Meet Me Under the Mistletoe (Hulu - 2023) ft. Alonso Duralde

[00:00:00] Hi I'm Bran and I love hulu Christmas movie I'm Dan and life is meaningless

[00:00:09] I'm Alonzo and I could have been watching feud this whole time and this is the

[00:00:14] Tech the homework podcast was here appreciated that. Oh, there's a first time for every day. When you need them, I've said it for years. Absolutely. Hey, Brian. I love you, buddy. Man, man, well, I'm happy that your pets heads are all still. That's really great. As far as I know, mine is well in place, which is great. Alonzo, how are you? Who? Well, having a rainy day, which is,

[00:01:44] you know, I heard about that. The least it is a kitchen, even though the most it is is a kitchen. That is a great, great, great. But what I think how it in there would say kitchen,

[00:03:03] there is a ton of food.

[00:03:03] There's silverware food, a dishwasher,

[00:03:05] a sink and oven, and microwave. But Holly would like to remind you that it is our PopTart closet. Yes. Oh, yeah. That is the main function of that room. PopTart o'clock doesn't exist without that room. Well, you would bring them in here. I would find a way. Or it's a shelter. You find a way to pop Tart o'clock. I would say the refrigerator is the most important thing in there. But if the pop potters could be close second. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The pop chart is I've opened that fridge.

[00:04:21] It's nothing but but Reese's and Seltzer.

[00:04:24] As it has gotten to the table, though, that's we sit at all the time.

[00:05:26] Eva is a realtor that works out of an office with more Christmas trees per capita than a home depot at Christmas time

[00:05:34] There's this rival realtor named Jeff and they're constantly competing to see who can sell more who can make more

[00:05:39] Commission who can be more annoying. It is a thing that they do so

[00:05:42] when this couple walks in and

[00:05:45] Say hey, we You know us we're the next day they start hanging out, they go to the house, they decide there's not nearly enough Christmas in this house. So they add more Christmas to the house, and then they start hanging out even more. They're going to Christmas festivals and whatnot. They're kind of hitting it off now. And that's nice. So

[00:07:03] she opens up about writing and how she has this thing that she's been working book. And he says, I did do that, yes, I did. And she says, well, that it is what I thought it was. So, thank you. But it turns out that there's a little bit more to it.

[00:08:21] He actually did all that so that he could make a printed,

[00:08:27] bounded version of the book. that if you get mistletoe from her and you kiss under it, then you're gonna get married, basically. And so they're moving, so who's gonna take that over? Eva has a niece that lives with her, and she's like, hey, you should let her do it. She's really good with plants. She's 18. She's 18.

[00:09:40] She's super cool, super neat.

[00:09:42] She's graduating in the spring.

[00:09:44] It's gonna be a lot of fun.

[00:09:45] Anyway, they agreed to that, so yay for them. knew about and unfortunately missed. Until now, let's break this movie down. We're gonna start with a hot take. We're gonna share exactly how we felt about this movie. I'll start with you, Alonso Alonso. What did you think of meet me under the mistletoe? You know, there are some times where I feel like the English language doesn't quite give you the tools

[00:11:02] required to communicate the depth of feeling inspired

[00:11:07] by a work such as this. Personality of something like Christmas in Carolina, which is at least weird Yeah, but like this is such Manufactured Nothing this is such unflavored gelatin. I couldn't believe I was watching it. I need to set I Think context matters

[00:12:20] Bill the night last night my youngest comes in he is

[00:12:24] Going through some growing pains his leg was hurting and he wanted me to know that to the test more than any other movie we've seen doing this show over the past six years because per capita, this movie will not let you forget that it's Christmas because of so many trees, rays, lights, etc. And I am, for the first time ever in my career, I am starting to doubt that theory that I

[00:13:42] have that Christmas covers a multidiscence because I'm starting to think that maybe it of Christmas. This movie, give me a whole pack of cigarettes, man. This movie sucks out loud. It is so bad that they take character actor extraordinaire, Erica Tovley, who we love. He had two of the best supporting performances I've ever seen in a TV movie during last Christmas season, and they make him just play a straight down the middle, just regular old khaki pants

[00:15:03] white dude.

[00:15:04] And that is like giving Christopher Walken an accent.

[00:15:08] Like why would you do that? Nothing, nothing in this movie adds up to anything. Like Chuck Palin-Huck could have wrote this. Like, there is so much nihilism, nihilism in this film. It's enough to last a lifetime. You knew that Chuck Palin, am I saying that right? Chuck Palin. He's the guy on MSNBC.

[00:16:21] Polaniac.

[00:16:22] Polaniac, thank you.

[00:16:23] Chuck Polaniac.

[00:16:24] He wrote Fight Club and some other fun.

[00:16:26] nihilists.

[00:16:27] Who's the Chuck on MSNBC?

[00:16:28] Chuck Todd. and more than half of their time making cookies and going to Christmas carnivals, you bet they do. That's all I got. Yeah, I'm impressed that someone finally did it in regards to even too many decorations for me. Like to the point of where it's distracting,

[00:17:42] there are multiple scenes in this movie

[00:17:44] where I'm just it's for someone. That's why it's in my feels is because in the way what it makes it sound like somebody

[00:19:00] doesn't want to paint and learn about plants.

[00:19:02] I know you're out there.

[00:19:03] Yeah, I mean my wife would probably like that.

