My Sweet Austrian Holiday (Hallmark Mystery - 2024) ft. FOR KING & COUNTRY

[00:00:00] Hi, I'm Brian and I love Hallmark Christmas movies. I'm Brian and I like Hallmark Christmas movies. I'm Dan and I despise Hallmark Christmas movies. And I'm Luke and I straddle the fence of like and dislike. I'm Joel and I'm just admiring your Christmas setup so I'm a bit distracted boys but I like Hallmark Christmas movies. I prefer Lifetime Christmas movies.

[00:00:28] Oh, and this is the Deck The Hallmark Podcast! Deck The Hallmark, it's this podcast.

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[00:00:50] Wow, wow, wow. Oh boy. Hello everybody. Happy Sunday. Uh huh. Yeah. It's our first Sunday release of the season. It's a new thing we're trying where, you know, as you're on your way to church, you know, you put on the old...

[00:01:04] Should we play the boys from Deck The Hallmark? I think we should. Yeah.

[00:01:07] But what are the odds that a band that people might listen to on their way to church is joining us on our Sunday episode?

[00:01:14] I mean, the odds are unbelievable. It is like we planned it. And we have not... I heard on good authority, we don't have king or country. We have king and country.

[00:01:22] I understand that. That is true.

[00:01:23] Which one of you is king, if you can introduce yourselves?

[00:01:26] I'm the king. I'm the king. Okay. Joel is the king for the rip-off because he...

[00:01:31] I was wanting to... Luke, are you country?

[00:01:35] I was wanting there to be a vote. Like, which one do you think is the king?

[00:01:38] Ooh. Yeah, I just wanted to know which one...

[00:01:40] I, in my head, Luke, you are older than Joel, which would make you...

[00:01:45] I'm a younger brother. That would make me... That would make you king.

[00:01:50] That's not true?

[00:01:52] No. Luke, Luke...

[00:01:54] So, Dan despises Hallmark films and Luke now despises Dan because Luke is the younger brother.

[00:02:01] Oh. Maybe it's because you were on time, Luke.

[00:02:05] Oh, yeah.

[00:02:05] Maybe that's what it was.

[00:02:06] I was on time. I could hear everything. I just didn't have my mic turned on.

[00:02:10] All right?

[00:02:11] Take it easy. It's Sunday, guys.

[00:02:13] I am the most day.

[00:02:14] Yeah, that's right.

[00:02:15] That's right.

[00:02:15] Between the two of us, I probably am the most responsible.

[00:02:20] But, Dan, just to clarify one thing, I've probably asked a thousand people in my life,

[00:02:27] Hey, who do you think is older?

[00:02:28] Like, at meet and greets and signing lines and all those types of things,

[00:02:32] I think you're one of three people.

[00:02:35] Wow.

[00:02:35] That's true.

[00:02:36] It's just changed.

[00:02:37] It's just changed.

[00:02:38] It's all the grays.

[00:02:40] Yeah, that'll do it.

[00:02:41] I don't know what it was, man.

[00:02:43] Maybe I just...

[00:02:43] You know, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Luke. I'm sorry I let you down there.

[00:02:46] But you also, I think you had the curly hair, which is like a crown.

[00:02:49] So let's go with that.

[00:02:50] Hey, Dan, he's just...

[00:02:52] He's the more mature, he's the more responsible brother.

[00:02:56] It makes sense.

[00:02:58] Why can't you be more like your brother?

[00:02:59] That's right.

[00:03:00] You're always hearing that.

[00:03:01] Thanks, man.

[00:03:01] You're always hearing that.

[00:03:03] You know what?

[00:03:04] We're really excited to be with you guys virtually.

[00:03:07] We were together last night.

[00:03:09] Last night.

[00:03:09] Yeah.

[00:03:10] In Greenville, South Carolina.

[00:03:10] You were here.

[00:03:11] Hey, how did you feel about the show, by the way?

[00:03:13] Oh my gosh.

[00:03:14] Hey, thank you all for coming.

[00:03:15] Like it was one thing for one of you to come or two of you to come.

[00:03:18] It was a whole other thing for all three of you to come and bring your family.

[00:03:21] Yeah, that was just...

[00:03:22] When you guys offered us free tickets.

[00:03:26] And you invited us on...

[00:03:26] I ordered you discount tickets for the record.

[00:03:29] Luke ordered you free tickets.

[00:03:30] The older brother.

[00:03:30] Obviously, Lavor responsible.

[00:03:32] My favorite part was obviously when you guys invited us on stage and you let us do a

[00:03:36] show.

[00:03:36] What a time that was.

[00:03:37] It was an honor.

[00:03:38] It was an honor.

[00:03:39] It was so awkward.

[00:03:40] We kicked you off pretty quick.

[00:03:41] We overstay the welcome.

[00:03:42] As per usual.

[00:03:43] It was really weird because Dan doesn't know any of your songs.

[00:03:45] And so it made it...

[00:03:47] Tried to lead the crowd.

[00:03:47] It made it really weird.

[00:03:49] I'm an old school Rebecca St. James fan.

[00:03:52] I'm trying to cross over though.

[00:03:53] Yeah.

[00:03:53] I'm trying my best to get there.

[00:03:55] Dan just went into...

[00:03:56] What did you go into?

[00:03:57] Was it God?

[00:03:57] It was God.

[00:03:58] It was the one I remember.

[00:03:59] That's right.

[00:04:01] We are really excited that you guys are joining us today for a couple of reasons.

[00:04:04] We're going to be reviewing a Hallmark movie.

[00:04:06] It's going to be a lot of fun.

[00:04:07] And there was a little bit of a mix up in my mind.

[00:04:10] A little bit of wires crossed.

[00:04:10] It was the Austrian movie.

[00:04:12] And I thought that you guys were Austrian.

[00:04:15] You're Australian.

[00:04:15] And that's on me.

[00:04:16] Totally my fault.

[00:04:17] I was trying to do a thing.

[00:04:19] You and Jim Carrey.

[00:04:19] Yeah.

[00:04:20] I do apologize there.

[00:04:22] But you are joining us as well because you've got a pretty big holiday season per usual

[00:04:28] for you guys.

[00:04:28] You are a bit of a holiday staple now for a lot of people because of your Christmas music.

[00:04:34] And your concert is coming to cinemas, to the theater.

[00:04:39] The cinema.

[00:04:40] In December, which is pretty exciting.

[00:04:42] What can you tell people about a concert film?

[00:04:46] I imagine that's going to be pretty cool to see on the big screen.

[00:04:50] We'll give you the whole back story, boys.

[00:04:52] Please.

[00:04:53] I was, we're at home right now.

[00:04:56] And last year, we were at home in between Christmas shows.

[00:05:01] And I was in the bath.

[00:05:04] Um, and I was reading fully, fully clothed.

[00:05:08] Sure.

[00:05:08] Of course.

[00:05:09] Family show.

[00:05:11] The Wall Street Journal.

[00:05:12] And it went through all of these, um, like the, the title was the films that saved

[00:05:18] cinemas this year.

[00:05:20] And one was, uh, religious dramas.

[00:05:23] One was, uh, one genre was, um, actually, uh, like classic films going back into theaters.

[00:05:29] And the third was live concert films.

[00:05:32] And we had already been toying around with, we love Christmas.

[00:05:34] It's the most meaningful time of the year.

[00:05:37] Um, we love, you know, the story behind Christmas and we've sort of opted to take this sort of very spiritual approach to the season and remake some of these incredible Christmas songs, namely a song called the little drummer boy, um, which was written in the early 1900s.

[00:05:54] And, and we did the most obvious thing.

[00:05:56] We put a bunch of drums on a song about a boy playing drums for Jesus.

[00:06:01] And it's sort of like, I have TSA pre agents come to me these days.

[00:06:06] Like they won't say you're for King country.

[00:06:08] They won't say you're Rex and James brothers.

[00:06:09] They'll say, you're the drummer boy guys.

[00:06:13] Um, and so it's kind of caught on like house on like a house on fire.

[00:06:16] So we do these tours, but you can only get to so many places in one season because the season is so short until this year.

[00:06:25] So we took, after reading that article in the bath, fully clothed, we took the film crew from, um, uh, from unsung hero, which is a movie we did with lions gate that released earlier this year.

[00:06:35] And we put them in the Toyota center in Houston, Texas.

[00:06:39] And we captured a cinematic concert experience up close and personal, um, of the greatest, what we believe is the greatest season of the year.

[00:06:48] And so five nights only December 5th through 9th, it's going to be in 1500 theaters across America.

[00:06:54] So instead of us upsetting three quarters of the country, when we announced, we can only go to 10 cities, it's going to be within driving distance of every American this Christmas.

[00:07:03] So we're, we are pretty, it's not quite a hallmark film, but it is pretty exciting.

[00:07:07] I mean, I think we could put something together and make it a hallmark film.

[00:07:11] I mean, yeah, halfway there, 1500 screens.

[00:07:14] That is, that's a wide release.

[00:07:15] That is not an independent film.

[00:07:17] That is like, you guys are going to be out there.

[00:07:19] That's going to be fantastic.

[00:07:21] Is it just, I mean, sorry, go ahead.

[00:07:24] Go ahead.

[00:07:24] No, you know you, I was going to make a joke and it's not the time.

[00:07:27] It's not the time.

[00:07:28] Absolutely.

[00:07:29] Go ahead.

[00:07:30] This is very serious.

[00:07:31] The country is talking guys.

[00:07:33] Well, apparently I was the king.

[00:07:36] But I got dismantled.

[00:07:37] But no, it's the fun thing about this, this, this tour is it is the biggest, the Christmas

[00:07:45] tour that we usually do every year is the biggest thing that we do.

