Our Little Secret (Netflix - 2024) ft. Alonso Duralde & Jacklyn Collier

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER_04]: Hi, I'm Bran and I love Netflix Christmas movies. I'm Dan and I despise Netflix Christmas movies. I'm Jax and I continue to be excited about the Lohana-sans. I'm Alonso and Weed Gummies and this is Deck The Hallmark Podcast.

[00:00:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Deck The Hallmark, it's this podcast. And friends host this podcast. We hope you like this jolly podcast.

[00:00:31] [SPEAKER_05]: Deck The Hallmark Podcast.

[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_05]: Well, hi everybody. We're back! The crew's back!

[00:00:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah it is!

[00:00:41] [SPEAKER_04]: We've now finished all of the Hallmark Christmas movies from Thanksgiving week and now we can finally get to our little secret before we get to more Hallmark Christmas movies.

[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_04]: One day off!

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_04]: It's tough.

[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_07]: I wish Hallmark would think about us.

[00:01:02] [SPEAKER_07]: Think about us little people when they determine what movies they put where in the schedule.

[00:01:07] [SPEAKER_07]: Like, could I use the finish line to be December 10th? Yes, that would be a great movie for December 10th.

[00:01:13] [SPEAKER_07]: Instead, we're not getting those movies.

[00:01:18] [SPEAKER_06]: Look, I admire you guys for keeping up because once Thanksgiving week hits, that's when like my little coal car is off the rails and rolling down the hill.

[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_07]: But you're a real film critic, Alonzo. You have to watch all of the Oscar bait movies and have like a vote for LA film critics. It's like you have things to do.

[00:01:38] [SPEAKER_06]: It's true. But before Thanksgiving week, I'm able to sort of like find room for all this stuff.

[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_06]: But then Thanksgiving week happens and it's like suddenly I'm eight movies behind.

[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, and what? The cherry lanes are on Hallmark Plus? Ah!

[00:01:52] [SPEAKER_04]: Which by the way, thank you so much for bringing up Hallmark Plus.

[00:01:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Hallmark Plus just received word a couple days ago. You can now get Hallmark Plus through Philo.

[00:02:01] [SPEAKER_04]: You can add it right to your Philo.

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Makes it easy.

[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_04]: So you can go into your account if you don't already have one, you can go to philo.tv slash DTH and sign up that way.

[00:02:08] [SPEAKER_04]: But you can add Hallmark Plus so it's all in one nice place.

[00:02:12] [SPEAKER_04]: You got all the movies, you got us, and so head on over to Philo and you can do that with you.

[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_07]: Jax, be honest. How many Hallmark Christmas movies have you watched this year?

[00:02:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'm going to be honest. I got paid for two years to watch them.

[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_01]: It feels kind of weird watching them for free now.

[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_01]: If I have, I do love to support my friends. So like I have Rachel Boston's The Miss Miracle, DVR'd, Brits I have DVR'd,

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Erin I'm going to watch hers on Hallmark Plus.

[00:02:39] [SPEAKER_07]: She's also in the Christmas Quest briefly.

[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_01]: She's in the Christmas Quest. Oh wait, for real?

[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I knew that. I knew that. Yes.

[00:02:46] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_01]: But honestly, like I'm good.

[00:02:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:02:50] [SPEAKER_07]: Good for you.

[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_07]: Good.

[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_01]: I do actually want to watch the Chiefs one just because Dan, I know you liked it.

[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_01]: My family likes the Chiefs.

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_01]: I do.

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_01]: But it's interesting.

[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Another group chat that shall not be named, but is in the Hallmark community.

[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_01]: They didn't love it.

[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_07]: So what's wild is, is we, this is fun.

[00:03:08] [SPEAKER_07]: We got time for this.

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_07]: What are we up against?

[00:03:10] [SPEAKER_07]: Why not?

[00:03:11] [SPEAKER_07]: We, Bran and I got, we got some screeners.