[00:19:06] Yeah, I know it's. If it's a history lecture, I'm still out cause I don't want to paint and learn something.

[00:20:20] Yeah.

[00:20:21] All right, first set.

[00:20:22] Let's take a quick break.

[00:20:23] We'll come back with the wait what and the...

[00:20:27] Hello.

[00:21:25] was enough, would draw sin, would make us go finally.

[00:21:28] I'm invested in this relationship. Yes, especially when that 10 minutes is chock full

[00:21:32] of a bunch of no one selling houses.

[00:21:36] Like it's not like it's 10 minutes

[00:21:37] where they're like, I'm selling a house,

[00:21:38] you're selling a house, we're but no, no, no,

[00:21:42] nobody ever does it.

[00:21:44] I would say they did.

[00:21:45] I wouldn't have to go to the Glen Gary Glen Ross people

[00:21:46] to come in and show. That's right. That's right. And three more trees outside. Correct. This is parody level. There is a point where we're Ava's in her kitchen and there appears to be a backup wreath ready to go.

[00:23:00] Oh yeah.

[00:23:00] There appears there's a wreath on the cabinet

[00:23:02] and there's one below it underneath there

[00:23:06] that she could pop up if she needed to. There's a literal switch. And especially for someone who's just around houses all the time, right? Like that's a tool you, guys, even I, even I know. How did you know? That's it. That's the end of the conversation. Like that old Seinfeld joke about people who don't know cars looking into the hood, like there's gonna be a giant on-off switch.

[00:24:20] That's what's there.

[00:24:21] Yes, it's an actual on-off switch.

[00:24:23] That's it.

[00:24:24] And if you're not sure which one,

[00:24:25] you can just hit the bottom to see it out in a store. Oh boy. Yeah, I didn't think about that one. Yeah. So that's they don't know the difference between a Bibliotheca and a Libre Rhea in this movie. Time out those. This is a thing that I also see in a lot of these movies, but it really jumped out of me here,

[00:25:42] which is, you know, the big final party of definitions in this movie. It really is like they are just it's something. It's eight K. I don't know. 16 K maybe. Um guys, these are two successful realtors that are agreeing to split a commission.

[00:27:01] Yeah.

[00:27:02] They just they like it just isn't worth the time and it is worth the energy.

[00:27:06] It also doesn't help you win realtor the year.

[00:27:08] It does not. like so high up. It's just ridiculous. I understand that you've not ever had a beard in this movie, Lady, but you would know that the beard goes under your nose. No, exactly. Right. I just for some reason it made me laugh when she pulled out this plant that she got for her niece and then just says like, don't touch it. I'm putting it in the sink.

[00:28:20] It was just like a weird, I got this.

[00:28:24] Don't, don't touch it.

[00:29:23] There are pictures of Reese. I did also a notice after the fact.

[00:29:26] They are in her living room,

[00:29:27] which I'm like, is that they're all year?

[00:29:28] Like, you know.

[00:29:29] They are, they are wreaths,

[00:29:31] and I don't know if you notice,

[00:29:32] they're wreaths inside an ornament.

[00:29:34] A ball ornament.

[00:29:35] That's the painting.

[00:29:36] It is like, look, at one point in this movie,

[00:29:39] these two realers go to this house

[00:29:40] that is immaculate, by the way.

[00:29:42] It is like easy to sell,

[00:29:44] and we act like it's this insurmountable challenge. She goes to get more decorations for this house and she buys 10 wreaths at the open air market and that guy packs her wreaths up in a box with Christmas wrapping on it. This movie is, it takes the cake. If you think there's no such thing as too much Christmas him outside of this house they're trying to sell and I'm pretty sure that his SUV is supposed to have superimposed a logo on it for his home inspection company.

[00:32:21] The reason I'm pretty sure is instead there's a green screen on his SUV. So I had to return the favor. What? What? What? I wait you? There's, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,

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[00:33:46] I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, and he's fighting an uphill battle. And that's all I need to say about that. Christmas fear. Christmas fear. It's time for, what is it called, Alonzo? You're good at this. Who, Lou, goodbye? Lou, goodbye. It's where we ask the questions. That would still like some answers to you. You say goodbye.

[00:35:00] I'll say who lives.

[00:35:01] Alonzo, what are you still wondering about?

[00:35:03] Well, it's funny.

[00:35:04] First of all, I have to jump on the whole New Zealand of it all because Dave White had you know there's a chance i am misunderstanding this she has a niece that lives with her i am ninety nine percent sure that nieces is a senior in high school uh... for a couple of reasons uh... uh... not in college even though she clearly looks like she is college aged regardless am i to under

[00:36:20] am i correct

[00:36:22] when i hear that though

[00:36:24] the town

[00:36:26] uh... celebrated adjacent to the niece for the majority of the runtime of this film. The niece, all she wants in life are two tickets to ScienceCon. And I just need to know what is it? You know, Comic Con is, you know, the niche is small.

[00:37:41] You're not going to cover everything at Comic Con, but the niche is small enough for you

[00:37:45] to know, guys, science is massive. That is like philosophy con. That's like, if you just had a book con, it wasn't like fantasy con or sci-fi con, it was like, but if you're a lover of books, we've got a weekend for you. Could be encyclopedias, could be almanacs, could be young and great novels.

[00:39:00] Could be fancy.

[00:39:01] Could be anything, book con.

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