Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (2024) ft. Alonso Duralde

[00:00:00] Hi, I'm Bran and I love Little Art House indie Christmas movies. I'm Dan and I despise Little Art House indie Christmas movies. I'm Alonso and I'm at the point of no return and for me there'll be no turning back. And this is the Deck The Hallmark Podcast. Deck The Hallmark, it's this podcast. My friends host this podcast.

[00:00:28] We hope you like this jolly podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hi everybody. Ah, yes. It's the episode that's the double-deckers that everybody's been waiting for. Yes. Christmas Eve in Millers Point. When are you going to get to it? And now we have.

[00:00:51] I would say not counting the acclaimed podcast, a film and a movie that Daniel and I did for this network. This is the first time we've talked about a movie that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Wow. Wow. There you go. Man, just a hunch. Really? Yeah. You're telling me that Unicorn Christmas Hulu movie didn't go to game? I was out of competition. Out of competition. Yeah. It was like the small stage at a festival, you know? Yeah.

[00:01:19] It's like, you got to go past the big tent, down the hill. That's right. It's powered by a generator, but it's there. It's punk rock. That's right. It's awesome. That's exactly right. Hi, Alonzo. It's great to see you, buddy. Howdy, sir. Loving the new studio. Congratulations. Thank you. Thanks so much. We can't wait for you to come and visit us. Very soon. Yeah. A few months. Very excited. Very excited. And of course, if you're not watching on Philo, you're missing on all of the new updates.

[00:01:49] Yeah. Look at it all. Look at that. Look at it all. A painted mural where we don't have to deal with TVs or curtain rods or anything. It's just there. A little dabby. I'm understanding that's a four for two over there. What's the horse? Oh, the horse. Of course. I get it. I said it. Did you say horse? Yes. There's also, there's a chance that's also Dominic the donkey. I don't know. I think it could go either way. Yeah, true. Oh, there's a horse up there. That's a horse. That's Dominic the donkey. Oh, okay. Yeah.

[00:02:20] Got it. I see someone's pants. Yeah. I think it's my pants. A Pop-Tart. Two peppermint mochas. That's right. It's all there, everybody. It's all there. Don't worry. Do you have anything for the people that you'd like to say before we dive in? Oh, wow. You know, it's a great time to reread the Declaration of Independence, as it turns out. So relevant. Yeah. That's actually what we're going to do today instead of talking about Christmas Eve.

[00:02:49] When in the course of human events. We're talking Christmas Eve in Miller's Point. It did premiere at some little festival somewhere. Cannies, I believe. Cannies. Yes, I believe. It's a fried chicken joint, right? Raising candies. Yes. And they also do a film. They open at the parking lot and they're on projection. And they do women's shoes. They have an Epson projection. Now, you, Josh, but I don't hate this idea. A festival in a chicken.

[00:03:18] Ooh, the Raising Cane's Film Festival. Oh, my God. Dude, they should 100% do that. I'm going to email. It's great. I'm going to email. They're throwing money in the tree. The only qualification is that the movie at some point has to have chicken. I love. It doesn't have to be for very long. It doesn't have to be the central point of your film, but it has to have in some way or form. At least a cameo of chicken. Yeah, my short film premiered at Zaxby's. That's where it premiered. It was a Zaxby's premiere. It was well received. I won the standing ovation. I won the Zaxby's film festival. I won the 11 minutes.

[00:03:49] I won the tender to Zax. It was good. It was a big night for me. It was a big night on my first try, nonetheless. Amazing. It was unbelievable. The prix de sauce. That's right. Yeah, of course. What was it about? I didn't know. You know what? You got to see it. Okay. I don't want to. You can't. It's not even something you can explain. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Similar, actually, to Christmas Stephen Miller's point. I'm going to talk about it. I'm going to do my best. And it's going to be a lot of fun. Originally at the festival and then November 8th, 2024, everywhere else.

[00:04:19] And it went a little something like this. We meet the Balsano family. They are all getting together at the old family home. It is a big family, a big, big house, big, big table. That's right. That's exactly right. Complete with dads talking about how robots are going to be running the world soon. We get bacon. We get grandma. We get kids playing video games with controllers that are still connected via a wire.

[00:04:48] It's a wonderful time. We see in the basement there is a for sale sign that has kind of been put in the corner, tucked away for no one to find. They all rush outside to cheer as fire trucks go by a little Christmas Eve parade down the street. They're all decked out in Christmas lights. And, of course, Santa Claus is there. Afterwards, we find out that not only are they secretly selling the house, but it is already done.

