Christmas with the Singhs (Hallmark Channel - 2024)

[00:00:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Hi, I'm Brandon. I love Hallmark Christmas movies. I'm Brian. I like Hallmark Christmas movies. I'm Dan and I despise Hallmark Christmas movies and this is the Deck The Hallmark Podcast. Deck The Hallmark gets this podcast. We hope you like this jolly podcast. That's funny, Brian. That's a good one, dude. Say that on the air.

[00:00:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Tell the story.

[00:00:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Tell the story.

[00:00:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, we're walking downtown.

[00:00:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I can't even get through it.

[00:00:46] [SPEAKER_00]: So I said, that's a nice hat.

[00:00:51] [SPEAKER_00]: It was funnier the first time.

[00:00:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they lost something.

[00:00:54] [SPEAKER_05]: What did it lose, you think?

[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_05]: Probably its humor.

[00:00:59] [SPEAKER_05]: A little bit of that.

[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_05]: Come on, man.

[00:01:03] [SPEAKER_05]: We're not going to get downtown.

[00:01:05] [SPEAKER_05]: We didn't get in trouble for this.

[00:01:08] [SPEAKER_00]: No.

[00:01:09] [SPEAKER_00]: So walking downtown, I see my reflection in the glass.

[00:01:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And so I'm getting close and getting close and I'm like, man, I look really good today.

[00:01:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And I realized there's a guy on the inside looking back at me.

[00:01:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And you said nice hat.

[00:01:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was a nice hat.

[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Hey everybody, welcome to Deck The Hallmark.

[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_04]: It's great to be here today.

[00:01:31] [SPEAKER_04]: I guess so.

[00:01:33] [SPEAKER_04]: I guess we started.

[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm really excited to be here today.

[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_04]: It's hump day.

[00:01:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Hump day.

[00:01:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's go.

[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Hump day.

[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Everybody.

[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_06]: Is there anything you're working on?

[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_06]: Let's go everybody.

[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_06]: Let's go.

[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_05]: Well, you know, all the athletes, all the kids these days.

[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_05]: Let's go.

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_05]: Everybody.

[00:01:49] [SPEAKER_05]: Let's go.

[00:01:49] [SPEAKER_05]: Let's go.

[00:01:50] [SPEAKER_04]: And I was always like, let's go.

[00:01:52] [SPEAKER_04]: Who are you talking to?

[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[00:01:54] [SPEAKER_04]: So I always say everybody at the end of it just to like, I want everyone to feel involved

[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_04]: and included in this.

[00:02:00] [SPEAKER_04]: And so it's a let's go.

[00:02:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, everybody.

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I can't say that naturally.

[00:02:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Like the let's go is like a little after.

[00:02:08] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't think it sounds natural.

[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't.

[00:02:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I've never said it.

[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Bruins just hit a big goal.

[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Woo.

[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_04]: That's what you do, man.

[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what you do.

[00:02:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Gosh.

[00:02:19] [SPEAKER_04]: I just found out that your kids moving across the country.

[00:02:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's pack those bags and let's go.

[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_04]: It's a nice hat.

[00:02:29] [SPEAKER_04]: When you say it.

[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_04]: It really hits almost every time.

[00:02:34] [SPEAKER_04]: What were we talking about?

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_04]: It's hump day.

[00:02:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Hump day.

[00:02:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, that's right.

[00:02:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's go.

[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Hey, if you all haven't purchased, if everybody hasn't purchased their copy of Christmas movie

[00:02:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Magic, now is the time to do it.

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_04]: He's got to have a song about that, right?

[00:02:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Who?

[00:02:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Brett Deby?

[00:02:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_04]: I think he does have a song about Brett Deby.

[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_04]: About Brett Deby.

[00:02:52] [SPEAKER_06]: All of his songs are about Brett Deby.

[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Brett Deby has a song about Christmas.

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_04]: He's a Eagle Maniac.

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Do you want to hear it?

[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Is it ready?

[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_06]: We have it.

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_06]: What?

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_06]: Now this guy, and listen, he's a trooper.

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Who is he again?

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Tell him for people without him.

[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_06]: He cranks out music nonstop.

[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Who does?

[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_06]: Brett Deby.

[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay.

[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_06]: The son of Little Deby.

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Right.

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_06]: He grew up in a house made completely stem to stern of Little Deby snack cakes through

[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_06]: the math and managed to make it.

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_06]: And now he does some spoken word, jazz, blues, artists.

[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_06]: It's amazing.

[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_06]: And he keeps cranking out hits, this guy.

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_06]: And he's got a Christmas movie magic game?

[00:03:28] [SPEAKER_06]: A song about the game.

[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_06]: A song.

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_06]: He doesn't have the game.

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_06]: We have the game.

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_06]: He's got a song about the game?

[00:03:34] [SPEAKER_06]: That's what I'm being told.

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Wow.

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_06]: All right.

[00:03:37] Whenever...

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_06]: Hear that clip.

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Hey everybody, my name is Brett Deby and I'm here to tell you about the latest game

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_02]: that's called Christmas Movie Magic.

[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_02]: It's called the Christmas Movie Magic.

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_01]: You play cards.

[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_01]: You win cards.

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_01]: You get points.

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_01]: And then you rub it in your family's face.

[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_01]: You tell them that you can't get in trouble for this, cause it's a part of the game.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_01]: And then you throw it in their face.

[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_01]: It just...

[00:04:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Wow.

[00:04:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Felt personal.

[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_06]: That was one of his angrier tracks.

[00:04:18] [SPEAKER_05]: Sounds like he lost the game.

