Our Holiday Story (Hallmark Channel - 2024)

[00:00:01] Hi, I'm Brian and I love Hallmark Christmas movies!

[00:00:05] I'm Brian and I like Hallmark Christmas movies.

[00:00:08] I'm Dan and I despise Hallmark Christmas movies and this is the Deck The Hallmark Podcast!

[00:00:13] Deck The Hallmark, it's this podcast.

[00:00:19] We're friends host this podcast.

[00:00:23] We hope you like this jolly podcast.

[00:00:31] Well hello everybody!

[00:00:34] Happy day to you!

[00:00:36] It is Wednesday as we know.

[00:00:39] We are recording this on Wednesday morning, hump day in fact.

[00:00:42] Can you believe the election not decided yet?

[00:00:44] I was gonna say, I actually just got word, we do have the results.

[00:00:48] Oh let's go to the map?

[00:00:49] If everybody waits until the end of the episode, we will reveal the results of the election.

[00:00:57] And we are recording this on Wednesday morning.

[00:00:59] There's no way that this bit could go wrong.

[00:01:01] There's no way that this is fake.

[00:01:03] No way.

[00:01:04] Yeah.

[00:01:04] There's just some news you can trust.

[00:01:05] That's right.

[00:01:06] That's exactly right.

[00:01:07] But we can't do it right now.

[00:01:08] We can't do it right now because we're gonna talk about our holiday story!

[00:01:11] Duh!

[00:01:11] Much more important.

[00:01:12] Which is very exciting.

[00:01:16] Nicky Deloach.

[00:01:17] Yeah.

[00:01:17] She's back at it.

[00:01:19] Back at it.

[00:01:19] No dead relative.

[00:01:21] It's unbelievable.

[00:01:22] Let's give it up for that.

[00:01:22] That's big.

[00:01:23] That's huge.

[00:01:24] That's huge.

[00:01:26] But there's a lot of things that happen in this movie.

[00:01:28] Things that you might find while playing Christmas Movie Magic.

[00:01:32] Yep.

[00:01:33] Our go-to card game to play during these Christmas movies because it's the only one we know of.

[00:01:40] But also because it's the best.

[00:01:42] It's the best.

[00:01:43] It is so much fun.

[00:01:44] No one would even try to come up with a better version of this because it's impossible.

[00:01:48] Christmas Movie Magic.

[00:01:49] A game that we've partnered with Think and Think Games.

[00:01:53] Double Think.

[00:01:53] And putting it out into the world and we love it and we think that you're gonna love it.

[00:01:57] There's still, you know, 40 of these left this year.

[00:02:02] So it's not too late.

[00:02:03] You might be thinking, it's November.

[00:02:04] Is it too late?

[00:02:06] It's not too late.

[00:02:07] Not even close.

[00:02:07] It's not too late to call the judge and it's not too late to apologize and it's not too late

[00:02:11] to get this game.

[00:02:13] So deck.com slash game.

[00:02:16] You can get it right now.

[00:02:17] Brian, you were telling me that you brought this up to New England with you over the weekend

[00:02:23] and that you played it with some friends and family.

[00:02:24] How did that go?

[00:02:25] How did that go?

[00:02:25] How did that go?

[00:02:26] It was new to them.

[00:02:27] They had never seen anything like it.

[00:02:29] And so, I mean, I'd like to say, I feel like now I'm comfortable saying I'm the Billy's

[00:02:33] champion and I'm the Christmas Movie Magic champion of the Northeast.

[00:02:37] Yeah.

[00:02:38] And you had to go where I wasn't around because I'm undefeated.

[00:02:41] Well, yeah.

[00:02:41] I'm in your territory.

[00:02:42] I had to get far, far away.

[00:02:44] That's right.

[00:02:44] So, yeah, it was a big hit.

[00:02:46] It was a little contentious.

[00:02:48] You know, people wanted to just, you know, this is a classic argument.

[00:02:52] They said it.

[00:02:53] So, I get it.

[00:02:54] And so, you have to explain it, Rudy.

[00:02:55] No, no, no.

[00:02:56] You have to see it on screen.

[00:02:57] That's how we play.

[00:02:57] Those are house rules.

[00:02:58] Yeah, that's true.

[00:02:59] That's how we play.

[00:02:59] You don't see it to believe it.

[00:03:00] You see it on screen.

[00:03:01] You can't just hear somebody talk about hot chocolate.

[00:03:03] No, you got to see the hot chocolate.

[00:03:05] So, it's, you know, people think they're getting away with stealing points.

[00:03:08] I'm not letting it happen.

[00:03:09] Not on my watch.

[00:03:09] And the good news is there is a Christmas festival slash town event that happens.

[00:03:16] So, if you had that card, you could play big points.

[00:03:18] Lots of cards to be played.

[00:03:20] Lots of cards to be played at this one, I believe.

[00:03:22] Aaron, you've been playing basically every movie that you've been watching.

[00:03:26] And if I remember correctly, you said that this particular movie was a high card rating.

[00:03:31] Yeah.

[00:03:32] I went through most of the cards in the deck.

[00:03:34] Wow.

[00:03:35] Is this the highest?

[00:03:36] Did you beat yourself or who won?

[00:03:38] No, I haven't been keeping track.

[00:03:40] Brian gave me this great suggestion that I should be, you know, as I put a card down at

[00:03:45] the end of the movie, I should tally up all the points and be like, oh, the potential

[00:03:48] for this movie is scoring potential.

[00:03:50] 50 points.

[00:03:52] Yeah.

[00:03:52] I haven't been doing that and I am not going to go back and rewatch these movies to do

[00:03:56] that.

[00:03:57] I told you we should get a new producer.

[00:03:59] Years ago.

[00:03:59] Just based on how many cards I've been going through, this one was pretty, like I only

[00:04:04] had like 10 or so cards left.

[00:04:06] Wow.

[00:04:06] High usage.

[00:04:06] High usage.

[00:04:07] High usage.

[00:04:08] High usage.

[00:04:10] High usage.

[00:04:10] And the only ones so far this year, it is Nativity, Advent Calendar.

[00:04:16] Those are the two toughest ones that I've ever seen.

[00:04:19] Are those both five pointers?

[00:04:20] I think so.

[00:04:21] Got to be right.

[00:04:22] But like there has been like one movie this year that had an Advent Calendar.

[00:04:25] Wow.

[00:04:26] Any nativities to be found?

[00:04:28] I think one.

[00:04:29] This is the problem, you know?

[00:04:30] Yeah.

[00:04:31] This is, yeah.

[00:04:32] This is why it's being canceled.

[00:04:33] That's what I said.

[00:04:34] We should write a movie that's a perfect score.

[00:04:37] Yeah.

[00:04:38] You might be wondering who I am.

[00:04:40] I would love, who?

[00:04:41] Oh, I thought it was just Brand.

[00:04:42] No.

[00:04:43] No, no, no.

[00:04:44] It's me.

[00:04:46] You're the problem?

[00:04:47] No, no, no, no.

[00:04:48] I'm, how do I say this?

[00:04:50] How do you?

[00:04:50] So.

[00:04:51] Candace Cameron Buret?

[00:04:52] No, I'm Cockroach from the other day.

[00:04:54] Cockroach from the other day.

[00:04:55] Oh, he's back.

[00:04:55] So I've been actually since watching The Grimmsman, I've been watching a lot of the,

[00:04:59] the Hallmark Christmas.

[00:05:00] Oh, now it makes sense.

[00:05:02] Yeah.

[00:05:03] And really quickly, did you see that an email came in and they didn't like me?

[00:05:08] I didn't, but it doesn't surprise me.

[00:05:10] I know.

