Do You Fear What I Fear? (Lifetime - 2025)

[00:00:03] This is a Bramble Jam Podcast. Hi, I'm Brandon and I love those creepy, creepy Christmas movies. I'm Dan and I despise those creepy, creepy Christmas movies. I'm Alonzo and guess which song isn't in the public domain? And this is the Deck The Hallmark Podcast! Deck The Hallmark gets this podcast. My friends host this podcast.

[00:00:35] We hope you like this jolly podcast. Well, well, well, hello everybody! How are we today? It's great to be here today for the final festive Friday of 2025. Next Friday, it's our kickoff folks! Kickoff! In one week, we'll be kicking things off. We'll be having our marathon. It's all happening. Very excited about that. Season... Nine. Nine. Nine. Wow.

[00:01:05] I know. We're just trying to get to 10. After that, everything's great. If we can get to 10... Get to 10. It's all gravy. That's all gravy. Great to be here today with you, Alonzo. What a year it's been for us with festive Friday. Let's reminisce. Yeah, sure, man. What kind of stuck out to you? I put together a clip show. There were some good ones early on. I really like Christmas... Is it Christmas Eve at Miller's Point? Yes. That was good. Was that this year? That was this year, earlier this year, right? I thought that was last year.

[00:01:35] Actually, that was last year. All right. Well... But like... I did my best. Yeah, I was about to say best Christmas page ever. That was also last year. What were... Baltimore Ons. That wasn't bad. Thank you. That was a great one. I think that was one of the first ones we did back in January. Yeah. Um... That might be... We were... We were introduced to the majesty of Champ Dog, obviously. Champ Dog. Yes. We learned about Champ Dog.

[00:02:00] We learned about the filmmaker in Houston, the prolific Ms. Monet. Yep. You know, JPR. It was a big year, Festive Friday-wise, for the micro-budget. That's right. I think it certainly was. Yes. But you know what? We're getting quite a few big-budget boys. Macro-budget. This holiday season, which I'm excited about. So... Yeah. Violet Night 2. And Christmas at the Kringles. Yeah.

[00:02:29] And I'm, you know, already getting pumped for next year for Olivia Wilde's new movie Naughty. That's right. What's that? What's the movie with Arnold? Is that the one you just said? Oh, right. Yeah. No, that's The Man with the Bag. Yeah, The Man with the Bag. Arnold and Reacher. Yeah. Alan Richardson. Oh, yeah. You heard about that? No. Yeah, it's for Amazon. My buddy, Michael Cyril Creighton, who you might know from Only Murders in the Building, he plays Howard on that show. Oh, okay. Is in it as well. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to that.

[00:02:57] We got the new Almodovar coming out called Bitter Christmas. So, yeah, there's going to be plenty of stuff. Absolutely. And, of course, Alonzo, you're going to be joining us all holiday season, covering Mistletoe Murder starting in just a few weeks from now, about a month away, a little less. And then, of course, Netflix. And so... Arnold Schwarzenegger is Santa Claus in this movie? That is correct. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[00:03:26] Depending on how many Netflixes there are this year, that one might have to jump. We might have to wiggle its way in. There's no way that I'm waiting to watch it. Dude, it's got your boy Kyle Mooney in it. It has Kyle Mooney? It has Awkwafina? Awkwafina, Ken Jeong, Kyle Mooney, Jane Krakowski. Did I cast this movie? Wow. Wow. Yeah. Alan Rich, and we already said, yeah. That's quite a cast. It has the girl who... And Michael Cyril Creighton. That's amazing.

[00:03:55] It has the girl who hosted the reboot of Double Dare, Liza Koshy. Liza Koshy, Adrian Martinez. What a cast. I can't believe Arnold Schwarzenegger is Santa. This has to stop. Dasha, Dancer, Prince, and Vixen, Comic, Keeper, Dr. Blitzen. Bring it back from Jingle all the way. Gosh, he looks awesome. All right. Whatever, guys. I'm going to smoke a stogie. Ho, ho, ho. I can't wait. I'm so excited.

