Deck the Lifetime Uncorked - Yes, Chef! Christmas (Lifetime - 2023) ft. Patrick Serrano

[00:00:00] Hi, I'm Bram and I love lifetime Christmas movies I'm Patrick and I am a lifetime movie expert. I'm Dan and I despise lifetime Christmas movies and this is the Deck The Lifetime Uncorked by Gass A little Christmas groove Christmas move for you. Ha ha ha Yes, Chef Fire

[00:00:28] Hands hands All right, that's all that's those are all the terms we chef we chef so hard Patrick did you watch the bear the television show? Yeah, it's phenomenal. Of course I love the bear Also

[00:00:42] For now on in this episode anytime someone's gonna say yes or no you got to say chef afterwards. That's the rules Oh, damn. Oh, i'm gonna be so mad at this. Yes, chef. I did

[00:00:53] Thank you chef. Thank you chef feel like for a short time you wanted to like Not be one of the cooks or the chef but be the person that was seeing

[00:01:01] Like I wanted to run a restaurant briefly after that like just go in and be like we did it gang and then walk out That's all I wanted to do Is there a more stressful job than the guy that's like what what what is it called?

[00:01:13] Where there's standard it's it's expo is what expo. They don't call it that in the show Yeah, like usually antonio runs it sometimes at his restaurants. He's like it's the best and i'm like you're just different

[00:01:24] No, I would love to do that. I'd be like I'd be fun. I'd be the one locking myself in the freezer I'm like I can't I can't deal with this right now. No chef. No chef. It's a no on expo chef

[00:01:34] Yeah, i'm feeling great brand. Thanks for asking. Uh, you sound great buddy. I can't be you're still dealing with us This has been almost it's almost a week into this week. I probably should get it checked out

[00:01:42] You should get checked out. It's almost like we recorded all these in 24 hours. I don't think so Uh, that doesn't sound that doesn't sound accurate. Uh patrick merry christmas to you. How are you? Merry christmas. I survived the nutcracker, so i'm very excited

[00:01:56] Congratulations on surviving the nutcracker. I know that's always a big feat and so congratulations Yeah, can't can't wait for a relaxing christmas now and then i'm in france for New years France new year. When do you fly out?

[00:02:15] The day after christmas. Wow are you going solo or are you going with some friends? My family we're going to a wedding and niece Wow, man. I never get I get invited to like

[00:02:27] Weddings up in pickings. I don't I don't get invited to france weddings. I don't want to go to pickings Yeah, who does and we love picking. Yeah Well, I have international

[00:02:38] Um, you are international. I've always said that about you. I do have a question the last time we talked You were going to spend Thanksgiving And some someone's house some mansion

[00:02:49] I believe the old woman's name was like gampi or gummy or something. Yeah, you were going to gampi's mansion with with an x I believe Yeah, that was the last time. Yeah, how'd that go? Oh, wow. Oh, you guys have missed a lot All right fill us in

[00:03:07] The owner of the mansion died What? Not on Thanksgiving, right? No, no, buddy died No, bunny's husband died. Yeah I know I it's not when wait when did bunny's husband die in relation to Thanksgiving Uh, probably like two or three days after Whoa, the turkey killed him

[00:03:30] It was his last Thanksgiving. So I got to be there. So that was it's very exciting Do you think he like he finally met you and he was like this is it? I got nothing like This was uh another check off the bucket list. I'm good to go

[00:03:43] You know, I think he was waiting for that uh A apple pie ala mode. That's all he kept talking about the whole really Was he was he a nice fellow? Would you could you do a quick like obituary? Yo, yo, 70 sam. What's his name?

[00:03:57] Yes, his name was yo 70 sam His name was tom Tom and bunny Yes, and if I had to eulogize I'd say I think he worked on the railroad or something So he's got that railroad money. That's how he got the the mansion and you know what?

