Mr. & Mrs. Christmas (Hallmark Channel - 2026)

[00:00:03] This is a Bramble Jam Podcast.

[00:00:48] It's crazy. Can you believe it? Did you recover from the marathon break? Yeah, honestly, I think it was the best one yet. Best one yet. I think it was the best one yet. I think we had so much fun and it's not hard to recover from fun. Sure. Well, I think sometimes it is. It's not hard to recover from doing the right thing. From doing the right thing. You know what I mean? Never, yeah. With the money we raised and the fun that we had. Oh my goodness. Calendar?

[00:01:18] We made that calendar? We made that calendar. Wow. We watched two Christmas movies. Yeah, that's right. We all had a clear favorite, of course. Yeah. Pretty great weekend, but it's great to be here today. Back at it. Brian, how are you doing? Great. It takes a little longer to recover, but I feel like I'm back and fresh. Yeah. Branson doesn't take any time to recover from fun. Yeah, he's better than I am. Bram runs on a fun fuel system. What do we got here? What is that? Is that a Christmas con? Sneaking into the picture. Heavy on the con?

[00:01:48] Are you kidding me right now? Heavy on the con. Look at this. It's our new book? It's our new book. You should check it out and buy it right now. Write me out. Write me out. That's exactly right. It's pretty much everywhere. Everywhere. You just look for it wherever you like to buy books or listen to books. It's a winner, yeah. Kindle, e-book, you know, audio book, paperback book. Heck yeah. It's all there. That's exactly right. That's right. It's got the seal of the season on the end. It does. It's a major award. And you might have saw during the marathon, of course, Christmas Movie Magic is back. Yeah, it is.

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[00:03:46] That's true. A little cold air coming out the side too. Sometimes that's a really great feature. Other times it's not a good feature. Like when you're cold. When I'm cold, that's right. Fair enough. Well, obviously we reviewed the first two Hallmark Christmas movies of the season. Of course, yes. Yes, yes. During the marathon. But that did leave us with one more. And so we came back into the studio. Studio. And it's time for us to talk about it. We're talking about... Thursday? Thursday? It's Wednesday. It's Wednesday. Sorry, I'm still...

[00:04:15] I know this week's all out of whack. I'm very tired. But we had to push out the Christmas to start on Monday this week. It's a big first week. Yeah. Big week. Big week. It's all gonna come out in the wash. You know what I mean? Or the podcast player. Yeah, yeah. The podcast player. You'll come out in the wash. Spider-Man's coming out. Don't worry all you Marvel Monday heads out there. It's coming. It's coming. All right. Mr. and Mrs. Christmas. October 18th, 2020. Mrs. Christmas.

[00:04:44] This is the little sad thing I'm working on. You, you are festive and fun. You've... You are my number one. It's true. Miss Christmas. Sometimes you make me cry. You punch me in the eye. But for good reason. Miss Christmas. I didn't mean I think you're fast.

[00:05:12] I don't know how you could think... Just interpret that. Miss Christmas. Yeah. Uh, we didn't put out an album this year. We didn't put out an album. We got a buddy. Put it in the wash. Put it in the wash. It's a misunderstanding. Okay. All right. Uh... You called Miss Christmas fat. I didn't. She took it that way. And it went a little something like this. Uh, Taylor Lewis is a single dad who moves to a new town with his two kids for

[00:05:42] a new gig. He's a holiday display expert. What's he called? He's called that the town of Pineway really needs one of those two weeks before Christmas. Whatever. For a year round gig. Uh, a year round gig. His son Arlo is pumped. His daughter Jenna less than pumped. Plus, she misses her mom who is now living in England. So, it's a tough break.

[00:06:07] Uh, he has the city hall to unload some Christmas decorations and parks in a spot reserved for Sophie Shaw because he's only going to be there for a minute, right? Well, naturally, Sophie Shaw shows up and is not thrilled that he's in her spot. To make matters worse, he's not just going to be there for a minute because he accidentally locked his keys in his truck. So, she has to go four blocks to park and is late for a meeting. And when she finally shows up for said meeting, she finds out that her friend, Paul, who is

[00:06:35] in charge of community engagement, is going to be leaving after the festive market and Christmas parade happen, which he's actually bringing back this year after hiatus. Uh, there, uh, that's actually why they brought Taylor in to help with the decor of it. Uh, Sophie decides that she wants to throw her hat in the ring for that position, even though they'll probably hire somebody with community engagement experience. She's just an accountant.

