Jazz Ramsey: A K-9 Mystery (Hallmark Mystery - 2024)

[00:00:01] Hi, I'm Brian and I love Hallmark Mysteries! I'm Brian, I like Hallmark Mysteries! I'm Dan, I despise Hallmark Mysteries and this is the Deck The Hallmark Podcast! Deck The Hallmark, it's this podcast. Follow along, friends host this podcast. Follow along, we hope you like this jolly podcast.

[00:00:29] Hello everybody! Hello! It's great to be back here today talking about K-9s. Sure. And their mysteries surrounding them, yes. Yes, the jet, yeah, super jazzy. Super jazz! What was it, plane of K-9? Plane of... Plane of K-9. The jet, the operation jet. Oh, fly dog. Fly dog.

[00:00:48] Fly dog studios. Fly dog studios, yes, that's a good callback. It's like we just recorded this. Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you, Aaron! We've been doing this show six years. Happy birthday, dear Dan and Dan! Happy birthday to you! Speech, speech, speech!

[00:01:11] Yeah, speech, yeah, what's your life been like? I got you this. I think you... This nice pen. Dan, what do you want to say? This is all that I've been given. None of us have turned 40, by the way. That's why we haven't done this before. I'm 41 this year.

[00:01:24] Yeah, none of us has turned 41 before. He is older than me. Yes, but on an actual episode. Yeah. Okay. All right. It's true. I'm pretty sure we did an episode where I was 40 last year. Pretty sure. This year, this specific birthday,

[00:01:39] everyone knows you sing on air if you're going, if you're live on your 41st. I don't know why we did this. Speech, it's a rule. I was expecting gifts and I got none. They're in the mail. This pen is almost out of ink. Gently used. Thanks, thanks.

[00:01:57] Close your eyes. Nope. Close your eyes. No. I want you to be... You're going to be tired. Your eyes are 41 years old. Are you ready? It's tape. Yeah, how was that? It was so great, dude. You always tell me Dan starts every day with ASMR. Yeah.

[00:02:11] I call him ASMR Dano. You sure do. Yeah. ASMR Dano. ASMR D-A-N-O. Thank you guys. Thank you. This was, you guys, I can tell you put a lot of thought into this and planned it out. Yeah. And that's what means a lot to me.

[00:02:23] It was exhausting actually, the planning. Yeah. The meetings. Yeah, it was crazy. Oh yeah. One cannon. Yeah, for sure. That was crazy. Man, Dan, what's your favorite and least favorite birthday memory from childhood? Oh yeah. My least favorite is very easy. Same here.

[00:02:40] I'm going to get such a hard time about this. I celebrated a birthday in the hospital. I know. I celebrated... Oh man, what happened? What happened? Why were you in the hospital, Dan? What happened? Somebody you know gets sick? I tried not to say it. No, you didn't.

[00:02:53] What happened? Oh, your ears perked up when I asked about the worst. You're like, oh boy. Why were you in the hospital, Dan? I was in the hospital because I was in a car accident. Oh man, here we go. Somebody hit you and destroyed your knee.

[00:03:08] I broke my femur. My hemoglobin levels were like under four. I couldn't sit up. That's a sick brag, man. I was in the hospital for eight days. I turned 17 in the hospital, guys. What about your best? My best birthday was... I've had a lot of really good ones.

[00:03:25] I'm very thankful. I graduated college the day after my 21st birthday. And that weekend, I was given a graduation birthday present from a family friend. And it was tickets to see the Yankees play the Red Sox with flights included. Whoa. That was pretty amazing. It's a good gift.

[00:03:48] That was a pretty amazing gift. I graduated in August. Yes. That's Dan's. I went to summer school. Of course, man. I went to summer school. So I could start teaching. Overachiever. Probably because he was in the hospital. Yeah, I had to get ahead of it.

[00:04:04] And lower cholesterol or whatever. I had to get ahead of it. I don't know what you want from me. I'm an overachiever who's smarter and more talented than you two. Yes, thank you. And I'm like, I don't know what you want. Thank you.

[00:04:15] Guys, can I talk about something that happened? Can I talk about something that happened today? We were doing a thing. Everyone knows that Dan and I are doing a thing where we get smoothies twice a week. What in the world? This is unbelievable.

[00:04:27] I'm trying to be a good friend. Yes. And you're all right, go ahead. Go ahead. Sometimes. We did not get smoothies on my birthday. So clearly now you're giving up that my birthday hasn't happened yet. You guys are gonna feel really, really bad if I die before Wednesday.

[00:04:41] You'd be surprised. My life insurance policy has not been completed yet. Did you do your survey? Obviously, yes, I did. I did a survey. Yeah, you did. And I did it in 11 minutes. Yeah, under threat of getting Justin getting your phone.

[00:04:56] Yeah, actually, I think this is a good guy. Give him my number. I'm sure he wants to congratulate you on your time. Thank you. Yes, 11 minutes. She told me it was a record. Going to war on the survey. Go ahead. Back to the story about me. Go ahead.