[00:05:17] It is done. They come back inside. They eat dinner as a family, do some toast. They do Secret Santa. And as the rest of the family sits down to watch some old home videos, two teenage girls, Emily and Michelle, sneak out to hang out with some of their teenage friends. They speed down the road and we see some two police officers doing going full speed gun mode on them on Christmas Eve. But they don't care.

[00:05:46] It's Christmas Eve. Let them go. Christmas Eve. Exactly right. They meet up with other teenagers at a diner and then they go and they get some beers, some beers. And one of the dumb boys ends up throwing one of the beers. It lands on a windshield in the parking lot. That's going to come back later. The cops show up, but they are too busy talking about their hypothetical feelings for one another to really do anything about the shattered windshield.

[00:06:15] The teenagers scatter and they go to the makeout point. Christmas Eve at makeout point. That's exactly right. We're one by one. They pair off. I guess two by two, if you will. It's the art. And they go back to cars and they do what you do at makeout points. Listen to music on the radio. That's exactly right. Just kind of like look at each other. Emily grabs her bag of bagels and heads home as one of the family members falls asleep at the piano.

[00:06:42] And that, my friends, was Christmas Eve at Miller's Point. We did it. Highlight of my week. Bran writing a synopsis for Christmas Eve at Miller's Point. I don't think I haven't been looking forward to that all year. Oh, my. The idea that this movie demands a brand synopsis. Basically. Yeah. I think I did pretty good, all things considered. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and we'll break this movie down here on Tech the Hallmark.

[00:07:18] Welcome back, everybody. We're talking about Christmas Eve at Miller's Point. We are still in the midst of tackling some movies that we missed from 2024. Let's break this one down. We're going to start with the hot tag. We're going to share exactly how we felt about this movie. Alonzo, you were the one that recommended that we cover this movie. It was a movie that I missed during the 2024 season. So I'm excited to talk about it. What did you think of Christmas Eve at Miller's Point, Alonzo? Well, you know, I've written a book about Christmas movies.

[00:07:47] Well, you've written more than one, Alonzo. I don't say it's all short. Hey, you got one coming out soon. Yes. Funny you should mention it. Yes. Have yourself a movie for Christmas. New, expanded, and revised edition coming out this fall. And so I think people think that I just like any movie that is about Christmas. And obviously anybody who watches this program knows that some I do, some I don't. You know, it's like anything else. I have my standards.

[00:08:13] But this one made my top 10 list of 2024, which is, I think, the first time I've ever put a Christmas movie of that year on my top 10 list of that year. I freaking love this movie. I just think it's such a beautiful mood piece, you know? It's the kind of movie that people like say, well, nothing happens. But I think if you're paying attention to it, a lot is happening. There's a lot that's going on. And it's about the way that we remember things.

[00:08:42] Like there's so many moments in this movie where you see people experiencing a moment that you know they're going to carry with them just forever, whether it's a little kid, whether it's an old person, whether it's the dog looking out the window and suddenly seeing a deer in the yard, you know? I just think this is extraordinary. And the first time I watched it, I couldn't, I wasn't sure like who everybody was or what was going on or where it was going to go.

[00:09:09] But the moment it was over, I burst into tears because I just, the cumulative effect of it. And part of that is because, you know, I come from a big family. Like I recognize that house and those people and, you know, that sort of what Christmas is looking like that. But I just think it's beautifully evocative. And I love the look of it, which we'll get into. Yeah. I just love, love, love this movie. I'm so glad we're finally getting to talk about it. Let's go to Bran.

[00:09:39] I did not like this movie. I think I'm one of those people that Alonzo was talking about. That's like, when's the movie? When's it going to start? I'll say this about this movie. Beautifully shot. Amazing scenery. Lots of Christmas. It is something that I would put on for vibes. You know, maybe turn the volume down, turn the music up. Just have good vibes. Great vibes.

[00:10:08] It's just not my thing. This, whatever it is, it is not for me. I did not cry. I did chuckle a couple of times or a couple of funny moments. But I don't like it when I am watching a movie and I just am like, I don't, I feel like. Is this movie making fun of me? Yes. I literally said to Dan, I don't think I'm smart enough to watch this.

[00:10:36] I watch this movie and I say, I don't, I feel like everybody else is in on a joke. I feel like I am. I walk into a room and everybody's talking about how good this is. And I'm like, I think I missed it all. And so it is what it is. That's where I'm at with this one. Beautiful scenery. Some really cool choices with camera work and all of that. But overall, a miss for me as far as the movie goes.