[00:04:20] [SPEAKER_05]: It does sound like he lost the game.

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I think it's a lot more lighthearted than that.

[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_06]: It is.

[00:04:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Brett Deby track would have you believe.

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_05]: I love Brett Deby.

[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_06]: And if you were watching on Filo.

[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_06]: Filo.TV.

[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_06]: You saw that Bram was holding up the card game as we played the track, which you would

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_06]: have been able to see.

[00:04:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Otherwise, you would have been able to see his reaction to that Brett Deby track.

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, did I have that in front of my face the whole time?

[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'm sorry man.

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh man.

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_06]: Maybe it's a change of thing.

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_04]: My face was like this.

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_04]: But you couldn't see it.

[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it was tough.

[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_04]: I loved it.

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_04]: I love Brett...

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Even his angry stuff.

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_04]: I think what people hear when they listen to Brett Deby's tracks is a feeling that this

[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_04]: is what I've wanted to say or express for so long, but I don't know how to.

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_04]: He grew up in a house of Little Debbie's snack cakes.

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_04]: And we all can relate in a sense.

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_04]: The refrigerator were nutty buddies.

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Brett Deby's all of us.

[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Just melting constantly.

[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Brett Deby is all of us.

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_04]: He never had the experience of getting a real Christmas tree.

[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_04]: No!

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Mom would just bring in one of the cakes.

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_06]: The snack cakes.

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Which...

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_06]: And you might think, amazing.

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_04]: And it is.

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Do the math.

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_04]: It is.

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_04]: If it's your first time.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Do the math.

[00:05:29] [SPEAKER_04]: But imagine every year.

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Imagine it being the case every year.

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_04]: And all you want is a good old fashioned Christmas and you don't have that.

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_04]: He has to look at the innards of that thing every year.

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_06]: All of your meals on a table of cosmic brownies?

[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_06]: It's freaking like...

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_00]: It's nuts.

[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I guess I can see how you can get annoyed by it, I guess, but I don't know.

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Brian, just put yourself in somebody else's shoes for once in your gosh darn life.

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_00]: A little empathy, I know.

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_04]: I think you can feel it though.

[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_04]: In the air.

[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Like the way that he expressed it, you can feel it.

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, in his words.

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_00]: It's in his soul, man.

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And when he does this with his hair, you can tell.

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_00]: It's good to see he's out there.

[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_04]: He's got it out and he's out there touring and it's beautiful.

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Chris, moving magic.

[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Deck the Homer.com slash game is what we're trying to say.

[00:06:13] [SPEAKER_04]: So there's that.

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Also, Philo.

[00:06:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Philo, if he's...

[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_04]: Take it again.

[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_04]: What?

[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_04]: Hey-oh.

[00:06:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Hey-oh.

[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh man, my bad.

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm making it up to you.

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Take two.

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Philo.tv slash DTH is what we're talking about.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_04]: You can watch us.

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_04]: It's the place where you can watch us.

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_04]: If you like watching the show, if you want to hear...

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_04]: If you want to see me react in theory to Brett Debbe's tracks again, that was my fault.

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_04]: I normally am more conscious of the camera, but I get so like swept up by the jams that

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_04]: sometimes I lose track of where the camera even is.

[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_04]: But you can also watch the movies that we're talking about and all that good stuff right

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_04]: there on Philo.

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_04]: It is the...

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm getting worded.

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_04]: It is once again the Holiday Movie Hub.

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Yep.

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Holiday Movie Hub.

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_04]: They did it again.

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_06]: They did it again.

[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_06]: It's unbelievable.

[00:06:59] Tony!

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Tony!

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Tony!

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Mom!

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's do it, shall we?

[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_04]: From our trip there.

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_04]: That's going to be fun.

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_05]: I can't wait.

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_05]: I know.

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_04]: I know.

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_04]: I can't wait.

[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_04]: You want to talk about Christmas with the Sings?

[00:07:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Would love to, Bran.

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_04]: This movie originally aired on November 15th, 2024 and it went a little something like this.

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_04]: Asha works as a nurse in the ER and she takes a call from her parents who are sad that she

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_04]: isn't home for Christmas, but she explains that after years of avoiding this shift, her

[00:07:28] [SPEAKER_04]: luck has run out.

[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_04]: We then meet Jake who is a reporter covering the Christmas Day basketball game.

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_04]: He's leaving the game and sees a woman with a bunch of gifts in her hand.

[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_04]: And so he runs over to help her.

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_04]: He ends up slipping on ice and has to go to the ER, a little spring wrist situation.

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_04]: When Asha sees him, it's clear that they knew each other.

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_04]: She was his chemistry tutor in high school and he was Mr. Athletic.

[00:07:57] [SPEAKER_04]: They catch up on where they've been in life and all that good stuff and the sparks begin to fly

[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_04]: and his heart rate begins to increase.

[00:08:06] [SPEAKER_04]: You got to hate when that happens when you're connected to the heart rate.

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_04]: It's embarrassing.

[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_04]: It's tough.

[00:08:12] [SPEAKER_04]: You hate to see it.

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_04]: But we'd love to see it in the movie because it was funny.

[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_04]: He shoots his shot and he asked her to go out for a drink and she says, yes, they have some candy cane martinis.

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_04]: They talk about their parents and he walks her home and he's about to walk away.

[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_04]: But then he pulls her in and they kiss.

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_04]: And we then see a year go by and we see them growing closer and closer.

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_04]: We're back to another Christmas season and he proposes.

[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_04]: Now it's time for them to meet the parents.

[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_04]: They go back to their hometown and up first is Asha's family.