[00:05:11] Wait, wait a second.

[00:05:12] It surprised me.

[00:05:13] You can read?

[00:05:14] I can.

[00:05:15] It surprised you that-

[00:05:16] You have access to the email?

[00:05:17] I don't think that they mentioned Cockroach specifically, but they did say that we're not

[00:05:22] funny and I read between the lines.

[00:05:24] Yeah, as you should.

[00:05:25] Did it come in after the Monday episode?

[00:05:27] It came in, yes, it did.

[00:05:28] Okay.

[00:05:28] It did, yeah.

[00:05:29] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:05:30] And you, so you think the Venom and Cockroach bit did not land is what you're saying?

[00:05:34] That's the only thing, and by bit you mean reality and where she lived.

[00:05:37] Yeah, or they sang Monster.

[00:05:39] I think Venom and a Cockroach singing Monster Mash is a bit regardless of if they're real

[00:05:44] or not, right?

[00:05:44] Okay.

[00:05:45] I agree to disagree.

[00:05:46] You can't, you can't bit friendship.

[00:05:48] You can't bit friendship.

[00:05:49] You can ship it.

[00:05:50] That's true.

[00:05:51] Friend bit.

[00:05:51] Really quickly.

[00:05:52] So I did watch a lot of movies and I've been playing this game and it's really fun.

[00:05:55] That's all I want to say.

[00:05:55] Thank you, Cockroach.

[00:05:56] And you can hold these cards.

[00:05:57] I can.

[00:05:58] It's a big cockroach.

[00:05:59] Or big hands.

[00:06:00] You know what they say?

[00:06:01] Big handed cockroach.

[00:06:02] You know what they say?

[00:06:03] I sure do.

[00:06:03] Big hands, big cockroach.

[00:06:04] That's exactly right.

[00:06:05] Got it.

[00:06:06] That's exactly right.

[00:06:07] We are awesome.

[00:06:09] We're so good at this show.

[00:06:10] I love Cockroach.

[00:06:11] I hope he sticks around all year.

[00:06:12] I think he might.

[00:06:13] I hope he does.

[00:06:14] Oh, there he goes.

[00:06:15] Yeah.

[00:06:17] Look at those hands.

[00:06:18] The fact that he can still run around-

[00:06:20] I know.

[00:06:21] It's crazy.

[00:06:21] And not just trip over himself.

[00:06:22] Yeah, I think the hands help with the crawling actually.

[00:06:25] Yeah.

[00:06:25] It's not all leg.

[00:06:27] It's not all when cockroaches-

[00:06:28] But the two hands are bigger than his legs and so he's just kind of, you'd think he'd

[00:06:32] just flip over.

[00:06:33] No, it's a center of gravity situation.

[00:06:35] Okay.

[00:06:35] Big butt.

[00:06:36] Don't lie.

[00:06:37] I noticed.

[00:06:38] You're kidding?

[00:06:39] I'm only human.

[00:06:40] I noticed that Cockroach has a big butt which helps way down when he's walking on

[00:06:45] his hands.

[00:06:45] That makes a lot of sense.

[00:06:46] I know.

[00:06:47] It's only-

[00:06:47] It's purely science.

[00:06:48] John Mayer said it best.

[00:06:49] It's purely science.

[00:06:51] Oh my God.

[00:06:52] Mothers be good to your cockroach.

[00:06:53] Yeah.

[00:06:53] That's exactly right.

[00:06:54] Gravity.

[00:06:54] That's right.

[00:06:55] It's like in gravity but yeah.

[00:06:57] Sure.

[00:06:58] Fair enough.

[00:07:00] Let's get to our holiday story shall we?

[00:07:03] Big butt cockroach.

[00:07:03] Oh man.

[00:07:05] You know what?

[00:07:06] I can't believe people don't like the show.

[00:07:07] I can't believe there are people who complain.

[00:07:08] It's always news to me.

[00:07:09] It's always like-

[00:07:10] It's every time.

[00:07:11] We won't get an email on that.

[00:07:12] I have to be honest.

[00:07:12] It's actually more news to me when someone does like the show.

[00:07:16] That's always the more shocking thing to me.

[00:07:18] It's like you, you, like we have a community of double deckers that listen every day.

[00:07:22] I'm like how do you?

[00:07:23] How do you do it?

[00:07:24] How do you do?

[00:07:25] How do you do?

[00:07:26] Um, our holiday story originally aired on November 2nd, 2024.

[00:07:31] Did you just do your hat?

[00:07:32] Okay, great.

[00:07:32] How do you do?

[00:07:33] I'm on Hallmark Channel.

[00:07:34] Went a little something like this.

[00:07:34] Chris shows up at his girlfriend Joanna's parents house expecting to meet Joanna there.

[00:07:40] But Joanna is running late.

[00:07:42] A couple hours late in fact.

[00:07:43] She's going to be taking the train though so what could go wrong?

[00:07:47] Um, he's like I'll just wait on you and she's like oh they're definitely watching you out the window right now.

[00:07:51] So you're gonna have to go in.

[00:07:52] Sure enough they are.

[00:07:53] And uh, just as Joanna's about to give him some advice that starts with don't ask them about.

[00:08:00] Her phone dies.

[00:08:01] Don't ask them about what?

[00:08:02] He'll never know.

[00:08:03] They invite Chris in to help decorate for their Christmas party.

[00:08:07] It is stepmom Nell and dad Dave.

[00:08:10] And Dave makes funny jokes like we might poison you with nuts.

[00:08:14] You loved that joke didn't you?

[00:08:15] A little too close though.

[00:08:17] A little too close.

[00:08:17] We would never.

[00:08:18] No.

[00:08:18] Personally we would never.

[00:08:19] It's not personal.

[00:08:20] Uh, they sit down to get to know each other a little bit and Chris asks the question how did you two meet?

[00:08:27] Uh, they light up.

[00:08:28] It was ten years ago.

[00:08:30] He gets on a train of people that are all in ugly Christmas sweaters.

[00:08:35] Apparently it's the inaugural ugly Christmas sweater convention which we know now is still going on.

[00:08:42] Ten years later.

[00:08:43] Because uh, the daughter was on a train and it was the same thing.

[00:08:47] Anyway, it doesn't matter.

[00:08:48] Uh, he finds the one person on this train that's not wearing a Christmas sweater and sits across from her.

[00:08:54] It is Nell.

[00:08:55] He says chit chats hard and she doesn't immediately tell him to get lost.

[00:09:00] So she's a keeper.

[00:09:00] Uh, they begin to hit it off.

[00:09:03] The train stops due to ice and he sees a sign for Frito's fruitcake.

[00:09:08] Um, which she also happens to love.

[00:09:12] Man, these two, they just love fruitcake and they're the same train.

[00:09:16] Just get married.

[00:09:18] Um, he's like, you know what?

[00:09:20] I want to go get us some.

[00:09:21] Uh, you know, it's not going to leave for like 30 minutes.

[00:09:24] We're going to be good to go.

[00:09:24] As he's in the store, the train begins to move.

[00:09:28] It leaves him behind.

[00:09:29] To make matters worse, they both remember each other's names incorrectly.

[00:09:34] They heard it wrong or whatever.

[00:09:35] So they have no way to contact each other and no way to find each other.

[00:09:39] Dave is, uh, talking to his daughter and says, I just hope that fate brings us back together.

[00:09:46] But he's a busy bee.

[00:09:48] Dave is a woodworker who is planning the town's Christmas festival that they do every year.

[00:09:53] Uh, he gets a letter from the city that he has to call a woman named Eleanor.

[00:09:58] Who could this be making me call them?

[00:10:02] I bet it's good news.

[00:10:03] What else could it be?

