Hearts Around the Table: Josh's Third Serving (Hallmark Channel - 2025)

[00:00:01] Hi, I'm Bran and I love Hallmark Table Movies! I'm Brian, I like Hallmark Table Movies. I'm Dan and I despise Hallmark Farm to Table Movies and this is the Deck The Hallmark Podcast! Deck The Hallmark, it's this podcast. Friends host this podcast. We hope you like this jolly podcast. Hi everybody, welcome back. Quick update, as everybody who listened last week,

[00:00:39] learned, uh-huh, uh, Brian's getting a new phone. That's right. Got the new phone. You got the new ones. Hands on. Mm-hmm. Thoughts on it. Has there been a steep learning curve for you? No, technology's wild. Things are really advanced since I got my last phone. Yeah. 12 years ago, maybe? Yeah, it was a long time ago. So you had the same phone for 12 years? Maybe. Something like that. Not that long. Quite a while. Quite a while. Quite a while. Quite a while. Yeah, man, it's, uh, I'll tell you, getting, I'm still sort of in the two phone mode, you know, moving things around, uh, you know,

[00:01:09] that's how you do it, right? No. You work with, you slowly move things and download apps and... His last phone came out about six and a half, seven years ago. Okay, wow. So... But you're, you're okay. Yeah, I'm okay. You're here today. I'm here, um, I made it, I'm working through it, and I'm appreciative. I'm proud of you. Thank you. Really proud of you. Yeah, this is how people live, huh? Yeah, people live, man. It's what they do out there. And, um, this is our final week here. That's right.

[00:01:37] At this office, studio. There's an outside chance that that 15th episode on April 15th might be here? On that Monday? On that Tuesday, April 15th. Oh, okay. Monday, April 14th, we'll... Yeah. We'd be in this studio. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Still. Possibly April 15th. I don't think so. You don't think so? No. Okay. Great. Oh, I guess we could record it early. I see what you're saying. Yeah. Maybe. Hmm. What are you talking about? What do you think comes out on Tuesday, April 15th? The new one. Okay. What's it gonna be? It's the fourth Hearts Around the Town.

[00:02:07] Yeah. Yeah. Kiki's fourth ingredient? Yeah. Right? We were recording that during move week? No, it would be normal Monday. I won't be here. Oh, yeah. You won't be here. That's right. Dan might won't be here. I might not be here. Yeah. Wow. So that's a pretty big deal. Big turn of events. Yeah, it's a big turn of events. I'm skipping the fourth one. He's doing it. He's doing it. He's using a skip, and that's fine. Everybody, that's fine. He can do that. Yeah. A lot of people say he can't do that. First episode in the new studio, we said we don't want him. He's protesting. We can't do it.

[00:02:38] But that's a lot of fun. So come and join us. Philo.tv slash DTH. Come and mourn the loss of our old studio and come and enjoy the new. Of course. The new and improved. And improved studio. And come and see Brian's new phone, too. Yeah. Yeah. The good stuff. Yeah, that's exactly right. This is our third of four Hearts Around the Table movie, which is, you know, pretty exciting. Yeah, I think. Really exciting. For all of us. We're starting to sprinkle in those Love Club moms, too.

[00:03:07] Yeah, that's right. Is it April already? Let's dive into it, shall we? Josh's Third Serving is what this is called. Josh's Third Serving. It originally aired on April 5th, 2025, and it went a little something like this. Josh is running down the road, smiling, listening to music, having a great time. Meanwhile, a woman named Ella is moving into her new house. She's new in town.

[00:03:36] At the Sunday Supper, we learn that there's a new foster kid in the mix. Her name is Gina, and she's going to be attending Josh's school. But she's not the only newcomer to said school. Ella is the new English teacher at the school.

[00:03:53] However, trouble quickly arises between her and Josh after school. It turns out that she's also going to be the music teacher. And since the music room is a mess, it's an absolute disaster. She decides to hold practice outside. Sounds great. Except for the track team. This disrupts the practice and it creates immediate tension between the two.

[00:04:18] The conflict escalates when both the music and track programs need funding, but there isn't enough money to go around. Each group has to present their cases to the PTA, who respond with, We'll get back to you.

[00:04:38] Determined to secure funding, Josh and Ella decide to raise money on their own, and eventually they agree to work together because together is better. As they spend more time together fundraising, they start getting closer, and Ella even ends up joining Josh's family for Sunday dinner. Meanwhile, Andrew from the first one is planning on proposing to Jenna, also from the first one.