[00:07:48] And as Joel said, it's always been very frustrating because we have people get, but if you go west,

[00:07:52] you don't go eat, you know what I'm saying?

[00:07:54] And so to be able to, with technology, with theaters and the fathom, to be able to solve

[00:08:00] this and celebrate the greatest story in the history of the world altogether is a real delight.

[00:08:06] So yes, 1500 theaters and counting.

[00:08:09] That's amazing.

[00:08:09] It's called A Drummer Boy Christmas, The Cinematic Concert Experience.

[00:08:14] And we're just thrilled.

[00:08:17] Fathom's putting it out and we're really grateful to them.

[00:08:20] But enough about that.

[00:08:22] Brad, you want to make that joke now?

[00:08:23] Yeah, I was going to make the joke.

[00:08:25] Is it just Little Drummer Boy for two hours?

[00:08:28] Or do you do a couple of others?

[00:08:29] No, just that song.

[00:08:30] Yeah, I mean, it's a really good song.

[00:08:32] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:08:32] It's a really good song.

[00:08:34] And I just, can I say this, Luke, if you were clean shaven based upon the Google images,

[00:08:39] you would clearly be the younger brother.

[00:08:41] I think it's the stubble that's getting you in trouble.

[00:08:43] I thought about that this morning.

[00:08:46] And I was like, you know, I think I need to show some wisdom.

[00:08:51] Yeah.

[00:08:51] And as I'm going on to review a whole lot of Christmas movie.

[00:08:55] Show some respect.

[00:08:56] I think the wisdom was required for this movie.

[00:08:57] Yeah.

[00:08:58] And that's why you're the king.

[00:09:00] So yeah, I think that would have fixed the whole thing.

[00:09:02] But you know, we're here.

[00:09:03] I think that works out.

[00:09:04] Now, one more question just about Christmas music.

[00:09:06] There are groups out there like the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Manheim Steamroller that have figured it out,

[00:09:12] how to figure out how do we do the whole country.

[00:09:15] And it's that we have two separate bands and we call them both Trans-Siberian Orchestra, even though it's not.

[00:09:21] Because no one really knows who's in that band.

[00:09:23] They just know the song.

[00:09:24] So like what are you working on to make that possible for the next year?

[00:09:29] Maybe you guys split up.

[00:09:30] The king or country.

[00:09:31] Maybe you do king.

[00:09:32] The king tour of the country tour.

[00:09:34] The ultimate vote.

[00:09:36] Have you thought about it?

[00:09:39] I mean, look, we're in the days of AI, guys.

[00:09:42] We're in the days of holograms.

[00:09:45] And so in a couple of years, I'm sure we're going to be able to do it.

[00:09:48] But for the moment, all we got is 10, 12 shows.

[00:09:51] Unless, again, you can capture it cinematically.

[00:09:55] And I'll say this.

[00:09:55] Because in the theaters.

[00:09:56] Just to brag on the team.

[00:09:59] It's really beautiful.

[00:10:00] And I feel like I can say that because there were so many people that worked on it.

[00:10:03] You know, there's, we go 40, 50 feet in the air during the show.

[00:10:08] And there's 12,000 people in the room.

[00:10:11] And we had an Emmy award winning sound mixer in LA mix at Matt Waters and Ainsley Grosser.

[00:10:18] And it just, it looks beautiful.

[00:10:20] It sounds beautiful.

[00:10:21] It's really immersive.

[00:10:22] And that was one of our key focuses was we wanted to make something that felt like you literally were in the room with us.

[00:10:31] And it's, funnily enough, the CFOs never lie.

[00:10:34] Never lie, boys.

[00:10:36] And our CFO watched it and he was like, I don't know.

[00:10:38] I was skeptical guys when you decided to do this.

[00:10:40] But I think this is better than one of your real shows, honestly.

[00:10:44] It's like, okay.

[00:10:44] Wow.

[00:10:45] Wow.

[00:10:46] It's a typical CFO though.

[00:10:47] They don't want to leave the office.

[00:10:49] Yeah, that's true.

[00:10:49] CFO.

[00:10:50] Always have to take big risks.

[00:10:52] Yeah.

[00:10:53] Yeah.

[00:10:53] And we actually did talk to the sound mixer and he said it was the hardest job he's ever had.

[00:10:57] So the fact that he was able to make it sound good is really a testament to him and that team.

[00:11:03] So congratulations to that team.

[00:11:04] I'm sure there's awards coming out for them.

[00:11:07] Shall we talk about the Austrian Christmas movie?

[00:11:09] We should.

[00:11:10] Probably.

[00:11:10] Since we have the Australians here, let's talk about this Austrian.

[00:11:13] Yes.

[00:11:13] For everybody that didn't watch it on Halloween night, here's how the movie went.

[00:11:20] Maybe you recorded it on Philo.

[00:11:21] Philo.tv slash DTH.

[00:11:22] Maybe you did.

[00:11:23] Maybe you did.

[00:11:24] You could.

[00:11:24] My Sweet Austrian Holiday originally premiered on Halloween in 2024 on the Hallmark Channel

[00:11:31] and it went a little something like this.

[00:11:33] Charlotte is a chocolatier who recently moved to Vienna with a wild idea.

[00:11:39] Like, you know, putting potato chips and chocolate and whatnot.

[00:11:42] She's at a fundraising event surrounded by as many Christmas trees as possible.

[00:11:46] Also at this event is Henry, who doesn't know much, but he knows one thing.

[00:11:52] You don't put potato chips in chocolate.

[00:11:54] I disagree, Henry.

[00:11:56] Charlotte is trying hard to win Vienna's Chocolatier of the Year Award because if she wins,

[00:12:02] she thinks it will be harder to lose her shop to a developer who is trying to buy it.

[00:12:07] And who is this developer, you might be wondering?

[00:12:10] It's Henry's company.

[00:12:11] And everything is looking good for the development to purchase this 300 million euro development,

[00:12:19] except for Charlotte's chocolate shop.

[00:12:22] She is fighting it tooth and nail.

[00:12:23] And Henry doesn't know about that though because he doesn't really want to know any details about what is going on.

[00:12:29] He just wants to know if it's going well.

[00:12:31] He just wants to be on holiday.

[00:12:33] He leaves a meeting to walk through the market and bumps into Charlotte again.

[00:12:38] They end up walking around the city together, having a great time.

[00:12:41] They eventually return to her chocolate shop and she gives him some chocolate to remember her by.

[00:12:48] On his way out, he hands her his cart.

[00:12:51] I thought that was going to be a whodunit there moment, but it wasn't.

[00:12:54] And she's like, thank you.

[00:12:55] I'll hold onto this.

[00:12:56] The next day, they bump into each other again and he asks her if she wants to get dinner.

[00:13:03] She says, I always have time for food.

[00:13:06] Fantastic.

[00:13:07] They go out and they talk about their dreams and whatnot, which gets Henry thinking, is he actually doing what he loves?

[00:13:16] He knows that Charlotte is, but is he?

[00:13:17] He finds out that Charlotte is fighting off developers and he doesn't put two and two together.

[00:13:22] He thinks, let me see if I can help you.

[00:13:25] So he asks an associate to look into Charlotte's business to see if they can do anything to help fight off the developer as a historical landmark.

[00:13:33] When Henry, what Henry doesn't know is that that associate is the one who's trying to fight her on the historical landmark status.

[00:13:40] I know.

[00:13:41] So instead of helping her, she serves Charlotte with paperwork claiming eminent domain.

[00:13:47] Charlotte is like, over my dead body it is.

[00:13:50] She is ready for war, for king and for country.

[00:13:54] She shows him the paperwork and it all clicks in.

[00:13:58] He's the bad guy in this story.

[00:14:00] He could come clean to her, but he doesn't want to.

[00:14:03] Instead, they go ice skating and decorate a Christmas tree, something he's never done before.

[00:14:09] He calls his dad to get advice and his dad's like, you should just pay her more money and get this over with.

[00:14:16] They do offer her more money, but she's not having it.

[00:14:19] She decides to look into this company, finally, to find out who's behind this.

[00:14:24] Maybe she can go and talk to them.

[00:14:27] And there's this point that she finds out that Henry is associated with the development.

[00:14:32] So she barges in and tells him to shove off.

[00:14:36] Henry feels all mopey dopey.

[00:14:38] She's then looking at pictures and comes across a photo of her grandma, who the shop used to belong to,

[00:14:44] and her grandma's best friend, who still lives in Vienna.

[00:14:47] So she goes to visit her, and luckily, she has a picture of the two of them in front of this building

[00:14:52] before the special date that would make the building historic.

[00:14:56] So she has proof.

[00:14:58] Henry's dad shows up and says, hey, son, I'm sorry that I suck.

[00:15:01] I suck as a dad, and I'm sorry.

[00:15:04] I want to try to help you figure out a way that you can make things better.

[00:15:08] So he puts together some cool blueprints on the phone.

[00:15:13] Blueprints.

[00:15:14] I did rap last night at the show, and it was really good.

[00:15:17] So thank you.

[00:15:18] Can't believe he brought us back up for an encore.

[00:15:20] It was amazing.

[00:15:21] For King and Country show.

[00:15:23] Little Drummer Boy was huge.

[00:15:25] So the blueprints, he shows them to her.

[00:15:28] And she's like, I'm going to have to think.

[00:15:31] And so what better way to think than with a waltz?

[00:15:34] They waltz together.

[00:15:35] And eventually, she tells him that, hey, I'm in.

[00:15:39] This sounds great.

[00:15:40] They kiss.

[00:15:41] Then they stop dancing.

[00:15:42] They talk about it again.

[00:15:44] She once again says, I'm in.

[00:15:46] They kiss again.