[00:10:05] Uh, turns out it's bad news.

[00:10:06] Uh, she is against the, she works for the town and she's against the festival because it isn't good budget wise.

[00:10:13] And so the phone conversation does not go well.

[00:10:16] The next day, Dave and his daughter are walking around town and she goes to pick up some coffee.

[00:10:22] Suddenly Dave and Nell bump into each other.

[00:10:25] They realize that they had their name names wrong.

[00:10:28] And, uh, but you know, we've been flirting so hard.

[00:10:31] We didn't even catch it.

[00:10:32] But then Dave gets an SOS text from his daughter and he's like, this must be serious.

[00:10:39] I tries to call her.

[00:10:40] She doesn't answer.

[00:10:40] So he's like, Hey, can you just stay?

[00:10:42] Don't move.

[00:10:43] Don't move a muscle.

[00:10:44] I'll be right back.

[00:10:45] Um, but then he gets held up at the coffee shop, which by the way, it wasn't a big deal.

[00:10:49] She's totally fine.

[00:10:50] Um, but, uh, there was a coffee fiasco, hot chocolate, uh, droppage.

[00:10:55] And so he got held up there a little bit too long.

[00:10:57] And by the time he gets back, she had to move her car, uh, because she was parked in front of a, uh, a fire hydrant.

[00:11:05] So womp womp, once again, they don't get each other's numbers.

[00:11:09] Joanna can't believe that he didn't just get her number.

[00:11:13] And so she posts a misconnection on his behalf.

[00:11:17] And believe it or not, they bump into each other again.

[00:11:20] This time they exchange numbers immediately.

[00:11:22] Well, they try to exchange numbers immediately.

[00:11:24] He doesn't have his phone.

[00:11:25] So he tries to commit it to memory.

[00:11:27] Something that Dan would have no problems with, but I would fail miserably at.

[00:11:30] Um, and, um, she, he gives her his number, but before she can save it into her phone, she drops the phone cracks.

[00:11:39] It has to get a new phone.

[00:11:40] Um, and she, he forgets the number because he's walking around town and a lot of numbers are being thrown out.

[00:11:46] So that's tough stuff break.

[00:11:48] Uh, once you know it, she ends up finding his misconnection.

[00:11:53] And so she messaged him and Joanna gets in and she starts going, he, he, I got it.

[00:11:58] Um, and asks her out on a date on behalf of Dave, come on over to the Christmas party.

[00:12:03] It's going to be wonderful.

[00:12:05] She does.

[00:12:06] And they are having a great time.

[00:12:08] They are slow dancing when suddenly it all clicks in for now.

[00:12:12] When she finds out his last name and whatnot, that Dave is the David that she has been arguing with about the Christmas festival.

[00:12:20] So she leaves and ghosts him.

[00:12:24] Uh, Oh, uh, Dave and Joanna are so confused, but it all becomes clear to Joanna.

[00:12:29] When she sees, when she joins Dave for a meeting at the town hall and, uh, she sees now there and it all clicks into her about who she is.

[00:12:40] So she convinces him to leave.

[00:12:42] Doesn't want to break his little heart.

[00:12:43] Uh, she decides to try to make this work by getting Nell to meet with her and trying to tell her that she should come clean about who she is.

[00:12:53] It would, it would, it would come, it would be better if it came from you rather than me telling her.

[00:12:58] So Joanna comes up with a plan to help now tell David the truth.

[00:13:01] She shows up at his farm with a fruitcake and he gives her a tour of the festival.

[00:13:07] She begins to realize how much work that he's put into this festival and that maybe it's not an entire waste of resources.

[00:13:15] She finally is about to come clean about who she is, but before she can, he tells her that he really likes her.

[00:13:20] The moment is so romantic that she can't find it in herself to tell him the whole truth, nothing but the truth.

[00:13:26] Um, oh, hey, back in the present, Joanna finally shows up after a bunch of train travel hurdles.

[00:13:32] Uh, uh, she and don't have his name down.

[00:13:36] Um, don't get off to the strongest.

[00:13:39] Chris, Chris.

[00:13:40] That's exactly right.

[00:13:41] He tells her that he loves her.

[00:13:43] She creams him with icing and, uh, runs off.

[00:13:47] That's exactly right.

[00:13:48] Um, he decides that he should just leave back in the past.

[00:13:51] Nell is about to tell Dave, uh, the truth, but he ends up, uh, bashing Eleanor before she can about how she's the worst and whatnot.

[00:14:01] Then the fire marshal shows up and shuts down the festival.

[00:14:05] She feels so bad.

[00:14:06] So she finally goes to tell him the truth.

[00:14:08] She starts by saying how much she likes him and how great he makes her feel.

[00:14:13] Uh, she, how great he makes her feel just as she's about to say.

[00:14:17] Also, I'm Eleanor.

[00:14:19] The fire marshal walks up and says, great news.

[00:14:21] You passed and says, oh, great.

[00:14:23] Both of you are here.

[00:14:24] Hands the paper to Eleanor.

[00:14:27] And it becomes clear to David who she is.

[00:14:30] Dave is real mad.

[00:14:31] She says that, uh, she was scared to tell him the truth because what if David and Eleanor can't be together?

[00:14:38] I just want it to be Dave and Nell.

[00:14:40] And he's like, well, maybe we aren't meant to be after all.

[00:14:44] And he leaves back in present day.

[00:14:46] Joanna texts Chris.

[00:14:47] I love you.

[00:14:48] Um, and her parents encourage her to go after him.

[00:14:51] Don't live with any regrets back to the story that matters though for this movie.

[00:14:57] Uh, Eleanor goes to find David and tells, uh, him that she was wrong and that she wants to be a part of the magic that he's creating.

[00:15:04] He tells her that he is sorry for what he said.

[00:15:07] He doesn't find her unlikable at all.

[00:15:09] In fact, quite the opposite.

[00:15:10] She says, you're my fate.

[00:15:12] He says we belong.

[00:15:14] And they kiss in front of Santa.

[00:15:16] I might add, um, in what is I think, in my opinion, and the running for kiss of the season so far.

[00:15:22] Yeah.

[00:15:22] Easily.

[00:15:23] Uh, back to present day.

[00:15:24] Chris runs back to make it, uh, to the festival and Joanna is so happy to see him.

[00:15:29] Uh, they both say that they love each other and they kiss.

[00:15:32] Chris, Chris's parents come over to spend Christmas as one big happy family, which I think is a little bit.

[00:15:37] Easy to say.

[00:15:38] You know, getting tired over here.

[00:15:39] I am.

[00:15:40] I am getting tired.

[00:15:41] Um, but they're all spending Christmas together, which seems to be jumping the gun a little bit.

[00:15:45] Um, but anyway, the parents ask Nell and Dave, how did you two meet the question you should not ask them?

[00:15:53] And that my friends was our holiday story.

[00:15:58] Hey, we did it.

[00:16:01] I closed the app before I remembered the title of the movie.

[00:16:04] Has it ever happened to you?

[00:16:05] Nope.

[00:16:07] Let's, uh, let's take a quick break.

[00:16:09] We'll come back.

[00:16:10] We'll, uh, break this movie down with four segments here on Deck the Hallmark.

[00:16:23] Hey everybody.

[00:16:24] How are we doing?

[00:16:25] Hey everybody.

[00:16:26] Hey everybody.

[00:16:26] My name is Brett Debbie.

[00:16:27] Uh, by the way, new merch.

[00:16:29] New merch.

[00:16:30] Yeah.

[00:16:30] Hit the showroom.com slash shop.

[00:16:31] That's right.

[00:16:33] You got some Brett Debbie merch.