[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_07]: We watched that movie weeks ago, like before it came out.

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_07]: So we didn't deal with any of the promotion.

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_07]: We watched a holiday.

[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_07]: Not that we would anyway though.

[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_07]: No, that's true.

[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_07]: But we didn't watch holiday.

[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_07]: We watched holiday touchdown.

[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_07]: We got phyla on one button.

[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_07]: That's right.

[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_07]: You don't got to deal with it.

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_07]: And Christmas quest.

[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_07]: We watched it the same morning.

[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_07]: Uh, we like in the middle of November at some point.

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_07]: And I like in a vacuum, like I'm at, it's, it's seven 30 in the morning and I'm watching

[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_07]: that movie.

[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_07]: And I'm like, this is the first time, like as a, as a huge sports fan that's, and being

[00:03:43] [SPEAKER_07]: a sports fan is somehow counter, like sometimes counterintuitive and makes you feel like you're

[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_07]: crazy.

[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_07]: Cause you probably are.

[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_07]: This is the first time homework's ever been near correct on getting sports fans.

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_07]: And so for me, I thought that was like universal.

[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_07]: I thought people were going to see it and go, Oh, this, this is the thing that makes sense.

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_07]: Like, and it, and, and clearly that did not happen.

[00:04:07] [SPEAKER_07]: And so I didn't know that.

[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know.

[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what people thought.

[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Sorry.

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm, I'm not a sports guy at all, but I have to say that watching the chiefs movie reminded

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_06]: me of when I saw the original British fever pitch, uh, the same comparison.

[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:04:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, because there are movies about people that have that sports is key to their sort

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_06]: of family relationships and their kind of personal being, which is an alien concept to

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_06]: me.

[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_06]: But that movie and this one both sort of make me go, Oh, okay.

[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not going to ever do that, but I see what it's about now.

[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_06]: I see why that brings generations together.

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_06]: I see why it's a thing that, that gives, you know, family members who might otherwise have nothing to talk about this one thing in common to carry together.

[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_06]: And so I thought this, the, I thought the holiday touchdown captured that in a way that, that Nick

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Hornby does in, in fever pitch.

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_07]: So even Alonzo liked it.

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_04]: So everybody who didn't like it, I mean, come on.

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, and I, and I will say, uh, you're right.

[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Sports does bring people together, but sometimes people don't like sports, but I think the one

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_04]: thing that brings everyone together is the Lohana-sans.

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_04]: That's a great transition.

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Is the rise.

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_07]: And if you're only semi-competitive, you could play Christmas movie magic.

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_07]: Absolutely.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Semi-competitive, fully competitive.

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Not, I mean, this, it can go anywhere or you can play by yourself.

[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_04]: You can do whatever you want.

[00:05:34] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know why I always go like this to Aaron, she's off camera, but Aaron, you do,

[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_04]: you do, you do play it every, every time when you watch a movie.

[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Every Christmas movie that I watch, even, you know, home alone or.

[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_04]: You do have friends.

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_04]: Like you do.

[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_00]: But like, sometimes I just throw them on at night as I'm like getting ready for bed.

[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what I'm trying to say.

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm not trying to throw Aaron under the bus.

[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Be like, Aaron doesn't have any friends.

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_04]: She comes here.

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_04]: She leaves.

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Like my friend, Aaron.

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_00]: No, Jax is on a Hallmark podcast and she's not even watching all the Hallmark movies.

[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_00]: You think my friends are getting together to watch all 40, 87 of these movies?

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_00]: They're not.

[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's just me.

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's a nice way for me to get through all.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what I'm trying to do.

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_07]: As we're getting later in the year, we have this draft.

[00:06:17] [SPEAKER_07]: It's worth some money to all of us.

[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_07]: And the fact that, the fact that Jax has only rated two of these movies is going to help

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_07]: those two movies tremendously because she gave them both high ratings.

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_07]: I think she did rate two of those movies.

[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_07]: And so.

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, one of them was mine.