[00:15:47] And then there's fireworks.

[00:15:51] And that was the, that was the, that was the, that was the, that was the sweet Austrian holiday.

[00:15:57] That's right.

[00:15:58] Let's take a break.

[00:15:59] Thank you.

[00:16:00] Thank you.

[00:16:00] That's more clapping than you guys did for us last night.

[00:16:03] I'm sure you're making up for lost time.

[00:16:05] But let's take a quick break.

[00:16:07] We'll come back.

[00:16:08] We'll break this movie down with for King and Country here on deck.

[00:16:12] The hallmark.

[00:16:22] Welcome back, everybody.

[00:16:22] We're talking about my sweet Austrian holiday with the Australian band for King and Country.

[00:16:30] We're going to break this movie down.

[00:16:32] We're going to share our thoughts on it.

[00:16:35] Let's do our hot takes.

[00:16:36] Brian, I'm going to start with you because why would I start with the guests?

[00:16:40] I'm going to start with you.

[00:16:41] No, we never do that.

[00:16:42] What did you think of my sweet Austrian holiday?

[00:16:45] Yeah.

[00:16:45] I actually thought those were pretty good stuff.

[00:16:48] What?

[00:16:49] I had a pretty good time.

[00:16:50] Brian.

[00:16:51] Like we start, we start with somebody who's already made a big life decision moving to

[00:16:58] Vienna, not in the conflict.

[00:17:00] Like should I, shouldn't I?

[00:17:02] It'll uproot my whole life.

[00:17:03] She already did it.

[00:17:03] So right off the bat, I know a lot about her character and I like, I like her.

[00:17:08] I like this.

[00:17:08] I like where this is going.

[00:17:10] Brian.

[00:17:11] Will Kemp as Henry.

[00:17:13] He, I feel like he even could have leaned into the arrested development or the immaturity

[00:17:19] of not one.

[00:17:20] Does he look like Hugh Jackman to anyone else?

[00:17:23] Oh yeah.

[00:17:23] It was, I tell you what it was, was the way he was, we've, Will's been on the show

[00:17:27] before.

[00:17:28] So has Brittany.

[00:17:29] They both of these leads have been on our show before.

[00:17:31] Will loves to do voice.

[00:17:32] He is British.

[00:17:33] He's from London, but he loves to do voices.

[00:17:35] I love his accent.

[00:17:36] Yeah.

[00:17:36] And he was in the pocket there.

[00:17:38] Yeah.

[00:17:39] It did make him give him a little bit of a Hugh Jackman vibe.

[00:17:41] Yeah.

[00:17:41] That works for him.

[00:17:42] I said he could be Willy Wonka.

[00:17:43] I said he could legitimately be Willy Wonka if you wanted to.

[00:17:46] 100%.

[00:17:46] Imagine that.

[00:17:47] So I liked these characters and the story I thought was great.

[00:17:49] Chocolate.

[00:17:50] You cannot go wrong.

[00:17:51] Obviously a little more, a little more chocolatey would have done us all some good.

[00:17:55] I think we all agree there with anytime.

[00:17:57] Will dances.

[00:17:59] That's a joy for everybody to watch.

[00:18:01] So yeah, I had a good time.

[00:18:02] The conflicts.

[00:18:03] Yeah.

[00:18:04] Predictable.

[00:18:04] But the one thing with this where he hid his identity from her, which typically that's

[00:18:10] like classic move.

[00:18:11] Yeah.

[00:18:11] I didn't mind it in this one because I felt like he was actually, he might pull this off.

[00:18:15] Like he might fix it and be able to explain it.

[00:18:17] So if you were him, you would have lied to her on the off chance you could solve the

[00:18:22] problem without being honest?

[00:18:23] I don't know if I, I'm not, he is a bigger man than I am.

[00:18:27] I don't know if I could have pulled it off.

[00:18:29] I had confidence in him doing this though.

[00:18:31] And I was with him.

[00:18:32] I was along for the ride.

[00:18:33] I was really, he also, he also had a Batman sidekick, Brian working.

[00:18:38] That's true.

[00:18:39] That's true.

[00:18:40] And that makes all the difference.

[00:18:42] That's right.

[00:18:43] Most people think Batman sidekick is Robin, but it's not.

[00:18:46] Go ahead.

[00:18:49] I find it remarkable that you just somehow intellectualize the Hallmark Christmas movie

[00:18:53] the way that you just did.

[00:18:54] I mean, it was, it was a, thank you.

[00:18:57] An impressive feat where you're like, you know, you're building up to like, you just

[00:19:01] felt like because she moved from, uh, I was impressive.

[00:19:05] Oh, thank you.

[00:19:05] I found that.

[00:19:06] We're going to give you a for King country critique on your company.

[00:19:10] Did you now one question?

[00:19:12] I have one question.

[00:19:12] Um, did you, did you watch it with anyone else?

[00:19:17] I watched it alone.

[00:19:18] Yeah.

[00:19:19] I watched it by myself.

[00:19:20] I thought you were going to say something else.

[00:19:21] I watched it.

[00:19:22] It makes a lot more sense.

[00:19:23] Yeah.

[00:19:23] Oh wow.

[00:19:25] He was locked in, but also Joel, you need to know, like we watch a bunch of these movies.

[00:19:31] Like we were, we watched them five days a week.

[00:19:34] We watch a ton of these.

[00:19:36] What he did there was not impressive.

[00:19:41] Thanks Dan.

[00:19:42] I think that's a, feels good to be knocked down a peg or two.

[00:19:45] I think that's what they call the weeds.

[00:19:47] There may have been a little, there may have been a little sarcasm in my comments, but that's

[00:19:52] okay.

[00:19:52] No, no, no way.

[00:19:55] Uh, Luke, while you're talking, how about you share your thoughts on this movie?

[00:19:58] First of all, do you have an, like a past with a Hallmark Christmas movies or made for

[00:20:03] TV Christmas movies?

[00:20:04] Okay.

[00:20:04] So look, you know, you, I hope you, I hope you saw my joke last night because we get ready

[00:20:10] to sing a love story.

[00:20:11] And I say, Hey, you know, I gotta love a good love story.

[00:20:15] And I asked the audience, Hey, do you love it?

[00:20:17] You know, you love a good love story.

[00:20:18] And they all like, yeah, yeah.

[00:20:19] Remember that part of the show guys?

[00:20:20] Oh, I did.

[00:20:22] It was a really, really good.

[00:20:23] But for those that weren't there, keep going.

[00:20:25] Yeah.

[00:20:25] It was funny.

[00:20:26] It was funny.

[00:20:28] Right?

[00:20:28] Yeah.

[00:20:29] Um, and, uh, and I say, uh, my wife's got me watching these Hallmark Christmas movies

[00:20:34] in July.

[00:20:36] And so it's a part of my stick.

[00:20:38] It's a part of my, my, my deal.

[00:20:39] So, uh, yes, I have watched a fair few, uh, my wife and, but look, the game that I

[00:20:46] like to play, I'm sure you gentlemen like to play as well as can I figure out the ending

[00:20:50] of the movie within the first five minutes of the movie.

[00:20:53] And, uh, usually I'm successful.

[00:20:57] Um, this, this film was, it was, it was, it was fine.

[00:21:02] You know, it was, it had the warm fuzzies.

[00:21:04] There wasn't a lot of twists.

[00:21:06] I just want one of them to die.

[00:21:11] Yeah.

[00:21:12] Some sort of, yes, yes.

[00:21:13] But I, uh, but I, but to me, you know, what's interesting is not done to the same level,

[00:21:20] maybe as you've got mail, but you know, you've got the big developer coming in.

[00:21:25] There's the little store over here and he's coming in and he's the big bad wolf, you know,

[00:21:30] and they kind of run into each other a few times.

[00:21:32] And so, you know, it was, uh, it was, it was what I would expect from a, a Hallmark,

[00:21:39] uh, Christmas movie.

[00:21:40] Um, I do think Hallmark Christmas movies have, uh, their scripts have gotten progressively

[00:21:44] better where there are a few twists and turns that you don't see coming.

[00:21:47] And this was not one of them.

[00:21:49] Nope.

[00:21:49] And that doesn't mean it's a bad thing.

[00:21:51] Yeah, that's fair.

[00:21:52] Hey, um, before you go to Joel, you need to know that Joel is a screenwriter and a director

[00:21:58] like has a, has directed a feature film.

[00:22:01] So the bar's high for the, the eldest King and country here.

[00:22:05] Luke has also produced a stat said film.

[00:22:08] So we've both, we've both got this going for us.

[00:22:10] Yeah.

[00:22:11] All right.

[00:22:12] Okay.

[00:22:12] Well, it's not a lifetime movie, but, uh, what did you think of, of this?

[00:22:16] All right.

[00:22:17] All right.

[00:22:18] I got, I got high, I got highlights and I got lowlights, right?

[00:22:22] I thought the stakes Brian per your comment were, were moderately high stakes.

[00:22:29] You know, I, like, I kind of felt like, all right, no one's going to die if this thing,

[00:22:33] you know, um, does, doesn't, doesn't come through.

[00:22:36] I will say, I'm going to start at the end, um, and say that, uh, that waltz was one hallmark

[00:22:44] of a waltz.

[00:22:44] He's a great dancer.

[00:22:45] I mean, it was like, when she was spinning and the whole thing.

[00:22:49] Will is a classically trained dancer.

[00:22:51] Will Kemp is like years of dancing.

[00:22:53] Yeah.

[00:22:53] So here's my, here's my, my highlights, my highlights were, I actually thought it had

[00:22:59] scope.

[00:23:00] I thought there was some really nice, like, it did not feel like some of these films feel

[00:23:04] like they've just shot them in really tiny rooms and they didn't have the budget to get

[00:23:07] the big, you know, shot.

