously you don't want to do the time

[00:21:23] But I'm just it's so dangerous because one person in your family throws it up there and it's like I'm gonna find a way

[00:21:30] No

[00:21:33] And go somehow get it in the system

[00:21:37] Mugs and trash I wear gloves everywhere my trash with me when I leave

[00:21:41] So yeah, I actually for what this I was nervous about this. I ended up actually liking this quite a good bit

[00:21:48] Yes, you're right. It is the best-case scenario

[00:21:52] There's a lot that could go wrong here and there's obviously the tough part with the guy

[00:21:57] He didn't want it. He didn't want this and you can either choose to

[00:22:02] Let there be contact or let their name in like or or not and he chose not to so obviously

[00:22:08] There's that side of it. Yeah

[00:22:10] At the same time I felt like they handled it as well as they could have with it not being like

[00:22:15] He put he didn't put his DNA to like he didn't put his DNA

[00:22:19] And like it was though the mother and she found him that way and he could have said no and so

[00:22:25] Ultimately what we're left here with is a fantastic cast and a pretty intriguing story and

[00:22:33] You put all that together and you have a movie that made me cry

[00:22:39] a movie that made me go

[00:22:42] Ruby Ruby Ruby because she's a star and

[00:22:47] A movie that might be my new favorite of the year. I had I adored this movie loved it so much

[00:22:54] Give it to me. Dano. Um, yeah

[00:22:57] I think what you've heard from both of these two guys is is that the movie's very problematic

[00:23:01] But I liked it anyway, and if that's you that's fine. I I think that there's nothing wrong with that

[00:23:06] I think if you want to enjoy all of Hallmark's movies are unrealistic and

[00:23:10] Paint a picture of something that isn't real

[00:23:13] And if you want to suspend your disbelief and enjoy a movie then great that was out of the case for me

[00:23:18] I love this cast the Ruby is unbelievable

[00:23:22] Sarah Drew and Juan Pablo de Pace are both really really great. They have amazing chemistry

[00:23:27] Maybe best chemistry of the year. This movie's very very problematic

[00:23:31] I would submit to you this movie is far better without the entire family tree DNA test

[00:23:38] Plotline is the branching out of branching out. Yes, if she just is a single mother

[00:23:43] Dad's dead and meets this guy and they fall in love and she has to deal with his like big extended family

[00:23:50] That movie is better than this movie

[00:23:53] You know, there's a lot that's very irritating about how Hallmark tries to handle this a teacher that has no sensitivity

[00:24:01] toward the identity of a kid that she knows is

[00:24:05] Absolutely a touchy subject and sensitive if my kids ever had that teacher there'd be hell to pay

[00:24:11] The complete and utter like or or heck

[00:24:13] They're the complete and utter lack of donor rights in this movie where a donor apparently doesn't have any of those rights

[00:24:21] Which is wild to me and how little they do to try to protect that

[00:24:26] How quickly these two people?

[00:24:29] Like throw everything else out and how quickly all this comes together is absurd. It's it's unfortunate and it's just not

[00:24:38] How these things work it's very very complicated very very difficult

[00:24:43] Identity is important and I think that they put identity in the backseat for the sake of a love story

[00:24:48] And so all that really bothered me. The cast is great. The chemistry is great

[00:24:53] Wish this was a better movie around them

[00:24:55] But this is a situation where Hallmark desperately wanted this story and they found the perfect people to try to pull it

[00:25:01] Off and if that worked for you, then god bless you. Happy loved it didn't didn't do it for me though

[00:25:05] I do understand what you're saying about it being better without the branching out

[00:25:08] But I also think that it was an intriguing angle of which the wats done been done a lot

[00:25:15] So like I like that. Here's the thing is there's a scene in this movie that made you cry where she basically unveils her her

[00:25:22] Family tree and there's all these roots and she's like it's messy, but it's worth it and that scene for you

[00:25:28] worked for me

[00:25:30] Came off as like you just it like this movie is the least messy thing I've ever seen in my life

