Love In The Clouds (Hallmark Channel - 2025)

[00:00:01] [SPEAKER_04] Hi, I'm Brian and I love Hallmark Mommy Movies. Oh, Brian, Brian, Dan's mom says hi.

[00:00:12] [SPEAKER_03] I'm Dan. Even the balloonist prayer can't save this episode. And this is Deck The Hallmark Podcast.

[00:00:18] [SPEAKER_02] Deck The Hallmark, it's his podcast. My friend's host is podcast.

[00:00:27] [SPEAKER_00] We hope you like this jolly podcast.

[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_02] Hi, that was messed up, brother. It's great to be here today talking about Love In The Clouds. Our final new movie for the month of May. At the end of the month though, right? No. This is it. This is all we got. This is all we got. And it's fine. It's fine.

[00:00:59] [SPEAKER_03] How'd we do on the preview episode with this movie?

[00:01:03] [SPEAKER_02] Maybe Aaron can pull it out. I was definitely excited for it. I was excited for it. And you guys were wrong. I'm excited to break this movie down. How was everyone's Mother's Day? Oh, yeah. Happy belated Mother's Day to you. Yeah. Did you call your mom? I did.

[00:01:19] [SPEAKER_04] I did call my mom. I did not make a handmade card. I thought about it a lot. I did call my mom. I got it in really close to the deadline of the day. But I did it. What time? It was after five, I think I talked to her. I called your mom after five.

[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_03] I called my mom at 830.

[00:01:35] [SPEAKER_04] At p.m.? Yeah.

[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_02] Okay.

[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_03] P.m.? Yeah.

[00:01:37] [SPEAKER_02] I thought for sure you were saying A.M.

[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_04] So did I.

[00:01:40] [SPEAKER_02] Did you? Did it because you forgot?

[00:01:41] [SPEAKER_03] No. I just was out. Like we went to the aquarium.

[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah. I was out too.

[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_03] So we were gone out and about all day.

[00:01:46] [SPEAKER_02] And the aquarium is super, super close. So there's not time in the car. In the car. There's not enough time.

[00:01:51] [SPEAKER_01] Have you ever tried to call like your kid's grandmother with Bluetooth with them in the car? Yeah. That's how I called my mom to say Happy Mother's Day. No.

[00:02:00] [SPEAKER_02] Because they had to say it too. Shout out.

[00:02:02] [SPEAKER_01] Shout out.

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah. Yeah. No, I literally did it in the car for that reason. That was the easiest because they can't. You drive me crazy. Everybody's yelling. I can't. I can't deal. You get off the horn. You get off the horn. Get off the horn. We're talking Love in the Clouds today, which is the return of Paul Green.

[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_03] Been since 21.

[00:02:19] [SPEAKER_02] Been since 21. What?

[00:02:20] [SPEAKER_03] I thought 22. I looked it up. 21.

[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_02] That's how about that? Almost a four year absence.

[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_04] He looks younger somehow.

[00:02:27] [SPEAKER_02] So we do have it in front of us for the preview episode. You went five and a cream, Brian. I went five and a cream, which sounds right. You went four and a cream. Oh, I sure did. Oh, I creamed this one too. Yeah, you did. And you did one homemade card plus whatever. Plus whatever. So we were pretty high on this then. Yeah, I shouldn't have given it one. That's on me. We were pretty high on this. Let's do this. Love in the Clouds. Love in the Clouds on the Hallmark Channel. May 10th, 2025. And it went a little something like this. The movie kicks off with a ton of hot air balloons.

[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_02] And despite what the title wants you to believe, not a cloud in sight. Jared shows up to pilot one of those balloons so that these two lovebirds can get engaged. That's what he does. He is the love balloon situation. We love that. We then meet Brooklyn. She's a business reporter who apparently has too much personality to be a business reporter. Her boss tells her that she has one more chance to tone it down with the personality or she's fired.

[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_02] Her friend tells her about this hot air balloon fiesta in Albuquerque, New Mexico and suggests that she go and cover it. It could be fun. Lucky for her, a colleague quits who is going to go cover the fiesta. And so she gets to go. Her boss calls Jared and asks if he would be willing to let her reporter do a story on him and stay with him in his house because there's no more hotels because of the fiesta.

[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_02] He agrees to this as long as they don't ask anything about his personal life. The boss takes his information and tells Brooklyn, dig into his personal life. This is going to be a story about his personal life. Turns out Brooklyn is afraid of heights and asks her videographer to go up for her until she meets Jared and is immediately like hubba hubba. She went to Jared. She went to Jared. She spends the evening looking at his website and he spends the evening watching videos of her reporting. They woke up at 3 a.m.