[00:23:09] I felt like Brian, to your point about the end, the fireworks, that little superimposed

[00:23:14] shot.

[00:23:15] The first time they showed that estate, I was like, that's beautiful.

[00:23:17] Fireworks didn't work for me.

[00:23:18] Uh, not that that's part of the storyline.

[00:23:20] Um, highlights.

[00:23:22] I thought there was some, there was some really good quotes in it.

[00:23:25] Um, uh, at one point, I think she said something like she's, you stay because

[00:23:32] you think you're losing someone when in the end you're losing yourself.

[00:23:36] I was like, Oh, in the music.

[00:23:39] I thought that was, yeah, I thought that was nice.

[00:23:41] And then, um, this was not quite as good of a line, but I thought it was still fun.

[00:23:47] She said, I don't, I don't, I don't need a hero, Henry.

[00:23:50] I need someone who's willing to be honest with me.

[00:23:54] And I thought that was good conflict resolution.

[00:23:58] Um, I, I have some questions.

[00:24:00] I want to know what happened to Alfred and the other lady.

[00:24:02] Like I didn't really, yeah, I did really, I don't really care that much, but I felt

[00:24:06] like they ran out of time at the end.

[00:24:08] Um, I liked the estate at the end.

[00:24:11] Like I said, uh, I thought, um, I thought the accents were great.

[00:24:18] I thought the, uh, the FaceTime calls.

[00:24:21] So this is some of the lowlights.

[00:24:22] The FaceTime calls were weird for me.

[00:24:24] Yeah.

[00:24:24] Yeah.

[00:24:25] So, so this is, someone just needs to say, speaking of a director, someone needs to say,

[00:24:29] whenever you make a FaceTime call ever, you're never looking at the camera.

[00:24:34] You're always looking at yourself.

[00:24:36] Yep.

[00:24:37] So the FaceTime calls felt a little off to me.

[00:24:40] Um, I thought the cuckoo clock.

[00:24:43] Hmm.

[00:24:44] A little cuckoo maybe.

[00:24:46] That's a little cuckoo.

[00:24:47] The cuckoo clock was a little cuckoo.

[00:24:49] Now here's another highlight.

[00:24:50] I thought the, uh, the Dobler design of the coffee shop.

[00:24:54] I thought it was very legitimate.

[00:24:55] You know, sometimes they throw those little, they come up with an idea and they throw it

[00:24:58] up there and it just looks sort of B grade.

[00:25:00] I thought it was very legitimate.

[00:25:02] Um, another lowlight was there was definitely no coffee in their mugs when they were ice

[00:25:07] skating.

[00:25:08] No way, no way.

[00:25:08] There was not a, there was not a drop of coffee.

[00:25:11] No, I know.

[00:25:12] Just put some, just put some dark water in there guys.

[00:25:16] You can stomach a little bit of Coca-Cola.

[00:25:19] Um, so that was a bit of a lowlight.

[00:25:21] Then also when they were having this sort of romantic thing in the apartment and he sort

[00:25:25] of wanted to kiss her, but she was sort of avoiding it.

[00:25:28] Um, I'm glad they cleared this up because she, she opens the fridge and she poured what

[00:25:33] seemed to be milk into their glasses.

[00:25:37] And I thought who in the last hundred and 40 years has at 7 PM on a date, open the fridge

[00:25:44] and poured their other, their, their dates, uh, a glass of milk.

[00:25:49] Now it was eggnog in the end.

[00:25:50] Yeah.

[00:25:51] Thank God.

[00:25:52] Cause that would have been God.

[00:25:53] And they cleared it up.

[00:25:55] Um, another, this is not even a lowlight or a highlight.

[00:25:58] It was just weird.

[00:25:59] Uh, did anyone catch the chimney cakes of Transylvania?

[00:26:03] No, no, I guess not.

[00:26:05] Hmm.

[00:26:06] Um, you got to watch that one again.

[00:26:07] I don't think so.

[00:26:08] I think he paused it and rewatched it.

[00:26:10] He studied this.

[00:26:11] Um, yeah, I studied this thing.

[00:26:13] I, I, I thought this is, this was our big moment on this podcast.

[00:26:16] I thought I'd really do, uh, every day by due diligence.

[00:26:18] Um, my, my overall synopsis is this, Dan, I thought the, I thought the, um, I thought

[00:26:23] the stakes weren't high enough.

[00:26:25] Um, I thought they had, I thought they had sweet chemistry.

[00:26:28] I thought it had a little bit of scope.

[00:26:30] Um, but I wanted more.

[00:26:32] And, and even when, like when she Googled him and she found out that he was the one

[00:26:37] behind it, like I wanted like weeping and this is melodramatic to me, but I wanted her

[00:26:41] to be like legitimate betrayal.

[00:26:43] I thought she was kind of like, Oh, shucks.

[00:26:45] It was him all the time.

[00:26:47] Yeah.

[00:26:48] Should've Googled him.

[00:26:48] Should've Googled him.

[00:26:50] She should've Googled him.

[00:26:51] Yeah.

[00:26:51] Anyway, there's my synopsis.

[00:26:53] Um, great job guys.

[00:26:55] And I don't really have much to add or change.

[00:26:58] I, I agree.

[00:26:59] It wasn't, wasn't great.

[00:27:02] It wasn't great.

[00:27:03] It wasn't great.

[00:27:03] I thought it was fine.

[00:27:04] I, I, you know, I, I, to that point of, you should've Googled him when she handed

[00:27:10] him the business card.

[00:27:12] Yeah.

[00:27:12] I was excited.

[00:27:13] Cause I was like, Oh great.

[00:27:14] We're going to get this out of the way quick right away.

[00:27:17] Yeah.

[00:27:17] She's going to find out that this guy is a part of this development.

[00:27:22] That was going to be the time.

[00:27:23] And it wasn't.

[00:27:25] And, um, I think that this movie could have, uh, got up a level or two had that just come

[00:27:32] out.

[00:27:33] Yeah.

[00:27:33] Um, and then, you know, I, I think that those two together, uh, Britt Bristow, um, she was

[00:27:40] so good in this movie.

[00:27:41] I thought, I thought she was wonderful.

[00:27:43] Um, the waltz was wonderful.

[00:27:45] Who's not happy with the waltz?

[00:27:46] The fireworks were awful, but in the best way I love, I love anytime you add fireworks

[00:27:51] to the end of a movie.

[00:27:53] Shout out Christmas in Carolina.

[00:27:54] It does feel like it's just one of those things where it's like, how do we end it?

[00:28:00] Um, and I, I love that.

[00:28:03] And so, uh, just an okay for me, a, uh, but I definite could have been better, uh, with

[00:28:09] just a few minor tweaks.

[00:28:10] I will say this too, though.

[00:28:12] I thought, I thought to your point, Brent, I thought they were really good.

[00:28:15] Yes.

[00:28:16] Like I thought, I thought he, I loved his accent.

[00:28:20] Yeah.

[00:28:21] Well, he's legit.

[00:28:23] Uh, he's, he was born in England.

[00:28:25] I think that, uh, they actually as actors are pretty solid actors and what you probably

[00:28:30] are just picking up on is, you know, an actor can only do so much, but cause sometimes you

[00:28:36] can watch some other, you can watch some other whole lot.

[00:28:38] You're like, man, this could be a good movie, but these people just aren't delivering.

[00:28:41] Right.

[00:28:42] They were delivering, but it's the difficult content to deliver.

[00:28:46] Can I offer, can I offer one, one technical comment as well?

[00:28:50] I'll allow it.

[00:28:51] Thank you.

[00:28:52] Um, I know this can probably flies, flies in the face of like Hallmark movies in general,

[00:28:58] but I just wish we watched one that was actually just a bit more under lit.

[00:29:04] Yeah.

[00:29:06] Yeah.

[00:29:06] Everything.

[00:29:06] Cause it just, as an actor, it makes it so much harder to, it is, it is a Hallmark

[00:29:12] stakeholder.

[00:29:13] You're right.

[00:29:13] But as, as an actor, it makes it so much harder when you just feel overexposed all the time.

[00:29:18] And so I thought they did a doubly good job because it was, everything was so over lit

[00:29:22] that there was no, there's no mystery in any of the textures of their face.

[00:29:26] It was just all kind of right there all the time.

[00:29:28] Yeah.

[00:29:29] No, you know what you're getting right away with that?

[00:29:30] Like there's like 15 trees, uh, like on this platform behind them at this fundraiser.

[00:29:37] You know what you're getting.

[00:29:38] They don't hide it.

[00:29:39] This is going to be a bright movie.

[00:29:40] Dad gum it.

[00:29:41] Uh, we're in Austria.

[00:29:42] Um, let's get to all the fields.

[00:29:44] We're talking about even give a hot take.

[00:29:46] Didn't even give one.

[00:29:47] I didn't even give a negative.

[00:29:51] I want the negative hot take.

[00:29:53] Um, can I go brain?

[00:29:54] Is that all right with you?

[00:29:55] Will you allow it?

[00:29:56] I'll allow it for king and country.

[00:29:57] Um, yeah.

[00:29:59] So this movie is in my top 10 Hallmark Christmas movies this year, purely because we've only

[00:30:04] watched 10.

[00:30:05] Um, so it made it.

[00:30:08] This is a disaster.

[00:30:11] Um, we listen, I don't do this for every movie.

[00:30:15] I know people think I do.

[00:30:16] And I, I get my jollies from saying all these movies suck.

[00:30:19] That's not true.

[00:30:20] There's been some good ones this year.

[00:30:21] This movie is written by someone who doesn't know how humans work.