[00:05:04] So he spends most of the movies searching for the perfect ring with her mom for some reason. In the end, both the music and the track programs receive funding from the new endowment, and Andrew successfully proposes. As for Josh and Ella, she confesses her love for him, and they share a kiss.

[00:05:31] And then I guess more good things are going to happen for them. And that, my friends, was Hearts Around the Table, colon Josh's Third Survey. Sorry about that, guys. That's okay. We did it. We'll take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll get to the hot takes. How about that? I love that playing for us. Here on Take the Hallmark.

[00:06:01] Welcome back, everybody. How are we? Great. How are we feeling? Oh, man. Amazing. Yeah? Yeah. You know what makes me feel amazing? Shari's Baris. Shari's Baris. Will we get new reviews? Oh. That does make you feel amazing. We got a new review? I hope it's about it. Or are you? Oh, we didn't. You were just segueing into we don't have any new reviews? We don't have any new reviews, so. We never asked for them. If you're listening, sometimes we get a really nice email from a guy about escape rooms. If you take the time to email us, thank you.

[00:06:29] If you've not left us a rating, we would love that as well. We love a good rating. 3,000 by season three. That's exactly right. It's happening, everybody. Let's do this thing. This is the big year. This is the big year. We finally do it. We finally do it. We only have like two reviews in March, so let's. Come on. Let's go. Now we're in April, so let's get on the good chain. So let's get on the good chain. That's exactly right. That's what everyone's saying. It's time for the hot take. It's where we share our thoughts on this movie. We do not hold back so much so that occasionally things become hot. That's why we call it the hot take.

[00:06:59] Brian, what did you think about this movie? Yeah. Speaking of the good chain. Oh, boy. This is a lighter than Sherry's because I like this one a little bit more. What about Kate? What's the first one? Jenna. That one I think I liked a wee bit more than this one. A wee bit. A wee bit. I think this is like 1B. 1B. Got it. Everything in this, though, I realized the thing I don't like, the big part of this. Like you mentioned something last time.

[00:07:27] The intent here is really admirable. Great. We get what they're trying to do. Great. But the full throttle positivity just doesn't work for me in anything. Ever. I'm with you. You and I share that in common. So it's just, okay, let's tone it down a little bit. Everybody wins. New track. The kid's getting a full scholarship. She's got a new music room. They're in a relationship. Only a mild case of ADHD. Like everything is so great and it's just too much.

[00:07:54] So they just lose me on that. The fundraising seems super sus, as they say. The kids have been saying that for literal years. Yeah. So they know what I'm trying to get at here. And Vic Gupta is drunk with power and needs to be stopped. The whole, what was it? What's that called? The alumni association. Come to my house. Make your proposal in person. Come on. To Vic's house. I don't know if he even went to that school.

[00:08:23] Like he just weaseled his way into this position somehow. So I didn't trust him at all. The poster budget out of control in this movie. So yeah, it was just, it was okay. A little bit better than the last one. Not as great as Jenna's, but yeah, that's where I landed. This school has so many things going on and it's fascinating to see it all shake out.

[00:08:50] We have PTA, we have the alumni association, we have a new endowment. So much is going on at this school and so little is happening in this movie. And that's okay. I think that's kind of what's, what these are is that nothing much is going to happen. I don't think you can say aren't is. Spoiler alert. What these is aren't. Spoiler alert. What Brian doesn't like about these, I do enjoy.

[00:09:20] I enjoy the positivity. I enjoy the upbeat nature of Jake Epstein running and smiling. I love it. I love it. I love it when you run and smile, something I've never done before in my life. But it makes me think that maybe I could. I think that's really nice. I actually do agree with Brian's order though. I would still go one, three, two personally. But this movie is fine.

[00:09:49] And let's do it again next week. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I like Gina too. New girl Gina. I thought she was a nice addition. Even though the other foster kid kind of disappears there for a while. Rory. Yeah. He just. Yeah. He's busy. But it does answer her question. Can they have more than one foster kid at once? Clearly. She can. She does have the room for it clearly, but also she is able to have two. She heard my complaints in the first movie and decided to fix it. These two foster kids are hardly ever in the same room together, but she can do it. And I think that that's nice.

