Hallmark Christmas Preview Show: Part 1 (2024) ft. Alonso Duralde, Jacklyn Collier, Patrick Serrano, Ryan Pappolla

[00:00:03] Hi, I'm Brian and I love Hallmark Christmas Preview Shows!

[00:00:08] I'm Brian and I like Hallmark slash love Hallmark Christmas Preview Shows!

[00:00:13] I'm Alonso and I live for Hallmark Preview Shows.

[00:00:17] I love Hallmark Christmas Preview Show.

[00:00:22] I'm Patrick and I'm a lifetime movie expert and I don't know anything about Hallmark Preview Shows.

[00:00:27] I'm Ryan and I'm really just here for the creams.

[00:00:30] I'm Dan and if we're going to do a preview show, let's do it like this. This is the Deck the Hallmark Podcast!

[00:00:36] Deck the Hallmark, it's this podcast!

[00:00:39] My friends host this podcast!

[00:00:46] We hope you like this jolly podcast!

[00:00:54] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

[00:00:56] Oh yeah!

[00:00:59] Hello everybody, it's great to be here today!

[00:01:01] That's good TV!

[00:01:02] It is great TV.

[00:01:04] The first ever all-play preview show.

[00:01:07] It feels right!

[00:01:08] I'm a little bit overwhelmed by how excited I am and so I'm going to take a second.

[00:01:16] Only of seven creams.

[00:01:16] Just think about it this way, Brandon.

[00:01:18] In a month from when we're recording this, we're going to do our marathon and we're all

[00:01:24] going to be in one house together.

[00:01:25] All seven of us.

[00:01:25] If you're watching on Philo, philo.tv.dth, you're going to see all seven of us on the screen

[00:01:30] and in a month we're all going to be in a room together.

[00:01:33] And we got a lot of fun playing, Brandon.

[00:01:35] We got a draft we're going to do.

[00:01:37] We're going to do a movie draft.

[00:01:39] We got a white elephant gift exchange.

[00:01:40] Maybe a murder mystery game.

[00:01:43] Maybe a murder.

[00:01:43] You're going to want to tune in.

[00:01:44] Maybe a murder.

[00:01:45] Maybe a murder.

[00:01:47] Not off the table.

[00:01:48] Wait, I didn't sign up for this.

[00:01:52] Patrick, your flight to Southwest is not refundable.

[00:01:54] You are coming to the murder party.

[00:01:55] There's nothing I can do about it.

[00:01:58] No refunds on the murder party.

[00:01:59] Yeah.

[00:01:59] The fun thing about this is as you're listening or watching on Philo, you know how long it

[00:02:04] is.

[00:02:04] We don't.

[00:02:06] It's true.

[00:02:06] But we're doing two preview shows and we've got 47 movies to get through.

[00:02:12] Yeah.

[00:02:12] And so I don't know how long it's going to be.

[00:02:14] We're going to cut out the ish though.

[00:02:16] At least we narrowed it down to two.

[00:02:17] Yeah.

[00:02:17] That was your call.

[00:02:20] I fought it.

[00:02:21] Tooth and nail.

[00:02:22] And so here's how it's going to be.

[00:02:24] This is very simple.

[00:02:25] We did a lot of math.

[00:02:26] We did a lot of...

[00:02:27] We did a lot of pranks.

[00:02:28] Pranking.

[00:02:29] Of how we're going to do this because everybody knows one of the most important part of the

[00:02:31] preview show is creams and how many creams we have.

[00:02:34] Everybody knows a cream is a little something on top of your already rating one through five.

[00:02:40] And so I am...

[00:02:42] We talked about it.

[00:02:43] I think we're going to go with of the 47 movies.

[00:02:47] That's right.

[00:02:47] There's seven of us.

[00:02:49] There's lots of seven.

[00:02:50] Lots of seven.

[00:02:50] Which everyone knows is the holy number.

[00:02:52] Amen.

[00:02:52] So we're going to go with seven creams.

[00:02:55] Seven creams.

[00:02:55] Now, there's also of the 47, there is seven streaming movies.

[00:03:03] So of those streaming movies, you have one cream.

[00:03:08] Stream cream.

[00:03:09] Stream cream.

[00:03:09] Which is on top of your seven.

[00:03:11] So seven regular creams.

[00:03:12] Stingy with the creams.

[00:03:14] Actually, it's seven creams for 40 movies.

[00:03:16] For 40 movies.

[00:03:17] For 40 movies.

[00:03:17] And one cream for seven movies.

[00:03:19] There's seven again.

[00:03:20] So a little stingy on the stream cream side of things.

[00:03:23] But for seven, for 40, you got to feel good about them.

[00:03:25] You have to.

[00:03:25] The streaming is new.

[00:03:26] Yeah.

[00:03:27] We're still trying to figure this out.

[00:03:28] We're still trying to figure out the stream cream.

[00:03:30] So utilize those how you want to throughout the course of the two preview shows.

[00:03:35] If you want to save them all for the second preview show, you go for it.

[00:03:38] Maybe you want to backload your creams.

[00:03:39] However you want to utilize them.

[00:03:41] I wouldn't recommend it.

[00:03:41] Yeah.

[00:03:42] It's totally up to you.

[00:03:44] Ryan, I saw you point to yourself.

[00:03:45] It's on us to keep track of our creams, right?

[00:03:48] Producer Aaron Shea is going to 100% keep track of our creams.

[00:03:51] Wow.

[00:03:52] At any point in time, you can ask Aaron how many creams you have left.

[00:03:55] That's right.

[00:03:56] Any point in time.

[00:03:57] As many times as you want.

[00:03:58] No limit on the number of times you can ask.

[00:03:59] You can ask every time you write a movie because we don't have anywhere to be.

[00:04:03] We got all to get there.

[00:04:04] And all day to get there.

[00:04:05] That's right.

[00:04:05] You get it.

[00:04:06] Just to clarify.

[00:04:08] First, it was murder and now it's math.

[00:04:11] Yeah.

[00:04:13] What are you doing to me over here?

[00:04:14] What are we ranking these movies out of brain?

[00:04:16] Is it snowballs, Christmas trees, yuletide cheer?

[00:04:19] What are you doing?

[00:04:20] Three yuletide cheers.

[00:04:22] Yul boys?

[00:04:24] Yul boys?

[00:04:25] Yul boys?

[00:04:25] Yul lads.

[00:04:25] Yul lads.

[00:04:26] Yul lads.

[00:04:27] It's very different.

[00:04:29] Sleds.

[00:04:30] Slays.

[00:04:31] Slays.

[00:04:31] Krampuses.

[00:04:32] Jingle bell rocks.

[00:04:34] What about Santa suits?

[00:04:36] Santa suits?

[00:04:37] Santa suits.

[00:04:38] We're going to cream Santa suits?

[00:04:40] Okay.

[00:04:41] It's been known to happen.

[00:04:45] Fucking like a man who knows.

[00:04:47] The peppermint mocha is good.

[00:04:48] Let's do just peppermint mochas.

[00:04:49] Because we did PSLs for safe.

[00:04:50] We want to be plain, that's fine.

[00:04:51] That's fine.

[00:04:52] Peppermint mochas.

[00:04:53] We're nothing if we're not safe around here.

[00:04:54] That's right.

[00:04:54] We're safe.

[00:04:55] Peppermint mocha.

[00:04:56] I don't want anybody to think we're trying to, you know, we're...

[00:04:59] Cream the wrong thing.

[00:05:00] Yeah.

[00:05:01] Take the creams out of context.

[00:05:02] You don't want an accidental cream situation.

[00:05:04] No, no, no, no.

[00:05:05] You don't want that.

[00:05:05] The creams back in Christmas.

[00:05:07] So each movie I will read who's in it and the synopsis we will then give our rating

[00:05:12] one out of five peppermint mochas and then you have seven regular creams and one stream

[00:05:18] cream to use as you wish.

[00:05:20] Once again, the cream is just to accent a movie that you really want to spotlight.

[00:05:24] Well...

[00:05:25] That's what it means.

[00:05:26] And Brand's going to try to tell you it means something different for him and his heart.

[00:05:29] For me, the cream is a plus two.

[00:05:30] That's dumb.

[00:05:31] But again, you use it how everybody views creams differently.

[00:05:35] So, that's how you want to do it.

[00:05:37] Before we start, can we just go over the whole creams thing one more time?

[00:05:40] Or...

[00:05:42] I would just say if you have any questions, just hit that...

[00:05:44] Consult the cream...

[00:05:46] The cream...

[00:05:47] Almanac.

[00:05:48] Yeah, Almanac that we did send.

[00:05:49] The creamanac.

[00:05:50] We hate that name now that we sent it.

[00:05:52] The cream wiki.

[00:05:53] We're working on the cream wiki.

[00:05:55] We'll get to it in the coming weeks.

[00:05:57] Is everybody ready to go?

[00:05:58] Let's do it.

[00:06:00] At first, we will be watching this movie together.

[00:06:03] Yeah, we will.

[00:06:04] During the marathon.

[00:06:05] The marathon, by the way, starts October 18th at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

[00:06:10] That's right.

[00:06:10] This movie comes out at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

[00:06:13] And I just want to tease something really quickly for the marathon.

[00:06:15] You won't want to miss the first thing that we do.

[00:06:18] No.

[00:06:18] The 6 p.m.

[00:06:19] It's going to be very fun.

[00:06:20] You're not going to want to miss it.

[00:06:23] October 18th.

[00:06:24] It's a great tease, Brand.

[00:06:25] Thank you.

[00:06:26] 8 p.m.

[00:06:27] I'm not even sure there are words there.

[00:06:29] It's going to be phenomenal.

[00:06:30] You're going to miss it.

[00:06:31] You're going to miss it.

[00:06:33] Okay.

[00:06:34] Good tease.

[00:06:34] I'm leaning in.

[00:06:37] Thank you.

[00:06:37] Yeah.

[00:06:38] On the Hallmark Channel, it is starring Robert Buckley and here we go.

[00:06:44] Amy Groening.

[00:06:47] Grinning.

[00:06:47] Grinning.

[00:06:48] Yes.

[00:06:48] That is a silent O.

[00:06:49] Like the Simpsons guy.

[00:06:51] Matt Groening.

[00:06:51] Yeah, it's a silent O.

[00:06:52] Like Matt Groening from The Simpsons.

[00:06:54] Here we go.

[00:06:54] Awesome.

[00:06:55] Thank you.

[00:06:55] To prevent your family from canceling the Chamberlain Family Christmas Olympics, Jessie, played by

[00:07:03] grinning, lies and says she's inviting a date to the long-standing holiday tradition.

[00:07:09] She meets Brian, played by Buckley, on a dating app and he agrees to spend the holiday with her and her family.

[00:07:45] That's the...

[00:07:45] Jessie must work to keep all their stories straight and save her date with Brian.

[00:07:51] That is, twas the date before Christmas and I think it's only fair since it's a character named Brian.

[00:07:56] I will start with you, Brian.

[00:07:57] Brian, one out of five.

[00:07:58] Good, good, good.

[00:07:59] Yeah, they spelled Brian wrong, but...

[00:08:01] They're doing the best if they can.

[00:08:02] Yeah, yeah.

[00:08:03] I'm taking the bait.

[00:08:05] I am creaming this movie.

[00:08:06] No, you are my gosh!

[00:08:07] Oh my gosh!

[00:08:07] I'm doing it!

[00:08:08] I'm doing it!

[00:08:09] I'm self-control and self-respect for once in your life.

[00:08:12] No!

[00:08:13] No!

[00:08:14] Not this year.

[00:08:15] Couldn't even wait till we got the wrapping paper off of this preview episode.

[00:08:19] Boy, that felt good to Cream.

[00:08:20] He's busting into his creams.

[00:08:21] It's unbelievable.

[00:08:22] This is...

[00:08:23] Look at Jax!

[00:08:24] A strong kickoff.

[00:08:26] Jax is beet red.

[00:08:28] She's beet red.

[00:08:29] Brian said, boy, that felt good to Cream.

[00:08:31] And Jax is like, I have to leave.

[00:08:33] I have to leave.

[00:08:35] HR?

[00:08:36] This is...

[00:08:37] HR's locked up for this one.

[00:08:39] HR is not allowed in this...

[00:08:40] Oh my God!

[00:08:41] Talk about a strong opening.

[00:08:43] Are you kidding me?

[00:08:44] A strong opening?

[00:08:44] Christmas Olympics?

[00:08:46] Sounds like a lot of fun.

[00:08:47] Christmas Olympics?

[00:08:48] I'm so excited!

[00:08:49] Amy Grinning from Santa's Summit last year.

[00:08:51] I think we all agreed she deserved a lead to movie.

[00:08:54] Correct there.

[00:08:54] She's getting it right away.

[00:08:56] If you talk this long about every movie...

[00:08:57] No, this is the first one.

[00:08:58] It's a special occasion.

[00:09:00] So, four peppermint mochas and a cream.

[00:09:04] Four and a cream?

[00:09:05] We'll go with the rhyme.

[00:09:08] Ryan, what are you doing for this movie?

[00:09:11] I mean, you get two mochas just for Bob Buckley, right?

[00:09:14] Bob Buck!

[00:09:15] Yeah, and then I love the Olympics.

[00:09:18] That gets you up to three.

[00:09:19] I think creaming out of the gate is ridiculous.

[00:09:22] It's reckless.

[00:09:24] It's one of your reasons.

[00:09:24] Yeah, I mean...

[00:09:25] And so, I'll go three firm mochas, no cream, no stream cream brand.

[00:09:31] You can't stream cream.

[00:09:33] I want to be clear on that.

[00:09:33] Can we go over the creams one more time?

[00:09:36] I do think, guys, it is worth reminding the stream cream is exclusive to the streaming platform.

[00:09:41] It has to be on Homework Plus.

[00:09:43] I'll make sure that you know that ahead of time, okay?

[00:09:45] Aaron, how many creams do I have left?

[00:09:47] Is it seven?

[00:09:47] It's seven.

[00:09:48] You have seven and one stream cream.

[00:09:51] There you go.

[00:09:51] Thank you, Aaron.

[00:09:52] Thank you, Ryan.

[00:09:53] Thanks, Ryan.

[00:09:54] Thank you, Brian.

[00:09:55] Thank you, Brian.

[00:09:57] Okay.

[00:09:58] So, this movie is fun, right?

[00:10:04] Have you guys ever tried to do an Olympics at home?

[00:10:06] Like, it's not very...

[00:10:08] Fun or funny or interesting.

[00:10:10] Yeah.

[00:10:10] It's not like the real thing.

[00:10:12] Yeah.

[00:10:13] So, you know, forest Olympics at Christmas time sounds like not my bag.

[00:10:18] So, I'm gonna go like a one...

[00:10:20] A one...

[00:10:21] Do we do half cups here?

[00:10:23] Yeah.

[00:10:24] You can do a half cup.

[00:10:25] Yeah.

[00:10:25] You can do a half cup.

[00:10:25] I'm gonna give it a one and a half cup based on just the logistics of planning the Olympics.

[00:10:32] One and a half mocks.

[00:10:34] Seems like no fun for no one.

[00:10:36] No fun for no one.

[00:10:37] Jax?

[00:10:39] For this one, I love Amy.

[00:10:42] She's like my Hallmark girl crush right now.

[00:10:45] I want her on Chicken Sisters because she's an adorable redhead.

[00:10:48] So, for me, I'm also gonna give this one...

[00:10:52] Oh, no.

[00:10:53] Oh, no.

[00:10:53] Did you get excited that I was gonna cream it?

[00:10:55] No, I heard a sound.

[00:10:56] No.

[00:10:57] Somebody's wrapping a gift.

[00:10:59] No.

[00:11:02] I thought about creaming it, but I'm just gonna give it four peppermint mochas.

[00:11:05] I'm really excited for this one.

[00:11:07] I also think that these two together, they remind me of when you were in high school and

[00:11:10] you would vote on superlatives and it would be like cutest.

[00:11:13] I think they're adorable.

[00:11:15] They're so cute.

[00:11:16] That is cute.

[00:11:17] Alonzo?

[00:11:18] Yeah.

[00:11:19] You know, I'm predisposed to think that anything that's in the opening day slot is gonna be

[00:11:24] kind of whatever just based on our history here.

[00:11:28] Although, I mean, every so often you get something like, I don't know, the Christmas at Pemberley

[00:11:33] Manor, which is maybe not one of the greatest ones, but definitely sticks in the memory.

[00:11:36] I do like both of these leads a lot.

[00:11:39] Um, uh, you know, Robert Buckley.

[00:11:41] I've never watched whatever show he's on.

[00:11:44] Is it Chesapeake Shores?

[00:11:46] Yes.

[00:11:46] Yeah.

[00:11:47] Yeah.

[00:11:47] But I, in these movies, he's, I found him really charming.

[00:11:49] So I will go two and a half right down the middle.

[00:11:51] Very nice.

[00:11:52] It's not down the middle, but it's close.

[00:11:54] Three would be right down the middle.

[00:11:55] Nicely done, Alonzo.

[00:11:56] So Brandon, I'm so happy that Alonzo not only knows math, but also is a veteran of the countdown

[00:12:03] to Christmas and is acting like it.

[00:12:05] Listen, don't get twisted.

[00:12:07] Don't let Brian and all of his cream over here get in the way of you not forgetting this

[00:12:13] very, very important fact.

[00:12:15] It's a perfect cream.

[00:12:16] The Friday night premiere movie for countdown to Christmas since Christmas at Pemberley Manor

[00:12:21] has always sucked.

[00:12:24] Always.

[00:12:24] Until.

[00:12:24] Merry Christmas Match, the, the, the movie where a Boise, Idaho is nectar from the gods.

[00:12:30] There are some.

[00:12:31] Checking it twice.

[00:12:32] Yeah.

[00:12:32] Checking it twice.

[00:12:33] There's some trash openers and every year we do this and we get all wound up and it's

[00:12:38] like, well, it's got Kevin McGarry in it and hockey and I'm going to cream it.

[00:12:42] Guys, they're putting it out on October 18th on Friday night because it's not good.

[00:12:48] It's the first pancake.

[00:12:50] Listen, it's the first pancake principle.

[00:12:52] You get it, Alonzo.

[00:12:53] I was good.

[00:12:54] Listen, Amy grinning.

[00:12:56] We've been asking for her to be a lead in these.

[00:12:58] I'm so thrilled she's a lead.

[00:12:59] Bob Buckley, super charming.

[00:13:01] I'm sorry.

[00:13:02] I'm not sorry.

[00:13:03] One peppermint mocha and I'm being kind here.

[00:13:06] Right down the middle.

[00:13:08] They're not going to let it down this time, you guys.

[00:13:08] It's all going to change.

[00:13:09] Every year.

[00:13:10] Every year.

[00:13:11] This is like Graham with it snowing in Greenville.

[00:13:13] Every year he's like, it's going to happen.

[00:13:15] It's going to happen.

[00:13:17] I feel good about it.

[00:13:18] I just want to say really quickly, I don't know when you became such a cynic aside from

[00:13:22] seven years ago, but why hold on to what has been when you look at what could be?

[00:13:29] Exactly.

[00:13:29] And when I see what could be, I begin to believe and hope and dream of all that we might have

[00:13:38] with this movie.

[00:13:39] It sounds great.

[00:13:40] It's a fake relationship.

[00:13:41] Two great leads.

[00:13:42] I'm going five peppermint mocha.

[00:13:46] This is a classic.

[00:13:47] Wow.

[00:13:47] In the spirit of the resurrection right there.

[00:13:49] In the spirit.

[00:13:50] Listen, for the rest of this year, this movie will be too high on Brand's list because he's

[00:13:56] not going to say he was wrong.

[00:13:57] It happens every year.

[00:13:58] Every year.

[00:13:58] Watch me.

[00:13:59] Mine and Brand's list.

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

[00:14:01] Yeah.

[00:14:01] Brian was checking it twice last year.

[00:14:03] Holy cow.

[00:14:04] Holy cow.

[00:14:04] Holy cow.

[00:14:05] Holy cow.

[00:14:05] Oh, I can't.

[00:14:07] Can we go to break?

[00:14:08] And it had ice hockey and Boston in it?

[00:14:10] Come on.

[00:14:11] God, we'd be backing up the cream truck.

[00:14:12] Sounds illegal.

[00:14:13] We're off to a great start.

[00:14:15] We're only 14 minutes in.

[00:14:16] We've got one.

[00:14:18] Holiday.

[00:14:18] All right, guys.

[00:14:19] We've got to go.

[00:14:20] We've got to roll.

[00:14:20] Holiday Crashers, October 19th.

[00:14:22] We'll also be watching it live during the marathon.

[00:14:24] Lindsay Fonseca, Daniela, Manet, Chris McNally, and Jag Bell.

[00:14:30] Yeah.

[00:14:31] Jag Bell show.

[00:14:32] Jag Bell.

[00:14:32] Well, best friends Tony by Fonseca and Brie Monet have worked at the same card shop for

[00:14:40] more years than they should as both struggle to find their true life's path.

[00:14:46] This holiday season, Tony and Brie decide to shake up their humdrum world by-

[00:14:54] Hey, you got that humdrum?

[00:14:55] Give a quick shake for me.

[00:14:57] That was a real humdinger now, wasn't it?

[00:14:58] Sometimes those humdrums, they settle at the bottom.

[00:15:00] Give it a quick shake.

[00:15:02] Quick one.

[00:15:02] Just a quick shake for the humdrum.

[00:15:04] We don't have time.

[00:15:05] We always have time.

[00:15:06] By creating new identities to crash the amazing Christmas parties from the shop's confidential

[00:15:11] invitations.

[00:15:12] Whoa.

[00:15:12] What the?

[00:15:13] All harmless fun until Tony gets mistaken for a lawyer, which isn't too far off the

[00:15:19] mark since she did finish law school.

[00:15:21] She's working at a card shop.

[00:15:22] Just never completed the bar exam.

[00:15:25] There it is.

[00:15:25] Tony and Brie are then whisked away to a fancy corporate Christmas retreat in snowy Vermont

[00:15:32] mountains by handsome business mogul Justin, played by McNally, whose crush on Tony is real,

[00:15:37] even if her legal career isn't.

[00:15:38] Great line.

[00:15:39] And Brie is along for the ride as she has eyes for Vinny, Bal.

[00:15:44] A valet who may have a secret of his own.

[00:15:48] Uh oh.

[00:15:48] Can a distraction from Brie find what path in life she's supposed to follow?

[00:15:55] Will Tony end up with the guy of her dreams or in a blizzard of trouble?

[00:15:59] That's weird.

[00:15:59] Uh, this fun Christmas crashing romp will either end in disaster or two happily ever

[00:16:05] afters.

[00:16:05] I'm going to go on and say it's the latter, but we'll see.

[00:16:08] We have Brian record all the words in the synopsis early and then we put them together.

[00:16:12] Can a distraction from Brie help?

[00:16:14] Cut and paste there.

[00:16:15] Uh, Brian go.

[00:16:16] Yeah, I'll go three right down the middle on holiday crashes.

[00:16:19] Very good.

[00:16:19] Fun sounding cast.

[00:16:21] Okay, great.

[00:16:22] Ryan.

[00:16:23] I'll also go three right down the middle.

[00:16:25] I'm familiar with Daniela Monet's work from victorious on the Nickelodeon.

[00:16:28] Very nice.

[00:16:30] She's actually a really good comedic actress that gives me hope for this.

[00:16:33] Uh, I can't wait to watch it with all you fine folks.

[00:16:34] Three right down the middle there.

[00:16:36] Are you going to freak out Ryan?

[00:16:37] Are you going to freak to freak out?

[00:16:38] Uh, here I am once again.

[00:16:40] Yes.

[00:16:40] Absolutely.