[00:04:16] I've worked on the railroad all the little long day R.I.P. to tom But yeah, railroad guys have seen some stuff. They have seen some stuff

[00:04:25] They have the railroad guys like get their legs cut off and they're just like let's keep I got I still got to finish This this rail this took a turn I feel like we were all aboard with tom's death until this

[00:04:36] I'm not saying I'm just saying railroad guys get their legs cut off. Yeah, are you talking about the by the train? Or is it like the 1860s? I know a guy I knew I knew a guy. He's since past as well. R.I.P. tom

[00:04:49] Who worked on the railroad who lost his leg? And hit all of his money under his under his bed So you're basing your entire opinion of all railroad guys on this one guy you met while time traveling to the gilded age Yes

[00:05:03] There can't be that many railroad guys left No, can't be Especially after we lose tom. We're losing to one of the good ones I have assumed so I don't know. I don't remember about tom And we still got to have a meal with his family

[00:05:16] Rest in peace tom. That's exactly right But uh, how did it go? You know Thanksgiving the x is there there is obviously an indoor pool So that was a big win. I'm sure No romance no romance I'm still waiting to go home and meet my hometown hunk

[00:05:32] You said that you have so much to tell us. I just I thought you got my hopes up Well, it was that someone died that was at dinner That was pretty big, but if that doesn't bring people together, I don't know what does it's uh,

[00:05:43] It's just one of those things. It's one of those things. All right, whatever. Was a good Thanksgiving though Very good very good. Yes. Anyone died your Thanksgiving. No great all life and well

[00:05:52] All I'm gonna count it for correct. Yes. Good Aaron Aaron still here great. All right. Let's talk about yes chef Yes, chef. Yes chef Christmas Uh, who's in it? Yes chef Tia Maori, yeah

[00:06:11] And and that's it right. Yeah, I mean she plays all the parts of notable of notable name. Oh and buddy buddy Uh buddy the weird chef Boss the cake boss. Yes Who um is acting his little heart out This is his very first acting job. You don't say

[00:06:33] And uh, you know We all gotta start somewhere we absolutely do Absolutely do his role his role is a cake maker. So it's not a big stretch Yes, I cake boss duff from ace of cakes. No duff is his own duff. Duff is his own thing Duff's

[00:06:53] Yeah, duff is duff duff's the ace of cakes. He's the ace of cakes and the cake boss is different than the ace of cakes Absolutely. Duff is duff. Yeah, I'm tracking. We're good Cake boss is from jersey or like just like he's he's strong with his like, uh

[00:07:10] Accent like where he's just like Thanks for calling me. Sure. That wasn't a choice acting wise. I don't think it was a choice No, I don't think he's made a lot of choices

[00:07:19] I don't think he was making a lot of choices. All right, uh, let's go. What what's going on in this movie? You and I watched it, but I'll let you take the lead We did we did so the movie begins with a culinary Institute of Chicago

[00:07:33] So great place uh tear mary is a part-time instructor and uh her students her her job assignment is to like make Uh delicacy from your like home like home country or whatever

[00:07:46] And write a paper and I thought writing a paper was so rude to do to culinary students They're supposed to be cooking. They don't need to write a paper

[00:07:54] That's the reason why I failed driver's ed in high school because this joker kept giving us papers to write about driving And I'm like, I got other stuff to write about that. I actually have to I'm not going to write about Like three point turns like just relax

[00:08:09] I would say a paper for culinary school makes more sense than a paper for drivers. Yeah, I was enraged I was enraged So it's the only time I ever got a

[00:08:17] D in a class you got a d in driver. I got a d in driver said even though I so even though I passed the final exam where you know, you actually had to drive I couldn't get my license. I had to do it later

[00:08:29] Wow, yeah all because I didn't write enough essays principle. Yeah. Yes You would hate tea is class. I would So, uh, she also has a father we learned she's adopted and they're still struggling because the mom passed away

[00:08:46] A kind of like tom um very suddenly and recently so Um, so yes mom seemed unnecessary. Yeah mom loved christmas mom Mom died right before last christmas and so they get to christmas and they decide we're gonna take the season off and then this year