[00:30:26] I don't, they literally, they spared every expense making this movie.

[00:30:32] Um, I disagree on the locale.

[00:30:35] I disagree on how it was shot.

[00:30:37] I disagree that.

[00:30:38] I didn't say, I didn't, I didn't say anything about the, the cinematography.

[00:30:41] Okay.

[00:30:41] Fair location.

[00:30:43] Yeah, I gotcha.

[00:30:44] Um, I, the, the fact is, is you have two professionals in Brit Bristow and will Kim who

[00:30:50] are firemen's carrying this thing over the finish line.

[00:30:54] Even when they have to deliver lines.

[00:30:56] Like, uh, I always say about life and chocolate that changes the thing that keeps life from

[00:31:02] being a snooze fest, which we'll get into more later.

[00:31:05] But if you think about line, try to diagram that sentence, you're going to run into a multitude

[00:31:09] of problems.

[00:31:10] Um, this movie, this movie has literally nowhere to be in all day to get there.

[00:31:16] It, there are, there are silence, dramatic pauses in this movie that are a lifetime.

[00:31:22] Um, it is Lawrence of Arabia in length.

[00:31:25] I can't believe it was only 84 minutes, the waltz and the two leads.

[00:31:29] Both of these leads are, listen, we've seen both of these leads in really quality movies.

[00:31:33] Um, they are doing the best they can with what is definitely not a Hallmark level budget or

[00:31:39] a Hallmark level script.

[00:31:41] Um, I looked at my 23, 2022 and 2023 list of Christmas movies, and this would have finished

[00:31:48] in the bottom five or six in either of those two years.

[00:31:52] Really?

[00:31:52] I really firmly believe this will be one of the worst movies that we watch all season.

[00:31:56] And I am floored that I've not heard the same from the two of you, not in this level of,

[00:32:03] of, of detail, but I'm floored that this got anywhere near a thumbs up.

[00:32:07] I like, I don't even know.

[00:32:09] I get like, we're different on Christmas charade.

[00:32:11] I get that.

[00:32:12] Well, and I need to apologize because I actually think I'm the one, I don't know.

[00:32:15] We had a list of the, some of the ones that were coming out and I was the one that picked

[00:32:19] it.

[00:32:20] So I apologize to everyone.

[00:32:22] Dan, I apologize.

[00:32:23] No, we had to review it anyway.

[00:32:24] You know, we were going to have to review it either way.

[00:32:27] We don't have a real good gauge either of like, cause you know, newsflash actually me now,

[00:32:33] unless Luke, Luke watches more of them than I do.

[00:32:35] I, this was my first Hallmark film in maybe ever.

[00:32:40] Yeah.

[00:32:40] Wow.

[00:32:40] Yeah.

[00:32:41] So I can see how you got there.

[00:32:42] Yeah.

[00:32:43] My, my, my, my frame of reference is like, well, I know we know all the sticks, right?

[00:32:47] They're a bit over lit.

[00:32:49] They're a bit, the stakes aren't very high.

[00:32:51] So I kind of watched it and went, yeah, of course.

[00:32:54] Yeah.

[00:32:54] And I will say this before Hallmark has gotten way better.

[00:32:57] I think Luke brought it up, but Hallmark has gotten way better the last three or four

[00:33:00] years.

[00:33:01] And it's, it's been a paradigm shift for us on this podcast because I will say this, this

[00:33:06] movie in 2019, probably middle of the pack for, for Hallmark, probably like 20 in the twenties,

[00:33:13] in my opinion.

[00:33:14] But now if you had watched pretty much any of the other ones, maybe not the Girl Scout

[00:33:19] one, but any of the other ones we've seen this year, you would notice a pretty big jump

[00:33:24] in a lot of the things that, that, that are necessary to make a movie really good.

[00:33:28] So maybe, maybe the best way to put it is everyone just needed to actually try.

[00:33:35] Yeah.

[00:33:36] Not like just try.

[00:33:37] Yeah.

[00:33:38] Like just, I mean, no, I think the two leads were trying, they were really trying, like

[00:33:41] they were trying to, but like everything else, no one was really trying.

[00:33:46] Yeah.

[00:33:47] I think it was tough.

[00:33:48] I think it was a, it's a, it's a thing where you've got a location and you've got a movie

[00:33:52] that you want to make.

[00:33:53] And there wasn't a lot of, you know, time or magnification put into anything aside from

[00:33:59] these two leads are going to get us there.

[00:34:01] So, you know, what are you going to do?

[00:34:03] Uh, let's get to all the feels now.

[00:34:05] That's where we're talking about what this movie gave us feels.

[00:34:07] Brian, anything stick out to you?

[00:34:09] Yeah, actually it's something, Joel, you mentioned the brightness up front, but something this

[00:34:13] movie had that I love in a movie like this is the Christmas lights in the background all

[00:34:18] the time.

[00:34:18] Like the, every scene was glowing.

[00:34:20] I did notice that.

[00:34:21] And I liked that.

[00:34:22] I liked that look.

[00:34:23] So, and that, this movie had it reminded me of kids make Christmas from last year

[00:34:26] starring Sarah Ramos, obviously, but yeah, really liked that girl, Sarah Ramos.

[00:34:31] Yeah.

[00:34:31] Haven't seen her this year.

[00:34:33] Um, and then the Christmas market.

[00:34:34] I mean, when you have a Christmas market, the, all bets are off.

[00:34:38] Like those things are phenomenal.

[00:34:40] We don't have big Christmas markets like that here, you know, like they have, uh, in

[00:34:43] Europe.

[00:34:43] So it's great to see them on screen.

[00:34:45] Uh, Luke, any feels for you?

[00:34:49] Uh, look, I probably go a little bit more, um, emotional.

[00:34:53] I try to find the depth of basically any art that's created.

[00:34:56] I did think that the dynamic between father and son, at least trying to reconcile that,

[00:35:03] I think that's something that is applicable for a lot of people.

[00:35:05] Still no stakes though.

[00:35:07] Yeah.

[00:35:09] And, um, no, no, they could have wrapped it up, but all the feels was seeing them actually

[00:35:16] in that last shot, kind of him going, Hey, I have nothing.

[00:35:18] And, uh, I want to kind of make it turn the page a little bit for me.

[00:35:23] I was like, Hey, I, I can appreciate that.

[00:35:26] I can appreciate that movie time.

[00:35:28] Tell a little bit of that story of, uh, of what I think happened to a lot of us, a

[00:35:31] real field of dreams moment on sweet Austrian holiday.

[00:35:36] I don't know if it was a real field of dreams moment, but you heard it here.

[00:35:41] They were trying.

[00:35:42] Yeah.

[00:35:43] Uh, Joel.

[00:35:45] I'm admittedly, I'm, I was struggling to come back from Dan's comments.

[00:35:48] And I will say, I sort of, you know, as a guest who doesn't have a lot of authority,

[00:35:53] I sort of maybe some level do resonate with a lot of them.

[00:35:57] Um, uh, the reason I chose this film is cause I just thought if we can get a hallmark out

[00:36:03] of America and we can interject a few accents and some, some sort of culture and some range.

[00:36:11] Yeah. You're probably right.

[00:36:12] No, I think it was filmed in Europe.

[00:36:14] That had to be a lot of us.

[00:36:16] I think.

[00:36:16] Yeah.

[00:36:16] Belarus.

[00:36:17] There you go.

[00:36:18] Yeah.

[00:36:18] They get some tax breaks.

[00:36:20] They film a lot in Romania.

[00:36:21] Like a lot of movies, they film in Romania.

[00:36:23] A lot of tax tax incentives.

[00:36:25] Well, uh, yeah, we're, we scouted for a film in Romania in 2019.

[00:36:29] To your point, there's a lot of, a lot of, you can, you can make a high dollar film,

[00:36:33] uh, cold mountain, uh, civil war film with Nicole Kidman and Jude Law.

[00:36:38] So Joe, what's your, what's your, what's your, what's your all the fields?

[00:36:41] Um, my, all the fields were, let me dig deep.

[00:36:47] You don't have to have one.

[00:36:48] It's fine.

[00:36:49] Um, I, well, no, Brian, I did, I did think the lights, I thought whenever you go to that

[00:36:53] shallow depth of field and the lights are sort of sparkling in the back, I, I clocked

[00:36:57] that like two or three times.

[00:36:58] I was like, that's really sweet.

[00:36:59] Um, I did not have all the fields with the father something I thought Luke, I thought

[00:37:03] this father and son have not been reconciled for like the better part of 40 years.

[00:37:09] It seems like, and all of a sudden he's like, you know what?

[00:37:12] I've been a loser.

[00:37:13] I'm so sorry, buddy.

[00:37:14] Like I'm going to fly like speaking of stakes.

[00:37:18] I'm going to fly halfway around the world to be like, sorry about that.

[00:37:22] Cool.

[00:37:22] When I was looking straight down the barrel of the FaceTime call instead of at you.

[00:37:27] Um, so I didn't, I didn't relate to that.

[00:37:30] Um, I, I didn't, speaking of all the fields, I didn't, I didn't get to the end and was

[00:37:35] like, thank God that they're together.

[00:37:37] Like I would take, I didn't get to like, so I think the fields actually for me were

[00:37:43] more textile.

[00:37:44] It was more like I, I really appreciated how hard they worked on that chocolate shop and

[00:37:50] the title.

[00:37:50] And it was actually one of the best sets to me.

[00:37:53] Um, they had some nice little closeups of the chocolate being made.

[00:37:57] And I thought, Oh, that was really nice.

[00:37:59] And then the, and the, the, the, the chocolate header, I thought that that was really great.

[00:38:03] But, but beyond that, I, I, I didn't have many.