[00:16:41] Patrick.

[00:16:42] Okay.

[00:16:43] So, uh, you know, this picture that I'm seeing on entertainment weekly, um, whatever

[00:16:49] is like two ladies holding beers and they're like cheersing Christmas footage.

[00:16:55] And that looks really fun.

[00:16:56] Um, and you mentioned a lawyer.

[00:16:58] Which makes me think Elwood's.

[00:17:00] So I'm going to go, um, five and a cream.

[00:17:03] Whoa.

[00:17:04] Oh my gosh.

[00:17:05] You're selling the horse.

[00:17:06] All right.

[00:17:07] Cotto.

[00:17:08] Yeah.

[00:17:09] There it is.

[00:17:10] Sorry.

[00:17:10] I forgot the cream.

[00:17:11] I apologize.

[00:17:12] Thank you.

[00:17:13] Thank you.

[00:17:13] Jax.

[00:17:14] Oh, I knew my boy Patrick wouldn't let me down with this.

[00:17:17] This is a buddy comedy, a women's buddy comedy.

[00:17:20] And any of you who don't like it are sexist.

[00:17:23] I'm giving it a five.

[00:17:26] I'm going to go five on revision.

[00:17:28] I'm going to go five.

[00:17:30] Three just above the middle for Patrick, for Ryan.

[00:17:33] So five.

[00:17:34] Jax, you're even just straight five, but no creams.

[00:17:37] I know Patrick creamed it for me.

[00:17:39] Okay.

[00:17:39] Fair enough.

[00:17:40] Sure.

[00:17:41] It's a cream by association.

[00:17:42] A buddy cream.

[00:17:43] It's a buddy.

[00:17:43] Alonzo.

[00:17:45] Uh, here's the thing.

[00:17:46] Uh, last year we were promised a female buddy comedy, never been Chris.

[00:17:50] And it really, they didn't get the female comedy friendship part of it right at all.

[00:17:55] And so I don't know that I can necessarily trust this movie to do it.

[00:17:57] Although I do like the idea of shenanigans and, uh, and, and, uh, lying, which is always

[00:18:02] a hoot.

[00:18:03] And I love bold of Hallmark to make a movie about people working in a card shop, uh, representing

[00:18:08] that as a career dead end.

[00:18:10] Like that's really, you know, pretty for Hallmark.

[00:18:13] Wow.

[00:18:13] Uh, but I'm going to say two.

[00:18:15] And, uh, if it turns out I'm underestimating it, you know, I, I, I hope to be surprised.

[00:18:20] Uh, not only does this movie sound amazing.

[00:18:22] I also know where and when I'm going to be, which is on the couch with my friends, uh, at

[00:18:27] the end of an absolute banger of a weekend.

[00:18:31] This can't fail.

[00:18:32] I'm going five.

[00:18:33] Whoa.

[00:18:34] And I'm joining Patrick.

[00:18:38] Damn.

[00:18:39] Um, so as bad as the Friday night movies are for countdown to Christmas, typically Saturday

[00:18:46] night, they do a little bit better.

[00:18:47] I'm thinking Christmas wishes, mistletoe kisses.

[00:18:49] I'm thinking, where are you Christmas?

[00:18:50] This movie seems like it has way too much going on in it for 83 minutes, but I like the

[00:18:56] idea of a buddy comedy, even though I don't think we'll get that entirely.

[00:19:01] Uh, I'm going to go right down the middle two and a half peppermint mochas.

[00:19:05] All right.

[00:19:06] That was better guys.

[00:19:06] There's only four minutes.

[00:19:08] Go ahead, Aaron.

[00:19:09] Yes.

[00:19:09] We just ruined it.

[00:19:10] No, just real quick.

[00:19:11] Ryan, are you staying at three or did you move up to five?

[00:19:14] No, I'm going to stay.

[00:19:15] I'm going to stay at three just cause I believe that's the sanctity.

[00:19:17] Someone is taking very copious notes over here and jokes about changing your score are

[00:19:21] not helpful.

[00:19:23] How many creams do I have left though?

[00:19:25] You have seven creams and a stream cream.

[00:19:28] I'd like to change my rating of the last movie to four.

[00:19:30] I'm just kidding.

[00:19:31] Oh God.

[00:19:34] Give it some thought.

[00:19:35] Okay, here we go.

[00:19:36] Uh, Scouting for Christmas on the Hallmark Channel, October 20th, 8 PM Eastern and Pacific.

[00:19:43] Here comes the big show.

[00:19:44] You ready?

[00:19:45] Sister, Sister Tamara, Mowry Housley, Carlo Marks, and Marcy T. House.

[00:19:54] Marcy T. House.

[00:19:55] Marcy T.

[00:19:56] Um, Angela, played by Sister Sister, has been a busy realtor since her amicable.

[00:20:03] Um, it starts with A.

[00:20:04] I'm going to get a Bud Light, a amicable, um, two of the cheese sticks.

[00:20:08] Let me try it one more time.

[00:20:09] I do struggle with this word notoriously.

[00:20:11] If you could stop shaking that humdrum, that would be fantastic.

[00:20:13] All right, let me try it one more time.

[00:20:16] Amicable.

[00:20:17] No!

[00:20:17] No!

[00:20:18] Amicable!

[00:20:19] Amicable.

[00:20:19] A divorce a couple of years ago to Dakota, played by James Palladino.

[00:20:26] Palladino!

[00:20:27] A paleontologist whose adventures kept him anywhere but home.

[00:20:30] Now she is a devoted, if often harried, single mom to a smart and loving 10 year old girl,

[00:20:40] Brooklyn, played by Audrey Wise Alvarez.

[00:20:43] Angela's busy schedule makes it hard for her to find time to do much of anything or any-

[00:20:48] I don't know.

[00:20:49] Really?

[00:20:50] Makes it hard to find time for much of anything or anyone to do much of anything, and that was the problem.

[00:20:57] Can't say that.

[00:20:58] I got ahead of myself.

[00:20:59] For her to do much of anyone.

[00:21:00] We'll save that for the lifetime preview show.

[00:21:04] As it is, she can barely get Brooklyn to her scout beating on time, much to the disapproval of the other mothers.

[00:21:11] When Brooklyn gets the idea to have William, played by Marks, the owner of her favorite bakery, cater her scouts' troops' posh annual holiday event, she asks Angela to work with him on pitching the idea to the moms in charge.

[00:21:24] Despite sensing that her daughter might be trying to play Cupid, she agrees to help and finds herself enjoying time with him, but is reluctant to open her heart and life to someone new.

[00:21:34] When Dakota returns, missing her, Angela must decide-

[00:21:44] Her ex-husband misses her.

[00:21:45] Oh, I forgot she has an ex-husband.

[00:21:47] I forgot who to-

[00:21:49] That was sentences ago.

[00:21:50] It was.

[00:21:51] Angela must decide what is best for her daughter and best for her heart.

[00:21:57] Brian.

[00:21:59] Yeah, we're coming down off a long weekend.

[00:22:01] Yeah.

[00:22:01] Big high.

[00:22:02] I'm going to go ahead and issue my first number one.

[00:22:07] What do we do?

[00:22:07] Peppermint Mocha.

[00:22:08] So just one Peppermint Mocha.

[00:22:09] You're issuing your first number one?

[00:22:11] My first, only one rating.

[00:22:13] I think that's a Big Mac, if I recall.

[00:22:16] Ryan?

[00:22:17] It used to be.

[00:22:18] Listen, in the immortal words of Brand Gray, I'm an easy boy.

[00:22:21] You give me a 90 star, I'm pumped.

[00:22:24] Give me four Peppermint Mochas right down the middle.

[00:22:27] Oh, wow.

[00:22:28] I don't even-

[00:22:28] We have to have a preview review panel.

[00:22:31] To determine if this is allowed.

[00:22:33] Well, we know how I feel about Tamara.

[00:22:36] Over to you.

[00:22:38] Uh-huh.

[00:22:38] I have a preference.

[00:22:39] That's all I'm going to say.

[00:22:40] Yeah.

[00:22:41] I think we all do.

[00:22:42] And, you know, we all do.

[00:22:44] How could you not?

[00:22:45] But Marsha T. House is a Chicago actress, came up in a park district, Chicago Park Public Theater, which I may have done some public Chicago theater in the park districts.

[00:22:58] And that is a grind.

[00:23:00] So I have mad respect for her.

[00:23:01] So I'm going to do a three Peppermint Mochas.

[00:23:05] Great down the middle.

[00:23:05] Very nice.

[00:23:06] Three Peppermint Mochas.

[00:23:07] Jax.

[00:23:09] I'm going to go with a 4.5.

[00:23:11] What?

[00:23:11] Listen.

[00:23:12] Yeah, Jax.

[00:23:12] There are a few things.

[00:23:19] She's been on One Calls the Heart.

[00:23:20] She's been on Arrow.

[00:23:21] She's been on The Good Doctor.

[00:23:22] She is a wonderful child actor.

[00:23:25] And I cannot wait to see her shine in this.

[00:23:26] I got to be honest.

[00:23:27] The ratings from our panelists makes me think we're accidentally on an episode of the Bubbly Sesh.

[00:23:32] And I don't even know what to do about that.

[00:23:36] Four, three and a half, four and a half.

[00:23:38] Is it charity?

[00:23:39] Or is there other Mochas free?

[00:23:41] It's the holiday season.

[00:23:43] I think so.

[00:23:43] It's the holiday season.

[00:23:44] It's the Sunday night opening weekend.

[00:23:45] You made me think of one of my favorite reviews of the Bubbly Sesh, which was,

[00:23:49] these sorority girls are more painful than a root canal.

[00:23:53] Ooh.

[00:23:55] And to which I said, the root canal is the part that gives you the relief from the pain.

[00:23:59] So you're welcome.

[00:24:01] Ah.

[00:24:03] Alonzo.

[00:24:05] Hashtag not all guests.

[00:24:06] I'm giving this half a peppermint mocha.

[00:24:09] This is a party planning movie and the party in question is a scouting party that is posh?

[00:24:15] Yeah.

[00:24:15] No.

[00:24:16] No.

[00:24:17] Alonzo and I have, so far, Alonzo has been right all three times.

[00:24:21] Wow.

[00:24:22] This is a zero if I've ever seen a zero.

[00:24:25] I, it is a Sunday night of opening weekend.

[00:24:28] Don't make her cry again, Daniel.

[00:24:30] Say what?

[00:24:30] Don't make her cry again.

[00:24:32] Opening up old wounds.

[00:24:34] Tamara.

[00:24:35] That's right.

[00:24:36] I hope it's great.

[00:24:38] Tamara's a wonderful human being.

[00:24:40] Carlo Marx is also in the film.

[00:24:42] It's a zero for me.

[00:24:44] I'm going one cream for sister, sister.

[00:24:47] One cream.

[00:24:48] One latte.

[00:24:49] I'm sorry.

[00:24:50] What are you doing?

[00:24:51] You keep multiple cream.

[00:24:52] You're coming off a cream.

[00:24:53] I'm going one.

[00:24:53] You're going to another cream.

[00:24:54] You're trying to put multiple creams.

[00:24:56] I'm going one pumping piece.

[00:24:58] Whoa.

[00:24:58] We'll be right back.

[00:24:59] You have a single pump cream?

[00:25:01] That sounds like something you need to work on.

[00:25:03] I'm going four.

[00:25:04] I'm going four.

[00:25:06] I can see I'm not welcomed here.

[00:25:09] I'm going four mochas is what I'm doing.

[00:25:12] Wow.

[00:25:13] Up next, we have this time of year.

[00:25:16] It's starring Allison Sweeney and now Mater.

[00:25:19] Now Mater.

[00:25:20] It's premiering on October 24th, which is Thursday night,

[00:25:24] which is when Hallmark Mysteries, as they're now called,

[00:25:27] is going to be airing their movies.

[00:25:28] And let's dive into it.

[00:25:31] Lauren, played by Sweeney, and Kevin, played by Mater,

[00:25:34] were once happily married and thriving as a family.

[00:25:37] But the couple has spent almost the past year in a trial separation

[00:25:42] and are working hard to co-parent their young son, Charlie,

[00:25:46] played by Ezra Wilson.

[00:25:48] Kevin is determined to make their family whole again,

[00:25:50] and it's clear he and Lauren still care for each other deeply.

[00:25:54] When Lauren's mother, played by Laura Soltis,

[00:26:00] suddenly comes into town, she asks Kevin to pretend they're still together

[00:26:04] as she hasn't yet broken the news to her.

[00:26:09] As they try to keep up the roost, they begin to remember what life is like

[00:26:14] when Lauren sees the strides Kevin has made to get back together on the right path.

[00:26:20] And just maybe this holiday will be the season of healing

[00:26:23] and to bring happiness back into their lives.

[00:26:27] Brian!

[00:26:28] Yeah, I hope it works out for them.

[00:26:30] First mystery movie of the season.

[00:26:32] I'm going to go one and a half.

[00:26:34] Pepper and Milk is on this bad boy.

[00:26:36] As kind as you are for every preview show before Christmas,

[00:26:39] where your three is your floor.

[00:26:41] You are just not in it right now, and I love it.

[00:26:43] I'm here for this.

[00:26:44] Focused on...

[00:26:45] We got some big boys coming.

[00:26:46] We got some big boys coming.

[00:26:47] That's true.

[00:26:48] Ryan?

[00:26:49] Yeah, Brian and I are going to combine for a one and a half peppermint mocha.

[00:26:52] It's a firm zero from the rye guys.

[00:26:56] Oh, wow!

[00:26:57] Yeah, that's right.

[00:26:59] Thank you.

[00:27:00] Patrick, thank you, Ron.

[00:27:01] Do you guys remember when Niall was in those, like,

[00:27:04] Finding Father Christmas movies?

[00:27:06] Yeah.

[00:27:07] Those were so good, right?

[00:27:09] No.

[00:27:09] And then, like, Allison...

[00:27:12] You guys, it was like about finding a father.

[00:27:15] And Allison Sweeney, you know, she's on The Biggest Loser.

[00:27:19] It's great.

[00:27:20] So, yeah, I'm going to go zero on this.

[00:27:23] Oh!

[00:27:24] It's one and a half, zero, zero.

[00:27:26] This is the movie of the year!

[00:27:28] Jax?

[00:27:29] So, you know, as someone who's still firmly in her 20s, I feel like...

[00:27:36] I don't know why you guys are laughing.

[00:27:38] Why are we laughing?

[00:27:39] Exactly.

[00:27:39] I feel like these Hallmark Channel, like the mature movies, where there's like a trial separation for me, they don't do it for me.

[00:27:46] I love Allison Sweeney, I love Niall Mader.

[00:27:49] The only reason that I'm even going to give this one peppermint mocha is because of, again, precocious child actor Ezra Wilson, who is in Christmas on Cherry Tree Lane.

[00:27:58] He's adorable.

[00:27:59] But yeah, this is a one for me, dog.

[00:28:02] Wow!

[00:28:03] It's a one for me, dog.

[00:28:04] Yeah, you know, look, I actually do like the Hannah Swenson mysteries, but this just sounds like what if we did an unexpected Christmas but made it dour?

[00:28:16] So yeah, it's a zero for me.

[00:28:17] Yeah.

[00:28:18] It's three mochas for Bran, one for Allison Sweeney, one for Niall Mader, and one for love.

[00:28:27] For love.

[00:28:28] Sure.

[00:28:29] And finding it again.

[00:28:30] Mm-hmm.

[00:28:31] Dan?

[00:28:32] I hate to give two movies zeros in a row, but I don't hate it, actually.

[00:28:38] This is 100% a zero.

[00:28:41] Mader's been on a hot streak lately.

[00:28:42] The guy's been doing fun characters.

[00:28:44] This sounds like the movie where I realized what we're in for this season, and so it's a zero for me.

[00:28:50] Zero.

[00:28:51] We're not previewing Operation Cronauter.

[00:28:53] No.

[00:28:53] Well, let's do it.

[00:28:54] We all reviewed it.

[00:28:56] Yeah.

[00:28:56] We did.

[00:28:57] Well, we didn't preview it.

[00:28:59] I can guarantee that.

[00:29:02] I preview every movie around here, Ryan.

[00:29:04] Single-handedly.

[00:29:05] Let's head to October 26 for The Christmas Charade, starring Rachel Skarsden and Corey Sevier.

[00:29:15] Severe weather warning, everybody.

[00:29:16] Whitney, played by Skarsden, is a cautious librarian raised by...

[00:29:22] As opposed to those librarians that just balls to the wall just go hard.

[00:29:27] A cautious librarian raised by home security experts.

[00:29:34] What?

[00:29:35] Okay.

[00:29:36] That's a deep, rich background.

[00:29:37] It's a cautious librarian raised by home security experts.

[00:29:40] Come on, Bray.

[00:29:41] It's a normal Mad Lib.

[00:29:43] I don't know what your problem is.

[00:29:45] Finds herself in a real-life adventure when a blind date mix-up leads her into an undercover

[00:29:51] FBI operation.

[00:29:53] Don't ask.

[00:29:54] I'm sure we'll find out.

[00:29:55] Forced to pose as the girlfriend of Special Agent Josh, played by Sevier, she helps him track

[00:30:03] down an art thief targeting the St. Nicholas Ruby at a Christmas Eve charity ball.

[00:30:09] As the stakes rise, Whitney must embrace her and her action hero to save the day and her

[00:30:16] family just in time for Christmas.

[00:30:19] Oh, boy!

[00:30:21] Brian.

[00:30:22] Yeah, man.

[00:30:22] Intrigued by this one.

[00:30:24] I would say this is kind of a sleeper for me.

[00:30:26] So, with that in mind, I'm going to do a little more than I feel comfortable with, and

[00:30:30] I'm going four peppermint mochas.

[00:30:32] Wow!

[00:30:34] I thought I was going to get a hand there.

[00:30:35] Yeah.

[00:30:36] A little more than a reserve.

[00:30:38] You know, I'm going to not try to overuse the haves, just because, you know, I want

[00:30:42] the sanctity exercise, but I'm going to go three and a half, and because I'm also intrigued,

[00:30:47] much like the Bray guy, I will use my first cream right here.

[00:30:50] Whoa!

[00:30:51] How many has he got left?

[00:30:52] This is crazy.

[00:30:54] You're creaming this movie?

[00:30:56] I got...

[00:30:57] Yeah, man.

[00:30:57] The cream for intrigue there.

[00:30:59] As best I understand it, I have like 25 creams left, right?

[00:31:02] Six left, plus one stream cream.

[00:31:04] Don't get it twisted.

[00:31:05] Oh, six?

[00:31:06] Stop taking my job!

[00:31:07] I'm sorry.

[00:31:07] I'm sorry.

[00:31:09] Patrick.

[00:31:10] Okay.

[00:31:11] So, we have like a librarian who's a secret spy.

[00:31:18] Didn't this girl play a nanny who was a secret spy?

[00:31:21] Yes.

[00:31:21] Royal nanny.

[00:31:22] So, she knows what she's doing.

[00:31:24] She knows the role well.

[00:31:26] She knows secret spies.

[00:31:27] So, I think it could be interesting.

[00:31:30] Let's go with a four for me.

[00:31:33] Very nice.

[00:31:33] Jax.

[00:31:34] I just have no interest in this one.

[00:31:37] I'm gonna give it a zero.

[00:31:38] Yeah!

[00:31:39] Brant, it looks really good.

[00:31:40] Thank you.

[00:31:41] I did get a haircut.

[00:31:42] I love it.

[00:31:42] I appreciate that.

[00:31:44] Jax, did you read for this one?

[00:31:46] Just...

[00:31:47] Yeah.

[00:31:48] There's something going on.

[00:31:49] This seems personal.

[00:31:50] Yeah.

[00:31:50] This seems personal.

[00:31:51] Uh, no, there is a movie in this that I did read for and did not book.

[00:31:57] But I love the way you said that with the air of like, who hurt you?

[00:32:01] Baby.

[00:32:02] No, I just...

[00:32:03] Show me on the preview.

[00:32:04] I'm not angry about this one.

[00:32:06] It doesn't actually make me mad that it exists, but like, I'm just not interested in it at all.

[00:32:11] Yeah.

[00:32:11] Okay.

[00:32:12] Fair.

[00:32:12] Okay.

[00:32:13] Alonzo?

[00:32:14] I'm torn between like appreciating the sort of romancing the stone premise of librarian gets caught up in intrigue and whatnot.

[00:32:21] And the knowledge of how Hallmark is going to do it.

[00:32:26] Yeah.

[00:32:27] So it's like in an ideal world, I would say a three, but given what we're probably going to get, I'll go two because I do like the leads and I, at least I appreciate the effort of something fun here, but I just suspect the execution is going to let me down.

[00:32:41] Uh, I want to give this one five mochas, but I don't want anyone to accuse me of, uh, not trying.

[00:32:47] Yeah.

[00:32:47] That's what I would do.

[00:32:48] So I'm going four and a half.

[00:32:49] Four and a half.

[00:32:50] Yeah.

[00:32:50] Thanks.

[00:32:50] Good.

[00:32:51] I think that this sounds like a lot of fun.

[00:32:54] Yeah.

[00:32:54] I'm very intrigued by it.

[00:32:56] And you know, I love a severe, severe weather warning.

[00:32:58] I I'm excited about it.

[00:32:59] Can't wait.

[00:33:00] Dana.

[00:33:00] I think this premise could work on another network.

[00:33:03] I also think every time I watch a Rachel Scarston movie on Hallmark, I'm like, I like her.

[00:33:07] This movie's not good.

[00:33:08] So that bothers me a little.

[00:33:10] And then Corey Sevier, as I said last week or whatever, this is Aaron.

[00:33:13] I don't know.

[00:33:14] I said it earlier in September.

[00:33:15] He's up for whatever, man.

[00:33:17] He's just like, yeah, tell me what lot to be on.

[00:33:19] I've got a blank baseball cap with my name on it and I'll be there.

[00:33:22] Just tell me what color and I'll be there.

[00:33:24] He like it is what it is.

[00:33:26] I'm not mad at the premise, but it doesn't do much for me.

[00:33:30] Give me one mocha here.

[00:33:31] One mocha.

[00:33:32] Oh, my gosh.

[00:33:33] Wow.

[00:33:33] This movie does smack of not originally a Christmas movie.

[00:33:36] And then they turned it into a Christmas movie.

[00:33:38] Sure.

[00:33:39] Yeah.

[00:33:39] This is St. Nicholas Ruby on Christmas Eve.

[00:33:41] I don't know what to tell you.

[00:33:42] As clear as crystal.

[00:33:43] Let's go to the next one for October 27th.

[00:33:46] It's the five year Christmas party.

[00:33:48] Here we go.

[00:33:48] It's starring.

[00:33:49] Okay.

[00:33:49] It's starting Katie Finley and Jordan Fisher.

[00:33:53] Fresh record for this one.

[00:33:54] Yeah, we will.

[00:33:56] Over five years.

[00:33:58] Alice played by Finlay Finlay Finlay Finlay.

[00:34:02] Do you emphasize the lay?

[00:34:03] I think it's just Katie Finlay.

[00:34:04] Okay.

[00:34:05] And her old theater school rival, Max, played by Fisher, reunite each holiday season to work

[00:34:11] at a Chicago catering company's Christmas parties.

[00:34:15] While their undeniable chemistry grows, the timing is never right for romance until the

[00:34:22] company's final season pushes them to confront their true feelings.

[00:34:26] As they say goodbye to the job that brought them together, they might finally find love in

[00:34:32] the most unexpected way.

[00:34:33] I'm so mad at the way the synopsis end.

[00:34:35] They were setting it up for and say hello to love and they didn't do it.

[00:34:39] I'll have to deal with that in a moment.

[00:34:41] Go ahead, Brian.

