Countdown to Christmas: The Preview Saga: Part I (2023) ft. Alonso Duralde

[00:00:01] [SPEAKER_01] Hi, I'm Brandon. I love Hallmark Christmas Preview episodes! I'm Brian, I like Hallmark Christmas Preview episodes!

[00:00:11] [SPEAKER_02] I'm Dan, and even Alonso Duralde's presence can't make Christmas Preview episodes worth having. I'm Alonso, and I am ready to preview Hallmark Christmas movies! And this is the Deck The Hallmark Podcast!

[00:00:24] [SPEAKER_01] Deck The Hallmark is the podcast!

[00:00:29] [SPEAKER_02] Deck. Welcome to Remote, Brian.

[00:00:31] [SPEAKER_01] Deck delframe to this podcast!

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[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_02] We could be doing that, but no. We got to have three Hallmark Christmas movie previews before the season starts. And then a kickoff and a lifetime preview and a Netflix preview and a preview preview. Maybe we'll do a preview of the preview preview. And then we'll look back at the preview preview before we kick off. Oh, my gosh. And then we can rank all the preview episodes. I got to be honest with you, Dan. This schtick of yours is getting pretty old. It's not a schtick. It's getting pretty old. If you had to take a polyester test.

[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_02] It's like if you had to take a polyester test. You'd be itching all over. If you had to take a polygraph, you would know that when the cameras stop rolling and the mics aren't on, I complain about preview episodes just as much as when they're on. You worked pretty hard to figure out the schedule, though. I did because you can't do math. So I'm just doing math. It has nothing to do with that. We had it all set, and then Hallmark announced more movies and mysteries.

[00:01:55] [SPEAKER_02] So this is why you literally can't, in this business, try to plan two months in advance. I don't know why you would try. Why would you try to figure it out from August to October? It doesn't matter. Why would you have your fall decorations up for the Christmas movie preview episode? It doesn't have to make sense. It's still October. Nobody's giving us a polyester test. It's still October.

[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_02] Although I did love Violet Night, but that's a whole other thing. But to actually get to sit in on the fabled Hallmark Christmas movie preview episodes, I'm in for all of this. Alonzo, have you never been on a Hallmark Christmas movie preview episode with us? I have not. Wow. You have been on other previews. Yes. You have Netflix. You have creamed movies. I have. Yes. Few. On this very program. That's what we were getting at. There you go.

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_02] We didn't know if you were still a creaming virgin or if you had before. So that's good to know. Brian, where are you? Why are you here but not here?

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_01] Speaking of creams, for the end of the fall here, I wasn't getting enough fall feels in Greenville, so I headed out of town. And you are in interrogation room C. I can't talk about it. The Boston State Penitentiary.

[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_02] They have given you an hour to do this, correct?

[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_01] Got a little rowdy at the Bruins preseason. Lucky enough to have an Ethernet cable nearby. And here we are. There you are.

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_02] Blinking a rescue message with Zylo. That's right. Worst code. That's right. But you'll be back tomorrow, weirdly enough. That's right. Weirdly enough.

[00:03:41] [SPEAKER_01] Yep.

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_02] Well, that's good. That's good. Well, everybody by now knows how this works. We're going to read some synopses from movies. We did release an episode where we already did a lot of this, and I want to be clear. But go ahead. We did, like, none of this. We did. We literally, the five of us, four of us, sat around and talked about these movies and read some synopses already. Yeah, but we didn't cream anything. We didn't cream anything. Not a single thing. We didn't give predictions. We didn't do anything. So please.

[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_02] It is Christmas to your cream, Dan. Apparently. That's. Don't tell me how to celebrate. Don't tell me how to celebrate Christmas. Put it on a shirt. Put it on a shirt. I'm over here trying to save Christmas. You're over here creaming Christmas. This is what's wrong with America. It's the reason for the season. That's exactly right. It's the creaming for the season. When is our first cream shirt? When do we get a cream t-shirt? I can't in good faith. How in the world? Send people out into the world. Yeah. With just cream all over their. Do you want to get pulled aside at airport security?

[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_02] We got a shirt for you. There are dozens of them. That's exactly right. Not to explain because. Do not wear this shirt at a playground. There may be some people that don't know what we're talking about and they might be confused and concerned. Kind of like messages we get or emails we get once a week after we release a preview episode. To be clear, we are going to be ranking these movies, predicting our ranking of them. One out of five. Holly trees. Christmas trees. Jingle bells. Go ahead. Eggnogs? Candy canes.

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_02] I will take eggnogs. Thank you, Alonzo. And then we've got a lot of movies to get through this time. I think we're doing 15 movies. And so I think it's only fair that we have. It's a one to five ratio. Three creams. Three creams total for this episode. Normally we get three for 12. So you got to really watch it and you do have to plan through it.

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_02] Now, I will say a lot of people, we have gotten messages wondering about what creams are. I think creams mean different things to different people. To me, it means add to. It doesn't mean add to. To me, it does. It doesn't make any sense. But to some people, it just means like, hey, highlight it. To some people, it means. That's how you've defined it for years until you decided it meant plus two ones. I've been highlighting, which, and everyone knows the highlight for me means plus two. You don't, don't try to put words in my mouth.

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_02] What I'm trying to say is when we say cream, just know that it means a magical time. It's like the definition of star quality. It's that little something. That's a little, a little razzle dazzle. Could we have called it a razzle dazzle? Maybe. No, but we went with cream. Let's, let's get started with the first movie of the holiday season, October 20th, 8 PM, which we'll be watching live, by the way, during our marathon, which will be kicking off on Friday night this year, which is very exciting.

[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_02] Live from downtown Greenville, South Carolina. We'll do it live. That's exactly right. Checking it twice over on the Hallmark Channel, starring Kim Matula and Kevin McGarry for Brian up there in Boston. Is Kevin up there? Have you seen him?

[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_01] I haven't seen him yet.

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_02] Back in his hometown, his roots.

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_01] I'm probably in too fancy of an area. He probably hangs out in the streets with the regular folks. Yeah, of course. He's a Southie boy. He sounds Southie.

[00:06:59] [SPEAKER_02] Absolutely. But listen, regardless, you still got to go to Duncan, you know? Heck yeah. Heck yeah. A journeyman hockey player played by McGarry falls for a real estate agent played by... Like a union worker? Yeah, I think he's a union hockey player. Falls for a real estate agent played by Matula in a career crisis.

[00:07:23] [SPEAKER_02] When he's traded to her hometown and moves into the cottage in her hockey-loving family's backyard. And that is all one sentence. McGarry, hockey player, gets traded and is now living in a cottage in the hockey-loving family's backyard. Very exciting stuff. I will start with Brian because I can already see the cream just oozing from the Skype call. What are you thinking about this one, Bri?

[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_01] Usually on video calls, creaming this easy gets you in trouble. The easiest cream I've ever dispensed. Let's get that out of the way. Cream number one, gone. Checking out. Are you serious? 100%. Can't wait. Why are you surprised by this? Yeah, I guess. It's a hockey movie. Whatever. This is exactly what I've been dreaming of. It's all I want. They can stop after this one, I feel like. Five eggnogs. Just pour them down my throat. First cream. I'm trying to think of a hockey analogy. Out of the box.

[00:08:19] [SPEAKER_01] Out of the box. You've had so many other analogies already.

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_03] Yeah, you sure have.

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_02] It's a whole analogy note. Yeah. Five and a cream with the first move of the year. Yeah, absolutely. Poor boy. I want to hear it. I want to hear it. I want to hear it. A very bold move. Alonzo. I mean, look, don't get mad at me, suspenders with buttons, people, whatever you're called. The Kevin McGarry ites out there. I'm still mad about my grown-up Christmas list. Yep.