[00:16:34] You got some in my Christmas movie era shirts, uh, sweaters, all sorts of stuff.

[00:16:38] The people that were upset about cockroach definitely going to buy that Brett Debbie merch.

[00:16:42] 100%.

[00:16:43] Definitely.

[00:16:43] Throw it here.

[00:16:44] Throw it here.

[00:16:45] Throw it on in.

[00:16:46] Throw it in the shot.

[00:16:47] This wouldn't fit cockroach.

[00:16:48] This right here.

[00:16:49] Ooh.

[00:16:50] File it out to me such DTH if you want to see it.

[00:16:52] Yeah.

[00:16:52] I didn't know how to hold stuff up.

[00:16:54] Yeah, you do.

[00:16:54] But also, if you're going to be at Christmas con, you can buy one of these from us in person.

[00:16:59] That's right.

[00:16:59] Save yourself some shipping.

[00:17:00] That's right.

[00:17:01] It's up to you.

[00:17:02] However you want to do it.

[00:17:02] However you want to do it.

[00:17:03] Six and a half.

[00:17:04] That was my understanding.

[00:17:06] Got it.

[00:17:07] It's time to break down our holiday story.

[00:17:09] I'm sorry.

[00:17:10] Our holiday story.

[00:17:11] It's not a Christmas story.

[00:17:12] No.

[00:17:12] No, no, no.

[00:17:14] No nativity in this one, I'll tell you that much.

[00:17:16] Oh no.

[00:17:17] Five points on the board.

[00:17:18] Let's, uh, let's, uh, let's get to it.

[00:17:20] Let's start our hot takes.

[00:17:21] We're sure exactly how we felt about this movie.

[00:17:22] We do not hold back.

[00:17:25] What'd you think, Brian?

[00:17:26] I liked it.

[00:17:27] Uh, normally I like more funny zany stuff a little bit more.

[00:17:30] Uh, this one just really good storytelling.

[00:17:33] I thought, I think they did a good job bouncing between the timelines, complicated timelines.

[00:17:38] It was, if you weren't really paying attention, they weren't looking too different between the

[00:17:42] timelines.

[00:17:42] So it was hard to tell young from older and going back and forth.

[00:17:46] So that's always tough to do anyway.

[00:17:48] Uh, good job though.

[00:17:50] I thought it was really good.

[00:17:51] Um, I could have used a little more, giving out a participation medal over here.

[00:17:55] I could have used a little more on the festival.

[00:17:58] Uh, like what is it?

[00:18:01] What's the budget?

[00:18:02] Like all the details that were a big problem in this.

[00:18:04] We didn't really get much information on.

[00:18:06] So I was kind of confused about that.

[00:18:07] Um, and I was nervous.

[00:18:09] I know I was nervous for Nell and for Dave throughout.

[00:18:11] So they, I guess I was on the hook early on wondering I was invested is how I felt.

[00:18:17] So yeah, had a good time with this one.

[00:18:19] Uh, good job.

[00:18:20] Um, yeah, I really liked this one.

[00:18:23] In fact, um, I thought it was a fun little gimmick here.

[00:18:28] A little how I met your mother.

[00:18:30] If you will, I will.

[00:18:32] Um, and dadgum it, Nikki Delosha, Warren Christie.

[00:18:36] If you've ever doubted how much the leads matter to these movies, look no further than this movie

[00:18:42] because these two leads not only crush it.

[00:18:46] They make a movie which is pretty like unremarkable standard, uh, standard into a really, really quality Christmas movie.

[00:18:57] I really liked these two together.

[00:18:59] I thought their chemistry was off the hook.

[00:19:01] Um, the kiss at the end.

[00:19:03] Are you kidding me right now?

[00:19:03] Phenomenal kiss.

[00:19:05] Uh, love to see it.

[00:19:07] And the, the, the B couple, the present day couple of Joanna and Chris don't really care

[00:19:14] much about Chris, but Joanna was fantastic.

[00:19:16] She was fantastic.

[00:19:18] She was fantastic.

[00:19:19] Now she's fantastic.

[00:19:20] Then, uh, 10 years prior, uh, obviously she's trying to play younger there and she like

[00:19:26] says some things that are like, oh yeah, this is that, that storyline where she's younger.

[00:19:31] And so I thought they did a really good job of as, as much as you can and trying to make,

[00:19:37] uh, Warren Christie and Nikki Lodge look old, which is apparently an impossible task.

[00:19:43] Good luck.

[00:19:43] The way in which they differentiated between the two storylines.

[00:19:46] I thought overall they did a good job of it since you can't make them look old.

[00:19:50] We will do things in the past to remind you of where, when you're living and whatnot.

[00:19:55] And so overall thought this movie was really good, really solid.

[00:19:59] Uh, I'd watch it again.

[00:20:00] Dano.

[00:20:01] Yeah.

[00:20:02] Uh, Warren Christie is a mere months away from being 50 years old and that's just not fair.

[00:20:09] It's not fair to the rest of us out here.

[00:20:11] We should all be insulted.

[00:20:13] Uh, that's crazy.

[00:20:15] Um, this movie is competent.

[00:20:17] I like that shouldn't be high praise, but it is, I, none of it blew me away.

[00:20:24] I wasn't super duper invested, but what I wasn't was like head scratchingly puzzled as to why I was watching it.

[00:20:33] Nor did I have a bunch of weight.

[00:20:35] What's it is a movie with two really solid leads who have amazing chemistry and the best kiss of the season.

[00:20:42] It is a movie where they deal with tech in a way that Hallmark typically doesn't deal with tech, which is correctly.

[00:20:50] They utilize the differences between 2014 and 2024 to their advantage.

[00:20:56] They utilize the difference between this fate destiny character in this, you know, I have my own destiny in my own hands and I make my own luck character.

[00:21:04] They utilize their circumstances together very well.

[00:21:07] The way they tell the story is really nice.

[00:21:09] The, the daughter, you're right. The daughter, her boyfriend, I didn't care about that at all.

[00:21:15] I don't have much negative to say.

[00:21:17] It wasn't like, I think five year engagement.

[00:21:19] I have a lot more negative to say, but it's a better movie.

[00:21:22] I think, you know what Katie Finley five year Christmas party.

[00:21:26] That's in five year engagement. My bad.

[00:21:28] That's a different movie. It's coming out later.

[00:21:29] No, Jason Siegel's sorry to come out.

[00:21:32] Yeah, it's already come out. It's not very good.

[00:21:33] Uh, five year Christmas party is probably better because I think it's a bigger swing.

[00:21:38] This movie is just, it's probably my second favorite of the year because it, there's not a lot critically.

[00:21:44] I have an issue with in this movie.

[00:21:46] I, the, and what brand said is right.

[00:21:49] The two leads matter a lot and their chemistry is great from start to finish.

[00:21:54] You could watch these two do anything.

[00:21:55] And Nikki Deloach not having a dead relative.

[00:21:58] She has the ability to like play a lot more quirky and whimsical and she does a great job with it.

[00:22:02] I thought she did great.

[00:22:03] Dan, I heard you say the word big and I came running out of my hands.

[00:22:07] Oh my God.

[00:22:07] What's up?

[00:22:08] You mentioned?

[00:22:09] Yes.

[00:22:09] I did not.

[00:22:09] You said the word big.

[00:22:10] I just, it was a big, big swing.

[00:22:12] It's a big swing.

[00:22:13] Yes.

[00:22:14] Really?

[00:22:16] Wow.

[00:22:16] Cockroaches are little by definition.

[00:22:19] They're just, they're not, they're not.

[00:22:19] Even, even you would admit my hands are massive.

[00:22:22] You.

[00:22:23] For a cockroach.