[00:34:42] Yeah.

[00:34:42] Really excited for this one.

[00:34:44] Five and a cream.

[00:34:44] Why do that?

[00:34:45] Five and a cream.

[00:34:46] Five and a cream.

[00:34:47] He's got two creams out of the way.

[00:34:49] It's still October.

[00:34:50] There's so much about this.

[00:34:51] I'm excited about.

[00:34:52] I'll let Patrick handle the Chicago of it all.

[00:34:54] You'll let Ryan handle the Jordan Fisher of it all.

[00:34:56] Katie Finlay.

[00:34:56] Ryan will handle Jordan Fisher.

[00:34:57] Yeah.

[00:34:57] Psyched to say Katie Finlay back in a role.

[00:35:00] Really psyched for this one.

[00:35:01] Five and a cream.

[00:35:02] All right.

[00:35:02] Yeah.

[00:35:03] I mean, let's put it, you know, mildly and not use hyperbole.

[00:35:07] Katie Finlay and Jordan Fisher among the two of the best we have just that's the end

[00:35:11] of the sentence like, you know, and this is this is going to be one of the five greatest

[00:35:16] Hallmark Christmas films of all time.

[00:35:17] Wow.

[00:35:18] This is five and a cream.

[00:35:19] This is five.

[00:35:19] I promise I'm not doing a bit.

[00:35:21] This is five and a cream.

[00:35:22] This is a really big deal.

[00:35:24] Taylor Cole has a movie this holiday season, and that should have been my most exciting

[00:35:27] except it's not.

[00:35:28] It's this.

[00:35:29] This is five and a cream.

[00:35:30] Double five and cream.

[00:35:32] Big deal.

[00:35:33] Can we make it a triple five and cream?

[00:35:35] Let's find out.

[00:35:35] Five and cream.

[00:35:37] This is big, big, big deal.

[00:35:39] Okay, Patrick, your name was brought up.

[00:35:42] So I'll let you respond.

[00:35:43] Go ahead.

[00:35:44] You know, as, you know, rivals, Brian and I are rivals that may fall in love very soon.

[00:35:52] I can't wait.

[00:35:54] But, you know, I love that trope.

[00:35:56] So like more of that.

[00:35:58] I don't know these actors and I feel like this is my elder millennial showing that I don't

[00:36:04] know who they are, but they look adorable.

[00:36:07] So I'm going to go four and a half.

[00:36:11] Whatever.

[00:36:12] Mochas.

[00:36:13] And?

[00:36:16] And a cream.

[00:36:17] Am I being bullied into a cream?

[00:36:20] Don't let them pressure you.

[00:36:20] Do whatever you want to.

[00:36:21] I just wanted to give you the space to cream if you want to.

[00:36:23] Yeah.

[00:36:24] Oh, okay.

[00:36:25] I'll do it.

[00:36:26] Cause why not?

[00:36:27] No.

[00:36:27] Triple cream.

[00:36:30] Now the pressure is on.

[00:36:31] Pressure is mounting.

[00:36:32] Jax.

[00:36:32] Oh, I mean, come on.

[00:36:34] I'm a theater kid, theater school rival.

[00:36:36] We have Katie Finley who her, first of all, she's a queer woman in the Hallmark space,

[00:36:41] which as a fellow queer woman in the Hallmark space, I love.

[00:36:45] And her Instagram bio says your boyfriend and cool babies in her energy.

[00:36:50] So this one is 100% five peppermint mochas and a cream.

[00:36:54] Nice.

[00:36:55] Wow.

[00:36:56] Maybe the highest previewed movie in history.

[00:36:59] And I had written sleeper down.

[00:37:01] So that's fun for me.

[00:37:02] There's usually only three of you, Dan.

[00:37:03] That's true.

[00:37:05] Yeah.

[00:37:05] Aggregate.

[00:37:05] Aggregate scores here.

[00:37:07] Alonzo.

[00:37:09] Yeah.

[00:37:09] I like Katie Finley a lot.

[00:37:11] She's been fun in these movies.

[00:37:13] She was good in a really great indie called straight up.

[00:37:16] And speaking of Indies, this plot reminds you a lot of a film called See You Next Christmas

[00:37:19] about these people who run into each other at Christmas parties over subsequent years.

[00:37:24] I like the idea that this movie is going to take place over five Christmases.

[00:37:28] That's pretty ambitious.

[00:37:30] I don't know who Jordan Fisher is either, but he seems attractive enough.

[00:37:33] So I'm going to say four and a cream.

[00:37:38] Jack's really...

[00:37:39] Everyone has creamed this movie so far.

[00:37:40] Everybody has?

[00:37:41] Okay.

[00:37:41] Everyone has creamed this movie.

[00:37:42] I wanted to make sure.

[00:37:44] Jack's...

[00:37:44] Five and a cream.

[00:37:45] Five and a cream?

[00:37:45] Yes.

[00:37:48] Erin, why should I care about Jordan Fisher before I give my rating?

[00:37:51] Oh, yeah.

[00:37:51] Why should I care?

[00:37:52] I forgot to mention it earlier during our first look that aired probably like three months

[00:37:56] ago at this point.

[00:37:57] Sure.

[00:37:57] Yeah.

[00:37:57] But he is in some DCOMs, so you will get to see his fine, beautiful early work.

[00:38:03] What did the name one?

[00:38:04] Teen Beach movie.

[00:38:05] Okay.

[00:38:06] I didn't see it, but I do know...

[00:38:07] I do know this.

[00:38:07] He's a real talent.

[00:38:08] He's a real talent.

[00:38:09] If you're not excited, you're not excited.

[00:38:11] It's fun.

[00:38:11] I feel like Ryan would know him from Liv and Maddie.

[00:38:14] I know that was past my time, but I know him from a great Netflix movie with Sabrina Carpenter.

[00:38:19] Oh, I love that.

[00:38:20] He sings the theme song for the Disney fireworks.

[00:38:23] Jordan Fisher's the man.

[00:38:25] That dude rules.

[00:38:25] He sings it for the fireworks.

[00:38:27] Yeah.

[00:38:27] Listen, I don't want to be left...

[00:38:30] Out of the cream party.

[00:38:31] With like cream on my face at the end of the day because I didn't do what everybody else

[00:38:36] is doing.

[00:38:36] That's right.

[00:38:37] I don't know Jordan Fisher.

[00:38:38] It's not your head long either.

[00:38:39] It is.

[00:38:39] I don't know Jordan.

[00:38:41] My gut, because everyone's going high, I feel like I should go low.

[00:38:45] Is that the saying?

[00:38:45] When they go high, you go low.

[00:38:47] No.

[00:38:48] But I can't do it because the movie sounds so good.

[00:38:50] I can't.

[00:38:51] Yeah.

[00:38:51] I'm going five.

[00:38:52] I am going to hold my cream.

[00:38:53] Oh, he's not creaming.

[00:38:54] Oh, wow.

[00:38:55] What a month.

[00:38:56] Talk about a shakeup.

[00:38:58] What a move.

[00:38:58] Guys.

[00:38:59] I didn't see it coming.

[00:38:59] Me either.

[00:39:00] Seventh season.

[00:39:01] We're going on a seventh season.

[00:39:02] He bullies Patrick into a cream.

[00:39:04] Patrick can do whatever he wants to.

[00:39:06] And then he holds back the cream.

[00:39:08] Dan?

[00:39:09] Dan?

[00:39:09] Uh, Katie Finley has been the lead in two Hallmark movies.

[00:39:11] Is this a sleeper?

[00:39:12] It was a sleeper until I realized everyone was a bully.

[00:39:14] Everyone was awake.

[00:39:15] They're a lot awake.

[00:39:16] Katie Finley has been the lead in two Hallmark movies.

[00:39:19] Hallmark's made 860 some movies since the year 2000.

[00:39:22] Both of those movies are in the top 35 movies Hallmark has ever made.

[00:39:26] I don't know.

[00:39:27] I don't know much about, uh, uh, Jordan Fisher.

[00:39:31] I don't, I don't, I know very little about him.

[00:39:33] I looked at his IMDb page.

[00:39:34] I had seen like two things he was in.

[00:39:36] I'm sure he's wonderful.

[00:39:38] Until Katie Finley misses, you just trust she's not going to miss.

[00:39:42] Five and a cream.

[00:39:43] Whoa.

[00:39:44] Let's go Dan.

[00:39:45] Dan liked the preview.

[00:39:47] Bobby Crane.

[00:39:48] Dan liked the preview.

[00:39:49] Dan liked the preview.

[00:39:50] Dan likes the idea of the movie.

[00:39:51] That's right.

[00:39:52] Oh man.

[00:39:53] The stakes are so high today.

[00:39:55] So high.

[00:39:55] They're so high.

[00:39:56] Uh, Bran, since I already read the synopsis in the next one,

[00:39:58] may I go to the restroom while you read it?

[00:40:00] Go, go, go.

[00:40:00] I'll allow that.

[00:40:01] Um, if anybody else needs to do that, it's okay.

[00:40:04] Um, but we can't stop.

[00:40:06] My sweet Austrian holiday.

[00:40:09] Um, this is premiering on Halloween night.

[00:40:12] So go trick or treat, come back and watch an Austrian Christmas movie starring Brittany

[00:40:16] Bristow and Will Kip.

[00:40:19] Both.

[00:40:19] Both friends of the show.

[00:40:21] Uh, Charlotte played by Bristow is an American.

[00:40:23] Okay.

[00:40:23] Okay.

[00:40:24] Who has lived in Vienna since inheriting a chocolate shop from her grandparents two years ago.

[00:40:29] Man, what a line.

[00:40:30] Yeah.

[00:40:31] Uh, since then she has worked tirelessly to grow the business into a successful enterprise.

[00:40:37] Okay.

[00:40:37] With that word.

[00:40:38] Christmas is one of the busiest times of the year.

[00:40:40] And Charlotte has been selected as one of the finalists for Vienna's chocolatier of the year.

[00:40:46] Taking home the prize could.

[00:40:48] Is that like the botanic cup at all?

[00:40:49] Yes, it is.

[00:40:50] I think a little bit.

[00:40:51] Taking home the prize could provide some much needed money to fend off a large developer

[00:40:56] from taking over her grandparents shop.

[00:40:59] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:41:00] Uh, Charlotte soon meets and befriends Henry, played by Kemp, and they bond over their shared affinity

[00:41:07] for quality chocolate.

[00:41:09] But a surprise twist of fate just might end their newfound relationship on a bittersweet note.

[00:41:16] I see what they did there.

[00:41:18] Oh my gosh.

[00:41:18] See, that's how you end the synopsis.

[00:41:19] You know why I didn't cream that last movie?

[00:41:21] Yeah, we know why.

[00:41:22] Because of how bad the ending of the synopsis was.

[00:41:24] That matters.

[00:41:25] It does!

[00:41:27] In the grand scheme of things, you left something on the table.

[00:41:29] Mm-hmm.

[00:41:30] Mm-hmm.

[00:41:30] Um, all right.

[00:41:32] Go ahead.

[00:41:32] Yeah, man.

[00:41:32] Go ahead, Brian.

[00:41:33] They had me, uh, with Bristow, Will Kemp, chocolate.

[00:41:37] Uh, they spelled Vienna wrong one time in the synopsis, and then they lost me when the

[00:41:41] big business boys come in and try to steal a shop.

[00:41:43] But I gotta go three.

[00:41:45] I gotta go three.

[00:41:46] Gotta go three.

[00:41:46] Three, uh, mochas.

[00:41:47] Okay, very nice.

[00:41:48] Ryan?

[00:41:49] You know, this was gonna be pretty low on the Ryguy scale, but then I, I do give them,

[00:41:54] it's very clever to do the chocolate movie on Halloween night.

[00:41:57] A lot of people assume chocolate on Halloween night.

[00:42:00] So, close for right down the middle, but not quite.

[00:42:03] Give me two and a half.

[00:42:04] Mm-hmm.

[00:42:05] Patrick, right down the middle from Ry.

[00:42:08] Okay.

[00:42:08] For the Halloween Christmas movie, Hallmark really should start looking into the Christmas

[00:42:14] ghosts.

[00:42:15] They should.

[00:42:15] Yeah.

[00:42:16] We need to bring the ghost of Christmas back.

[00:42:17] Works for Dickens.

[00:42:18] Ghost of Christmas always premiered in October.

[00:42:21] Really close to there.

[00:42:21] Yeah.

[00:42:22] It's right there.

[00:42:23] It's right there.

[00:42:24] So, what are you doing, guys?

[00:42:25] We gotta, we gotta plan better.

[00:42:26] We have a whole year to map this out.

[00:42:29] Um, so I'm gonna go to mochas.

[00:42:33] Uh, Jax, are you back?

[00:42:34] You are.

[00:42:36] Go ahead.

[00:42:38] Whenever you're ready, Jax.

[00:42:39] Jax, are you ready?

[00:42:40] I am back.

[00:42:40] Yeah.

[00:42:41] Okay, great.

[00:42:41] Can you hear me?

[00:42:44] Yes.

[00:42:45] Yes.

[00:42:47] I think it's slow.

[00:42:48] Okay.

[00:42:49] I can also come back in after I say that.

[00:42:51] I love that.

[00:42:51] Go ahead.

[00:42:52] Can you hear me?

[00:42:53] Yes.

[00:42:54] We can hear you.

[00:42:55] Dear Lord.

[00:42:55] How many creams does Jax have ever?

[00:42:59] This is a bit, right?

[00:43:05] I'm trying to talk normally.

[00:43:06] Jax, say your rating and then log off and back on.

[00:43:12] Uh, 2.5 in a cream.

[00:43:14] I love Britt Bristow.

[00:43:15] She's a national treasure, but this plot isn't really in my bag.

[00:43:19] Okay.

[00:43:20] 2.5 in a cream.

[00:43:21] Uh, Alonzo.

[00:43:22] Right down the middle.

[00:43:23] Okay.

[00:43:23] I may regret this, uh, later, but last year, the, the travel movies were great.

[00:43:33] I loved Heidelberg.

[00:43:34] I loved Norwegian.

[00:43:35] I even loved British more than you guys did.

[00:43:38] Um, these two actors are fire in the Hallmark space.

[00:43:44] They absolutely know what they're doing.

[00:43:45] Uh, we've had a lot of chocolate movies that have been kind of whatever, but based

[00:43:50] on the, the, the travel, uh, Christmas movies of 2023 and the two leads, I'm going to go

[00:43:57] four and a half.

[00:43:58] Wow.

[00:44:00] Are you going to make it milk?

[00:44:01] Are you going to make it a milk chocolate movie or you with the cream or no?

[00:44:04] I'm going to, I'm going to withhold a cream for now, but I'm going to go high on my,

[00:44:07] my peppermint mochas.

[00:44:09] Cause I, I believe.

[00:44:10] Very nice.

[00:44:10] Man.

[00:44:11] I was originally going to go right down the middle with three, but then, uh, Ryan, you

[00:44:15] reminded me of the cleverness that is chocolate.

[00:44:20] Oh my God.

[00:44:21] Very clever.

[00:44:21] It's wonderful.

[00:44:22] I love this pairing.

[00:44:24] I like an old school plot.

[00:44:26] This is very much an old school plot developers and whatnot.

[00:44:29] I'm going five mochas.

[00:44:30] Whoa.

[00:44:31] Wow.

[00:44:31] You guys are just, you're drunk on Christmas and it's, it's sad to see.

[00:44:35] I will say this.

[00:44:37] I, this is a movie that as brain is reading it.

[00:44:41] I'm just not sad.

[00:44:42] I'm disappointed.

[00:44:43] It just seems like something I've seen a thousand times and I don't want to watch again.

[00:44:48] And I hate that Britt Bristow and Will Kemp are in it because they're in it together.

[00:44:51] I will not give it zero and we'll give it one, one peppermint mocha, but I, but I will say

[00:44:57] this, Alonzo's not wrong about the travel movies last year, which were shocking Heidelberg,

[00:45:02] especially I thought that movie in the preview episode was going to be just so boring.

[00:45:07] And I was wrong.

[00:45:07] And I would tell you that I was wrong.

[00:45:09] So I'm more than happy.

[00:45:11] I'd be thrilled to be wrong here.

[00:45:12] And for you to be right, Alonzo, but as it reads, I don't want any part of it.

[00:45:16] But okay.

[00:45:17] How excited did you get over a Hanukkah movie?

[00:45:20] That was a groundhog day movie last year, right?

[00:45:22] Like these don't always sound in advance as good as they're going to be.

[00:45:25] I freaking love you should listen to the preview episode.

[00:45:27] I forgot it's time travel.

[00:45:29] You're all about it.

[00:45:30] Okay.

[00:45:31] Yeah.

[00:45:31] Bad example, but you fire up Latcher's preview episode.

[00:45:35] Get your facts.

[00:45:35] Right.

[00:45:35] That's right.

[00:45:36] I meant to give it another look before this.

[00:45:38] Bring receipts or don't come at all.

[00:45:40] I meant to look at all three of them from last year, but I just didn't have the time.

[00:45:44] Yeah.

[00:45:45] Fair enough.

[00:45:46] Hey, let's take a quick break.

[00:45:47] We'll come back and we'll get to more.

[00:45:48] We'll do that.

[00:45:49] More here on.

[00:45:50] Take the Hallmark.

[00:45:51] Take the Hallmark.

[00:45:53] Take the Hallmark.

[00:45:54] Take the Hallmark.

[00:45:54] What dare.

[00:46:02] Welcome back, everybody.

[00:46:04] Aside from Jax.

[00:46:05] Yep.

[00:46:05] We'll see what happens.

[00:46:06] This is live TV for us.

[00:46:09] Hey.

[00:46:09] Okay.

[00:46:10] Wonderful.

[00:46:10] We'll get you back.

[00:46:12] Great timing.

[00:46:13] Oh, there she's done.

[00:46:14] Great.

[00:46:14] All right.

[00:46:15] Here we go.

[00:46:15] We're diving back in.

[00:46:16] We have a lot to get to.

[00:46:18] It's time for a Carol for two really quickly.

[00:46:20] We'll do it.

[00:46:21] Before our 10th movie.

[00:46:22] November 1st.

[00:46:24] Hallmark Channel.

[00:46:26] Gianna.

[00:46:28] Gina.

[00:46:29] How do you know that?

[00:46:30] Gina.

[00:46:31] Gina.

[00:46:32] Claire Madsen.

[00:46:34] Mason.

[00:46:35] Jordan Litz.

[00:46:36] It's getting lit up in here.

[00:46:38] And Charlotte.

[00:46:39] Oh, yeah.

[00:46:41] Here we go.

[00:46:41] Dude, apostrophes are a mother goose.

[00:46:43] Here we go.

[00:46:44] D'Ambo.

[00:46:45] D'Ambo.

[00:46:46] D'Ambo.

[00:46:47] D'Ambo.

[00:46:48] D'Ambo.

[00:46:49] D'Ambo.

[00:46:51] D'Ambo.

[00:46:51] D'Ambo.

[00:46:52] D'Ambo.

[00:46:53] D'Ambo plays center for, is it the Seahawks this year?

[00:46:58] I think so, yeah.

[00:47:00] After moving to New York.

[00:47:03] After moving.

[00:47:04] Name me one center.

[00:47:07] Jason Kelsey doesn't play anymore.

[00:47:08] Name me one.

[00:47:09] Okay, I can't.

[00:47:09] That was my one.

[00:47:11] After moving to New York to make it on Broadway, Violet Wagner,

[00:47:15] I'm going to go with Wagner, gets a job.

[00:47:18] It's alliterative.

[00:47:18] Gets a job at Fior's.

[00:47:22] Fiori.

[00:47:23] Fiori's.

[00:47:23] Great.

[00:47:24] A legendary theater district diner, famous for its singing waitstaff,

[00:47:29] who bide their time there while awaiting that big break.

[00:47:34] Luck seems to be on their side when she gets a coveted slot singing during Fiori's annual Christmas Eve concert,

[00:47:43] which is attended by a who, who's, who's, who's theater world.

[00:47:49] But her big opportunity turns out to be a duet with Alex played by Litz.

[00:47:53] It's getting lit up in there.

[00:47:54] Who has, I'll make the joke every time, I'm sorry.

[00:47:56] Who has been less than welcoming and believes that she's only being given the job because the owner of Fiori's is a family friend.

[00:48:03] They're stuck with each other, though, since people have been plucked out of the show and put right on Broadway, right on there.

[00:48:13] As they rehearse together, Alex's cousin Brad takes an interest in Violet...

[00:48:20] Vagma.

[00:48:21] Who's that?

[00:48:22] Is that her name?

[00:48:23] It's from the first sentence.

[00:48:24] Man, guys, these are too long.

[00:48:26] And they begin dating, but...

[00:48:28] We're so lost in the ochres, it's ridiculous.

[00:48:29] But unbeknownst to her, Alex has been feeding Brad information about her...

[00:48:34] Oh, no.

[00:48:35] Cyrano.

[00:48:36] Cyrano?

[00:48:37] Cyrano.

[00:48:37] What is that?

[00:48:38] Cyrano de Bergeac?

[00:48:39] You don't know the...

[00:48:40] I've heard it.

[00:48:41] It's not important.

[00:48:42] You see the thousandthrocks style.

[00:48:44] To win her over, however, when Alex begins developing feelings for her as well, a love triangle ensues,

[00:48:50] and things come to a head when their deception is uncovered, which in turn threatens Violet and Alex's big opportunity.

[00:49:01] Wow.

[00:49:02] Anybody still awake over there?

[00:49:04] Brian, go ahead.

[00:49:04] A lot is interesting about this, but there also is a lot about this, which makes me a little nervous.

[00:49:11] I'm gonna go three and a half pep mooks for this one, a little more than right down the middle.

[00:49:17] Three and a half pep mooks.

[00:49:18] Ryan?

[00:49:19] This isn't what I would have gone with if I was Hallmark for the November 1st outing.

[00:49:23] November 1st, arguably the most important day on the calendar year.

[00:49:26] I...

[00:49:28] You could make the argument.

[00:49:30] The Space Jam features the Looney Tunes.

[00:49:32] These are all facts.

[00:49:33] We don't need any more information.

[00:49:34] The argument is inarguable.

[00:49:36] The Looney Tunes.

[00:49:37] The Looney Tunes are great in that film.

[00:49:40] But I...

[00:49:40] You know, also Christmas Eve concerts are very sacred in Christmas media.

[00:49:44] The chipmunks at Carnegie Hall come to mind.

[00:49:46] Absolutely.

[00:49:46] All of that to say, I don't think this is gonna hit the mark.

[00:49:49] No Golden Echo harmonicas here.

[00:49:51] Give me one peppermint mocha.

[00:49:52] An amazing breakdown.

[00:49:54] Yeah.

[00:49:55] Patrick, go ahead.

[00:49:56] You guys, you're missing the...

[00:49:59] This is the singing Christmas movie, right?

[00:50:02] We have a lot of singing that's going to take place, which is very fun to watch, good or bad.

[00:50:08] We love when the singing is terrible.

[00:50:10] That's the best.

[00:50:12] We love when the lips don't match the singing, the audio.

[00:50:15] We love that.

[00:50:16] And you guys, Gina Clare Mason, Gina Clare Mason?

[00:50:20] Jenna.

[00:50:21] Jenna, she was on Broadway as the standby, standby Glenna the Good Witch.

[00:50:30] She wasn't even like the actual person on there.

[00:50:34] She wasn't the good good witch.

[00:50:35] Yeah, she was just a standby.

[00:50:37] Guys, so I think this is gonna be a train wreck of singing and it's gonna be amazing.

[00:50:42] And we're gonna go five on this one.

[00:50:44] Five!

[00:50:44] Like gravity.

[00:50:45] I really like that breakdown.