[00:08:50] [SPEAKER_02] However, Kim Majula did do Ghost of Christmas Always, which was one of the better ones. From last year. I hope this is actually set in Canada. We're not trying to pretend that this is about hockey in Michigan or whatever. Who are we kidding? Yeah, I mean, the first movie, you never know. You might get a Christmas at Pemberley Manor, or you might get a Noel next door. It's like, I don't know. I'm going to say one and a half eggnogs, no cream yet. Yeah.

[00:09:20] [SPEAKER_02] When you said you might get a Christmas at Pemberley Manor, and you might get a Noel next door, where Bran was like, yeah, you might get awesome, and you might get awesome. That's an interesting range, but whatever. You might get a 10 of 10, or you might get a 10 of 10. It could go either way. So what you're saying is a 10 of 10. Here's what I've learned about Bran is there is no bad first movie of Countdown to Christmas. It does not exist. And I think he would even admit that. Oh, wait, whoa, whoa.

[00:09:48] [SPEAKER_02] What was the one with the junk shop and the ski resort? Merry Christmas Match. Yes. All right. Go listen to the review that we put out on that one, Alonzo, where he, I know it's going to shock you, but he liked it, if you can believe it. It did give us If Santa Was a Football Hero. If Santa Were a Football Hero on Sunday Night TV. What a great song. Are you kidding me?

[00:10:16] [SPEAKER_02] What's the one with, didn't Jill Wagner kick off the season a couple of? Yeah, that was Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses. That was the Saturday night movie after the Friday night movie. After that movie. Interesting. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. No, this one was going to be great. Here's. Daniel, your institutional memory is impressive, I have to say. Yeah, I know. Thank you. Appreciate it.

[00:10:38] [SPEAKER_01] It's all he has going for.

[00:10:39] [SPEAKER_02] It's literally the only thing, reason why he's here. He's really just an archive at this point that we kind of like call on. The lie is because we go over it eight effing times a year in preview episodes, ranking episodes, and look back episodes and pick off episodes. Stop it. Stop it. What's a pick off episode? A kick off. Oh, oh, oh. Kick off, not a pick off. Because I mean, I'm down to do another thing. I just need more context.

[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_02] Give me a polyester test and I will tell you that these preview episodes are stupid. Here's where I'm going to be, okay? Are you ready? Three. Yeah. Three to kick off the season. Just right out of the gate. I don't really care what it is. We're kicking off the holiday season. So I'm starting right down the middle with three. Sure. I'm going to add one for the chance that we get Kevin doing some sort of accent. He's playing hockey. I think there's a chance we get a little something weird going on there.

[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_02] And I will give it one more. Just dare to dream, Alonso. And I'm giving it one more cream for a total of five. Because in this image that I'm looking at on the Entertainment Weekly. You're giving it one more cream? I'm sorry. One more eggnog. Yeah. Which is creamy, but don't conflate it. I'm not giving, I'm not creaming this movie. What gives you a conflate? This picture that we have on Entertainment Weekly is them outside on an ice rink surrounded by mountains.

[00:12:03] [SPEAKER_02] It's a beautiful picture. And if we get some of that in this movie, which I'm hoping for seeing is how we have an image. Forget about it. We're going to be watching this live in front of an audience in downtown Greenville. I'm losing my mind just thinking about it. Five eggnogs. Let's start it right now. Here we go. There is snow on that mountain. I'll give it that. Woo! I'm going to go zero, no cream.

[00:12:27] [SPEAKER_02] And anytime one of the two leads is rocking the blank baseball cap, you know they spared no expense in this venture. This movie sounds atrocious. It looks atrocious. And the only reason that I'm second guessing the zero is, is Kim Matula, who I believe in Ghost of Christmas Always, that was her first Hallmark Christmas movie, if I'm not mistaken. She's wonderful. So I feel bad giving it zero. You are the archive, so you should. I feel bad giving it zero.

[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_02] But not bad enough to change my mind. Give me a zero to start the year. And then, but I guarantee you the next movie won't be a zero. How about that? How about that? That's beautiful. Erin?

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_00] Oh, I'm going to give it two.

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_02] Thank you. Great. Honey, we have your camera. I just need to add it to the OBS. That's what I need to do. There is an Aaron cam that could be making an appearance throughout the holiday season. File.tv.dth. I know. I know. File.tv.dth to see the Aaron cam, but also, as if that's not enough, because we don't have it today. All the movies we're talking about is you'll be able to watch. We only have 14 more of these to do. Let's get going.

[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_02] This is going to be like a Lawrence of Arabia-length Deck the Hallmark episode. Where are you, Christmas? Why can't I find you? That's the name of the movie, Where Are You, Christmas? October 21st. Closing out the marathon with this one with Lindsay. Is that Lindsay? Lindsay Fonseca. Why is it spelled? There's too many whys. You know, people can spell their name however they want. I know that. Michael Rady.

[00:14:10] [SPEAKER_02] It can be a vowel. Michael Rady. Sometimes. Yeah. Michael Rady. Is it a vowel there? No. Jim O'Hare. Actually, it is. It is. Dang it. Phonics. Well, how do you know when it is? If it's making the A or E sound, it's a vowel. If it's the Yuh sound, it's a consonant. Michael Radya. Jim O'Hare and Julie Warner.

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_02] Addie wishes for a year without Christmas. And she wakes up in a world of black and white. She must work together with the town mechanic. Michael Rady. Oh, my gosh. Michael Rady is a mechanic. Are you kidding me right now? To restore Christmas. Brian.

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_01] Yeah. Four Nogs. Obviously. It's hard not to cream both of these movies the first weekend.

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_02] I gave you no other stipulations aside from three total. You don't have to wait. You can.

[00:15:12] [SPEAKER_01] I know. I know. I know. If you're ready to cream again, you go for it, buddy. Thanks, man. I'm going to hold off a little bit. Thanks for the support. No, go five. Five Nogs. Double five Nogs for the first weekend from me. Five Nogs.

[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_02] Absolutely.

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_01] Come on.

[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_02] Are you kidding me right now? A Michael Rady mechanic?

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_01] Yeah.

[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_02] If he's wearing a mechanic's costume.

[00:15:39] [SPEAKER_01] Call it a uniform. Yeah, sure.

[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_02] As I said it, I do. I was incorrect. We have to buy mechanics. So wait to record, Brian. Let's go down to the local auto shop and for him to walk in and go, that's a cool mechanic's costume to see the response he gets. He's cosplaying Mr. Goodrich. Yeah. But if I wear it, it is a costume. Well, technically, technically what I said is not ink because Michael Rady is not a mechanic in real life.

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_02] So therefore, it is a costume. Cinema. Alonzo, go. Well, okay. Anything with Michael Rady gets a minimum three Nogs for me. I'm going to go four because Jim O'Hare, true story, in 2011 when Dave and I had our cars blown up by an arsonist. We've never met this gentleman, but he actually donated to the fund to get us new cars. So he gets a whole Nog to himself. And frankly, if I knew for a fact that they were being literal and they say that the movie

[00:16:40] [SPEAKER_02] goes black and white, I'd go all five. But I don't know if that's true or not. I think it does actually go black. Michael Rady's image on here isn't black and white as if he's dead. So it's possible. I think they actually do go black and white. Then five for me, but no cream. And I know you're fishing for us to ask for follow-ups. We're not going to. We're up against it. But there's nothing we can do. Yes. Five. Easy.

[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_02] Oh, Dan. Yeah. This is at least worth three. You're right. I think I'm going to go four and a cream here. Whoa! Whoa! Oh, did a cream this early? Yeah. Listen. Santa's real! You've already told me I can't hold the creams. I have to use them. Absolutely cannot hold them. Correct. So I may as well use them on movies that sound like they could be interesting or hold my interest after being up for 26 straight hours. That is the purpose of a cream. Yes. Straight hours.