[00:10:20] Dan? Yeah. This movie is just sheer loony bins just from the educational side of it. It's crazy. Uh, I will like to keep my feels all positive, uh, because I don't know why I would be negative in a movie that's trying to spotlight foster care. The movie, this movie and all of them to an extent want you to know that they know about foster care and they do so in a way that I think once again, the intention is really good

[00:10:49] to explain to you how complicated these scenarios can be like getting permission for things or having a custody of the, the, the biological father, picking the kid up and having rules in place or like what happens if you live with your grandmother and they go into a assisted living facility. Like I appreciate that the movie is like foster care isn't just a straight up and down situation. There's a lot that could happen. But the other thing about foster care that is very important is that kids should still

[00:11:19] have agency over their own stories. And these movies haven't figured that piece out yet. They are just here to basically foster explain it to you. Um, and so I appreciate them wanting once again, appreciate the intent of the whole thing. Um, I would love to be someone that when I'm 65 has a table full of kids who, know that they can come home to me and, and that's a safe place for them.

[00:11:47] And then they can leave, but their stories are not my story. And that is not what happens in these movies from a sheer, like craziness of like, what is happening in this movie? I mean, this is ranking. These movies are like choosing like which scab hurts the least. Like it's not a ranking them is almost not fair. Um, I guess. Do you like that? Yeah. I guess gross. And it makes a lot of sense.

[00:12:15] I guess this one is the best. I don't, I guess I best scab you heard. I think, yeah, I think it's because I don't know what it was about this, this, the, the female lead in this movie who Aaron pointed out, we've seen numerous times in supporting roles, but her and Jake Epstein. Great. She looked great. Uh, I, I thought they were really good for these movies, for these movies. I thought they were really good.

[00:12:42] Uh, so yeah, I, I guess this is, this is the best of them. Uh, and the school stuff made me laugh so hard. So much in this movie made me laugh. And I think that was the thing is, is I, I was, we're, we're working on back to backs here. And so that probably has something to do with it. This movie sucks. Don't get me wrong, but I guess it's the best of them. Um, Dan, Dan would face with the impossible decision of ranking these movies. Took it to the, who's hottest. I took it to purely who's hottest.

[00:13:12] They look good. She looks great. Give me this one. This one. What do you want me to do? Dan Thompson, 2285. Um, my best over here. It's the best scab. It's not in fact, let's get to all the fields, right? Yeah. Um, I didn't do afterschool activities and I kind of watching this thinking maybe I should have. You were stuck in your room watching La Bamba on repeat. Oh, I would talk about a dream day, um, into the night. Yeah. I wish I did more school activities after school.

[00:13:41] A lot of kids did that bonded, made good friends. I didn't do that. Uh, I wish I did. That was great. It was a little regret. So awesome. Thank you, dude. Crushed it. No, no regrets. No regrets. Um, you know what I love is a up and coming music department. And this, you sure do.

[00:14:06] This school has four kids tops that are interested in the art. They're three decades away from a Mr. Holland's opus. Yes. But you gotta start somewhere that opus isn't built in a day. And I think that's a wonderful thing. Dan, do you want to tell the story about how I flicked a paper today? Um, yeah. Maybe that could be a really funny moment for us.

[00:14:34] I had a paper that was a receipt and I folded it up and I, across the room, which I don't, it doesn't matter how big the room is. Across the room. I flicked, I flicked this, followed up TV, flick this thing and it went right in the trash can. Just banked it home. Brian was like, give me that. I can do it. Brian didn't know how to flick it. He didn't know which finger to use. And then he literally 90 degree angle went a foot and a half and we were crying, laughing about how to flick this thing. He kept changing.

[00:15:03] Like he was like, I got to get it right. Yeah. You got to get it right. It's tough out there. Did you fold it like a little football? Uh, it was like a rectum. I did fold it up, but it wasn't pointed. Just couldn't. Uh, my, my feels is that now that the knowledge is finally out there, that Dan ranks these movies by hotties. Oh my gosh. And I think that that, now that it's finally out there. Good to know, yeah. I've been all this secret in. 100%. For seven years. Do not. Dan ranks these movies by hotties. We'll be right back. He's got a spreadsheet and everything.

[00:15:33] Thank you though, Mark. Hot or not dot com. Welcome back, everybody. Um, it's time for, wait, what is what we're talking about? What in this movie? Let's go. Wait, what? I'll start with you, Brian. Yeah. The, you guys notice this. The, every time I belt, you guys, every time a bell rang in this angel got us. And they made an announcement. Every time a bell rang, there was a school announcement. Oh, I didn't notice that.