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_02] You got to get out there to get to the festival. It doesn't take long to find out that Jared is pretty jaded when it comes to love, despite running a romantic balloon ride business. Could it be because his fiance left him for a rival balloonist? Yes. Brooklyn's boss wants to scoop on jaded Jared. We're going to call it. We'll call it JJ.

[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_02] So Jared and Brooklyn spend the day together and she's impressed by his passion for ballooning. Another windy day. Another grounded balloon. So he shows her the town instead. Back to back windy days. There's nothing you can do about it. It's tough for the fiesta. Fiesta. Her boss keeps calling, demanding dirt on Jared's personal life, but Brooklyn is not having it. That night, they end up holding hands as they watch the glowing hot air balloons. Sparks are flying. Literally. Literally.

[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_02] She spends the evening with Jared and his family and he opens up about how his fiance left him for a rival balloonist. And that kind of ruined love for him. Brooklyn tells her friend Elise, who is the videographer that's with her, that she can't do the story that the boss wants. What she wants to do is stop living in fear. And tomorrow, she's going up in a balloon. Soon, they take off and she is thrilled. She kisses him. He kisses her back. Oh my gosh.

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_02] They land hoard and they tip over. She's not upset about that, though. He runs to pick up a necklace that she liked earlier when they were out on the town and gives it to her during the drone show. The most romantic time you can give somebody something. And they almost kiss again. This time, they're interrupted. Her boss calls her about the story and she tells her that she's not doing it. But all he hears is the part about how she wanted her to do a story on Jada Jared. And so now he's mad.

[00:06:16] [SPEAKER_02] She tries to talk to Jared before she leaves, but he's not having it. So she posts a segment and the story ends up going viral. The one that she wants to tell. Millions on that. She quits her job and is promptly hired by New Mexico news channel. So it's the shortest unemployment time in the history of time. Jared watches the story and realizes that he done goofed. And so he rushes to the airport, apologizes for being a big dummy. And she tells him that she's staying.

[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_02] And they kiss big ones. The movie ends with them going back up in a balloon. And this time he proposes. She says yes. And they kiss some more. And that, my friends, was love in the clouds. We did it. Let's take a break. And we'll come back and we'll break down this movie here on Deck the Hallmark.

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_02] Welcome back, everybody. We're talking Love in the Clouds. The second of two Hallmark movies for the month of May. So we're going to give it the respect and time it deserves by sharing our hot takes. We're not going to try. You guys both creamed and you gave five and four respects. That's exactly right. Love in the respect. Brian, hot take. What did you think of love in the clouds? Hot air balloons.

[00:07:39] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. Speaking of respect, I feel like we should start by showing it the respect it deserves and start with a prayer. The balloonist prayer.

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_00] May the winds welcome you with a softness. May the sun bless you with its warm hands. May you fly so high and so well that God joins you in laughter and sets you gently back into the loving arms of Mother Earth.

[00:08:05] [SPEAKER_04] Author unknown. Thank you. All right. Amen.

[00:08:10] Amen.

[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. This movie's trash.

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_03] Trash. Trash. Exactly. Thank you, Brian.

[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_04] I'm just kidding. That just felt right. I found this quite enjoyable.

[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_03] Of course you did. No, no, no. But you can say both, right? It's enjoyable trash. Yes. Yeah.

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_04] Yes. Yeah. That's where I fall on it. It was really nice to have Paul Green back on screen. Like he is.

[00:08:36] [SPEAKER_03] He's. I feel like this episode is going to be hijacked by the fact that we're excited to see Paul Green on Hallmark channel again. Maybe part. Partly. But I think it's totally going to be a side for me. Just letting you know. We'll see.

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_04] We can go tight on two. Paul was. It was good. He's familiar. He's fun. So it was good to have him back.

[00:08:54] [SPEAKER_03] No, I was looking for Brian's reaction, but it's cool.

[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_04] No, I'm just listening in. Okay. All right. I also thought that Mackenzie Westmore played a really good reporter. Like she did what I always want.

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_03] The woman who's the lead in the movie? Yeah. Yeah. You thought she was a good reporter.

[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_04] I walked away knowing more about the Fiesta than I knew before. And that's all I can ask. I got lots of. You're right about that. Thank you. I got lots of good hot air balloon facts.

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_03] You guys should be shocked.

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_04] I got a new prayer. I can start and end my days with. So top notch reporting. Are you coming here via balloon? My balloon's outside. Oh, that was you. Yeah. There's no regulations against that around this office park, right? All right. I didn't think so. I mean, the business park loves it. They do. I do feel, though, that she did deserve that second strike. The coffee puns were a bit excessive.

[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_03] What was the first strike?

[00:09:44] [SPEAKER_04] We don't know that. We don't know. We don't know. It was probably ridiculous, though, whatever that strike was. But the second one earned. The coffee puns were too much. The dad.