[00:17:40] [SPEAKER_02] You got Michael Rady. You got Michael Rady. That's right. Yeah. And then Jim O'Hare's got to donate to a fund. Don't ask. Don't ask. Lindsay Fonseca from the Time Traveling Train movie. So you got Lindsay Fonseca, who I do like. Michael Rady, who's the best. I mean, come on. You've got a movie where someone wishes Christmas didn't exist, which quite frankly, doing this job sometimes is me. And then you've got it going black and white. Sometimes. All of these things add up to a movie that has a lot of potential. Has a lot of potential. And Julie Warner from Doc Hollywood. Yeah. And that.

[00:18:10] [SPEAKER_02] Four. Four. I can't believe. I didn't think of that. Four no hugs and a cream. Oh. There's too many likes of Lindsay. I'm not being obscured. You're not big. I assume you never are because of my knowledge. Aaron.

[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_00] Just for note taking clarification purposes. Alonzo, you said four.

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_02] He went with five. No, I'm going to five, but no cream.

[00:18:33] [SPEAKER_00] I'm going to say five as well.

[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_02] Wow. Wow. Wow. Do you want to make it a clean sweep and up it to a five? You know, now that I'm thinking about it, no, I don't. Four is good for me. Four is good in a cream. Die in a hole. Die in a hole. By your metric, that's six. Yeah. So you're right. Judge anybody right now. Stupid. Oh, I hate you. It's true. I do. The last one for the first weekend under the Christmas sky. This is with Jessica Parker Kennedy. Oh, they got her.

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_02] I thought I was a mile away. And Ryan, a lot of vowels in this one, too. Pay view. Pay per view. Pay per view. Ryan, Jessica Parker Kennedy and Ryan pay per view. Kat is an esteemed astrophysicist who is scheduled for her first trip to space next year until an accident grounds her. You're grounded.

[00:19:30] [SPEAKER_02] While on leave, coming to terms with the reality of her dream being an astronaut, she volunteers at the local planetarium. There she is paired with, by the book, David, to work on... Is that by the script? By the book. Or just by the book. By the book, David. To work on an exhibit opening right before Christmas when all best exhibits do.

[00:19:59] [SPEAKER_02] Will the stars align to bring these two together for the holidays? Brian?

[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_01] I feel like it's not this movie's fault, but I feel like I'm going to be a little worn out by the time this one rolls around that first weekend. I'm not... You know, it's like preseason. It's like early in the season. You got to get your legs under you. So I'm just going two eggnogs for this one. Not as excited as the other two. So I'm going to go with two noggs.

[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah. The Sunday movie of the marathon weekend typically doesn't get our best, and typically it also doesn't deserve it. So I feel that. Doesn't mean I'm not excited for it. Sure. It's just, you know, the way things shake. Alonzo? Yeah. I mean, Ryan Pavey is a man of science. I can't go higher than one and a half nogg on that. I'll two nogg it up. Just a deuce nogg.

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_02] I'm not against it. I just agree with the overall statement and sentiment of the group that by Sunday, with the amount of noggs and creams that have been consumed and given. Again, I'm foggy on the details. It's just there's only so. How good can this truly be with how good those first two might be? So I'm going to go with two. Yeah.

[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_02] I feel like the way this movie was pitched was bad but planetarium. And so based upon that pitch alone, I can't really. I was going to give it a half a nogg. But then I realized I'm more excited about the McGarry one than this one. Oh, you've done this to yourself. So let me go zero. Let me go zero. You want a retroactive nogg? No, I do not.

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_02] I think both are zero for me with a whatever like a cream is without giving a cream to the McGarry movie versus this planetary. A wink. It's zero and a wink, four and a cream, zero and a nothing. Aaron. Am I announcing like a race? A horse race? It's zero and a wink by a nose. By a nose. And it's a scratch.

[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_00] I think by this point in the marathon, this will either be a movie I forget ever aired or will be the greatest movie I've ever seen depending on my level of exhaustion. I'm giving it one eggnog.

[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_02] This movie is on Sunday. It's on Sunday. Oh, yeah. So if we're doing a marathon on Sunday still, then we will all be in full delirium. But we'll be watching it after the marathon. Yeah. No, but like. Yeah.

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_00] So it's either going to be like the greatest thing because I'm so tired and I watch it and I'm like best movie ever or I'm going to be asleep and forget about it.

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_02] I mean, the nice thing is that this is a Hallmark Channel movie, not an HMM movie as we've seen like with prior marathons and we have to end it and it's a movies and mysteries. I'm glad we don't get that this year. You get the 10 p.m. slot has gone away. Now it's just Sunday night Hallmark Channel. So hopefully it's still lights enough to keep keep us engaged throughout the weekend. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and we will. We'll go faster.

[00:23:08] [SPEAKER_02] I promise we've gotten we've gotten our feet under questions about the cars burning down guys. None. He donated. Don't ask how he found it. Hello, everybody. Welcome back. We're talking about all the Christmas movies that we want to until we're done and then we'll do it again next Monday. We are to weekend number two starting on Thursday with an HMM movie.

[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_02] This is Miss Christmas Comes to Town with Erica Durant. Durant. Durant. Durant. Brandon Elliott and Barbara Niven. A shopping channel host known as Miss Christmas played by Niven receives a terminal diagnosis. It is an HMM movie for those of you who don't know. Which inspires a multi-city excursion set to spread Christmas cheer before. You never said the word excursion in your life. I was working it out as I said it.

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_02] A multi-city excursion set. Excursion, governor. Which inspires a multi-city excursion set to spread Christmas cheer before her farewell broadcast. That's all we have. Brian.

[00:24:22] [SPEAKER_01] Boy, that sounds sad. Really sad. It sounds so sad. You're going to die on air? A few weeks ago, we got caught up in some TV shopping promos there. We did. Brian, we did. You did. You weren't here. You weren't here for that. It was a lot of fun. Yeah.

[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_02] I remember it. The bagel one. You did at the office. The knife. You weren't here. I know. I was saying I heard you talking about it. But when you say it, it makes people think you were here. And I don't want anyone to think that you were here. Yeah. And I secretly love the preview. You love QVC and you love the preview episode. I was out on an excursion.

[00:25:01] [SPEAKER_01] I think you were actually. So that, I don't think we're going to get a lot of Shopping Network shows. I hope we do. So I'm going to give a nog for that. A nog for Brennan Elliott, obviously. Then one more. Three. I'm going to go three eggnogs on this one. Even though it's going to be sad. It's probably not going to live up to it. But I got to, you know, I'm really anticipating. Brian in an auction with himself.

[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_02] Goes up to three. I'm going to give it one. Another nog for Brennan. Two to three. I'm going to go three noggs. Three noggs. Alonzo. Yeah. So I have always said that Hallmark is more likely to stumble into drama than they are to stumble into comedy. That given the choice between like a sad movie that might actually be genuinely moving as opposed to a comedy that's supposed to be funny. They've got better odds at getting the sad right. I love Barbara Niven.

[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_02] You know, she's one of my favorites sort of like usually the Hallmark mom. And so she's clearly getting a much more central role here. You know, Erica Durant was the widow in the one last year with the magician. And, you know, Brennan Elliott is Brennan Elliott. He can totally do this kind of thing. So I'm five and a cream. Wow. Five and a cream here. Sheesh. Louise. Unbelievable. Didn't see it coming.

[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_02] I do think that this movie has the potential to be very good. It also has an even better potential of making me cry. And I just don't know if I'm in the mood. So I'm going to go with two, two eggnogs for this one. If I'm going to watch a movie that seems very sad on its surface, that's made by Hallmark, having Brennan Elliott in it helps its prospects. Having Barbara Niven in it also helps its prospects.

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_02] For those two stars, I'm going to give it two eggnogs. It's a two for two situation. Two for two. There you go. You guys know what we mean. Erin?

[00:27:03] [SPEAKER_00] I really like Brennan Elliott and Barbara Niven, so this is getting two eggnogs.

