Coupled Up for Christmas (Plex -2023) ft. Alonso Duralde

[00:00:00] Hi, I'm Brandon. I love Plex Christmas movies. I'm Dan and I despise Plex Christmas movies I'm Alonso and which one was Plex again and this is the deck the Hallmark podcast Well hello, oh man party people it's another Monday. Yeah, it is

[00:00:39] We've all I mean we've done some big stuff. We have prime. Yeah, but we got to play we got the Plex by week But there's a reason and we'll get to it in a second. I watched it on peacock. Yes. It's now everywhere

[00:00:53] That's right. It was originally just a play yes That's how that's well, that's when you know, it's good. It's so good. We're aside from the mega Plex Yeah, nice dude Anywhere good good morning. Good afternoon Good night wherever you listen to this

[00:01:14] Alonso hi there, buddy. Have you Monday to you? Happy Monday January going brand I know you've you've had a cruise you had a flu like yeah, how are things yes I am I'm doing much better. Thank you so much for asking

[00:01:29] You might hear it's a lingering lingering coffee, okay, but I'm doing quite well and I'm excited because it's deck use was Week this Thursday three days Wow from the prestigious fourth annual fifth annual fourth fourth annual I think it's

[00:01:50] You know, I should pick up my souvenir issue of us magazine. I'm sure would tell me annual deckies 21 22 23 24 we did not do it in a we did we do it in 20 It might be the fifth annual deckies Now Okay, so this is the fourth annual deckies we have

[00:02:15] Okay, and here's the deal I'm sure it's been non-stop at your house Alonso because Last Thursday when Dave White found out he was nominated. Oh I'm sure you've not heard the end of it. We had to hire a publicist

[00:02:30] The one outfit for the deckies and then another outfit for the vanity fair deckies party and you know, it's a whole thing Yes, yeah, and it's look you've won in that category before you have it's true So I never more that over

[00:02:43] What's better for you if you if he wins as well and then you can like be a household full of winners or To be able to hold that over him for the rest of his life

[00:02:52] I mean, you know, I'm kind of a winner either way because either I get to sort of like still gloat about my Triumph or I can finally sort of quash that undercurrent of seething resentment. I feel from him all the time Yeah, yeah

[00:03:06] Yeah, I think that's what I think. I think that's what I would say is that I'm sure it works for you You'd be happy for him to keep that see the resentment I

[00:03:16] I got to be honest. I we don't get to vote on these things. It's purely the double decker's We don't know I try to stay out of until I get the card actually in my hand to announce the winner Marco as best I can anyway and

[00:03:30] I just man It's just gonna be high drama in the deraille de households and the deraille de white households the stack category stacked. So, but on the other side, two Deque winners under the same roof, if that happens. And look, it's an honor just to be nominated,

[00:03:45] which I can say because I won. That's right. And you're no longer eligible because you're an actual co-host. You're a friend. No longer an intern. I work there so. Brand Ann and friends. Yeah, you got a 1099 everything. You, I mean, you just. Serious stuff now.

[00:04:02] Well really excited for Dave and really excited to see how it all shakes out this Thursday. Live, 9 PM Eastern. 9 PM Eastern. Thank you all for coming to Com slash Deckies. It's gonna be a really good time I think. Yeah, it is. You never know what's gonna happen.

[00:04:16] You certainly don't wanna show up. I think we do know who's gonna show up. Well, I mean, oh, you mean on video? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or just like in person. Yeah, yeah. Got a lot of guests to show up at lined up.

[00:04:25] I have put out an in-person requests for the owner of the Red Lobster on Posenberg to show up. Dude, if you get him to. And I don't know if he's gonna come. He hasn't. He hasn't said one way or the other.

[00:04:39] He hasn't said one way or the other. Because there's no seats in here. It's pretty tight. Well, he'd get to come. Yeah, he'd be in the big. I guess, of course. You only get Brian out of here. Yeah. Well, and his name is Brian too.

[00:04:49] Which is actually really cool. Oh, that's awesome. Who would he notice? Brian from the Lobster. Who would he even notice? And I do think like anybody. If the option was to replace our Brian with Brian from Red Lobster. I think everybody would be like.

[00:05:01] I think even Brian Herald would be like, you have to do that. For the bread alone. For the cheddar bay. For the cheddar bay biscuits and bowls. Come on. For the bread alone. For the bread alone. You can keep the fish. Cheddar bay biscuits, please. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:05:13] Well, let's talk about Marcus Rosner. Let's talk about coupled up for Christmas. This actually was a movie that I wasn't aware existed. Me either. I didn't know much about it. I didn't know much about it. Production company. Yes. He's in a lot of these.