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Asha's dad is a real hoot who gives some classic fatherly hazing, if you will, to Jake, such as giving him a hard time about his rental car, getting on him for not asking his blessing before the proposal and tricking him into eating some real hot chicken.

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_04]: They go to meet Jake's dad and it's a little bit of a different vibe.

[00:09:10] [SPEAKER_04]: He's just kind of sad all the time because of the divorce.

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_04]: And they end up having a bit of an argument about how many kids that Asha and Jake are going to have.

[00:09:20] [SPEAKER_04]: His dad expresses concern over Jake not being ready for marriage because of the divorce that he had.

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_04]: He's like, hey, pump the brakes, kid.

[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_04]: And he's now real hesitant towards marriage.

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_04]: They then go and meet Jake's mom.

[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_04]: She's much more excited for them to get married and is also excited to show off her knowledge of Indian culture, which she has learned from pop culture mainly.

[00:09:44] [SPEAKER_04]: The next day, Jake falls off a ladder when he finds out that he's not the first guy to propose to Asha.

[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_04]: She explains to him that her dad really liked this guy, but I didn't.

[00:09:56] [SPEAKER_04]: And so I said no.

[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_04]: They talk about it, though, and they make up.

[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_04]: The next day, the families all come together in the most anxiety driven scene in the history of Hallmark Christmas movies.

[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Jake's mom wears a traditional Indian sari and they don't take their shoes off when they enter the home off to a great start.

[00:10:16] [SPEAKER_04]: They get into an argument about where the engagement party is going to take place.

[00:10:20] [SPEAKER_04]: But that is nothing that a little silent night won't cure.

[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_04]: After going to the Christmas carnival together, both sets of parents have conversations about hesitation on these two cultures blending together in marriage.

[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_04]: There are some more speed bumps along the way, such as Asha and Jake waking up on the couch together and dad getting upset about that.

[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_04]: A bit of an argument about what he will wear to the engagement party and frustration that they are double booked on Christmas Eve.

[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_04]: And Samuel, her dad being very worried that they're not going to make it to the Christmas Eve service.

[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_04]: It all comes to a head when, in fact, they do show up late to the Christmas Eve service because they were with Jake's family at their Christmas pageant.

[00:11:08] [SPEAKER_04]: A huge argument erupts, which leads to Asha saying that she doesn't think that this is going to work.

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Samuel and Jake Sr. talk about how they've done goofed and decided they're going to work together to make sure that these kids work it out.

[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Samuel apologizes to Jake and gives him his blessing to marry his daughter.

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Then Samuel goes and apologizes to her, and they have an amazing father-daughter moment.

[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_04]: It is time for the engagement party, complete with some traditional ceremonial speeches given by both of the dads because they are a team now, those two guys.

[00:11:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, they are.

[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, Dan and Asha and Jake find themselves under the mistletoe.

[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_04]: What is there to do but kiss?

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_04]: And that, my friends, was Christmas with the Scenes.

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_04]: We did it.

[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_04]: We did do it.

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's take a quick break.

[00:11:58] [SPEAKER_04]: We'll come back.

[00:11:58] [SPEAKER_04]: We'll break this movie down here on Take the Hallmark.

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[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Hello, everybody.

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Welcome back.

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_04]: You okay?

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_04]: I just hate it.

[00:14:35] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm still thinking about Brett.

[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, what about him?

[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_06]: He's kind of dark.

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_06]: He's down, man.

[00:14:39] [SPEAKER_06]: He seems down.

[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_06]: He's having a tough holiday season.

[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, it's just, you know, you see him rise and you see him in good spirits and then just to see this kind of come back.

[00:14:47] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm sure he's going to come back, though.

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_04]: Stronger.

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_04]: As everything with Brett, the adversity only makes him strong.

[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_04]: It doesn't.

[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_04]: I've heard it said what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_06]: If that's all little Debbie snack cake rolls, I don't know if that's true.

[00:15:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's true.

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's get to the hot takes where we share exactly how we felt about this movie.

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_04]: We're talking about Christmas with the Sings.

[00:15:08] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's break it down in a way that only three white guys can.

[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's share our thoughts on it.

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Brian, what do you think about Christmas with the Sings?

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:15:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And just for the sake of record keeping, we got a m'lady here.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_00]: So we're up to two.

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_00]: We got a m'lady in this movie?

[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_00]: We got a m'lady in this movie.

[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_00]: So two this season.

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Up to two.

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought this was really good.

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_00]: It was actually, though, not too fun.

[00:15:36] [SPEAKER_00]: The stress of it and the chaos of it came through too good, I feel like.

[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And so watching this, I was kind of stressed out.

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_00]: And so it did a really good job in communicating the chaos that could arise in these situations.

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And for that, I have to say, well done.

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't necessarily enjoy that.

[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_00]: But it was so good in doing that that I'm like, hey, they did a good job.

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Quality job.

[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_06]: So where your personal feelings of enjoyment and the quality of the movie are at odds with each other.

[00:16:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's complicated.

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Like after I finished it, all I could write was like, this is just a little complicated because it was really good.

[00:16:18] [SPEAKER_00]: But I don't feel great.

[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And I had the thought that I wonder if this movie is going to be really polarizing.

[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Like there are people who really loved it and people who just have no use for it and just say this is lame.

[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_00]: We don't want this at all.

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_04]: This is lame.

[00:16:33] [SPEAKER_00]: We don't want this at all.

[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_06]: Those people in the crowd.

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, this movie is lame.

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_06]: Those people, if you could just see yourselves out, that'd be great.

[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_06]: Go ahead.