[00:50:47] That's really helpful for me.

[00:50:49] Jax?

[00:50:51] Am I still slow?

[00:50:52] Because I can move to a different location.

[00:50:53] Can you hear me?

[00:50:54] You're doing fine right now.

[00:50:56] Okay, wonderful, wonderful.

[00:50:57] Okay, so guys, this is based on the famed Ellen Stardust Diner, which one of my friends worked at.

[00:51:03] And then two months later, she was Nessa Rose on Broadway.

[00:51:06] Whoa!

[00:51:06] I love Ellen Stardust Diner.

[00:51:08] Oh my God, Nessa Rose!

[00:51:08] I'm giving this, yeah, Nessa Rose is an acclaimed role.

[00:51:12] Shout out to Natalie Ortega, my friend who's playing her.

[00:51:15] I saw her in opening night.

[00:51:15] I love you, Natalie.

[00:51:17] 4.5, Peppermint Mocha's Jenna Clare Mason is an incredible vocalist and human,

[00:51:22] and I'm really excited for that.

[00:51:25] Alonzo, a good breakdown too.

[00:51:27] I'll tell you, you know, Hallmark has been kind of infamous for casting Broadway musical people

[00:51:32] and then not letting them sing and stuff.

[00:51:34] So the fact that we're getting that.

[00:51:37] Don't let them sing!

[00:51:37] Heaven forbid, that we're getting that is cool.

[00:51:40] My question is, what are they singing and how?

[00:51:44] And kind of like with the Romancing the Stone thing earlier, it's like, I like this premise.

[00:51:49] I don't trust the execution.

[00:51:51] So I'll say two and would love to be proven wrong.

[00:51:55] Very nice.

[00:51:56] Yeah, listen, this movie is going to be fully dependent on how much singing there is.

[00:52:00] If there's a lot of singing in this movie, I'm going to be in love with it.

[00:52:03] If there's not, if I'm disappointed, it's going to suffer.

[00:52:06] And so I'm a little bit nervous, and I also had a really hard time with the synopsis.

[00:52:10] I'm going three right down the middle.

[00:52:11] Dan?

[00:52:12] Patrick Serrano sold me on this.

[00:52:14] I know Jenna Claire Mason was in Holiday Spectacular and Heidelberg Holiday.

[00:52:18] She's good in both of those.

[00:52:19] I still was going to go one.

[00:52:20] Hearing Patrick talk about it, the train wreck element does raise the bar for me,

[00:52:26] especially if they go with a lot of singing.

[00:52:28] Holding out hope for that, two and a half peppermint mochas right down the middle.

[00:52:32] Almost, yeah.

[00:52:33] Very nice.

[00:52:34] Hey, Bran, real quick.

[00:52:35] This is a pretty long synopsis, yeah?

[00:52:37] The Nicky Deloach.

[00:52:38] It isn't.

[00:52:39] I have a shorter one.

[00:52:41] Oh, never mind.

[00:52:41] I'll stick around.

[00:52:42] You do you.

[00:52:42] You don't have to.

[00:52:43] Here's the thing about podcasts.

[00:52:44] You can just go, and we'll vamp.

[00:52:46] We'll make it happen.

[00:52:47] We'll be okay.

[00:52:48] By the time we get to you, we'll be fine.

[00:52:49] We'll be fine.

[00:52:51] BRB.

[00:52:51] How about we do this?

[00:52:52] Also, Aaron, can you give us a cream update really quickly?

[00:52:54] Oh, great idea.

[00:52:55] We're heading to our 10th movie.

[00:52:58] You want how many everyone has left?

[00:53:00] I would like to know yes.

[00:53:01] And then obviously we all have our stream creams.

[00:53:02] That goes without saying.

[00:53:03] We haven't had a stream cream.

[00:53:05] But you said it anyway.

[00:53:06] Wow.

[00:53:07] Dan has six creams and a stream cream.

[00:53:10] Wow.

[00:53:11] Brian is down to five creams and a stream cream.

[00:53:14] Do a workout here.

[00:53:15] Yeah.

[00:53:16] Bran, six creams and a stream cream.

[00:53:19] That's nice.

[00:53:19] Alonzo, also six creams and a stream cream.

[00:53:21] You guys even know you have creams to use?

[00:53:24] Jack's, five creams and a stream cream.

[00:53:26] Patrick, five creams and a stream cream.

[00:53:29] And Ryan, five creams and a stream cream.

[00:53:31] The cream crew.

[00:53:32] Strong.

[00:53:32] Very nice.

[00:53:34] All right.

[00:53:34] Here we go.

[00:53:35] Our 10th movie of the holiday season is going to air on November 2nd on the Hallmark Channel.

[00:53:39] It's starring Nikki Deloach and Warren Christie.

[00:53:41] And it is titled, titled Our Holiday Story.

[00:53:45] Here we go.

[00:53:45] As Dave played by Christie and now played by Deloach recount their love story to their daughter's boyfriend, Chris.

[00:53:52] We followed them through one special Christmas where fate routinely brought them together and kept them apart.

[00:53:59] But as Dave and Nell tried to find one another, they were obviously...

[00:54:05] Oblivious.

[00:54:05] No, they were oblivious to the fact that they were work nemeses paired together to throw a Christmas festival for their town.

[00:54:20] Meanwhile, in the present, Chris struggles with relationship issues of his own as he attempts to say, I love you, for the first time, to his girlfriend, Joe.

[00:54:29] And as our two couples and storylines intersect, lessons are taught and learned about communication, honesty, and the capacity for change in ourselves and in others.

[00:54:40] The more you know.

[00:54:41] How about that?

[00:54:42] Very nice.

[00:54:43] Ryan, what are you thinking about this one?

[00:54:44] Oh, man.

[00:54:45] Heavy hitters starring in this one, obviously.

[00:54:49] Obviously oblivious.

[00:54:51] I don't know.

[00:54:52] This could be really sweet.

[00:54:53] We have some good lessons here.

[00:54:55] I, boy, I want to go four.

[00:54:57] I want to go four Pep Moaks and a cream.

[00:54:59] Not a cream.

[00:54:59] Take that back.

[00:55:00] Okay.

[00:55:00] Back it up.

[00:55:01] Four Pep Moaks.

[00:55:03] Backup cream.

[00:55:04] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:55:05] So I'm going to stick with that.

[00:55:06] That's what my gut's telling me.

[00:55:08] All right.

[00:55:08] Very good.

[00:55:09] Ryan.

[00:55:10] Yeah, Brian, great job on that synopsis.

[00:55:11] I was locked in.

[00:55:12] Thank you guys.

[00:55:13] Locked.

[00:55:14] I, I, Nikki DeLoach, you know, former Mouseketeer could be pivotal in making the NSYNC reunion

[00:55:21] happen as she's very good friends with everyone's favorite Justin Timberlake.

[00:55:24] So for that fact alone, Aaron, if we could just clip this off and put it on the socials.

[00:55:28] Five for the Nikki DeLoach vehicle.

[00:55:29] Five.

[00:55:30] Thank you.

[00:55:31] Five.

[00:55:32] Thank you, Ryan.

[00:55:32] Thank you, Ryan.

[00:55:33] Hopefully it doesn't ruin the world tour.

[00:55:35] I think we can all agree on that.

[00:55:36] This is going to ruin the tour.

[00:55:37] Yeah.

[00:55:37] Which tour?

[00:55:38] The world tour.

[00:55:39] It's the one that's around the world.

[00:55:40] Right.

[00:55:42] So, uh, love the cast, of course, but you know, I hate a AB storyline where it just goes

[00:55:49] back and forth.

[00:55:50] So boring.

[00:55:51] So I'll give them as many storylines as they have to have a movie.

[00:55:55] One per storyline.

[00:55:56] Yeah.

[00:55:57] One per storyline.

[00:55:57] Very nice.

[00:55:59] That's the movie.

[00:56:00] Patrick said he's very fair.

[00:56:02] I will say that about him.

[00:56:03] Uh, Jax.

[00:56:04] I love Nikki DeLoach so much, but I also think Patrick and I have been very aligned as in

[00:56:10] most things.

[00:56:11] I'm also going to give this too.

[00:56:13] I feel like even the whole ending about communication, honesty and capacity for change

[00:56:18] in ourselves and others, like, like snore.

[00:56:22] Um, give me the buddy comedies all day.

[00:56:25] And yeah, so I'm yeah, two for this one.

[00:56:27] Alonzo hit me.

[00:56:29] Yeah.

[00:56:29] I mean, this does weirdly sound more like a mysteries than a, than a regular, um, and,

[00:56:34] and work and nemeses who have to put together a Christmas festival is asking a lot, but,

[00:56:39] uh, Nikki DeLoach and Warren Christie have each starred in like probably my favorite,

[00:56:45] like she started my favorite drama.

[00:56:46] He started my favorite comedy.

[00:56:47] The show and two turtle doves.

[00:56:50] Exactly.

[00:56:51] So that, that alone gives me some hope here.

[00:56:53] So I'm going to say three and a half.

[00:56:55] There you go.

[00:56:56] Uh, I'm, uh, very intrigued by this movie.

[00:57:00] I think there's a lot that could go wrong in theory.

[00:57:02] Um, it does seem like we are, they're going to be telling a story and I imagine we'll see

[00:57:07] some of that.

[00:57:08] So like, are they going to de age them?

[00:57:09] I'd be intrigued by it.

[00:57:11] Hallmark de aging.

[00:57:12] Let's go.

[00:57:12] That'll be fun.

[00:57:13] Um, new wig, new, new town, new.

[00:57:17] New love.

[00:57:18] Um, can't lose.

[00:57:19] I'm intrigued by it to say the least.

[00:57:21] Obviously the leads are, are knockouts, but I think that this, this could be a disappointment

[00:57:26] just from a storyline perspective.

[00:57:27] We'll see what happens.

[00:57:28] I'm going to go with four though.

[00:57:30] Four mochas.

[00:57:31] Alonzo gets it here.

[00:57:33] I, I, this is my favorite pairing of people we know from Hallmark that haven't been in

[00:57:39] a movie together.

[00:57:40] And when I saw them, I was like, oh my goodness, this is great.

[00:57:43] Jack's you're right.

[00:57:44] The last two sentences are a snooze fest, but I get a little bit of a, how I met your

[00:57:48] mother vibe where they're telling the story to, to their kids or their kid's boyfriend.

[00:57:53] And like, then we get this flashback.

[00:57:56] So I'm worried.

[00:57:57] Yes.

[00:57:57] But I'm excited about the pairing.

[00:57:59] And because it's my favorite pairing that hasn't happened yet is three mochas and a cream.

[00:58:05] Wow.

[00:58:05] Wow.

[00:58:06] Right in the middle.

[00:58:07] For Warren Christie and Nikki Deloach.

[00:58:10] That's exactly right.

[00:58:10] That's huge.

[00:58:11] Huge.

[00:58:12] Um, let's, let's head to holiday mismatch, uh, starring Caroline Ray and Beth Broderick,

[00:58:19] uh, from Sabrina, the teenage witch fame.

[00:58:23] Um, Ryan, go ahead and get your, uh, cream ready, buddy.

[00:58:26] Um, it is, uh, November.

[00:58:28] I don't know.

[00:58:28] It's a nice night 90.

[00:58:29] I just was hoping for the best there.

[00:58:31] November 3rd, 8 PM.

[00:58:33] Uh, here we go.

[00:58:34] When free spirited.

[00:58:36] Yeah.

[00:58:37] Yeah.

[00:58:37] Played by Ray and uptight Barbara prayed, played by Barbara.

[00:58:41] Yeah.

[00:58:43] Uh, Barbara played by Broderick.

[00:58:46] That's not a bad little tongue twister for you.

[00:58:49] Um, clash at a Christmas committee meeting.

[00:58:52] They're shocked to discover there.

[00:58:54] They've accidentally set up their children, adult children via a dating app determined to

[00:58:59] stop the romance.

[00:59:00] The two mothers team up only to realize that they have more in common than they thought

[00:59:05] as the kids love blossom.

[00:59:07] So does an unexpected friendship between their meddling moms, bringing both families together

[00:59:13] for festive Christmas.

[00:59:15] Oh boy.

[00:59:16] All right.

[00:59:16] Let's find out.

[00:59:17] Uh, I'm at this time.

[00:59:18] I'm going to throw a curveball here and I'm actually going to start with Ryan.

[00:59:22] What do you think?

[00:59:24] There's a lot to like here.

[00:59:27] Uh, you know, Sabrina reunion.

[00:59:28] Great.

[00:59:29] I think at least some of us on this panel will agree.

[00:59:31] Uh, Caroline Ray, uh, her star turn in Christmas, the cranks, you know, a Christmas film icon.

[00:59:37] Uh, so yeah, this is, uh, this is five and a cream and, uh, I think we should, uh, I'll

[00:59:43] watch it twice in a row that night.

[00:59:44] Thank you.

[00:59:44] Very nice.

[00:59:46] All right, Patrick.

[00:59:47] So this is the most stunt cast cast casting we've seen so far from Hallmark.

[00:59:52] So, you know, we love a reunion.

[00:59:54] That's usually a lifetime, lifetime trope.

[00:59:56] So, you know, I'm here for that.

[00:59:58] Uh, is it the all my children lifetime Christmas movie?

[01:00:01] No, it's not.

[01:00:02] It's not going to be that.

[01:00:04] Um, but I love Beth Broderick.

[01:00:07] She's in a bunch of lifetime movies.

[01:00:09] So we're going to go three for her specifically and, um, none for anyone else.

[01:00:15] All right.

[01:00:15] Fair enough.

[01:00:15] When you say guys, Zach, we're going to go with, uh, with, uh, with Brian next.

[01:00:19] Brian, what do you think?

[01:00:20] I think I like meddling moms in this scenario.

[01:00:23] I think, um, I, I'm really curious.

[01:00:26] How are they, they interfering on a dating app?

[01:00:28] I don't, the way they explain that is going to be pretty key, uh, or it could be a real

[01:00:33] fun for weight watts.

[01:00:34] Um, so, but there's a lot, it seems I'm pretty pumped up after hearing a couple of people talk

[01:00:38] about it.

[01:00:38] I'm going to go three and a half pep mocks.

[01:00:40] Three and a half pep mocks.

[01:00:42] Uh, yeah, this is a five for me.

[01:00:46] I've shared the stage with Caroline Ray, um, briefly at night.

[01:00:49] She shared the stage with you, Jax.

[01:00:51] Yeah.

[01:00:52] I would rephrase that, please.

[01:00:53] Thank you so much.

[01:00:54] Thank you so much for that.

[01:00:56] I just think this is going to be so much fun.

[01:00:58] They're terrific actors.

[01:01:00] They have great chemistry with each other.

[01:01:01] They're friends.

[01:01:02] I love a bit of nostalgia.

[01:01:03] So yeah, this is definitely a five.

[01:01:05] Alonzo.

[01:01:06] Yeah.

[01:01:07] They're, they're both MVPs.

[01:01:09] I like the idea of like when Yentas collide.

[01:01:11] Um, and I, you know, I, I, I, they've tried this before where like this, this is kind of

[01:01:19] the chick version of one December night where the movie was on the one hand about the two

[01:01:25] dads who, you know, were rock stars together and getting them back together.

[01:01:29] But then it was also with the love story between their kids.

[01:01:32] Um, so yeah, if they can balance it out where like the love story gets enough attention, but

[01:01:36] really we're focusing on the moms cause that's who we came for.

[01:01:39] Uh, yeah, I would say four.

[01:01:41] Um, I was going to five this for the reunion and I'm creaming it for the story.

[01:01:47] I think that this has the potential to be a really, really interesting movie with a really

[01:01:52] fun plot.

[01:01:53] We'll see what happens, but these two together, forget about it.

[01:01:56] It's going to be a ton of fun, but I think that this plot is, is dynamite.

[01:02:00] I'm really excited to see how they play this out.

[01:02:02] Dana.

[01:02:02] I'm intrigued, but not excited.

[01:02:05] I do think that the two leads together again, will be a lot of fun.

[01:02:09] I think the idea is fun, but I'm not, I don't know.

[01:02:12] I just, I don't know.

[01:02:13] It does.

[01:02:14] It seems like homework is going to homework it up to two peppermint moments.

[01:02:17] Two.

[01:02:18] All right, everybody.

[01:02:20] Unzip the, your, your stream pouches.

[01:02:24] Unzip your stream pouches.

[01:02:25] Because it's our first streamer movie and you could potentially, uh, use your stream cream

[01:02:28] if you want to.

[01:02:29] I don't know if you want a stream cream out of the gate, but we'll find out what happens.

[01:02:32] Um, unwrapping Christmas, colon, Tina's Miracle.

[01:02:39] Starring, uh, Natalie Hall and Alec Devin, Davin Santos.

[01:02:46] Yes.

[01:02:47] Tina Mitchell, played by Hall, a successful business owner, meets a charming guy, Michael,

[01:02:53] just as her holiday season heats up with the town's Christmas gala and her busy store

[01:02:58] all wrapped up.

[01:02:59] When the gala is threatened by a Scrooge Lake estate owner planning to sell the venue, rumors

[01:03:05] begin to threaten Tina and Michael's newfound connection.

[01:03:08] As Tina works to keep venue's doors open for the gala, she just might unwrap a new chapter

[01:03:14] in her life filled with love and holiday cheer.

[01:03:18] That's November 7th on Hallmark Plus.

[01:03:20] I don't know if I said that before.

[01:03:21] Brian, go ahead.

[01:03:22] Yeah.

[01:03:23] I mean, finally, Natalie Hall back on the screen.

[01:03:25] Finally.

[01:03:25] She's back.

[01:03:26] She's back.

[01:03:26] I'm going to go ahead and I will go five peppermint milkshakes for this bad one.

[01:03:31] This is ridiculous.

[01:03:33] No cream.

[01:03:34] You're not going to stream cream.

[01:03:35] I'm not going to stream cream.

[01:03:36] Zip that stream pouch right back up, buddy.

[01:03:38] Zip the pouch right back up, but yeah.

[01:03:39] Yeah.

[01:03:39] I think we're going to have a good time here.

[01:03:40] I can't believe that you just gave that five.

[01:03:43] Right?

[01:03:43] This is the one that has four in it.

[01:03:45] Yeah.

[01:03:45] There's four unwrapping cream.

[01:03:47] Is it purely on the strength of Natalie Hall?

[01:03:47] It's the fact that Natalie Hall is a huge part of it, but I also tend to like the series,

[01:03:52] like the groupings of movies that go together.

[01:03:54] Yeah, you're a Love Club fan.

[01:03:54] You're a worse quality.

[01:03:56] It works for me.

[01:03:56] It is easily your worse quality.

[01:03:57] The one with Chabert or Lacey.

[01:03:59] What was that?

[01:03:59] Wedding Veil?

[01:04:00] Yeah.

[01:04:00] The Wedding Veil.

[01:04:01] Wedding Veil?

[01:04:01] Yeah.

[01:04:02] So I like these types of movies.

[01:04:04] So I'm, you know, this was right up my alley.

[01:04:06] All right.

[01:04:06] Ryan?

[01:04:07] Yeah.

[01:04:13] You know, the first one with the Dan Bay that we watched a couple weeks back or at this

[01:04:19] point several months ago, whenever this releases, wasn't the strongest, you know, and so, and

[01:04:25] then they got better as they went along.

[01:04:26] So I'm going to go two on this, two peppermint mochas, no cream, Aaron.

[01:04:31] I love that you said they get better.

[01:04:33] Thank you, Ryan.

[01:04:34] They get better as it went along.

[01:04:35] That's a, you're really, you're really looking up.

[01:04:38] I've seen at least an hour of another one at the time of recording.

[01:04:42] So yeah.

[01:04:43] Say no more.

[01:04:44] I've seen 10 minutes of another one since recording and I beg to differ so far.

[01:04:48] I'll talk to you on Monday.

[01:04:50] Yeah.

[01:04:51] Patrick?

[01:04:53] So this is very outside of my knowledge of the stream, the Hallmark streaming.

[01:04:58] I haven't ventured into that, those waters yet.

[01:05:04] But Alex Santos was in a gay TV movie.

[01:05:09] So we like that he is like open to playing gay characters or, you know, represent for the

[01:05:15] LGBTQ people.

[01:05:17] So that's cool.

[01:05:19] But I can't give it a cream, even though, you know, it's getting me excited.

[01:05:24] But, um, so we'll go with, uh, uh, to, to, uh, bochas.

[01:05:31] I love when Patrick actually plays around.

[01:05:34] Very nice.

[01:05:35] Very nice.

[01:05:36] And decides to join us.

[01:05:37] Jax, what do you think?

[01:05:39] First streamer.

[01:05:41] Yeah.

[01:05:41] So like, I think I'm just in a new era of what I'm liking in Hallmark.

[01:05:45] And I, I'm just wanting a little edgier, a little funnier.

[01:05:47] Natalie Hall is a fantastic actress, but again, this, this, uh, this plot is not intriguing me.

[01:05:53] I'm going to, I'm going to give it one peppermint mocha.

[01:05:55] Oh man.

[01:05:56] Oh man.

[01:05:57] I don't like this side of you.

[01:05:58] I just want to say that right now.

[01:05:59] I love this side of you.

[01:05:59] I know you're a Natalie Hall fan boy.

[01:06:01] I love this side of you, Jax.

[01:06:02] As much of a Natalie Hall fan as I am, I'm a bigger fan of you, Jax.

[01:06:07] And you're disappointing me right now.

[01:06:08] Wait, seriously?

[01:06:08] Then why am I not the star of the movie that you're writing?

[01:06:11] We don't cast them.

[01:06:12] That's why.

[01:06:13] Um, Alonzo?

[01:06:17] Yeah, this premise is, uh, I'm bored.

[01:06:19] I'm bored.

[01:06:20] I'm bored.

[01:06:20] I'm bored.

[01:06:20] Um, I will say half a mocha for Natalie Hall and half a mocha for Alex Santos, who did play

[01:06:26] the, uh, gay love interest in Campfire Christmas a couple of years ago.

[01:06:30] I knew you'd know it.

[01:06:31] That's all I got.

[01:06:32] So yeah, one for me.

[01:06:34] Um, the biggest, uh, thing this movie has going, uh, up against it is, um, the love club.

[01:06:41] The love club, uh, hurts our souls.

[01:06:44] I mean, most of our souls, not all of our souls.

[01:06:46] Um, Brian, Brian, you're wrong.

[01:06:48] And this is just, this is just, it saved your soul.

[01:06:51] Maybe it did.

[01:06:52] Love club is the Jesus of Brian's.

[01:06:55] You said.

[01:06:56] Who will save your soul?

[01:06:58] The love club, apparently.

[01:07:00] Um, this is that, but at Christmas it feels like we're going to get, you know, blah, blah,

[01:07:05] blah, blah.

[01:07:05] Tina's miracle.

[01:07:06] Blah, blah, blah.

[01:07:07] Uh, Joni's good times and stuff like that.

[01:07:10] Joni's good times.

[01:07:10] Don't sleep on that movie.

[01:07:11] I know.

[01:07:11] I know.

[01:07:12] So I'm down on it.

[01:07:14] Uh, I'm not excited about it.

[01:07:16] But, uh, obviously excited to see Natalie Hall again.

[01:07:19] I think she's wonderful.

[01:07:20] And it, you know, we'll see.

[01:07:22] She's going to elevate this.

[01:07:23] I keep, I keep an open mind.

[01:07:24] I keep an open mind.

[01:07:26] I'm going three peppermint mocha.

[01:07:27] If the movie's bad and Natalie Hall's in it, Brian loves it.

[01:07:30] Brian loves it.

[01:07:31] It doesn't matter.

[01:07:32] It doesn't matter.

[01:07:33] That's right.