[00:22:25] I've literally never thought about your hands until you brought them up.

[00:22:29] Yeah.

[00:22:30] But your diary begs to differ, sir.

[00:22:32] My diary.

[00:22:33] I read it.

[00:22:34] You think.

[00:22:35] I'm small.

[00:22:35] I snuck in.

[00:22:36] That I.

[00:22:37] Yeah.

[00:22:37] I know you have.

[00:22:39] I don't think it.

[00:22:39] I know it.

[00:22:40] Yes.

[00:22:40] And I write in there about the size of your hands.

[00:22:43] You said, and I quote on Monday's episode, after following week, here it comes.

[00:22:49] After you recorded the groomsman episode, you went and you wrote in your diary and you

[00:22:55] said, dear diary, my God.

[00:22:58] Oh my God.

[00:22:59] Were that cockroach's hands massive?

[00:23:02] It was massive.

[00:23:03] I didn't think it was possible.

[00:23:04] I didn't think it was possible.

[00:23:05] Is it bad for me to have feelings in this way for a cockroach?

[00:23:08] Is it bad for me to have feelings for a cockroach?

[00:23:09] Who can say?

[00:23:10] Who can say?

[00:23:11] More tomorrow.

[00:23:11] Also, by the way, TJ Maxx has a big sale this weekend and I can't wait.

[00:23:17] So.

[00:23:18] Yeah.

[00:23:19] Go game cocks.

[00:23:20] Go game cocks.

[00:23:21] You caught me.

[00:23:23] You caught me.

[00:23:24] Go game cockroaches.

[00:23:25] Am I right, guys?

[00:23:26] No.

[00:23:26] All right, cockroach out.

[00:23:28] Bye.

[00:23:28] Don't watch me leave.

[00:23:29] I know you liked him.

[00:23:30] It's hard not to.

[00:23:31] It's crazy.

[00:23:33] That is a weird.

[00:23:34] I didn't know you had a diary.

[00:23:36] Look at him.

[00:23:36] I didn't either, but you guys found it clearly.

[00:23:38] I like that we got the video.

[00:23:39] Yeah.

[00:23:40] The audio of your.

[00:23:41] Sounds.

[00:23:42] It sounds.

[00:23:43] Yeah.

[00:23:44] The audio in the background, we overlaid it, which is really good producing on your part.

[00:23:47] Talk about tech.

[00:23:48] Yeah.

[00:23:48] The tech there.

[00:23:49] Bam.

[00:23:50] Yeah.

[00:23:50] That sounds exactly like me.

[00:23:51] I'm just kidding.

[00:23:52] We got it.

[00:23:53] We got it.

[00:23:54] We got it.

[00:23:54] We got it.

[00:23:55] I love that you read your diary after you write it.

[00:23:59] That's right.

[00:23:59] I read it to record it.

[00:24:01] Yeah.

[00:24:01] In case people can't read and they want to read my diary.

[00:24:04] That's a lot of accessibility.

[00:24:05] Yes.

[00:24:05] We're covering all the bases.

[00:24:06] You sure are?

[00:24:07] Man.

[00:24:08] Let's get to all the feels.

[00:24:09] We're going to talk about what in this movie gave us feels.

[00:24:11] TJ Maxx.

[00:24:12] Big sale.

[00:24:12] Big sale.

[00:24:14] What gave you feels?

[00:24:15] Yeah.

[00:24:15] The overwhelming positivity from Dave was a real standout.

[00:24:20] This guy at every turn was seeing the positive, had something positive.

[00:24:25] It just beats you into submission, how positive he is.

[00:24:29] I thought it was great.

[00:24:30] It wasn't like a little thing here and there.

[00:24:32] I felt like that is who he is and that really came through in his character.

[00:24:36] So really standout job there.

[00:24:38] That's who you are, right, Bri?

[00:24:39] You get it.

[00:24:40] That's classic, Bri.

[00:24:41] It's so relatable for me.

[00:24:43] Classic.

[00:24:43] Yeah.

[00:24:44] I always think things are going to work out.

[00:24:46] Finally seeing it on screen.

[00:24:47] Yeah.

[00:24:47] The, seeing just the silver lining in every situation, always expecting things to just

[00:24:52] work out and be the way they're supposed to be and being okay with it.

[00:24:55] Yeah.

[00:24:55] That's me, man.

[00:24:56] Through and through.

[00:24:56] Classic.

[00:24:57] That is you.

[00:24:59] Obviously that kiss.

[00:25:01] Holy cow.

[00:25:01] Holy cow.

[00:25:02] That was crazy.

[00:25:04] But also, you know, one of you, I think it was you, Brian mentioned that you wanted to

[00:25:08] know more about like what the festival was.

[00:25:10] Yeah.

[00:25:10] Yeah.

[00:25:10] It turns out I don't care.

[00:25:12] Yeah.

[00:25:12] Yeah.

[00:25:12] Cause I saw it and I loved it.

[00:25:15] A wonderful festival with no real rhyme or reason.

[00:25:19] My perfect favorite dream type of Christmas festival.

[00:25:23] So I loved, I loved it.

[00:25:24] I loved when, when they started showing out that sucker, I was like, Oh boy.

[00:25:29] Oh boy.

[00:25:29] I'm going to go write my diary.

[00:25:31] It's crazy.

[00:25:32] It's crazy.

[00:25:33] Dano.

[00:25:33] Yeah.

[00:25:34] The kiss in this movie is fantastic.

[00:25:36] It's the best kiss of the Christmas season.

[00:25:37] No question about it.

[00:25:38] I think that is the front runner for the feels.

[00:25:40] No question about it.

[00:25:41] I'll say a quick break.

[00:25:42] We'll come back.

[00:25:42] We'll get to the way when the what the hallmark here on deck the hallmark.

[00:25:55] Welcome back, everybody.

[00:25:55] We're talking about our holiday story.

[00:25:59] Let's get to the way.

[00:26:01] What is where we're talking about?

[00:26:01] What in the swimming?

[00:26:02] What Brian?

[00:26:03] Yeah.

[00:26:04] Now it gets an email at one point and it's just a picture of her ex with his new,

[00:26:08] I don't know, girlfriend, fiance.

[00:26:10] What monster sends just a picture of your, your emails like a high res photo of your

[00:26:17] thinking of you.

[00:26:18] Here you go.

[00:26:18] Fiance.

[00:26:19] You're going to want to see this.

[00:26:20] Brutal.

[00:26:22] You're going to want to see this.

[00:26:23] Yeah.

[00:26:24] Brutal.

[00:26:24] Just subject line.

[00:26:26] You're going to want to see this.

[00:26:27] You just, you want to ease into that.

[00:26:29] You don't just do like, yeah, well, maybe it's just personality type, but I would assume

[00:26:33] you go, Hey, like I saw a picture.

[00:26:35] It's a little disconcerting.

[00:26:37] Yeah.

[00:26:37] Open.

[00:26:38] Have you heard anything about, about your brutal, like really a heartless, really a

[00:26:42] heartless email too.

[00:26:44] Yes.

[00:26:44] You're just trying to get like spreadsheets done and budgets made.

[00:26:48] You're like, wait a high res photo of my fiance with another woman.

[00:26:51] You hate to see it.

[00:26:52] Yeah.

[00:26:53] Um, and it seems like her phone has died before the, a Joe, the daughter.

[00:26:57] Uh, yeah.

[00:26:58] They make a joke about how she never charges her phone.

[00:27:00] Sure.

[00:27:01] So just always have a charger, right?

[00:27:03] Like always have a charger and a backup charger.

[00:27:05] I appreciate when I, the first time that her phone died, I was like, I have a huge problem

[00:27:10] with this.