[00:04:23] I already, I'll tell you, it's going to be better than Jingle all the way. Get out of here. I can sign on to that. So it's going to be one of the best movies of all time? Great. Count me in. I'm here for it. All right. Let's talk about Do You Fear What I Fear? A movie that came out quietly on the Lifetime Movie Network, which is not the Lifetime. I feel like I'm encroaching in Patrick's territory here. So apologies up front. I understand. But you know what? Patrick's going to be joining us all holiday season to be reviewing for the first time ever.

[00:04:53] All of the Lifetime movies. So excited. It's finally happening, folks. Okay. Let's do this thing. December 4th, 2025 on the Lifetime Movie Network. And it went a little something like this. The movie starts kind of like your typical Christmas movie. Claire, who is working in the small town, is talking to Jesse, who's the town handyman. They're decorating the town together.

[00:05:20] Seem like they're just going to fall in love, be a cute little Christmas romance, put on the Hallmark Channel, call it a day. Except Claire has landed a job in the big city. New York City? She's going to be leaving her small town for the big city. What in the world? Her college friend Sloan, who helped her get this job, shows her around New York City. The company hooks her up with an absolutely amazing apartment.

[00:05:50] And that immediately makes old Jesse, handyman Jesse, insecure. And he really didn't want to stop talking. Didn't want to. I think they were kind of in a relationship. Didn't want to break up. But just you're gone now. And he's feeling a little bit, a certain kind of way about that. Then we're going to forget about him for the rest of the night. Yeah. Yeah. Or for the next, you know, hour. Put him on the back burner. A neighbor named Miles helps Claire with her Wi-Fi and comes into the apartment to check out the modem.

[00:06:19] He lives next door. Seems like it could be a sketch ball. We'll see. We'll see. Claire also keeps hearing random noises from one of the apartments nearby. I wonder what that's about. Meanwhile, we see how we meet Steve, who is at the end of the hall and is a bit suave-er than old Miles. Suave-er? Suave-er. I heard that one. Suave-er? Hmm. Would you not say suave-er? I would just say, I don't know. More suave. You would say more suave. Why? Because it's not suave-er. But why?

[00:06:49] That's the English language. I don't know what you want from me. But why? Why but? But no, but why in this case is it not er? It's because some aren't. It just, it's awkward. It's like stupider. Stupid-ess. Those aren't words. It's more stupid. I'm not having it. It's suave-er. Suave-ess. You're the suave-est speaker I know. Thank you. That means a lot to me. Yeah. So, anyways. That was actually Rico's original last name. Suave. Rico Suave. That's exactly right. Hi, I'm Rico. Rico Suave lives in Boca. Please call me Rico.

[00:07:24] So, yeah, he asks Claire out is what I'm trying to say. He's suave-er than Miles. The date goes well and Claire listening to her smooth jazz while making pasta. She hears something in the hallway. It turns out just somebody moving next door. Nothing to be concerned about. She does, she's talking to the doorman. The doorman's also kind of sketch. And he's just like, I don't know what your deal is. This is a safe place. If you don't like it, go.

[00:07:52] The next morning, Claire notices that a snow globe from her hometown is sitting out on her mantle, even though she put it away. She could have sworn she put it away. And now it's back out there. What the heck? Then she finds a card that says, do you see what I see? Written on the back. Not the name of the movie. Claire's voice assistant, Elmer, normally plays the smooth jazz that she asks, but then randomly starts playing Christmas music.

[00:08:21] Claire and Steve are making out, and Elmer just keeps putting on the Christmas music. Something's going on, which makes Claire real mad. Then she comes home the next day, and her entire house is decorated for the holiday season. Some of it nice. Some of it creepy. Claire immediately calls the police. Everyone is very concerned about this, and Steve is like, you can come stay with me. Solana's like, you can come stay with me.

[00:08:49] And she's like, everything's fine. Miles is actually gay, which means he's not going to be the potential romantic interest in this movie. But that doesn't mean that he can't be stalker. Can't be killer. He might be Christmas killer still. Still on the table of opportunity. Claire de-decorates her house. Changes all the locks. Gets things back to normal how she wants it. Unfortunately, that doesn't stop the messages from coming.