[00:16:03] I was, it was driving me nuts because I'm like, there's no way like people are missing important information. You can't do it throughout the day. I swear to you, when I taught first period, they would do all the announcements during first period. And I was like, I'm getting robbed here. I'm getting robbed. All this time. Yes. They, I feel like you got to do a bulk announcement where all this stuff lives. And then maybe like throughout the day, like, Hey, car, Subaru car lights on, but not like important stuff. And it seems like they were announcing stuff. People need to know. Uh, it's so in this school, I don't know.

[00:16:33] This is Washington or DC area, Virginia. It is Canada. Uh, of course, mold, mold, not a reason enough to stay out of a room. In a school. No. If you say the word mold, shut it down. Yeah. They're blocking it off. You can't. Yeah. Just close the door. Can't get out of the crack. Just nobody breathe. Yeah. Hold your breath or don't spend a lot of time in there is the recommendation. You got to shut that room down. Sorry. Uh, the background actors at track practice, stretching their triceps nonstop.

[00:17:02] I just, the whole scene on the track, no one has been less dressed appropriately for the track than these poor children. And then they are stretching their arm muscles before running a sprint for an hour and a half. It's fantastic. It was great. Cause you know, they're like, just keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. Again. Oh boy. So that there, I mean, they're going to do great when they get to the handstand portion. I mean, there'll be real great, but the running part, I don't know.

[00:17:30] Um, and they raised $1,500. Is that what he said? That was it. Uh, and also it felt like from what, like they did a few bake sale things. They didn't do, it didn't seem like they did. This public school isn't a district of 12 total kids. So, I mean, I like $1,500, a lot of money. I mean, to brand's point, I, I think there are maybe under 20 students in the whole school. You just, there's no one in the school.

[00:17:55] And it also felt like something you could probably get a few, uh, track uniforms out of 1500. It felt like maybe you could do something with it. You could probably get a few. Yes. Yes. Uh, and just a huge one was the alumni association. And I feel like a million dollars was thrown around as the amount they were going to invest, which is crazy. How is this alumni association getting a million bucks? Like, where's they just washing this money? I think, I think this is, Oh, you think they're laundering it. I think there's something shady going on here. DC during the swamp, man. You know what I mean? Yeah. Oh, you said it, bro.

[00:18:25] Somebody. Uh, and so, yeah. And just, again, they were already in love, huh? Like they, they just met. Things move so quick. So fast here. In this universe. So that was, yeah, those few things got me. Um, so our guy, Jake Epstein, hears the sound of four musicians playing their instruments to the best of their ability and comes over and is like, you can't do that here. You can't do that here. It's the best. We're running.

[00:18:53] It's distracting to the runners. What? You, the movie starts, bro. I don't know if you know, I'm catching you in the line right now. Movie starts with you running. Do you know what you're listening to in your little earbuds? Probably some music. You chump. Uh, he's probably listening to the ska. He's probably listening to something with a little baritone. He doesn't know what he's doing. Kick it up. He goes over, he goes over, he's like, they can't with the noise. They're outside.

[00:19:23] What are you talking about? They can't with the noise. They can run. Track's one of those things where, you know, it's not like you got to concentrate to like shoot the basket, hit the putt or something. People cheer. They're like, let's go. Can you imagine if everyone had to be golf course level quiet for the pole vault? Can you imagine like before they do the hundred meter hurdles, if we can have a moment of silence, that is what he's asking for. Yeah. Also, they're an up and coming band. Let them try things out a little bit. More practice.

[00:19:53] That's what I'm saying. Band practice is right. Um, I love, so they go over to Vic's house. Um, I think the second or third time and his wife comes out and he's like, I've been trying to keep you in the dark about this. Sorry. I know how you feel about the arts. And she then proceeds to say something along the lines of it's like I always say. And then she proceeds to say the longest and odd record. And he, Vic does go.

[00:20:20] She does always say that, which is so funny. It was something like a well-rounded education starts by working hard. And then maybe the arts are a wonderful part of having a well-rounded education. And the best thing that you can do for yourself is to get out there and be a well-rounded student. That's what she always says. Um, and speaking of them, and I love this so much, this movie, you know, it's getting towards the end and they're deciding that they're going to, you know, they get an email

[00:20:50] or whatever about the, the new endowment or whatever. And Vic is reading it. And his wife comes and sits down next to him with a flute in her hand. And it's about to start playing the flute while Vic is reading the email. And that is why he never tells her what's going on. Cause she always does this. He's working on hard business and his wife's always walking around the house with her flute in her hand playing. He's like, I can't with the flute. It's distracting.