[00:27:10] It's the morning for your phone to die.

[00:27:13] Yeah.

[00:27:13] You're just not an adult preparing.

[00:27:15] And, but then later in the movie, they do this thing like her dad who loses his phone.

[00:27:20] Sure.

[00:27:20] She forgets to charge her phone at night.

[00:27:22] And so I like bought that.

[00:27:25] Okay.

[00:27:25] I bought it as this is the, the genetics of that family are.

[00:27:29] Okay.

[00:27:30] I just can't, I can't, I can't either.

[00:27:32] Yeah.

[00:27:32] The idea that my phone wouldn't be on a hundred when I wake up is crazy.

[00:27:35] Yeah.

[00:27:35] Or I'm not, I'm waking up early.

[00:27:37] I'm trying to, if my phone's above 75% when I go to bed, I don't, I don't plug it.

[00:27:42] You don't think about it.

[00:27:43] I just, I'm just like, it's going to be good.

[00:27:46] Yeah.

[00:27:46] It happened last night actually.

[00:27:47] Okay.

[00:27:47] But in the morning, I mean, I just, I couldn't, I couldn't, I can't relate.

[00:27:51] I'm a crazy boy.

[00:27:51] I just got questions about the ride with the fruitcake van driver.

[00:27:56] Like the timeline of it.

[00:27:58] At first I was really confused.

[00:27:59] And then I think, I think they left at dawn and it just got, cause it was really dark

[00:28:02] when they were in the car and then so it just got brighter.

[00:28:04] So fine.

[00:28:05] No big deal.

[00:28:05] But it's a three hour drive.

[00:28:06] He was in three hours.

[00:28:08] It's a three.

[00:28:08] It's not a three.

[00:28:09] It's a three hour drive.

[00:28:10] Right.

[00:28:10] There's no way.

[00:28:11] That's right.

[00:28:12] So that weird, but also he's, he's wearing a baking, uh, uniform.

[00:28:17] We never know.

[00:28:17] He looks like he came straight from the kitchen, hopped in the van, taking all the fruitcake.

[00:28:21] Now that I've baked all these fruitcakes.

[00:28:22] Yeah.

[00:28:23] I'm going to just go ahead and transport it.

[00:28:25] Hire somebody.

[00:28:26] Yeah.

[00:28:26] Like maybe a delivery driver.

[00:28:27] Somebody burned out so early, man.

[00:28:30] Yeah.

[00:28:31] Hey everybody.

[00:28:32] Hey, there he is.

[00:28:33] It's Brett Debbie.

[00:28:34] Hey everybody.

[00:28:35] And for those of you who don't know, maybe just joining us, Brett Debbie is the son of

[00:28:39] little Debbie.

[00:28:39] Little Debbie.

[00:28:40] Yeah.

[00:28:40] And he grew up in a house.

[00:28:41] That's right.

[00:28:43] Completely constructed out of snack cakes.

[00:28:45] That's right.

[00:28:45] So like, you know, the walls were Swiss cake rolls.

[00:28:47] Um, you know, the, the banister was like a nutty bar.

[00:28:50] If I'm not mistaken.

[00:28:51] Is that right?

[00:28:52] Cosmic Browns.

[00:28:53] I got a song about it.

[00:28:55] Oh, he also does spoken word slash jazz slash music at bars, wherever they will let him

[00:29:01] play.

[00:29:01] Um, you've got one right now or is this a recording?

[00:29:04] I got one right now.

[00:29:05] Dan, can you give me some drums?

[00:29:06] I can hit you.

[00:29:10] Hey everybody.

[00:29:11] My name is Brett Debbie and I grew up and I was pretty miserable.

[00:29:17] Can you understand where I'm coming from?

[00:29:20] My life sucked.

[00:29:22] It was not fun.

[00:29:24] Oh, I didn't like growing up in the house of little Debbie's.

[00:29:30] You might think that it's salt gravy, but do other math.

[00:29:35] Do do do.

[00:29:35] There's no gravy inside.

[00:29:37] Do do.

[00:29:38] There's more, but I don't want to come.

[00:29:40] That's great.

[00:29:40] So we got t-shirts is what you're saying.

[00:29:43] Yeah.

[00:29:43] Merch.

[00:29:44] Doug.

[00:29:45] Uh, shirt and weekend.

[00:29:47] And that a portion of those proceeds go to what Brett?

[00:29:50] To me.

[00:29:51] Oh, my house.

[00:29:52] The foundation.

[00:29:53] Okay.

[00:29:53] Yeah.

[00:29:54] The foundation.

[00:29:55] Do the math.

[00:29:56] It's a foundation.

[00:29:57] Yeah.

[00:29:57] And that's made of Swiss cake rolls.

[00:29:59] Swiss cake rolls.

[00:30:00] God bless.

[00:30:01] Um, and just how long have we been?

[00:30:04] There's no gravy inside.

[00:30:05] No gravy inside.

[00:30:06] I mean, it's, it's a treat.

[00:30:07] It's a dessert.

[00:30:07] So what do you need the gravy for?

[00:30:09] Uh, just how long they've been running this festival there.

[00:30:12] They should not be getting, uh, shut down by the fire department at this point.

[00:30:16] Uh, get it together.

[00:30:17] You should have it all figured out and just what she's.

[00:30:20] Well, he doesn't, I, I, he doesn't ever have it all figured out, but the fire marshal thing

[00:30:24] was stupid.

[00:30:25] Yeah.

[00:30:27] It's just the day before.

[00:30:28] It's just, it's an outside festival.

[00:30:30] Yeah.

[00:30:31] What are you?

[00:30:31] Too many electrical, too many extension cords.

[00:30:33] What is it about the outdoor festival?

[00:30:36] I mean, there was a lot of lights.

[00:30:36] Yeah.

[00:30:37] So it was just, but there was throwing stuff out that I'm like, what's the problem?

[00:30:41] Yeah.

[00:30:42] How, why is, where's the budget going?

[00:30:44] I mean, it's like you said, it's an outdoor thing.

[00:30:46] What are they spending money on?

[00:30:47] Yes.

[00:30:47] Lights.

[00:30:48] Yeah.

[00:30:48] Or I didn't care about the breakdown of the budget.

[00:30:51] I did care about the fact that they've broken a fire code of some sort outside at this festival.

[00:30:59] And I would love to know what that fire code.

[00:31:01] Yeah.

[00:31:01] That they broke.

[00:31:02] Outdoors.

[00:31:03] Yeah.

[00:31:03] Which is crazy.

[00:31:04] Yeah.

[00:31:04] So yeah.

[00:31:05] Other than that, pretty good.

[00:31:07] Pretty good stuff.

[00:31:07] I mean, this movie starts off with a humdinger where she calls him up and says, Hey, I'm

[00:31:13] running late.

[00:31:13] He's like, I'm at your house.

[00:31:15] Uh, you said, you were creepy.

[00:31:17] I'm at your house.

[00:31:19] And then he says, you said that you left hours ago.

[00:31:24] Oh my gosh.

[00:31:26] She said I left.

[00:31:28] And then she just, she said, I'm on my way.

[00:31:30] Yeah.

[00:31:31] And then she just didn't leave.

[00:31:33] Yeah.

[00:31:34] That's tough.

[00:31:35] That's frustrating.

[00:31:35] Yeah.

[00:31:36] I feel like y'all should talk about that some more because you, I think there are people

[00:31:40] that do that.

[00:31:40] I can't imagine doing that myself.

[00:31:43] Not a million years.

[00:31:43] Where you say I'm leaving, but people are just like, they need to get somebody off their

[00:31:47] back or they don't want to lie and be like, I'm nowhere close to leaving.