[00:09:16] Claire asks the maintenance guy for help, who is always constantly down in the scariest basement. Kevin McCallish would be going nuts right now in this basement. And he's very creepy. He tells her to get her old pal Miles, IT Miles, to put in a surveillance system with some cameras, which he ducks. And Claire's like, I'm going out of town, everyone. Tell us the whole building. Leaving. I'm going out of town.

[00:09:44] So that she can watch the cameras with Miles and catch the intruder in the act. Because he only kills at night. He kills at night, which is wild. He redecorates at night. He redecorates at night. That's exactly right. Miles and Claire stay up watching the cameras, and eventually they do find the intruder red-handed. Or should I say red-hatted? They find his hat. That's the hats. That's all. They don't see his face. They only see the hats.

[00:10:11] And so Claire finds that same hat in Steve's apartment. Dun, dun, dun. I know. And so she leaves very scared. And he's like, WTF is going on here. Why are you leaving my house? She goes back to the detective and is like, hey, he has hats. And so they do a search, and it's not looking good for our guy Steve.

[00:10:37] Claire decides to go back through the surveillance footage when she finds out that Steve actually had a really solid alibi. And she notices right at the start of the clip a reflection in the mirror of the footage showing the face of the intruder. It's the handyman from her hometown. It's Jesse. Of course. I know. Jesse shows up at Claire's apartment, and Claire starts just throwing stuff at him.

[00:11:02] Unfortunately, Jesse manages to grab her and drag her into his secret hideout, an apartment nearby, with a bunch of stuff. Like, those are the sounds that she was hearing. He was building stuff. He explains that he thought that he believed the city is too dangerous, and she needs to be with him, and all this stuff. She hits him with a wrench. She screams, and she is saved. One week later, Claire is absolutely thriving. Everybody at work thinks she's crushing it.

[00:11:32] And, of course, she's dating our guy Steve, and they're having a great time together. And that, my friends, was Do You Fear What I Fear? We did it. We did do it. Let's take a break. We'll come back. We'll break this movie down here on... Deck The Hallmark. We're back. Hi, everybody. Welcome back. Do You Fear What I Fear?

[00:12:01] Our final festive Friday of the year before the holiday season kicks off next week. Hopefully, you'll join us for the marathon. I think it's going to be a good one. It's going to be a good one. It's going to be a good one. All right. Let's break this movie down. We're going to start with the hot takes where we share exactly how we felt about this movie. I want to kick it over to... He is suave. He's suave-er than you. And he's the suavest person I know. He's the suavest sexy George Lucas you've ever met. That's right. Alonzo, what do you think of Do You Fear What I Fear? Yeah.

[00:12:30] I'm not super versed in the Lifetime movie. So, I mean, the Lifetime, like, you know, Woman in Danger movie. So, I guess this is par for the course. Like, this is just what they do. This is how they're shaped. But, I mean, this is a wacky movie. Like, I love the commitment to the most obvious guilty person imaginable.

[00:12:55] And yet a, like, danger of overfishing number of red herrings in the cast. Oh, my gosh. Like, they keep throwing sketchballs at you. A cavalcade of the creepiest men you've ever met. And it's like, but it's got to be handyman, right? I mean, like, who else would bother and why else? But, no, they keep, you know, what if it's the doorman? You know, what if it's the hot maintenance guy? You know. So, that was wacky.

[00:13:23] I also love the commitment to the idea that the NYPD will take it very seriously if someone breaks into your home and decorates. We got a B&D over here. No, breaking and decorating. That's good. Classic B&D, you know. That's good. Yeah, I really like this movie. Of course you do. I want a few of these. I want, this is what I want Lifetime to do. This.