[00:21:20] Maybe he was onto something, Jake Epstein. I don't know. You can't go for a run with that flute in the background. Every time I call my wife and she brings the flute, I can't do it. Not again. It's just serious business. I need a break. I need a flute break. Yeah. The whole, the whole premise of the money and them getting the money is crazy because if you're in a public school in DC, that money comes from a school board and a district. That's how that works. Go watch Abbott elementary.

[00:21:49] Like that's how that works. They go to the PTA, which is responsible for like dances and bake sales and teacher appreciation day. And they're like, we're going to need some hard, hard coin here. We're going to need some actual money. And then they're like, if we don't go to them, let's go to the alumni association. So they're basically trying to get money from booster clubs for like things they need for school, which can happen, but typically in this juncture don't happen.

[00:22:15] Then the way that the PTA does it is, is they hear a defense from both sides. One, you're totally helping the band here. The track has won two state championships and they're asking for money. No, the band has like a classroom that's falling apart. You're going to help the band. But the best is, is the PTA takes place. I think in the library and there's like 12 people there and it starts by them going, it's unanimous. We all agree to put healthy snacks in the vending machine.

[00:22:43] Not a PTA thing. Just fundamentally not a PTA thing. Healthy snacks. What does that mean? Who's like is a vending machine company? I don't know. I just couldn't get over that there. And then you said it. Unless the PTA is funding the healthy snacks. If they said, hey, we have a problem with snacks. School board's like, we can't do healthy snacks. PTA could then say. Correct. That is something the PTA does. The way what there is unanimous. The way what there is.

[00:23:12] Can you imagine a PTA all getting together and all agreeing to spend money on healthy snacks in Washington, D.C.? No, you couldn't find a PTA in the country that would all just be like, yes. Yes. At any money, we don't care. And what is healthy? Like, what does that even mean? And then we get the, you guys mentioned earlier, the alumni association. How much power are they wielding around here? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. This guy's taking calls. He's like, show up to my house. Like shady doings. Sketchy, yeah. Shady doings for sure.

[00:23:41] This new foster kid, we find out the reason she's in their care is because she, her grandma is her legal guardian and her grandma had to go live in assisted living. And that grandma is 50 years old. She is so young. And it's like, what is happening here? You don't know her story. I don't know her story. I also think it's crazy that the band and track teacher are the two that have to ask for a bus. Pretty sure that's like athletic director, not you guys.

[00:24:06] And then lastly, we get an address and that address is 95476 Sycamore Drive. There are 95,000 blocks. I went to 9,476 by mistake two hours later. 95, where do you live? It's 8-6-4-3-9-7-2-7-6-5-8-3-9-7-6. Mills Lane. Was that a six in there? Did I catch a niner?

[00:24:36] Listen for the flute. Oh my gosh. Yes. 95,000. My wife will be out there greeting you with a flute solo. Prepare yourself. Sheesh. Just encourage her. Just imagine being. With a little pet project of flute. Just encourage her. Imagine being at one Sycamore and being like, I'm never going to get there. Vic's wife is out there doing free falling on the flute.

[00:25:06] Actually, we're just doing the lyrics. It would be. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, maybe. This woman, I believe, lives by herself in an apartment and she has eight barstools. Eight. Eight of them. A lot of barstools. Which one are we talking about? Who? Jake Epstein. The English and band teacher. Oh, she had a house. Yes. With a two-car garage. She had a house. Upstairs and downstairs. On a cold sack. She's single.

[00:25:35] Eight barstools. Yes. Just in case. Just in case. That's all I got. It's time for the, what the hallmark is. Yeah, it's where we wonder what it could have been. Maybe it's a good question we still have. What are we still wondering about? That's what I want to know. What these guys are wondering about. Brian? I love that. Yeah. One of the things that she did to raise money was a book swap. And I don't, first of all, like I assume a book swap is you bring a book, take a book, leave a book. How does that make money? Like how is she raising money doing a book swap?

[00:26:03] Is that a money raising thing? I don't know. It's, that's a big question mark for me. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Book swap. Yeah. Fair enough. Book swap. Um. Book swap. My, yeah. My whole thing is when she. When she, like, obviously it's the band room. Right. That has the mold situation. Yeah, it sure is. Um, how bad is it? Cause everyone who opens up that door closes it like they've seen a crime scene. Yep.