[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_06]: What?

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_06]: Turn their mics off if you could.

[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_06]: Go ahead.

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_06]: What?

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_06]: Of all the weeks for those people to show up.

[00:16:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're just relentless.

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know.

[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_00]: You are lame.

[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh man.

[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I know.

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm out.

[00:16:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, thanks.

[00:16:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_00]: It would have been nice to get a nod to Diwali, but we didn't get anything like that.

[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, just straight down the middle.

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_06]: I think that they established pretty early.

[00:17:04] [SPEAKER_06]: These are Christmas folks.

[00:17:05] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_06]: They are.

[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_06]: I know.

[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Diwali's, I believe, an October holiday.

[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_00]: We missed it.

[00:17:10] [SPEAKER_00]: So I got, I get that like it.

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_00]: It was weird.

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a little weird.

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Like a little weird.

[00:17:14] [SPEAKER_00]: But I get it.

[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, this is a Christmas movie.

[00:17:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, Diwali's over.

[00:17:18] [SPEAKER_00]: They're, we're doing Christmas.

[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_00]: So I get it.

[00:17:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, the, the Samuel standout.

[00:17:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Amazing.

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_00]: That's all I'm going to say now.

[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm saving, I've loaded my feels gun and I'm unloading.

[00:17:30] [SPEAKER_00]: You got your feels gun loaded already?

[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Wow.

[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_00]: That's early.

[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_00]: It's concealed.

[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_00]: You can't see it.

[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_00]: You can't see it.

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I can see it.

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:17:36] [SPEAKER_00]: We all can.

[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_00]: It, it, I don't know what it was.

[00:17:38] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a really good movie, but it was just a tough, tough watch.

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, so yeah.

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_00]: For me.

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Are you okay?

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_00]: You can go to the top watch.

[00:17:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Red Debbie's rubbing off on me.

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_04]: This movie slaps.

[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[00:17:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Good.

[00:17:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Really, really well done.

[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_04]: And you know what?

[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_04]: I am reminded of something that I said earlier this holiday season.

[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_06]: He's going to quote himself.

[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to quote myself.

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm reminded of the wildest Christmas scholar.

[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_04]: But it's not a direct quote.

[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_04]: It's a general feeling that I had.

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_04]: While watching the Sabrina the Teenage Witch reboot of a movie.

[00:18:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Where I talked about how I don't like discomfort in my Christmas movies.

[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_04]: And turns out, I do if it's done well.

[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_04]: And it was done really well.

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_04]: This was a big swing from Hallmark.

[00:18:24] [SPEAKER_04]: It's unlike anything that I've ever really felt in a Hallmark movie.

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_04]: This feeling, this tension that I hate but I love.

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_04]: To your point, Samuel was a master in creating this tension while also being a character that I was rooting for.

[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_04]: I loved him.

[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_04]: I thought he was so funny.

[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_04]: Just one bit after another was crushing.

[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_04]: And it was something that I never got in that movie with Caroline Ray and the other one.

[00:18:58] [SPEAKER_04]: I just, that whole movie, I didn't like any of the characters.

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_04]: And I was just like, you're just not good at being a family and being mothers and just constantly.

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_04]: I just hated that.

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_04]: But I love this.

[00:19:10] [SPEAKER_04]: I just thought that it worked really well.

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_04]: And I was surprised.

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Because at first I was like, oh, there's going to be another one of those where it's just conflict and uncomfortable scenes.

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_04]: But I was won over very quickly.

[00:19:24] [SPEAKER_04]: I thought this movie was a delight.

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_04]: And can't wait to watch it again.

[00:19:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Really, really liked it.

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Dano?

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, this is my favorite movie of the year.

[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_06]: Wow.

[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_06]: And it's not even particularly close.

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_06]: As a southern white boy that met and married an accomplished, amazing, beautiful Asian American woman that I met in high school.

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_06]: This movie made me feel a lot of things.

[00:19:44] [SPEAKER_06]: Who are you talking about?

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_06]: There was a lot.

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_06]: What?

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_06]: Who are you talking about?

[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_06]: My wife.

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh.

[00:19:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Isn't that cool with you?

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_06]: This movie, there were times when this movie hit so close to home, I was like, oh my goodness.

[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_06]: This is the first movie I've ever had anxiety watching from Hallmark.

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_06]: And they nailed it.

[00:20:02] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, I have some minor qualms with this movie.

[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_06]: But overall, the dad of this family is just a star.

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_06]: You kidding me right now?

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Like, he's just perfect in this movie.

[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_06]: Anuja Joshi is delightful.

[00:20:19] [SPEAKER_06]: Loved her from start to finish.

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Which even, like, sometimes Hollingsworth went above and beyond to make it so clear just how incredibly white he was.

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_06]: But he was really good in this movie.

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_06]: Have I got a dance for you?

[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh my gosh.

[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_06]: So, like, I was embarrassed in this movie.

[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_06]: I had actual anxiety in this movie.

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_06]: I loved the two of them together.

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_06]: I loved the story.

[00:20:42] [SPEAKER_06]: I loved the message of the movie.

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_06]: This is good stuff.

[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_06]: This is better than anything I've seen across the board.

[00:20:48] [SPEAKER_04]: And I think that the actor who played Samuel, do you have his name in front of you?

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_04]: I know.

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm sued.

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_04]: He's this year's Rick Hoffman from Roundup.

[00:20:57] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:20:57] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:20:57] [SPEAKER_04]: Where it's just like every scene that he was in, he stole.

[00:21:00] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[00:21:00] [SPEAKER_04]: And was just so great.