[01:07:33] There was a movie where Sevier has the cane and he's injured.

[01:07:37] Yep.

[01:07:37] Noel next door.

[01:07:38] Yeah, Noel next door.

[01:07:39] It was a first movie.

[01:07:40] It kicked off the season two years ago.

[01:07:42] That movie's awesome.

[01:07:44] It's just hot and bothered by Noel next door.

[01:07:45] That was the first, that was the first pancake narrator.

[01:07:48] It wasn't that.

[01:07:50] That is not an awesome movie.

[01:07:52] We love Natalie Hall.

[01:07:53] She is wonderful.

[01:07:55] She's adorable.

[01:07:56] She's great in these movies.

[01:07:58] This movie sounds like a snoozer.

[01:08:01] It is a streaming release and Hallmark is burying it.

[01:08:06] I, I just, this movie sounds bad.

[01:08:09] I just out of pure compassion.

[01:08:11] I'm going to give it one, one mocha.

[01:08:13] Wow.

[01:08:13] Are you creaming it, Dan?

[01:08:14] God, no.

[01:08:15] Okay, so that means we all.

[01:08:16] I would rather never cream again.

[01:08:18] We are all holding on to our stream cream.

[01:08:20] We all, we all held on to our stream cream.

[01:08:22] In the holster, yeah.

[01:08:23] To play another day.

[01:08:24] Up next, we have five golden rings.

[01:08:30] November 7th.

[01:08:32] On Hallmark Mysteries.

[01:08:34] Thanks, Ray.

[01:08:34] Holland Roden and Nolan Gerard Funk.

[01:08:39] We want the funk.

[01:08:40] Gotta have that funk.

[01:08:42] Come on.

[01:08:42] We want the funk.

[01:08:44] Gotta have that funk.

[01:08:46] Nolan Gerard Funk.

[01:08:48] Still working on our trombone.

[01:08:49] We'll get there.

[01:08:51] When...

[01:08:52] That's good.

[01:08:53] When New York City painter Audrey Moss returns to her small Minnesota hometown for the holidays,

[01:09:02] she's met with an unexpected quest from her beloved late grandmother.

[01:09:08] Colon.

[01:09:09] Find the owners of five mysterious gold rings and return them to their rightful home before

[01:09:16] Christmas morning, only nine days away.

[01:09:19] Do you think Grandma planned on dying earlier in the year?

[01:09:23] She's like...

[01:09:23] She's like...

[01:09:24] We really...

[01:09:25] I thought you'd get this.

[01:09:26] Finally, like on December, like 14th.

[01:09:28] She's like, you gotta kill me.

[01:09:28] You gotta kill me.

[01:09:29] They told me July for sure.

[01:09:31] Oh, man.

[01:09:33] In her...

[01:09:34] Why?

[01:09:36] Bequeathment.

[01:09:37] You got it.

[01:09:37] Yes.

[01:09:38] Grandma also urges...

[01:09:39] Thank you.

[01:09:40] Also urges Audrey to team up with a local private investigator and childhood friend,

[01:09:45] and Finn O'Sullivan, played by the phone.

[01:09:47] That's a fake name.

[01:09:48] From gingerbread house building to the annual giving gala, those two, these two, begin to

[01:09:55] bond over more than just their quest.

[01:09:58] As Audrey and Finn unravel the mystery of the missing rings owners, they discover there

[01:10:04] is more to their relationship than they ever expected to find, and maybe use one of those

[01:10:11] golden rings.

[01:10:12] I'm adding to this, but you know, something about gold ring.

[01:10:14] And Brian, go ahead.

[01:10:17] Five golden rings gets one peppermint mocha.

[01:10:21] Oh!

[01:10:22] Just, I don't know, layers of stuff that just kind of pushes me away from the table.

[01:10:27] I like the Minnesota.

[01:10:28] I'd be glad to be at Minnesota.

[01:10:30] Minnesota.

[01:10:31] One mocha from me.

[01:10:32] We love Minnesota.

[01:10:34] We love it.

[01:10:34] Ryan?

[01:10:35] Yeah, you know, sometimes these, you know, lore mystery concepts, like not similar in

[01:10:41] plot, but they did that one with Leon from Cool Runnings a bunch of years ago.

[01:10:44] They never replay it.

[01:10:45] Like I always get, I always get, I always get pumped for those.

[01:10:49] And, you know, the results are, you know, 50-50.

[01:10:52] What, time for us to come home for Christmas?

[01:10:54] Was that, was that what Leon did?

[01:10:56] Yeah.

[01:10:57] Oh, they replay it all the time.

[01:10:59] Give me three.

[01:11:00] Let me get out of here as quick as possible.

[01:11:02] Three.

[01:11:03] I'll stop talking now.

[01:11:05] Three for me.

[01:11:05] Patrick?

[01:11:06] Okay.

[01:11:07] So this is the most by-the-book synopsis we've seen so far, right?

[01:11:12] This is like what your AI would generate of a Hallmark plot if you told AI to generate it.

[01:11:19] But the grandma leaving the gold rings to be a mystery.

[01:11:24] My grandma just died like a month ago and she didn't leave me any notes to decipher over

[01:11:31] Christmas.

[01:11:32] So I'm a little triggered by this.

[01:11:34] So I'm going to go one peppermint mocha for this.

[01:11:39] Jax?

[01:11:41] Yeah, again, I'm right there with you, Patrick.

[01:11:43] Although my grandma died like almost a year ago, but I just, it takes me a long time to

[01:11:48] get over anything.

[01:11:48] Yeah, this is not fun for me.

[01:11:52] The private investigator of it all, like I'm going to give it a 1.5 for that, but I don't

[01:11:59] know.

[01:12:00] It sounds kind of boring.

[01:12:02] All right.

[01:12:02] All right.

[01:12:03] Alonzo?

[01:12:04] Yeah.

[01:12:05] We've seen this movie with the charm bracelet or the locket or the ring or the thing.

[01:12:11] It reminds me a lot of Unlocking Christmas with Taylor Cole and Steve Lund, where they

[01:12:17] have the clues.

[01:12:19] Yeah.

[01:12:20] That or like the one, the Brendan Penny one about the charm bracelet.

[01:12:24] Yeah.

[01:12:25] I feel like we've seen this kind of thing before.

[01:12:28] Holland Roden, my only experience with her was in one of the terrible Time 4 movies, the

[01:12:32] one that Tyler Hines was in.

[01:12:35] The Funk, however, as I said in the FERC episode, was in the canyons.

[01:12:42] And so I love the idea of going from that crazy hard R movie to Hallmark World.

[01:12:46] So for him, I'll give it a Peppermaboga.

[01:12:52] Yeah.

[01:12:53] I don't like finding stuff.

[01:12:56] One.

[01:12:56] Sorry.

[01:12:56] One.

[01:12:57] Singular.

[01:12:58] I don't like finding stuff.

[01:12:59] I've made that.

[01:13:00] I always go with an open mind.

[01:13:02] But anytime we're trying to find an owner of something or to find, I don't like it.

[01:13:08] It bothers me and I end up being bored.

[01:13:11] And that's worrisome.

[01:13:12] That's worrisome to me because I love funk music.

[01:13:15] And I actually like that Time 4 movie.

[01:13:17] And so I'm in a tough spot.

[01:13:19] But also 12 Days of Christmas is one of my least favorite Christmas songs.

[01:13:24] And so I'm going to go with one.

[01:13:26] I'm going with my first one.

[01:13:27] Not the straight now chaser version.

[01:13:28] My first one.

[01:13:29] One's like a negative four and a spit on your grave from Brandon.

[01:13:33] Also, my grandma died a few years ago as well.

[01:13:36] And so.

[01:13:37] We're all still grieving.

[01:13:39] Grandma's in the back.

[01:13:40] This is too soon for all of us, I think.

[01:13:42] Yeah.

[01:13:42] Dan?

[01:13:43] I'll give this one ring, which is a zero.

[01:13:46] Is what it is.

[01:13:47] It's a zero.

[01:13:48] Oh, I see.

[01:13:49] Nothing about this.

[01:13:51] I hate it.

[01:13:52] I just hate it.

[01:13:53] I hate it on the paper.

[01:13:54] I will most definitely hate it on the screen.

[01:13:57] Sorry, not sorry.

[01:13:58] This is not what we're here for.

[01:14:00] No.

[01:14:01] It's a no for me.

[01:14:02] Fair enough.

[01:14:02] Are you creaming that one, Dan?

[01:14:04] I'm going to think about it, but probably not.

[01:14:05] No.

[01:14:06] Okay.

[01:14:07] Let's head to trivia at St. Nick's, shall we?

[01:14:09] Is anybody in for that?

[01:14:11] Anybody in for trivia?

[01:14:13] I know you'll do some trivia.

[01:14:15] Trivia at St. Nick's.

[01:14:17] It is premiering on November 8th on the Hallmark Channel.

[01:14:22] It's starring Tam and Sir Sock.

[01:14:26] Sir Sock, Sir Shoe, they're all going to be there.

[01:14:29] Sir Sock and Brant Daugherty.

[01:14:32] I'm coming.

[01:14:33] No, it's Daugherty.

[01:14:35] When students all flee and elite university in Vermont for winter break.

[01:14:41] Why'd they say it?

[01:14:42] Is there crime taking place?

[01:14:43] Why'd they say it like it?

[01:14:44] It was on fire.

[01:14:45] Yeah.

[01:14:46] The locals and faculty hunkered down for their favorite time of the year, the annual Christmas

[01:14:54] bar trivia tournament.

[01:14:57] For Celeste, played by Sir Sock, a type A astronomy professor, this event combines the magic of Christmas

[01:15:04] with her greatest comfort in life, knowing the right answer.

[01:15:07] But when her dog, her colleague, her colleague drops out of the tournament to do a month-long

[01:15:16] lecture tour in Asia.

[01:15:17] Oh my gosh, get a new friend.

[01:15:20] Celeste's team must adopt Max, the football team's new offensive coordinator.

[01:15:27] To Celeste, Max seems like nothing more than a grown-up class clown.

[01:15:33] Is that a bad thing?

[01:15:35] Though he brings an undeniable knowledge of sports trivia, a category that their team

[01:15:39] has always fallen short in.

[01:15:40] Initial clasters between the two eventually turn into a mutual appreciation as the team

[01:15:45] enjoys scavenger hunts on campus.

[01:15:47] I don't know how that's related at all.

[01:15:49] Decorating the international house with Christmas lights.

[01:15:54] Baking Christmas cookies and advancing towards the championship trivia game.

[01:15:57] Celeste can't help but delight in Max's infectious enthusiasm, love for all things Christmas,

[01:16:03] and perhaps most importantly, his comfort with the unknown.

[01:16:11] Should we be watching this movie?

[01:16:13] And after a romantic wintry night at the campus observatory with Max, Celeste starts to wonder

[01:16:18] if being open to life surprises is more important than knowing everything about everything.

[01:16:25] Go ahead, Brian.

[01:16:25] Yeah, way too much information.

[01:16:26] Thank you so much for a movie about a trivia tournament.

[01:16:29] Trivia St. Nick's, they got me on the hook.

[01:16:31] Yes!

[01:16:32] Stop selling.

[01:16:34] That sounds great.

[01:16:34] A trivia thing based at Christmas, great.

[01:16:37] But with all that information, it bummed me out.

[01:16:41] No, you sold it.

[01:16:41] It kept kicking me down the ladder.

[01:16:44] They kicked you down the ladder.

[01:16:45] Yeah, I'm like, I'm climbing up.

[01:16:46] I'm ready to party.

[01:16:47] And there's food on my head.

[01:16:49] Get back down there.

[01:16:50] Two peppermint mochas.

[01:16:51] And if he talks any longer, it'll be one.

[01:16:53] Don't make it.

[01:16:54] Ryan.

[01:16:56] Yeah, I thought this was a little light on plot.

[01:16:59] So I would have gone five.

[01:17:02] But there are some intriguing elements to this.

[01:17:04] I don't really understand what trivia and scavenger hunts have to do with one another.

[01:17:08] But it sounds like something I want to be a part of.

[01:17:10] So four and a half from me.

[01:17:11] Patrick.

[01:17:13] So Tam and Sir Sock famously played a blind person who wasn't blind on Pretty Little Liars, which is great.

[01:17:22] Also, she played on Lifetime this year.

[01:17:26] She played a cheerleader mom who goes back to school as her daughter to get a scholarship as a cheerleader.

[01:17:32] I love Tam and Sir Sock.

[01:17:34] I can tell you right now.

[01:17:35] Just the best.

[01:17:36] She's just the best at picking roles.

[01:17:39] So if she has anything to say about it, I'm sure this will at least be entertaining to watch for her.

[01:17:45] The synopsis, on the other hand, is like me writing on my blog.

[01:17:51] So, you know, just listing everything that happened in the movie.

[01:17:54] So I'm going to go a solid three for this one.

[01:17:58] Lifetimeoncourt.com, by the way.

[01:18:00] Jax.

[01:18:01] This movie was originally entitled Trivially True Christmas.

[01:18:06] I did go in for this one as the best friend.

[01:18:08] Did not book it.

[01:18:09] Look, I'm sure the woman who booked it.

[01:18:11] Oh, well, now I'm down to zero now.

[01:18:12] Oh, it is a zero for me, dog, because here's the thing.

[01:18:16] Look, I'm sure the actress who booked it is lovely.

[01:18:18] They film way too many of these in Canada.

[01:18:21] So you know what I'm going to say to you in the words of Julie Roberts and Pretty Woman?

[01:18:25] Big mistake.

[01:18:26] Big, huge.

[01:18:27] Big mistake.

[01:18:27] Huge mistake.

[01:18:29] Zero from me.

[01:18:30] That's right.

[01:18:30] Wow.

[01:18:31] Aaron genuinely changed zero in solidarity.

[01:18:34] You're changing.

[01:18:35] Ryan, are you really changing yours to zero?

[01:18:36] You can't do it.

[01:18:37] Thank you, Ryan.

[01:18:38] No, you can't.

[01:18:39] You absolutely can't.

[01:18:39] If I can't do it, I can't do it.

[01:18:40] But I'm just telling you, Jax should have pushed apart.

[01:18:42] I will go to Aaron.

[01:18:44] Aaron, can you do it?

[01:18:44] I already changed it to zero.

[01:18:46] Okay, fine.

[01:18:46] Thank you so much, Aaron.

[01:18:47] Thank you, Ryan.

[01:18:48] I hashtag MissTableJax.

[01:18:49] Of course, Amanda's going to support women.

[01:18:51] Of course.

[01:18:53] This is zero in my heart, but I'm still keeping my two.

[01:18:55] To be fair, you guys, would Jax leave her friend stranded at Trivia to go on a month's

[01:19:00] tour to Japan or whatever?

[01:19:02] No, she wouldn't do that.

[01:19:03] No.

[01:19:04] That's out of character.

[01:19:06] You're exactly right.

[01:19:07] It depends on what the gig in Japan was.

[01:19:09] True.

[01:19:11] Alonzo.

[01:19:12] Yeah, I was already kind of, I mean, like, I love the idea of a trivia-centric movie.

[01:19:18] That is so my thing.

[01:19:19] And Scavenger Hunt?

[01:19:20] Sure, no problem.

[01:19:21] But I am still very much on the fence about Brant Doherty.

[01:19:25] And now that I've learned that this is no longer going to be Jacqueline Collier's Trivia

[01:19:28] at Nick starring Jacqueline Collier, I'm a zero.

[01:19:31] Yeah, that's the right call.

[01:19:33] I love the idea of this movie.

[01:19:35] I hate that Jax isn't in it, but I'm only human.

[01:19:38] I'm going five mochas in solidarity.

[01:19:41] Of course.

[01:19:42] Of course.

[01:19:42] With myself and how I feel.

[01:19:44] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[01:19:45] I think it sounds great.

[01:19:46] You stand with you.

[01:19:46] I love the name, Tam and Sir Sock.

[01:19:48] I love all the roles she's been in, apparently.

[01:19:51] It's just phenomenal.

[01:19:52] And so I'm going five.

[01:19:53] I think this is going to be wonderful.

[01:19:55] I'm tempted to cream, but I won't out of solidarity with Jax.

[01:19:59] Wow.

[01:20:00] Straight sacrifice.

[01:20:01] What an ally.

[01:20:02] I love trivia.

[01:20:03] I hate what Hallmark does to trivia.

[01:20:05] Every time I've ever seen anyone do trivia in a bar in a Hallmark movie, it has been awful.

[01:20:11] Either the rules have been weird.

[01:20:13] It doesn't make sense.

[01:20:14] They got marker boards where they're wagering.

[01:20:17] None of it makes sense.

[01:20:18] It's just an ends to a means.

[01:20:20] It's a means to an end.

[01:20:21] That's the one that I'm looking for.

[01:20:22] I've heard it both ways, to be fair.

[01:20:23] Yeah, both are true, and I want that on the record.

[01:20:26] Sure, when you do it, it's fine.

[01:20:28] And I think that if this movie was played tongue-in-cheek and played kind of spoofy and silly, because Brant Daugherty can do that.

[01:20:36] He can.

[01:20:37] If he can do nothing else, he can do that.

[01:20:39] Then I would be a lot more likely to give this any mochas.

[01:20:42] But the problem is, is the synopsis is war and peace.

[01:20:45] They didn't cast Jax, and they don't know how to do trivia.

[01:20:48] For those reasons, it's a zero.

[01:20:50] Wow.

[01:20:52] That's brutal.

[01:20:53] Yeah.

[01:20:53] Santa, tell me if you really care.

[01:20:57] Do the things and stuff and whatnot.

[01:21:00] Here comes the next one.

[01:21:02] It's called Santa, tell me.

[01:21:05] It's called Santa, tell me.

[01:21:07] We have a full album coming out later.

[01:21:08] It's really good.

[01:21:10] It's Santa, tell me.

[01:21:11] It is November 9th on the Hallmark Channel.

[01:21:13] It's starring Aaron Krakow.

[01:21:16] Daniel Lissing back on the network.

[01:21:18] Jack is back.

[01:21:19] Ghost Jack.

[01:21:20] Benjamin Ayers, Christopher Russell, and...

[01:21:23] The Zark.

[01:21:24] The man, the myth, the Kurt Sarsak.

[01:21:26] Zaka.

[01:21:27] When Olivia, played by Aaron Krakow, a successful interior designer, finds an old letter from Santa promising she'll meet the love of her life.

[01:21:36] You can't do that.

[01:21:38] If you are replying, if you're on the team, if you're Arthur from Arthur's Christmas, and you're replying, you cannot promise love like that.

[01:21:48] You can too.

[01:21:48] And that his name will be Nick.

[01:21:51] She's stunned to meet not one, but three guys named Nick.

[01:21:55] Mamma Mia!

[01:21:56] Ares Russell and the Zarka.

[01:21:58] As she navigates these holiday romances, Olivia also finds herself drawn to her charming co-worker, Chris, played by Lissing, throwing her magical Christmas quest into question.

[01:22:12] With the clock ticking towards Christmas Eve, Olivia embarks on a heartwarming and humorous journey to uncover her true soulmate.

[01:22:21] That's a nice voice you're doing here.

[01:22:22] Thank you very much.

[01:22:23] It's time to give our times and our coffees.

[01:22:27] Brian, go ahead.

[01:22:27] Our coffees.

[01:22:28] I'm pretty excited about everybody in this movie.

[01:22:31] And I'm going to go for Peppermint Mochas for this bad boy.

[01:22:35] Wow.

[01:22:36] Ryan.

[01:22:37] Brian, can you just do the voice again real quick?

[01:22:39] Sure, I can.

[01:22:39] I can do that one more time.

[01:22:41] It's the clock ticking towards Christmas Eve.

[01:22:44] Thank you, Brian.

[01:22:45] You're welcome.

[01:22:45] Yeah, this is a two and a half close to down the middle, but not quite for me.

[01:22:49] Two and a half.

[01:22:49] Wow.

[01:22:50] Wow.

[01:22:51] All right, Scrooges.

[01:22:52] Here we go.

[01:22:52] What in the world is happening?

[01:22:54] Are we doing a preview episode or not?

[01:22:56] This is crazy.

[01:22:58] There's a lot of people in this movie that are sexy men, which we like.

[01:23:03] And I would love it if the Chris's all spelled their names differently somehow.

[01:23:08] I am not a speller.

[01:23:10] They're all Nicks.

[01:23:11] The Nicks.

[01:23:12] Oh, they're all Nicks.

[01:23:13] N-I-S.

[01:23:13] N-I-C-K.

[01:23:15] K-N-I-C-K.

[01:23:17] One of the Nicks.

[01:23:18] N-I-C.

[01:23:19] Got it.

[01:23:20] So there's the three Nicks and then the one Chris.

[01:23:23] Okay.

[01:23:23] Got it.

[01:23:24] Okay.

[01:23:24] For that reason, I'm going to do four MOCAs, please.

[01:23:31] Fair enough.

[01:23:32] Jax.

[01:23:35] So the Venn diagram of people who will be interested in both these things is probably really small,

[01:23:39] but I'm going to say it anyway.

[01:23:40] There was a band called The Civil War.

[01:23:41] Yeah, sure.

[01:23:42] And they had.

[01:23:42] Do you remember?

[01:23:43] Yes.

[01:23:43] Of course.

[01:23:43] So they had incredible chemistry together.

[01:23:45] Too much chemistry, you might say.

[01:23:46] Oh, well.

[01:23:47] Oh.

[01:23:48] I could.

[01:23:49] Yes.

[01:23:49] I could go on and get back.

[01:23:50] But basically, there was this episode of Home and Family where Daniel Lissing and Aaron

[01:23:54] Craiko were performing together.

[01:23:56] And I was getting this Civil War vibe.

[01:23:59] So I think that having them back together is going to be electric.

[01:24:02] I'm going to give it four peppermint mochas.

[01:24:05] And because of the chemistry, you know there will be cream.

[01:24:08] Oh, wow.

[01:24:09] I'm crazy.

[01:24:09] Home and Family creams.

[01:24:11] Wow.

[01:24:11] Alanta.

[01:24:13] I love the idea that we have this sort of bonkers new, new Christmas magic Santa letter premise

[01:24:20] married to the reunion of the stars of When Calls the Heart.

[01:24:24] Yeah.

[01:24:24] Like that just on its face is nutty.

[01:24:27] And Kurt Sarka, I had to look him up.

[01:24:29] But we have seen him.

[01:24:30] He was in Love Hard, the Netflix comedy.

[01:24:34] He also made a pie movie with the fish on Up.

[01:24:36] So he's got bona fides here.

[01:24:39] So I'm going to go three right down the middle.

[01:24:42] I am going to go with five.

[01:24:46] And I'm creaming this.

[01:24:47] Yeah.

[01:24:48] Oh, of course.

[01:24:49] So this is an easy cream.

[01:24:52] Yes.

[01:24:53] We've seen Aaron Craiko in many movies.

[01:24:55] And I always talk about how nobody is able to do the thing like Aaron Craiko in regards

[01:24:59] to like I am falling for you.

[01:25:01] We're doing it.

[01:25:01] She doesn't only get to do that with Daniel Lissing, which is going to be amazing.

[01:25:04] She's going to do it with four guys total.

[01:25:07] It's going to be nonstop oogly eyes.

[01:25:10] And it's going to be amazing.

[01:25:11] Five mochas and a cream.

[01:25:14] Brandon Gray has never been more right about anything in his life than this.

[01:25:18] This is the easiest cream by a mile.

[01:25:23] Aaron Craiko, no one seems overwhelmed.

[01:25:26] Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

[01:25:28] Oh, yeah.

[01:25:28] My bad.

[01:25:29] It got away from me.

[01:25:30] I apologize.

[01:25:31] How dare you?