[00:09:05] Um, uh, t uh whips out the list of things Did you notice the what all the things on the list? It's like traditions mom's traditions and it's like cut down a tree Make food together. It's like things that every family does

[00:09:19] But mom mom wrote it down before she died so that they wouldn't forget and signs that love mom xo xo Traditions, you know finding a tree cooking together singing doing christmas karaoke All right, no, whoa just a christmas list. Yeah, that's exactly right

[00:09:37] I don't really care what you do with my money as long as you follow my christmas traditions such as getting a christmas tree So let me fresh Our handsome chef Logan forest. No he

[00:09:50] Uh is the face of this culinary holiday competition put on by a family called the kringles They're jamaican and they do like a cookoff every year There is a jamaican family in chicago with the last name kringle. Okay. All right. All right

[00:10:07] And they put this thing on every year and and logan forest is going to be a mentor But his uh person he's being a mentor too Drops out because they got a job and he uh, is they have to find somebody to replace

[00:10:23] Right this person, right? Yes. Yeah, they do and and and uh, he's not really like he's bummed about that Because he felt like he had someone that was really going to be special and this is an invite only

[00:10:33] Invite only that's a big deal. So they're now like trying to figure out who they're going to who they're gonna get Who do you think they're gonna get you think it's gonna be tia? I think it might be tia. We'll see I can write you a paper so

[00:10:47] tia is reading grading the papers at a bar and uh, you know drinking some wine having a nice night You know how you grade your culinary papers in a bar? I know I do

[00:11:02] Absolutely, you got to get in the vibe. They had the culinary vibe. Yeah, that's where I grade papers I don't need complete silence to grade not me So Logan wants the booth she's at because he's meeting some investors or something and he's like, uh, hey, can I

[00:11:20] Have this booth I'll buy you a bottle of wine and some sweet potato fries and we'll be good to go And she's like no No chef. I cannot no chef. No chef. Oh boy And that's a pretty I feel like A relatively fair offer for a booth

[00:11:38] Yeah, a bottle of wine sweet anything more it seems depending on the bottle of wine It could be a really great offer could be a great offer If you know getting a bottle of barefoot

[00:11:48] Don't don't knock it. I but she's all she's all no, I hit one in general But Yeah, the sweet potato fry like a mat if they came over to me with truffle fries Oh, forget it. Yeah, I mean you have my booth

[00:12:02] Have my booth you can do whatever you want with my booth as long as I get to eat my fries Um, but we do find out that along she does have the papers with her But what she's really doing is she is signing up for a dna test?

[00:12:14] turns out i'm 100 percent Jamaican And um So she before leaving she does Eventually like decide to give up the table or something She quickly signs up for the thing and then she walks outside and apparently At outside of this particular restaurant. There is a wishing fountain

[00:12:37] Okay, oh we're bringing magic into the mentality and so if you make a make a wish it'll come true And she wishes to find uh, you know like where she really came from Okay, looking for identity. Yeah, look at that's exactly right

[00:12:52] We and we don't know we don't really know she's adopted. Do we I mean I guess from the dna test but um took me about to figure that one out Yeah, man I don't know. Um Yeah, so the next day we are

[00:13:11] At a food pantry Tia works at a food pantry and she you know serves the food for the People coming in I don't they're not necessarily homeless

[00:13:21] I it wasn't a homeless shelter. I'm not really sure what it is either but what I do know is that she doesn't just Serve it she's crafting the food. Oh boy for these uh these this whatever this is

[00:13:35] And she takes it very seriously. She takes this is like Where she makes food now. She doesn't work in a restaurant. She like makes food for the shelter and so Your center according to the senior center great

[00:13:50] It says that both of Tia's parents were white in the movie. So that would have been maybe Clue one that she was adopted You never know You do you never know

[00:14:01] It does because well, I when do we first see it like do we when do we first see a picture of him? I'm like obviously her dad's her dad is white. We do meet him very early