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_04]: And I think my big concern, and I guess this will segue into the feels, but my big concern with this is that they're not going to be able to turn the corner.

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_04]: And I felt like he successfully played both the, I'm going to haze this guy.

[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to give this guy a hard time.

[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_04]: And then came around at the end for some heartfelt scenes that really, for me, worked.

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_04]: I loved seeing this guy not only be this guy who's going to tell this guy to eat the chicken, it's really like do that thing.

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_04]: While also be like, hey, take ownership for goofing and try to make things right.

[00:21:42] [SPEAKER_04]: And the heartfelt scene between him and his daughter, amazing.

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_04]: An amazing scene.

[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_04]: And so really well done by him.

[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_06]: They have three really tough lines to walk in this movie.

[00:21:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Number one is that guy has to be mean, but also still like a loving father.

[00:22:00] [SPEAKER_06]: I thought they nailed that one.

[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Number two, they have a line to walk with this Indian family that's all in on Christmas.

[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_06]: And you have to buy that and still buy that doesn't extricate them from being Indian and having these wonderful traditions.

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_06]: And I thought they did that one okay.

[00:22:17] [SPEAKER_06]: Like I thought they didn't always land that.

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_06]: And then third, I think the line of not be like promoting a patriarchy, like not promoting this.

[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_06]: The men have to approve this marriage.

[00:22:30] [SPEAKER_06]: That was a tough one because it's like clearly tradition.

[00:22:34] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:22:34] [SPEAKER_06]: But also, but they did a really good job of letting her decide for herself and make the decision and then make it this kind of formality thing.

[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_06]: So I think like on the out of from the outset, this movie had a mountain ahead of it.

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_06]: I think that's the most impressive thing is, is that the degree of difficulty here is through the roof.

[00:22:52] [SPEAKER_06]: That was my issue with it in the preview episode.

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_06]: And somehow by and large, they accomplished it.

[00:22:58] [SPEAKER_06]: Do you have any feels?

[00:23:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, you had a whole loaded, loaded, ready to go.

[00:23:04] [SPEAKER_00]: He was so funny.

[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Like the way he played the, like you said, I'm going to haze you and I'm going to sort of do it in a way where like nonchalant, like when he was up on the ladder, like the way that, that Samuel was just like sort of distraught, like didn't care that he was up there.

[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Probably going to get hurt when he fell.

[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Just like he reminded me so much of this guy, Pankaj, I used to work with.

[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And he was sort, he was like embodied Samuel spirit.

[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_00]: It was like when Diwali came around, Pankaj organized the celebration, put on the music, dance, sang, like he was this guy.

[00:23:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And he was also like very blunt.

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And so like, I don't know, he just like all I could think of him, shut out Pankaj.

[00:23:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And so he was just so perfect.

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And he carried this, not that he needed, he needed to do it.

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_00]: But for me, he carried this movie where it was just like, I was looking forward to seeing every scene with him.

[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I was so glad to see him.

[00:23:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And even when he did that thing in the church, it was like the story of Christmas.

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, he was a lot of other people would have been like, this is so lame and cringy.

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I can't believe they're doing it with him.

[00:24:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, I want to see him do this.

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

[00:24:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

[00:24:10] [SPEAKER_00]: He was so good.

[00:24:11] [SPEAKER_00]: He's unbelievable.

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And so funny and just nailed it.

[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Like he was just so, so good.

[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And so, yeah, that was, uh, that was just a really good, in the heart rate scene when his heart rate started going.

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, come on.

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't believe how brilliant that little thing was and how, how well that worked.

[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Like that communicated like everything you need to know about what was going to happen with them.

[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And that tiny little scene, just really, really great.

[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_04]: And also the, the, the funniness of the parents coming over and thinking that they are, especially the mom trying to be like, Oh my goodness.

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_04]: I care.

[00:24:44] [SPEAKER_04]: I love.

[00:24:45] [SPEAKER_04]: And like them thinking that the shoes off is like a, like they're not getting the idea that she shows up in a sorry, but will not remove her shoes.

[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_06]: It was a riot.

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_06]: So funny.

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Like just unbelievable.

[00:24:58] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:24:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Do you have any other feels?

[00:24:59] [SPEAKER_06]: I heart rate in the early kiss in this movie.

[00:25:01] [SPEAKER_06]: I thought both were fantastic.

[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_04]: You said they were going to kiss.

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_06]: And I was like, we were, we, you had something you need to tell me from this weekend that was pertinent for like our job.

[00:25:08] [SPEAKER_06]: And you started, I went, I think they're going to kiss.

[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_04]: It's even better than that.

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:25:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:25:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, let's, uh, let's take a quick break.

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_04]: We'll come back.

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_04]: We'll get to the way one, the, what the homework here on deck, the hallmark.

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[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Buddy, we're back.

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_04]: We're back.

[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_04]: We're talking about Christmas with the sings.

[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_04]: It's time for the way.

[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_04]: What is what we're talking about?

[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_04]: One, two minutes ago.

[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Wait, what?

[00:26:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Brian?

[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_00]: The proposal in the restaurant for me went like a touch too long.

[00:26:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like if you're doing a public proposal, like you got to move it along here.

[00:26:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I felt like he was just down on doing the actually was he on his knee?

[00:26:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if he got down on me.

[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:27:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Just for me, I don't know what it was about it.

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_00]: It just felt like it went on so long.

[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_00]: And if I'm observing this, I'm like, I see it for a few seconds.

[00:27:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I turn back to my food.

[00:27:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, he's still, we're not down here.

[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So that was just something that was just a little funny to me.