[00:27:06] [SPEAKER_02] Whoa. Triple twos? Good rating. Good rating. Deuces? Just a bunch of deuces. Up next, we have Christmas by Design with Rebecca Dalton. I feel like that movie's been made before. Yeah. How is Christmas by Design? Designing Christmas has. Christmas Made to Order has. Love and Design has. Well. Love Christmas by Design. I already messed up. Rebecca Dalton and Jonathan Keltz.

[00:27:37] [SPEAKER_02] Fashion designer, Dalton, gets accepted into a Christmas challenge to create a new holiday-themed collection and not only finds the inspiration for her next line but decides to redesign her approach to what's important in life. Do you guys see what they did there? She's designing but also redesigning. Brian? That was it.

[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_01] Okay. Yeah. I don't know. I feel like this will be a little silly, a little zany. I hope it is. It also might just be super middle of the road and just be cutting fabric and re-questioning your life choices. Re-questioning your life choices? Yeah. We're going back to process. Going back to questioning. Um, so, uh, I think I'm going to go two and a half eggnogs. I'm going to drink two and then I'm going to start us third, but just be too full to finish

[00:28:30] [SPEAKER_01] it and leave it right on the counter. So two and a half.

[00:28:32] [SPEAKER_02] More than fair. Alonzo? Yeah, we're getting into Halloween weekend, y'all. Already? This is grim territory and these, these fashions are going to be, uh, vomitrocious. You can quote me on that. I can already tell it's just going to be, uh, embarrassing for all involved. So one nog for me. I disagree as somebody who, um, I would, I think everyone would consider me a bit of a fashionista. Yeah, for sure.

[00:28:59] [SPEAKER_02] Um, I love Christmas fashion. I love Christmas garb, anything, whether it's a Christmas sweater, uh, a wonderful Christmas suit. It can be any of the sorts. I love to see it. And so I'm hopeful. I'm holding out hope that the Christmas fashion will, uh, give me all the feels. And for that, I am going to go right down the middle with three. This is a return of Jonathan Kelts, who is the Royal, uh, subject of the Natalie Hall movies,

[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_02] but the lifetime of the counts and, and fit for a Prince, right? That's the guy I'll double check. Yeah. That's Elizabeth Cullen. You are the archive, uh, uh, dude. He, she, she loves him. Um, it's, it's, is that him? Yeah. Yeah. Nice to see him back on the network. I'm interested to see what happens, um, when he doesn't play a Royal, the rest of this movie sounds like a absolute train wreck. This sounds like, I tell you what it sounds like. It sounds like the movie that makes us realize that we're not to November yet, that we've

[00:29:57] [SPEAKER_02] been watching these movies and we've seen four or five of them and we have 35 left to go that circle. This one, this is the one 41 minutes in. I'm going to look at Brandon and go, we're doing this again. We're 12% through with the countdown. You'll be re-questioning your life choices. I'll be re-questioning my life choices. It does happen around this time every year. Uh, a half nog for the Kelsey. There it is. The Kelsey. Uh, uh, Aaron?

[00:30:23] [SPEAKER_00] Uh, just one nog for me.

[00:30:25] [SPEAKER_02] A singular nog for Aaron. I don't like the fashion movies. Yeah. She doesn't like the fashion movies. Tough critic over there. Uh, October 28th. I don't know, man. October 28th. It's mystic Christmas. This is with, uh, zero. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Sorry. Oh, wait. My turn. Ain't no scam. I'm a fan of Jesse Schram. Chandler Massey, Patty Murren's back. And William R.

[00:30:55] [SPEAKER_02] Moss. I'm sorry. William R. Moses. William R. Moss Moses. Uh, Juniper, played by Schram, travels to Mystic, Connecticut during the holidays to work at the rehabilitation center and aquarium. What? Wait, is it? Combination? Is that like a Pizza Hut Taco Bell? Well, is it like a pet rehab facility? Oh, that makes more sense. That makes more sense.

[00:31:23] [SPEAKER_02] I was, I think we all like if you could get three miles in on the treadmill, go over the bike and then take a dive in the shorts. I was thinking people were taking bumps off the, uh, like the, the glass by the, by the, the, the jumping guy. Taking bumps? Or the cocaine. The jumping guy? That kind of rehab. Drugs. I was thinking drugs. I had to do more than the, the, my share of legwork. She reconnects with Sawyer, the owner of a pizza shop. Uh, that's all we got. Cool. Bri.

[00:31:52] [SPEAKER_01] Is this movies and mysteries?

[00:31:54] [SPEAKER_02] No, man. HC. This is a big, big show. This is Saturday night.

[00:31:58] [SPEAKER_01] Man, they got me with pizza shop. Um, they got me with pizza shop. Uh, because they get you to Connecticut or just any pizza shop. It could be any pizza shop. Okay. But, uh, we're going to, I hope we spent a lot of time in the pizza shop. Um, aquarium. Yeah. I mean, I guess I'm going to go through three dogs again. That seems to be my standard right down the middle. Um, three dogs for the pizza shop. Um, yeah. Yeah. You want to say it again?

[00:32:27] [SPEAKER_02] You want to say pizza shop? Could you say, I'm just thinking of a, could you say pizza shop one more time to make sure I know that you're excited about it? We got one, two, three, four pizza shop. There you go. Great. Alonzo. Uh, I got half a nog for Jesse Schramm and half a nog for Patty Murin. And the one is as high as I can go. I'm sorry. Chandler Massey is the dog whistle. I cannot hear. Yep. Yep. Yep. There. Um, I am going to go. Yes.

[00:32:55] [SPEAKER_02] I am going to go with three, but I, I four and a cream. I'm creaming. Mystic Christmas. The aquarium rehab. I think there's something like, what if it's like pizza? Someone's eating pizza. What if there's like a free willy bit? Like you're nursing, I got a whale back to health. I don't know. Oh, come on. Too soon. You monster. You monster. Boo.

[00:33:25] [SPEAKER_02] Is it aquarium rehab? Like where the dolphin goes to get the prosthetic tail put on it? I can't wrap my head around what that even is. Dolphin tail. Yeah. I think, yeah. Maybe this is like, you get the sat, like, you know, in free, like what if it's free willy with pizza? Like, I know we're really focusing in on mystic pizza, but what if it's free willy with pizza? What if I told you it 100% isn't? I don't care. I am craving it for the possibility of free willy. It's a possibility cream. It's a possibility cream.

[00:33:55] [SPEAKER_02] Sometimes it happens. Yeah. The possibility of free willy with pizza is too much for me to pass. I would rather be doing bumps off the glass by the gym. Yeah. Why do you hate whales? It is. Why do you hate them? I do hate whales. And we've said that from the beginning. No, we don't have time for you, whale guy. The cars were on fire. I'm trying to hang it up now. Cream, cream, cream. I can't. I don't have time. Cream the whales. All right. There we go.

[00:34:24] [SPEAKER_02] Sounds like a personal problem. I would say this. Patty Murin in a supporting role where she gets to be really funny. That I am here for. I'll give it a nog for Patty Murin in that kind of role. I think she's great in those roles. So I'll give it a nog, but it sounds just dreadful. Real, real bad. But what if it's free willy with pizza? If it is free willy with pizza, I will re-record this entire preview episode with all four of you in the room. Everybody, everybody, me.

[00:34:54] [SPEAKER_02] And I will say I was wrong and I'll say five all the way. Triple cream. Triple cream for free willy with pizza. Thank you. Thank you. Try and stop me. Thank you, man. You're going to be looking real dumb soon. Erin?

[00:35:11] [SPEAKER_00] I think I'm going to go five nogs on this one. Stop it.

[00:35:15] [SPEAKER_02] Whoa. Why?

[00:35:16] [SPEAKER_00] I love Christmas in Connecticut. Christmas in Connecticut.