[00:05:28] We're dear friends with Marcus. He's wonderful. But I didn't know that he had churned this one out. So I'm on my own bees. A couple, you know, over the holiday season. And I get a video text message out of the blue from Marcus.

[00:05:44] And I think, I do think we have that video. We have that. We have that video. Yes. Brian. Dan. Brian. It's Marcus Rosner. I'm here with you from one of the most Christmasy places on earth, Truck filler center.

[00:05:58] And I was inspired to make a special request to you to see if you might be willing to watch our Northern Gateway films and real one entertainment produced Christmas flick. Couple that for Christmas. Available right now on Paramount Plus, Plex and Beacock. It stars myself in Sarah Canning.

[00:06:16] Very proud of this film. Produced by myself while I'm at the Northing Gateway. And I was really hoping even the full deck of the Hallmark treatment. No punches. I don't need to say that to you, Dan. But yeah, I love that. There he is.

[00:06:30] Marcus is doing great there. I'm not convinced that's him. I think that is Christian Bale in methods. Christian Bale is doing a method acting role of playing Marcus Rosner for just that video. Very specific. The great jacket. It is. It is a great jacket.

[00:06:48] And this is what I sent him and I want to put it out there on the record as well. I said, I love that jacket. And then I sent him a picture of this jacket. And I said a one for one trait. And he said deal.

[00:07:00] So whenever he's ready to make good on that deal, I think we're ready to go. But we... We have those bomber jackets laying around here. We got, we grossly overestimated how many people wanted a bomber jacket. Yeah, we did. Hundreds lying around.

[00:07:17] Just lying around, ready to be shipped. Dagnallover.com slash shop. Please. This is my favorite piece of merch we've ever done. Please. Aside from the picture of the pants on a shirt that says my pants, obviously. Please buy the bomber jacket.

[00:07:33] So it keeps the lights on here in the studio. We don't have the space. I'm being moved out of my office because we've bought so many bomber jackets. Anyway, we heard the challenge. You wear a different one every day. You could get one worn by a brand.

[00:07:48] Yeah, I'll sign it. I don't care. I don't care. This one's a little too small for me. I like to see if maybe I'm getting any. The smoothies aren't working yet. It's early. We're doing a thing. It takes a lot for a thing to take off.

[00:08:04] Two smoothies a week. That's gonna fix our problem. I'll try, yeah. Any 20 Reese's Cup. Yeah, it's one per sip. That's a one for one meal. Anyway, we heard Marcus' challenge and we said challenge accepted. And so here we are the third week of January

[00:08:28] to do coupled up for Christmas. It originally aired on the Plex on November 1st, 2023 to win a little something like this. We kick off with potentially the fastest meat cute in the world. A woman named Tiffany has on a bench sketching a hot Santa.

[00:08:43] A guy named Peter sits down and she awkwardly thinks that he's about to hit on her but he just wants to tell her that they accidentally switched luggage. Awkward. She gets home excited to reconnect with a long lost love, Goose. Goose. Except Goose has been gotten. She's shocked.

[00:09:08] Goose has been cooked. Oh, that's good too. The Goose got got. The Goose got got. She's shocked to see that Goose brought a girl home and they are quite the item. Apparently they're all spending Christmas together. They do this every year and she was planning on telling Goose

[00:09:27] that she loves him. After all these years I'm ready to tell you how I feel. I love you. We find out that he actually did that before going to the Peace Corps and she said no go. Now she's ready to kind of make good on that.

[00:09:41] And so she is shocked. She can't believe it. I can't believe Goose has a girlfriend. And so she goes to the bar to mope and sees Peter there who is also moping because he came into town to win back his ex-girlfriend. But now she has a boyfriend herself.

[00:09:58] So they decide that the best course of action is to do a fake relationship and hope that it makes their true loves jealous. The family is shocked when she returns home with a boyfriend. Peter is there and says yes, but boyfriend. Tiffany explains Irish. And she's my boyfriend.

[00:10:18] She hits my boyfriend. That's right. They do Christmas activities obviously which are a part of the Christmas ball but they aren't the Christmas ball. That's later. It's all connected though these activities and so they first they do some snowman stuff. They decorate Christmas trees out in the open

[00:10:41] and it's at this Christmas decorating contest that he sees the ex-girlfriend and she comes over and is like, what are you doing in my town? And he's like, well, this is my girlfriend. And she's skeptical that he has a girlfriend who also happens to live in my hometown.