[00:38:07] I just love that all the fields for Joel, it has nothing to do with the script.

[00:38:12] Nothing to do with acting, nothing to do with actually really the movie.

[00:38:17] Yeah.

[00:38:18] He was just hungry.

[00:38:19] Do you get the sense that Luke and Joel, Luke and Joel brand are a little bit like a old

[00:38:24] Brandon Dan over here.

[00:38:25] There's a reason why they're not in the same room.

[00:38:27] And, uh, and that's tough.

[00:38:30] You hate to see that.

[00:38:31] Yeah.

[00:38:31] I hate to see that.

[00:38:32] Um, mine is a fields that, uh, you do see it.

[00:38:37] You do see it in the movie.

[00:38:39] Uh, she has a red bike and I thought the red bike was delightful.

[00:38:43] I thought there's nothing quite one shot.

[00:38:46] That one shot.

[00:38:47] That one shot.

[00:38:49] Amazing.

[00:38:50] It's a big bike guy.

[00:38:51] I'm a big bike guy.

[00:38:52] Hey, I did.

[00:38:53] Hey, to your point, Brad, I did look at that shot and I went, when they, they really

[00:38:57] went, they, like, they really tried on that shot.

[00:38:59] They got just the composition, the time of day, the extras.

[00:39:03] I was like, I really did that.

[00:39:04] The red bike, the redness of the bike.

[00:39:07] Let's get red bike.

[00:39:08] It's Christmas red bike.

[00:39:09] Once again, once again, you guys are pointing out, you guys are pointing out.

[00:39:14] Luke, this is what it's come to Luke.

[00:39:17] I think you're, I think you're speaking the loudest Luke.

[00:39:19] I think you were, you're, you're, yeah, you're saying, you're saying the quiet part

[00:39:23] out loud.

[00:39:24] Yeah.

[00:39:25] Yeah.

[00:39:25] Uh, Dan.

[00:39:27] Yeah.

[00:39:27] I mean, between the lights and bikes and stuff, I searched my heart, search my heart and found

[00:39:33] absolutely nothing.

[00:39:34] Uh, sorry about that, but I guess we'll take a break and see if I can scrounge up any white

[00:39:39] wads.

[00:39:39] Wonderful.

[00:39:40] Yes.

[00:39:41] Let's take a quick break.

[00:39:42] We'll come back.

[00:39:43] We'll get to the way one, the what the homework here on.

[00:39:45] Welcome back, everybody.

[00:39:56] We are talking my sweet Austrian holiday for King and country is with us and it's time

[00:40:02] for the wait.

[00:40:03] What?

[00:40:03] It's where we talk about when this movement is go.

[00:40:05] Wait, what?

[00:40:06] I'll start with you, Brian.

[00:40:06] Brian, what's that got to you?

[00:40:07] Yeah.

[00:40:08] To, uh, piggyback on some of the tech talk, uh, that's already been brought up.

[00:40:11] They, they did that weird thing where somebody's doing the FaceTime from a laptop.

[00:40:15] Somebody is on a phone and the person who's using the laptop shows up as if they're using

[00:40:20] their phone in portrait mode.

[00:40:22] The person on the phone shows up in widescreen on the laptop.

[00:40:24] So thankfully tech's gotten a lot better.

[00:40:26] It has, but thankfully we still got it.

[00:40:28] As that information is going over the digital highway, it does the orientation.

[00:40:32] It's AI.

[00:40:33] Yeah.

[00:40:33] It's an AI.

[00:40:34] It's AI.

[00:40:35] Yeah.

[00:40:35] People don't even make movies anymore.

[00:40:36] They just, they just hold up a phone and it's done.

[00:40:38] That's good.

[00:40:39] Uh, the indoor skating rink.

[00:40:42] Oh my gosh.

[00:40:44] Can we talk about this for a year and a half?

[00:40:46] I was going to bring that up.

[00:40:47] Slash obstacle course.

[00:40:48] You mean fall, the, the fall hazard?

[00:40:50] With a table with drink service at the table in the middle of the rink.

[00:40:54] Can you imagine a server?

[00:40:56] You're just trying to ice skate and a server has a tray of drinks weaving through and bring

[00:41:02] it to the table.

[00:41:03] It's a good thing.

[00:41:04] There's no liquid in there.

[00:41:07] I think I actually said to the TV with some people that I was watching it with, I have no

[00:41:13] idea what's going on.

[00:41:14] Yeah.

[00:41:14] I was talking to the TV like that.

[00:41:17] Well, there was a couple of very, there was, there was a couple of very convenient moments.

[00:41:21] Can we also, so the hot chocolates, the empty hot chocolates on the quote unquote ice skating

[00:41:26] rink is very convenient.

[00:41:27] Can Brian, can we also talk about, um, the fact that he ran into him not once, but

[00:41:36] twice.

[00:41:39] Perfectly timed.

[00:41:40] If she had been 10 seconds later in her day, when he walked out of that hotel, they

[00:41:45] would have missed each other.

[00:41:46] Yeah.

[00:41:46] But like, as a screenwriter, you're saying like, I gotta, I gotta figure out how to get

[00:41:50] these two people together.

[00:41:51] I have an idea.

[00:41:52] Let's just have him walk out of the hotel.

[00:41:56] Serendipity.

[00:41:57] Yeah.

[00:41:58] The ice skating rink.

[00:42:00] We've seen some doozies of ice skating rinks in our time here on deck, the hallmark.

[00:42:03] This is the worst one, right?

[00:42:04] This is the worst one.

[00:42:05] It is.

[00:42:06] There were red carpets.

[00:42:08] There are billowy curtains.

[00:42:10] Yeah.

[00:42:10] It was like, please break an ankle.

[00:42:12] Yeah.

[00:42:13] Just whatever.

[00:42:13] Just please.

[00:42:14] Like why do it?

[00:42:15] Why do the ring?

[00:42:15] Have yourself a cup of coffee.

[00:42:17] Break an ankle.

[00:42:18] Do those two things while you're here.

[00:42:20] It was, it was this movie where I found out that, uh, Austria has no fire codes.

[00:42:24] You can do anything you want to at any time.

[00:42:29] Luke, go ahead.

[00:42:30] Have you ever even seen in real life a, a, a, an ice skating rink that looks like that?

[00:42:35] No.

[00:42:35] Like, I'm there with ice.

[00:42:37] No.

[00:42:37] Like, I was struck with like, where, where did you even think that this was normal?

[00:42:42] Yeah.

[00:42:42] How'd you get that idea?

[00:42:42] Yeah.

[00:42:43] For the record, there was zero ice at that ice skating rink.

[00:42:48] That, well, it was, they tried to make you believe it was about 20% ice.

[00:42:52] Are we, are we misinterpreting?

[00:42:53] Is it not an ice skating rink?

[00:42:54] Well, I think the thing is, and Hallmark has never been able to get this right.

[00:42:57] Uh, ice skating rinks notoriously empty, like notorious for not having things in their way.

[00:43:05] Yeah.

[00:43:05] Just having ice and walls because you know, safety and Hallmark is like, well, that's

[00:43:12] not Christmassy enough.

[00:43:13] And so we will routinely see ice skating rinks on the Hallmark channel.

[00:43:17] There there's a Christmas tree in the middle of the ice skating rink, or there's like, um,

[00:43:22] different benches to sit on and it's stupid, but this takes the cake that there was, there

[00:43:27] was so drink service drink.

[00:43:29] There was an actual table service on the ice.

[00:43:32] That is never heard of that point.

[00:43:34] I was at an ice skating rink with my kids last year and we were skating and they had two

[00:43:37] cones on the ice to show you where to go around a kid tripped on the cone.

[00:43:42] There was two things on the ice.

[00:43:45] And even that was too much.

[00:43:46] The good news is, is that ice skates aren't sharp on the ground either.

[00:43:51] There's no chance of anything bad happening there.

[00:43:54] That's fine.

[00:43:55] That's fine.

[00:43:56] The only other thing that stood out, uh, a few things, but I'll, I'll stop here was

[00:44:00] the Vienna chocolates here of the year award.

[00:44:03] Yeah.

[00:44:04] Like the way that you drop off was you just bring your box of chocolates and you just

[00:44:07] put it down.

[00:44:09] Like you're returning a library book.

[00:44:10] Like no, they know, no, like pomp and circumstance around it.

[00:44:15] Like just, you just drop it off.

[00:44:16] You hope it gets to the judges.

[00:44:17] You hope it gets.

[00:44:18] When she said she was going for chocolates here of the year in Vienna, I was like, this

[00:44:22] is the premise of this movie.

[00:44:23] A whole thing.

[00:44:23] We're going to have a whole contest.

[00:44:25] Not even close.

[00:44:25] It's just a drop it in the mail situation.

[00:44:28] Barely a part of it actually.

[00:44:30] Um, Luke, anything stick out to you that made you go away?

[00:44:32] What aside from ice skating rinks?

[00:44:37] Oh man.

[00:44:39] I, uh, the, I thought that the Maya and Alfred, uh, no Wilfred situation mentally never saw

[00:44:51] coming and never saw that the movie, uh, needed.

[00:44:55] Um, but when there was the one scene where he go, Wilfred goes to Henry, like, Oh, I'm

[00:45:02] seeing Maya tonight.

[00:45:04] I was like, there wasn't any in the previous hour of the film, 45 minutes.

[00:45:10] There was no like looks or winks or anything to, to symbolize that maybe there was something

[00:45:17] going on here.

[00:45:18] And so that was a little bit of a, a, um, uh, wait, what?

[00:45:22] Yeah.

[00:45:23] What's going on here?

[00:45:24] A little surprising, uh, to me, uh, just fundamentally never saw it coming.

[00:45:29] Yeah.