[00:35:23] [SPEAKER_02] Mute or Mike? Mute or Mike? Mute or Mike? Mute or Mike? Mute or Mike? Mute or Mike? Mute or Mike? I'm going five because I love Christmas.

[00:35:29] [SPEAKER_00] You need to let me finish Christmas in Connecticut. The Mystic Aquarium, all of it. I'm hoping to get some home feels.

[00:35:37] [SPEAKER_02] Home feels. Fair enough. Fair enough. Christmas. I love Christmas. And what more do you need to know? This is going to be a Christmas of Wales. This is going to be a long episode if every Christmas movie is five because you love Christmas. Joy X Noel. Oh, boy. October 29th, 8 p.m. JC Elliott and Brant Daughtry.

[00:36:06] [SPEAKER_02] I'm coming home. No different. I know. When a romantic painting of a Christmas market captures. He seems to look at this photograph, I believe. When a romantic painting of a Christmas market captures the imagination of copy editor Leah, she is sent to France with pragmatic reporter Mark to uncover the mystery behind the artist. Uh-oh. Brian. Brian.

[00:36:36] [SPEAKER_01] A copywriter is sent to France. Copy editor. Copy editor. Copy editor. Because a picture of a Christmas market inspires her. Inspires. It already seems unnecessary. Do more proofreading. Oh. Yeah. Who has that budget where the copy editor goes on? I don't know. I'm not. I think I'm a little full right now. I think I'm just going to probably just have like a couple of tips. Every Sunday movie for Brian's going to be like, ah, there's nothing I can do.

[00:37:05] [SPEAKER_01] I'm all nogged out. I've got too much nog. Yeah. Just a half a nog on this one and then right to bed. Right to bed.

[00:37:13] [SPEAKER_02] More than fair. Alonzo. Yeah. Until you put Brant Daughty and Chandler Massey in a movie together, I don't know that I really am interested in them separately. And if I thought this movie were really going to do France and Christmas markets in an exciting way, I would be more on board. The fact that, again, this is the weekend before Halloween. I suspect that neither of those things are the case. So it's a zero for me. Yeah. Yeah. This is the I think this is the first one for me that I'm that I'm like, I don't know.

[00:37:42] [SPEAKER_02] I don't know about this one because I don't care about paintings. Nor do pronounce the title. And I can't pronounce the title. And so that's going to be tough for me. This is going to be a tough episode. I'm going to go with two. Nope. A nog and a half. Nog and a half. I was going to give it five and a cream because I do love Christmas. But then I heard the synopsis and it sounds God awful.

[00:38:09] [SPEAKER_02] Half a nog for getting to hear Brant pronounce this title at least three or four more times. Thank you, Aaron.

[00:38:15] [SPEAKER_00] I'm going one and a half. One because I like JC and a half for you pronouncing this title.

[00:38:20] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah. Over and over again. Thank you, everybody. I appreciate your support. That's what my half is for as well. I do feel like your support is sarcastic, but I'm going to choose. I'm throwing a Joya Noel themed quinceañera. It's going to be. Oh, man. That is my nightmare.

[00:38:34] [SPEAKER_01] How would you dress for that?

[00:38:35] [SPEAKER_02] Boy, I don't want to say. Um, my next weekend, everybody. It's Thursday night. It's HMM and it's time for my Christmas guide. November 2nd. Uh, this is with Amber Marshall and Ben Mel. Uh, after losing his eyesight, a college professor played by Mel, uh, adopts a seeing eye dog from a guide dog trainer played by Marshall.

[00:38:59] [SPEAKER_02] As they begin to spend time together, his confidence returns and his heart begins to open.

[00:39:08] [SPEAKER_01] Brian? The last one, guiding Emily snuck up on me. The last what? The last movie where there was an eye issue, a sight issue and a dog and a seeing a dog, a guide dog. That man said the last one. The last time they did this to us.

[00:39:25] [SPEAKER_02] It does seem like this one doesn't have the talking element. So, well, I guess we'll really test, test Dan's theory that the talking dog took away from the movie, which is insane. It doesn't happen all the time. There's a talking dog, but this time it did. You, you hate talking dogs. Yeah.

[00:39:44] [SPEAKER_01] Brian, what do you got? To be on the safe side, I'll go with three nogs, uh, because I don't want to be caught again without, with not enough. If it's really good, I don't want to be on the wrong side of that argument again. That didn't feel good last time.

[00:39:57] [SPEAKER_02] So what, what if though, Brian, what if it's free Willy with pizza?

[00:40:01] [SPEAKER_01] I love Christmas.

[00:40:05] [SPEAKER_02] All of this is fair. All of this is fair. Uh, Alonzo. Uh, golly. You know, I didn't see guiding Emily. So for me, the last one is the colorblind movie. So that's not a great thing to work off of. I will give them one nog for casting a visually impaired actor in a visually impaired role. Uh, also, by the way, the one thing the baby planetary movie has going forward is that it has a wheelchair using actor in a wheelchair using performance.

[00:40:32] [SPEAKER_02] Uh, but yeah, one nog is about all I can do here. Maybe if the dog talked, I'd go another half. Alonzo gets it. Um, I mean, I'm intrigued, I guess. I'm intrigued by it. I'll go three right down the middle. Three nogs. I'm going to take Alonzo's answer. It was my answer. One. One. Move along. One. Move along. Uh, Aaron.

[00:40:55] Oh, one as well.

[00:40:56] [SPEAKER_02] One as well. One as well. Uh, November 3rd. Hallmark Channel flipping for Christmas. This is with Ashley Newborough and Marcus Rosner. It's almost Christmas when busy realtor Abigail, played by Newborough, uh, agrees to help her sister with a quote unquote simple fix of a recently inherited home.

[00:41:20] [SPEAKER_02] Unfortunately, co-beneficiary Bo, played by Rosner, has other plans in mind.

[00:41:27] [SPEAKER_01] Brian. Gosh. This, uh, this hits too close to home at the moment dealing with house issues. And I feel like I might be triggered by, uh, some of the problems, the house problems that I'm not looking forward to that. So, uh, it's the movie might be really good. Marcus Rosner is a blast. Usually. Oh, I got it. I, I'll just go two and a half because I'm just afraid of all the house problems. Right down the middle. Nice job. Almost.

[00:41:57] [SPEAKER_02] Alonzo. Uh, while I am a little skittish about, uh, divvied inheritance, cause we've been down this road before. Uh, I am high on, uh, Marcus Rosner coming off of notes of autumn and, uh, Ashley Newborough coming off of the saving Christmas spirit, which you guys did not understand. Uh, so I'm going to go, uh, three right down the middle. Thank you. Alonzo. I can't believe you're jumping on board with three right down the middle. He's jumping down. I cannot believe you. Are you kidding me? I know you, sir.

[00:42:27] [SPEAKER_02] He's jumping on. Great. He's jumping on the side of truth and facts. He's jumping on the side of truth and facts. He knows better. That's right. Um, I'm okay with this one. This seems very, uh, cookie cutter, classic hallmark. Um, we'll see what happens. I'm going to go to listen. We've had Ashley and Marcus on our program. Both wonderful. We still text Marcus from time to time. Great dude.

[00:42:56] [SPEAKER_02] Um, still are in touch with Ashley. Wonderful. This movie sounds awful. It sounds stale and static and done a million times. It's a little old hallmark for sure. Yeah. Yes. I cannot, I can't even muster half a nog here. Wow. It's a zero. It's a zero for me. It's added to the zero pile. The zero pile.

[00:43:18] [SPEAKER_01] Um, for us. That's right.

[00:43:20] [SPEAKER_02] That's exactly right. And Aaron.

[00:43:22] [SPEAKER_00] Um, I'm going to do one nog for Marcus, one nog for Ashley and one to make it three right down the middle.