[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_03] Brad. Lorenzo Lamas. Shout out.

[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_04] Wow. He's Lorenzo Lamas. I mean, this was. Talk about a character arc. Like, he was depression commercial medicine level walking around. Sitting on the side of his bed. Just huffing and puffing.

[00:10:12] [SPEAKER_02] Sitting on the side of his bed and just thinking, is it worth it?

[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_04] So sad. It was like that meme. I don't know if it's from Narcos or something.

[00:10:20] [SPEAKER_03] Where he's sitting in the swings. Yeah. The swings.

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_04] Just walking around all set. It was so great. I was loving it. And then Sensei Brad has just a complete turnaround. And I feel like it was more. I was more psyched for him than anyone in this movie. Really, really enjoyed watching that development. The bad, though, if I could for a second. We definitely got gypped on the ballooning. Like, we were hardly up in a balloon.

[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_03] What are you talking about?

[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_04] We were hardly in a balloon.

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_03] Hardly at all.

[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_04] I don't know.

[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_03] You think this movie would have been made better by more green screen ballooning? I think, no, no.

[00:10:50] [SPEAKER_04] Maybe real ballooning would have helped. Well, that's a different complaint.

[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_03] I thought we would get a little air balloon time. We got like zero. There's a lot. They're on the green screen.

[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_04] But it's not real. No, of course not. Imagine being up in a real balloon, though. How cool that would have been. It would have been amazing.

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_03] I told Brain several different ways they could have shot it that weren't that expensive.

[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_04] So that was a bummer. And also, they didn't even try to say a line that's like, hey, they go to Jared. They didn't even try to squeeze it in. They didn't do it. It was right there. The whole movie. So overall, I actually had a pretty decent time. Are you pleased with your four and a cream? Yeah, I stand behind the four and a cream. You have lost your mind. Yeah.

[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_02] So I loved it. And I don't know, man. Maybe I was just in a really good mood. I thought that this movie was an absolute blast.

[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_03] You said you're trying not to laugh as you're saying it.

[00:11:43] [SPEAKER_02] I'm being serious. I love this movie and might be my favorite of the year. And it wasn't until I went on to the double-decker Facebook group that I realized I might be on an island here. I did the same thing, Brent. And I'm happy that we're on the island together. Time out.

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_03] You guys love the movie knowing what it is. You don't love it.

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_02] I love all Homeward movies knowing what they are.

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_03] No, no, no, no. You don't love this movie the same way you love Biltmore Christmas. How could you? You don't love this movie the same way you love Sabering Paris.

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_02] No, I don't love it as much as those ones. But you love it in a very different way. No, I don't think that this is funny. I had a blast with the movie.

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_03] You didn't think this movie was unironically.

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_02] I had an unironically great time watching this movie. Thoroughly enjoyed myself. And are the balloon shots good? No, no, they're not. And maybe I was taken by, what's his name? Lorenzo Loss. I'm not familiar with his work. Sensei Brad? I am now, though. Wow. He's at the peak of his career. Oh my gosh. Unbelievable. Yeah, I had a real good time.

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_02] And I hadn't even taken my gummy for the night yet. So. Says a lot.

[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_03] That says a lot. Dano? Guys, I'm a little bit of a loss of words here. Uh, this is, this movie is hysterical. Um, the greens, we watched a dater's handbook this week, which features heavily a green screen. Ten years ago, it looks terrible. Looks better than the green screen they use in this movie for hot air ballooning. Uh, Paul Green says a balloonist prayer. We hear a lot about coffee and hatch green chilies.

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_03] And then we have three or four of the weirdest plot. Oh, he's getting choked up.

[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_04] A little choked up over it, yeah.

[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_03] I'm getting emotional. Uh, three or four of the weirdest plot lines I've ever seen. We have two leads that may be in separate movies. They can only do what I describe as kissing weird ones in this movie. I don't know what they're doing. I don't know if it's kissing. It's, it's a mess. Uh, I'm, I'm dumbfounded at what's going on here.

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_03] The, the falling in love in a week, the reporting of it all that you said, like you learned about reporting from, um, the boss she has back at the studio that just filmed all of her scenes in like a minute and a half. This movie is a mess. This is the worst hot air balloon movie we've seen on Hallmark. And we've only seen two of them. Uh, there are so many things in this movie that don't make any sense guys. I like so, so many. Okay.

[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_03] I don't, I don't know how we got to where we got where you two loved it. I like we started the balloonist prayer and I feel like it all went downhill after that. I just, this is a mess.

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_02] We all Googled the prayer though, right? Like after it happened.