[00:45:30] That's fair.

[00:45:30] In a bad way.

[00:45:34] Yeah.

[00:45:34] Yeah.

[00:45:34] Of course.

[00:45:35] Just to make sure Luke is saying it wasn't good.

[00:45:37] It wasn't.

[00:45:38] It was a bad way.

[00:45:39] Uh, Joel, anything stick out to you?

[00:45:42] Well, look, I have to say this and, and I, if, if, if anyone from the film actually made

[00:45:49] it this far and is not furious at us, it's a feat to make any film.

[00:45:54] Yeah.

[00:45:55] Yes.

[00:45:56] As, as, as a, as like Luke says it well, it's like, you have to be kind of crazy to make

[00:46:02] any film.

[00:46:03] Like it's so hard to get people mobilized, to get extras, to get, so, so, you know, um,

[00:46:10] props to them for making a movie.

[00:46:13] Um, and, and, and that, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, there's something

[00:46:17] to be said about that.

[00:46:18] This is like Joel, Joel, Joel, Joel doing this right now is like a whole mock scene.

[00:46:24] Yeah.

[00:46:25] Yeah.

[00:46:25] You feel really good.

[00:46:26] I want to, they're going to put that on the DVD box, uh, props to them for making a

[00:46:32] film, Joel Smallbone for King and Country.

[00:46:36] Oh, on the deck.

[00:46:37] Don't worry.

[00:46:38] Look, look, I didn't, this is all about stakes to me.

[00:46:41] Right.

[00:46:41] Again, I keep coming back to the high stakes and the low stakes.

[00:46:43] I did not really care about him or her.

[00:46:46] I liked them both.

[00:46:47] I, I certainly didn't care about, um, Alfred and the other, um, young lady.

[00:46:52] Uh, I did not care about their dynamic.

[00:46:55] Uh, I, I did not care about his dad.

[00:46:57] I, and I, and, and I also did not care at all about the sidekick to,

[00:47:02] to the real estate agent, uh, or the, the lady, uh, that was, there was just some woman

[00:47:07] that was sort of in the background for a lot of these, um, scenes that I, I like, I actually

[00:47:14] cared.

[00:47:14] I wanted to know what, why she was there.

[00:47:17] And she seemed like, and I, she'd stole the chocolate at one point.

[00:47:19] And that, and that was kind of it.

[00:47:21] Um, so what I have to go to is like, what stuck out to me is, is just, I thought there

[00:47:26] was some two, two, two, to Brian's point.

[00:47:28] I thought it was some really pretty shots.

[00:47:30] I actually thought you could take it, you know, some of the scaled shots, like the red

[00:47:35] bike and those bits.

[00:47:37] And I thought it had a level of scope personally.

[00:47:39] Um, and then the only other thing that stuck out with me, there was just some head scratcher

[00:47:43] edit moments that I was like, I didn't think like in an hour and 23 minute film, you didn't

[00:47:48] need that bit.

[00:47:48] And maybe they were extending like, like one random one at the beginning was when they all

[00:47:53] meet for the first time in the park or whatever.

[00:47:58] And, and, and one of them reaches over to shake the woman's hand.

[00:48:03] And then Henry reaches over to shake the woman's hand.

[00:48:06] I was like, you don't need no one needed to see them shake their hands.

[00:48:10] I know that happens in real life, but just, just cut that bit out.

[00:48:14] Like there's just some little bits like that, but being very, very obnoxiously nitpicky at

[00:48:21] this point, admittedly.

[00:48:22] That's fair.

[00:48:23] Well, let me continue that.

[00:48:24] Uh, there's a line towards the beginning of this movie when she's talking, um, to her

[00:48:30] friend, uh, about the competition, about the competition, the, uh, chocolatier of the

[00:48:37] year.

[00:48:37] She says, I want to create something that will knock the competition out of the park.

[00:48:45] And there, there is, there is a saying there here in America.

[00:48:49] It's not that there is a saying there about knocking something out of the park, but I don't

[00:48:54] think it has anything to do with what you do to the competition.

[00:48:58] Uh, they're Austrian Brit.

[00:48:59] They're Austrian.

[00:49:00] You can do it.

[00:49:01] Luke is, Luke is the mastermind of taking, taking phrases and merging them.

[00:49:06] But because he has an Australian accent, no one questions him.

[00:49:10] People are just like, yeah, shrimp on the bar.

[00:49:11] We got it.

[00:49:12] Like they don't, they don't question.

[00:49:14] I want to create something that knocks the competition out of the park.

[00:49:16] Like, instead of saying like, I've got some demons in my closet, he'll be like, I've got

[00:49:20] or like skeletons in my closet.

[00:49:21] He'll be like, I've got some demons in my closet.

[00:49:23] Or like, it sounds way worse.

[00:49:25] Rock the feathers.

[00:49:26] He'll be like, I don't want to rock any boats here.

[00:49:29] Yeah.

[00:49:30] Yeah.

[00:49:30] That's the right.

[00:49:31] That's the right one.

[00:49:32] That's the right one.

[00:49:32] You switched it.

[00:49:33] Maybe it's you.

[00:49:35] Maybe it's you.

[00:49:36] Now who's rocking the feathers?

[00:49:37] That's exactly right.

[00:49:38] Let's not rock any of them.

[00:49:39] Uh, I got two more, uh, really quickly.

[00:49:41] They're decorating a tree together and he says, uh, I've never decorated a tree.

[00:49:46] My, my, my dad, my parents just weren't into it.

[00:49:49] Okay.

[00:49:50] What?

[00:49:50] My parents weren't into it.

[00:49:53] First of all, weird.

[00:49:55] But second of all, if somebody says that to me, I'm immediately giving them a hug and

[00:50:01] I'm just being like, yo, how's therapy going?

[00:50:03] Cause you need to be in it.

[00:50:05] That should have been the first, first thing where she goes, oh my gosh, he's got some,

[00:50:11] demons in his closet.

[00:50:12] Yeah.

[00:50:13] That's right.

[00:50:14] He's crazy.

[00:50:15] But you know what?

[00:50:16] To tackle that, the problem is not only does he say that, then he goes, and then I went

[00:50:21] to boarding school.

[00:50:21] And so we didn't ever decorate the tree.

[00:50:24] You didn't come home for Christmas when you went to boarding school.

[00:50:26] Your parents are monsters.

[00:50:28] Yeah.

[00:50:28] They just hold over.

[00:50:29] They see you, you board school.

[00:50:32] And they said the father, son.

[00:50:34] Yeah.

[00:50:34] That's why the father, son reconciliation was just so powerful.

[00:50:37] Well, powerful.

[00:50:39] Dan, can we agree?

[00:50:41] Can we agree on this though?

[00:50:42] Can we agree on this?

[00:50:44] In that, if I went to you and I said, I have a hallmark film about a young lady who came,

[00:50:51] and you touched on this brand with your synopsis, who came from America because her grandmother

[00:50:56] died and she'd lived a lot of life.

[00:50:58] She came back to Austria and she just believed in legacy.

[00:51:03] And she wanted to start this, this chocolate storefront.

[00:51:07] And you know, and this sort of evil empire is trying to take it from her and she needs

[00:51:14] this evidence, but how, oh, hang on.

[00:51:15] And the person at the top of the evil empire is actually this, this young man who's actually

[00:51:21] a well-intentioned fellow who got handed this down.

[00:51:23] And all he wanted to do was be loved by his dad, but he's sort of this unloved fellow.

[00:51:27] And by the way, it's chocolate in Austria, in Vienna.

[00:51:30] And, and, and she's got this, like, she's trying to do this chocolatier contest.

[00:51:34] And like, I would actually go.

[00:51:37] Yeah.

[00:51:37] Yeah.

[00:51:38] That's why I picked it.

[00:51:39] Cause I was like, yeah, it sounds like a movie that has been a movie.

[00:51:43] Like it sounds like a Hallmark movie we've seen a dozen times.

[00:51:45] Like we've, this is the ultimate Hallmark premise.

[00:51:49] And I'm hearing there's a death, you know,

[00:51:51] comes to small town or small, like local lodge, big hotel chain.

[00:51:57] Like this is like, you know, I can't as Cameron Bure made a dozen of these movies.

[00:52:01] Like it, like that is what Hallmark was built on this and the fake relationship.

[00:52:06] Like those are the things that Hallmark was built on.

[00:52:08] So you're not wrong.

[00:52:09] You're not wrong, Joel.

[00:52:10] Yeah.

[00:52:10] Um, Dan.

[00:52:11] Yeah.

[00:52:12] I got a couple more.

[00:52:13] I do need to mention once again, she says, I always say about life and chocolates that

[00:52:19] changes the thing that keeps life from being a snooze fest.

[00:52:22] It makes sense.

[00:52:22] The second time.

[00:52:25] If you say two things, you need to say something.

[00:52:29] It would be like saying the thing about working back in the feather.

[00:52:32] The thing about work and basketball is, is that change makes work fun.

[00:52:38] Well, what about basketball?

[00:52:39] You can't exactly.

[00:52:41] Exactly.

[00:52:42] That's the point.

[00:52:43] If you want to tell me something about life and chocolates, then don't follow it up with

[00:52:48] life is a snooze fest without change.

[00:52:51] What about chocolate?

[00:52:52] Exactly.

[00:52:52] What about the chocolate?

[00:52:53] Can this be a thing about chocolate?

[00:52:55] You know, it's crazy in the film.

[00:52:56] I was like, Oh, this makes sense.

[00:52:58] And then I said, first time I was like, this doesn't make sense.

[00:53:00] And now that you say, I was like, this makes no sense.

[00:53:02] They got you.

[00:53:02] They got you.

[00:53:03] That's how they do it.