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_07]: Oh yeah.

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_07]: And one of them was hers.

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_07]: So.

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_07]: I think that you should have to, you should have to rate.

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_07]: Jax has one rating in the spreadsheet.

[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_07]: It's twas, twas the date before Christmas.

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_07]: It's eight and a half at like, which is the highest.

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Shoot.

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_01]: I got to put the other one in.

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Cause that was mine.

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_07]: I think you should have to rate at least 10.

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_07]: But twas the date is 8.5 is the highest rating and it would not count in the aggregate.

[00:06:59] [SPEAKER_07]: But Jax, who's like, I don't, I'm not going to watch you these.

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_07]: She threw one in for that movie, which is going to help Alonzo.

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_07]: We did all watch it together.

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_07]: That's true.

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_01]: It was interesting.

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_01]: I was watching with my friend and I love Amy Groening.

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, of course.

[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_04]: I think unless you put in at least 10 ratings, it doesn't, you know.

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_04]: All of a sudden 10 is the number.

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_04]: 10 is the number.

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_04]: I'll catch up.

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_04]: I'll catch up.

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll catch up.

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_06]: Look, I try to get through them all a for ratings B because we're going to do the, the, the ranking at the end.

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_06]: And I, that, that's frankly, if it weren't for that, I would be very, I'm not looking at your, I'm not looking.

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_07]: I'm looking at your ratings Alonzo and the missed opportunity of the decade was you joining us for five gold rings.

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, cause you and I, I mean, all of us hated it, but you and I, I mean, that thing, that thing didn't crack a two of 10 from either of us.

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_06]: Like that, that's worse than most, if not all of the Christmas in July movies.

[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_07]: You haven't gotten a novel.

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_07]: You guys gave it a one.

[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_06]: I liked novel.

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_06]: No, well more than, oh dear God.

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_07]: Well, uh, we, we both gave, I get Alonzo gave it a 1.2.

[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_07]: I gave it a 1.8 Jack.

[00:08:06] [SPEAKER_07]: So I was higher on five gold rings than, than Alonzo.

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_07]: Wow.

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_07]: I gave novel Noel a straight one.

[00:08:12] [SPEAKER_07]: Five, five gold rings.

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_07]: You got five rings.

[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_07]: One of them doesn't matter.

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_07]: So the fifth ring doesn't matter.

[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_07]: That's what you didn't know up top.

[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Guys, I'm just stepping to the side for a second to crack a window.

[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Cause they turned on the heat and I feel like I'm in a sweat.

[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Been there, been there, man.

[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to start talking about our little secret.

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_04]: How about that?

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Our little secret originally premiered on Netflix on November 27th, 2024.

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_04]: And it went a little something like this.

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_04]: The movie kicks off with a fun little animation telling the story of a secret that started in 1996.

[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_04]: When Avery met Logan, they became quick friends.

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_04]: Avery could 100% be her self around him and vice versa.

[00:08:54] [SPEAKER_04]: And as they got older, that friendship blossomed into true love.

[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_04]: The kind of love the narrator tells us that can get you through anything like the loss of Avery's mom.

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Another loss.

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Another mom, another loss.

[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_04]: Another mom, another loss.

[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_04]: What can you do?

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Fast forward, they're adults now.

[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Avery lands a job in London and Logan is less than thrilled by this.

[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_04]: It's 2014 and on their last night together, Logan is driving the struggle bus to say the least.

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_04]: They, uh, he's moping around.

[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_04]: He's had a little bit too much to drink.

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and they're in the middle of a fight, but it boils down to him saying, I'm just really going to miss you.

[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_04]: And I'm sad and you know, fair, but at her going away party, her dad gives an emotional speech before handing the mic off to Logan and Logan gets down on one knee.

[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_04]: But before he can even pop the question, Avery blurts out a no.

[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Logan does not handle it well and throws out a, if your mom were alive, she'd be disappointed.

[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh my goodness.