[00:13:53] I don't want Lifetime to try to compete with Hallmark. I don't want Lifetime to try to compete with us. This is their lane, you're saying. Yes, do what you do at Christmas. Because I think this is fun. I think these are fun movies with a, you still get the festive flair. And I have to imagine that the normal audience that likes Lifetime movies would be more inclined

[00:14:17] to watch 10 of these than 10 sub-subpar Hallmark Christmas movies. I have to imagine. But I'm sure they've done the research and I'm wrong about this one. That's why I'm not the executive over at Lifetime. But this is fun. And I have seen it quite a handful of Lifetime movies. And this just works. It works for me. It's fun. It's festive. It does everything that you want a Lifetime movie to do with still giving you a little Christmas cheer.

[00:14:45] I don't know why they don't do more of these every year. We always lamented that Hallmark Mystery, when that was really a thing, was never doing Christmas and Mystery at the same time. But yeah, this is, if you're looking for, I want to see the wrong blank, but with, you know, tinsel on it, then yeah, boom, here we go. Yeah. I guess I think I like this movie in principle, but in practice, I hate it. I don't, like, I don't, I do want something like this.

[00:15:13] I want it to be competent, though. I just, I want it to, like, to Alonzo's point, they just, every, look, and I'm not here to defend the male gender. I'm just not here to defend men. However. I don't know what you were doing earlier. However. Maybe sit through that lecture. Every single dude in this movie looks like if he hasn't killed yet, he will eventually. Yeah. Like, every single guy in this movie. These guys do look like they kill it.

[00:15:42] Faces on the post office wall. Everyone from the maintenance worker to the IT guy to the doorman looks her up and down every time they put a camera on. And just so you know that they're not above board, they're like, yeah, that's right. Every time. And it's like, okay. Even the gay guy. Even the gay guy does it. That's exactly right. And so there's just, you know, I will say Hallmark's version of this is talking, right?

[00:16:10] So, like, everyone, everyone, you know, everyone in a Hallmark mystery is like, it couldn't have been me. Yeah, I didn't like them. But I was at the war fishing that night. And you can ask old man Rivers. Like, and it's like they just talk through their alibi. Whereas these folks, the way they look suspicious isn't by talking. It's by doing this one. Leering. It's crazy.

[00:16:34] It's a crazy thing that this is half of this movie is literally I, they don't do a good job crafting a mystery. It's just like suspect every man, which you know what? In this day and age may not be a bad take. We're it to live by for sure. Yeah. But also it just is crazy that every single person she meets is out to get her. And like, we can get into some way. Like, I said that now because there's so many wait what's regarding these men and how they

[00:17:03] act that aren't killers that there's plenty still left over. So in principle, do I want to see a couple of these a year? I think I do. In practice, the only scene that really worked for me, I guess, is my feels. So I'll just go ahead and just do that now. It's time for all the feels where we're talking about things that we're doing in the feels, Dan. It was a little creepy when she came into her house decorated. I do think that that scene was relatively effective.

[00:17:28] Now, laughable that the police are rushing over in, I believe, New York City for that reason. But an effective scene to walk in, what's creepier than walking in your house and having it decorated and having like a message in the mirror? Like, I thought that worked. But that kind of is drowned out by a sea of just inane, dumb performances and scripting. So yeah, that's where I am with it. But it might be my least favorite of the three movies we did for the creepiest. Wow. Might be.

[00:17:58] I don't know. I'd have to think it through. None of them are winning awards. Stay tuned next week for our ranking episode. It had the most resources, certainly. That's true. Yeah. Should we do a Festive Friday ranking episode? Somebody on... That would be hilarious. It would be so funny. I would be... It would be like... The Baltimore Ons JPR. Yeah. They're all tied for last. It's like the JPR movies and then everything not Baltimore Ons is just tied for second. Let me see what... What next week looks like. It might be... Somebody on Blue Sky wanted us to do...

[00:18:26] You and Brian and myself to do a top 25 ranking of best Hallmark Christmas movies before this year. Like just of all time. Oh my gosh. Which would be impossible. Can't do that. That's... Yeah. Well, you send them to our screen drafts episode. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Or just Hallmark movie drafts in general. But I mean... Monthly. Most of my favorite Hallmark movies have come out since the screen drafts episode. Oh, wow. Like literally... I don't know how else to say... The last four years I think have just been better.