[00:11:06] As she should be. Yes. So she's skeptical. Until she witnesses them singing Christmas karaoke together and you can't fake it. No, you can't. And she's like, hey, hey, you, you. I don't like your girlfriend. Yeah. Nice. Think you need a new one. Here's the thing.

[00:11:26] We want the real Avril back. We know that Avril that specific year, Whit missing, she's been replaced. They're all aware of it. Right, Aaron? 100%. Are we starting a new podcast where we deep dive into the Avril Lavigne? Because Avril Lavigne is aware. I will deep dive about that.

[00:11:49] The current Avril is not the real Avril. This is absurd. She went missing in Lost Your Mind. She went missing in 04. Something like that. She, I heard she died. Yeah, I think she died. And her body double like they paid her to take over

[00:12:03] and that's just, that's why her hair is so blonde. This is, you guys are, you've lost your mind. You think the real Avril would marry Chris Kroger? I think so, yeah. What about Chad Kroger? Dang it. Chris Kroger is the founder of the Kroger grocery stores.

[00:12:20] But he did write photograph. Anyway. Bring Avril back. I can't see it, Avril's here. Don't be a hater boy. We'll see you later, boy. See you later, boy. Tiffany's snooping around and discovers. This may be my favorite moment of 2024 so far. Wow. The whole thing. Good.

[00:12:42] Well, not the hater boy. That was terrible. The whole thing. Tiffany's snooping around. Kroger especially. I was doing so good with the cup. Fuck. The music's gonna run out. A long time ago it could have showed up 30 minutes later. I wish there was someone else in the studio

[00:12:58] who could have written us an offset. Tiffany's snooping around and discovers an engagement ring in Goose's bag. She decides, she's obviously sad because it's like, oh my gosh, she's really moved on. So she decides to try it on and trying it on it gets stuck on her finger.

[00:13:17] And so she goes downstairs and she's like, Peter, Peter, pumpkin. And... Ha ha ha ha. Daniel let him get through this. Oh my gosh. Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater. You are so fast on that. Who is the way you said it? Peter, Peter. Come help me they go outside,

[00:13:42] put the classic put the hand in the snow trick which shrinks your hand. Let's, I don't know if that works. But anyway, in doing this, the ring does come off but it looks like Peter's proposing to her and her mom is watching from the window

[00:14:00] and it's like, yes, they go outside celebrating and so now it's fake fiance situation. She has a heart to heart with Goose and the girlfriend watches this happen and is like, they clearly have chemistry. Then Peter's ex shows up. Man, Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater.

[00:14:24] Sounds like things are getting complicated. So complicated. That's the thing. And I was like, why? Why'd you have to go and make those things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else. It's getting me frustrated. You're so frustrated.

[00:14:54] There are more but we'll get to them later. Ah what the hell, let's get to them now. Oh my gosh. Honestly, really proud of you for knowing that's an admirable thing. Yeah, I'm here to help. So then Peter's ex girlfriend, Chris Kroger shows up and she's now single.

[00:15:16] Tiffany tells Goose, Goose's girlfriend that she's happy. Tiffany tells Goose's girlfriend that she's happy for them but spills the beans that they used to have feelings for each other. She did not know this. So she is now putting together they had feelings. Also, they had big sparks

[00:15:36] when they were talking at the kitchen. What am I even doing here? So when he proposes, she says no and runs away. Peter leaves and with his ex because now I guess they can be together and he's like, you know what? You don't like me.

[00:15:51] We're not a good fit. You never want me to do flowers. And so he's like, this isn't going to work. And I also think that I really like Tiffany so he runs back. Goose and his girlfriend make up. They double proposed to each other

[00:16:05] and Peter shows up at the Christmas ball. They tell each other that they like each other. They kiss and now my friends was coupled up for Christmas. For, for Christmas. We did it. We sure did. Let's say a quick break and we'll come back.

[00:16:24] We'll break this movie down with four segments here on deck the home. I'm sorry. I paused too long. So pregnant. I just want to clear something up. The pause was so pregnant. We'll sign up a couple of for Christmas. It's time. It's time for the hot take.

[00:16:50] Alonzo, what do you think about coupled up for Christmas? Marcus Rosner wants to know. Look, I love a fake fiance movie. That's one of my favorite tropes of these goofy things. Even though at the end they're going to get to a point

[00:17:03] where, you know, honestly, you're never going to find me faking. Oh! Hey! Yeah! It acts like he's over the bits and he's like, surprise! Got him! He's here shred. I love it. You're shred! Yes! Just wanted to see if you were paying attention. Oh yeah! You know what?