[00:07:06] What could she possibly do? Taylor gets, uh, to decorating and is off to a rocky start when an employee just and accidentally crushes Paul's grandpapa's letters to Santa box. I'm sure it'll be fine. We have one right here. We have one right here. Yeah, of course. In case. I guess they need it. I guess he needs it. That's the right spot for it. Put it there. Um, anyway. Anywho. Yes. Back at home, he begins to notice that Jenna is really struggling with all the change.

[00:07:35] The magic just isn't there. So the next day he decides to put together, uh, Operation Bring Back Christmas Magic. I'm sure he's going to work on the name later, right? Yeah. He's not. Uh, at work, Paul, uh, brings in Sophie to oversee the festive market decorating process so that she can tell everybody that she helped plan it and hopefully get that job that she wants.

[00:08:01] She meets, uh, Taylor's kids and Sophie and Taylor start hanging out more and he opens up about how hard the adjustment has been. And she just gives him advice on what it's like to raise a teenage daughter. And she advises him to not try to fix everything, but to try to find the fun. What, what, like, what a teenage girl might like and want. Like, just try to, try to, uh, try to do what she wants for a little, for a change.

[00:08:27] He may have over, uh, over corrected here because everyone shows up to the market and the market sucks. Because instead of hot cocoa, we have bubble tea. Instead of carolers, we have a DJ and the town hates it. And to make matters worse, Jenna also isn't a fan of it either. It's just a little off. The next day, Sophie and Taylor put their heads together to figure out a way to course correct.

[00:08:53] Keep some of the stuff for the teens, but bring back the traditional stuff and make it even bigger, extending the festival to the carnival grounds. All leading up to the Mr. and Mrs. Christmas parade, which they can move from Main Street to the carnival for synergy. Paul agrees, as long as Sophie is in charge, which Taylor thinks is a great idea. They get to work on it. Uh, no, they don't.

[00:09:19] They just start hanging out with each other, like two adults, like just getting away from their kids and whatnot. And she helps him learn that he doesn't always have to fix things. Okay. He does not learn that lesson because at the opening of the festival, he brings in Clover. Who? What? What? Clover? He brought in Clover, Jenna's favorite artist from a couple years ago.

[00:09:44] And then Clover calls Jenna out from the stage and puts a spotlight on her. It does not go well. Jenna runs off and yells at him. To make matters worse, Clover sent him way over budget. He didn't understand that the yearly budget isn't just as you can't just do whatever you want to whenever you want to. There's seasonal aspects of it. Sophie isn't thrilled by this. They're going to have to cancel the Mr. and Mrs. Christmas parade.

[00:10:13] That's, that's all that there is to it. Okay. No money in the budget to make, uh, I know. Well, maybe he pitches that he and Sophie be Mr. And Mrs. Clause save money and do the parade anyways to surprise everybody because he still can't help himself from fixing everything. And this time it works. Jenna loves it and gives him a big hug. And Sophie gets her promotion to regional manager.

[00:10:42] And Taylor finds Sophie under the mistletoe and they kiss. And that my friends was Mr. And Mrs. Christmas. We did it. We did do it. We are going to take a break. We're going to come back. We're going to break this movie down with four segments. I love that. Here on deck the hallmark. We're back.

[00:11:12] Hi, everybody. Hopefully you're doing well today. Hopefully you're recovering from the marathon. Even though it's fun, it doesn't mean that there's not still recovery. That's the opposite of what you said in the last segment. It's not important. It's not important. It's fine. He's evolved, Sam. Yeah. I can see. He's a new man. Oh, let's get to the hot takes where we share exactly how we felt about this movie. We've watched two. This is our last one of the first weekend. Is it the best of the weekend? Bride Guy, what'd you think of Mr. and Mrs. Christmas?

[00:11:41] You are a pinhead. You are on record. I am a pin pal. Famously a pin pal pinhead. Yep. So this one, this was a lesson in things are not as bad as you imagine. You know, I live in fear of mistakes in my real life. And this movie taught me it's okay to neglect your teenage daughter who's struggling mentally, who has serious issues that they probably need some professional help with. It's okay to mess up my job at every turn. Every turn. Just without looking, no reflection.