[00:18:54] That episode was 22, I believe, or 21. It was four or five... No, I think it was 21. So in the last five years they've... Ghost of Christmas always haven't been made yet. Sure. Round and round. Round and round. Finish line. Finish line haven't been made. These all... You know, Christmas Quest, Biltmore Christmas. None of these movies have been made yet. So that list is very antiquated in my opinion. Yeah. Man, I don't know if they were going for scariest basement of all time, but they won it. And so good for them. They did. They did.

[00:19:24] They set out to make something truly... Complete with Victrola. Unbelievable. So good on them. That basement gave me scared feels. So good for them. All right. Let's take a break. We'll come back. We'll get you the Weight Watch. I don't think this guy ever did. I didn't really have any. Okay, great. Perfect. Oh, I said that. Because I started like a dummy. I'm all out of sorts. I'm all out of sorts. All right. We'll be right back here on Tech the Hallmark. Tech the Hallmark. Whatever you're ready to do. I said it. I know. You said it without giving me any sort of... We're right back on Tech the Hallmark.

[00:19:55] You got it. You got it. It's time for Weight Watch. So we're talking about what in this movie gave us the Weight Watch. I'll start with you, Alonso. Yeah. I didn't have any feels, but I might have a Weight Watch or two. I love... Okay. She moves to New York for this new job. And yeah, sorry. We can only offer you this tiny cubicle, but we can also offer you this gigantic apartment. Yeah. Yeah. No, that was a huge one for me. The apartment here. What is she working? What is she doing? That is...

[00:20:24] Maybe it's mid-level Toronto, but for New York, that is like... That's where an oil billionaire works. That's right. No, that's a billionaire's apartment. The high ceilings, the all brick walls, the space. Yeah. Did they... How long... I am a doorman? Yeah. Do they just have that, like... Do they offer that to everybody? All their employees? Like... I don't know. What is the deal there? Is it temporary? Yeah. Like, we don't really find out, but I just love that, like... Sorry, you don't get your own office.

[00:20:53] You've only got this little, you know, this little veal fattening pen. But we are going to give you this palatial apartment. We hope that makes up for it. When she meets... I want to say Miles, but anyway, one of the potentially creepy dudes on her hall, he is holding a garbage bag, disposes of it, and then shakes hands with her. No. No, no, no. You wave. You do not shake hands with somebody who is holding garbage. No.

[00:21:22] You just don't. You don't do it. You just don't. No. You don't do it. You wouldn't. It's like not taking a shower after making a flight. You know what? Exactly. A few weeks ago, Dan and I landed in New Orleans. And he said, you know what I said? I think I'm going to pull on Alonzo and go take a shower. That's right. That's exactly what he said. I'm glad I can make your lives better. At one point, she says to somebody, sorry for the mess. Yeah. What? It looks so good in there. It's pristine. God, are you kidding me? And then even later, she's like, I'm still living out of boxes.

[00:21:52] I'm like, ma'am, someone tell the art director this because this apartment, I mean, it looks like a model home like they always do in these movies, but it looks like it's been staged already. So, you know, give me a break. So, mysterious sounds coming from the apartment next door, which we later find out it's under construction conveniently. But not knowing this, she goes and pounds on the door in the middle of the night. I'm like, you just moved in.

[00:22:21] Maybe the move is not to immediately antagonize your next door neighbor. Again, in New York City. Right. The answer to do you like jazz is never Elmer plays smooth jazz. She talks about her parents loving jazz, listening to jazz on the radio. I'm like, okay, the parents were like probably listening to, you know, Dizzy Gillespie or, you know, Dave Brubeck or something like that.