[00:43:27] [SPEAKER_02] Thank you, Aaron. This is the problem. This is the problem. People think it happens all the time. Listen to people talk. The most watched movie in the world is Titanic. It's not the best movie. You're right. Like we're, we're not, listen, we're not doing this. You guys can, you guys can all be wrong about math. That's fine. You just have a stroke. You're right. I'm okay. What's happening to you? No one asked for that. Uh, never been Chris. Oh, this is what's in this. I'll tell you.

[00:43:56] [SPEAKER_02] This is November 4th, by the way, in the Hallmark channel. Janelle Parrish, Pascal Lamothekipsness. Nope. Guys just bug off. And Tyler Hines. Pascal Lamothekipsness is in this movie. Alonzo. What? Can you help? Can you help with the name? Um, I'm looking her up right now. Uh, Lamothekipsness sounds like it's what it is. Uh huh. It sure does. And he knows so much.

[00:44:24] [SPEAKER_02] Uh, home for the holidays. BFFs Naomi and Liz reconnect with high school crush Chris Silver. They give his full name so that they were both their BFFs and they were both crushing on Chris. Yes. Okay. A complex love triangle forms forcing them to take stock of their lives and find the value of friendship. That. Okay.

[00:44:54] [SPEAKER_01] Brian. Brian. Yeah. Yeah. I'm recently, uh, it was always, you've hopped on the Philo when, after I finished a movie.

[00:45:01] [SPEAKER_02] Philo.tv slash DTH. That's right.

[00:45:03] [SPEAKER_01] I forgot how funny it was. And I know Tyler loves disrupting, uh, friendships and relationships in these movies. It's like his new thing and he's really good at it. So he's going to do a great job. Uh, and we haven't seen him in a while. So I hope it's funny. I hope he disrupts this friendship brilliantly and wins like you did last time. Five eggnogs, uh, obviously because anticipation is super high though. I don't condone it.

[00:45:32] [SPEAKER_01] He's just really good at disrupting relationships with other people. Yeah. I mean, you like him. You're just not inviting him over for dinner.

[00:45:40] [SPEAKER_02] Alonzo. I mean, look, take Tyler Hines out of this equation. And this sounds like a multi-car pileup waiting to happen. So with Tyler Hines, I'll say two and a half. That's impressive. You want to know what I'm intrigued by with this movie is that last sentence there, which is most of it, but the last part of the last sentence here, which is, um, to take stock of their lives and find the value of friendship.

[00:46:08] [SPEAKER_02] Is it possible folks that we get a Tyler Hines movie where the movie ends and no one ends up with Tyler Hines? They choose friendship. Do they choose friendship? Wow. Do we not get a Tyler Hines kiss? There's no way. Now here's the thing. Of course, no one wants to watch a Tyler Hines kiss more. I mean, yes, there are people that want us to watch it, but I'm high on the list, but

[00:46:36] [SPEAKER_02] the prospect of throwing out the playbook and going, let's just make the friends end up as the main priority. And then it's like, you know what, Tyler, you, maybe you could, whatever. It doesn't matter. None of us are going to end up with you. No kiss for you. Or they could both end up with him, but they could, but I don't think we're there yet. No kiss, Alonzo. I'm going to go with four. I'm going to go with four knocks and a potential cream.

[00:47:07] [SPEAKER_02] And a potential. So you're creaming it. I'm creaming it. That's your second cream you use? It's my second cream. I'm using my second cream. So I'm taking the more pessimistic view of this film, which is it's a Tyler Hines movie that they've decided to get rid of on November 4th. It does sound like a mess of a movie. Get rid of or bring in ratings. Thanks. I just, I've seen, I've seen and heard so little about this. Janelle Parrish is great. We love her. Tyler Hines is great. Pascal Lamoff, Kipzness.

[00:47:36] [SPEAKER_02] Kipzness, I'm sure she's wonderful. Never seen her that I know of. This movie sounds like it's terrible. It's, and I'm concerned that after the run of great Tyler Hines Christmas movies that we've had, Unexpected Christmas, Three Wives Men and a Baby, I feel like we're due for a little bit of a stinker. On the 12th date of Christmas. 12th date of Christmas. Also a good one. I'm forgetting time for him to come home for Christmas and act because he did two that year. I'm acting like it didn't happen.

[00:48:04] [SPEAKER_02] I'm going to, I'm going to say that we're due for a stinker here. And I'm going to go out on a limb and say, not only am I not excited, but I'm worried. I'm worried about this movie. One nog, one nog for our boy Ty. That's it. Erin.

[00:48:21] [SPEAKER_00] Bran has never, ever steered me wrong. I'm going four in a cream.

[00:48:25] [SPEAKER_02] You're my boy Blue. You're my boy Blue. Last one for the weekend. November 5th. Hallmark channeled the Santa Summit with Hunter King, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Amy Groening, Stephanie Tsai. It's time for the annual Santa Summit in which revelers put on Santa suits and hop around designated locations in town to eat, drink, and be merry. Three best friends decide to go together.

[00:48:52] [SPEAKER_02] Jordan, played by King, a recently dumped art teacher, looking to cut loose. Ava, a shy woman. Why say it like that? Ava, a shy woman hoping to run into her crush. And Stella, a Christmas cynic with no interest in the Santa Summit whatsoever. It's real Dan. At the end of the night, Jordan meets and bonds with Liam, played by Hollingsworth, but

[00:49:19] [SPEAKER_02] doesn't get his name before getting separated and lost in a sea of Santas. Oh boy. As the night progresses and hijinks ensue amidst a chaos celebration in the sea of Santas, they all find what they're looking for. Christmas spirit, potential romance, and a strengthened bond of friendship. Bran, I will, we're going to the movies this evening, and I will buy you a large drink and large popcorn if you can tell me what movie Stella came from. Oh, no idea.

[00:49:49] [SPEAKER_02] Okay, good. No idea. I was wondering that too. No, no, you're going to know. Aaron, can you answer for me?

[00:49:55] [SPEAKER_00] Yeah, can we phone a friend?

[00:49:57] [SPEAKER_02] No. I'm phone a friend. No phone a friend. Rocky. He was, before he was with Adrian, he was with Stella. Easy, dang it. Yeah. Brian.

[00:50:08] [SPEAKER_01] Yeah. This sounds great. It sounds like so much is going on. Super complicated. It probably won't matter because it'll be so fun and funny. I'm tempted to go with five Nogs, but I'm hedging. I'm going to go four Nogs and a cream on this one.

[00:50:24] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah. Using your second cream there. That's a good use of the cream. Absolutely. Cream number two. How many movies is this? Have we previewed so far? 11. Yes, we have four. There's only four left. Okay. Good to know. Good to know. Alonzo. You know, I do love a One Crazy Night movie. Yes. And I like the idea of getting to attend SantaCon without having a bunch of people vomiting on you. So it's got that in its favor for sure. So I'm going to go out on a limb here.

[00:50:53] [SPEAKER_02] I think this is one that could work if they get it right. And I'm going to be optimistic and choose to decide that they got it right. So I'll say four Nogs and a cream. Four Nogs and a cream. Double cream. Brain, you got one cream left. I do have one cream left. If you go triple cream and I go cream, then we're quad cream bros. Yeah. It's never been happened. It's never been happened. It's never been happened. Quinch cream if Aaron. Yeah, that's right. You talked me into it. Let's cream it up.

[00:51:22] [SPEAKER_02] Even though I don't think it needs it. I think this plot speaks for itself. But I'm going five. I'm creaming it. Bringing it up to seven total. Everyone knows the rules. I am very excited about this. I might. Obviously, I'm hopeful that this movie takes place in one night. My fear is that it won't and it'll like end up not being that type of movie. But I think if we do this fun thing where the whole movie is like taking place about majority

[00:51:51] [SPEAKER_02] of it in the one night and we get to see actual hijinks freaking let's go right now. Best movie of the year. I can call it here now and then.

[00:52:01] Dan.