[00:10:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, that's, uh, that's the difference between Netflix and Hallmark right there.

[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Hallmark would never have someone be that mean.

[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, Avery breaks up with him right on the spot and leaves.

[00:10:12] [SPEAKER_04]: It's a fun montage of the world's biggest moments from 2014 to 2024.

[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Shout out to the two big events that I know, you know, we would all mention stranger things and squid games.

[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm sure it has nothing to do with this being in Netflix.

[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_04]: And that's right.

[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_04]: So, uh, but of course that's just, everybody would do that.

[00:10:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Everybody would do that.

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_04]: It's not just cause it's Netflix.

[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, now it's, uh, 2024.

[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_04]: 2024.

[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Avery is a hotshot dealmaker with a hotshot dealmaker boyfriend named Cam.

[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Logan, meanwhile, is a contractor dating Cassie who, uh, comes from a family where every sibling starts with the letter C.

[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_04]: More on that soon.

[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Avery and Cam head to her dad's house, which is all packed up.

[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Her dad now remarried is selling the family home.

[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_04]: She says goodbye to her dad and stepmom as they leave for a holiday trip.

[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_04]: And then she takes one more moment to kind of take in the house.

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, then it's off to Cam's very, I don't know, uptight family, specific family at their gathering.

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Guess who walks in Logan and Cassie turns out Cam is Cassie's brother.

[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_04]: One of those C names, Logan and Avery are stunned, but quickly decide to pretend that they've never met each other.

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Just be easier this way.

[00:11:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Again, I think like agree to disagree on that one.

[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:11:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, Avery already is intimidated by Cam's mom.

[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, it's Chris and Chinoweth everybody.

[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and doesn't want to add any more drama, but the awkwardness only grows.

[00:11:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Cam has one, uh, former friend that comes into town.

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_04]: A girl named Sophie who studied abroad and now comes back.

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, Cam's mom loves Sophie.

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Meanwhile, Logan and Avery strike a deal.

[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Avery will help Logan land a business deal, uh, with Tim Meadows as you do.

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_04]: And Logan will make Kristen Chinoweth like Avery.

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_04]: He's like, it's just not that hard.

[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, this is where things go off the rails a bit.

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_04]: And Avery borrows a jacket from the younger brother, eats some gummies from the pocket and discovers a little bit too late that they are indeed weed gummies.

[00:12:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, realizes this while at church, she ends up going on stage and rambling about the birth of Jesus, which leads to a Christmas, uh, sing along of everyone's favorite Christmas song.

[00:12:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Celebrate good times.

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, cool and the gang.

[00:12:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, Kristen Chinoweth is not impressed, but the pastor loved it.

[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_04]: So she can't really get upset about it.

[00:12:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Later, the munchies hit as I hear they are prone to do.

[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_04]: Avery, uh, eats a batch of cookies meant for a cookie exchange.

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and then realizes, oh no, these are for the cookie exchange.

[00:12:55] [SPEAKER_04]: So to cover it up, she blames the dog.

[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_04]: There's a, she frames the dog for eating the cookies, which backfires cause there was chocolate in the cookies.

[00:13:03] [SPEAKER_04]: So now that the dog has to be rushed to the vet shenanigans ensue, but they do manage to keep Kristen in the dark about the situation.

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Thanks to, uh, Dr. Spichemin.

[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_04]: That's exactly right.

[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_06]: I would say that is Dr. Spichemin.

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, the, the chaos continues to ramp up as Cam's younger brother, Callum, the one with the gummies over here's Logan and Avery talking about their past relationship.

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_04]: He blackmails them into helping, uh, him gets, uh, get some booze and whatnot.

[00:13:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Then there's a bar scene.

[00:13:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Guess who shows up at the bar?

[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_04]: It's Sophie.

[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Avery sees her, uh, getting flirty with Cam.

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_04]: And when she gets a call that her dad's real estate agent needs to get inside the house and doesn't have the key, she leaves.

[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Logan offers to give her a ride and they have a heart to heart about her memories of the house.