[00:17:26] I'm not mad at this movie. It is slight and it is not reinventing anything but as a let's do this trope movie goes, I thought it was done pretty well. And Rosner and Canning are old veterans at this. They're pros.

[00:17:42] And she is really impressing me as one of the people in these movies who's willing to do comedy. And it's like if like Nikki Deloach and Ashley Williams whom I love are going to really just go hard on like the sadds,

[00:17:57] then we need a new crop of like your Vicks and your Sarahs here to really like, you know bring the chuckles. I like this movie overall. I thought first of all, pretty funny. Like I really thought Marcus in particular

[00:18:13] got to do some funny comedy stuff which was great. There was a time towards the end of this movie like we're pretty deep in. And Dan and I are looking at each other and they're like are they gonna like? Are they gonna actually

[00:18:27] thought it was gonna happen but we did say out loud. Is this gonna happen? Right after they do the pinky promise with a kiss on each side. Those sparks were legit. We were like wouldn't it be something? Wouldn't it be something? If they actually- If the shenanigans worked.

[00:18:42] Yes, here's the thing. Like for the first time ever. Like on one hand that would be amazing. On the other hand so much from a happy ending. They didn't do that. And you know the way that the movie ended was whatever.

[00:18:59] But overall like I thought it was really solid. And I'm happy that I got to watch this movie. Of the Marcus Rosner movies that I've seen over the past three months this is my favorite one. Dano? I think that is an obvious statement to the last one.

[00:19:18] I think here's the thing. This movie's a mixed bag for me. I think some of the characters motivations go anywhere from unhealthy to psychotic in this movie. And it's of the fake relationship movies. The people that, the two leads, their reasoning for it is, it's Norman Bateslow.

[00:19:39] Sarah Canning is funny in this movie but she's also psychotic. Like I think- When she puts the ring on. When she's put the ring on. I'm like what is happening right now bro? But not only that, that's tough.

[00:19:54] Some of the actors that aren't ABCD on the call sheet, you can tell were brought in on the cheap to just try to like get this thing done. But they don't have the budget of a Hallmark movie and that's evident.

[00:20:05] But you know what sticks out as being very well done? Number one, they let this fake relationship bit go on the appropriate amount of time. It's not a device to get these two people to go do cookie decorating and Christmas tree lighting

[00:20:23] and to fall in love for an hour or 20. They are, both characters and our end of this thing are both still convinced that they're supposed to end up with their exes. And I found that really, really impressive. It does have two moments that made me laugh out loud.

[00:20:39] I never laugh out loud in these movies. I think both Marcus Rosner who doesn't get to play funny a lot and Sarah Canning both had really good comedic timing and also it's clearly very cold where they are. It is clearly cold. It is real snow throughout the movie.

[00:20:56] Sometimes you get some little flakes in the background during the scene. So from a Christmas feel standpoint, while some of the decorations seemed like, did we just put up a folding table and a sheer table cloth out in the middle of a? Yes, we did.

[00:21:10] But the real snow, real cold helps this. So the leads their commitment to the bit of the fake relationship and the real snow is all great. The movie's kind of, I think it's budget holds it back but I do think movies with two, $3 million budgets

[00:21:26] could look at this as a good blueprint of going you don't need all of this money to make something that can fit in this genre. I thought it looked really good. Like just visually by and large, I felt like this was on par with the Homer movies.

[00:21:43] Like by and large what you see. There's clearly skimping on cast background actors and I'm just talking about the look of it. Like I thought- The house was nice, the bar looked good. Even the like the goofy outdoor artificial Christmas tree decorating thing looked like-

[00:22:00] Plenty of questions there. Yeah, in fact, the things that don't work for this movie aside from how extreme some of these characters are going for someone that is literally not them and has told them no, is the fact that when they try to kind of

[00:22:15] square peg round hole a Christmas feature like the decorating of the tree. Like that stuff, the movie's Christmassy enough. Like the stuff for the snowball is the worst part of this movie. And so that's saying something but I will say this

[00:22:32] Ross are getting to play and be funny, great and their commitment to doing this and how it looked also great. So not my thing and plenty to pick apart but considering the budget and everything involved you know, you could do a lot worse.

[00:22:48] And no one said golf game. No one said golf game, no one said a game of golf. No one said that. Which we found out. Can we say? No, so you're happy, you're happy that you can do that.