[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_03] I heard it and I Googled balloonist prayer and immediately it came up. I was like, huh? Guess they decided that's where they wanted to be realistic is balloonist prayer. That's right. We have a Lorenzo Llamas depressed because he's retired from hot air balloon writing, which is my favorite. He was here at a Taekwondo studio. He had a Taekwondo studio as well. That's what he is. But he came alive in the balloon.

[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_02] Well, yeah, you do. Obviously. And now that he's retired, he doesn't have any time to balloon anymore. It's an empty vessel. Well, no, Dan, you're missing it. Did you even watch this? Oh, I watched it. He retired because he realized that he was never home and he felt like he should be home more.

[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_03] And so now he's home all the time and he's depressed. Yes. And if only there was a balloon to fix it somewhere. Yes. Yes. Right.

[00:15:20] [SPEAKER_04] And he found it. Right. Yeah. Thank God.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_03] I'd say, I'd say you found it.

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah.

[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_03] This movie is one of the worst of the year, if not the worst of the year. It's terrible.

[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_02] Go ahead.

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_03] It's so bad. Like if you liked it, sometimes you'll like movies that you know are bad and I'm fine with that. If you like a movie because you know it's bad, but it's your kind of bad. I said, talking to some double deckers when I was on Facebook, I'm not watching this with Bran. Bran's going to love this movie. I have no problem with that because I assume you loved it because you like. Like there's a certain type of terrible movie that you really enjoy. I thought that's what we were doing here.

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_02] No, I didn't know it. I didn't know it was bad. I didn't know it was bad. I didn't know it was bad. It's time for all the feels. We're talking about what this movie gave us feels. Brian.

[00:16:06] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. My feels were Sensei Brad leading the group in a striking demonstration. At first, I thought this is ridiculous. Yeah. This guy busts out his gi, his uniform, any chance he gets, I'm sure. But then I kind of got into it. I'm like, they're all like, they're having a good time. This is good stuff. And then the callback to it when Brooklyn was scared about hot air ballooning and he was like, remember. And he said whatever he said. He did this punch. I'm like, hey, that's great. Like he's calling that back.

[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_04] He's grounding her in something to make her feel strong. Real nice. I'm really happy Sensei Brad was able to incorporate that. His love for Taekwondo into this movie.

[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_02] I think it's pretty well documented at this point. I am quite afraid of heights. And before this movie, I would have told you I wouldn't be caught dead.

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_03] I can't believe you're going to do this right now.

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_02] But I got to be honest. Don't do it. This movie.

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_03] Don't do it. Don't do it.

[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_02] This movie almost made me want to get in a hot air balloon. It almost did enough to make me be like, you know what? Aaron's going to rent one right now. It is safer than the car.

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_03] You got yours outside. That's true. I'll take yours. That's true. Absolutely.

[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_02] And I just, I don't know. I felt good. Now, I'll say this. I was in until I saw that landing. Crash landing. The crash landing, which apparently happens sometimes. And then you fall over. I didn't like that. I didn't like that. And the unknown of if that's going to happen is too much for me. So I probably won't get in the hot air balloon. But I went through a bit of a journey. And I'll say something I never thought that I would say is I considered, hot air balloon.

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_02] I'm still not in, but I considered it.

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_03] Dan? So quickest anyone's ever gotten over a fear of heights ever. Ever. Yes. She's screaming on that. What is that? For the tram? Yeah. Going up the mountain. And then he's like, take a deep breath. She's like, you're right. It's all better.

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_02] We did it. We did it. Have you considered taking a breath?

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_03] Yeah. I 100% love hatch green chilies. They're great. I was jealous. I wasn't in the Albuquerque region of the country so that I could have hatch green chilies year round. There's a Tex-Mec restaurant here in Greenville that has hatch green chili season. When they come here, there's like two or three weeks you can get all these hatch green chili infused things. And like in New Mexico, you can just get a hatch green chilies, I believe, at fast food restaurants.

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_03] So that, I was very, very jealous of that. There you go. Let's take a quick break.

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_02] We'll come back. We'll get to the way we found the what the hallmark here on. Check the hallmark. Welcome back, everybody. We're talking about love in the clouds. Love in the clouds. Let's get to the way what. It's where we're talking about what in the super minutes go away. What else are with you, Brian?

[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. Jared in his house. We spent a good amount of time. Went to Jared. We all went to Jared's house. And the guy's got air balloon decorations pretty much on every wall and surface. Yeah.

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_03] How else would you know that he does hot air balloon?

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_04] He does hot air balloon.

[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_03] He's a balloonist. You have podcasting stuff all your house, right? Microphones everywhere. Just microphones. Sound boards. Yeah.

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_04] You got that. There's the soundproof thing everywhere.

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_02] I have a poster on my wall that's just the serial cover art.