[00:52:02] [SPEAKER_02] I'm going to just talk so you don't anymore. If we were giving our top five most anticipated movies of the season, which we're not because that's during the Christmas kickoff. You get it. Thank you. We're not monsters. We're not going to do a kickoff during a preview episode. That would be stupid. I feel like you're being sarcastic, but I'm going to choose to ignore it. If I were giving my top five most anticipated movies of the season, this is on there. Hunter King. Love her. I've always known who she is. I never would forget who she is.

[00:52:31] [SPEAKER_02] The promise or the possibility of having one crazy night movie. Great. This is a great idea with Santa Con, Santa Summit. Here for it. Four and a half nogs and a cream. Wow. Four creams. That's a quad cream, bro. Aaron, five creams?

[00:52:47] [SPEAKER_03] Yeah.

[00:52:48] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah. This is history, baby. The confetti showers down from the ceiling.

[00:53:00] [SPEAKER_00] And for those playing at home, I'm giving you five egg yolks.

[00:53:03] [SPEAKER_02] We are playing at home. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back here.

[00:53:07] [SPEAKER_00] Five creams.

[00:53:15] [SPEAKER_02] We're having fun, aren't we? Yeah, we are. Welcome back, everybody, to the first preview show. We've only got four more movies left. That's it. Of course, four movies that you'll be able to watch on Philo, and of course, watch our reviews of them on Philo as well. You're out of creams. I've got one left. Brian's got one left. Alonzo's got one left. And Aaron's got one left.

[00:53:33] [SPEAKER_00] Some of us are keeping track, Dan.

[00:53:34] [SPEAKER_02] Good. Yep. That's what I'm talking about. You're out of creams. I might. This whole core room. This whole podcast. What movie is that from? Oh, oh. For a large popcorn and some drink at the movie. The movie. It's for you. You can't handle the truth. No, that's a few good minutes. No, that is from Justice for All. Oh, Rocky. Rocky. And Justice for All. And Justice for All. Rocky. It's from Rocky. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mystery on. Adrian, you can't handle the truth.

[00:54:02] [SPEAKER_02] Mystery on Mistletoe Lane, November 9th, Home of Dreams and Mysteries.

[00:54:06] [SPEAKER_01] Stella couldn't handle the cream. That's what the problem was.

[00:54:10] [SPEAKER_02] Erica Cara. Sarah. Erica Sarah. I don't like this. I don't like what we're doing. Alonzo. Sarah? I don't know. Sarah, Sarah. And Victor Webster. New to town, Heidi Wicks. New in town. Save it. Save it. We do want to say that's John Mulaney. I'm sorry.

[00:54:37] [SPEAKER_02] New in town, Heidi Wicks and her kids discover a Christmas mystery in their historic home. local handyman and historian David, played by Webster, helps along the way finding his own surprising connection. Brian.

[00:54:54] [SPEAKER_01] Yeah. Vixter Webster. Come on. Vixter. I mean, come on. Yeah, I'll go four eggnogs on this one. I'll go four. And I didn't know he was going to be a historian as well. That's a twist. Maybe he has a whale somewhere, too. I don't know. But four eggnogs. You know, like Free Willy? With pizza. Do you think he has a pizza shop that he wants?

[00:55:16] [SPEAKER_02] You think it's Free Willy with pizza? Oh, boy. Vixter a whale in a pizza shop? Pizza place? Alonzo? Well, this is our first holiday mystery since Hannah Swenson's Christmas Murder Bakery. So very excited about that. I shook hands with Victor Webster at Christmas Con Kansas City, and I'm still feeling it. Yeah, good hands. So four and a half and my final cream. Yeah, that's a good use. Yeah, I'm going for almost entirely for the Vixter. You know I love them.

[00:55:47] [SPEAKER_02] But I do. The prospect of a mystery is exciting to me. I'm concerned that it won't be really all that much of a mystery, and it's just like played for laughs or something. But I'm hopeful that it's a legit mystery, and the only thing I can take it up a notch is if there's any fighting. You guys think there's going to be any fighting? You think Victor's going to get in the ring? This is going to be more of a historical mystery. Okay, not Victor. No fighting? I think there's at least a chance. There's a fighting chance.

[00:56:13] [SPEAKER_01] It's always a fighting chance. Always a fighting chance. Victor Webster? Always a fighting chance.

[00:56:17] [SPEAKER_02] I am excited about this. Also, it would be my top five if we're doing that or not. It was kickoff, blah, blah, blah. But I think there's another one this weekend, and I'm not sure, but I think there's another one this weekend coming up that I need to save my cream for. So I'm going to go three and a half Nogs, just the prospects of a Christmas mystery. We've not seen one since we've covered the show. So yeah, I'm excited about that. Aaron?

[00:56:43] [SPEAKER_00] Brian, how many did you give it?

[00:56:44] [SPEAKER_02] I gave it four. Four.

[00:56:45] Okay.

[00:56:47] [SPEAKER_00] I am going to give it one for John Mulaney, one for being a mystery, one for Victor, one for maybe some fighting with Victor. Maybe. Maybe if he's a historian, we're going to get Victor in some glasses like Wes Brown. Stop. Stop it. I've lost count. Five and a cream.

[00:57:05] [SPEAKER_02] Five and a cream. You know Mulaney's not in this one, right? That's right. Yeah, yeah.

[00:57:08] [SPEAKER_00] No, but I'm excited because the whole time I can just be quoting John Mulaney for no

[00:57:13] [SPEAKER_02] word. That's right. I'm new in town. New in town.

[00:57:15] [SPEAKER_00] Do you know he's not in this one?

[00:57:17] [SPEAKER_02] I don't know for sure. We don't know that for sure. I don't know that for sure. You can't really prove a negative. That's exactly right. Up next, Everything Christmas, November 10th, Hallmark Channel. This is with Catherine Barbaral. Cat Barrels. Cat Barrel. Cat Barrel. Cindy Busby. Corey says it's a fear weather warning, everybody. And Matt Wells. I'm sorry, Matt. I did feel like I didn't give you your due.

[00:57:45] [SPEAKER_03] And Matt Wells. Yeah!

[00:57:49] [SPEAKER_02] Lori Joes. I don't know, man. Lori Joes' love for Christmas takes her on a road trip to Yuletide Springs with her roommate Tori, where Christmas is celebrated year-round. Let's go! To participate in a long-standing town tradition to honor her late grandmother. Along the way, the friends meet Carl, played by the severe weather warning, and Jason, played by Wells! And the foursome makes stops during their journey.

[00:58:18] [SPEAKER_02] Oh, this is a road trip. To enjoy more small-town Christmas attractions. But when a series of events put a damper to their plans, a little Christmas magic may put the trip back on the right path. Brian?

[00:58:33] [SPEAKER_01] Yeah. Two for Wells, right off the bat. Right. I mean, come on. Wellesie? At least two. And that road trip? That can be fun. So I'm going to throw another eggnog in the holster there, in the thermos. So I'll go three and a half eggnogs for this one.

[00:58:48] [SPEAKER_02] More than fair. More than fair. Alonzo? Yeah, that sounds about right. I'm all about a road trip. Two couples and, you know, Cindy Busby and Cat Beryl definitely make it seem promising. So yeah, three and a half. I like it. Yeah, I'll go with you guys. Three and a half. I like that a lot. Always great to see Busby on screen. You guys know I love severe weather warning. Matt Wells speaks for himself. And I love road trips. So I'm excited about it.

[00:59:18] [SPEAKER_02] I love road trip movies, to be clear. I would rather just kind of get there. But I'm down for a road trip movie. I think it's going to be good. Three and a half sounds right. Where are these towns where Christmas is celebrated year-round? And why aren't Brandon and I living there? No kidding, Alonzo. Kidding. Dano? Give me two nogs for the cat. What was that, Dave? What did Dave say? He says I would get bored. Yeah, false.

[00:59:40] Because you'd be divorced.