[00:25:37] It couldn't be cleaner. Like Brian said one in a billion is kind here. This is the opposite of messy

[00:25:44] The message that she is giving in that in that scene is the opposite of the message

[00:25:49] The movie is having you believe and so for me

[00:25:53] Unfortunately that took away from it

[00:25:55] For you and I'm happy for you

[00:25:57] But for me for her to sit up there and go look at all these roots because they're messy

[00:26:01] No, no, no for the last hour and 20 minutes. You told me just how easy this was

[00:26:05] I I just that that was killer for me, but I if it worked for you work for you

[00:26:09] I understand what you're saying. Yeah, it's time for all the fields where we talk about what this movie gave us those feels

[00:26:13] Right. Yeah, she did something

[00:26:15] When she did I feel like most of us have done I do this all the time

[00:26:19] She got an email on her phone and she went to her computer to read it

[00:26:24] Because that's what you do with important emails, you don't respond and read them on your phone I get something

[00:26:29] I'm like all the fields. Yeah, this is my feels because I will do this

[00:26:33] I will get an email and I'll be like you

[00:26:36] Oh boy

[00:26:36] I've been waiting for this and I'll open up my laptop and I'll deal with it on the laptop

[00:26:39] Because that's where you deal with him. Are you serious right now? Oh, yeah vegans. You don't want this

[00:26:44] Oh, yeah, you don't want him

[00:26:46] Just like that. I feel yes all the time that you get an email

[00:26:51] Oh, you go I gotta I can't process this if I read it on my phone

[00:26:55] Yeah, I got a respect of the putting sitting down and opening up the laptop. Yeah

[00:27:01] Yeah

[00:27:02] You don't think it had anything to do with the fact that it included a link to a website that might be better viewed on

[00:27:08] That's what I'm saying like that. You give it the respect it deserves

[00:27:10] What's in the email like she could have seen was in the email?

[00:27:13] It might have been like a link in the email, right wasn't it in the email?

[00:27:16] Yeah, but all I'm saying is you don't know how she handles all big emails

[00:27:21] This one was going to be a link to a website, right?

[00:27:32] That all big emails yeah regardless of link or not see the subject you're like I can't do this right now

[00:27:37] Yes, if I can if I have my stuff with me. Yeah, I would prefer to sit there open that big screen up

[00:27:43] Yeah

[00:27:44] Get comfy it's like man. I could go ahead and find out this news right now

[00:27:48] No, so where's my laptop when Dan's wife emails you vegan recipes recipes? Yes computer or phone?

[00:27:56] All of computer because then I can sort of I can look at multiple things so I can have some space and yeah

[00:28:01] yeah, when I when I

[00:28:04] send you the

[00:28:06] the the code for this with what the

[00:28:10] Dome or dot-com slash shop code branch yeah, and what the the deal is gonna be yeah email

[00:28:16] The computer or phone what do I have to do with it? Just kind of look at just look

[00:28:20] Find out what the deal. Oh, I'll do that email. I mean what does that mean?

[00:28:24] You want my phone oh, yeah

[00:28:30] Vanessa dial is opening up the

[00:28:35] Dial is opening up the newsletter

[00:28:38] She went to the computer

[00:28:40] She saw her name she covered her mouth shocked and she said I gotta go check this out investigate this but I just like I I

[00:28:48] Understand wanting like if it's if it's an email that I'm gonna have to respond to and get thought to or something

[00:28:53] I can say that's what I'm saying in the chat even looking at it. No you see the notification

[00:29:01] Boy, I'm open up the computer for this

[00:29:04] You're wrong no you've backed yourself into a corner ridiculous

[00:29:08] No, but summer in the chats like hey if if I have to type a response sure that's different

[00:29:14] I if there's any email that requires more than two lines. I'm going to type it

[00:29:20] That's not what this is yeah, I'm gonna wait to hear news or read something important

[00:29:24] You get the things you know waiting for a long time and you're gonna have the restraints to go into the other room

[00:29:30] Yeah, dude crazy

[00:29:33] If I know I have like action, I don't have the restraint to do that

[00:29:37] I see the late and I'm immediately opening that email like yeah, yeah, and that's why I mean