[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_04]: And he encourages her, Hey, if you love this house, maybe you should just buy it.

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_04]: And they spend some quiet time just sitting in the house.

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, later Logan catches Cam sneaking into the house late, late, late.

[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, and Cam is like, Hey Logan, maybe let's just keep this between you and me.

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Bro to bro.

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Bro to bro.

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Bro to bro.

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, everything finally blows up on Christmas Eve at the gathering.

[00:14:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, Cassie surprises Logan by inviting his parents and grandma spills the beans about Logan and Avery, uh, knowing each other.

[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Callum exposes Avery's cookie crime just as she's about to leave.

[00:14:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, Avery asks Cam if, uh, anything happened between Sophie.

[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_04]: He admits that it did.

[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_04]: It is over.

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, Avery leaves.

[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Logan asks if he can call her.

[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_04]: She says no.

[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_04]: But when she finds out that Logan suggested to her dad, uh, that she, that he should sell the house to her, uh, he, she realizes that she might, uh, he might be something special.

[00:14:48] [SPEAKER_04]: She, uh, then, uh, tries to help make sure that the business plan that he had, well, uh, it actually gets into Tim Meadows hands, which it does.

[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_04]: And it all works out in the end.

[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Avery's dad, uh, does give her the home and at the, or sells for the home.

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_04]: And at the housewarming party, Logan shows up and asks for a second chance.

[00:15:06] [SPEAKER_04]: They, uh, tell each other that they love each other and they kiss a year later.

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_04]: They are planning their wedding.

[00:15:12] [SPEAKER_04]: And then through animation, because I guess that's how we should wrap it up.

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_04]: We learned that they get married.

[00:15:18] [SPEAKER_04]: And that my friends was our little secret.

[00:15:22] [SPEAKER_04]: We did it.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_04]: We did it.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Time that one perfectly, by the way.

[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Nailed it.

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[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Good for us.

[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_04]: We've only been doing it for seven years.

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_07]: That's right.

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.

[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_04]: It's going to be clapped for more on that tomorrow.

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's take a quick break.

[00:15:36] [SPEAKER_04]: We'll come back and we'll talk about this movie here on deck.

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[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Welcome back, everybody.

[00:17:25] [SPEAKER_04]: We're talking about the Netflix movie, the Lindsay Lohan movie.

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's be honest.

[00:17:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Our little secrets.

[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's break it down.

[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_04]: We're going to start with a hot take as we're sure exactly how we felt about this movie.

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_04]: We do not hold back.

[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_04]: And who do I start with here?

[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Do I start with Jack?

[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Start with Jax.

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_04]: Start with, yeah.

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_04]: Jax.

[00:17:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Tell us what you thought.

[00:17:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Our little secret.

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_01]: It was my favorite of the year, hands down, that I've watched so far.

[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_01]: I watched it twice.

[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Once with a couple of friends and then another viewing with friends because everyone wants

[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_01]: to watch this movie.

[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_01]: It's number one on Netflix.

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_01]: The first time I watched it was with my friend who used to date Ian Harding.

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_01]: So that was fun.

[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Get out of town.

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Wow.

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

[00:18:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, apparently they had a very innocent relationship.

[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know any details about anything that you might want to know.

[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_01]: That's our little secret.

[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_07]: What do you think I want to know, Jax?

[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Just if anyone has any specific questions.

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Is he a good kisser?

[00:18:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Is he a good kisser?

[00:18:25] [SPEAKER_02]: What's it like?

[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_01]: If you have specific questions, I can't answer them about private things.

[00:18:31] But...

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Good God.

[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_07]: It's a TVG-rated show, Jax.

[00:18:37] [SPEAKER_01]: I suspect it's more than a little secret.

[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, boy.

[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, boy.

[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_01]: No, I really have no idea.

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_01]: But anyway...

[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_07]: Ian is a friend of the show.

[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_07]: You need to know he's been on this program and is a wonderful person.