[00:23:00] It's time for the All The Fields part of the show. It's where we share, well, what game is Fields? Any Christmas Fields or anything of the sorts? Alonzo? Well, to piggy-peg you back on what Dan was just saying about the actual cold like I wrote down

[00:23:17] among my feels, visible breath. Yeah. And there's an actual emotional scene taking place in an actual snowfall. Like when he's talking to her about his past and the snow is swirling around them like, oh my God, this is the thing that movies will like

[00:23:34] shell out crazy money to try and fake and they're just getting it. Like they've got it there. And so I was really impressed with that. I love comedy of mortification. I love like where people are just embarrassing and digging themselves deeper into their own hole

[00:23:50] in this movie committed to that bit, which I liked. And I have to say the Yule log thing for all of the tree lightings and cookie decoratings and carnivals or whatever we see is we, that was a new thing that I'd never seen

[00:24:04] in one of these movies before. Kind of a cool tradition. They used it as a way to communicate plot and character things. And it was just novel. I just think they didn't quite, I really wish that would have been at night. Like the fire roaring.

[00:24:20] I think that is- I liked it though as like a Christmas device of pouring one out for your homie. You know, it's like I can make a tribute or something. That's nice, I like that. We're good enough for Daniel. I like that one at night.

[00:24:36] Someday not everything will be at night, Dan. That what you're describing is better than what we see in the movie. In the movie she's holding a stump or a little tight like a thing and going, look at these things, Andrew. He draws one, a thing.

[00:24:49] She doesn't even get to see it. And then they chuck it in what we think is a fire. Like it's not like everyone's sitting around with marshmallows and s'mores and chucking their logs and going, this one's for- This is for- This is for Chris Groger.

[00:25:03] This is for Chris Groger. How dare you violate the Yule log ceremony with a marshmallow? That is just- Oh, you can't eat anything around the Yule log. I'm out. I'm out. How could you even think of it? I hate to find out that Chris Groger just passed.

[00:25:18] That was actually, this is tough. Let's just dig a moment of silence. Yeah, pouring one out for Chris Groger. We all have to go croering. To Alonzo's point, I love it when like a character makes a mistake and that mistake snowballs. Like I think it's just always funny.

[00:25:34] And this movie has one of the best incidences of this that I can recall where she puts on the ring and you're immediately like, don't do that. And then it gets stuck. And so then she runs upstairs and then they go outside

[00:25:50] and then it looks like a proposal and it's just all getting away from her. And that whole sequence of like two minutes like just worked for me. Anytime a movie is actively getting me to move. Like I'm like, no, you're doing a good job.

[00:26:04] And so that whole sequence really worked for me. Dana? I loved when Marcus Rosner said, catch you on the flip. I thought that was a legitimately funny moment in this movie and it felt like it wasn't written in the script. It very well might've been

[00:26:20] but a really good throwaway line that caught me off guard and I enjoyed that. Never have you felt more like Marcus Rosner. That's right. You love saying that. Anytime if somebody like, if I say something to somebody to respond, I always go good talk.

[00:26:32] And then when I don't hear anything else, like, go catch you on the flip. I do that all the time. So I appreciated Marcus very much there. Catch you on the flip. Yeah. Well let's catch the listeners on the flip. Oh! Yeah. That was a good one.

[00:26:46] We're taking a break. It's fine, I'm trying to say. Here, deck the hallmark. Deck the hallmark. What's up you DTH sickos? I don't know man. You know, Bram, I really can't join you there. Normally I kind of say I'm with you, but there I just can't do it.

[00:27:12] Okay. That's where you get a no butt instead of a yes and. That's right. Fair. Well let's no butt our way into the wait what. It's where we talk about one this movie and just go wait, watch. Alonzo, anything stick out to you?

[00:27:24] I gotta say, I didn't find a ton of them. I mean like, you know, yeah, the movie asks you to sort of accept this fairly extreme premise. But once they commit to that premise, everything that happens sort of unfolds in a way

[00:27:38] that makes sense for it, I think. For me, the big one was in the, you know, we're in the Christmas tree contest and one of the teams is the sister in the bartender and they start putting the lights in the middle and listen, how what?

[00:27:56] There is not only are they putting the lights in the middle, Brandon and I talked about this. They are putting them, one of them's putting it 40% up, the other one's 60% up, which is bad. Worse than that, you can't do that at the same time.

[00:28:08] You cannot put, look, my kids love helping decorate the tree. When I start stringing lights up, my kids are asking, can I help? And I'm like, you can hold this bundle of lights as I string them. But if you get on the other side of the tree

[00:28:24] and try to string lights while I'm stringing lights, you've got yourself a mess, an absolute mess. So the scene doesn't make any sense because they're lighting from the middle. It doesn't make any sense because they're trying to do it at the same time

[00:28:37] and at different locations on the tree. That was meanwhile, Sarah canning is deciding that she's gonna hang garland vertically. Oh yeah, we got there. It's a vertical garland, saw him live. I was like, what's going on with the garland? Oh, oh, oh, okay. Interesting. Yeah.