[00:29:41] I don't say I'm better. I think you guys I wish I were more like that

[00:29:44] I bet I just might not be oldest of the three of us, and I think Brian's just showing his age

[00:29:48] Yeah, this is just like open up the computer. I just got to get up to my

[00:29:53] Online that's right

[00:29:55] You put it on the line. Yeah

[00:29:58] My feels is is

[00:30:01] we've had

[00:30:02] You know maybe a handful of of underwhelming performances this year

[00:30:08] Not in this movie Ruby is a star yeah

[00:30:12] Amazing performance her first actual full-length credit the only other credit on her IMDB is a short

[00:30:19] Yeah, and so this kid has a future was fantastic in this movie

[00:30:23] and so much of this movie relied on the kid and their excitement and their persistence and

[00:30:29] And

[00:30:31] Not just any kid could have gotten this and pulled it off and so shout out to Ruby Congrats on your first role

[00:30:38] You knocked out of the park in then Ruby was great. I love a case of area taco

[00:30:44] They make those in this movie case of beer tacos wonderful cast is great. That's all I got

[00:30:49] It's time for it. It's to be great

[00:30:52] It's time for

[00:30:54] It

[00:31:03] What's up, we're back we're talking about

[00:31:06] Branching out and we're going to do something crazy. We're gonna branch out as well

[00:31:11] our third segments

[00:31:12] The wait what it is where we talk about one of the two minutes go away

[00:31:15] What and I'm gonna do a branch out on over to Brian Brian that brand look at us branching out

[00:31:20] I got nervous near the end of this movie because I didn't have any way what's and then thankfully we got to the concert

[00:31:27] All right, I was like few because I was just just a downpour hit me I stuck with two so

[00:31:34] It's a family and friends

[00:31:37] Showcase type of thing a two-hour show. Yeah, are you kidding me?

[00:31:43] Break a 30 minute break and then a 15 minute on core. Are you kidding me hours? Holy cow

[00:31:48] I heard that it kind of went over my head and then I sat that I'm like

[00:31:52] Wait a second like this is ridiculous because that the intermission and encore time isn't included

[00:31:58] If it is then the timing doesn't make sense, but they play for an hour

[00:32:01] Yes, 30 they do an intermission 30 minute break and then they play for another hour hour

[00:32:06] And then they do a 15 minute on core. Yeah, that is two hours and 15 minutes. It's 245. That's too much

[00:32:12] No openers. Yeah, that's way too much

[00:32:15] And then when he's performing he did this a very bold move as a backup went over to the singers mic

[00:32:21] And sang into the lead singer's mic, which I don't feel like you can do that. Yeah

[00:32:26] So you have to be a permanent part of the band in order to do that

[00:32:31] founder something

[00:32:32] Holy cow, you know, like like, you know, I don't know like it with you too

[00:32:37] Like if they brought in a guest Oh

[00:32:42] Get out of here you can't do that

[00:32:44] Get on out unless you're what is it their guitar?

[00:32:47] Edge

[00:32:49] Get out of course, I mean this guy he's got two names

[00:32:52] The edge. Yeah, so that was a little ridiculous. Uh, and that's kind of it. I have a few one

[00:33:00] Y'all we have to get this girl a guitar case

[00:33:04] She's running around willy-nilly throwing in the backs of your car in case inspiration strikes and I get it

[00:33:11] Sometimes you want to play your guitar when you're on the way home from school

[00:33:13] You've got some thoughts you want to get it out there but we just gotta take care of this sucker

[00:33:18] It's gonna it because that's in the back seat of mom's car all day. She hasn't taken into school with her

[00:33:23] It's just whip it all around that the top of it is hitting up against the sides

[00:33:27] We got to get this girl a case. It's reckless and I just want her to have a long

[00:33:33] Career as a as a musician and it's gonna be tough when you're buying guitars every couple days

[00:33:37] I'm

[00:33:38] There isn't just it's just weird and I don't know if this happens on a regular basis