[00:14:08] But I I did feel like it was pretty clear, but I don't remember what gave it away, but god bless you right so At this elderly place or whatever we're calling it. Um, yes, it is called an elderly place

[00:14:23] That's what they like to be. Yeah, that's what what elderly folks prefer is go to the elderly place Yeah, shady pines mom um With this guy william walks in he is a man with a jamaican man

[00:14:37] And he has a photo of tia and on the back it has like her name in her age and he like looks at it and looks at her And he's like, uh, I'm in the right place He walks up

[00:14:47] He gets a plate of food and he's like talking to her about if she cooked it or whatever and then he goes It eats it. He's like, oh, this is really good. Yeah

[00:14:54] And then he says his wheels starts to turn it you can see him going. This is really good. Yeah Oh, I've got an idea. I've got an idea because uh, this william is um The dad of mrs. Kringle

[00:15:10] And so he obviously is in the loop that they need somebody Chris kringle Need somebody to fill this spot and so he comes up with this idea. Hey, I found somebody amazing food

[00:15:22] Down down at the elderly place. We won't talk about that but amazing. I think this is maybe your person Yeah And tia has no idea that anyone's submitting her so she's like talking to cake boss on the laptop

[00:15:37] All his scenes are on a laptop. Yes, not true. He shows up at the end Oh, you're right. He does show up at the end. Thank god. Got out of your cake boss You're supposed to be on the screen Not in real life And he

[00:15:51] Speaking of cake. He has like caked on makeup. Like he's looking Wild about a bing-ba-da boom caked up makeup cake boss And uh, you know, we're not gonna go too hard on you auditioning to play cake boss. I'm yeah, it's just you know

[00:16:06] In just in case just in case I don't want to go too hard on cake boss, but he's the worst actor I've ever seen I

[00:16:16] Hate to see what you would say if you were going hard on cake boss. I don't want to go hard on this guy, but he's terrible just awful I honestly i'm not super familiar with cake boss And so to patrick's point

[00:16:30] When he first came on screen. I was like What is happening? And then I was like I do feel like this guy has a face. I had to google it. I was like, oh, it's cake boss

[00:16:39] That's how we got this role because if it's just a normal actor you're like What's that? What's happening? I I would submit that maybe the worst actors on the planet might be non acting

[00:16:52] On-error tv personality discovery plus movies like bobby flay trying to act dove trying to act You're so used to staring at the camera and having this specific stage direction That's built around knowing where the camera is

[00:17:05] Actors are not supposed to know where the camera is for a lot of what they do And so it's very very unnatural So I can only imagine if he was bad on top of that

[00:17:14] Luckily for cake boss. He does get to talk directly into a webcam for most of the movie Does not doesn't help does not help him but god bless you Doing my best to help out cake boss after patrick's over there. Let's help out

[00:17:27] Let's let's help us out with some extra cake money. I don't know man. We're gonna say quick break Right back here at dexel It's cake money

[00:17:42] It's not exclusively just for cake the cake money came through we are good to eat. It's not only for cake every day here We do um, yeah, that is our bar for if we can stay open

[00:17:52] Yeah, if we can't stop buying cake every day if we can't afford a daily cake then we need to shut the thing down Yeah, very minimum. So thank you to Everyone for supporting ramblejimplus.com you can support the cake have it

[00:18:06] We don't even eat the cake really uh most days Ordering most we buy like a little like little drinkers like a little bunt Nothing bunt cake cake unless it's great and we're gonna we can't afford great cakes

[00:18:18] Yeah, we can only afford but but we can do it and that's I think cake money Ice cream cake. Yeah, that's what I was yeah Anywho cake boss Okay, so tia

[00:18:35] Finds out she's getting on this show or whatever the contest and she's like, uh, this is so weird. I wonder who submitted me oh, well, i'm gonna go and uh, she meets her competition They're from very fancy schools and worked at very fancy restaurants

[00:18:50] And they're they like immediately are like, where did you uh train? What restaurants have you worked at and she is self-taught and hasn't worked in a restaurant years She's insecure a little bit about it. Yeah, so she's like a little bit like she doesn't want to talk

[00:19:04] She's basically rachel ray Yep She's basically rachel ray the dog food lady No, rachel ray had a cooking show for years. I only know her for a dog. Are you serious?