[00:05:11] So sometimes I have to work my way up to wanting the smoothie for lunch. Because sometimes I was thinking about how much I like hot fries. And so we're both doing two smoothies a week for lunch in four days. So there's only two days this week.

[00:05:28] We do smoothies. Dan said, Brian, we're doing smoothies today. And I said something along the lines of, I don't know, I guess. And then he laughed. Yeah, he chuckled. Yeah, which makes me feel bad.

[00:05:41] But it makes me feel and I just want you to know how it makes me feel. It makes me feel like I'm Dan and I would do smoothies five days a week if it wasn't for my butthole business partner.

[00:05:52] That's how it makes me feel, whether or not it was your intention with the truck. That's how it made me feel. And I made a point. I said, Dan, your chuckle hurt my feelings. And it makes me feel like you don't even want me to be around anymore.

[00:06:04] It makes you wish that I wasn't alive. And you granted you did apologize. And you said, you know, intention matter, blah, blah, blah. Intent. Impacts. Yes. And I just want it just hurt my feelings. And I wanted to put on the first of where to go.

[00:06:20] First of all, I apologize to brand for how he felt because impact is more important than intent. I was not intending to be mean, but it came off that way. Made sure that Aaron was recording on video before he apologized. Which is crazy. She's laughing in the back.

[00:06:35] He's like, Aaron, come in, record this. I'm about to apologize. No, no, no. And that's the thing is I apologize all the time. What does that say? That says a lot about you. I heard his feelings and I'm sorry about that. Impact matters. Impact over intent.

[00:06:47] You need to, that's a lesson that people don't know. They need to learn that lesson. And I need to learn it too. But even in his apology right there, he's throwing other people under the bus. I feel like a bubble.

[00:06:56] He's like, I know I'm so good at apologizing. I would be the first to admit to you. Of course you would be. My entire, my entire life. I say things in the tone in which they're said gets me in trouble regularly and I'm trying to work on it.

[00:07:12] And it doesn't always hit. 41 years. I tried my best to tell brain after that. I want to eat not smoothies every day. The only way I know how to handle this is to get out in front of it and go, this is what we're doing.

[00:07:24] Any other option is not, not an option. I have to laugh it off and I have to move forward and I feel great eating two smoothies a week, but I hate it. So I wasn't trying to come off as brands of doofus.

[00:07:35] I was trying to come off as that's not an option today. We got to eat a smoothie today. And I'm sorry, I'm sorry that the tone, sometimes the tone isn't good with me. Listen, you guys have six years of audio. We have 1200 episodes.

[00:07:48] There's times where I've said some stuff that's hurt somebody's feelings and I still don't know it. And you know what? I'm sorry. Like smoothies twice a week for me. Twice a week. In this situation, you're both right though.

[00:08:01] Like Dan, you got to plow through it and regardless of your feelings and brand big man for, you know, voicing how you felt. Aaron, you got the audio though, right? We got this somewhere we can. Aaron's in the other room and she listened.

[00:08:16] She stopped what she was doing and listened to this entire cover. You're covering your mouth because you know that I'm right. I don't know how I could have been doing work and like not heard this conversation. It was so loud. Aggressive. It sounds like, yeah,

[00:08:29] Bram was not me. Oh boy. It was pretty much a right action. And then they look at me like, do you want to see? Did you get up? What? So what kind of smoothies you get? Everyone got everything they wish they could. Yeah. She's like fried chicken fries.

[00:08:47] I haven't eaten my lunch, which is steak and mashed potatoes. I didn't feel like that was the moment. That would have been fantastic. She goes, eat some of steak. She brought it like she wheeled in a grill today, which is wild. Crazy. I'm on my own.

[00:09:04] I'm just saying it's just because it doesn't look like things. I do have feelings like it just because it looks like everything is just like, whatever. The only way I know how to do two smoothies a week is to be like, that's what we're doing.

[00:09:18] It's it's it's Leo energy. And it's full like this is what we're doing. That's right. Yeah. I don't know what to tell you. I can't him and ha if I him and haul, I'm going to get a pizza.

[00:09:27] I'm not going to get a smoothie or get nothing just thinking about it and then be miserable for not having anything. No, I'm eating. That's what I would do. I'm eating lunch. I'd be like, oh, it's not Monday. Gotta not eat again.

[00:09:38] Dan, I just want you to know that I see you. I hear you and I appreciate the work. You know, our favorite times together. We like to go and get food. I know where it'll still we still do it.

[00:09:48] Brain like you did today when we took you out to lunch with his 50 percent. Exactly right. A 50 percent hit different. It hit different. I didn't hear a thank you. Oh no, he didn't even thank me. Okay. All right. He thanked me from he thanked me from his house.

[00:10:03] Totally fine to be the villain that never apologizes and just rolls over everybody and just as mean around here. Fine fit if you don't sound happy to be that guy. Fits well. Shut up, Brian. Yeah, shut up, Brian. You suck. Brian Sean, get in the shed, Brian Sean.