[00:33:43] And I've just noticed it because of who is featured prominently but we get a close-up of

[00:33:50] Amelia's nightstand and there's an alarm clock. There's a stack of books and the

[00:33:55] Book that stuck out to me all of us was a book by Dave Ramsey for to the show

[00:34:02] and

[00:34:05] Why why I feel like typically they don't like feature real books or they only see twice

[00:34:12] Yeah, yeah, or they only feature like, you know, like public domain stuff or something. This is like Dave Ramsey's

[00:34:19] Big book. I don't remember what it's called Dave Ramsey's fun time with monies or not fun times with money

[00:34:24] I spit on poor people. Yeah, and so that's the subtitle and so I first of all encouraged to see that she had

[00:34:32] Money in her book envelope to buy that book

[00:34:35] But also just it just took me out of it for a second. Yeah, that's Dave Ramsey's book

[00:34:42] What a weird shout out did he pay for that? Did it come out of the Dave Ramsey's advertising envelope?

[00:34:49] I don't know

[00:34:51] But I would like to put it back in the envelope and wish that didn't happen

[00:34:54] I don't think she'd read the book based upon how she treated everyone with respect

[00:35:02] That

[00:35:03] Was my that was my cue

[00:35:05] She had not read the Dave Ramsey book as it seemed like it didn't matter your socioeconomic status or your gender

[00:35:10] She treated everyone with the same level of respect and courtesy. So there's that

[00:35:15] She also seemed to give generously. So I mean there was two reasons that I felt like probably wasn't read

[00:35:21] It's good to be back

[00:35:24] Guys this school

[00:35:27] Needs to have a meeting ASAP

[00:35:31] Reason being

[00:35:32] My guy shows up at this school during school hours

[00:35:37] Opens up the door runs in run straight to the classroom

[00:35:43] Meaning

[00:35:44] Anyone could do that

[00:35:46] anyone

[00:35:47] Good or bad intentions could open up this school door and run straight through the hallway and into any classroom that he wants to

[00:35:54] Doesn't need to check in doesn't need to be buzzed and doesn't need anything

[00:35:57] There's no you can just go on and schools already started you

[00:36:03] Run down the hallway of a school. Yeah. Yeah

[00:36:10] He somehow knows where her classroom is

[00:36:15] He knows the exact classroom yeah, she's in he's known her for like five days

[00:36:21] It is crazy. No security. No ID check. No nothing. I couldn't get to my kids classroom

[00:36:27] The fact that this gentleman has the element the local elementary school

[00:36:32] You wait a second you can get to your kid. You could not get I don't think I could I could for sure

[00:36:36] Yeah, absolutely that I could um, but you know, the fact that he has the elementary school mapped out is a problem, right?

[00:36:43] I think he doesn't have any kids. I know we're one of anybody in that school. That's an issue

[00:36:48] Sheesh last but not least they are waiting, you know, he's talking to Amelia and Ruby before the big concert and

[00:36:55] He hears a

[00:36:58] Vroom like a big guitar strum and he goes that's my cue

[00:37:03] The the cue the cue that the show is about to start is someone

[00:37:08] Doing a big strum on again his instrument. He's the guitar player

[00:37:13] So did someone go up and give his guitar a big strum?

[00:37:16] Is it a sound from the back of the room that they had queued up? Hey man, like two minutes to showtime

[00:37:21] Can you just press the big guitars drum button thing sound guy?

[00:37:25] Very weird that that's the cue. Do you typically just like a little light dim or whatever? Well, is it that's enough?

[00:37:31] Yeah, but not here not not at this show Dana. I don't have any left. Those are two of my big ones

[00:37:38] She Sarah Drew when the first time she meets Juan Pablo de Pace his character

[00:37:43] She has the blue donor folder

[00:37:45] It has a picture of him as a baby and it has the word donor on it and she hands it to him

[00:37:51] And says is this you and he reads it and says yeah, that's me. What's this about?

[00:38:00] What do you think it could possibly be about?