[00:22:51] They were not listening to Kenny G, you know, smooth jazz is its own horrifying thing. You know, Dave's whole thing was like, she wanted to say like play jazz and some sort of like John Zorn industrial scrum. But yeah, smooth jazz. You deserve to be stalked with a song that isn't do you hear what I hear because that song was written in 1962 and it's still under copyright. Right. And I wonder if the person writing this movie knew that at the time or if they were midway

[00:23:19] in production went, oh, fiddlesticks. We have to come up with a new song. Man. Elmer plays smooth jazz. So funny. There is discussion about who has a key and the door has a code on it. Yeah. Come on, guys. It's right there. Try a little. Mom puts cookies in an oven. Again, couldn't be more off. You know, it's just easier that way. It is.

[00:23:49] This is an oven where like I think there are still pieces of plastic you got to peel off of the burners. Right. Like it is that. It is that untouched and never, ever, ever used. After everything is seemingly okay and she's in the office and being praised for her work, mean boss lady says what a great job she did on the Christmas campaign. Excuse me? Excuse me. You started this job in December. No, no, no, no, no.

[00:24:19] Unless you've already done the Christmas 2027 campaign, which is good for you. But otherwise, that didn't happen. We know enough about these movies to know that that's not the case. Yeah. This is the standard thing and they always get that wrong. And then finally, big happy ending. She and dude go out on date with the gay guy and the boyfriend. Unfortunately, the gay guy's boyfriend is not allowed a line of dialogue because he is an extra. He is background.

[00:24:46] And so it makes the scene awkward because no one introduces themselves to him. They barely acknowledge that he's there, but they certainly don't speak to him. Yeah. So it's just like, oh, come on. Y'all spend the hundred bucks, whatever it is, to let this guy say, hey. A hundred bucks is what it costs for him to not say a line. I know that because we were. Yeah, it's a hundred, 112 bucks for a guy. Yeah. Well, anyway, kick it up a notch. Kick it up a notch, guys. You didn't spend the money on the song.

[00:25:16] You might as well blow it on the. Or just don't do it. Just have them go out on a date by themselves. Yes. Or make the whole thing like lay the crappy song over it as a montage or something. So no one's talking. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe this was on purpose to showcase how absurd the small town Christmas thing is in these movies. But there is a person in the background ringing the heck out of this bell. Yeah, they are. They are going nuts. And it is not.

[00:25:45] They had it turned up so loud. And I'm like, just take it down a notch with the bell ringer. Just a notch or two, please. Christopher Walken originally came in and said, I need more of that bell ringer. I need more charity bells. I got a fever. The only prescription is more bell ringer. Yeah. Our guy, Miles, comes in and looks at the snow globe and goes, hey, what's this? Brother. Brother. It's an all time. You know these city folk.

[00:26:14] All time moment. Of hey, what's this? Snow globe. Just crazy. The police officer after arresting Steve says he'll be cooling his jets downtown, which I love as a line. And I'm going to start saying that instead of, hey, cool your jets. Hey, he'll be cooling his jets downtown. He'll be cooling his jets downtown. Sounds awesome. I love that. And then, hey, bud, the guy is taking you, has you, is pulling you.

[00:26:45] Scream. Scream or something. You're in an apartment complex where sound travels pretty easily. As you well know, things go through the wall. That's right. Just scream, say a word, something. It's crazy enough that no one heard him, them like kicking the walls and stuff. Well, that was my, yeah. But like, he wasn't covering her mouth.

[00:27:11] She should have screamed, but also there's no way someone doesn't stick their head out the door. Like, it's so loud. What's going on? They're banging around. Like, it's crazy. He's dragging a human body, fighting against him. People are gonna hear. Yeah. I mean, come on. So with her luck, she'd scream and they still wouldn't hear, but whatever. At some point in this movie, a character says, basements are tricky. Yeah, man. Sure. I will say this.

[00:27:39] If the basement of your apartment complex is putting off that much steam from that many different sources, you should move. That is why they're tricky. All over the place. The nerd in this movie who does turn out to be gay and has a boyfriend that cannot talk says, I was the kid soldering microcontrollers when everyone else was learning to drive. And, like, nerds drive, too. Like, there's so many things you could have said there.