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_07]: And we know he's a good kisser.

[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, no.

[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_01]: No, no.

[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_01]: She says he's a really good person.

[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_01]: I shouldn't have made that little sexy joke about him.

[00:18:54] [SPEAKER_01]: I thought he was wonderful in this movie.

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_07]: We're messaging him.

[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_07]: There's no way around it.

[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_01]: He was great.

[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Look, this is a star-studded cast.

[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_01]: I had a blast from start to finish.

[00:19:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Lindsay Lohan is great in this.

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_01]: It's my favorite one of these of hers.

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_01]: I think she has great chemistry with Ian Harding.

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Kristen Chenoweth, a gosh darn national Trevor.

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Trevor?

[00:19:19] [SPEAKER_07]: She's a national Trevor.

[00:19:21] [SPEAKER_07]: She's changing her name to Trevor.

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_07]: It's a national Trevor.

[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, no.

[00:19:24] [SPEAKER_01]: She is an advocate for Trevor Project.

[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, the Trevor Project.

[00:19:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Perfect.

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_07]: Good to say.

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_07]: I love to see exactly what you were doing.

[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_07]: A national Trevor Project supporter.

[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I just love to see outspoken Christian women who are also outspoken about being for

[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_01]: gay rights.

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Christian Jennings.

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Amen.

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Amen.

[00:19:44] [SPEAKER_01]: She's a delight in so many ways in this.

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_01]: She's so funny.

[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Tim Meadows.

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_01]: I love, I think it's Judy Reyes who plays his wife in this.

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, from Scrubs.

[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_01]: High Potential.

[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and High Potential, which is one of my favorite shows right now.

[00:19:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, she's great on High Potential.

[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_07]: That's a fun show.

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_01]: She's so good.

[00:20:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Gosh darn delighted, I will say my favorite scene was the scene where she gets high and

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_01]: she's talking in church.

[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Number one, because I've been to many masses and I get church giggles a lot, but also because

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_01]: about eight months ago, I thought I was having CBD, which is different than THC, for those

[00:20:19] [SPEAKER_01]: of you who don't know.

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Yep, it is.

[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_01]: You brought a PowerPoint?

[00:20:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I greened out.

[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_05]: Here's the difference is, so they take it from this part.

[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_06]: So there's Delta eight and Delta nine.

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_06]: The dopamine center of the brain.

[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I had what I thought was supposed to be 10 milligrams of CBD was actually 75 milligrams

[00:20:42] [SPEAKER_01]: of THC.

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Way down to them.

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_01]: And it was, it was, I just, you know, you've seen lots of scenes in movies where people get

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_01]: drunk and that can be funny.

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_01]: This, this just delighted me to know.

[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_01]: And I was laughing so hard.

[00:20:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, for me, this one really hit it from start to finish.

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_01]: I loved it.

[00:21:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Alonzo.

[00:21:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, not so much.

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Um, I, I, I agree.

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_06]: This is a, this is a stacked cast and I love the fact that we have this image of Chris and

[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_06]: Chenna with us always being this like, you know, chirpy little, you know, like, uh, you

[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_06]: know, just, just, uh, just a little precious darling, but she loves to play these edgy characters.

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, even like she, she originally got wicked famous from doing wicked on Broadway.

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_06]: And as we all know now, like, uh, that character is not the hero.

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_06]: What's that?

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_06]: Um, you know, I've not heard of it.

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_06]: And, uh, you know, so you look at her work on like GCB, you know, the, the, the Netflix

[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_06]: Pushing Daisies, which we talked about pushing daisies.

[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Like she, she likes to sort of mess around with what, with, with her seeming kind of

[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_06]: like, you know, Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm image.

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, so she was a lot of fun to watch and the movie, you know, bakes up some pretty fun

[00:22:00] [SPEAKER_06]: shenanigans along the way of misunderstandings and farcical.

[00:22:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Can't tell the person.

[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_06]: And we're lying about that yet.