[00:38:03] She has your sperm donor

[00:38:06] Folder she has it. What do you think? It's just like a subpoena to go to court

[00:38:11] Do you think it's a voter census this is only one thing this could possibly be about

[00:38:17] My one of the big things about my family committed a crime could be that

[00:38:24] One of my big issues with this movie that isn't IVF related is the fact that this guy is

[00:38:31] Never on an even playing field with Sarah Drew from a standpoint of capital like he literally cannot do any wrong and

[00:38:39] Not in the way that like Tyler Hines can't because he's Tyler Hines

[00:38:43] They've made a Tyler Hines character flawed before this guy was a donor

[00:38:49] knew he didn't have to be a father wasn't planning on being a father and

[00:38:53] Can just say no to everything and they the movie kind of spins its wheels trying to get him

[00:39:01] to be

[00:39:03] Bad to be like something that he's not like you're a flip-flopper or your whatever

[00:39:07] Like this guy going on tour was an inevitability and you didn't mention it actually

[00:39:12] I don't think but no tour where you're the traveling musician is gonna let you come home every two weeks from Europe

[00:39:18] It's just not gonna have I want the homework. Yeah. Yeah, it's just not gonna happen brand

[00:39:21] I'll talk more about it later. Sorry, um, and then lastly she Sarah drew

[00:39:27] Waits until she's walking in the classroom

[00:39:31] for her kids

[00:39:34] Family tree project to send out a group text. Hey, I know it's late last minutes, but if you can make it that would be awesome

[00:39:41] Okay, that's not last minute last minute would be that morning

[00:39:44] You've invited them after the thing has already started or it's about to start and second of all that's bad

[00:39:49] That's bad, but they all make it they all see that like it's the bat signal and are it's like a couple of them

[00:39:56] Made it they all made it

[00:39:58] They were within under a half an hour from dressed and at this school in the classroom very impressive that's all I got

[00:40:06] It is time for

[00:40:09] What the homer it's where one of it could have been maybe I'm gonna

[00:40:12] Brown what he's still wondering about. Yeah, my big wonder throughout this movie was the family and like what is their deal?

[00:40:19] This farm is incredible

[00:40:22] What's the deal with it they have

[00:40:25] Cabins, it looks like on like a little pond like a man-made pond or a lake. They have the store

[00:40:30] Obviously, there's probably other like pick your own whatever this what is so like founded a popular farmers market

[00:40:37] I'm on a table type whole a co-op or something like I need some more info on they seem so clearly doing very well

[00:40:44] Yes

[00:40:45] Great incredibly successful and just agree like where they had the party all the food

[00:40:50] The layout that everything was incredible. So I don't know

[00:40:54] I hope it's all in the up and up like this family farm is incredible

[00:40:59] It better be because somebody somebody put their DNA out there just never know

[00:41:02] I just I would love to hear more about that origin story and how they grew that business cuz that that it's impressive

[00:41:09] Yeah

[00:41:10] Danny mentioned it but obviously him being able to come home every two weeks is

[00:41:15] Crazy I know in the world in which we live in everybody thinks that what Taylor Swift does is the norm

[00:41:21] Where she does weekend tours and just like galavance around

[00:41:26] Going to Super Bowls and stuff

[00:41:28] I it's just not normal and they mentioned that part of it part of the tours a European tour and

[00:41:34] Like there's a reason why American artists don't go to Europe all the time and it's because it's expensive

[00:41:40] And it's and it's complex and it's confusing and when you do it you freaking grind you are put it doing so much work

[00:41:47] You're putting doing so many shows. You don't just get the time. No, it's impossible just do whatever and so

[00:41:54] This artist is popular is famous is a big deal. Everyone's very excited about it

[00:42:01] He's not Taylor Swift

[00:42:02] And so this whole leaving every two weeks to come home unless it is for a day

[00:42:07] And if so not worth it on his end

[00:42:11] Is just crazy. How does it work?