[00:27:14] [SPEAKER_00]: The mom, Molly, won a gingerbread competition and got just a gigantic trophy for it.

[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_00]: It seemed a little excessive for that type of competition.

[00:27:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they just had to get rid of a trophy.

[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, what are we going to do with this thing?

[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And so everyone just sits there while Samuel goes through this thing?

[00:27:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, everybody in that congregation is just going to sit through this?

[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_06]: The whole Samuel reading the Christmas story is one of the most awkward, weirdest scenes I've seen in a Hallmark movie.

[00:27:43] [SPEAKER_06]: Because the whole time they're building up to it, I thought he just read Luke 2 in the Bible, the Christmas, you know, when you say the Christmas story in a church, everyone goes to Luke 2.

[00:27:57] [SPEAKER_06]: This guy gets up there with a book that is like two inches thick.

[00:28:02] [SPEAKER_06]: And it's just called The Christmas Story.

[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_06]: It's even long for the message version.

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_06]: And he's reading it to four children while a bunch of adults watch.

[00:28:14] [SPEAKER_06]: I had so many questions about that scene.

[00:28:16] [SPEAKER_06]: I didn't know what was going on.

[00:28:18] [SPEAKER_06]: I assumed he was reading the Bible.

[00:28:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Like, that would make sense.

[00:28:21] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't think many churches would be down with that.

[00:28:24] [SPEAKER_06]: They'd be like, you want to read the Christmas story to the kids?

[00:28:25] [SPEAKER_06]: You're going to read the Bible.

[00:28:26] [SPEAKER_06]: You're not going to bring your own book in.

[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_06]: But, I mean, when you've done it 15 years, you know.

[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Tradition.

[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_06]: It was wild.

[00:28:32] [SPEAKER_06]: It was wild.

[00:28:32] [SPEAKER_06]: That was a wild scene that was cringe and not in a good way.

[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Wild scene.

[00:28:37] [SPEAKER_04]: That was it for me.

[00:28:38] [SPEAKER_04]: I only have two.

[00:28:39] [SPEAKER_04]: One at the beginning and one at the end.

[00:28:40] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what building he's walking out of after the basketball game, but it is not a basketball arena.

[00:28:48] [SPEAKER_04]: And it's not an office for press.

[00:28:49] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm trying to be kind here and say maybe he went back to the office and the office is now in an old town hall courthouse.

[00:28:58] [SPEAKER_04]: But one thing I know for certain is basketball did not take place in whatever the building is that he's walking out of.

[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_04]: And so good for him, I guess, for finding some sort of weird tunnel system that takes him to that particular building.

[00:29:16] [SPEAKER_04]: And then lastly, at the very end of this movie, they are on the dance floor and they look up and there is mistletoe.

[00:29:23] [SPEAKER_04]: And now I'm concerned that Asha's brother just has mistletoe out on the dance floor.

[00:29:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Dude, mistletoe on the dance floor is a disaster.

[00:29:28] [SPEAKER_04]: It's reckless.

[00:29:29] [SPEAKER_04]: That's a disaster.

[00:29:30] [SPEAKER_04]: It's also a great live show, though.

[00:29:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Mistletoe on the dance floor is really good.

[00:29:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah.

[00:29:33] [SPEAKER_04]: I am worried now about what Asha's brother is up to at his restaurant.

[00:29:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Just having mistletoe sprinkled throughout the dance floor.

[00:29:43] [SPEAKER_04]: It's risky.

[00:29:44] [SPEAKER_06]: It's risky.

[00:29:45] [SPEAKER_06]: It's risky.

[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_06]: Dana?

[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_06]: The audacity of this movie thinking a millennial has good enough health care to go to the ER for a sprained wrist is hysterical.

[00:29:54] [SPEAKER_06]: That is funny.

[00:29:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Guys, guys.

[00:29:56] [SPEAKER_06]: That was a thought.

[00:29:57] [SPEAKER_00]: You tough that out.

[00:29:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Guys, guys.

[00:29:59] [SPEAKER_00]: You put some ice on that.

[00:30:00] [SPEAKER_06]: Guys, guys.

[00:30:00] [SPEAKER_06]: ER?

[00:30:01] [SPEAKER_06]: What are you, made of money?

[00:30:03] [SPEAKER_06]: You're a reporter, bro.

[00:30:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_06]: You iced that bad boy up.

[00:30:06] [SPEAKER_06]: You elevated and you sit at home.

[00:30:08] [SPEAKER_06]: You should just go find the team doctor.

[00:30:10] [SPEAKER_06]: You don't have a, I mean, they're going to laugh at you.

[00:30:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Pulling out the insurance card.

[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_06]: You're going to be in debt the rest of your life.

[00:30:15] [SPEAKER_06]: You can't do that.

[00:30:16] [SPEAKER_06]: You must have met your deductible earlier in the year.

[00:30:18] [SPEAKER_06]: That's all I got to say.

[00:30:19] [SPEAKER_06]: You got to be kidding me with this sprained wrist emergency room business.

[00:30:23] [SPEAKER_06]: You call an ambulance, too?

[00:30:24] [SPEAKER_06]: He's got a credit.

[00:30:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Just want to help out the people who are driving those privatized ambulances.

[00:30:31] [SPEAKER_06]: We doing that?

[00:30:33] [SPEAKER_06]: He said early in this movie, when I was five years old, my parents threw me in the deep

[00:30:38] [SPEAKER_06]: into the pool and said, swim.

[00:30:40] [SPEAKER_06]: A lot of five-year-olds would be fine with that.