[01:25:31] We don't blame you.

[01:25:32] No one acts overwhelmed by their feelings romantically more than Aaron Craiko.

[01:25:39] And you've got her doing that with Daniel Lissing, Benjamin Ayers, Chris Russell, the Zark.

[01:25:45] Are you kidding me right now?

[01:25:46] Magic Santa, writing letters, three different possibilities.

[01:25:49] This is a no-brainer even without Craiko and Lissing reuniting since their time on When Calls the Heart.

[01:25:56] I'm not saying it's going to be my favorite movie, but this movie has the highest floor aside from maybe three wiser men and a boy.

[01:26:04] Aside from that movie, this movie could be bad and there's still enough here to where you're going to have some fun with it.

[01:26:11] Of course it's five and a cream.

[01:26:13] Come on, guys.

[01:26:14] I'm sorry.

[01:26:14] I hope you all are ashamed.

[01:26:16] Yeah.

[01:26:17] It's very rare that the two original hosts of this show have to look at the five of you and be like, guys, where did it go wrong?

[01:26:27] Mr. Thompson.

[01:26:28] Nobody likes a bragger, Dan.

[01:26:30] Daniel, I think you have Hope Valley syndrome.

[01:26:33] Yeah, okay.

[01:26:33] It's like Stockholm syndrome, but it's for When Calls the Heart stuff.

[01:26:37] Because you know how much I love When Calls the Heart.

[01:26:40] I'm just saying, I think you've been beaten down even though you're still fighting it.

[01:26:44] It has drummed its way into your head.

[01:26:46] I'm just saying, this is a no-brainer from a standpoint of if you're picking out 10 of these to watch right now.

[01:26:51] Like, if you're picking out 10 movies to watch, this should be on everyone's list.

[01:26:55] I don't know how it wouldn't be.

[01:26:57] This is it.

[01:26:58] I mean, there are five or six movies I'm more excited about.

[01:27:02] This is the easiest one to go five and a cream on easily.

[01:27:05] Aside from Three Wives, Remain, and a Baby, which I think is the other one.

[01:27:07] We'll get there.

[01:27:08] Wow.

[01:27:08] Can't wait for Dan's seventh most anticipated film.

[01:27:11] Yeah.

[01:27:12] Stay tuned.

[01:27:13] Maybe it's this one.

[01:27:14] When do we get to the Irish one?

[01:27:16] Oh, right now.

[01:27:17] Oh, my gosh.

[01:27:17] Oh.

[01:27:18] Tis the season to be Irish.

[01:27:21] It's starring on November.

[01:27:23] I'm sorry.

[01:27:23] It's premiering on November.

[01:27:25] It's premiering November 10th, and it's starring Fiona Gubberman.

[01:27:32] And those are all vowels, basically.

[01:27:37] Eam.

[01:27:37] Eam.

[01:27:38] Let's go with Ian.

[01:27:45] Rose.

[01:27:47] Eam.

[01:27:48] Eam.

[01:27:51] Eam.

[01:27:51] Nematic.

[01:27:53] Nematic.

[01:27:53] Nematic.

[01:27:54] Nematic.

[01:27:54] She's a traveling house flipper.

[01:27:55] Nematic house flipper.

[01:27:57] Heads to Ireland.

[01:27:59] Who better to flip houses than one who doesn't have one?

[01:28:01] Heads to Ireland to renovate and sell a cottage.

[01:28:04] But her plans are upended when she meets Sean, a local realtor determined to preserve his town's heritage.

[01:28:12] As she works on the cottage and embraces Irish Christmas traditions, Rose finds herself falling for Sean and questioning her fear of settling down.

[01:28:22] Together, they must confront their past and discover if love is worth taking roots.

[01:28:28] Brian.

[01:28:30] Yeah.

[01:28:31] Brian.

[01:28:57] Yeah.

[01:28:59] And that's, again, coming from me, it's totally cool.

[01:29:01] So I'll go, you know, it probably loses a point there.

[01:29:04] Definitely no cream.

[01:29:05] Definitely no stream cream.

[01:29:06] Just like not even in the question.

[01:29:09] Can we explain the cream rules one more time?

[01:29:12] I'll go, I'll go, I'll go one and a half.

[01:29:14] I'll go one and a half coffees here.

[01:29:16] Okay.

[01:29:17] Patrick.

[01:29:20] Well, we had an Irish movie last year with Lindsay Lohan, right?

[01:29:24] So, you know.

[01:29:25] Netflix.

[01:29:26] Yes.

[01:29:27] So this is the, you know, ground that we.

[01:29:29] Not Christmas.

[01:29:29] Ground of programming.

[01:29:31] Oh, well, you know, I just blend them all together.

[01:29:34] It wasn't, you know.

[01:29:34] There are card and post.

[01:29:35] But you are right.

[01:29:36] There has been at least one Irish movie ever.

[01:29:39] So that's good.

[01:29:41] Yeah.

[01:29:41] And this also kind of reminds me of like under the Tuscan sun, like going to renovate a

[01:29:47] dilapidated building and like falling in love type of thing, which I could watch under

[01:29:51] Tuscan sun every day.

[01:29:52] So if there's anything like that, but in Ireland, yeah, let's do it.

[01:29:57] Let's do a three and a half, three and a half mocha Irish coffees.

[01:30:02] Oh, how about that?

[01:30:04] Yeah, that is true.

[01:30:06] You could cream this with Bailey's.

[01:30:07] That is a part that's on the table.

[01:30:09] Jax?

[01:30:10] I'm going to give this two.

[01:30:14] I really like Fiona Goobelman, but it's funny.

[01:30:18] I used to always be like, oh, I love the travel ones.

[01:30:23] I just don't.

[01:30:24] And that's just me.

[01:30:25] I don't like it even when they're done well.

[01:30:27] So I'm just going to give it a two.

[01:30:30] Wait, you don't like them even when they're done well?

[01:30:33] Wow.

[01:30:33] That's brutal stuff out there.

[01:30:35] Anti-travel.

[01:30:37] It's just not.

[01:30:41] I hate a well done movie.

[01:30:43] You know what I mean?

[01:30:43] Yeah.

[01:30:43] Boo.

[01:30:44] Who needs that?

[01:30:45] I get it.

[01:30:45] It's not comforting.

[01:30:47] It's not a comforting.

[01:30:47] Oh, no.

[01:30:48] She's out of here.

[01:30:50] I used to be not down for the travels.

[01:30:54] But again, Christmas of 2023 was a real game changer.

[01:30:57] So I'm going to give a little bit of a benefit of the doubt for being a Christmas travel movie.

[01:31:01] And I'm going to give Goobelman the benefit of the doubt for even though she was in the terrible Christmas next door.

[01:31:07] I'm not going to blame that movie on her.

[01:31:09] So I'll say two.

[01:31:11] I like home reno shows.

[01:31:14] I don't like home reno movies.

[01:31:15] I'm doing what am I doing here?

[01:31:18] I'm going to go two for Ireland.

[01:31:21] Two for Ireland.

[01:31:23] Zero next movie.

[01:31:25] Okay.

[01:31:25] Fair enough.

[01:31:27] If we must, everybody go ahead.

[01:31:29] Whip back out those stream pouches.

[01:31:32] Because this is another stream movie.

[01:31:34] Whip back out your stream pouch.

[01:31:35] Here we go.

[01:31:37] Unwrapping Christmas.

[01:31:40] Mia's Prince.

[01:31:41] The good stuff.

[01:31:42] Mia's Prince.

[01:31:43] Mia's Prince.

[01:31:45] November 14th.

[01:31:47] My brother's birthday.

[01:31:48] My brother birthday.

[01:31:49] Hey, brother birthday.

[01:31:51] Nice to see you.

[01:31:51] I don't see their video world.

[01:31:53] Nice to see you.

[01:31:54] Birthday gray.

[01:31:55] There's no way in the humdrum.

[01:31:56] No?

[01:31:56] Okay.

[01:31:57] There's no way I make it to 47, right?

[01:31:59] There's no way I make it to 47.

[01:32:00] Where are we at?

[01:32:01] What are we at?

[01:32:01] 22?

[01:32:02] Where are we at?

[01:32:02] Probably like 17.

[01:32:04] Number 19.

[01:32:05] 17.

[01:32:06] 17.

[01:32:07] Oh, yeah.

[01:32:07] 17.

[01:32:07] Sorry.

[01:32:08] Mia's Prince.

[01:32:09] November 14th.

[01:32:10] My brother's birthday.

[01:32:11] Happy birthday, Pat.

[01:32:12] Brother birthday.

[01:32:12] Hallmark plus.

[01:32:13] Happy birthday, brother birthday.

[01:32:15] Catherine Davis and Nathan Witte.

[01:32:19] He's Witte.

[01:32:21] He's Witte.

[01:32:24] Mia, an accountant at All Wrapped Up.

[01:32:27] You guys remember it?

[01:32:28] I do.

[01:32:29] Oh, God.

[01:32:29] You guys remember All Wrapped Up?

[01:32:31] That's exactly right.

[01:32:33] Is stunned when local celebrity Bo Carnaval, who looks just like her favorite romance novel.

[01:32:53] We're going to get some liminal.

[01:32:54] Enter.

[01:32:55] While we're on the Ferris wheel.

[01:32:56] Dad, come and let me go.

[01:32:58] Please.

[01:32:59] This Carnaval.

[01:33:00] Please.

[01:33:00] Some fraud, doll.

[01:33:03] You guys want to watch HBO's show, Con?

[01:33:05] Some fraud, fuck.

[01:33:06] I can't.

[01:33:06] You're muted.

[01:33:07] We can't do it.

[01:33:08] We don't have time.

[01:33:09] If we did, we would.

[01:33:11] Roll a close off.

[01:33:12] In it?

[01:33:13] Anyone else?

[01:33:14] Anyone else?

[01:33:16] I'll mute all of you.

[01:33:17] No, but it's hilarious.

[01:33:18] Yeah.

[01:33:18] I'll mute all of you.

[01:33:19] Oh, man.

[01:33:22] Covenant.

[01:33:23] Okay.

[01:33:24] Who looks just like her favorite romance novel hero.

[01:33:28] Hero enters her life.

[01:33:29] Despite her doubts, Bo, an heir to a wealthy family, proves his feelings are real for her,

[01:33:37] even as his family disapproves.

[01:33:39] Mia soon finds herself swept up in a fairytale romance that's straight out of her dreams.

[01:33:45] Brian, go ahead.

[01:33:47] Three peppermint mocha.

[01:33:48] All right.

[01:33:49] At the carnival.

[01:33:50] Mocha.

[01:33:51] Peppermint mocha at the carnival.

[01:33:55] Three?

[01:33:55] Three?

[01:33:56] That's where you're going with?

[01:33:56] Okay, wonderful.

[01:33:58] Ryan?

[01:33:59] Ryan, that was really funny.

[01:34:00] That was really good.

[01:34:02] Brad, I wasn't really paying attention to you.

[01:34:03] I was listening to Dan while he was doing it.

[01:34:05] Yeah, you were.

[01:34:06] So I'll go one.

[01:34:08] It sounds like a good time.

[01:34:09] I'll go one.

[01:34:09] Fair enough.

[01:34:11] Patrick?

[01:34:12] Yeah, I don't know what's happening.

[01:34:14] So let's just go one mug, please.

[01:34:17] All right.

[01:34:18] Fair enough.

[01:34:18] One mocha.

[01:34:19] Great.

[01:34:19] One mug.

[01:34:20] Put whatever you want to in it.

[01:34:22] Put whatever you want to.

[01:34:22] Yeah, I don't care.

[01:34:24] Jax?

[01:34:25] They need to use Nathan more in these movies.

[01:34:28] So solely for that reason, I'm going to give it three Peppermint mochas.

[01:34:33] He's one of my favorite Hallmark hotties, but let's put him in something that sounds a

[01:34:37] little bit better than this next time.

[01:34:39] Alonzo?

[01:34:40] Okay.

[01:34:41] They're not even going to have him play two roles and have the actual romance cover model

[01:34:45] show up and confuse everyone?

[01:34:46] Zero.

[01:34:47] Zero.

[01:34:48] I had the same thoughts, but I can't do zeros.

[01:34:52] I don't think I'm able to.

[01:34:57] What are you going to do, Brandon?

[01:34:58] I'm going one for the movie and two for the carnival that's coming into town.

[01:35:07] Absolutely.

[01:35:07] Dan?

[01:35:08] The big Christmas carnival.

[01:35:09] Two total.

[01:35:10] Two total.

[01:35:10] That's right.

[01:35:12] Yeah, this movie sounds atrocious.

[01:35:13] I don't want any part of it.

[01:35:15] I hate to give another zero, but I don't.

[01:35:18] Zero.

[01:35:18] Zero for me.

[01:35:19] And what was Alonzo?

[01:35:20] Alonzo won't be zero.

[01:35:22] Zero.

[01:35:23] Yeah, that's right.

[01:35:24] This has the star of Gilded Newport Mysteries.

[01:35:27] Holy moly.

[01:35:28] Zero.

[01:35:29] Maybe we revisit these scores.

[01:35:30] I'm using my change.

[01:35:32] I'm using my change.

[01:35:33] I'm going to zero.

[01:35:34] Yeah.

[01:35:35] Whoa.

[01:35:36] Whoa.

[01:35:36] Man giving a zero is basically him telling you he's coming to your house to rob you.

[01:35:41] No Christmas.

[01:35:42] He doesn't give zeros.

[01:35:43] That's crazy.

[01:35:44] Man, that's unfortunate.

[01:35:45] I don't even think you gave Gilded Newport Mysteries a zero in the preview episode.

[01:35:49] For now on, I will.

[01:35:52] Okay.

[01:35:53] It's a new day.

[01:35:54] If there's another one, I will.

[01:35:56] If there's a second Gilded.

[01:35:57] Yes.

[01:35:57] Another summer of balls.

[01:35:59] I'll take my...

[01:36:00] I'll miss it.

[01:36:02] I'm sick.

[01:36:02] You take a skip?

[01:36:03] I'll take my skip.

[01:36:04] A reason for the season.

[01:36:06] Amen.

[01:36:06] November 14th.

[01:36:08] My brother's birthday, actually.

[01:36:10] Brother birthday.

[01:36:11] Hallmark mystery.

[01:36:12] Hey, brother birthday.

[01:36:13] Starring Taylor Cole.

[01:36:14] Good to see you, brother birthday.

[01:36:16] I have two of them.

[01:36:19] Taylor Cole.

[01:36:20] It's brother's birthday.

[01:36:21] It's brother's birthday.

[01:36:22] It's brother's birthday.

[01:36:24] It's brother birthday.

[01:36:26] Taylor Cole, Kevin McGarry is who's in this movie.

[01:36:28] Boy, oh boy.

[01:36:29] In order to earn her trust fund...

[01:36:32] This is the worst sentence ever been written in one of these synopses.

[01:36:35] Be nice, Dan.

[01:36:36] Evie is tasked with granting Christmas wishes to people who saved her life on the night of

[01:36:44] her birth.

[01:36:45] So all the people that saved her life the night she was born, she's got to grant them all

[01:36:49] wishes to get her trust fund.

[01:36:51] She's got to track down EMTs from 35 years ago.

[01:36:54] Boo!

[01:36:55] Boo!

[01:36:56] Boo!

[01:36:58] That's a good sentence.

[01:36:59] That sentence is one of one, ma'am.

[01:37:01] Oh my god.

[01:37:02] To aid her cause, she employs Kyle, a handsome local attorney, to track down those who helped

[01:37:11] and attempts to secretly learn what they might want while maintaining her anonymity.

[01:37:18] Are you Dory trying to explain where she lives and finding Nemo?

[01:37:24] With Christmas fast approaching, the heiress and the attorney...

[01:37:28] Actually, that's Nemo.

[01:37:28] My bad.

[01:37:29] ...can't resist falling for each other's charms as they ramp up their gift-giving efforts.

[01:37:37] But as time ticks down, guys, I don't need it.

[01:37:42] My mouth is so dire.

[01:37:44] But as time ticks down, will she be able to accomplish the mission and grant all the wishes

[01:37:52] by Christmas Eve?

[01:37:55] Ryan.

[01:37:56] Oh man.

[01:37:57] So he's looking for the EMT that delivered her.

[01:38:00] So like a literal ambulance chaser.

[01:38:03] Oh man.

[01:38:04] It's getting on the Mysteries channel.

[01:38:06] They're going to write that as a joke too.

[01:38:08] So it's going to be a little bit of a downer, I feel like.

[01:38:10] Just a one.

[01:38:11] One for me.

[01:38:11] One pep moak.

[01:38:12] One pep moak.

[01:38:13] Wow.

[01:38:13] A Taylor Cole Kevin McGarry.

[01:38:15] One pep moak.

[01:38:15] I know, man.

[01:38:16] We know Ryan's giving five, but will he cream it?

[01:38:20] Ryan, over to you.

[01:38:22] Listen, I'm nothing if...

[01:38:23] I'm always honest with the audience, right?

[01:38:25] I mean, I think that's my track record here on Deck the Homemark.

[01:38:28] You couldn't be making this up.

[01:38:29] Yeah, yeah.

[01:38:31] I'm not going to lie to you and tell you that this is a great description.

[01:38:34] It's not.

[01:38:35] It's not.

[01:38:36] The first sentence is scary.

[01:38:39] I'm not going to tell you.

[01:38:40] I'm not going to tell you.

[01:38:40] It's an awful description just in case Taylor's watching.

[01:38:43] It's not a great description, right?

[01:38:45] Ultimately, though, I'm nothing but predictable.

[01:38:46] The audience also knows that it's five and a cream from me, Brand.

[01:38:49] Can't wait.

[01:38:50] I'm going to record.

[01:38:51] I'm going to watch it.

[01:38:51] It's great.

[01:38:52] So brave.

[01:38:52] You are.

[01:38:53] I'm going to watch it.

[01:38:54] It's great.

[01:38:55] That's the review from Ryan.

[01:38:57] Patrick.

[01:38:58] Patrick.

[01:38:59] So who better to play a trust fund baby than Taylor Cole?

[01:39:04] Oh, boy.

[01:39:04] Love that for her.

[01:39:06] Her plastic surgeon is doing amazing.

[01:39:10] Her face looks so good.

[01:39:12] So please send me your doctor's info, Taylor.

[01:39:16] I need to get some Botox done here in Maryland.

[01:39:19] And, you know, I'll fly wherever.

[01:39:21] I'll fly wherever.

[01:39:22] I was going to say, do you think she comes to Maryland?

[01:39:24] Well, she might.

[01:39:25] She might.

[01:39:26] You never know.

[01:39:27] So for her beauty and her grace, let's give her five mochas.

[01:39:33] But for the movie, let's give it a zero, please.

[01:39:35] I think that factors out the five, right?

[01:39:37] Yeah.

[01:39:38] So zero and five combined for two and a half.

[01:39:40] Okay.

[01:39:41] Great.

[01:39:42] Great.

[01:39:42] Okay.

[01:39:42] Fair enough.

[01:39:43] Right down the middle.

[01:39:43] That's how that works.

[01:39:44] It's three, I think.

[01:39:45] I believe three is right down the middle.

[01:39:47] Three or two and a half?

[01:39:48] Two and a half.

[01:39:49] Two and a half.

[01:39:49] I haven't done one of those.

[01:39:50] Yeah.

[01:39:51] Okay.

[01:39:51] Interesting.

[01:39:51] Yeah.

[01:39:52] So not right down the middle.

[01:39:53] Jack.

[01:39:54] Right down the middle.

[01:39:55] Zero to five.

[01:39:55] I do think I'm so intrigued by this plot.

[01:39:58] Like, how many times did she need to be saved on the night that she was born?

[01:40:03] Bonkers.

[01:40:04] I mean, after Jesus, obviously.

[01:40:07] What do you give the person who has it all?

[01:40:10] Aside from your life.

[01:40:12] A trust one, apparently.

[01:40:13] A trust.

[01:40:14] I do think because of, as Patrick mentioned, Taylor Cole's, like, whatever work she's had

[01:40:20] done in her skincare regimen, she's so gorgeous.

[01:40:22] She's so kind and talented.

[01:40:24] I will give her four peppermint mochas, but the movie for me is just going to get 1.5.

[01:40:29] Alanda.

[01:40:30] I think we can give that a four, right?

[01:40:33] Yeah.

[01:40:34] This is a dead relative bequest movie and a shopping movie with the stars of the I Need

[01:40:44] to Find My Uncle and I'm Mad at His Fundraising Auction Movie and the I'm in Army and I'm going

[01:40:51] to get married in the middle of the combat theater movie.

[01:40:54] So all of that combines to a big goose egg zero.

[01:40:59] Yeah, that's exactly right.

[01:41:01] Wow.

[01:41:01] For all of the reasons mentioned so far, I'm going five.

[01:41:05] I'm going five for this movie.

[01:41:07] Dan.

[01:41:08] This movie features a lead that is begrudgingly saying thank you to those that saved her life

[01:41:13] only because she needs a trust fund.

[01:41:17] Everything Alonzo said is dead on accurate, but I do think that the two leads will have

[01:41:23] some chemistry.

[01:41:24] So pour a half a mocha.

[01:41:26] A half a mocha for the two leads having chemistry.

[01:41:29] They both look great.

[01:41:31] I mean, everything everybody said about Taylor Cole, 100% true.

[01:41:36] Yeah, half a mocha.

[01:41:38] But woof.

[01:41:39] Ooh, boy.

[01:41:40] Okay, let's take a break.

[01:41:47] Two more?

[01:41:51] We're going half to 47.

[01:41:53] Oh, so we need to go to 24.

[01:41:54] Christmas with the Sings is where we are.

[01:41:56] Hello, welcome back everybody.

[01:41:58] Really quickly, Erin, can you give us a cream update?

[01:42:00] We're going to go in a different order this time.

[01:42:03] I'm going to tell you how many you've used.

[01:42:05] Wow, what a way to do it.

[01:42:07] I love it.

[01:42:07] Innovative, I like that.

[01:42:08] Yes.

[01:42:09] Dan, you used three creams.

[01:42:11] Three creams.

[01:42:12] Good cream.

[01:42:12] Great.

[01:42:12] Brian, two creams.

[01:42:14] Fran, three creams.

[01:42:17] Alonzo, one cream.

[01:42:19] Wow.

[01:42:20] Stingy.

[01:42:21] Jax, three creams.

[01:42:23] Patrick, two creams.

[01:42:25] And Ryan, leading the creams here, four creams.

[01:42:28] Four creams.

[01:42:29] Nice job, Ryan.

[01:42:29] You got three left, right?

[01:42:30] I've used four creams?

[01:42:31] Yeah, yeah.

[01:42:32] They get away from me.

[01:42:33] You're in trouble.

[01:42:34] Can we explain this one more time?

[01:42:35] No, no, no.

[01:42:36] They get away from me.

[01:42:37] I think you got to figure it out.

[01:42:38] But we do all have our stream cream left.

[01:42:40] Yes.

[01:42:41] Is that correct?

[01:42:41] Yes.

[01:42:42] All the stream creams are still on the table.

[01:42:43] Will they make it through the episode?

[01:42:45] We will find out.

[01:42:46] Not this time, though, because it's not a streamer.

[01:42:48] Christmas with the Sings.

[01:42:49] Yeah, I just double checked.

[01:42:49] Four creams, right?

[01:42:50] Four creams.

[01:42:51] Very good.

[01:42:51] Wow.

[01:42:52] Stand by.

[01:42:53] I have three and a stream left, buddy.

[01:42:56] Christmas with the Sings.

[01:42:57] November 15th on the Hallmark Channel.

[01:43:01] This is Anuja Joshi.

[01:43:05] Yep.

[01:43:05] And thank you.