[00:28:54] Everyone deserves to lose this contest. Maybe that's a Canadian thing. Maybe they do garland vertically. And they're toilet's go in the opposite direction. It sure they sure do. You guys with your vertical garland, your healthcare. Weirdos. Weirdos. Anything else, Alonzo? That's kind of it.

[00:29:11] I like I mean, you can point to the general absurdity of the premise, but once that premise gets rolling, everything that happens within it feels like it's under the umbrella of, well, this is what we're doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have a few.

[00:29:25] One, I'm not upset Hot Santa exists. I do want to know why Hot Santa exists. Why is this guy trying so little to look like a legit Santa? To have that as your the first scene of the movie too

[00:29:41] makes it seem like this movie is going to be a lot like more slip shot than it is. And I thought he was gonna be a part of it. Yeah. Well yeah, it's Chekhov's Hot Santa. They never, we hear his real name twice,

[00:29:52] but there's never a payoff for it. There's Hot Santa. I saw Chekhov's Hot Santa live. What was that? December 16, 16, that's right. And we'll never forget it. I'll never forget it. They broke up right after them. Somebody shot a gun in there. We all had to get out. Whoa.

[00:30:08] I guess it's the third act. That's exactly right. He didn't get the joke. Brandon didn't get the joke as the best part. Sorry, go ahead. Is this like a Lincoln bit? Chekhov was a playwright. Yeah. Chekhov's gun is the idea that when you introduce something in the first,

[00:30:25] if you introduce a gun in the first act, you have to fire it in the third act. So it's a screenwriting reference to like if you're gonna bring up Hot Santa early in the movie that there needs to be some reason for Hot Santa

[00:30:35] to exist by the end of the movie and this one there isn't. Yeah. And I got that, but I do appreciate you explaining it for the folks at home. It's my pleasure. So there is a friend and a bartender who also, by the way,

[00:30:49] I thought they were gonna be a sea love story. They weren't. They just kind of existed in this movie. But they're having a conversation about what's how this is all gonna shake out. And the bartender is like, they're gonna end up together.

[00:31:06] The people that are in the fake relationship are gonna end up together. And the friend is like, no way that's gonna happen. And so they make a bet about how this is all gonna shake out. Later on in the movie, they're all there together,

[00:31:19] those two and then Tiffany. And the friend goes to Tiffany, help us settle a bet. That's the one way you can't settle that specific bet. You gotta let that bet play out. You can't because now, like that's not what the bet was. The bet wasn't,

[00:31:39] what do you think Tiffany thinks is gonna happen? The bet is what do you think is gonna happen? What will Tiffany do? Yeah, what are you gonna do? Last but not least, the conversation that Rosner has with his ex-girlfriend, where they kind of is kind of like,

[00:32:00] hey, we're not like, this is just gonna work out. Fine conversation. Interesting that it happens in the middle of the road. Middle of the street. One, an interesting place for that conversation to happen. But two, really tough afterwards. Like what do you say to her?

[00:32:19] Please walk in the other direction now. Like you are both in a tough spot with that conversation happening in the middle of the street. You were walking down the street, we were both going this way. I'm gonna give you five minutes. I'm just gonna sit with this thought.

[00:32:33] You get a five minutes, you go to that side of the street, I'll stay on this side of the street. I don't know what you do. Why is he walking in the middle of the street with his luggage? Yeah, you have to sometimes. You have to. Dana?

[00:32:44] Didn't see mean girls. I may suggest to you that the theme for a snowball being an old fashioned Christmas is the world's worst idea. Mainly because you have to hand write everything. And that's one. Well here's the thing about that,

[00:32:59] is you don't, they just decided you had to. They decided you had to. That's exactly right. I believe it's Goose says his parents have been on the ski slopes since 6 a.m. Are they night skiing? This is Canada. Like you can't possibly get out there at 6 a.m.

[00:33:17] and think the sun is out. It's not safe, the slopes are ready. They're not prepped for the night. They're not. We have to camp on two things and they're both occupations. The first is Marcus Rosner's character is he's considered a workaholic in this movie,

[00:33:30] which is a riot if you've ever met a workaholic. And secondly, he's on his phone constantly and then we find out he's a florist. He's a florist. Listen, this is not to denigrate florists who have a very important job. But what could you possibly be doing

[00:33:47] round the clock on your cell phone on Christmas Eve as a florist who is not in the town of your local business? How many things could possibly need to be taken care of at that point at that date? Those points that is are not gonna dance off

[00:34:03] the truck themselves. I'm just saying, if this was December 1 or if this was the week before Valentine's Day, you could make a case for I'm busier than anybody else here. This guy is acting like, look, I'm the straw that stirs the drink over there.