[00:31:50] And so they're like, I'm walking out the door right now.

[00:31:52] And they don't leave for two hours.

[00:31:53] And that, that, that would frustrate me to no end.

[00:31:56] But, but to not update, to just be like, Hey, I think going to your parents, I think

[00:32:01] you have like a, like a, maybe a 10 minute buffer where I'm leaving the office.

[00:32:05] I'm going, I'm on my way.

[00:32:07] And then I'm like, Oh, I remember I got to go back and grab this thing.

[00:32:09] That's right.

[00:32:10] And then that turns into a thing.

[00:32:11] I think you got a 10 minute buffer there.

[00:32:14] But after that, you got to give an update.

[00:32:16] You got to give an update.

[00:32:18] That's a, that's a, that's out of hand.

[00:32:20] Um, her phone dies at one point, but this is why the only way that you know that it dies

[00:32:26] is because it goes, because it turns into R2 D2.

[00:32:30] Everybody else's phone doesn't have the battery to give you a bunch of noise.

[00:32:33] No, they just turn off.

[00:32:34] You would think that they wouldn't do that because that would take more battery.

[00:32:37] That's right.

[00:32:38] Um, but her phone dying does sound like, so that's fun.

[00:32:43] I like that.

[00:32:44] Um, there was a weird speaking of Star Wars, you know, Star Wars has transition effects.

[00:32:51] Yeah.

[00:32:51] Yep.

[00:32:51] Yep.

[00:32:52] Yep.

[00:32:52] This movie for some reason, anytime it went to a commercial break, had this weird whooshing

[00:32:57] effect where it would be like, um, light as if it was, uh, the deck, the hallmark best

[00:33:01] of episode.

[00:33:02] And it's trying to give you a transition to let you know that we're still in the same

[00:33:05] episode, but it's a different clip.

[00:33:07] Sure.

[00:33:08] Uh, that's what happened every time this movie went to break and I don't, I, I, I didn't

[00:33:12] dislike it.

[00:33:13] It just stood out to me.

[00:33:15] Um, yeah.

[00:33:17] And then him coming in and being like, this, this event is one giant fire cut.

[00:33:20] I just don't know.

[00:33:20] That was a wild one.

[00:33:21] I don't know what the hallmark could be anything.

[00:33:23] And then how did he, how did he come back around and be like, Oh, I saw it's, it's light

[00:33:29] something happens.

[00:33:30] Did she talk to the fire code guy and be like, Hey, just give him a pat.

[00:33:33] Like what?

[00:33:34] Turns out this is all outside.

[00:33:36] Yeah.

[00:33:36] Maybe the fire marshal thinks they're in a dome.

[00:33:38] Yeah.

[00:33:38] I don't know.

[00:33:39] I don't know what happened that made him be like, Oh, it's good to go now.

[00:33:42] Uh, aside from maybe some shady doings on her, her behalf.

[00:33:46] Maybe she was like, Hey, whatever you do, don't pass it.

[00:33:49] Yeah, sure.

[00:33:50] Oh, that's the only thing I can think of.

[00:33:51] Maybe she was like, don't pass it.

[00:33:53] Like there, there's always stuff.

[00:33:55] Yeah.

[00:33:55] There's always stuff that a fire person could come and be like, this is, I can't pass

[00:33:59] this.

[00:33:59] Um, if you look hard enough, some outlet somewhere.

[00:34:03] I just always assumed unless they were in the middle of a street that a fire code was

[00:34:07] for indoors.

[00:34:08] Yeah, I would think so.

[00:34:09] I mean, I think for outdoor events, you have to have some sort of clearance.

[00:34:13] Yeah, but it's so basic.

[00:34:14] I would think that's why I said, yes, I agree.

[00:34:17] I think that must be like, she must've done something.

[00:34:20] Yeah.

[00:34:20] She must've been like, Hey, whatever you do, don't pass it.

[00:34:22] Cause this is a report.

[00:34:23] Don't I don't know.

[00:34:24] Yeah.

[00:34:24] Uh, Dan.

[00:34:25] Yeah.

[00:34:25] The, the phone turning off and the fire code are the two big ones, but I do have to talk

[00:34:30] about this guy.

[00:34:31] Who's the train conductor a little bit.

[00:34:33] He has been on the exact same train running the exact same route, which I guess goes from

[00:34:41] one town to another for over 10 years.

[00:34:46] Good union job.

[00:34:46] And he looks aside from a little bit of gray.

[00:34:50] Someone has sprayed in his beard looks the exact same.

[00:34:54] Uh, and also miss reads ice on train tracks.

[00:34:59] Uh, they, they go to the, the, in the movie he comes out.

[00:35:04] He's like, there's ice on the tracks.

[00:35:05] It's going to be 30, 45 minutes.

[00:35:07] Now, if you've ever been on a train that where the, the person in charge of the person

[00:35:12] who charges the train, or you've been on a plane on a tarmac and the pilot tells you it's

[00:35:16] going to be 15 minutes.

[00:35:17] The first thing you do is double that.

[00:35:19] Right.

[00:35:19] You don't ever like, if he says 15 minutes or so, you're like, it's a 30, probably an

[00:35:25] hour.

[00:35:25] If, if you hear somebody on the train say, we got something in the tracks, it's going

[00:35:29] to be 30 minutes.

[00:35:30] Double it.

[00:35:31] Yeah.

[00:35:32] This guy comes over and says, we got ice on the tracks.

[00:35:35] Ice.

[00:35:36] It's 30 to 45 minutes.

[00:35:38] Two seconds later, he's like JK.

[00:35:40] Ha ha.

[00:35:41] Prank TV.

[00:35:42] We're moving.

[00:35:43] He must've gotten clearance from the fire marshal.

[00:35:46] Yeah, exactly.

[00:35:46] Fire marshal changed his mind.

[00:35:47] Shut him down.

[00:35:48] We got the ice melt out there out of nowhere.

[00:35:50] Just showed up.

[00:35:52] I couldn't, that scene was the most unbelievable scene of this movie is 30 to 45 minutes.

[00:35:57] I'm going to pop off and get a fruitcake for you.

[00:36:00] We're good to go.

[00:36:01] JK about that ice.

[00:36:02] It wasn't ice.

[00:36:03] It was a mirage.

[00:36:04] It was a glare.

[00:36:05] The sun was shining.

[00:36:06] Yeah.

[00:36:06] Just water.

[00:36:08] What?

[00:36:09] That was, that one didn't, didn't clear it for me.

[00:36:11] The sunset is harsh during the winter.

[00:36:13] It can reflect a harsh line to 85 corridor.

[00:36:17] Um, the, uh, I will say this.

[00:36:20] The other big way for me is very, very like fundamental.

[00:36:24] The second time you run into this person, you exchange phone numbers.

[00:36:28] Like they do a thing where the second time something happens where he goes, I've got my, my, my daughter's texting me SOS.

[00:36:37] They both have their phones.

[00:36:38] Yeah.

[00:36:40] There is no world where they don't exchange phone numbers as soon as they meet there.

[00:36:44] They have a connection.

[00:36:45] The first time the second, the third time that was fun where he's like, I don't have my phone.

[00:36:48] And she gives him the number and he like, here's all these other numbers.

[00:36:51] That was a fun time.

[00:36:52] Yeah.

[00:36:53] And then she drops her phone.

[00:36:54] It's my second time.

[00:36:56] The second time that you see this person that you really had a connection with and, and something happened with the train, blah, blah, blah.

[00:37:02] You're like, before you move any, you're like, let's get, let's exchange numbers right now.

[00:37:05] That was the one that I was like, I don't know.

[00:37:07] And then lastly, and this is just me cause I'm an auditory person, not visual.