[00:12:10] No correction. And it's okay to absolutely demolish two years worth of a town budget. Yeah. It's fine. It's fine. Things are never as bad as you think they are in your own head. Um, that all said, I liked it. How? I don't know how. Uh, there were notes of Christmas vacation in this that, uh, I noticed everybody noticed. Um, and it did. For those that didn't.

[00:12:41] Go ahead and give us the notes of Christmas vacation. I was celebrating the house. I couldn't help but. No, no. That is not a Christmas vacation note. Couldn't help but take me back to Clark Griswold standing on the front lawn. Stop it. Notes of Christmas with the Cranks. Stop. That I just, I, I, I couldn't help. For those that didn't see it. Yeah, give us a little bit more. When the whole street's power went out, straight from Christmas with the Cranks. And it works. Same scene. Two different movies. Yes. Okay. Yes. Same scenes. Two different movies. It just worked for me.

[00:13:10] Uh, they, the, the kids were really good in this, which took, went a long way for me. Uh, the, do I buy them together? I don't think so entirely. I don't think Pascal and Brennan Penny, I don't know that in real life, if this movie were real life, they would truly end up together. But I liked this story and, uh, I had, uh, I liked the big cast. And so the pace of it was good for me and moved right along. And so, uh, I, they did a lot last minute. Um, they did a lot.

[00:13:39] They did a lot last minute, but I liked that it was moving along and things were happening. And so I ended up kind of liking it. Um, and so I do like this movie. I, I, I really liked Pascal Hutton's movie. I thought that she's, she played a character that I haven't seen her play. And it was like, I really enjoyed her in this role. I agree. I thought the kids were fun.

[00:14:03] Uh, the, the, the oldest daughter there who's from when calls the heart, uh, was great. And, uh, good to see her again on the network. And then of course, uh, little fella miles more taller from the, why, why movies he's back and, uh, was a lot of fun as well. I think one breakdown for me, and I, I think maybe we could have just given it one more pass

[00:14:29] and it would have helped, but a lot, a lot of this movie is about him doing what I think a lot of people do specifically. I mean, I talked to a lot of dads and I think we have a tendency to want to fix things, right? Yeah. We're little fixers. And he, in this movie is learning the lesson that you don't always have to fix things, right? Like that's a lesson that he's learning throughout this movie.

[00:14:55] And, and then the movie ends with him making everything better by fixing it. That's right. By coming up with this idea to be Mr. and Mrs. Christmas. And it happens to be the thing that makes his daughter happy. So it did work out this time. And I found that messaging to get lost when you do that, when the whole movie is about

[00:15:20] him over and over and over again, messing things up by fixing it only to be able to fix it by fixing it. At least this time correctly. It's, it's like, I don't think he actually learned the lesson that you don't always have to fix this. And so that I think makes this movie, uh, take a step back for me.

[00:15:45] And I think it will, uh, see that reflected on its final review on my letterbox. I will grade accordingly, but I did like the movie. I like, I like, I like the cast by and large. And I think the idea is generally fine. And I think it's a good lesson to be explored in one of these movies, especially during the holiday season where we put so much pressure on ourselves to make everything so good.

[00:16:13] And we want to fix everything and we want to do all this stuff. And then to only for had to be undercut by him actually fixing something was a little bit of a miss for me. But overall I did like the movie. Tano. This movie is painful. It is so, so, so bad. I don't know how this town works. I don't know how this Christmas festival works. I don't know how his job works. I sure as heck don't know how her job works. And I still can't believe that what Brendan Penney's character does in this movie is he

[00:16:43] finds a way to big gesture himself out of every situation. And he does a grand gesture. And if it goes well, he did it and he's praised. And if it doesn't go well, he just doubles down to a grand gesture in the next scene. Oh, the arcade DJ didn't work. How about your favorite band? That didn't work. What if we do the parade anyway? What if we go like it? Like, oh, I'm going to cook you dinner. Oh, you don't want me to cook you dinner. What if I bake you cookies? And I set up this thing. It is crazy to me.

[00:17:13] What Branson is 100% correct. He doesn't ever like have the turning point in the movie. He just keeps doing it. He keeps hitting his head on the wall until it works. But that would actually have been fine had the movie had a good sense of humor about it. It doesn't. Had the movie made sense? This town made sense? It certainly doesn't. And had these two characters felt like they wanted to be in the same room with each other, they don't.