[00:19:17] That's a generation. Yeah 30 30 minute meals. I never watched it. I still knew know what it was. It was such a I know rachel ray You're fine You haven't known anything It was an interesting pivot I will say that's chored chored over should I get in the dog food?

[00:19:37] She's dogs, man. Hey, it makes sense so tia is partnered up with uh, logan she's mortified of course with sees the guy from the bar Uh, and he's like let's meet at 9 a.m. And she's like, all right, whatever dude. Yes, she's like

[00:19:54] Excuse me. Excuse me. And then she's like yes, chef Uh-huh. Yes chef We need to earn this title. So I I'm gonna need you to say yes chef as much as possible to you, right? And he tests her right away. He gives her like a uh,

[00:20:11] Like 45 minute test and there's only three ingredients allegedly, but there's way more than three ingredients And she sears some salmon up salmon salmon Salmon No, I was reading it. I was reading it. Is that you're excuse

[00:20:30] I was reading it. It looked like it's not as bad if i'm reading it. It's not bad that I said salmon Yeah, I I say salmon in real life, but when I'm reading it sometimes

[00:20:43] You know, it's a hominem. It just it's snuck through the filter there. Yep. Yep Salmon salmon salmon She wrote vegetables um and Logan is not impressed. He is like this is garbage You're a terrible chef, but here's the thing

[00:21:01] She's also not impressed with him because she's like you're supposed to be my mentor and you're over here I'm trying to make me prove myself to you Like you should be getting me ready for the competition. I need to prove myself to you logan

[00:21:14] Mm-hmm and shoot storms out I will say the food doesn't didn't look great. So I'm actually maybe on team logan here Yeah, no she comes back for the next day. She's got a bag of groceries and she's like watch this Yes, chef

[00:21:32] She is she is made yes chef a uh tm houry patrick serrano. Yeah And she makes like a very rare surf interf Uh like it's rare. It's hard to find or like it's a rare steak

[00:21:48] It's rare steak and rare tuna. Well, yeah rare tuna of course rare steak interesting. All right cool Yeah, both are very I put a picture on my blog you could see it. Um So oh and there's popcorn involved. That's right Yeah Oh wow that is rare steak

[00:22:09] It's rare steak, but and and he's like the popcorn with the with the something or other really I'm like, all right Yeah, no one's ever said that. Yeah, no one's ever that's not true Uh logan start wants to start over

[00:22:23] He promises to be on his best behavior and they they go to the christmas market in chicago the chris gringo market And different gringos Different taste some uh chicago food Uh, they not do they know that It's no it's just a christmas stuff, you know like cocoa

[00:22:41] Oh chicago food cocoa of course right and uh, she talks a little bit about growing up and being bullied for being adopted and being biracial and How cooking like helped her through The like tough times like the middle school times. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah

[00:22:59] Um, it was a nice scene. Yeah. Yeah, you get to know her a little bit and then that's when I was like she's adopted Ah, how far into the or the movie are we? Uh 40 maybe 40 minutes. Yeah

[00:23:13] Yeah lifetime does a weird thing where they do like a 30 minute stretch and then they do like a 20 minute commercial break Yeah, classic. Uh, I love that for them. It's a good stuff

[00:23:23] Tia and logan uh cook have a cookoff for uh, viola cringle. She's the uh, tia's mom But it's a secret and um Pat you just spoiled the movie So her biological mom is is the mrs. Cringle No, no No back off dad

[00:23:45] You mean rachel ray the dog food lady the dog food lady Is her mom. I would never I'm so sorry. I thought we already established that Anyways, it's a spoiler I mean, I think you could get there Well, I'm there. I'm there now