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_04] Just to remember the roots, obviously, where it all started for everybody. So it was just a little red flag, maybe. I don't know. A little bit much. I don't know. Just a little bit. Maybe. We don't know. When Paul buys that 10-pound bag of Chili's, he says, quote, here you go. I'll give you some money.

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_03] He says, literally, I'll give you some money, Brian. Here you go. I'll give you some money. He doesn't say keep the change. He doesn't say thank you. He says, here you go. Hey, Paul, we'll just do one more take. You ad lib this one. I got it, guys. Don't worry. Action. Here you go. I'll give you some money. Is he think they're in a dress rehearsal? Here you go. I'll give you some money.

[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_04] It was great. You think he read the stage direction? That's what I think. I think he read the stage direction.

[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_03] There's another one later in the movie. Oh, really? He and the girl are sitting in the restaurant, and they go, red Chili's, green Chili's, or Christmas. Yeah. And he says, Christmas is when you mix red or green. And she's like, he goes, I think she'll take hers on the side, and I'll have the regular on top. What?

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_04] That wasn't an option.

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_03] You just were supposed to say one of the, like, red, green, Christmas. Regular's not an option. It's not a choice. How would you like those? I'll give you some money.

[00:20:40] [SPEAKER_04] It was great. I watched that part a few times, because I genuinely laughed out loud.

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_03] Like, if you loved the movie for that, I'm fine with it. I've never seen, thank you so much, I'll give you some money. I'll give you some money. It was really great.

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_04] Like, what else are you supposed to say there? I guess that's what, I mean, he nailed it. Flying, I mean, just the biggest one, flying a local reporter from Seattle to New Mexico to cover an Air Balloon Festival.

[00:21:00] [SPEAKER_03] I mean, that is one of one.

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_04] There's just probably dozens of people covering it. Yeah. Hundreds, maybe. And just, yeah, the boss being in the office all the time, because she's a worker.

[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_03] In the same outfit.

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah, just under the umbrella of she's a workaholic, or she's a mean boss. Like, I feel like we got to move on from that and do it a different way. Like, put her in the car one time, calling on her way home or something.

[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_03] Anything aside from you filmed her stuff all in one day. All in one day. Clearly one day.

[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_04] Clearly one day. That was it for me, though. Other than that, pretty airtight. Airtight, yeah. What is his dad's name again? Sensei Brad. Brad.

[00:21:33] [SPEAKER_02] In real life. Lorenzo Lamas. Yes, again, not familiar with Lorenzo's work. And I did not know that he was a heartthrob. And I wrote down as Paul Green's dad, the hottest guy in the world.

[00:21:45] [SPEAKER_03] So. He was a heartthrob for years and years and years. Yeah. Still is, brother.

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_02] Still is, brother. Yeah. I don't. I was taken aback more than I think they wanted me to be by the lack of patches on his jacket that clearly has Velcro for patches. I don't know why, why they would do that. Just put even, you could just put even a balloon patch on. Yeah, that'd be nice. But the worst case scenario for Velcro on jackets is no patch. Because then I'm just going to wonder. And that's what happened to me.

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_02] Her boss wants a five to seven minute story on the hot air balloon fit. Guys, watch the local news.

[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_03] Is it 60 minutes? That's an eternity.

[00:22:29] [SPEAKER_02] That is an eternity. And we see the story and it's not even close. And that's probably why she. Was there a crime in the movie? Five to seven minutes. Sheesh. So we cover the silk? Yeah, we got the silk. Okay.

[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_04] All right.

[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_02] And she wants it to have no personality. That's right. Five to seven minutes with no personality. I'm turning the channel after 30 seconds. For as good as she is as a news reporter, her camera person is bad. I don't know what she was. She was doing some sort of weird experimental indie news reporting. She's like zooming in while she's talking and then pulling back and then like doing this with the camera.

[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_02] She's all over the place. I appreciate it. She's, you know, she has a vision. 100%. She has a vision and she's doing it. So there you go. I felt bad for Jared at one point when I realized that his dad, Sensei Brad, never gave his son a taekwondo lesson. Not a single one. Because Jared is as lost as everyone else. His dad had his own taekwondo studio. He was addicted to the work. He loved it.

[00:23:39] [SPEAKER_02] And he never once gave his son a lesson. And I know that because I saw Jared try. And that man's never had a taekwondo lesson. You know, as somebody, once again, who is afraid of heights. And if I were to finally. If I was like, okay, I'm finally doing. I'm getting up in the hot air balloon. What I wouldn't want someone to say is we'll be right there wherever you land. There's something about that that doesn't sit well with me. What do you mean wherever?