[00:53:04] That's how they do it.

[00:53:05] The big company, Danube Development is the name of this company.

[00:53:09] Danube Development Group in Austria.

[00:53:11] Damn it.

[00:53:11] They are a billion dollar company with their logo and sign taped to a wall.

[00:53:18] Temporary.

[00:53:19] This billion dollar company went to the Daniel Thompson eighth grade school of putting his

[00:53:25] Batman Forever poster up in his bedroom.

[00:53:27] Yeah.

[00:53:28] They like, they have literally.

[00:53:29] You don't get to be a billion dollar company by wasting money.

[00:53:32] On signage.

[00:53:33] On good sign.

[00:53:34] That's right.

[00:53:34] Is it centered?

[00:53:35] It doesn't matter.

[00:53:36] CFO approves.

[00:53:37] That is scotch tape, man.

[00:53:38] It's going to last all week unless it gets humid.

[00:53:40] Yeah.

[00:53:41] Like it, you know, like I can't, it's a billion dollar company.

[00:53:44] You saw, you saw their show yesterday.

[00:53:46] They had somebody pulling them up into the air with their hands.

[00:53:50] There is, there is more tech involved in just the drummer boys, boy song than in this

[00:53:55] whole movie's budget.

[00:53:57] Uh, that listen, they, they don't, I'm sorry.

[00:53:59] If you're a billion dollar company, you have to act like it a little bit, right?

[00:54:03] Like a framed or a size something that isn't, wasn't made at Kinko's on poster board.

[00:54:09] Like I just, that was pretty brutal.

[00:54:11] Um, and then I've got two more.

[00:54:14] I'll just go with one just for the sake of time.

[00:54:17] Oh, I do just real quick.

[00:54:18] After all this, this a woman who owns the chocolate shop does decide to go with the billion

[00:54:22] dollar company.

[00:54:23] I want to be very clear.

[00:54:24] That's how it's different.

[00:54:25] She decided to say, yeah, yeah, let's go for it.

[00:54:28] Um, but my last one is the big thing that turns the tide for her in this movie is she

[00:54:33] finds her grandma's best friend.

[00:54:36] Like who taught, who taught her English, who's living in that town.

[00:54:40] And it should have been the very first person that she went to.

[00:54:44] Thank you, Joel.

[00:54:46] That did the fact that this woman has been hiding away.

[00:54:49] She's like, I love my grandma so much.

[00:54:51] We are.

[00:54:52] She was my favorite person.

[00:54:53] She had a best friend.

[00:54:54] She never talked about and lives in town.

[00:54:56] Like, what?

[00:54:57] Like, am I being punked right now?

[00:54:59] The fact that that woman, the first scene of this movie should be her having tea in that

[00:55:03] woman's house.

[00:55:04] That should be the first scene of this movie.

[00:55:06] Yeah.

[00:55:06] And instead it's used to move the plot forward and it was unforgivable.

[00:55:10] Well, it was crazy.

[00:55:11] Um, that does bring up a, a, what the hallmark, um, which is where we talk about any questions

[00:55:17] that we still have and yours is related to mine.

[00:55:19] So I'll just go really quickly.

[00:55:20] The, there's a picture that she has of her grandma, um, which is just a picture of her

[00:55:26] grandma.

[00:55:26] And then she discovers the other picture, which is that same picture.

[00:55:30] Yeah.

[00:55:30] But another person, the person next, um, did something happen between the two of them?

[00:55:37] You know how, like when you break up with someone and you cut all your pictures, you

[00:55:40] know, it's like this person's out of my life.

[00:55:42] Why did she only have that picture of her grandma, which was a picture of her grandma originally

[00:55:48] from a picture of her grandma with her friend, something, something may have happened.

[00:55:52] And I'm, and I'm, and I'm, and I'm convenient.

[00:55:54] Convenient to only have half that.

[00:55:55] Uh, that's tough.

[00:55:56] Um, Luke, do you have anything that you're, uh, that you would like, uh, answered before,

[00:56:00] before we go?

[00:56:03] An answer as much of it as it is.

[00:56:05] I think the, what the hallmark to me was that this dude, Henry is the son of a billionaire.

[00:56:11] And he, uh, you know, if you're just thinking through like passing something very special

[00:56:16] on to a son, you know, usually speaking, they're like showing like ability in how to lead

[00:56:23] a company.

[00:56:23] Oh, it's never.

[00:56:24] And the movie basically starts with the son going, yeah, I don't want to show up to work.

[00:56:31] I don't want to do this, that, and the other.

[00:56:34] And I was just sitting there thinking to myself, ever exists.

[00:56:38] Like who gives a business to someone that doesn't want to do it?

[00:56:42] Doesn't have any interest in it seemingly.

[00:56:44] And also just doesn't seem to have a work ethic.

[00:56:48] Yeah.

[00:56:49] Fair.

[00:56:49] Fair.

[00:56:49] That was a little bit of a, a puzzling puzzle and it's a billion dollar company.

[00:56:53] Mind you.

[00:56:53] Yeah.

[00:56:54] Just a billion.

[00:56:54] Just a, a little bit of a, a little bit of a head scratcher for me.

[00:57:00] That's fair.

[00:57:00] Uh, Joel, anything that you would like, uh, answered before we go?

[00:57:03] Yeah.

[00:57:04] I just want to know what the hallmark happened after the film, because I don't think they

[00:57:08] end up together.

[00:57:10] Yeah.

[00:57:10] Fair.

[00:57:11] Fair.

[00:57:12] Based on the bedrock of their relationship and sort of the shallow nature of it.

[00:57:16] I think, I think they sort of try it for about six months and they're like, Hey, you've

[00:57:20] got your billion dollar thing and you know, and I'm, you've never, you know, decorated Christmas

[00:57:25] tree.

[00:57:26] You go to therapy.

[00:57:26] I'm going to go do the, the, the, the chocolate, the chocolate.

[00:57:31] This is, this is exactly the reason why Joel isn't a hallmark film director right there.

[00:57:38] Yes.

[00:57:39] Or he should be.

[00:57:39] Maybe he should be.

[00:57:40] He should be to fix it.

[00:57:41] Yeah.

[00:57:42] Uh, well, uh, we'll work on something together.

[00:57:44] Uh, Brian, anything for you that you would like some answers to?

[00:57:47] I, uh, the, the Wilfred, who is the right hand man, I was waiting the whole movie for

[00:57:51] the, that conversation of, Hey Wilfred, why don't you just take over the company?

[00:57:55] Yeah.

[00:57:56] The guy wants to run the company.

[00:57:57] Like let Wilfred.

[00:57:58] He's doing it anyway.

[00:57:59] So was there a version of this where Wilfred?

[00:58:00] Oh, that's good.

[00:58:03] Yeah.

[00:58:04] Give him the company.

[00:58:05] It's good stuff.

[00:58:05] I'm sorry about what I said earlier.

[00:58:06] Thanks man.

[00:58:07] Thanks man.

[00:58:07] And also, we also want to know what the eggnog, like how, we all want to know about the nog

[00:58:12] fans around here.

[00:58:13] And also why we're talking about, you know, uh, sort of wet substances.

[00:58:18] Uh, just the, the, I guess it was innuendo when they threw out the, the hot toddy thing.

[00:58:24] It was the one sort of risque bit of the whole film.

[00:58:26] It was like, I'm going to go get a hot toddy with, and I was like, what is it?

[00:58:30] Oh, how you're saying hot toddy?

[00:58:34] Yeah.

[00:58:34] Uh, Dan, anything?

[00:58:35] Uh, so the actor that, that is helping and working in the chocolate, uh, shop who is

[00:58:41] from all three, we did movies earlier this year.

[00:58:44] Uh, Luke and Joel called love on the Danube three of them.

[00:58:48] Uh, and they're all take place on a boat on the Danube river.

[00:58:52] And this woman who's in this movie in the chocolate shop is also in all three of those movies.

[00:58:57] She's Canadian.

[00:58:58] Like she's not from there.

[00:58:59] She doesn't live there.

[00:59:01] Her name is Catherine disher.

[00:59:03] That is her name.

[00:59:04] I want to know what the deal is.

[00:59:06] I want to know if they filmed all these movies at the same time.

[00:59:08] She just happened to be available for six straight weeks to do all.

[00:59:13] Like, it's just wild that I don't hardly, I mean, she was on a show for Hallmark called

[00:59:17] the good witch, but for us, we don't see her that often.

[00:59:20] And then we've seen her four times in the last month and all four are around the Danube

[00:59:26] river.

[00:59:26] And I don't know.

[00:59:27] Like, I just want the information on that.

[00:59:29] That's that's my one at the Hallmark.

[00:59:30] That's all I got.

[00:59:31] Yeah.

[00:59:31] Uh, we did it.

[00:59:32] My sweet Austrian holiday.

[00:59:34] It's in the books.

[00:59:36] Um, boys.

[00:59:37] Thank you guys.

[00:59:37] You guys for joining us.

[00:59:39] Please come back.

[00:59:39] Don't even promote it.

[00:59:40] Just, just come back and hang out sometime.

[00:59:42] This is a lot of fun.

[00:59:43] This is a lot of fun.

[00:59:44] Let's make this an annual affair.

[00:59:46] I love it.

[00:59:47] Thank you for coming to the show.

[00:59:49] It was so much fun.

[00:59:50] Yeah.

[00:59:50] So much fun.

[00:59:51] Uh, for King and country, a drummer boy Christmas live in theaters this December 5th through

[00:59:57] the 9th.

[00:59:58] Chances are it's coming to a theater near you.

[00:59:59] So check that out.

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[01:00:01] Thank you so much.

[01:00:02] We'll be back tomorrow with another one until then.

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