[00:24:02] I'm there. I'm here. She's a dog if she makes dogs. Yeah so, uh tia wins and she gets to the cookoff with her mentor and she gets to pick what they do they go to this karaoke christmas karaoke

[00:24:15] They sing we have a great time and she like gets out the list and like crosses it off and she explains that Her mom has this list and thanks him for helping her and He's like that's a really nice tradition and blah blah blah and you know

[00:24:30] Uh, I didn't have that with my family because my dad died when I was really young and blah blah blah Um, nothing brings people together like death Just ask bunny Guys come on That was tough He lived a full he didn't have a leg. He's fine. He is

[00:24:50] What? He worked on the road. Yeah, I'm a lake. He's up in the big apple pile of modem. That's exactly right Absolutely So, um, They do they do other christmasy things like a christmas tree decorating and a christmas game night

[00:25:05] And that's when tia meets all the cringles. There's like a brother and a sister bear and uh, you know the whole thing Yes The the interesting thing of note mama bear and papa bear are a biracial couple They sure are interesting

[00:25:23] Huh, I wonder that is you know, it's interesting. But i'm still lost. It's in you know, it's interesting I'm not sure there's nothing to that. No, not at all Especially since tia laid it out for us that she is indeed biracial

[00:25:35] She told us to patrick laid it out for us later that year. Um, well So t uh In logan talk a little about why why she doesn't work in a restaurant and she said she lost her confidence after a bad experience with a chef

[00:25:51] Yeah, and like bullying and like toxic kitchen culture. So what happened was um her mom Got sick and the day that she finds out that her mom got sick and you can correct me if i'm wrong patrick

[00:26:05] I don't know how to write this out. Okay. She uh goes into work and a food critic shows up that day Oh boy, and her head is just not in the game. She just found out that her mom Is dying

[00:26:17] And so she done she done's goofed up the meal she done goofed it up gets a bad Gets a bad review for the restaurant and the restaurant ends up closing down And so she feels like that's all her fault

[00:26:29] The basically the head chef told her that it was all her fault Um, and so she just said doesn't have any desire to get back into the kitchen uh in that regard

[00:26:38] Got nothing. Um because of that experience and who can blame her you're not going to get that type of hostility at the elderly place right And then we get a baking montage with uh the cake boss guy Oh, thank goodness. Yeah, we do thank goodness cake boss

[00:26:55] Is he ever like does he go through the whole montage or at some point does he like go to a break? Oh, I think he does go to a break and so do we cake money I Get my chocolate cake get my chocolate cake um

[00:27:17] So they're at the Party right and she gets an email Uh with the dna test results So she's she is at the cringle house at the cringle house. Yeah, and she gets it

[00:27:30] So she goes and your last name's cringles. She goes to read. Well, here's how it happens She goes to read the Uh dna total dna test results on the staircase as you do

[00:27:42] And it tells her what she is made up of like, you know, let's make an etc. Yeah, jamec Shed their spies talk to everything ethnic origin. Sure Uh, I mean yeah teach um and she you know, uh, I couldn't be whiter. Um

[00:28:02] So she was like, oh jamec and that's interesting all that good stuff and then she sees Uh familiar Matches is that we how you would say that familiar matches? familial familial familial Matches and williams face pops up

[00:28:21] And she begins to put it together like that this guy who came To the elderly place is my grandpa And she's like what is going on there And then williams shows up at the family family night and she realizes that That he is grandpa crangle

[00:28:42] And it all clicks in for her and she like she's like freaks out and she's like, I gotta go I gotta go. She doesn't say anything. She isn't like gotta go mama Like she like says I like I can't talk about this

[00:28:55] So the parents are still in the dark about this. They don't know Fair any other fair. Yeah And later talks to teah and he's like I hired a pi I I did every DNA test you could do to try to like find a familial match

[00:29:13] And I was hoping one day we would find you and my daughter doesn't know that I did this but she gave you a third option She could in classic and one little fun fact about william is he had done all these DNA tests and all this stuff