[00:10:23] I'll see you in the truck, Brian. One too many lines. I got too cocky. I was flying under the radar. They're pretty good for a while. Hey, Dan. Yeah, what's up, man? I love you, buddy. Love you too, man. Jazz Ramsey. A canine mystery.

[00:10:35] Did you do this so we wouldn't have to talk about jazz? Yeah, dude. I don't got a lot here. I don't got a lot here. I don't got a lot. Not many words. Let me throw something in here. Jazz Ramsey, a canine mystery originally on August 2nd, 2024.

[00:10:50] A little something like this. The movie kicks off with dogs. We're at a canine institute for for fun. I don't know what it's called. Like the canine institute of man, what are they doing? Training the canine institute for the big boys. The canine institute of flyaways.

[00:11:11] Jazz Ramsey is busy. Yeah, it's different. Jazz Ramsey is busy. Who's this? Zeus. How are you? What'd you get Dan? What'd you get Dan for his birthday? A big meat bag? A big kiss. You don't care. Big cake. A big cake. A cake, huh? I love you buddy.

[00:11:50] So Jazz Ramsey is training dogs for service. Apparently she is very passionate about this because her firefighter dad died even though he was following protocol. And if they had sent a dog in there ahead of time, he'd still be alive. I think that's the moral of the story.

[00:12:05] She's currently training a dog named Zeus. And she goes to the school for girls to demonstrate the power of dogs because they have a forensics club. Club forensics. Don't take money. Don't take pain. Don't take no credit card to ride this train. Club forensics.

[00:12:36] And so during this demonstration, during this demonstration, things get a little too real, a little too quick because Zeus finds actual remains underneath the rug. She pulls up the rug and finds a dead body. Detective Nick shows up. It's quite clear that Nick and Jazz have a past.

[00:12:54] They used to be a thing. Now they're not a thing anymore. Not a thing anymore. And the body belonged to a teacher that used to work there. Nick questions Jazz and her friend, the headmistress, Sarah. Apparently Sarah was the only one with the key there

[00:13:11] and also didn't like this teacher back when she was a student there. Bad combo. That's a bad combo. Maybe she did it. There's also this janitor that's basically like, I'm glad she's dead. And so like maybe he... Always after his lucky charms. Yeah, maybe he did it.

[00:13:25] Even though, even with Jazz and Sarah... Sorry. Even when Jazz and Sarah were students, everybody basically hated this teacher. No one liked this woman and no one is sad that she's dead. So Jazz... It's a lot like how I'm getting treated around here, to be honest.

[00:13:40] Yeah, that's true. So Jazz starts working alongside Nick even though she is still very mad that he didn't come to her dad's funeral. But you know, sometimes you just gotta work through things and talk about it three or four times throughout the movie.

[00:13:55] I thought you meant work, like real work. Yeah, Eddie, just like smoothies, you just gotta plow through it. You gotta go to work, yeah. Sometimes you just gotta do it, man. Eddie is... Eddie, the janitor... Eddie's Eddie. I've said it for years.

[00:14:05] We talk about that all the time. Hey, Eddie. Eddie's gonna Eddie. Eddie, the janitor, he was like, hey guys, I'm angry all the time. I'm so mad. Everybody is always accusing me of murder and stuff. Turns out he didn't do it though.

[00:14:21] The only thing he's guilty of is punching Jazz in the face. Slapping her with a board. Slap, bam! Wham, bam! We find out, everybody, the teacher went through a tough time. Her husband and her daughter were killed in a car crash. The woman responsible for the death

[00:14:39] didn't serve too crazy long of a time. That's wild. Apparently she really took an interest in one of the students and that student is now missing. Apparently that is enough to give Jazz all the information she needs. She figures it out. She figured out the case.

[00:14:54] The teacher's not dead. What? I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for you meddling kids. And this woman took this student because she thinks, thought that she looked like her daughter and was like, let's give this another shot, me being a mom or whatever.

[00:15:12] But she is now waving a fire poker at Jazz and that's really the only weapon you need. That's right. She basically admits to everything. Nick then shows up and the fire poker kills them all. Just kidding. It is not an inconvenience at all. They arrest her really easily.

[00:15:29] Zeus finds a new home for being a good boy. A good boy. A new department somewhere. They sent him to a farm down south. So Nick surprises her with a new pup. A new pup? A new mystery? I don't know. And that was Jazz Ramsey. A Canine Mystery.

[00:15:47] We did it. Club Forensics. Dead body. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about Jazz Ramsey here on Deck the Hallmark. Hello everybody. Welcome back. We're talking about Jazz Ramsey, a canine mystery. The only mystery we have right now is our thoughts on this movie.

[00:16:15] So we're going to head into the- Nicely done. That's really good, dude. We're going to head into the hot take part of the show. Where we share our thoughts on this movie and just about life. Ryan. Brian. Yeah. Dang it! I'll take it. Back to you, Ryan.