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_02] They're so bad at comforting people that are afraid of heights. The balloon people just have no, like, awareness of, hey, if you say wherever you land, that reminds us that we have no say in all of this. And we don't like that. I go into the hot air balloon with the hot air person because I assume he knows what he's doing. But we learn a lot about it. And I guess that is what it is. And then last but not least, when he hands her the blue necklace. Yeah. She says, you remember.

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_02] It was a day ago. If he didn't remember, I'd be concerned. And that's coming from someone who has a real bad memory. Even I saw the necklace. I was like, that's the one from the other day. From yesterday. Yeah. So, yeah, he remembered. Congratulations. What a 24 hours it was for him. Dano?

[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_03] Yeah. So she gets called into the office by her boss at the beginning as a reporter. And the boss says, this is your second strike. Three strikes and you're out. That's how baseball works. And her second strike is puns. That is her second strike because she's supposed to be a business reporter and she's using coffee puns. That makes sense, I guess. Unless I told you she was reporting live from a coffee shop. She is. She's not reporting about a crime and she's making. That's a latte of blood.

[00:25:24] [SPEAKER_03] She's not doing that. She's reporting about a coffee shop. It's not business. She's reporting about a new coffee shop. It's personal. She is. It is the most appropriate time for a coffee pun. Maybe in existence. You can't send your reporter to report on a coffee shop and then get mad when they use a coffee pun. I like I was, I was a little surprised by that. I thought that was crazy.

[00:25:54] [SPEAKER_02] You don't get her vision.

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_03] When, uh, Paul green, here's another great one. Go look this up. When Paul green meets, uh, this woman for the first time, he says, so you're Brooklyn. And she says, yeah, I get that a lot. That's your name lady.

[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_04] I always said you from New York. Yeah.

[00:26:10] [SPEAKER_03] But he goes, so you're Brooklyn. And she says, yeah, I get, I think he was supposed to say you're from New York. He says, so you're Brooklyn. And she says, yes, I get that a lot. Yeah. I would. I mean, that is your name. I, um, apparently if you Google Paul green's characters, hot air balloon business in this movie, the search results are all clip art, which is very nice. It's a real easy way. You just, it's not a search result. It's a, some colorful writing with his picture kind of crooked on the side.

[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_03] Um, or that's a website either way. I'm very, very confused. Uh, the best scene in this movie is where some random dude comes up to Paul green on the balloon field. And the fact that neither of you mentioned it is crazy to me. He comes up and he goes, are you the guy that does the romantic balloon? And Paul green's like, yeah. And he goes, I need to propose my girlfriend next month. I'll catch you later. And he leaves. He doesn't book anything.

[00:27:06] [SPEAKER_03] He doesn't give any context where to assume that Paul green has an opening. He just comes up and goes, Hey, are you the guy you are? I need to book you next month. We can talk about it later. This was urgent, but I've given you all the information you need now.

[00:27:24] [SPEAKER_02] I was just putting a name to a face.

[00:27:25] [SPEAKER_03] And then I got to get, I got to get out of here and we'll do the rest of it later. Yeah. Uh, someone says that he's talked to balloon seminars around the world, which is a great line. Uh, this woman is eating a burger. Like she's never seen a burger before everyone on this planet eats a burger like this. She is eating it. Like she's about to throw a Frisbee like this. She's literally eating it like this. I don't understand what's happening there, but that is not as weird as watching Paul green trying to stomach a carbohydrate.

[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_03] If you have distracted by this, the best scene in this movie is Paul green eating corn chip, uh, corn chip one, Paul green, none. He is trying to take the smallest bite of this crumbs go. He's trying to act like he likes it. It is kicking his tail. Just take a bite, Paul action. It is the best. He's like, I don't want the car. That is sugar. It is fantastic. Refined corn.

[00:28:24] [SPEAKER_03] Eat a carb, Paul. It won't kill you. Uh, at one point, one point, Paul says, sometimes I think people spend so much time on the proposal in the wedding and no time actually trying to make the parents work. And I'm here to tell you, Paul, those are two very, very, very different things. One is party planning. The other is a marriage. Uh, so there's that. And then this video goes viral and it's a new story.

[00:28:54] [SPEAKER_03] And the two dudes are watching it. Paul green and his buddy are watching it. And while they're watching the video, we're watching a montage of, I was confused. I didn't know if that was the video or not.

[00:29:07] [SPEAKER_02] Cause that's like, they didn't get most of that footage.

[00:29:09] [SPEAKER_03] There's no way they got most of that footage. Cause then they wouldn't have used a green screen.

[00:29:12] [SPEAKER_02] I was confused about what it, what it like, what were we seeing at home?

[00:29:17] [SPEAKER_03] Yeah.

[00:29:17] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah. I think what they want you to believe is that that's the story.