[00:17:41] So, as a Christmas movie, you better hang your hat on the three float parade, Brendan Penny and Pasco Hutton dressed like Mr. and Mrs. Claus, and a Christmas festival that they get to do three different times. And if those things don't work for you, as they did not for me, there is fundamentally nothing here to recommend. It is not a good sign early in the season to have a movie that is this dead on arrival. That's what we got.

[00:18:09] I said in the, man, almost like I predicted it. I said in our kickoff episode, this one was going to worry me. Boy, howdy is it bad. It's a good thing we do those. That's the thing. That is why we have to. We got a record. But you didn't put it in your bottom three for kickoff. I did. He did. Unfortunately. Yeah. So that's why we do that as two. Yeah, they call me Nostradamus. Dan. They certainly do. Check the mailbox for that one.

[00:18:38] Joke of the year so far. Nominated. Wow, congrats. Yeah, it's up there. That's huge. I'll close this back up. All right, it's time for all the feels that we're talking about. What is it going to give us feels? I'll start with you, Bran. Yeah, some of the emotional moments that did work for me were when he was looking back at the pictures of simpler times. And I feel like if we, that was very relatable. His times couldn't be more simpler than they are right now. Like I just don't know what we're talking about. That's sure, he's got it pretty easy. But yeah, you know, looking back. He's Mr. Christmas. Yeah. Allegedly. You can't just put that on your truck. No, he did.

[00:19:08] He did. You guys should put it on the company vehicle. We should. Mr. and Mrs. Christmas. That's right. Yeah, that look at a picture. That's underneath it just says, guess who's who. Bumper sticker for each side of the car. Yeah. Looking back at nostalgic pictures always works for me, I think so. That was good. I, you know, I like a Christmas carnival. I think that that's fun. We, we do carnival during summer. Yeah. Why not? Why not Christmas fair?

[00:19:38] And like they had rides. They had Ferris wheel. They had the tilt to whirl. They had a lot of stuff. Yeah, man. I like that. Let's do like normalize that. Yeah. Normalize the Christmas carnival. Yeah. Normalize the Christmas carnival. I bet there are those exist. Christmas markets. So old school. Christmas carnival. Christmas carnival. Why the heck not? I like this. Let's let's make sure we do a deck. The Hallmark Christmas carnival in our backyard. I mean, who's backyard? All right.

[00:20:08] Collect the studio. All three. All three? Each place has a different thing going on. Mine, yours, the studio, four, and then Brian gets another. Brian's backyard would probably be the best place for Christmas carnival. But he just did the grass. He just did the grass. I'm guilty about that. I gotta do some more work on that. What if we did it out front here? Ooh. The coldest. Yeah, put in the cul-de-sac. The coldie. Okay, now we're talking. Now we're cooking. It's a good thing we watched this movie to get this idea. Absolutely. Dan?

[00:20:35] Yeah, I thought Pascal Hutton's Mrs. Claus, who was pretty awesome. That cape, pretty cool. Shout out cape. Shout out to cape. All right, let's take a break. We'll come back. We will get to the wait what and the what the Hallmark here on Deck the Hallmark. Hello, everybody. Welcome back. Are you okay? Welcome back to Deck the Hallmark. Presented by Kringle. Kringle.com. We've seen Danish Krangles. They're the best. The best.

[00:21:05] Homemade Danish pastries. You can get all kinds of flavors. And then they just send them to you. Cheesecake, cinnamon, gingerbread, pumpkin spice. And I think we proved at the marathon you can't eat too many. And I can't prove this. I think Santa delivers them. You think Santa delivers them? Yeah. I'm pretty sure UPS does, but I don't want to get the lead to them. They're in cahoots. They're one and the same. Yeah. Let's get to the wait what is we were talking about what this movie is going. What? I'll start with you, bright guy. Anything? Yeah.

[00:21:32] These kids in this movie, their social IQ is off the charts. Yep. They look you in the eye when they're talking to you. Yeah, it's crazy. They respond to questions. They are fully able to have a conversation. Who wants to respond to questions? On the first try? Yeah. It's crazy. They are talking to each other using full sentences and words that are known in a dictionary. Like, impressive kids. Even when they're upset with you, they don't disrespect you. Yeah. I didn't hear a door slam, a foot stomp. Not a gun! No.