[00:34:19] They can't run a florist shop on Christmas Eve unless I'm there and I'm not there. And so I gotta be here. This dude is playing a design your perfect bouquet game and calling it work. He's playing florist dash. Yes, florist dash. Yes, that's what he's playing. Yes.

[00:34:38] And as much as the business owners, just so you know, Dan and Brandon do not respect what you do or your importance to the community. We're about to flip it right now. Don't worry. Notaries too. As much as they... Oh, hold on. Notaries suck.

[00:34:50] I think we all kind of agree. Don't say that's just us. We all can universally agree. Notaries have no worth, no value. The worst being on this earth is, it's a whale notary. You have a line? Yeah, no. Say, there. What is your name?

[00:35:08] Do you know that I was a notary? But you're not a whale. You're a whale guy. I'm a whale guy. Do you know any whales that are notaries? I misunderstood what you said. Yeah, and that would be tough. That would be tough.

[00:35:18] I was all waiting for those old fans to stamp it. I don't even know how they would... A whale guy isn't a whale. I missed that one. No, the whale guy is a guy. I love whales. I work with them. I'm a little more like Brandon

[00:35:31] than I thought you were. Not to denigrate... Oh man. Okay, okay. Are we still doing this? And stamp. Whale guy, you're up for a decky. How do you feel? How do you feel? You're up for an actual decky. I can't handle that. Yeah, no, none of us can.

[00:35:45] This is about how you got nominated. Am I really? Yes. Oh my God. You're gonna lose though because Brandon losing his Christmas spirit is also up for a decky which I'm thrilled about. That was tough for everybody. See, not having...

[00:35:58] Did we not nominate the sandwich from that movie because I'm really used to it. We didn't nominate the sandwich. So it was unbelievable. So if you think this movie reveres the florist as the number one occupation in the world, they hate accounting.

[00:36:14] If you're an accountant and watch this movie, they say so many things. Someone says, well, I'd love to do what I'm passionate about but instead I'm an accountant. And then the response from Rossner is it's hard to be passionate about what you do when it's accounting. What?

[00:36:33] Guys, there are really great accountants who love what they do out there and are very, very important to what the rest of us do. I bet when you're... And some of them aren't serial killers. Yeah, I bet when you're texting your florist shop people

[00:36:51] at 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve that your accountant's gonna need to know about all those receipts and you would hope that they're passionate about that not feeling like they've reached the dead end of not dreaming big enough. Like are you kidding me right now, movie? Like you...

[00:37:07] Okay that's a clumsily phrase but he's saying that obviously her passion is art and that she has turned back to how it used to be. Correct, but instead of saying, hey it's clear you're not passionate about accounting, he says it's hard to be passionate about accounting. Why? Why?

[00:37:22] People love numbers. Numbers are some people's art. Like they just are. Like I like... You can't do that. And sometimes you're an accountant and a super assassin like Ben Affleck as the accountant. The accountant, yeah he was passionate about his work. Love that movie. The great movie.

[00:37:37] Also you can't tell like I just... It's so wild to me that accountants are all painted out as people who really wanted to be something else and it just didn't work out for them. Which is crazy to me. People say that about film critics all the time.

[00:37:53] Yeah that's true and you don't like it I bet. Yeah because you're living the dream. This is an actual line in this movie. I guess decorating all those orphanages really worked out in our favor. I think she was and the kids too.

[00:38:08] Yeah she pauses and then she's like and the kids too. But it's something that they say, which I can't believe. I can't believe this guy has been waiting to propose all week and can't wait another hour until people aren't busy decorating. He's waited all movie long.

[00:38:30] He's waited for a week in the cabin and then everyone is busy. They're up against the clock and he's like I can't wait another second. I gotta ask you to marry me right now. Ruin the whole thing. Like you literally that's the one time maybe not to.

[00:38:44] But I will say this, Goose is the best dude ever because Sarah Canning's character basically says I've created an entire fake relationship. Tried on your ring that you were going to give just so I could get you back. Then I professed, I told your current girlfriend

[00:39:04] that we had feelings for each other. All of that in any other movie would get some sort of just fury. And in this movie he's like well I'm the inner. Bro you friend zoned me our whole lives. Yeah. Like who do you think you are? I am.