[00:16:29] I'm right here too. Brian. I haven't been on the show for two years, man. You do have sleeves on. Brian. What do you think about this movie? This one. I actually like this movie. I had a real good time.

[00:16:41] I don't know what it was about it, but it felt like super cozy. In the pocket of coziness. Nice. Yeah, thank you. And it just worked really well. I did not see the twist at the end coming. Completely out of right, left field. Pick any field.

[00:16:56] Completely out of both fields. Not a chance I would have guessed that was what was going to happen. Almost not fair to do it, but I still liked it. I had a real good time. I thought that a severe weather warning and Rachel Skarsten were really good together.

[00:17:15] I just enjoyed them in this. And so I don't know. They kind of nailed the coziness. I kind of want, fingers crossed, a winter or a Christmas one version of this where it's just real snowy and cold and Christmas lights are up.

[00:17:30] So yeah, it really worked for me. I said at the beginning of this episode of this program. You're doing a bit, right? No. You're doing a full on bit. No, not this time. You love Mondays in this movie? Not this time. I'm as surprised as anybody. Yeah, yeah.

[00:17:46] Okay. I'm surprised. Anybody. You can always get me with it. Okay. I'm easy. I'm an easy boy. Easy boy. I said at the beginning of this episode that I love homework mysteries, and I'm beginning to question myself in that regard because I just don't.

[00:18:05] I have a hard time with the basic structure of most of these mysteries that air on the Homework Mystery Channel, and there's something about it that just does not pull me in like a regular homework movie does or especially a Homework Christmas movie. I'm in by default.

[00:18:28] With these movies, I find myself going in, and if I'm not immediately drawn to the mystery or to the characters, I have a hard time. And I had a hard time with this one. Guys, I'm just trying to be transparent.

[00:18:43] I'm trying to be honest and real about where I am. That might be why I maybe will like the sequels that we're getting soon of some of these other mysteries that have started up more than these pilot ones because I already know the characters

[00:19:03] and the mystery will maybe be a little bit more important to the story. I just didn't jive with any of this. I didn't really dig the characters. And the one character I loved, Zeus, was not a big part of this movie.

[00:19:21] It was similar to the eight year old yesterday. Was there at the beginning, was very important, and then just occasionally just like, hey, good boy, just kind of hanging out. And I want the canine. I want to be the canine. In the title. It's a canine.

[00:19:37] I want canine. Do you think maybe this is part of why you're so irritable about this movie? Yeah, maybe. I might have a hunger. It was the mystery. It was the mystery. We were watching this during the lunch conversation, so that probably did not help. I just yeah.

[00:19:51] And you know, I don't like not liking things. Yeah, I get put in a bad mood. And so there's nothing about this movie that is particularly like bad. I thought that all of the acting was solid.

[00:20:06] The characters, even though I didn't connect with any of them, like there's nothing bad about it. I just I just didn't care about the mystery. And I just I kind of I'm just I'm in a tough spot when it comes to the mysteries. That's what I'm finding out.

[00:20:19] Maybe this isn't the right show for me. Maybe we should get somebody else to cover the mysteries because I don't like maybe we should find someone that loves them. Aaron Shea replacing Brandon Gray. Maybe we should find someone that loves mysteries is all I'm saying.

[00:20:30] Maybe we should find somebody. Someone man find someone under that tree. Because I just I don't it feels it feels inauthentic for me to start the show. I think I love mystery where I'm starting to doubt whether or not I do.

[00:20:44] You have to start saying I'm contractually obligated to say I love mystery. That's where that's where I'm at. Yeah, and I don't like I don't like saying I don't like that about myself, Dan. Yeah, this movie is really rough.

[00:20:55] I think my opinion is similar to brands aside from the don't like not liking stuff. Don't care about that. And also I can say I despise at the beginning. So once again different, but the Hallmark mysteries are tricky not because they're mysteries,

[00:21:09] but because Hallmark movies really can run the gamut from zero to ten. Like there could be some real terrible ones and there can be some really great ones. All mysteries are like a three to an eight.

[00:21:22] And those are like sometimes those zeros on Hallmark like the you know, Chris Russell with colorblind glasses. Those become some of the most memorable movies when a mystery movie is bad or not immediately grabbing you. It is like death. It is so boring. It's just a point.

[00:21:40] No, no different death. And so what happens is and it happens gosh one out of every three or four of these things in the first 20 or 30 minutes brand. I'll be watching and it just feels like all of the oxygen has been removed from the room

[00:21:52] and it's not because of smoothies. It's because the movie we're having a hard time caring at all about what's happening on screen guys. I gotta be honest with you. I wasn't even bothered by what Dan did. I just was looking for something to do. That's right.

[00:22:08] I was just picking a fight with my buddy Dan because it's fun. I just want to do something immediately and traumatize their us. It lost me really, really quickly and I didn't care. I was not invested. Did the twist at the end catch me off guard?