[00:22:02] Nothing. They ate their dinner peacefully. It's unreal. It was all the food stayed on the plate. I mean, for all the, you know, existential crises they're having about life and themselves, they're cruising through this movie as kids. They really are doing it. They're doing better than they know. Yeah. Keep at it, kids. They just changed. Stuff happened so fast in this movie. Yeah, you think so? So fast and so hard. Like, they went so hard on the Christmas carnival.

[00:22:31] Dude, when he's doing the first Christmas market, it's like 20 minutes into the movie. And I was like, we're near the end of this thing, right? Yeah. It was shocking. Yeah. How fast stuff happened and how elaborate everything was. Like, I wasn't prepared. To that point, like, he spends all day decorating for the market only to come home and decorate the house with an insane display. Dude, it was one of my... Wait, what's it? He decorated his house in one afternoon, which would take a mere mortal a week. Yeah. The amount of work he's able to do...

[00:23:01] So he maybe... I mean, Mr. Christmas looks like it's earned. Yeah, that's the thing you don't know. Like, he actually has earned that. Oh, so during the... When you work at that pace. That's right. He's on a different level. Yeah. All he does is big gestures. It's all he knows. Yeah. All he knows is fast and hard. During the heartfelt presentation to the board... Yeah. She's doing... Her second presentation where she, like, goes in with the heartfelt memories and stuff. Yeah. There's just a tree blocking the door. Yeah, man.

[00:23:31] You gotta. It's just there in the door. You got a lot of trees. You gotta block the doorway. It's actually a pretty good strategy if you're trying to present, like, to win people over in an argument of some sort. You just blocked a door. They can't leave. They're not leaving. They do. Yeah. And also, I'll stop after this one. I just feel like an accountant would be pretty busy at the end of Q4 and not have time for... You would think they would be... I know she does have extra projects, but I mean, like, really busy. Like, she would not have time to leave her desk. She's wrapping stuff up. It's the end of a quarter.

[00:24:00] She's an accountant. Like, this is their season. This is what it's all about. Yeah. Leading into Q1. Like, you're doing a lot of work. She doesn't have time for this. Yeah. She doesn't have time for this. Yeah. It's a thing. Um, am I understanding correctly that he moved him and his kids to a new town for a seasonal decorating game? They say he's going to be the year-round event specialist, which does not... What does that mean, though?

[00:24:27] That doesn't help answer your wait, what, at all, because I am for the life of me... He's a decorator. It says Mr. Christmas on his truck. Yes. He took the job of event specialist. Mm-hmm. That means he's going to do all the events all year long. Yeah. Yeah. Every event. And if that's the case, just to piggy-biggy back on that, why in the world did he start two weeks before Christmas? That's the biggest... Like, when is this? Yeah, I don't know.

[00:24:52] Like, why did Paul decide so late in the game that they're going to bring back the market and the parade? Just... You can't possibly expect this guy to do a good job. Yeah. And then you gave him carte blanche. He didn't have to fill out, like, a purchase order. No paper art. You get mad at him about not staying under budget? No one gave him a run? No one gave him a rundown on the budget? His first day, they gave him an unlimited credit card. Yep. They're just like, here's it, and we'll figure it out later. And then they get mad at him. Like, he doesn't... You give him all these documents... If Clover's available, you're getting Clover. Clover was available.

[00:25:21] How do you expect him to not get Clover? Yeah. Especially if the budget that you gave him says yes. I just don't know... And not give him the rundown on... If you hire an event specialist two weeks before Christmas, they can't possibly be allowed to spend whatever money they want on the front end. They're going to have to, like, learn how to go through the budgetary process that every company has that's literally bigger than two people. Mm-hmm. Clover's available.

[00:25:51] Clover was available. That's the thing. But, I mean, he's the first day. He's like, you got a Christmas market in two weeks, and here's a credit card. You got carte blanche. Go for it. Get after it. Um, he's working late one night, so is Shu. She walks in. It's nighttime, and he goes, what are you still doing here? And she says, city books don't balance themselves. That's true. And I agree, they don't. But that's also what the workday is for. Yes.