[00:11:04] Well, Bran, if it makes you feel any better, Dave White takes me to movies all the time where at the end of it, I'm like, I don't, what the, and my first instinct is like, am I the dummy here? Yes. But I think, I think there are some movies that you have to just sort of like sit on for a while, maybe come back to. And, you know, like if you were to ever watch this movie again, like actively and not just as a background thing, I think knowing going in what it is and how it unfolds, you would

[00:11:33] be receptive to, for taking it on as it is. I think that we, we so often go into movies like looking for the clues and looking for the, okay, this is what the story is going to be. And this is how, you know, this character is going to later turn out to be this other thing. And, and sometimes you have to sort of let a movie kind of wash over you and just take in the mood of it, take in the feeling of it, which I think this film is doing. And so if you didn't get that the first time, that's fine.

[00:12:02] Because I think we're not conditioned as American moviegoers for this kind of story. But I bet you a couple of years from now, if you were to give this another shot, knowing, having seen the whole thing now and knowing what you, what to expect, I think it would hit harder for you. Okay. I also immediately, when he said, maybe I'm not smart enough, I said, this is, you're very smart. It's just, this is not brand visually accessing this.

[00:12:27] That's not where he is going to spend his, he's here for the Christmas feels and of a very specific nature. And that specific nature is Fred Claus. It's, it's decked, it's decked the halls. It's jingle all the way. He can't. But I'm also like, I'm not somebody who needs a ton of stuff to be going on in order to keep me entertained. I just felt, I didn't feel like it just didn't feel like a full unit to me, even though it just, I didn't feel like we were going anywhere and it meandered to me, to me, we weren't going

[00:12:57] anywhere. I will say this. This is, this is quite a marvel of a movie. I, it is, it is, it's a really good movie. I don't know if it's one I would watch regularly. Um, but you know, there's a saying in math that you can't extrapolate from a single data point. So if you have one point in time where something happens, that doesn't mean if you had a car accident in one day, you wouldn't have a car accident every day. It's dumb to extrapolate from a single data point.

[00:13:26] This movie tries to let you access people's souls and lives from one data point. That's what it does. And it does it, I would say amazingly well until the kids sneak off. Once the kids sneak off, I was less invested in the meandering than I was before the kids sneak off. But you get kind of this weird inward glancing look at the soul of a kid under 10 of teenagers

[00:13:54] of 20 somethings, 30 somethings, really all the way up through however old the grandmys. Um, they're all at a specific stage of life experiencing the same events with different memories, which is a very much what Christmas is. And so there's some very poignant moments in the movie. There's some, some moments that are really sad, like really sad of someone who's just getting so incredibly drunk because he just thinks it's all over.

[00:14:21] He thinks his best years are behind him and it's all over some really funny moments, a prayer that doesn't end. That's very, very funny. Um, and so what the movie does is, is it goes actually, instead of showing you, uh, a movie that takes place in any more time than a few hours, here's your data point. But I've given you a lot of different lives that are a lot of different points in their life. And so where you are, you can kind of hook in and connect with that person.

[00:14:49] And then all the people that came before you and then start to try to extrapolate how you would get to where the people are that are older than you, if that makes sense. So it does all that with great Christmas vibes. Now we, we do a Christmas movie review podcast of mostly TV Christmas movies that are 83 minutes long when the, there's some great scenes when the kids sneak out and meet a bunch of other teenagers who I guess in Long Island, every kid sneaks out on Christmas Eve. Uh, and they have some hijinks.

[00:15:17] And I, I, I, I think that there's a point to that. I didn't like that. I was missing the house. I found myself missing the cramped nature of this house with all of these people in it. And so it did lose steam for me in the last 35 minutes or so. Uh, and I was not as, as jazzed to be locked in as I was in the first hour, but, um, it's an experience. It's not, I don't know if it's a movie like Santa Claus or Elf or it's a wonderful life

[00:15:44] that I'm going to turn on every year, but I'm glad I watched it. I'm glad I watched it. I'm glad we did it. And, uh, you know, so there's that stuff for all the fields where we talk about what in this movie gives feels. I'll start with you, Alonzo. Oh man, a bunch of stuff. Uh, the ones that I think hit me the hardest, this most recent viewing, um, the guy who is watching the, at one point the family gathers to watch like old VHS cassettes, which is so like my family, it's slides.