[00:22:24] Yes, because I don't get it. It was confusing. I don't think it's possible what happened in this movie and she basically decides that this girl looks so similar to her daughter that she's going to become her daughter against her will.

[00:22:44] No, that is not if we with all the clues we had we could not have pieced that together in my opinion. Maybe they explain it bad. Aaron, I think you like the movies. Okay, do you love me? Do you know the person that's under the floorboards?

[00:23:01] How did they how did she? How'd they come up with that is her that they just look at her and go, oh, that's the teacher and they didn't do any sort of teacher. That's the student student became the teacher who is under the floorboards.

[00:23:16] The lawyers under the floor who looks like no, no, no. Let me just say this to you. So what happened? See what happened? What happened was the teacher Miss Quinn is out with her husband and daughter gets hit by Susan, right?

[00:23:31] Susan goes to jail for a little bit of time, right? Out changes her name starts over becomes a lawyer, right? Miss Quinn is tracking her because she wants justice. Great. This is why you're using cognito mode.

[00:23:44] When she starts to meet, you know, when she meets you're a serial killer, I don't know who the new student is, but she sees this student. It looks exactly like her daughter Layla. Yeah, I think she has a bit of a psychotic break, right? Yeah.

[00:23:54] And starts planning this. Yes. Based on the hamster, which they want to make sure everybody needs something to do, right? So she kills the lawyer, right? Dress leaves switches clothes. So the lawyer is very close. Yes, all that stuff. She leaves and pretends to be the lawyer.

[00:24:09] So right. Quinn is dead because she disappeared. Did they not do any test on the body? So they did. They did DNA and dental. Dental came back saying it is Miss Quinn because Miss Quinn hacked the dental records. Right. So there it came back saying Quinn.

[00:24:23] So I agree. It looks like her. It matches. But the DNA came back later saying no, not her. Okay. I miss the hacking of the dental. And also just the idea that, hey, that, you know, is that, is that she looks like my daughter?

[00:24:38] What if I made her my daughter? That was the thing that. I'm going to make her my daughter. She thought she thought it was a reincarnate. Yeah. And this there, there are movies where that works. This is not one of them. It didn't earn it.

[00:24:53] We're like maybe some therapy. That's right. Yes. Big time. Maybe lots of therapy. Yeah. She does. So yeah. In the family. Yeah. There you go. That would help. Just got to go to British Columbia for that. Get some, some therapy and help. Thank you. Yeah.

[00:25:12] My big, big thing was how did they, I was just confused how they, how they confuse the person in the floor with her. Nobody knew the lawyer was missing. Yeah. And so we're like, oh, missing body. This teacher went or dead body.

[00:25:26] This teacher went missing must be her. Got it. So they made that assumption and then just remember mystery one on one. Maybe we switched this. Thank you. Aaron. Hey, you know how you do this with deck the whole lifetime uncorked where Dan doesn't watch it? Yeah.

[00:25:39] Maybe you stop. Maybe I should stop watching. Thank you. It explains it. And then you, you've like the same segments. People get wound up about that. I get the feeling, but we can talk about it. No one, no one complains about that. Delight to my court. True.

[00:25:52] We just do a new thing for the mistress. Yeah. Maybe just do a new thing. It becomes a mystery. You can do whatever we want to go. Who's doing it?

[00:25:59] Let's get to all the fields where we talk about like, should there be an all the field stuff in a mystery movie? I don't know. Right. So weird. So we're having a powwow right now. And we're so disinterested in this movie.

[00:26:11] We're doing anything other than the mysteries are really good. That's right. That is why fundamentally, why do you plow through? Because some of the, some of the mysteries are worth giving the full treatment to. I think that is the big problem. The full business. Yes. Easy boy.

[00:26:28] Brian over here thinks this is one of them. So I like it. Hey, and any feels? Yeah. The wall Zeus, fricking Zeus hero of the year. When he, when he started sniffing out and running towards that closet where that bag of clothes was like food fighters.

[00:26:42] There goes my hero came into my mind. Like I could, but the real feels was a board to the face. Are you kidding me right now? Oh man. Yeah. You could do the Wolf's go ahead, Brian.

[00:27:01] You were talking about the board, just a board to the face looked a lot worse than it. It seemed like it was going to be a lot worse than it ended up just a little bunk on the head.

[00:27:10] I thought her whole face was going to be smashed in. He crushed her with that board. Ouch. Um, I guess my feels is that janitor just as a character. Yeah. Uh, I'm pretty sure it's Canadian. That was just doing a bit.

[00:27:25] And the fact anytime somebody is doing something like doing a bit, doing a character, I, I sit up a little bit and I go, I put my glasses down and I go, I think they're doing a bit. And so a shout out to that. Uh, Dan. Yeah.

[00:27:42] The juice, the dog or you, or we can like, come on all three of my dogs are German shepherd mixes and I just want to adopt all the German shepherd mixes.

[00:27:51] So I I'm here for, for that and go to the humane society near the nearest one to you find a shepherd mix and give them a home. They are so loyal. Wonderful dogs. Last say a quick break.