[00:26:15] It doesn't explain why you're there late at night, given the fact that she is the accountant. Yes. It is her literal job to balance the books. Yep. During the workday. What was she doing? Um, imagine Clover. We can all agree, big deal. Big stud, this guy. Clover shows up and starts the gig with jolly old St. Nicholas. Wild choice for Clover. Yeah, what a kickoff. Wild choice.

[00:26:45] Yeah, that's amazing. Um, so there's a point in this movie where, you know, he's really only focusing on what his son needs, and he, that comes out because he hasn't inflated his favorite inflatable, which is the snowman. Another Christmas of the Cranks reference. There you go. The big snowman. There you go. Such an original movie. Free, frosty, free, frosty. Free, frosty, frosty. Spike.

[00:27:14] What's your, Pascal's character shows up, and he tells his son, they're out there working on the inflatable. Hey, go in the garage and look for the other pump. Is this a manual Christmas inflatable that you have to pump up by hand? Dude, he goes hard. No wonder. I, at first I was like, dude, why are you like not setting up this? You have a lawn full of inflatables. I might be with that here.

[00:27:41] We have a ton of electric inflatables. Why do we have to manually inflate? We're going to have to keep up with it. That's right. It's going to be a whole thing. Why? We have plenty of snowmen. We have a nice electric one that does the job for you. Um, I, at one point, uh, his daughter looks at, uh, like some stuff falls off of the table and it's an ornament. And I think in the ornament is a picture of Brendan Penny and her as a kid.

[00:28:10] I don't think that's Brendan Penny in that picture. I don't know who it is, but I don't think it's Brendan Penny. Um, and also last but not least during the parade, the conductors just walk in straight forward, conducting the band that is behind him. That's right. And I think it's an important part of your job to be walking backwards so that they can actually see you doing the job. Not important. Dan Yeah. Uh, early in the meet cute in this movie is he parks in Pascal's parking spot and then drops the stuff he's trying to unload.

[00:28:37] And then in the process locks himself out of his truck. Not possible. Impossible. Not possible. That's a, no, you can't. That truck is a key fob. It will not, you can't do it. You can't even a dummy. You couldn't, you can't do it. What he did. You cannot do. I'm glad we've perfected that though. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course. Uh, when he turns his Christmas decorations on, it, uh, shuts off the power in the neighborhood one house at a time. Yeah. It's a rolling blackout. You've heard of it.

[00:29:06] A classic power grid situation where it goes, your lights off. Duh, duh. Like when the power went out for us ever, mine goes off and you count about five seconds and then brands goes off. It doesn't happen simultaneously. That would be stupid. It's a rolling. And then here's the thing is you would think with an entire neighborhoods power being out, that would be a pretty big plot point in a Christmas movie on Hallmark. No, never talked about again. No one. It doesn't matter. The lights are back on the next time we see moving on. Yeah. No reason.

[00:29:36] Flip the breaker. Yeah. For the whole. The big breaker. The big breaker. Someone's got to come out the big one in the sky. That's right. Crazy that we just move on from that. There's an extra in this movie, a background actor who is at the chestnut stand. I've never seen one look as angry about vending chestnuts as this man. He is not happy and we don't get to hear him speak. And that's the end of that. All of that does pale in comparison to two words. Regional manager.

[00:30:05] I don't guys. They're not working for a company. Right. Brandon Penny didn't get hired as an event specialist by a company. Pascal is not the auditor or the accountant for the company. This is for the town. Right? Yeah. I think so. A town structure is typically like mayor, treasurer, secretary.

[00:30:30] She is going up for the job of, and they say it a bunch, regional manager. Yeah. Are they running a Kinko's that I'm not familiar with? Why do they keep saying regional manager? That is not a title that exists within the scope of an org chart of a town. You're not, no one's a regional man. That's what, what are we doing?

[00:31:00] What are we talking about? I, every time she was like, I'm never going to be regional manager. I didn't know that was a possibility. I don't understand how you were up for it to begin with. This isn't circuit city. Like, what do you mean regional manager? I'm confused. Just couldn't understand it. Um, but also lastly, Clover, he talks to Clover and, uh, he goes, thanks for doing this. And Clover goes, the chance to play at our hometown over the holidays. Who could say no? So many bands. Yeah.