[00:42:15] What is the the actual game plan here because it seems like something you say to something like yeah, man

[00:42:21] We'll make that work and in the back

[00:42:24] But whatever they would have just gone with a different guitar. Yes, absolutely. That's all that's the big thing

[00:42:29] Yeah, this is a guy they've never worked with before calls in fact

[00:42:32] We like you a lot but like I was saying when he when he called in he was like hey

[00:42:37] I have a couple of stipulations. I told Dan the only stipulation that would make sense is

[00:42:42] Hey, like during summer vacation, can they come out on the road with yeah

[00:42:45] That is one of those things where it's like it's not ideal to have extra people on the road

[00:42:49] But whatever we'll do it great. We'll see how it goes and by summertime

[00:42:54] Maybe it's not good enough. Maybe we can fire whatever

[00:42:58] This is crazy. Yeah every two weeks you get to come home nuts. Oh Dan

[00:43:02] The two questions I have to ask aren't great

[00:43:05] Nobody wants to think about him, but they're both there number one. How many kids does this guy have?

[00:43:11] How many kids does he has it a one and done donation time?

[00:43:14] No, he needed money. Yeah, and at $100 per donation

[00:43:18] I don't think it was a one and done the guy needed money

[00:43:20] How many kids does he have wandering around out there one and two have I got a Vince Vaughn movie for you?

[00:43:26] Yes, if

[00:43:28] Juan Pablo De Paz and Sarah Drew break up

[00:43:31] The amount of trauma for poor Ruby is unimaginable. It is like a divorce on steroids

[00:43:37] It'll be great for her music career though. It would be great for music career

[00:43:41] terrible for her life and her mental health it is

[00:43:45] Just like the pressure for those two to stay together is

[00:43:50] Not manageable

[00:43:52] So those are my two questions. Hey, did you mention that her best friend says daddy was a Rolling Stone?

[00:43:57] Yes, instead of Papa was right and I didn't mention it but instead of saying Papa was a Rolling Stone

[00:44:03] Her for her best friend says when she died he was a Rolling Stone was a Rolling Stone Yikes Yikes of Bikes

[00:44:10] Got those moves like Jagger

[00:44:13] Brian we've come to the part of the show

[00:44:16] Where you bless us?

[00:44:19] By doing a super deep dive on one of the double deckers. We call it double decker of the week

[00:44:24] It's a it's a it's a great time because you've been given the keys to the kingdom so to speak and that kingdom is

[00:44:31] Google Plus, that's right

[00:44:37] That's why this took so long

[00:44:41] But Brian you find out so much about our double deckers whether they want you to or not

[00:44:45] You relay that information to us into the world and I can't wait to see who we got today

[00:44:50] Who do we have my best effort here it's Danielle van Skyock

[00:44:56] Danielle von Skyock, let's go with that. Yeah mine. I would this whole time feel silly

[00:45:02] I was going with Danielle van Scotch and Scotch. I don't know how you got to Scotch from there, but

[00:45:06] The Scotch maybe that's why I took me longer to find the information. Yeah. Yeah, it was a deep

[00:45:11] There's a really is a deeper dive in normal. Super deep dive. I feel like I should get overtime pay for this one

[00:45:17] This so Danielle's been working on Dan a brand you're big in the game shows lately

[00:45:21] Right and Danielle's trying to push a new idea for a game show, right?

[00:45:26] And you've heard of is it cake we all love is it we don't love it. Yeah

[00:45:31] Yeah, we don't love it the show. Yeah, that show seems miserable

[00:45:34] I've seen previews and I'm like, I'm done. It's fun to watch with the kids. So she's

[00:45:39] She didn't she like the not the Netflix version but another version of the show

[00:45:45] Josh Groban hosted one for Roku. Yeah for Roku. That's right

[00:45:48] I would just say it's fun in small doses

[00:45:51] But maybe don't spend your entire day binge watching all the seasons at once. No will start to question

[00:46:04] So Danielle's got up she's onto something something new here it's in that vein and it's a little game show called super

[00:46:12] soup or

[00:46:14] What it is is it super

[00:46:16] Or something else or something else. Yes, and it's just called super super super super

[00:46:22] Yeah, super like ellipses super ellipses. Mm-hmm. Okay. Mm-hmm

[00:46:26] So like give me an example

[00:46:28] It's all like it would be you'd be on the panel right your soup is like is a liquid base

[00:46:34] It's harder than it's hard like is it porridge or stew? Like it is soup liquid

[00:46:38] How do you fool somebody into how do you say is it not like how is it? Just like got him?