[00:29:27] He goes and he makes a wish in the fountain And then oh right and the next day he gets the ding hey you have a match Because she finally did the DNA test and she made her wish The wishes are all wow

[00:29:43] Copa aesthetic nope, and I don't think we're giving the christmas wish enough credit like this is a waiter walking around with a What is it called a button bag and just like going up to tables and being like do you want to

[00:29:56] Make a whip yes, they get a little coin. You need a special coin apparently that doesn't Let's give it for the button bag No, you boys both looked at each other when I said button bag like what's a button? I've never heard of one in my life

[00:30:11] I like the term though. It's where you put all your buttons because what do you do with them? yep You know so Logan has no idea what's going on with all this dna stuff right he's

[00:30:23] He's happily dancing with tia falling in love. He's he's having the best time He you know is really crossing the line of like mentor menti We don't need to get into it, but it's problematic and

[00:30:36] He tells her that he's excited to cook with her and she's the best part of his day and all this type of stuff and Tia is like thank you so much, but she's really focused on the competition

[00:30:48] She goes over to do a cooking lesson. She like has to do a cooking lesson with viola I get her mom Because I guess like everybody gets a lesson with a with the cringle. I guess throughout the

[00:31:01] She's not special in that regard like it's not like I want to learn how to make shimekin cuisine. I know I know Yeah, absolutely. I would do that. I'm down And she decided like that it stresses her out out tia and she tells Logan the truth and um

[00:31:18] She like asked him for time to like think things through And she's very worried about her dad finding out and she doesn't want her dad to feel like he uh, Is being replaced. Yeah

[00:31:29] And then Logan just flips out of nowhere and he's like why are you bringing up your dad? Is it because my dad died? I'm offended and he like right runs away. It was Uh a choice to make as a person in that situation

[00:31:45] But what can you do? So he's mad now, but I do just want to lay it out all of so she Uh and her mentor were getting fresh with each other She is in a competition where her biological parents are the judges and they don't know it

[00:32:03] So that's really stacking up for her. There's a lot of snow ball effect a lot of conflict going on here internally for her. I'm sure Hmm, right But the competition continues and I'm like tia's gonna get disqualified for sure um

[00:32:20] But she cooks we get a long five minute maybe cooking Contest thing. Yeah, well, she would have gotten disqualified had she told them that hey You're my mom and dad before the competition, but she doesn't do that. So they don't know that

[00:32:35] Therefore no favoritism. Yeah, of course. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. No, you could still get your crown taken away Just ask Vanessa Williams I don't know what that means. Yeah, I I don't either Sorry, well

[00:32:49] If you know, you know, I'll ask her though next time. I'm just gonna be like, do you know what Patrick means when he says this Yeah What what are you talking about me Ah wrong audience wrong audience Okay, so What you're talking about just a clue

[00:33:10] It's fine. It's fine. Let's move on She wins. Yeah Yes, chef. Yes, chef. Yes, chef She uh, it's tasked with making the her meal at a fancy christmas party the next day

[00:33:25] Oh, yeah, her prize is she get she has she has to make a fancy uh meal at a christmas party She has to make more food. Yes her prize is she gets to cater a christmas eve party for free Boy, right? So congratulations. I've got it

[00:33:42] They really yes, they really thought this out and so they're at this party the cringles are there obviously Tia's dad is there um and He gets to talking What's that? And the cake bosses there in person. Yes, I forgot

[00:33:59] I I hate to interrupt you but our wonderful producer Aaron shea has done the due diligence of googling venessa williams losing her crown and putting the results Up on the screen for us

[00:34:09] And now I had no idea. I was one year old when that happened. Uh, she did lose miss america crown Why is that her fault though? A parent without her they were published without her permission. It isn't yeah, whatever. Yeah

[00:34:22] Yeah, that doesn't seem fair. She should get to keep her crown justice for venessa justice for venessa Justice for venessa. Yeah free britney um And so they're all talking now right and he is uh talks about how his wife passed away

[00:34:38] And so he whips out a picture. Yeah, here we go. Are you ready? Here we go picture of um the uh hit the his uh deceased wife holding The baby teah baby teah and they like take the picture and then they flip it over and of course

[00:34:55] He they have written in great detail The the date in which this picture was taken of course and they start Doing the they're like that's an interesting date For us because we I had a baby on this day and then they go were you back chance adopted?