[00:31:29] So many bands could say no and probably do say no. Yeah. On a regular basis. Just got off the road last thing. Well, that's what makes Clover unique. Clover. Shout out. That's what makes Clover special. He's a hero. Yeah. Honorary district manager I'm hearing. He's phenomenal. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, starting with the hallmarks where we wonder what could have been. Maybe it's a clear question. We still have, what are we still wondering about? That's what this segment is for. Brian, you got any questions after this one? Well, Dan, you alluded to that situation with the parking spot, uh, where he pulls in.

[00:31:59] And I just found myself wondering like, how would I react if I had a, a dedicated parking spot and somebody parked in it? Yeah. What would I know what I would do? You keep driving. And I know what I would wish that I would do. That's right. Um, and I just was wondering how, I feel like she handled that really well. She was super kind. Yes. Like, she's like, that is my spot. Yeah. Which it is. I have a meeting, which she did. Yes. And then he's like, okay, I have just one more box. Right. Like, okay, that's fine. He was very difficult. Just finish the box thing. Yeah.

[00:32:29] Um, I felt like she handled it really well. Yeah. The fact that we know there's no parking for four blocks was my problem. There's not a single spot in four blocks. Not a single spot. Have you booked? Wait until she takes over as regional manager. That's going to change. She's going to manage the heck out of this town. Day one, more parking downtown. Yeah. You think she's going to hire an assistant? Gone. Assistant. Gone are the days of walking four blocks. Uh huh. Four whole blocks. If you vote, and by vote I mean if I get the job, the promotion. The promotion. Not voting. To regional manager.

[00:32:58] To regional manager of this town. So after the first markets, the one where he made it more hip, they got in the bubble tea. DJ and the bubble tea, yes. There was an incident with tapioca. Sure was. And tapioca is apparently hard to get out. I don't know. But what happened with the tapioca? It is a big thing. Paul's like, hey, we got to make sure that we get the tapioca out.

[00:33:22] And then his little employees will look at it and it's like, we can either light it on fire. Or like, what happened with the tapioca? I feel like that's probably on the bubble tea company, right? Like if they had tapioca gone wrong, gone rogue, rogue tapioca, it's not live. Rogue tapioca, it's not live. I think that would be up to the bubble tea company to figure out how to get the tapioca out, right? Yeah. Yes? What happened? What happened that night?

[00:33:51] The tap, bubble tea went nuts. Bubble tea went nuts. Tapioca everywhere. Dano? Yeah. The mom, his ex-wife, they do this weird bit where they say she's in England, right? Is that what we're saying? Yep. But they don't ever commit to either, you know, usually Hallmark takes one of two lanes. It's the, you know, amicable divorce where we're still friends and we're still, you know, we just weren't right for each other and that's fine. Or they're a monster. Yeah.

[00:34:17] And we don't really get either of those here, I would say. Yeah. I would say she's, the mom's kind of an afterthought. And you would think that a mom of these two children at these two ages would not be an afterthought. So based off of one singular line, I think she moved to England to be close to her mom because her mom is sick. Right. Okay. That's true. So I... She's not FaceTiming in. No, not at all. But I did like... From England? How is that even possible?

[00:34:46] Yeah, I know the time difference is not even possible. I don't even think that tech is there. I think she is, in theory, good mom. Sure. In theory, good mom. Like, hats to go to England. It's first to lose at this point. Yeah. In theory, good mom. In theory, good mom. Great daughter. Great daughter. Great daughter. Really great daughter. Yeah. We know that for a fact. But also, one more, the power came back on, I guess, at the house. Yes. How long was it out for? Yeah. The street went out. They get that fixed pretty quick.

[00:35:15] The power goes out, the guy just bangs the thing up there. Yeah, he's up there and it sparks and then it all comes back on. Yeah, of course. We did it. Congratulations to us. We did it. The first weekend, one weekend, three movies. Just that easy. In the books. Go snag our book. Go grab some Kringle. Go get Christmas movie magic. Go have yourself a holly jolly Christmas. It's October. What are you waiting for? Lazy so much. Get out there and have some fun. We're going to be back tomorrow with more stuff.

[00:35:45] We've got plenty coming up later this month. Obviously movies up TV preview shows, festive Friday rankings, all sorts of good stuff. We're going to be back. We're going to have a lot of fun. We're still going to have a lot of fun. We're going to have a lot of fun. That's right. Until then, we're the first to wish you a Merry Christmas. We'll be right back.

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