[01:43:06] And Ben Hollingsworth.

[01:43:07] I actually got this one ahead of time.

[01:43:09] I wanted to practice.

[01:43:10] I didn't, actually.

[01:43:10] I'm kidding.

[01:43:12] Maria in the chat gave you a pronunciation guide if you need to.

[01:43:14] Oh, wonderful.

[01:43:15] Let me go out to that.

[01:43:16] That'd be really nice.

[01:43:17] For.

[01:43:18] You nearly nailed it, though.

[01:43:19] Okay, great.

[01:43:19] For Asha Sings Christmas.

[01:43:22] Oh, so for Asha.

[01:43:23] For Asha.

[01:43:25] Oh, gosh.

[01:43:26] Oh, gosh.

[01:43:26] Uh-oh.

[01:43:27] He used up all his pronunciation.

[01:43:29] I know.

[01:43:29] I worked.

[01:43:30] I didn't have any pronunciation creams left.

[01:43:32] That's for sure.

[01:43:32] I barely took us to breaking back to get us ready for this.

[01:43:36] For Asha Singh, Christmas is the most important time of the year, she gets it.

[01:43:40] But when she's stuck working at the hospital during the holidays,

[01:43:45] she wishes for some much-needed Christmas magic.

[01:43:48] Enter Jake, her former high school classmate who unexpectedly reappears in her life.

[01:43:54] At the hospital?

[01:43:55] Maybe.

[01:43:56] After a magical year together.

[01:43:58] Wow.

[01:43:59] Jake proposes.

[01:44:00] But their first Christmas as an engaged couple isn't exactly the fairy tale they imagined.

[01:44:06] When they head home for the holidays, they quickly discover their picture-perfect romance

[01:44:12] is about to get a serious reality check.

[01:44:16] Their families couldn't be more different.

[01:44:20] Juggling various holiday traditions, big personalities, cultural differences,

[01:44:24] and complicated family dynamic proves to be a challenge

[01:44:28] as Asha and Jake have to learn if they can bridge their two families

[01:44:33] and survive a Christmas with the same.

[01:44:37] We did it.

[01:44:39] Okay, very well.

[01:44:41] Brian!

[01:44:42] Yeah, such a simple premise, but it sounds really interesting to me.

[01:44:46] I'm going to go four Pep Mocas for this one.

[01:44:48] I just don't know what's going on in your head.

[01:44:49] I like the sound of it.

[01:44:50] It sounds like fun.

[01:44:52] Ryan!

[01:44:53] Dan, what's going on in Brian's head is going on in Ryan's head.

[01:44:56] I'm going to go four Pep Mocas on this one.

[01:44:57] Four Pep Mocas.

[01:44:58] Very nice.

[01:44:58] Patrick, are we fouring it up?

[01:45:01] We love the representation.

[01:45:03] Anuja was in The Resident, and I watched that show.

[01:45:06] I binged it recently, and I don't remember her at all.

[01:45:09] So that's not a good sign, guys.

[01:45:11] That's not a good sign that she was in like 48 episodes.

[01:45:15] I have no clue who her character was.

[01:45:16] 48 is not a good sign, Patrick.

[01:45:18] But she also has a twin sister, so I love twins.

[01:45:23] So let's go with four Mocas, please.

[01:45:26] Very nice.

[01:45:27] Jax?

[01:45:28] I'm going to go with four Mocas, too.

[01:45:31] I think my biggest hope is that the cultural differences will be handled with care,

[01:45:37] and I think my biggest fear is that they won't be.

[01:45:42] Yeah.

[01:45:42] Yeah.

[01:45:43] There it is.

[01:45:43] Very well.

[01:45:44] Alonso?

[01:45:45] Well, yeah.

[01:45:45] Look, I like the fact that they're throwing a name of another nationality in the title of

[01:45:52] the film.

[01:45:53] This is a year where I think, unfortunately, Hallmark is kind of backtracking on their diversity.

[01:45:57] Like, all the queer stuff is on Hallmark+.

[01:46:00] We have a couple of interracial leads, but no movies where both leads are Black or Asian

[01:46:05] or people of color in any way.

[01:46:07] But I think if we're going to get some interesting, you know, wasp encounters, you know, his girlfriend's

[01:46:13] family of immigrants, this has some potential.

[01:46:16] So I'm going to say four and a cream.

[01:46:19] Whoa.

[01:46:19] Four and a cream.

[01:46:20] Wow.

[01:46:20] Oh, my goodness.

[01:46:22] I am also going with four and a cream.

[01:46:25] I was originally going to go five, so I am bringing it down just to be uniform.

[01:46:28] But a cream's plus two.

[01:46:30] A cream is plus two, so it's still a six.

[01:46:32] So at the end of the day, it's a wash.

[01:46:34] Off the charts.

[01:46:34] But yeah, four and a cream, this sounds great as it is, but throw in the cultural stuff

[01:46:40] that I think.

[01:46:41] I'm hopeful that new Hallmark's going to get it right and handle it well.

[01:46:45] Four and a cream for brand.

[01:46:46] Dan?

[01:46:46] Yeah, I'm disappointed in the diversity stat that Alonzo gave, and that's just disheartening

[01:46:53] in general.

[01:46:54] This, I'm simultaneously terrified that this movie is going to be real bad.

[01:47:00] And also, the prospects of doing this type of movie could really be a fun Christmas movie.

[01:47:08] So I just looked up on IMDb, the director is a woman of color, which probably helps the

[01:47:13] prospects of this thing, even though I still am a little bit concerned considering the rest

[01:47:18] of our slate this year.

[01:47:19] I'm going to go two and a half right down the middle.

[01:47:21] Oh, come on, man.

[01:47:23] Give me five of the prospects.

[01:47:25] Make it four.

[01:47:27] Everybody, come on.

[01:47:28] I don't care about everybody.

[01:47:29] Make it four.

[01:47:30] Now that everyone's joined in, it is still two and a half mochas.

[01:47:34] Sometimes, you don't always have to live the gimmick, Dan.

[01:47:37] That's right.

[01:47:37] Sometimes you could just be a nice Christmas movie host.

[01:47:40] Which of us is doing a gimmick, Ryan?

[01:47:43] Which of us?

[01:47:43] He can't lie.

[01:47:45] Which of us?

[01:47:45] I'm always honest with the audience, Dan.

[01:47:47] Follow your heart, Daniel.

[01:47:48] Five of the cream for the Taylor Cole movie.

[01:47:51] I've already recorded it, and I'm going to watch it.

[01:47:52] That's what you said.

[01:47:54] How about we go to the next film?

[01:47:55] But I'm doing a gimmick.

[01:47:56] Got it.

[01:47:57] Mighty Ducks hats are going to wear themselves, buddy.

[01:47:59] She's just a really good actress.

[01:48:01] There you go.

[01:48:03] Jingle Bell Run.

[01:48:05] Such a good actress.

[01:48:05] Jingle Bell Run, November 16th.

[01:48:08] It's two days actually at a brother's birthday.

[01:48:10] It's brother birthday.

[01:48:12] Birthday Greg.

[01:48:13] In memoriam.

[01:48:14] In memoriam for my brother's birthday.

[01:48:19] You've taken old brother birthday down to Carnival?

[01:48:22] I've taken him.

[01:48:23] Believe you me, for his birthday.

[01:48:25] Ashley Williams, Andrew Walker is in this movie.

[01:48:28] Wow, what a cast.

[01:48:30] Avery.

[01:48:31] What a cast.

[01:48:31] Played by Ashley Williams.

[01:48:33] Is an unadventurous school teacher.

[01:48:35] That's just mean.

[01:48:36] Whose sister secretly signs her up for The Great Holiday Dash.

[01:48:41] Okay.

[01:48:42] A Christmas-themed reality competition show where she is paired with former hockey player Wes,

[01:48:48] played by Walker.

[01:48:49] Despite.

[01:48:50] Okay.

[01:48:50] Calm down.

[01:48:51] Sorry.

[01:48:51] Oh, is that the sound of a cream?

[01:48:53] It was definitely the sound of a cream.

[01:48:56] Did you say hockey in an Andrew Walker movie?

[01:48:59] He'll pronounce it hockey.

[01:49:01] Hockey.

[01:49:02] Despite clashing at first, Avery's puzzle-solving skills and Wes's physical powers.

[01:49:08] Oh, sorry.

[01:49:09] Physical prowess.

[01:49:11] Prowess?

[01:49:12] Prowess.

[01:49:13] Prowess.

[01:49:13] That word's wild.

[01:49:15] Prowess.

[01:49:16] Helps them excel as they travel from city to city to compete in festival feats that have

[01:49:21] a local flavor.

[01:49:23] It's not long before the real connection between these two, these opposites begin to blossom.

[01:49:28] Awesome.

[01:49:29] But when Avery overhears the conversation between Wes and a show producer, it threatens to derail

[01:49:35] their budding romance.

[01:49:36] Spoiler alert.

[01:49:37] Keeping their eyes on the prize, the duo continues to dash to the finish line, and there may be

[01:49:44] a more personal adventure for them still in store.

[01:49:48] All right.

[01:49:49] Let us know.

[01:49:49] Yeah.

[01:49:49] Brian, what are your thoughts?

[01:49:50] I love this.

[01:49:51] I mean, Ashley Williams, Andrew W. Walker, love the two of them.

[01:49:55] Her sister?

[01:49:56] Who is her sister going to be in this movie?

[01:49:58] You know that's going to be a fun surprise.

[01:50:00] It'll be a fun time, yeah.

[01:50:00] That's going to be great.

[01:50:01] Andrew, Canadians fan.

[01:50:03] I'll overlook that for this.

[01:50:05] Go Bruins.

[01:50:05] Five and a cream.

[01:50:06] All in on this one.

[01:50:07] Wow.

[01:50:08] Wow.

[01:50:09] Wow.

[01:50:09] Ryan?

[01:50:10] Yeah.

[01:50:11] I mean, this is the Avengers assembling, right?

[01:50:13] I mean, this is like, it is a big deal.

[01:50:14] I mean, I could have, I could have blocked out the plot and I would have given this five

[01:50:18] and a cream.

[01:50:18] I'm a little worried about my cream situation.

[01:50:20] We'll talk more about that later.

[01:50:21] Yeah.

[01:50:23] Andrew, a Canadians fan.

[01:50:24] Go Ducks.

[01:50:24] But five and a cream from me.

[01:50:26] Down to two creams left there.

[01:50:28] Can I, we got it.

[01:50:29] We're going to have to revisit that in a bit.

[01:50:30] We can't revisit it in a bit.

[01:50:32] You're going to be out of creams.

[01:50:33] And when we revisit it, it's going to be like, sorry, you can't cream the movie.

[01:50:36] Yeah.

[01:50:37] I think we should just talk about it offline.

[01:50:38] We can.

[01:50:39] And the answer will still be the same.

[01:50:41] Off or online.

[01:50:41] What do you think is going to happen there that's not going to happen here?

[01:50:43] Do you think you're going to have a cream reservoir we don't know about?

[01:50:45] We're going to get to.

[01:50:46] Saw them live, by the way.

[01:50:48] Yeah.

[01:50:48] The backup creams.

[01:50:49] They're really good.

[01:50:50] They open for Daughtry or Doherty as I would say.

[01:50:53] Yeah.

[01:50:53] Thanks for coming home.

[01:50:55] Patrick.

[01:50:56] So I knew you guys were going to be all about the hockey of this, but you're missing like

[01:51:01] the biggest exciting part, which is the reality competition.

[01:51:04] That is going to be like the amazing race or something, which is going to be incredible.

[01:51:10] Andrew Walker playing a hockey player is laughable.

[01:51:12] We've all seen him in real life and he's just more of a soccer player physique.

[01:51:17] Okay.

[01:51:17] Let's be honest.

[01:51:18] The pads would be doing the work there.

[01:51:20] He'd be getting knocked around that quarter, whatever you call it.

[01:51:23] A rink.

[01:51:24] A rink.

[01:51:25] The rink.

[01:51:26] The ice court, as we call it here in the States.

[01:51:29] There you go.

[01:51:29] And I feel like this is going to be the under-anticipated Andrew Walker movie of this season.

[01:51:35] Therefore, it's going to be better.

[01:51:38] So five and a cream.

[01:51:39] Wow.

[01:51:40] There you go.

[01:51:41] Wow.

[01:51:41] There we go.

[01:51:42] Very nice, Jax.

[01:51:43] We're on the jumbotron.

[01:51:45] I mean, amazing race.

[01:51:46] My face is my bread and butter.

[01:51:49] It's right under Survivor for me, Ryan.

[01:51:52] I know.

[01:51:52] You, me.

[01:51:53] Shout out to Parvati Shallow.

[01:51:54] That's right, Parvati Shallow.

[01:51:56] She's back on Cameo, so I know what I'm getting for.

[01:51:58] Learn how to be a villain.

[01:51:59] It's a great course.

[01:52:00] It's poverty.

[01:52:01] Poverty.

[01:52:02] Again, I'm going to give this a five.

[01:52:04] I'm really excited for it.

[01:52:06] Ashley is a delight.

[01:52:07] I think it's going to be a lot of fun.

[01:52:09] I want one of those jackets.

[01:52:12] We don't have pictures.

[01:52:13] I don't have a picture.

[01:52:14] Sorry.

[01:52:15] Alonzo.

[01:52:17] I can't believe I'm the first to say, are you kidding me right now?

[01:52:20] That's right.

[01:52:20] You kidding me right now?

[01:52:21] You kidding me right now?

[01:52:22] You kidding me right now?

[01:52:23] Five and a cream.

[01:52:24] Come on.

[01:52:24] Yeah, absolutely.

[01:52:26] If not now, when?

[01:52:27] That's right.

[01:52:27] No, that's fair.

[01:52:29] So I have never seen Survivor up until 47, and I've started it, and it turns out it's the best show of all time.

[01:52:38] For that reason, I'm giving this movie five.

[01:52:40] Dan?

[01:52:41] No cream.

[01:52:41] I'm holding my cream.

[01:52:43] I'm trying to be strategic.

[01:52:44] I'm like, some people.

[01:52:45] I'm trying to be strategic, too.

[01:52:47] And I saw two movies with powerhouse casting that were not sequels or casting we'd seen before,

[01:52:52] and that was this movie and the Warren Christie, Nikki Deloach movie.

[01:52:56] Higher hopes for that movie than this movie, believe it or not.

[01:53:00] But weirdly enough, I think there's something about Ashley Williams when the more that you just let her just cut her loose,

[01:53:06] the better the movie is.

[01:53:08] And there's a lot happening here.

[01:53:10] I'm not saying I'm not excited about this movie, but I'm going to temper that excitement compared to the rest of the panel here.

[01:53:18] So three and a half mochas, no cream.

[01:53:20] Wow.

[01:53:20] Yeah.

[01:53:21] Wow.

[01:53:21] I know.

[01:53:23] It is time for Confessions of a Christmas Letter.

[01:53:32] Can we all just give it a zero and go to the next one?

[01:53:35] I don't think that's fair.

[01:53:36] I'm game.

[01:53:38] If Ryan gets a cream back, then maybe he's in.

[01:53:40] Yeah.

[01:53:41] Dan, I hope you poop your pants during this.

[01:53:43] Okay.

[01:53:43] Great.

[01:53:44] I'll keep you posted.

[01:53:45] Thank you.

[01:53:45] Thanks, man.

[01:53:45] You have to be honest.

[01:53:47] All right.

[01:53:48] November 17th, starring Angela Kinsey, Angela from The Office, Alex Santos, plus a cameo appearance of Kinsey's Office co-star Brian Baumgartner.

[01:54:01] How much do you think that cameo cost him?

[01:54:02] Was it like 100 or 24-hour delivery?

[01:54:04] Yeah, what do his cameos go for?

[01:54:06] If somebody could look that up, that'd be one of those.

[01:54:07] Well, you're on The Office.

[01:54:09] That's like, it goes up.

[01:54:10] He made like a million bucks off that.

[01:54:11] He made a million dollars on Cameo?

[01:54:13] Mm-hmm.

[01:54:13] Yeah.

[01:54:14] Mm-hmm.

[01:54:15] Rick Dilby's still trying to get his up and running.

[01:54:17] Rick, how you doing, buddy?

[01:54:18] I'm doing great.

[01:54:18] How about you?

[01:54:19] Really quickly, I know you give people really quickly a little preview of what they would get if they purchased a Rick Dilby cameo.

[01:54:26] A Rick Dilby cameo?

[01:54:27] Hear me out.

[01:54:28] Okay.

[01:54:29] This is for Janice, who is getting this for her sister, Ramona, for her birthday.

[01:54:36] Janice, how's it going?

[01:54:37] Shut up back there.

[01:54:38] Hey, I'm doing a cameo.

[01:54:40] You got to calm it down in the back.

[01:54:43] You can't fry those right now.

[01:54:45] Janice, I'm really sorry.

[01:54:46] Ramona, I hear you're real sweet.

[01:54:48] If you could shut up now.

[01:54:52] There's one fryer and there's one cameo room and they're right next door to each other and I got it booked.

[01:55:00] Look at the clipboard.

[01:55:02] Look at the clipboard.

[01:55:03] So, Seti Rose is a quirky family matriarch who enters her town's annual holiday letter writing contest but needs help.

[01:55:12] What does that mean?

[01:55:14] It's a zero.

[01:55:15] Let's move on.

[01:55:16] So, she hires struggling novelist Juan.

[01:55:19] Happy birthday, Ramona.

[01:55:21] Janice loves you so much.

[01:55:22] That's what you need to know.

[01:55:23] To catch the perfect letter.

[01:55:25] We don't even fry fish on Tuesdays.

[01:55:27] When a mix-up leads to a rumor that Juan is engaged to Seti's daughter, Lily, played by Lillian Ducat-Rochet.

[01:55:35] Or as you like to call her, Lillian Duckett-Rochet.

[01:55:38] That's exactly right.

[01:55:39] I've learned she's a vet.

[01:55:42] The whole family scrambles to keep up the charade.

[01:55:46] As Juan bonds with the roses and overcomes his writer's block, Seti learns that embracing her imperfect family is what truly makes her story special.

[01:56:00] Very nice.

[01:56:00] That is very nice.

[01:56:01] Brian?

[01:56:02] Happy birthday, Ramona, first of all.

[01:56:03] Happy birthday, brother birthday.

[01:56:04] Super interesting.

[01:56:06] I love this casting.

[01:56:07] This is like a curveball.

[01:56:10] Lillian Ducat-Rochet.

[01:56:12] Love seeing her.

[01:56:14] I'm going to go four and a half peppermint mochas on this one.

[01:56:17] I'm going zero on you.

[01:56:19] You're you zero.

[01:56:20] Come on.

[01:56:21] You're you zero peppermint mochas.

[01:56:22] That doesn't change my form.

[01:56:23] Ryan?

[01:56:24] Yeah, if this was going to be a season of The Office, it would be season eight.

[01:56:27] It's a big zero from me.

[01:56:28] You get it.

[01:56:29] Yeah.

[01:56:29] You get it.

[01:56:30] You get it.

[01:56:31] Right.

[01:56:31] Patrick?

[01:56:31] Patrick.

[01:56:32] So I looked up The Office Guy's rate and it's $2.25.

[01:56:38] $2.25?

[01:56:39] That's crazy.

[01:56:40] Should we get one for this episode?

[01:56:42] I'll do it for a buck and a quarter.

[01:56:43] I'll do it for a buck and a quarter.

[01:56:44] Dan, do we have that in the budget?

[01:56:46] Can we get one of those just for this movie?

[01:56:48] And I don't know what we're going to do with it, but.

[01:56:50] I can check the budget, but a Brian Baumgartner cameo is not going to be on it.

[01:56:54] It's $2.25.

[01:56:55] Sorry.

[01:56:56] Go ahead, Patrick.

[01:56:56] So $2.25 minus $2.25 is zero, zero mugs for me.

[01:57:02] Math is clear as crystal.

[01:57:03] Jax?

[01:57:04] Angela Kinsey, you guys.

[01:57:06] Yeah.

[01:57:07] Awesome.

[01:57:07] Three peppermint mochas for me.

[01:57:09] Come on.

[01:57:09] How many?

[01:57:10] Three.

[01:57:11] Okay.

[01:57:11] Three.

[01:57:12] Yeah.

[01:57:13] Alonzo?

[01:57:14] What the Folks Dressed Up Like Eskimos is an annual holiday letter writing contest.

[01:57:20] No, no, no, no.

[01:57:23] Half a mocha for Ms. Kinsey.

[01:57:25] See, that's it.

[01:57:26] Man, the kindness of Alonzo Duraldi.

[01:57:29] I'm going three down the middle.

[01:57:31] I'm sitting on pins and needles wondering about what the judges use to help them figure

[01:57:38] out what is the best holiday letter in this holiday letter writing contest.

[01:57:42] So I'm going three right down the middle for that.

[01:57:45] Have I made a huge mistake?

[01:57:46] You've made a huge mistake.

[01:57:47] This may be the lowest rated one so far, and rightfully so.

[01:57:51] Did you go cream?

[01:57:52] No.

[01:57:54] That would have been the mistake.

[01:57:55] Don't overuse your creams, folks.

[01:57:57] Listen to Ryan.

[01:57:58] Take it to Ryan.

[01:57:59] Learn it by watching you.

[01:58:01] Yeah.

[01:58:02] My thing is this, is Angela Kinsey is a character on The Office.

[01:58:07] That's the only thing I know her from.

[01:58:09] And so I am not here to, and I don't particularly care for The Office one way or the other.

[01:58:14] It's early seasons are fine.

[01:58:15] It's later seasons are trash.

[01:58:17] There he is.

[01:58:17] But Angela is a character from The Office playing a version of a woman named Angela.

[01:58:25] I am not here to tell you that she's not a good actor.

[01:58:28] I'm here to tell you I don't know about her as an actor.

[01:58:31] This reeks of gimmick, and it reeks of dumb plot.

[01:58:35] So if you add gimmick to dumb plot, you get zero.

[01:58:41] Zero peppermint mochas.

[01:58:43] And here's the thing is, I'm so down on this movie that it's probably going to be good.

[01:58:47] There's always one of those.

[01:58:48] I'm so down on this movie.

[01:58:50] It's probably going to be good.

[01:58:51] But right now, from what I see and what I have, this is what I'm least looking forward

[01:58:57] to so far of any movie on this list.

[01:58:59] Wait, what?

[01:58:59] You know that song, Get Yourself a Gimmick, from Gypsy, which is coming back to Broadway with

[01:59:03] Audra McDonald, is going to be fantastic.

[01:59:05] Get yourself a gimmick, and you too can be a star.

[01:59:08] Come on.

[01:59:09] I love a gimmick.

[01:59:10] I don't believe in gimmicks myself.

[01:59:12] I don't either.

[01:59:12] Ryan and I are just me.

[01:59:13] This movie is not going to bump it with a trumpet.

[01:59:15] Ry guy and I would never gimmick.

[01:59:17] I'm just authentic me.

[01:59:18] Me too.

[01:59:20] Yes.

[01:59:20] I'm brave.

[01:59:20] I'm free.

[01:59:22] I'm going to give this one mocha.

[01:59:23] I know I haven't been giving my ratings.

[01:59:25] I love it.

[01:59:26] You're in shape.

[01:59:27] I know.

[01:59:28] We have number 24.

[01:59:28] I'm giving it one mocha because I'm really hoping that some part of this is a Christmas

[01:59:33] chili competition, and Brian drops chili everywhere.

[01:59:37] Now, now, now.

[01:59:38] If that happens.

[01:59:39] That would just make this movie for me.

[01:59:41] Cool.

[01:59:42] Brian drops his chili.

[01:59:45] All right, everybody.

[01:59:46] We're back out those stream pouches.