[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_03] We are remembering the best of times of this movie. They're watching the viral hot air balloon five to seven minute news story.

[00:29:28] [SPEAKER_02] I do think, I do think what we see is the story. Oh, wow. You think so? I think so. I, I don't know if that makes us better or worse. They didn't add any, like, you know, when you do a montage, sometimes you add a little something so that people know we're getting into a montage. Black and white, maybe. Maybe a little fairy dust. I think we were watching two different things. You think so? We'll have to ask somebody. That's all I got. What did you, how did you take that?

[00:29:51] [SPEAKER_04] I assume we were watching the new story.

[00:29:53] [SPEAKER_02] That's how I took it to him.

[00:29:54] [SPEAKER_04] But if we weren't, that's what the heck's going on?

[00:29:57] [SPEAKER_02] What's that new story like? Yeah. I want, now I just want to see the actual story itself. Except for what the homework is where we wonder what could have been. Maybe I'm going to clear any questions we still have. What are we still wondering about aside from what was the story that we saw?

[00:30:09] [SPEAKER_05] Right.

[00:30:10] [SPEAKER_04] Brian? I'm just, I'm kind of wondering if you're up in that balloon and you're proposing and that ring falls down, what happens? Have I got a yo-gabble-gabble for you, brother?

[00:30:19] [SPEAKER_03] Have I got a diss list for you as well? That's coming out in months. In months. It's coming. We'll get the answers, I guess. Find out what I think about proposing in a hot air balloon. Oh, really? You guys talk about that. Coming to a diss list near you.

[00:30:32] [SPEAKER_04] That's right. So, yeah, I just thought that was a really funny thing. It never came up because in the phylo deep dive, this is a, or was it gavel? It was gavel. Gavel. This was covered. And so I thought it was in my head the whole time. Like, why don't they talk about that situation? Like, if it goes wrong, you drop the ring.

[00:30:48] [SPEAKER_02] If you drop the ring, it is on you. It's completely on you. It's not on the hot air balloon, guys. I'm sure it's in his contract. You know, there was a scene, a shot that we see once, and then we see it again in the montage, whatever it is. And they are, like, inside of a hot air balloon. And for some reason, they both are on all fours.

[00:31:14] [SPEAKER_02] Like, they're doing some sort of weird dancing inside of... Before they crash? No, no, no, no. This is, like, he takes her in. Like, we don't see it happen, I don't think. Like, we don't get the words. The words. But they're inside of a balloon. Like, he brings her... Oh, yeah. Yes. Yeah, yeah. And they're like, he's got his hands... He's gone... I don't... What was going on? Sure. Because in both times we see it, we don't get the dialogue behind what the heck is happening here.

[00:31:43] [SPEAKER_02] But I don't know if he was teaching her a balloon dance. I mean, I learned that it was a balloon prayer. Yeah. So there's got to be a dance, right? So there's a balloon dance. I don't know. It would make sense. But I just wish I could get that scene with dialogue. Sure. Because it stumpled me both times I saw it. Dano?

[00:32:00] [SPEAKER_03] Yeah, we talked about what her first warning was. We don't know. That's one. And the other one is, is how many dead bodies are in the backseat of Paul Green's truck, even though he has a full crew cab with plenty of room to sit in the backseat. They are all jammed in the front of this truck, shoulder to shoulder. What's going on in the backseat of that truck? Gotta know.

[00:32:22] [SPEAKER_02] You can say. Gotta know. You gotta. We did it, everybody. Congratulations to us. Loving the clouds. It's time for Double Decker of the Week. It's where we dive deep into the life of a double decker who has signed up for Bramble Jam Plus to support the show and get ad-free podcasting and so much more, including Brian doing a deep dive into your life. Dan, who do we have today? We have Mackenzie Jones. Mackenzie Jones. Mackenzie.

[00:32:46] [SPEAKER_04] I don't want to bring the mood down too much. But don't. Well, I feel like in the name of honest reporting. Yeah, Spirit of the Resurrection. As long as there's no personality. No, no, no, no. We keep the personality out of it. Yeah, Mackenzie out there really shining a light on the dark underworld of a specific sect of deniers out there in the world. Okay. I don't know if we, you guys know a lot about this. It's the mayonnaise deniers.

[00:33:14] [SPEAKER_03] That they don't believe mayonnaise exists?

[00:33:16] [SPEAKER_04] They don't believe it's a good condiment? They think it's made up? All right.

[00:33:21] [SPEAKER_03] Just two different things. What do you mean?

[00:33:23] [SPEAKER_04] Well, they're across the board. They just are anti-mayonnaise across the board.

[00:33:28] [SPEAKER_02] You can be, like me, anti-mayonnaise and still believe that it's a condiment. That it's a thing. Yeah. Where are these people?