[00:37:11] There are two people playing chess sitting next to each other.

[00:37:15] And I, for the life of me, it would take me and they're, so they're playing on the side of the chess board.

[00:37:22] So it was like, Brian, if you and I would put, we're playing chess.

[00:37:25] And so I had the board, the board is this way.

[00:37:28] So like, you know, my pieces are here and your pieces are there.

[00:37:32] I would be so disoriented trying to figure out where to go and they are playing like speed chess.

[00:37:38] And I was one really impressed, but two, I've never seen it.

[00:37:41] I've never seen two people sit shoulder to shoulder and play chess before.

[00:37:45] Don't even know how you accomplish it.

[00:37:47] So, you know, we broke my brain.

[00:37:50] Uh, let's get to the, what the hallmark it is, uh, where we talk about any questions that we still have that we'd like some answers to Brian.

[00:37:57] Yeah.

[00:37:57] My thing was with the seats on the train are those are signed seats.

[00:38:02] Do you know?

[00:38:02] Like the first time he comes in, he's like, Hey, is this seat taken?

[00:38:05] She goes, no, it's not taken.

[00:38:06] So you can just sit anywhere.

[00:38:07] Yeah.

[00:38:08] I thought they were assigned.

[00:38:10] It's a train.

[00:38:11] Really?

[00:38:12] You just pop in there.

[00:38:12] I've never been on a train.

[00:38:13] I think when you have like an overnight situation, your room, like if you buy a room on the train.

[00:38:18] Yes.

[00:38:19] A room.

[00:38:19] Yes.

[00:38:19] Hello, Aaron.

[00:38:20] It depends.

[00:38:21] I have been on a train where it was only a couple hour train ride, but I did have an assigned seat.

[00:38:25] Okay.

[00:38:26] So it depends on like, can you get up and move around though?

[00:38:28] Like if you want to just go, I feel like it would be Lucy.

[00:38:31] This is more of like almost a commuter train.

[00:38:34] Like they were both.

[00:38:35] Yeah.

[00:38:36] It just struck me as like a, Hey, just sit down.

[00:38:38] Yeah.

[00:38:38] Yeah.

[00:38:39] I've like booked a trip ahead of time.

[00:38:41] And when I got my ticket, it said, this is, I mean, if it's a three hour drive between

[00:38:45] these two cities, the train ride can't be that right.

[00:38:48] No, it's gotta be a lot faster than that.

[00:38:49] So like, it's a commuter train.

[00:38:51] This isn't a train you take when you're going on vacation.

[00:38:53] I don't think this is like an overnight boy.

[00:38:55] Yeah.

[00:38:56] Yeah.

[00:38:56] For me, it was just like sit wherever you want.

[00:38:58] Okay.

[00:38:58] That's what it seems like.

[00:38:59] It's seemed that way.

[00:39:00] So I was just really curious about the seating arrangement there.

[00:39:02] It's kind of my nightmare.

[00:39:04] Yeah.

[00:39:04] Kind of nervous about that.

[00:39:06] But can you believe we used to just go to the movie theaters without a sign?

[00:39:08] Sit wherever you want.

[00:39:09] Oh, wow.

[00:39:10] Like, oh yeah, I was, I've never been more concerned, had more anxiety about anything.

[00:39:15] Oh, I was going to be an hour early.

[00:39:17] I was, it was a mess.

[00:39:18] I don't have anxiety about anything, but a new movie is coming out.

[00:39:21] It's my whole evening to go to the movies.

[00:39:23] Yeah.

[00:39:23] I'm going to get there early.

[00:39:24] It's a whole thing.

[00:39:25] It's one of the best advancements with this.

[00:39:27] Yeah.

[00:39:27] Yeah.

[00:39:28] Show up whenever you want.

[00:39:30] Yeah.

[00:39:30] Amazing.

[00:39:31] Um, the, uh, Christmas sweater convention, uh, that's has now been going on for 10 years.

[00:39:37] First of all, how do we get to have the Greenville?

[00:39:39] There's a lot of great Christmas events in Greenville, South Carolina.

[00:39:41] Uh, we have so many great Christmas events downtown that happen.

[00:39:45] We got an ice skating rink, all this good stuff.

[00:39:47] Uh, as far as I know, we don't have a Christmas, an ugly Christmas sweater convention.

[00:39:50] I would like to formally request that to Knox Knox.

[00:39:54] I know you're a fan of myself.

[00:39:55] Shout out.

[00:39:56] Is this in lieu of the statue or?

[00:39:57] Let's do that.

[00:39:58] Separate.

[00:39:59] Separate.

[00:40:00] I met the statue.

[00:40:01] It's just that I never heard back.

[00:40:03] And so, despite my many attempts to email Knox white about a, uh, statue, uh, for someone

[00:40:10] who likes Christmas, I never got a response back.

[00:40:13] I know it was election season for him and he was one of the least racist statues downtown.

[00:40:18] That's exactly right.

[00:40:19] In the pro call.

[00:40:20] That's exactly right.

[00:40:21] Um, but apparently that's not going to happen.

[00:40:23] So may I request a, uh, ugly Christmas sweater convention.

[00:40:27] I think it's sponsored by the city of green, sponsored by the city of greenville.

[00:40:31] Um, and you can even say sponsored by the brain and gray statue fund.

[00:40:36] Like, whatever you want to say.

[00:40:38] I'm sure.

[00:40:39] All the money.

[00:40:39] I'm sure.

[00:40:40] Yes.

[00:40:40] So I would love, I would love to see that happen.

[00:40:42] But the train also was sponsored by like, it seemed like the train was almost exclusively

[00:40:49] for convention goers, except for them.

[00:40:53] Um, and except for Joey, Joanna.

[00:40:56] What, uh, just this, it seems like a very popular event.

[00:41:01] And, uh, I would just love to know more, more about like, what do they do at these, at the

[00:41:05] event?

[00:41:05] Cause it's, it seems like they're already together.

[00:41:07] It does seem like they're together.

[00:41:08] I thought maybe the event was happening on the car.

[00:41:11] Yeah.

[00:41:12] Um, so I don't know a lot of questions about this convention.

[00:41:15] They just kind of said, I don't, I I'm starting to think that they didn't put enough thought

[00:41:18] into it, which is something that I would put a lot of thought into it.

[00:41:20] So call me search your email.

[00:41:24] Oh, you just email me back.

[00:41:25] Just email me back.

[00:41:26] You do have my email from the three, five, 10 times I emailed you about this.

[00:41:30] Actually, uh, yeah, I want to know more about the, the biological mom, uh, Warren Christie's

[00:41:36] ex wife.

[00:41:38] Uh, they show her early in the movie and it seems like they have a really good relationship,

[00:41:41] but it seems as though this daughter is spending the entire, the entire Christmas tradition

[00:41:47] portion of the holidays with her dad.

[00:41:50] And so like, want to know what that's about?

[00:41:53] Is she still going to go hang out with her mom?

[00:41:54] Some is that relationship estranged?

[00:41:56] Is it a good relationship?

[00:41:57] I felt like she just kind of disappeared there.

[00:42:00] And I would, would like that more broken family deets.

[00:42:04] Yes, please.

[00:42:05] No, me all the details.

[00:42:07] Tell me everything about your messy, messy family.

[00:42:10] That's right.

[00:42:11] All right, Dan.

[00:42:12] Yeah.

[00:42:14] We're having fun.

[00:42:15] All right, guys.

[00:42:16] TJ Maxx.

[00:42:16] We got the results.

[00:42:17] We got the results.

[00:42:19] Oh, my goodness.

[00:42:19] We're excited about it.

[00:42:20] Um, the winner of the election is deck.

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