[01:59:49] Stream pouches.

[01:59:50] Here we go.

[01:59:50] This could be the opportunity.

[01:59:53] Unwrapping Christmas colon Lily's Destiny, November 21st on the Hallmark Channel.

[01:59:58] This is starring Ashley Newborough.

[02:00:00] It's on Hallmark Plus.

[02:00:01] What did I say?

[02:00:01] Hallmark Plus.

[02:00:02] Yes.

[02:00:03] It's Hallmark Plus.

[02:00:03] It's Hallmark Plus.

[02:00:05] It's Hallmark Plus, the streamer.

[02:00:06] Brother Plus.

[02:00:06] Ashley Newborough and Torrance Coombs.

[02:00:11] Lily, played by Newborough, is a marketing guru of, you guessed it, all wrapped up, who

[02:00:16] believes the universe guides us to our destiny, and it appears that it's guiding her toward

[02:00:24] a celebrity realtor.

[02:00:26] I did.

[02:00:27] Yeah.

[02:00:27] It's guiding her toward a celebrity realtor.

[02:00:29] The reality of my life and career just punched me in the stomach.

[02:00:32] When she feels an unexpected spark with a journalist, Sean Whitlock.

[02:00:38] During an interview, her heart starts to question everything.

[02:00:42] As her chemistry with Sean grows, Lily begins to wonder if he's the true match that she's been

[02:00:49] waiting for all along.

[02:00:52] Brian, my hope for this series is carrying my two peppermint mochas and really hoping this

[02:01:00] goes okay.

[02:01:02] So two for me.

[02:01:02] Okay.

[02:01:02] And what's your valley?

[02:01:04] Time by holds in my valley.

[02:01:06] Thank you.

[02:01:06] Chicken or fried, Brian?

[02:01:08] Chicken of the week.

[02:01:08] It's time for chicken of the week.

[02:01:10] Ryan?

[02:01:11] Yeah, listen.

[02:01:12] I think these will get better as they go along.

[02:01:13] Like I said.

[02:01:14] From my past experience.

[02:01:16] But really, I know we don't have a lot of time.

[02:01:18] Am I able to take my stream cream and make it a regular cream?

[02:01:23] No.

[02:01:23] The rules are-

[02:01:25] Stop trying to talk about this later.

[02:01:26] You got two real creams.

[02:01:28] I just want to pull back the curtain.

[02:01:30] I forgot about Thanksgiving weekend and I want to cream all three of those systems.

[02:01:34] You can't.

[02:01:35] Should have thought of that earlier, I guess.

[02:01:37] This is how you learn.

[02:01:38] Listen, this is why we do this.

[02:01:39] Think of it as you have three cool graphic tees you want to buy but can only buy two of

[02:01:44] them.

[02:01:44] That's how you have to think of it.

[02:01:46] So stupid.

[02:01:47] One cream.

[02:01:48] No, no, no.

[02:01:49] No, no, no, no, no.

[02:01:50] One mocha.

[02:01:51] One mocha.

[02:01:52] Oh, no.

[02:01:54] Right.

[02:01:55] What's in the books?

[02:01:57] We'll take it back.

[02:01:58] One mocha.

[02:01:59] One mocha.

[02:01:59] One mug, as Patrick would say.

[02:02:01] One mug.

[02:02:01] Whatever you want.

[02:02:02] One mug.

[02:02:03] You can do what you want.

[02:02:03] Clear eyes, full hearts.

[02:02:04] One mug.

[02:02:05] Patrick.

[02:02:06] Yeah.

[02:02:07] Well, I looked up Torrance Combs because I don't know him.

[02:02:10] And we have almost the same birthday.

[02:02:12] So that's worth at least one mug, right?

[02:02:15] Okay.

[02:02:16] And Lily Newborg.

[02:02:19] Ashley Newborg.

[02:02:20] Ashley Newborg.

[02:02:21] Not Lily Newborg.

[02:02:22] I'm just reading the synopsis.

[02:02:26] Well, I like that girl, Ashley Newborg.

[02:02:29] So she gets a mug.

[02:02:31] And so that would be two mugs.

[02:02:35] Two mugs for the mugs.

[02:02:35] Patrick Stewart defeated the old borg.

[02:02:38] But Ashley Newborg is here.

[02:02:41] Shout out, Trekkies.

[02:02:43] Get Newborg.

[02:02:44] He's a Botox guy on the line.

[02:02:46] I was really hoping, you know, given what we've seen with the Chicken Sisters, that Hallmark Plus's movies would be a little edgier and more exciting.

[02:02:54] Ashley.

[02:02:54] Yeah.

[02:02:55] Ashley and Torrance are great.

[02:02:56] But to me, again, this just doesn't pique my interest.

[02:02:59] I'm going to give it 1.5 peppermint mocha.

[02:03:02] Alonzo.

[02:03:04] God.

[02:03:05] You know, Ashley Newborg, give it that she take it away.

[02:03:07] I really, I loved the Scotch movie.

[02:03:09] Did not care for the Nutcracker movie or the Home Reno movie.

[02:03:14] Yeah.

[02:03:15] Um, yeah.

[02:03:15] For her, one.

[02:03:16] But that's it.

[02:03:18] Um, I don't really like it.

[02:03:23] Uh, I got one.

[02:03:26] Zero.

[02:03:27] Oh.

[02:03:27] Oh.

[02:03:28] Zero.

[02:03:29] Bummer.

[02:03:30] The Hallmark Plus slate is getting off to a brutal start.

[02:03:33] It's tough.

[02:03:33] It's tough out there.

[02:03:34] But it's a welcome edition.

[02:03:35] It's the jungle out there.

[02:03:37] Um, Monk?

[02:03:39] Yeah.

[02:03:41] Rainy Newman?

[02:03:43] What do we do?

[02:03:43] We want to do one more?

[02:03:44] How many have we done?

[02:03:45] This would be 23.

[02:03:47] Coming up?

[02:03:48] We'll be 23.

[02:03:48] No, we've done 22.

[02:03:50] We can do one or two more in this one.

[02:03:52] Okay, here we go.

[02:03:53] Let's do two.

[02:03:54] Yeah, I am.

[02:03:54] I am here with a new life, a five-week-old baby.

[02:03:58] So I'm going to need to just come in and out for the next probably two and a half hours

[02:04:02] of this dream.

[02:04:04] I've got a breakfast all day in an hour and 18 minutes.

[02:04:07] Do you want to hop on and review the preview show?

[02:04:08] I was like, yeah.

[02:04:09] We'll address it after these two.

[02:04:11] How about this?

[02:04:11] A novel, a novel Noel.

[02:04:14] It is premiering on November 21st at 8.

[02:04:18] Everybody hold Brian down when you say the next thing you're going to say.

[02:04:21] Good luck.

[02:04:21] At 8 p.m. on the Hallmark Mysteries channel, it is starring Julie Gonzalo.

[02:04:26] Mm-hmm.

[02:04:29] Brian has a problem.

[02:04:30] And Brendan Penny.

[02:04:32] He's on the line, right?

[02:04:33] He's on the line.

[02:04:34] And he's going to give us a bigger synopsis on this movie, if you want to understand.

[02:04:37] Go ahead, Brent.

[02:04:39] We must have lost.

[02:04:40] We did lost.

[02:04:40] Man.

[02:04:41] One of these days.

[02:04:42] A successful New York City book editor, played by Gonzalo, who is losing touch with her passion

[02:04:47] after a few setbacks this year, that's tough, learns that she's chosen to run a bookstore

[02:04:53] in a small town of St. Ives for the month of December.

[02:05:00] It's a rotating cast of characters.

[02:05:03] Because she won the letter writing contest.

[02:05:04] She won it.

[02:05:05] She gets the chance.

[02:05:07] While realizing a childhood dream, but butting heads with the handsome son of the bookstore's

[02:05:14] owner, she comes to realize that her love for bringing out the creativity of others is

[02:05:21] still her true calling.

[02:05:22] And untapped talent and love can still be found anywhere, even in the writings of a cranky business-minded

[02:05:29] man.

[02:05:30] Cranky.

[02:05:31] Especially at Christmas.

[02:05:32] All right.

[02:05:33] Okay.

[02:05:33] Okay.

[02:05:33] All right.

[02:05:33] Okay.

[02:05:34] Brian?

[02:05:35] Yeah, man.

[02:05:36] You can't do what you're about to do.

[02:05:37] Julie Gonzalo.

[02:05:38] I'm a huge penhead.

[02:05:39] Brandon Penny.

[02:05:39] I love.

[02:05:40] You're a huge penhead.

[02:05:41] Huge penhead.

[02:05:42] Yeah.

[02:05:42] This is great because her career as a successful New York City book editor is probably crazy.

[02:05:48] And so this is a nice step back in her reset.

[02:05:52] And everybody needs that holiday time.

[02:05:54] This is five minute cream, obviously.

[02:05:56] No hesitation.

[02:05:58] Ryan, I'm not even going to address it.

[02:06:00] Ryan, I'm going to need five.

[02:06:01] I mean, you know, listen, you got to, it's always important to think about what Claire

[02:06:07] cranked it for the community when she was growing up, before she went to the Peace Corps.

[02:06:10] Brendan, Brendan Penny, you know, famously starred alongside Sarah Lancaster in Tis the Season

[02:06:15] for Love.

[02:06:15] It's on the first sector of my 100 Days Till Christmas.

[02:06:18] Of course we've seen it.

[02:06:19] It's on 100 movies.

[02:06:21] And I think that's important.

[02:06:21] Oh, I never said it was.

[02:06:23] I never said it was.

[02:06:24] So I think all that's important to remember.

[02:06:27] I really like both of these two in a different world.

[02:06:29] I would have creamed this.

[02:06:30] I apologize to them both personally.

[02:06:32] It sounds fun.

[02:06:33] I'll give it, I'll give it a three and a half.

[02:06:36] Patrick.

[02:06:37] So now would be a great time to bring up my nail color, which is copper like pennies.

[02:06:43] Nice.

[02:06:43] Thank you.

[02:06:44] Thank you.

[02:06:44] So we did a little brown chrome.

[02:06:48] You know, that's the trend for fall.

[02:06:50] That's the trend.

[02:06:52] I was telling Brandon earlier today.

[02:06:54] Right?

[02:06:54] We argued about it.

[02:06:55] Brown chrome.

[02:06:56] It's on trend.

[02:06:57] Selena Gomez told everybody.

[02:06:59] So yeah.

[02:07:01] So this movie, I don't really know what's happening in this movie.

[02:07:03] But I like Brendan Penny.

[02:07:07] And pennies are one cent.

[02:07:10] So we're going to go one month.

[02:07:12] I love it.

[02:07:13] Oh, wow.

[02:07:14] I like that reasoning.

[02:07:15] Jax?

[02:07:16] I love Julie.

[02:07:18] I love Julie.

[02:07:19] I would say I'm not a penhead.

[02:07:21] Oh, yeah.

[02:07:22] Seems like a nice guy.

[02:07:24] Now we know he's never there.

[02:07:26] Uh-oh.

[02:07:26] For Julie, I'm going to give this to Mocha's.

[02:07:30] Wow.

[02:07:31] Alonzo.

[02:07:33] I have no strong feelings about Ms. Gonzalo, but I am a penhead, especially a cranky penhead.

[02:07:39] That's what we're getting in this movie.

[02:07:40] And book publishing and a bookstore in a small town.

[02:07:44] Four.

[02:07:45] You kidding me right now?

[02:07:45] You kidding me right now?

[02:07:46] Oh, my gosh.

[02:07:47] Oh, my gosh.

[02:07:47] I am also a penhead.

[02:07:49] I am also a Christmas of the Crank fan.

[02:07:54] And I'm also a fan of the idea of a bookstore letting people run their store for a month at a time.

[02:08:02] I think that's random, fun, and I'm going four.

[02:08:04] Dan?

[02:08:06] I think Brendan Penny is an interesting dude.

[02:08:09] And I think he just wants to hang out with his family and he doesn't want to do any media he doesn't have to do.

[02:08:14] And I think every year we know this from other actors who are like they give us all these scripts and they tell us to choose one if we want to be in a Christmas movie.

[02:08:20] And I think Brendan Penny probably looks at them and goes, just give me whatever's left.

[02:08:24] And that's what he's done.

[02:08:26] That's what he's done again here with this rent a work at a bookstore plot line.

[02:08:35] So one just for the sheer gall of that being the way you choose your movies.

[02:08:43] Let's do one more.

[02:08:44] Shall we?

[02:08:44] One more?

[02:08:45] Sure.

[02:08:47] Christmas on Call.

[02:08:49] Call.

[02:08:49] It is premiering on November 22nd on the Hallmark Channel.

[02:08:54] And it is starring Sarah Canning, Sir Darius Blaine, plus a cameo appearance.

[02:09:01] Any relation to Sir Sock?

[02:09:02] I don't know.

[02:09:04] I will try to find that out.

[02:09:05] Or Sir Shue.

[02:09:05] Plus a cameo appearance by Donna Kelsey.

[02:09:09] And we'll find out how much her cameo costs as well.

[02:09:12] If she's not on cameo, what are you doing, Donna?

[02:09:14] That's money on the table.

[02:09:16] No kidding.

[02:09:16] Here we go.

[02:09:17] In the lead up to Christmas, emergency room doctor Hannah Michaels juggles her demanding job and a budding relationship with EMT Wes Sullivan in Philadelphia.

[02:09:29] They spend time...

[02:09:31] Was Philadelphia?

[02:09:31] Born and raised.

[02:09:32] Born and raised?

[02:09:33] They spend time together as Wes helps her become more acquainted with the sights, sounds, and taste of Philadelphia.

[02:09:42] They're going to get that right.

[02:09:43] It is clear that they are starting to fall for each other.

[02:09:48] As local first responders...

[02:09:50] As local first responders balance duty from...

[02:09:54] By the way, did you poop your pants?

[02:09:56] I did.

[02:09:56] Thank you for the follow-up there.

[02:09:57] I did not poop my pants.

[02:09:58] But thanks for asking.

[02:10:00] Go ahead.

[02:10:00] You want to look?

[02:10:00] You're off camera.

[02:10:02] No, thanks.

[02:10:03] Bye.

[02:10:05] As the local first responders balance duty with, as Dan is, with holiday celebrations,

[02:10:12] they come together to face challenges, support each other, and find moments of joy.

[02:10:20] I don't even think they're going to spend any of their days on the playground in this one.

[02:10:24] No.

[02:10:24] Wow.

[02:10:24] Maybe one.

[02:10:26] Maybe one tops.

[02:10:27] It's a part of Philadelphia.

[02:10:28] It's part of the...

[02:10:29] Would that be sights?

[02:10:30] That'd be sights.

[02:10:31] Yeah.

[02:10:31] Brian?

[02:10:32] Yeah.

[02:10:32] I'm just going to go two Pep Mokes for this one.

[02:10:35] Two Pep Mokes.

[02:10:38] Ryan.

[02:10:39] Ryan.

[02:10:40] I would love to know, were they filming the football movie and Donna Kelsey just had an off?

[02:10:46] How did this happen?

[02:10:49] Of all the Hall Stars that don't have two films this year, Donna Kelsey, it's wild.

[02:10:54] When you think of Donna Kelsey came in a movie, a movie showcasing the best of Philadelphia,

[02:10:59] that makes the most sense.

[02:11:01] Well, I guess it's the Jason Kelsey connection.

[02:11:02] Yeah.

[02:11:03] She wears an Eagle jersey, I thought.

[02:11:05] I wasn't doing a bit.

[02:11:07] Two cities.

[02:11:08] Yes.

[02:11:09] There you go.

[02:11:10] Yeah.

[02:11:11] It's a one.

[02:11:12] It's a one.

[02:11:13] Oh, wow.

[02:11:13] Okay.

[02:11:14] Patrick?

[02:11:16] Donna Kelsey's cameo rate is...

[02:11:19] She's not available.

[02:11:20] Oh.

[02:11:21] They got to talk to her.

[02:11:22] That's crazy.

[02:11:24] Yeah.

[02:11:24] So that's disappointing.

[02:11:26] There's way too much sports coming into Christmas movies, and I really can't have...

[02:11:30] What is going on?

[02:11:31] This is crazy to me.

[02:11:34] In this story's defense, it's not a sports movie.

[02:11:37] She's just in it.

[02:11:38] Oh.

[02:11:38] Okay.

[02:11:39] Okay.

[02:11:39] Well, I don't understand.

[02:11:40] I thought she was a female football player or something.

[02:11:46] Okay.

[02:11:46] Yeah.

[02:11:47] I can see that.

[02:11:48] You get that.

[02:11:48] Right.

[02:11:50] But we are missing the key elements.

[02:11:54] Let's take out the key elements of this synopsis.

[02:11:57] We have EMTs.

[02:11:58] This could be an ER situation, but in Philadelphia, okay?

[02:12:01] We could have a George Clooney, Juliana Margulies love romance happening.

[02:12:06] They talked about the taste of Philadelphia.

[02:12:09] That means...

[02:12:10] What's it called?

[02:12:11] The sandwich?

[02:12:12] A cheesesteak.

[02:12:12] Thank you.

[02:12:13] We love cheesesteaks.

[02:12:15] Obviously.

[02:12:16] I've had one.

[02:12:17] The bell, the Liberty Bell will be there.

[02:12:20] This is Americana at its best.

[02:12:22] Let's give it four stars, please.

[02:12:25] Four mugs.

[02:12:27] Four stars.

[02:12:27] Four mugs.

[02:12:28] Put the mochas, actually.

[02:12:29] Don't worry about it.

[02:12:30] Stars in the mugs.

[02:12:31] Four coca.

[02:12:31] Put the stars in the mugs if you want to.

[02:12:33] The rating is so hard for me.

[02:12:34] All right, Jax.

[02:12:36] Look, Donna Kelsey is the moment.

[02:12:38] You know, some of us have our MFA in acting, and some of us have given birth to the best football

[02:12:44] players in the country, and Donna Kelsey is a working actor more than I am right now.

[02:12:48] Wow.

[02:12:49] So, like, give it up to her.

[02:12:51] Also, as Erin noted, thank you, girl.

[02:12:53] She's supporting both of her sons.

[02:12:55] So, I'm honestly, for Donna Kelsey, going to give this four peppermint mochas.

[02:13:01] Wow.

[02:13:01] Alonzo.

[02:13:03] Really liked Sarah Canning in the Marcus Rosner joint that we did on a Monday coupled up

[02:13:09] for Christmas.

[02:13:10] Yep.

[02:13:10] Really liked Sir Darius Blaine.

[02:13:13] The Donna Kelsey of it, I think, at least indicates that the network believes in this

[02:13:17] one, since they're really, they seem to be, like, trotting her out for the stuff that they're

[02:13:21] really trying to focus on.

[02:13:22] So, I'll go three down the middle.

[02:13:24] I am excited about this movie.

[02:13:27] We talked a lot, we have so far, about travel movies and all that good stuff.

[02:13:31] I like, we're just going to, this is just a Philadelphia movie, and I think that's nice.

[02:13:35] And also, the Philadelphia Eagles have put out a Christmas album, and they're, I think

[02:13:39] they have a new single that's going to be a part of this.

[02:13:41] And that album is great.

[02:13:43] It's a great album.

[02:13:44] And I'm excited about that.

[02:13:46] I think this has the potential to be really good.

[02:13:48] I'm going to go with five.

[02:13:49] Dan?

[02:13:49] So, this movie, I feel like I need more information.

[02:13:52] Is it shot in Philadelphia?

[02:13:54] I hope so.

[02:13:56] I believe so.

[02:13:57] They can't not.

[02:13:57] Holmour has a tradition.

[02:13:58] I would change things.

[02:13:59] Let me show you my town.

[02:14:01] And they're in some back lot in Canada.

[02:14:04] Right.

[02:14:04] And it's like, look at this Chicago-style hot dog, and it's offensive.

[02:14:07] And so, when I read this, I immediately was like, everyone in Philadelphia is going to hate

[02:14:12] this movie.

[02:14:13] But the Donna Kelsey of it all makes you feel like they probably filmed it in Philadelphia.

[02:14:17] And so, on the hopes that they did that and didn't pull a hallmark, or they filmed like

[02:14:23] one day in Philadelphia, they filmed the rest of it in Canada.

[02:14:26] That's what I think they did, which would be a zero.

[02:14:28] But on the hopes that they filmed the whole thing in Philadelphia, one and a half.

[02:14:32] One and a half Peppermint Mox.

[02:14:33] And also, any movie where a doctor falls in love with an EMT, I think, is automatically

[02:14:37] science fiction.

[02:14:38] So, it's got that going on.

[02:14:39] Yeah.

[02:14:39] Yeah.

[02:14:39] Yeah.

[02:14:40] Yeah.

[02:14:40] Of course.

[02:14:40] Does it change anyone's ratings if this was first called First Responders Christmas?

[02:14:45] It does.

[02:14:47] Give me .5 mochas.

[02:14:51] Drop it.

[02:14:51] If it's filmed in Philadelphia and they changed the name back to that, I'd be at least at four

[02:14:54] and a half.

[02:14:55] At least.

[02:14:56] We're starting.

[02:14:57] Yeah.

[02:14:58] And we got, you know what?

[02:14:59] Talk about starting.

[02:15:00] We're going to stop here, Brandon.

[02:15:01] Yeah.

[02:15:02] But it's a perfect place to stop because I believe we kick off with three Weiserman and

[02:15:06] a baby next week.

[02:15:07] Oh, my.

[02:15:08] Yep.

[02:15:08] Perfect.

[02:15:08] What a time.

[02:15:09] Yeah.

[02:15:09] Yeah.

[02:15:10] Yeah.

[02:15:10] Lost to play for here.

[02:15:12] Yep.

[02:15:13] Definitely.

[02:15:13] Some of us have creams left to use.

[02:15:14] Some of us do.

[02:15:15] I think we all have creams.

[02:15:17] Technically.

[02:15:18] Before we leave, let's do one more cream update before we head off.

[02:15:22] Do you want how many you've used or how many you've left?

[02:15:24] Whatever you decide since that's what you've been doing.

[02:15:26] Just say the number, but don't tell us what it is.

[02:15:28] What it is?

[02:15:28] No.

[02:15:29] Let's do how many we have left.

[02:15:30] I like that.

[02:15:30] How many you have left.

[02:15:31] Okay.

[02:15:31] Dan, you have four creams and a stream cream.

[02:15:35] Great.

[02:15:35] Thank you.

[02:15:36] Played it perfectly.

[02:15:36] Got it.

[02:15:37] Brian, three creams, one stream cream.

[02:15:39] Yep.

[02:15:39] That's good.

[02:15:39] Brian, three creams, one stream cream.

[02:15:42] Pretty good.

[02:15:43] Alonzo, Jax, and Patrick.

[02:15:45] You all have four creams and a stream cream.

[02:15:48] There you go.

[02:15:48] They're rich.

[02:15:48] They're rich.

[02:15:49] They're wealthy people.

[02:15:50] And Ryan Papala has two creams and a stream cream.

[02:15:53] All right.

[02:15:54] Don't hate.

[02:15:54] Don't have to say that.

[02:15:55] That ain't nothing.

[02:15:56] It can help you Thanksgiving week, but you do have it for the stream cream.

[02:16:01] Nothing more coveted than that stream cream.

[02:16:03] That's right.

[02:16:03] That's right.

[02:16:03] That's got to have that.

[02:16:04] That's right.

[02:16:04] That ain't nothing.

[02:16:05] We did it.

[02:16:06] Everybody, congratulations.

[02:16:07] We got one more of these to go, and it'll come out sometime.

[02:16:10] Until then, maybe we'll be the first to wish you a Merry Christmas.

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[02:16:54] Yep.

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