[00:59:43] [SPEAKER_02] That's different. Yeah. That's fair. But you'd also be bored, probably. Both hands. Give me two nogs just for the cast. And that's it for me. Now, I'm not really excited about this one. But the cast sounds great. Erin?

[00:59:56] [SPEAKER_00] All right. We're going to do one for Busby. One for severe weather warning. One for a road trip movie. One for magic. But we are taking one away because it sounds like the girls start on a road trip and then invite men they just met on the road trip.

[01:00:09] [SPEAKER_02] It does seem that way. So three nogs for me. What about one more for John Mulaney?

[01:00:14] [SPEAKER_00] He's not in this.

[01:00:14] [SPEAKER_02] I didn't talk to him. Okay. Got it. Got it. But he's keeping his mouth shut about the other one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The other one could be. Interesting. He's doing one of these numbers. Yeah. Christmas Island. This is November 11th on the Hallmark Channel with Rachel Scarston and Andrew Walker. When a snowstorm diverts Kate's first private flight en route to Switzerland to Christmas Island,

[01:00:43] [SPEAKER_02] she must team up with air traffic controller? What? To secure her dream job at the family's as the family's pilot. Got it. Sorry. Right? Yeah.

[01:00:59] [SPEAKER_01] How many do we have left after this? Just one. One more after this one. Oh, all right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, this.

[01:01:07] [SPEAKER_02] Talking yourself into a cream. Sometimes it takes some motivation. Talk yourself into one of those.

[01:01:12] [SPEAKER_01] Andrew's going to really put his experience to work. He's going to shine in this role, I feel like.

[01:01:19] [SPEAKER_02] Because he's been an air traffic controller?

[01:01:21] [SPEAKER_01] No, I feel like it's a stretch. Has he done all this? Oh, I see. I see. I feel like this is real work. And he's going to crush it, obviously. And then he's going to be like, should I just go control air traffic after this? So, yeah, that's. I am. I have talked myself into a cream for this movie. Andrew W. Walker cream. And then I'm going to go for eggnogs. Wow. Just because that's what pilots drink before they fly, right? Just down a couple of few nocks. Traditionally.

[01:01:51] [SPEAKER_01] Yeah.

[01:01:53] [SPEAKER_02] Alonzo. I'm really trying to figure out the geography of this movie because Christmas Island is located like between Malaysia and Australia. So how in the Southern Hemisphere you have a snowstorm at Christmastime and how that has anything to do with a flight to Switzerland, I'm thoroughly baffled by. I really want to know how any of this works because it doesn't seem to make a lick of sense. They just started with the title and worked backwards, I think. That said, it's Andrew Walker.

[01:02:23] [SPEAKER_02] So, two. Yeah, that's tough. I mean, I hope that like Andrew Walker wears a vet, like a like a like a vest that is for, you know, like one of those guys.

[01:02:35] [SPEAKER_01] Reflective.

[01:02:36] [SPEAKER_02] Air traffic controller is not. What if he's done on the ground? I know. But what if he's done on the ground? Microphone. What if he has to come down? Is there any chance he wears a vest? I think we have a good shot at mirrored aviators, though. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, for sure. That's happening. Give me three right down the middle. Without the presence of Andrew Walker, this sounds like the worst movie of the season. It sounds like it is improbable, impossible and inconsequential. It sounds really terrible.

[01:03:04] [SPEAKER_02] I'm trying to find it in my heart to give this anything above zero. And I love Andrew dearly. It's a zero. It's a zero. I'm sorry. Wow. No, I don't sound sorry. Yeah, and I have now relegated myself to whatever movie this is. I am creaming it. So that's tough. Aaron.

[01:03:23] [SPEAKER_00] I'm going to go two.

[01:03:25] [SPEAKER_02] Two. Fair enough. Last but not least, what do you think it is? I think it's the one where she's got three wishes. No. Oh, no. A Heidelberg holiday. Yes. I made a huge mistake. Jenna Claire Mason and Frederick Brazier. How about it? It's Jenna Claire Mason and Frederick Brazier. Hold your cream, Dan. Hold your cream. Hold on to it for a minute. I'm creaming for the Brazier.

[01:03:57] [SPEAKER_02] Okay.

[01:03:58] [SPEAKER_01] That's worse than anything I've ever said.

[01:04:00] [SPEAKER_02] Heidi. Brazier. Brazier. Sorry, y'all. Heidi Heidelberg receives. Bonnie Padilla. Heidi Heidelberg is what kills me here. Bonnie Padilla. Heidi. What is it? What are you? What is it? Brazier. No, you were right. They named her Heidi Heidelberg, and it's a movie that said in Heidelberg, Germany. That's just like, wow. Wow.

[01:04:29] [SPEAKER_02] Real on the nose there. Heidi Heidelberg receives the dream opportunity to sell her beautiful handmade glass ornaments at the prestigious Heidelberg Christmas market that she doesn't own. She doesn't run it. No relation. No relation. Just an accidental thing that happened. While there, she meets Lucas, a local artisan who helps her reconnect with her lost heritage.

[01:05:00] [SPEAKER_02] Brian, I'm not one of the Heidelberg Heidelbergs. I'm one of the Pittsburgh Heidelbergs.

[01:05:05] [SPEAKER_01] So we're in Germany, right? Clearly. Yes. Yeah. Boy, I wish I had a cream left for this, but glad somebody does. Yeah, I'm just going to go right down the middle. Three eggnogs to finish on this first batch here.

[01:05:18] [SPEAKER_03] Oh, God.

[01:05:19] [SPEAKER_01] Dan, you got anything?

[01:05:21] [SPEAKER_02] I'm getting, I'm thinking about it. Alonzo? Is my turn yet? You know, here's the thing. On my bucket list is European Christmas markets. And the French one did not really sound like it's going to quite give me what I want. This one, I think, is going to be steeped in the Heidelberg market. I still think there should be like, there should be a murder mystery set on one of those Viking river cruises where they go to the Christmas markets. And, you know, that would be like death on the Nile and, you know, Chris's murder bakery

[01:05:51] [SPEAKER_02] all rolled into one. Until I get what I want, this will have to do. I'll give it two and a half. You've given this so much thought. You have. Just write the movie, Alonzo. Oh. Dare to dream. It's a true partner. It's a whole thing. I'm okay with this. I think it could be fun. I'm very intrigued by how Heidi Heidelberg. Did she hear that there's a market with her last name? And she's like, this is my dream. I'm in. That's got to be a mistake. It's got to be a mistake.

[01:06:20] [SPEAKER_02] There's no way Heidi Heidelberg's dream is to be at the Heidelberg Christmas market. It can't be true. But it says it is. And so I'm going to go five. Zero and a cream. I don't want to talk about it, Aaron.

[01:06:31] [SPEAKER_03] Zero and a cream.

[01:06:33] [SPEAKER_02] That's unprecedented. Unpresident? Yes. It isn't presidential. President Dan. It's not unprecedented either. Zero and a cream. Aaron? Aaron.

[01:06:43] [SPEAKER_00] I think just to round out this first preview show, we're going to go three right down the middle.

[01:06:48] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah. Classic. We did it, everybody. Congratulations. The first four? It was four weekends? Yeah. Wow. Is someone hammering on a table?

[01:06:59] [SPEAKER_01] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, a little house construction going on. They're working on the prison while you're in it? I think as a group, we're really working on an escape plan. I got you. Thank you. Thank you, Alex.

[01:07:10] [SPEAKER_02] We'll be back next Monday with some more. Until then, maybe we're the first to wish you a Merry Christmas. Deck the Hallmark's a Bramble Jam podcast is produced by Aaron Shea. What? For more information on Deck the Hallmark, you can go to deckthehallmark.com. For more information on the Deck the Hallmark family, you can go to bramblejamplus.com. Deck the Hallmark is presented by Philo TV. For a free trial of Philo, go to philo.tv slash DTH.

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