[00:22:06] [SPEAKER_06]: And, uh, but then it takes a hard right into let's be emotional in the third chunk that

[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_06]: didn't, it wasn't, they didn't give the characters enough of a sort of an emotional life to carry

[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_06]: that shift.

[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_06]: And so it winds up becoming this for me, abrupt jarring transition from like kooky, farcish

[00:22:30] [SPEAKER_06]: shenanigans to like, we're having feelings now.

[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_06]: And I didn't think the movie had the, the weight to support that.

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_06]: So as much as I do love the Lohana songs and watching Ian Harding in this and holidays back

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_06]: to back, I have new respect for, for what he brings to the table.

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, yeah, I just, overall, it, it kind of lost me at some point.

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, it didn't lose me.

[00:22:51] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm with Jackson.

[00:22:52] [SPEAKER_04]: This one.

[00:22:52] [SPEAKER_04]: I love this one.

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, I agree.

[00:22:55] [SPEAKER_04]: I, of the Netflix, uh, Lindsay Lohan movies, this one is my, my new favorite.

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, I thought she's just really funny.

[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_04]: And this movie, I think she's a really solid comedic performer.

[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_04]: She does a lot of funny things.

[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Ian Harding.

[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_04]: We love him and it's hard not to love him.

[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_07]: Always bringing Billy crude up energy.

[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_07]: Is that what he's always doing?

[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_07]: That's what it feels like to me.

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_01]: He's giving Billy crude up got creepy.

[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_01]: He got creepy then.

[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Not morning show Billy crude up.

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_07]: I stopped watching after season one when Billy crude up.

[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_07]: Inventing the habits.

[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_07]: Billy crude.

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_07]: Um, big fish, Billy crude.

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Listen, is this movie's general premise ridiculous?

[00:23:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it is.

[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Cause it's, it's not easier to keep a lie when you're in a house with a family for a few

[00:23:44] [SPEAKER_04]: days.

[00:23:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:23:44] [SPEAKER_04]: It's a real funny story.

[00:23:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, exactly.

[00:23:47] [SPEAKER_04]: You're not gonna believe this.

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Just be honest about it.

[00:23:49] [SPEAKER_04]: And if they can't handle it, then that's on them.

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, but whatever it happens and it leads to some fun.

[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_04]: And I also love the church scene.

[00:23:59] [SPEAKER_04]: And as Alonzo knows this about me, my love of four Christmases, another wonderful, uh,

[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_04]: ridiculous church scene happens in that also with Kristen Chinnorth in the movie.

[00:24:10] [SPEAKER_07]: And so Christmas is nativity scene in the church is the best scene.

[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_04]: That's as good as it gets.

[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_07]: That's as good as it gets.

[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_07]: That's that movie, whatever that scene.

[00:24:17] [SPEAKER_07]: Hilarious.

[00:24:17] [SPEAKER_04]: So, uh, really liked this movie.

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_04]: I thought it was a lot of fun data.

[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_07]: I would say it's a mixed bag for me.

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_07]: I may be a little higher than Alonzo on it.

[00:24:25] [SPEAKER_07]: Uh, but it, there's almost as much stuff that doesn't work.

[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_07]: That does work in the movie.

[00:24:31] [SPEAKER_07]: I like the premise.

[00:24:32] [SPEAKER_07]: I, it is stupid.

[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_07]: You just tell them, but I had not seen this particular twist.

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_07]: I don't think I have any way of we both dated.

[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_07]: And then 10 years later we're dating siblings.

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_07]: And you're stuck in the house.

[00:24:44] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:24:44] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:24:45] [SPEAKER_07]: You're stuck in the house together.

[00:24:46] [SPEAKER_07]: I thought it was like, I had a bigger problem with ways they were finding to put these two

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_07]: together all the time.

[00:24:51] [SPEAKER_07]: I thought that was really silly.

[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_07]: The church scene didn't work for me.

[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_07]: I feel like we do this all the time.