[00:33:34] [SPEAKER_03] These people don't believe it exists or they don't like it?

[00:33:37] [SPEAKER_04] They don't like it, first of all. And some of them, there are some who just say this isn't a real, this is a made up thing. Like this, people are coming together to conspire to make this a thing. It's not a real good thing. So these people, we call them obviously the mayo naysayers.

[00:33:53] [SPEAKER_03] The mayo naysayers. Yes. The mayo naysayers. I was wondering how he's going to be like mayo naysayers, if you will. Yeah. Maybe the mayo naysayers.

[00:34:01] [SPEAKER_04] No, it's not. It's the mayo naysayers. Mayo naysayers. And this, Mackenzie, she loves mayonnaise and she's all about it.

[00:34:09] [SPEAKER_02] And what's she doing with this group of people?

[00:34:11] [SPEAKER_04] Well, she's, her and the mayo nays, if you will. I mean, if we're going to put it. Mayo naysayers. It's a community. We got the mayo nays. Yeah. The mayo naysayers. Mayo naysayers. Showing people how it's good for you and how you can make really like healthy mayonnaise. Paul would love that.

[00:34:32] [SPEAKER_02] So are you under the impression, is she under the impression there are people that just aren't aware of mayonnaise?

[00:34:38] [SPEAKER_04] Part of it is education. Like people don't understand that mayonnaise is, you know, it could be, it could be, it's not all just a gross slimy condiment. It can be delicious. You can make up, make it good. Mayo is really versatile. I mean, you can get a Chipotle mayo. Lots of flavor. Here you go.

[00:34:54] [SPEAKER_03] You call it an aioli. All of a sudden, I'm more interested in it.

[00:34:58] [SPEAKER_02] So you went to the seminar. I neither confirm nor deny.

[00:35:02] [SPEAKER_03] I mean, you have a lot of information.

[00:35:03] [SPEAKER_04] I want either mayo yay or mayo naysay. Well, you were at the mayo clinic, if you will.

[00:35:07] [SPEAKER_03] Nope. Nope. Sure wasn't. Absolutely not. Dan was at the mayo clinic. No. No. McKenzie said you were there. Absolutely not.

[00:35:17] [SPEAKER_02] It's a mayo yay. It's not. Friends of mayo nay. I'm a mayo nay. And I want that on. Obviously, I believe it exists.

[00:35:23] [SPEAKER_03] I don't care about regular mayo. Like, I'm fine if the sandwich doesn't have regular mayonnaise on it. But like, you church up a mayo, I'm here for it.

[00:35:31] [SPEAKER_02] You know, I don't disagree with that either.

[00:35:33] [SPEAKER_03] Yeah. Chipotle mayo all day. Oh, yeah. On anything. A dill mayo? Now, is she a Thai garlic?

[00:35:38] [SPEAKER_04] Like a Thai garlic mayo? Let's go.

[00:35:41] [SPEAKER_00] No, no, no.

[00:35:41] [SPEAKER_04] She's all about it. Oh, yeah. Let's mix it up. Let's get crazy. Let's get crazy. Mayo crazy. All right. Well, if you want to get involved, you can just reach out. Yeah. Yeah. The mayoclinic.com, I think. No.

[00:35:56] [SPEAKER_02] It is not. She got mayoclinic.com. She's in a battle, I think, is what it is right now. Both important causes. Yeah. She's just waiting them out. Both important causes. She's just waiting them out. Imagine you're surprised. When you have a passion. Yeah. And you're like, I know what I'm going to do.

[00:36:12] [SPEAKER_04] I'm going to call the mayo clinic.

[00:36:13] [SPEAKER_02] Oh, it's already taken.

[00:36:15] [SPEAKER_04] I mean, they're right on the same page, though. So I feel like a partnership could be formed.

[00:36:19] [SPEAKER_02] Okay. We did it, everybody. Congratulations to us. Does Brian know what the mayo clinic is? We are done with new movies, and we're going to be covering with Brian. The old. A couple of classics. A couple of classics that we have not reviewed on the show. Doublebackers demanded it. That's right. Both are from the year 2016. Next week. Send Brian to the mayo clinic. In a couple of weeks, we're going to be talking about Summer Villa.

[00:36:44] [SPEAKER_02] But next week, Dater's Handbook is available on the Hallmark Plus, which you can, of course, add to your Philo account. So head to Philo. If you don't have Philo, file out to be such DTH. And you can sign up, see our show, but then also add Hallmark Plus directly to your account. So it's all there in one nice place, which is how we like it. We like it like that. So go check out the Dater's Handbook and come on back next time for that. And we'll be back tomorrow with some more. Until then, maybe the first to wish you a Merry Christmas.

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