[00:35:15] Yes drops glass she puts it together. She's like, oh my gosh Okay, you're my you're my long lost daughter Yeah, and so it's a lot so tia just kind of runs out of the room at this point

[00:35:27] Yeah, a lot that lot to take in fair because she doesn't want them to take her crown Yeah, she's like they're coming from a crown and if I run away they can't take it Tater this meal for free. Yeah, right. She already did the work

[00:35:40] She she cries outside her dad comforts her and tells her that he's happy She found her family and she doesn't need to worry about him They go back inside and everyone's like hooray. You're you're my sister. You're my brother or whatever and um then they

[00:35:57] They go back outside for some reason all of them and Logan just comes out of like a gate And he walks in the snow and he's like I love you and And Let's be together and they make out and the family watches and I hate that

[00:36:12] In the cheer I hate I do. I don't like that either. I don't I think you shouldn't watch people kiss Without their permission. Yeah, it's weird. Not like that. You can kiss nice Did we video a couple kissing at santa colin?

[00:36:26] Did and I wasn't a part of it. You did it and they were in the background There's nothing I could do about that. You point them out. No Oh All right, we got video to prove otherwise. Well, there we go

[00:36:38] Uh, and I think it's weird if you watch your family case. That's weird, right? We've changed the we've moved the goalpost now Well, I think but I think it's an important distinction. Yeah, you did not make initial

[00:36:49] Well, I'm working through it. You're working through it. You're working through it. Yeah We shouldn't watch anyone make out Well, okay. It was tough at santa con patrick. There's a lot a lot of a lot of times you turn around I need to go

[00:37:03] Yeah, they have a curses brunch the end. Okay, we're done What do we do now? Now we pour it up or put a cork in it and uh, we start with dam because you didn't see the movie

[00:37:16] Uh, what are you thinking? This sounds like I would hate it Um, so much is happening. None of it makes sense Uh jammed an adoption storyline in there bad acting from the cake boss I am a hard out to put a cork in it

[00:37:30] Okay, I'm also putting a cork in it. The thing is is I don't like dislike the two Leads I actually think that they worked well together the adoption storyline in this movie is an absolute disaster Um, and it just it's so muddy

[00:37:47] The whole thing is just a big pile of mud and you're just trying to like make it through and see like Is there anything here and there's just not really anything there and him like freaking out

[00:37:56] I'm like great. Okay. I'm kind of on board with this movie and he does this whole freak out session About you brought up dads, you know, my dad died

[00:38:04] How dare you and then he just comes back in at the end and it's like I love you and that's that's okay cool No, like you're a weirdo like just chill. You need to like take some time

[00:38:14] So and anytime these movies ends with a declaration of literal love It's tough. That's tough. So uh overall a tough slog for brandon. I am uh putting a cork in it Yep, you got to earn that love at the end and I don't think they really did

[00:38:30] This is tia's last christmas movie with lifetime. So I was sat i'm sat here Oh Um, she might sign a new contract but on this this contract if this is the last one And you know, I would say not successful

[00:38:44] The three-picture deal, uh, none of them were good put a cork in this one Uh, I love tia though Who doesn't who doesn't who does it great? It doesn't Uh, well we did everybody. Congratulations We will be back next week So close to christmas by the way

[00:39:04] We're back next week with uh, what is the name of that movie holiday hotline proposal holiday the holiday proposal plan There it is. That's the one tatiana ali fresh press A an emo fella An emo fella

[00:39:19] All of that and more, uh, I believe that's just me judging by the the cover art there We'll see how it shakes out. So join us next week. It'll be our la our final, uh episode before christmas technically

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