[00:28:05] Like, micro-soldering microcontrollers when everyone else was playing sports or going to the movies or something else. Learning to drive is really an all play. Like, of all the things that doesn't set you aside as a nerd, it's learning to drive. And not if you're a New Yorker. That's true. Again. But then they wouldn't be doing that either. Correct. There's nothing about that line that screams, I was a nerd that didn't. Like, going to prom. That's right. Exactly. For sure.

[00:28:35] There is a guy in this movie that is interested in this girl. And they have a couple of dates. And they're at his apartment. They even make out once, I believe. And then she finds the hat of the stalker in his apartment. It is at that point that she is terrified because she believes that he, is the stalker. Right? So, she says she's going to leave. And this man, in that moment, who is not the stalker, does he go,

[00:29:04] Okay, is there anything I can do? Okay, it seems like you're scared. No, what he does is he looks at her intensely and kind of jabs at her. He kind of jabs. Where are you going? What are you doing? Like, buddy, someone arrest this man for scaring the living daylights out of this woman for no reason at all. He has done nothing wrong. He is acting like he is a killer.

[00:29:34] Like, why? I get it. Lifetime's decided they need to put that thought in their mind before the big reveal. Yeah, he's doing it for us, not her. But one dude who's interested in a girl and is above board as a human being, it turns out, would hear her apprehension and go, What if I kind of jab my head at her like a headache? What if I acted like I could take away her space really quickly? That would make her feel more at ease. One of the weirder performances of all time.

[00:30:02] This guy looks like he's about to murder her. And it turns out he's fine. A crazy thing that happened in this movie. Certainly all is forgiven by the ending, you know. Well, yeah, of course. They're back together. Like, she'd be like, Hey, Bobby, what was that back then? What was that the jab? I thought you were a stalker, so that makes my behavior make sense. You staring through my eyes and my soul with a dead face. That's going to be the rest of their life. Moving in quick bursts.

[00:30:31] What were you trying to do? Hey, what's for dinner? Walk me through it. What's for dinner? The best version of what you were trying to do is not let me leave. That guy. No. What do you want to watch on TV tonight? What do you want to watch on TV? Sure. We're having a fun time here. Three flowers. Gosh almighty. I love you. No, that's all I got. It's time for the Hallmarkers questions that we still have. I would like some answers to Alonzo.

[00:30:59] I would have loved an epilogue where it's back in the cozy Hallmark town where somebody stops the mom on the street and asks her if her daughter and the handyman are ever going to get married. And the mom having to be like, uh, where's the thing? Here's the thing. Yeah. That's good. That's great.

[00:31:22] Um, yeah, I, I, I do want to know why did the, um, the handyman decide to go down the, do you see what I see routes with his like warnings? Is it just, is, is he, what is, what he's trying to get out there? Like, don't you see how dangerous the big city is? Do you see what I see? I don't think they put a lot of thought into it.

[00:31:48] I think it's just referencing the, their song from the Christmas festival or whatever. That isn't the song you think it would be. That isn't the song that you think it would be. No. I'm trying. It's, it is a, it is a just, uh, it's a, it is a scary thing to see written, uh, on your mirror and hung up in your party banner. That's right. But why, but why? I don't know, Dan. Yeah.

[00:32:16] We mentioned it earlier, but she does end up back with this guy who gives the sullen stare and head fakes. Um, we, what is she doing? But also how long does that last? There's no way at like, how long are they like, she's super traumatized. She briefly thought this man was a stalker. She decides to get back with him. Um, like he is not well as an individual based upon his actions. Like how long are we talking here? When do they break up? And then it becomes so awkward that one of them has to move. That's right.

[00:32:44] Or he then does start to stalk her. Oh, true. Yeah. That's sequel. Yeah. Well, um, we did everybody. Congratulations to us. Festive Friday has come to an end. Join us next weekend for our marathon next Friday for our kickoff and all holiday season long with Alonzo covering all sorts of fun stuff. It's going to be a good one until then. Maybe the first to wish you a Merry Christmas deck, the Hallmark's a Bramble Jam podcast produced by Brandon Gray. And yeah, that Greenville, South Carolina for more information on the show.

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