[00:28:05] We'll come back and we will get to the way lot and the, what the hallmark you're on. Hello everybody. Welcome back. Jazz Ramsey, the canine mystery is what we're talking about today. And it's time for the weight.

[00:28:26] What's it is where we talk about what in this movie made us go wait, what? Right. Yeah. I got to start off with the elephant in the room or more specifically the dead body in the room. I'm sorry. I, we practiced beforehand. I full mental drop the ball.

[00:28:42] Can you go back to the way back to the home? Are we talking about jazz Ramsey canine mystery stuff of the way? What is what we're talking about? One is when we just go away. Why don't start with you, Brian? I'm not Ryan. Oh yeah.

[00:28:56] I got to start with the elephant in the room. Thank you. Filo file about TV. Pretty good. We should get some graphics on there and do some real trunks. When you do that, do that in post. I thought our trunks were pretty cool.

[00:29:11] I thought our trunks were great. Make fun of my trunk. It's unbelievable. It's a little small on his birthday. It's a little tiny little trunk. Nonetheless on my birthday. So the elephant in the room in this case happens to be the dead body in the room that would

[00:29:28] most definitely just smell terribly and be noticeable immediately upon walking up into that room. I don't know. I wasn't clear on how long it had been there. It could have been anywhere from months to years. I don't know. It had to be in a tough. I don't know.

[00:29:43] It had to smell really bad. Yeah, so that's kind of brutal. I was kind of disappointed that Zeus is trigger. So can I really quickly that brings up a good point? Yeah, I think the reason why I thought that it was a fresher body. Sure.

[00:29:58] That would have been able to like look at is because the one shot that we get of the body is of a foot in a shoe of a heel and that foot like it all looks it all looks really new.

[00:30:10] Yeah, so I think that's why I was like you could look at this person and be able to be like that's but apparently it's been long enough to wear that would make very nice. Yeah, that knowing how the body's been there while raises all sorts of questions.

[00:30:23] But the biggest question is the thing that that body is in the lid to it is raised off the ground under a rug. Everyone that walks in that room knows something is there. But no one walks in that room. That's all they keep it locked up.

[00:30:36] Oh my gosh. Oh, super hot up there. Super hot. But like if you're hiding a body, don't hide it where the rug clearly has an emboss in it. Like just don't do that. Hide it somewhere else. Yeah, it's still obvious with the rug there.

[00:30:54] Yes, the rug is safe. It's like two seconds. The rug doesn't help at all. Yeah, real weird spot. Been there a whole year per man. It's been there a year. Okay, unless like the HVAC is just keeping them.

[00:31:06] I haven't seen a ton of year old dead bodies, so I don't know how quickly. No comment. I've been told that's right. I don't know how guys. I don't know how quickly a body deteriorates, but like all I'm saying is the one shot that

[00:31:24] I saw of a foot in shoe made me think that it was a more recent thing than a year. That's why I was a little bit confused. Yeah, so that's a tough one.

[00:31:35] So the other thing for me was the in a lot of true crime podcasts, you hear about dogs doing this type of work and they all have like a really cool word that is like their trigger word for search or go find.

[00:31:46] It's not usually like find or go. It's like Konichiwa or like Taco Tuesday. Racist there. Oh, you are Taco Tuesday restaurant. You know that so you have like a cool word. You can think of any CS English language, you know, sentence a Jorno petty.

[00:32:08] So this is usually cool. Total just a big miss opportunity all day to prep to and he came in hot with Konichiwa. I cannot believe it's really funny story about the word Konichiwa that I'll tell you off.

[00:32:19] Yeah, maybe off air, but just a great opportunity to do something funny and cool and clever and just find or whatever. It was just a very basic thing. Continuity thing love these.

[00:32:32] The guy was loading the back of his car with boxes and on one of the boxes it said, oh, this is the worst. Yeah, it was. What did it say? But it said board games and he put it in prominent, huge, written massive.

[00:32:44] It's worse than you think it is to keep going though. And then they yeah, they cut away and it's gone. And then I feel like we see it again. It shows back up.

[00:32:52] I'm going to let brand explain all this because he watched it twice, but I'm here to tell you right now. This is Hallmark editing. I get it. You have a limited amount of time.

[00:32:59] This is the most egregious editing error I've ever seen in a Hallmark movie or for that matter, any television movie we've covered for this podcast. Bram, what'd you find? The most egregious go ahead, Bram. There's at least three separate versions of this box.

[00:33:17] One with board games written with a little puzzle over top of it, a little bit more down towards the center of the box. One without anything written on it and one with board games written on it, but at the

[00:33:29] top with no puzzle piece over the top of it. And I for the life of me cannot figure out why. Yeah, because it's like this is a 14 day shoot. They shot this scene.

[00:33:40] I'm assuming in what like at all at one time you would hope it's not like they're coming. So he clearly at somehow they decided let's, I guess, make this guy walk into the shot

[00:33:53] every time and put the box down and it just doesn't matter which way he puts it down. I don't know why you wouldn't just, hey, let's bring it in one time and then shoot all of your coverage with the box in the same way. It's unbelievable.