[00:30:43] [SPEAKER_06]: Like, a lot of five-year-olds, like, five-year-olds can swim.

[00:30:46] [SPEAKER_06]: It's not, like, that's not a crazy age for that.

[00:30:50] [SPEAKER_06]: I think he's mistaking this, you know, anecdote with the babies that get put in the water to

[00:30:56] [SPEAKER_06]: swim.

[00:30:57] [SPEAKER_06]: That's not what a five-year-old is at all.

[00:30:59] [SPEAKER_06]: He also says in that scene, the best wishes are the ones you don't even realize you made.

[00:31:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Still trying to unpack that bad boy.

[00:31:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Trying to get that to go in my head.

[00:31:08] [SPEAKER_06]: It doesn't work.

[00:31:09] [SPEAKER_06]: It was driving me nuts when they sit down to this feast of Indian food and decide, try

[00:31:14] [SPEAKER_06]: to talk about what everybody's done for the last 20 years.

[00:31:17] [SPEAKER_06]: Guys, that food is getting cold.

[00:31:18] [SPEAKER_06]: They didn't say, it's not that they said a long blessing.

[00:31:21] [SPEAKER_06]: They set the table.

[00:31:22] [SPEAKER_06]: Everybody sits down and it's like, dad does this.

[00:31:24] [SPEAKER_06]: He's been doing it for 20 years.

[00:31:25] [SPEAKER_06]: You've done, I was just like, can somebody just pick some non-ups?

[00:31:31] [SPEAKER_06]: Can we just try, like, I would be losing my mind.

[00:31:35] [SPEAKER_06]: I would just be like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

[00:31:38] [SPEAKER_06]: But like, food.

[00:31:39] [SPEAKER_06]: We did the food.

[00:31:40] [SPEAKER_06]: Can we eat and do this at the same time?

[00:31:42] [SPEAKER_06]: That would be fantastic if we could.

[00:31:47] [SPEAKER_06]: They break out lyric pamphlets for Friday night.

[00:31:51] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I forgot about this.

[00:31:53] [SPEAKER_06]: For Silent Night.

[00:31:53] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:31:54] [SPEAKER_06]: And that's something.

[00:31:57] [SPEAKER_06]: But maybe some people don't know the words to Silent Night.

[00:31:58] [SPEAKER_06]: But Asha should.

[00:32:00] [SPEAKER_06]: If they sing it at her house and her dad plays it,

[00:32:03] [SPEAKER_06]: the fact that everyone is looking at lyrics to Silent Night

[00:32:07] [SPEAKER_06]: is kind of crazy.

[00:32:09] [SPEAKER_06]: Kind of crazy.

[00:32:11] [SPEAKER_06]: The life-size gingerbread man in this movie is terrifying.

[00:32:14] [SPEAKER_06]: And I don't know how it made the cut, but it made it.

[00:32:19] [SPEAKER_06]: But it terrified me to no end.

[00:32:22] [SPEAKER_06]: Also, the lack of things that they talk about as a couple are crazy.

[00:32:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Like, you're going to visit my parents for the first time.

[00:32:27] [SPEAKER_06]: Just FYI, we're not going to be able to sleep in the same bedroom.

[00:32:30] [SPEAKER_06]: Like, a lot of audacity for homework to having that in the movie.

[00:32:32] [SPEAKER_06]: I thought that was pretty cool.

[00:32:33] [SPEAKER_06]: But like, you would think this couple would go over some of this stuff.

[00:32:37] [SPEAKER_06]: Like, if they want to have kids or things like that.

[00:32:41] [SPEAKER_06]: I thought that was a little bit crazy.

[00:32:42] [SPEAKER_06]: And then when we find out that she was so bold as to be a nurse practitioner

[00:32:48] [SPEAKER_06]: instead of a doctor, I thought that was really funny.

[00:32:50] [SPEAKER_06]: Like, that whole idea that it was like, I carved my own path nurse practitioner

[00:32:56] [SPEAKER_06]: was really, really funny to me.

[00:32:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Like, it's not like she passed the MCATs and went and became a nurse.

[00:33:02] [SPEAKER_06]: A nurse practitioner is basically a doctor without the designation.

[00:33:05] [SPEAKER_06]: Like, she basically was like, it was just on distinction.

[00:33:08] [SPEAKER_06]: It was just like, I'm going to do everything you want me to do,

[00:33:12] [SPEAKER_06]: but I'm not going to have the title.

[00:33:15] [SPEAKER_06]: What a rebel.

[00:33:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:33:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:33:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:33:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Is that it?

[00:33:18] [SPEAKER_04]: That's it.

[00:33:18] [SPEAKER_04]: It's time for What the Homemakers Were.

[00:33:20] [SPEAKER_04]: You wonder what could it be?

[00:33:21] [SPEAKER_04]: What are we wondering about, Brian?

[00:33:23] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what we're trying to get to here.

[00:33:24] [SPEAKER_00]: What do you got?

[00:33:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:33:25] [SPEAKER_00]: So Jake's dad, Jake Sr., at one point he pours himself a glass of milk

[00:33:30] [SPEAKER_00]: in the kitchen there.

[00:33:31] [SPEAKER_00]: So we know he likes milk.

[00:33:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm just wondering now, you're going to buy the cow

[00:33:36] [SPEAKER_00]: when you're getting the milk for free?

[00:33:39] [SPEAKER_03]: That's all I'm wondering.

[00:33:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Simple question.

[00:33:41] [SPEAKER_03]: That's all I'm wondering.

[00:33:43] [SPEAKER_03]: That's all I'm wondering.

[00:33:44] [SPEAKER_03]: As long as you're proud of it.