[00:39:19] Yeah them's the breaks. You know he just was so chill about this. I couldn't believe it. And did you try on the ring? And all of this clicks in for Marcus Rosner when he opens her sketchbook and sees a sketch that and I quote might be him.

[00:39:34] This sketch is very generic. Might be him as a quote? No I quoted myself. Yeah. Wow. Holy cow. Might be him. I didn't know who said it. He opens up this sketchbook thinking that she doesn't like him. Looks at the page and sees something

[00:39:55] that looks kinda like him. And is like she loves me. She loves, he says the line out loud. I believe. And I quote. And I quote. And he quotes. And they quote. She loves me. And that is all he needs.

[00:40:12] He is walking down the street sad sack Rosner with his suitcase realizes it's hers. Sees a sketch that could be. She's sketching Hot Santa. It could be any number of bearded man. Very well could have been the Hot Santa. And he is so convinced that it's him.

[00:40:30] And it just doesn't look that much like him. Even if it is him she did sketch Hot Santa earlier. That's right. So the idea that now she loves him is just crazy. It's crazy. That's all I got. It's time for the end I quote. What the hallmarks segment.

[00:40:46] It's where we wonder what could have been maybe. I guess what the plex. I don't know. Something like that. Well wonder what could have happened. Really good. Thank you. Any questions that we still have that we would like answered. Alonzo. Perplex is you.

[00:41:01] Well you said earlier brand which is the sister and the bartender like that there's major chemistry there and it wasn't the only one picking up on one that was no. Absolutely. I'm like OK once they get to like the second hang out

[00:41:15] I'm like oh well these two clearly are going to like get a place in Stovermont or something. But yeah no we the movie just drops it and I don't know why. It's a great great great. They're going to get a place in Stovermont. Yep.

[00:41:32] Yeah I mean I do want to know just like a little bit more about this bar. What what is it called again. The mule tide. The mule tide. Is it a Christmas pop up. Is it always mule tide year round with Christmas beverages

[00:41:48] because that sign does look pretty permanent. I don't know. They only do mules. Yeah. Like Moscow Irish. Well that was my thing was and then someone orders a mule and she's served what maybe a margarita and mojito got together like it's not like you know there's no mules

[00:42:04] in the movie. But anyways it's very clearly a Christmas themed cocktail bar. Is it that all year or do they change it. Yeah. Dana. There's a scene early in this movie and I believe it is Rosner's ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend.

[00:42:19] Follow that who is who is they're supposed to be decorating a tree and he is there's a ladder they bring out on the ice and there's a tree and then we we pan away and we come back and we see him falling and and the

[00:42:35] tree is at a perpendicular angle to the ladder which means I guess that he was on the ladder it started to slip he grabbed hold of the tree fell to the ground and then we never see him again.

[00:42:50] The rest of the movie they say he's in the hospital and then they say we broke up and we don't see him and I just want to know how that guy is doing. He's dead. How is that why they are they brits easy to break up.

[00:43:01] How is he recovering from that week of his life that went from seriously dating someone to fall hospital broken up for the rest of his life. This guy is going to be like what if I hadn't fallen. Yes. What if I hadn't fallen.

[00:43:19] She pulls a total new gingrich on him basically. And like wow he's in the ICU was like yeah we're I'm sorry it's not it's not me it's you and we're done here. Maybe like in like 20 years Hallmark can do a mystery

[00:43:31] with a serial killer and we find out it's him and he's like Christmas of 2023. My week started off great. You wanted more of this character is maybe the most Brian Herald thing you've ever said. I want the fact that he disappears and had the worst

[00:43:49] week ever means either I want more or we just need some justice for this guy. I want to know did he get broken up to in a hospital. Yes. Or how far how long how far out of the hospital did

[00:44:02] she wait like if it's same day I got away another day and then the next day you're probably just like I'm more boyfriend hijinks from that guy. I just need to know this guy took it on the chin more than accountants in this movie like we needed something

[00:44:15] there either while his ankle was suspended or perhaps when she was like wheeling him out to the parking lot and said he was pushing something. We gave him a push and walked off. Yeah classic. So kind of push and break situation. Yeah for sure to be ice.

[00:44:30] Next next week we're heading over to KVC. KVC again question of jobs. I believe the recipe files with the recipe with Ashley Simpson an hour and 12 minutes. I don't know. I mean I hope with longer with Ashley Simpson.

[00:44:49] Wow should have saved all that avril stuff for next week. It's evergreen. Don't worry. We will be back next Monday and of course we'll be back tomorrow with another episode until then. Maybe the first to wish you a Merry Christmas.

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