[00:34:07] I for the life of me can't figure it out. Yeah, it is like a mad lib. Like they are just throwing different. I don't know how it happened. It seems like more work to have made it bad. Yeah, like I did.

[00:34:18] So I just don't write on, I get simple. Like we know we're cutting, we're making weird things. Like let's not do anything too specific because if you don't write on any of the boxes, then if I say something like, well, the box was here, then it's here.

[00:34:28] You guys are going to give me a hard time. Yeah, that's a very small thing. If you make different boxes and have them in different places with different writing over and over again, that's ridiculous. It threw me because they do this, these things like they make these movies.

[00:34:42] They've been doing this a while. This is such a weird thing. Like easy, such a weird thing. And it feels like too, like even in editing, you could just cover that up real quick. I don't know how that slips through.

[00:34:54] I just, the last thing I didn't really like him having and using the key to her place and just letting himself in. It just didn't feel right for where they were at in their relationship. Little weird.

[00:35:04] I just wrote down just because you have a key doesn't mean you can let yourself in. For instance, if you dated someone for three years and had a key and forgot to return that key, then you became estranged because you didn't go to her father's funeral.

[00:35:21] You know when you shouldn't let yourself in even with a key, then that that's when you don't do it. You knock on the door like a normal, polite human being and not scare somebody senseless. It's pretty straightforward. I couldn't believe that. Yeah, it was. That was wild. Yeah.

[00:35:38] Um, I got a kick out of her friend who invites her. Hey, do you want to come talk to the forensics club? Yeah. And you can bring your dog and you'll do a demonstration. When Jazz says the word human remains, her friend or teacher is just like,

[00:36:00] like, hey, you've gone too far. It's a forensics club. That's right. Like they're going to talk about this stuff. But she was like, I can't believe she said human remains. At the forensics club. It's crazy.

[00:36:11] And to piggyback on that, they later, they're like, parents are really upset that that you brought real human remains to the forensics club. And my response was, why? I know parents get upset by all kinds of stuff. This is not a science class. This is forensics club.

[00:36:28] These people have signed up for extracurricular class because they want to learn how to do forensics. Of course, you're going to like, how else would you do that? There was a forensics thing that happened at force. And like they always had human remains.

[00:36:43] That is part of the deal. No, I like it's the club. It's an elect. It's an elective. It's a it's a layered elective. Yeah, it's not even elective class. It's a it's a club. Some of the choices I can't believe she said it.

[00:36:59] Um, and last but not least, I am like so mad that I got attached to Zeus and then Zeus was sent away to a farm down in Georgia. I am so mad in my mind. This mystery is the Zeus Chronicles, and he's the main character of this series.

[00:37:22] And come to find out, not only is he not the main character of this movie, he is not going to be in the rest of there to sit and stare. He's not going to be in the rest of unbelievable.

[00:37:33] I was sold a bill of Zeus to a farm down in Georgia. That's the actual excuse. What's the bill of goods? I was sort of bill of goods that this is Zeus. It was Zeus story to tell. Zeus didn't talk.

[00:37:52] Zeus was barely in the movie, and he's not going to be in the rest of them because he was sent away. Zeus does so little after finding messed up, man. Don't bring this dog into this movie. Make us fall in love with him and send them away.

[00:38:04] It's messed up. It's messed up. I was looking at the wrong camera. It's messed up. If it made you feel this one, that's not don't do it. Dan, this janitor who is so suspicious, Eddie, he is trying his best. What, Eddie? Eddie, are you on the line?

[00:38:25] I don't know if we have time. I don't know. And you're allowed to make fun of Irish people we've already established. Yes, leprechauns not offensive, but this is what I am. Nope. Eddie, Eddie in this movie already is super duper suspicious because that's the point

[00:38:46] of that character after they find this dead teacher or so we think the bot literally they haven't found the body for 10 minutes and he begins to talk about this person like they are Hans Gruber from Die Hard. He talks.

[00:39:00] You are someone has murdered this woman and 10 minutes later, the guy who is in every room and has a key everywhere pops in to go. Oh, you want me to tell you how much I hate Mrs. Flanagan or whatever her name is like let me tell you.

[00:39:12] Let me tell you how terrible this teacher is. I know that we just found her and she's dead and someone murdered her, but I need to get off my chest just how awful a person you do it. I just I don't I can't.

[00:39:25] I can't know Rachel Skarsson's character jazz, jazzy jazz jazz DJ Jazzy Jazz. She insists that she is going to join the investigation with severe weather warning. Now the problem is that she's not deputized to do so in any capacity at all, but the case

[00:39:41] that she makes for coming on this case and being a part of the case is this. She says I'm coming with you. My dog found the body. I went to school with these people. I know them. Those are all reasons that you should not join an investigation.