[00:33:46] [SPEAKER_03]: You're going to get back?

[00:33:46] [SPEAKER_03]: You're going to get back?

[00:33:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:33:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Back in the saddle?

[00:33:49] [SPEAKER_03]: That's all I'm wondering.

[00:33:50] [SPEAKER_04]: That's all I'm wondering.

[00:33:52] [SPEAKER_03]: That's all I'm wondering.

[00:33:53] [SPEAKER_03]: That's right.

[00:33:53] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I have questions about what her brother's restaurant is.

[00:34:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's mine too.

[00:34:02] [SPEAKER_04]: It's a nice looking place.

[00:34:03] [SPEAKER_04]: A frigging massive bar.

[00:34:06] [SPEAKER_04]: A huge bar.

[00:34:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Business is good.

[00:34:08] [SPEAKER_04]: A dance floor that I believe is always there and always on that glows from

[00:34:14] [SPEAKER_04]: the below.

[00:34:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Beautiful.

[00:34:16] [SPEAKER_04]: And it's just really long.

[00:34:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Now, I know that they were decorating for the party, but we don't really see

[00:34:23] [SPEAKER_04]: any tables, so they get rid of all.

[00:34:24] [SPEAKER_04]: I just want to know, what is the vibe of this restaurant?

[00:34:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Like on a normal Tuesday night.

[00:34:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[00:34:33] [SPEAKER_04]: When it doesn't have an engagement party going on, what is the vibe of this

[00:34:36] [SPEAKER_04]: restaurant?

[00:34:36] [SPEAKER_04]: I've never seen a bar that large in my life.

[00:34:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Massive.

[00:34:39] [SPEAKER_04]: And Dan, we were talking about it, and I was like, maybe this is a hotel lobby,

[00:34:44] [SPEAKER_04]: because you know how sometimes hotel lobbies have really, really big bars?

[00:34:47] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[00:34:48] [SPEAKER_04]: This was the biggest bar I've ever seen.

[00:34:50] [SPEAKER_04]: In my life.

[00:34:50] [SPEAKER_04]: No bars were held.

[00:34:51] [SPEAKER_04]: No bars were held.

[00:34:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[00:34:52] [SPEAKER_06]: You got anything else, Dano?

[00:34:53] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, you guys touched on most of them, but I will say just all the little

[00:34:58] [SPEAKER_06]: establishments of these characters don't quite add up.

[00:35:02] [SPEAKER_06]: The restaurant clearly isn't a restaurant.

[00:35:05] [SPEAKER_06]: His job is at the courthouse, right?

[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_06]: These all-in Christians are not reading this.

[00:35:12] [SPEAKER_06]: The Christmas story, I believe, starts with Once Upon a Time that he reads in

[00:35:16] [SPEAKER_06]: church.

[00:35:17] [SPEAKER_06]: So there's some little things on the fringes of this movie that I have a huge,

[00:35:23] [SPEAKER_06]: like I don't understand.

[00:35:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, and like the-

[00:35:26] [SPEAKER_06]: You did so much to make it make sense and authentic, and then around the fray,

[00:35:31] [SPEAKER_06]: it's just like, no, it doesn't add up.

[00:35:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:35:34] [SPEAKER_04]: You and I were talking about it, Dan, when we watched it, but the Christianity

[00:35:36] [SPEAKER_04]: part of this movie is interesting, and I would love to hear from the writer as

[00:35:40] [SPEAKER_04]: to why she made this family Christian.

[00:35:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Not that that doesn't happen, because it does, but I thought that it was going to

[00:35:48] [SPEAKER_04]: play a larger part in the overall movie, and it didn't.

[00:35:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, I did too when they went so hard with it early on.

[00:35:53] [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't know if it was like Hallmark hedging its bets like they did with Hanukkah

[00:35:58] [SPEAKER_04]: movies a few years ago.

[00:35:59] [SPEAKER_04]: They were like, let's make it as Christmassy as possible, but say, hey,

[00:36:04] [SPEAKER_04]: here's a Hanukkah movie.

[00:36:05] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[00:36:06] [SPEAKER_04]: It was just interesting.

[00:36:07] [SPEAKER_04]: It was an interesting choice that I would love to hear the backstory as to why,

[00:36:11] [SPEAKER_04]: because I thought it was going to come up a lot more.

[00:36:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Me too.

[00:36:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Me too.

[00:36:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Ultimately, it didn't.

[00:36:15] [SPEAKER_04]: So there's another one.

[00:36:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Free of charge.

[00:36:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Thanks, man.

[00:36:18] [SPEAKER_04]: That's a free of charge one.

[00:36:18] [SPEAKER_04]: Free of charge.

[00:36:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Just to get you in the door again.

[00:36:20] [SPEAKER_04]: That's it.

[00:36:21] [SPEAKER_04]: We did it, everybody.

[00:36:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Congratulations to us, and the good news is we're going to be back tomorrow.

[00:36:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Man, just the hits keep coming.

[00:36:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Hopefully, you'll join us for that.

[00:36:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Until then, we're the first to wish you a Merry Christmas.

[00:36:32] [SPEAKER_06]: We'll be right back.

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[00:37:04] [SPEAKER_04]: It's really up to you at this point.

[00:37:06] [SPEAKER_04]: It's at the end of the show.

[00:37:08] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, you're listening to me.

[00:37:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Hi.

[00:37:10] [SPEAKER_04]: But here they come.

[00:37:11] [SPEAKER_04]: I promise they're coming.

[00:37:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Yep.

[00:37:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Here they are.

[00:37:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Happy day.