[00:46:43] It's chilly. It's it's no

[00:46:46] Tricky because it's all it all appears to be the liquid

[00:46:50] Appears to have a soup consistency, but sometimes it's it's not they're high mistaken at bad. Sometimes they're hiding

[00:46:57] No, they would never they wouldn't it's like you'll open it. You'll you have to

[00:47:01] Taste it obviously you sample it and sometimes it's actual soup

[00:47:04] And sometimes this is like something else and you a spoon or not if it was a soup. Well, you know, it's a liquid

[00:47:12] Soup but it could be soup

[00:47:14] Gatorade in a bowl and they're like is this soup? Yeah

[00:47:18] for example, they would say like for example, this bowl is a

[00:47:22] woodpecker and you would say

[00:47:25] Okay, that's either a woodpecker in there

[00:47:27] Saving my cream soup. I write that one down here. I I gotta be on

[00:47:32] Are you like I was there and then you brought up woodpecker. It could be anything

[00:47:37] No, but it could be inside there instead of there being

[00:47:42] More sense for it to be

[00:47:44] You look at it and you have to decide whether or not that soup or it's like another liquid that they've made to look like soup

[00:47:50] Instead of a solid object like no, I think there's a dead bird in the water

[00:47:55] We don't know if it's dead. It's under water Brian

[00:47:59] Good underwater woodpeckers cannot breathe underwater

[00:48:01] You don't have gills

[00:48:05] Here you only underwater for like a minute they

[00:48:08] Under there real quick behind the curtain. They think of birds holding its breath for a minute. I gotta be honest

[00:48:14] It's gonna be doing a little flap in but yeah, it's gonna hold this

[00:48:17] It's got no choice very interesting for literally

[00:48:24] Today is a bowl of liquid is there a bird under there drowning slowly and soup Oh

[00:48:31] Brian

[00:48:45] Important detail, but now we're here

[00:48:53] Seeing as how you were so bad at describing it to us. I can't wait to hear how you describe it as the host

[00:48:58] Okay, so

[00:49:07] We have three bowls and you have to decide do we have soup or

[00:49:13] Something else. Well, not see my shirt off though. I could have a shirt one of those bowls

[00:49:17] Brent what's in?

[00:49:20] What's in bowl number one

[00:49:28] Thank you

[00:49:38] We pause the clip for three great you didn't tell me the bowls talk this

[00:49:44] So much had I known that the bowls talked I didn't want to talk it up too much

[00:49:50] This show seems so little to do with soup soup so little or soup or

[00:49:58] Emphasis on the or the bowl's time, but it could be a voiceover

[00:50:02] You don't know if it's the bowl or somebody pretend to be that second bowl was the Kool-Aid man

[00:50:07] So is it could that could be soup?

[00:50:11] Did someone try to kill you in that episode some of the crowds

[00:50:14] I

[00:50:18] Hope you die

[00:50:21] Yeah

[00:50:23] Find these episodes. This is all it's

[00:50:26] Philo, obviously you could probably we're pushing hard to get file it up. Oh, so I'll have it. No, we're pushing

[00:50:33] It's mostly internet-based

[00:50:36] Okay, then let us know where on the internet a website

[00:50:40] Called just is it

[00:50:43] Soup or a voice of somebody else thought net slash index

[00:50:50] You gotta get the index you gotta work on that. You gotta work on that. We'll get to it. Thank you

[00:50:55] Yeah, that was great. We're back tomorrow with another one until they may be the first wish you a Merry Christmas

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[00:51:36] I mean you're listening to me. Hi, but here they come I promise they're coming. Yep. Here they are

[00:51:41] Happy day