[00:16:12] My dad took a gajillion slides while he was alive. And so whenever we get together in Atlanta, it's like the slides come out and we, you know, so when they're all watching the VHS cassettes and the guy whose wife is dead is watching their wedding. Yeah. The look on his face is just like, ah, um, the, and actually the other is about the same guy who is a kind of closet frustrated novelist.

[00:16:39] And somebody finds a chapter of his book and they start reading it out loud as a way to mock him, but then everybody realizes, oh wait, this is really good. And so like that, the way that scene pivots, but also the, what he's writing about is so much about what this movie is about in terms of memory. And like, this is going to be, this is the last Christmas. They're all going to be together in that house. And that house is already sort of steeped in this nostalgia in that, like the music is all from previous decades, whether it's Christmas or not.

[00:17:09] And, and like, you know, it's, it's, you know, grandma's house. No one has updated anything. Like if you weren't, unless you're paying attention to the fact that like 9-11 is mentioned once and the cell phones and the Roombas, this could be anywhere from like 1979 to 2010. That was mine. That was my feels. Hold on. So I didn't mean to interrupt you, but like, it really is quite a timeless picture for a movie that is so definitely set in 2003 or four. Or it is a movie that could have been set aside from those few little things because

[00:17:38] it has grandma's house vibes, right? Like it's got clear grandma's house vibes to it. Yeah. So anyway, so, so, but, but just what, what he's, what they talk about in the passage from that book is great. Incidentally, I posted this on the double decker page. And if you guys want to put it out on the, the main deck, the Hallmark Facebook page in sight and sound magazine, this British film magazine, they asked a bunch of filmmakers to talk about their favorite Christmas movies.

[00:18:05] And Tyler Taormina, who directed Christmas Eve in Miller's Point, wrote a lengthy piece about why he kind of loves and also hates Hallmark Christmas movies in a way that I feel will reverberate with this audience. Interesting. Lovely. Yeah. I thought that the, the, the scene where they're watching the tapes together works and I have wonderful memories. And I was telling Dan while we, while we did this, like there are, were times at Christmas

[00:18:31] long after the, you know, DVDs got introduced where we would still just watch the movies on the VHS and we would pull it that we recorded from the TV or whatever. And then, you know, inevitably while we're getting the tapes out, we might as well watch the old home videos. And there's something just wonderful about that, that I was telling Dan this too, that you, we kind of lose it now with our phones, everything, all, all the videos now that we record our phones are so short and these short little moments and they're wonderful

[00:18:59] moments, but there's something about when you would take out the camcorder and just record nothingness. And that's still a thing that we would just watch all the time. We would be like, let's watch those moments where I'm trying to be conscious, even at like Christmas time, just recording and just letting it go because I want my kids to kind of have these things like I did to look back on. And it's not just these quick, short little clips, but these longer moments. And so. And that's, that's kind of what this movie is.

[00:19:27] You're sort of just soaking in this moment with this family, whether or not like anything major is happening. You're just, it's like watching one of your own home videos where you remember that room and you remember that Christmas that you got that sweater or that aunt who died or whatever it is. Like those touchstones all kind of come back. Sure. Sure. Yeah. But I, they're also not my family, so I didn't care. That's where I'm at. Dano. Yeah.

[00:19:56] I mean, Christmas Eve night at my grandma's house was my favorite night of the year. I'm, I knew we were getting close to the end of having those nights when I was a full grown adult, but I'm thrilled. I never knew when the last one was. I'm thankful that I didn't know that it was the last one at the time was the last one. This movie, there's a lot of things that don't resemble my grandma's house in this movie, but there's a lot of things that do very much resemble my grandma's house. And so that was awesome.

[00:20:23] And then this particular grandmother with an unending prayer is, was one of my favorite scenes of the year, of the year. Like she just keeps remembering names of people to add dead or alive to add to this prayer. And everyone is starving. There's food. They're holding hands. Yeah. Yeah. And it's the prayer lasts so long in the movie that you get to look at all the faces around

[00:20:48] and like, there's a woman to her right, our left that is trying not to laugh. That's just trying not to laugh, which is accurate. If that was happening at my grandma's house, I would be like trying not to laugh. So it is real fun scene there. And then everything that happens in that house, I think really, really, really works. And that's probably well over half the movie. So I'll take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll get to the way what and the what the hallmark here on the hallmark.

[00:21:25] Welcome back, everybody. We're talking about Christmas Eve and Miller's points. And it's time for the way what's where we're talking about what in this movie made us go away. I'll start with you, Alonzo. I don't really have one, but I want to address a thing that a lot of reviews I read seem to treat as a weight what. And I want to sort of unpack why it isn't. And that's the cops who act very eccentrically. And people pointed out, what? Their uniforms are out of date. And they this and the da. And I want to make the case that they're not cops.