[00:26:32] Like I wish we could have just gotten our eyeballs on the band room because it sounds like a disaster. What happens? Like what, what, what transpired? I know it's been a little while since they've had a band, but something must have happened right in that room for there to be this like, whoa. What's going on in there? I just want to know what happened in the band room for the cause. You know, basically we got to get people in and hazmat suits and we got to figure this out. It's, it's, it's rough in there. Dano. Yeah. Mine is.

[00:27:02] I honestly want to know if this, the way that they do the money in the school in this movie holds water in Canada. So like they're writing this movie in Canada, they're filming it in Canada. Uh, this idea of the PTA and alumni association providing these money for just actual budget needs in a public school. Is that how that works? And I mean, it doesn't hold water in America. Is that how it works in Canada? Like I, I'm, I really do want to know. I didn't do any of the research myself.

[00:27:31] Fascinated if they just thought this would fly because they thought it was the same in both or they just didn't try it all. Uh, we did it everybody. Congratulations to us. One more heart around the table movie to get to. Uh, pretty excited about that. Um, let's get to do a double decker of the week where we dive deep into the life of a double decker who signed up for brainwildjamplus.com. Brian, you do a wonderful, always flawless, always really educational, uh, deep dive into the life of our double deckers. Dan, who do we have today?

[00:28:01] We have Aurora Schmidl, Aurora Schmidl. Schmidl. That's right. Schmidl, but I'm pretty sure it's Schmidl. Yeah, we'll go with Schmidl. Aurora is a, something I found about Aurora. I feel like we should all congratulate her. An award-winning pit master. Pit master. Yeah, Aurora. Just like. Barbecue. Let's go. Just like her daddy and her daddy's daddy before them. Her daddy's daddy. I don't know if I love it. A award-winning pit master. Okay. Specializes in the low and the slow. Yeah.

[00:28:27] She gets that arm right in there, real low and just real slow down. Real slow down. She do, uh, she do armpit. She does. Farts. She does. It's flatulation. Sorry. Aurora is. Schmidl's double-decker of the week. Is an award-winning armpit fart? Tudor. Absolutely. That's a good way to put it. Yeah. I'll buy it. Multiple award winners. What are these contests? Like, how do you win the award?

[00:28:56] Are there like, you know, what's going on out there? Well, it's obviously there's like, uh, the, the sound you can produce, right? Like you got to fill the room. Like you want to like any good, um, BBQ. Uh, and then the, the, your technique, you know, like how, how versatile are you under what conditions? Like, can you do it on really fast if you need to? So there's a, they, they throw varying conditions. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Fire hose, uh, carrying a baby down a flight of stairs. Yeah. Oh yeah.

[00:29:26] Oh yeah. You want to rethink that one, Brian? No, no, it's, it's legit. Not a lot of people can do it, uh, to the fire hose. So it's not like it's the big winner or anything. And she's won multiple times. Yeah. Yeah. How many do you have to win to be a master? A master? That's, I think she's going on seven is the lucky number. Going on seven. Yeah. Yeah. That's incredible. How often do they hold these? Oh, this is annual. Oh yeah. This is annual. Seven years. Straight? What? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Wow. That's you, I mean, that's the thing.

[00:29:56] If you give it up, you're basically done. You don't want to. Oh really? You don't want to lose your out. Loser's wall. Yeah. Pretty much. Yeah. And you don't want, you can't give it up. No, you can never give it up. Give it up. You can't be like, I need a year off. No, no, no, no. You were basically saying, I'm, I don't want this. Yeah. Yeah. And they'll never, never let you live it down. Yeah. Wow. So that was really interesting. Yeah. Incredible work by all involved. Yeah. For sure. And the whole Schmidl family. Of course. Schmidl. They, and so this is her and her dad and her daddy's dad.

[00:30:26] And her daddy's dad. Generations. Generational. When was the first contest held? What year? Oh, that's a great question. 1913, I think is. I mean, I could be wrong. 1913. You know, I think it was 1913. Before the Great War. Yeah. They did take a few years off for the war, what have you. Simpler times. But you gotta, you gotta pick it up again. All right, everybody. Well, we'll be back next time with another one. Until then, we're the first to wish you a Merry Christmas. Deck the Hallmark is a Bramble Jam podcast is produced by Aaron Shea. What?

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