[00:39:56] You having a personal stake and interest. We've seen this a thousand times. Those are the people that get too close to the case to solve the case. Those are you are actually arguing against yourself here, ma'am. You should not go and be a part of this investigation.

[00:40:17] Brian, I can't believe you didn't mention it, but I'm here to help you. This guy gets an email of a resignation letter. You're right, you're right. I didn't mention any of the tech stuff because I thought it was perfect for this.

[00:40:28] He gets an email with a PDF of a resignation letter. You can't make a PDF. He sees this, runs to his car, throws his phone on the dash, gets his laptop out. This isn't acceptable for what I have to do.

[00:40:43] Pulls out the same PDF and compares it to a sheet of paper. This was too big of a deal. Man, that's right. That's the situation where it just felt like that's why I didn't mention it was just so natural. Like obviously you open up the laptop.

[00:40:56] I couldn't believe I actually don't think the laptop was needed for this. I think that the phone would actually be more helpful in this case because you can zoom in on the signature. Yeah, but you want to see it in all its glory. The whole thing doesn't matter.

[00:41:11] The only thing that matters is the signature. That's what he's comparing. That was a full Brian Harrell move. Both letters were word for word the same. Oh, it was the same letter? Yes. You were right the whole time. Get that laptop out of the way.

[00:41:25] You need the laptop for that. You can read it on your phone. It's not the same. We have to talk about this. We have seen so many of these mystery movies where the murderer is holding someone at gunpoint or knife point or against a cliff.

[00:41:44] We see this all the time. It's like, don't come any nearer because I'm going to kill this person. Jibberly, don't you come here? Different. No, this killer is holding a fire poker at the police officer like it is a gun.

[00:42:03] I don't know why the kid is staying there. I don't know why the cop or Rachel Skarsson hasn't moved in yet. This person has no ability to hurt you. They have a fire poker. They clearly are so uncomfortable with. They're holding it so far away from them.

[00:42:18] It is not a threat to literally anyone. It was really, really bad. It's time for the Hallmarkers where we wonder what could have been. Maybe we have a guess or clear any questions that we still have. Brian, what are you still wondering about?

[00:42:29] If this was explained in the movie, I missed it. So clarify. Susan, who is the one who was actually murdered. She was the drunk driver who became the lawyer who got murdered, right? That's right. How did she got real close to Bernadette Quinn, right?

[00:42:47] How did she not know who Quinn was? How didn't she know that she killed her family? How did she get so close? I think she knew that it was Ms. Quinn and she just wanted to help her to like. Like redeem.

[00:42:59] She was like, I'm going to help you because. Yeah, okay. I'm so weird to me. Because Ms. Quinn says that she was along for all every part of the plan until the end. When they walk into that room and she realizes she's about to get murdered.

[00:43:14] She was helping her. So she thought she was like being redeeming herself and whatnot. I think Ms. Quinn called her and was like, you know, explain the situation. Like I'm going to school. They're trying to fire me. And she was like, yes, I'm going to help you.

[00:43:24] It's going to clear my conscience. No. And then she got so weird. I would not. I would want to be in either of those situations, but I can't imagine being the person who did

[00:43:35] that and then be like, all right, I'm just going to hang with this lady and we're going to make things right. Like that's just not happening. So yeah, it's so weird. Like I wish it was addressed in some way where they explained like she was cool with.

[00:43:47] I don't know. It was such a weird situation there. I don't know. Let's see if you got an answer for this one. Fancy pants. Yeah, it's the person who watched the movie and paid attention. The nerve.

[00:44:00] Why this room that the principal only has the key to why was that the room they chose to have the forensics club meet in with? That like why was that the space they went to to have this dog time? Because we need to discover a better. Thank you.

[00:44:19] Done and done. Like we never use this room. Yeah, I just think it was a space that was out of the way and they wouldn't. I think it was just renovated to was the renovation. Yeah, I don't know.

[00:44:28] Like club implies club implies after school, plenty of places readily available to use in the same place every week. Yeah, we just use that room. You take the murder room. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Ha stumped her. Stumped him. Dado. Yeah, Brian already mentioned mine, but I understand.

[00:44:49] You're welcome. I understand that this is jazz. This movie brought you guys back together. Jazzy jazz canine mystery. Say good. It's split apart. No other hand. Other hand. The rest of the show. That's right. Okay, jazz jazz can mysteries. It doesn't say jazz jazz Zeus mysteries.

[00:45:08] However, I was very attached to Zeus. Listen, Zeus is on the cover of this movie. It is. It was real tough to at the end of this movie, write him off like we didn't need this good boy.

[00:45:19] Like if you could tell Zeus he was a great boy, but wasn't being picked up for the second movie. Just imagine Zeus is heartbreaking. That's how I felt because Zeus deserves better. He was better than this movie. How dare you just write Zeus off with?

[00:45:36] He's going to a farm down South. Are you kidding me right now? Get out of here. We did it. Who's this, Brian? I don't see him. We will be back tomorrow with another one until the first to wish you a Merry Christmas.

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