[00:21:55] Yeah. That they are two guys who are cosplaying as cops who have bought old uniforms from like wherever. They've rigged up a cop car with a siren. But they're not cops. And there's a couple of clues to this. First of all, one of the first lines that the dad has when they're driving to the house is he tells his son in the backseat, keep an eye out for the weirdos.

[00:22:20] On two occasions, we see Michael Cera like do the speed gun on people and the numbers like scroll up. But we never see the numbers stop scrolling up. So as far as we know, that speed gun doesn't even work. It just scrolls up numbers when it points at a thing. Um, when the, when the teenager throws the bottle of booze and breaks the lady's, uh, windshield, and we go back to that later, she says to her friend on the phone, I called the cops, but no one's helping. Huh?

[00:22:47] So like they're there, like they showed up with the dog that they just hopped in the backseat, but they're not cops. So that, that is my, uh, I think that's my head talk. I've been sold. I think you're right on that. Let me ask you this. So the whole conversation about like the hypothetical, like if I, you know, if there was a cop who do are, do you think that there are, they are already a, uh, a couple and this is like just a thing they're doing. Yeah.

[00:23:14] I think, I think that for the cosplay of being cops, then yes, it would be inappropriate for them to like, you know, make a passage of whatever. But you know, once they get home and the uniforms come off, everything's on the table. That's, that's interesting. Um, yeah, I mean, I don't have a ton of wait what's, but, uh, I do, I got very excited, uh, that there's somebody, I, you know, this is a hard movie to keep track of who is who and all of that. And the, and so they do a thing at the end of this movie where they give you all the names

[00:23:40] and, uh, the actor and then who they're playing, uh, with their faces. And there was somebody in this movie and I didn't know it, but their name is Fitzy. And, uh, I know that I know Rick noticed it. Not the Fitzy. Not the Fitzy. And I gotta be honest. I have never met a Fitzy aside from our Fitzy's, Rick. I don't know if you have. Well, I'm a big keep fan. So, you know. What? Keep? Keep? Keep. Christmas Eve in Miller's Point. Come on, man. Sorry. Sorry.

[00:24:09] You just, you just think you just can't put any respect on the name of keep. In my defense. You don't even know keep. You don't get keep. I wasn't, I wasn't picking up on the M. You don't get it and you don't know it. Keep. Keep. Keep. Keep. Keep. Keep. Come on, man. So, shout out to Fitzy. I love you. And, uh, I now have a new thing that I would like to try, thanks to this movie, which is just bag of bagel. It's where you walk down streets and look at Christmas lights and have a bag of bagels. And I think that's real nice.

[00:24:37] It's not something that I knew I wanted and now I do. And so here we are. Dan? Yeah, I've, I got two. Um, one of them is I am shocked at the number of kids sneaking out of their parents' house on Christmas Eve night. Like, and that could be good kids. You know, we were good kids, but these kids are all 16 to 20 of all the nights to sneak out. Like at they're not 20. I'm sorry. They're probably more 14 to 18. They can't buy 18. Yeah. Like of the nights to sneak out as a 14 year old.

[00:25:07] I definitely at 14, 15, 16, I definitely was still excited about Christmas. Like I, I, I just of the nights to sneak out, but it apparently a big deal in long Island to sneak out on Christmas Eve. Cause there are dozens of children that have all met together after sneaking out and they know they're going to do it, which is wild to me. I thought that was the wildest thing of this movie. I want to throw out real quick. I know you didn't love the, the, the teen part of this movie as much as the other stuff,

[00:25:35] but the, the scenes where they're in the cars and the windows are covered with snow. Yep. It's so beautiful. It is. It is. There's no doubt about it. There is a, I think a 10 second shot from the backseat looking out as the snow begins to cover the windshield. That's wonderful. I, it's a beautiful shot. My stuff with the teen sneaking out is that stuff wore on me. You know what I mean? Like, like the whole movie wore on brand. And the, the, that the, everything at the house was like, I felt like I was, my eyes

[00:26:03] were starting to see everything with those, like, you know, side, I don't know what they're called. Those flare lights on the glasses. Yeah. Yeah. And I, I was kind of in this fun little like memory chamber, the stuff with the, the teenagers after a while, I was just like, okay, now the scene at the end was Spielberg's kid. Uh, that was funny. There was a funny scene at the end there, but for the, but I guess I was just felt like I was missing, you know, unpacking these subtle emotions back at the house. That was my big thing.

[00:26:31] But my big way, what is this house is already sold? Um, was there like no inspection? Like you, you sold a house and then had 30 family members over. You have given yourself so much work, like so, so much work to do to get this house ready to sell. Like what having your family over just cost you thousands of dollars. Like it just did.

[00:26:58] And I, and I know memories, nostalgia, all good stuff, bold move to sell your house, put it under contract, have a closing date and go, what if we have 30 people over? That's a move. That's a move. And they did it in this movie. That's all I got. Uh, several of the hallmarkers where we wonder what could have been, maybe have it give some clarity, any questions that we still have. What are we still wondering about? I'll start with you, Alonzo. Well, you know, just taking off on what Dan said about how like, you know, he never knew which of the Christmas with his grandmother was going to be his last one.

[00:27:27] Like with a, with a, except for a couple of characters, nobody here knows that this is that last Christmas in that house. And I kind of wonder like, what, what did they do the following year? Like who had to sort of step up or did everybody kind of go off in different directions? Like it's, you know, having been through the thing where like, you know, losing my parents and selling the house that I grew up in, it's, we've had to sort of like figure it out

[00:27:54] along the way, as far as like, who's going to host and what are our traditions now? And, um, you know, I just, as somebody who really related to so much of the kind of family experience in this movie, I would be curious to see, you know, how the family moves on from here. I, I agree with that. I would, my thing was, what was the plan on telling the family? Like, clearly this is not a movie where you get a scene where it's like family meeting and you tell them that's not what this movie is, but the dude had sold the house. What, when was he going to tell him?

[00:28:24] Was he going to tell him just in January when he closed? Like, what was his plan? I mean, you know, they do have that meeting where they talk about what, what's to be done with the mom. And obviously like he's decided what's going to happen with the mom. And it's a, so there's, there's clearly going to be a follow-up of like, yes, I heard what you all had to say, here's what we're doing. And, and you guys don't have a say in it because I'm the one who's been taking care of her for the last however many years, you know? Yeah. True.

[00:28:50] There is a scene in this movie where we're looking in on the garage and the street guys are talking and having a good time. And behind them is a Roomba and on top of the Roomba is a cardboard cutout that's moving around like home alone style. Like, you know, try to do this thing. I just want like, how long has that been on? Like, how long has that been on there? Do they still use Roomba for the purpose of Roomba or is now Roomba only for, Hey, let's make this cardboard cutout move. It'll be fine.

[00:29:19] Roomba is relatively new at that point. I know. You would say, yeah. 2003, 2004. They're, they're going and they're saying, let's, let's kind of make it our own and we'll bring it out to the garage. It'll be a funny thing. I just, you know, how, how did it, how did it come to be? You, if it was, I would imagine Roomba to your point, new and also quite expensive at the time to then use it primarily for making cardboard cutout. It seems wasteful and I don't know. Maybe it's a both end. Oh, can I tell you what I think it is? Go ahead. Because this happened all the time, Christmas Eve in my grandma's house.

[00:29:49] Someone would give my grandmother a gadget or the newest tech of something and she would hate it and just put it in her garage. That's funny. Um, she would, I, so many times like moving from VCR to DVD, holy cow, you, you would have thought someone had invented the telephone. It was crazy. And so in my head, they gave grandma Roomba and she was like, I don't, this is not how you vacuum a house. That's not. And they put it in the garage. I like that. That's not bad at all. And it did give us the line.

[00:30:18] Can one of you Goombas fix the Roomba? Ah, classic, classic line. And since I answered yours, I'm going to take the, I'm going to sit this one out. I don't really have anything. Well, there you go. How about that? There you go. We've done it, everybody. Congratulations to us. We're back next week. We are going to be heading back to the theater. Another gritty, independent, canned film. That's right. We're heading back to the theater for the greatest Christmas pageant ever. Best. And so it's the best. It's the best.

[00:30:47] The best Christmas pageant ever. Did I say greatest? You said greatest. Yes. Yeah. And how dare you? There's no way for me to know. It could be the greatest. It could be the best. That's the, the asylum version. That's exactly. NATO versus the greatest Christmas pageant ever. Oh man. I would watch. Believe me. So come on back for that. And a whole, of course, a whole nother week of Deck the Hallmark is coming on. Try now. So come on back. Until then, maybe the first to wish you a Merry Christmas. Deck the Hallmark is a Bramble Jam podcast. It's produced by Aaron Shea. What?

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