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_07]: And most of that church scene didn't land.

[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_07]: Like I wanted it to land.

[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_07]: Like when she's walking down the island, she's narrating.

[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_07]: I thought for all the worlds, we were going to see another version of that where she's saying

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_07]: all of that out loud.

[00:25:10] [SPEAKER_07]: And that would have been hysterical.

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_01]: What about when the blessed mother talks to her?

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Come on.

[00:25:16] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:25:16] [SPEAKER_07]: I just, I don't know.

[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_07]: Maybe I just was expecting more from that scene and that scene didn't work.

[00:25:22] [SPEAKER_07]: But I will say my favorite part of this movie is in the third act when Ian Harding starts

[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_07]: getting overwhelmed with the number of zany secrets coming his way.

[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_07]: Like, like, you know, uh, his girlfriend's dad is having an affair with, uh, the, the,

[00:25:39] [SPEAKER_07]: with the guy, the wife of the guy who wants to do business with the wife.

[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_07]: Whose daughter is having an affair with Lindsay Lohan's boyfriend.

[00:25:48] [SPEAKER_07]: And then there's the, the, you know, the dog, it actually wasn't sick.

[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Like there's a point in this movie where here's the sound in the closet and you can

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_04]: see the look on his face.

[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Like I, I, I can't, I can't do this.

[00:25:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:25:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Not another one.

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_04]: I also have to know what's behind the store.

[00:26:02] [SPEAKER_07]: So it does for me, it starts off strong.

[00:26:05] [SPEAKER_07]: It loses me a little bit in the middle.

[00:26:06] [SPEAKER_07]: The church thing didn't work for me.

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_07]: And then at the end, when you start, when we get full screwball comedy and Ian Harding

[00:26:12] [SPEAKER_07]: is just trying to be almost the Michael Bluth of the movie that, that did work for me.

[00:26:17] [SPEAKER_07]: I thought that was really, really fun and funny.

[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_07]: And it's the best Lindsay Lohan movie.

[00:26:22] [SPEAKER_07]: But I, I say that thinking she had not hit a home run yet.

[00:26:25] [SPEAKER_07]: So like for me, this movie is, you know, is fine.

[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_07]: The Irish movies terrible.

[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_07]: Her first movie, I didn't like as much as the three of you did.

[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_07]: So for me, it's the best by default.

[00:26:35] [SPEAKER_07]: Second best Netflix.

[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_07]: I think it's better than hot frosty and miles better than Mary gentlemen.

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_07]: Not as good to me as the million, uh, a sentence.

[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_07]: I can't believe I'm saying out loud.

[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_07]: I know, right?

[00:26:45] [SPEAKER_07]: Christian Chenoweth is great.

[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_07]: There you go.

[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, sorry, sorry, sorry.

[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_06]: I just want to add real quick.

[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_06]: Cause you, you talked about how the, we haven't seen the, the people pretending to be, or,

[00:26:54] [SPEAKER_06]: you know, whatever before, which we haven't.

[00:26:57] [SPEAKER_06]: But when they get to the whole thing of like, Hey, I'll help you get in good with, you know,

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Christian Chenoweth and you helped me with my business thing reminded me a lot of the Warren Christie,

[00:27:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Amy Acker, uh, uh, relationship in crashing through the snow, which was a movie that I found myself wishing I were watching instead.

[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. That's a, that's a really, really good Christmas movie.

[00:27:18] [SPEAKER_04]: Really, really good one.

[00:27:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, it's time for all the feels where we're talking about what in this movie gave us feels Jax.

[00:27:23] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's, it's, this may, this may actually speak to what Alonzo was saying about how they couldn't build the emotional momentum because all my feels are funny feels.

[00:27:37] [SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I could see that.

[00:27:40] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't have any sort of like warm, fuzzy feels.

[00:27:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, let's talk about the church scene bursting into song.

[00:27:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Amazing.

[00:27:48] [SPEAKER_01]: I love how white women continually expect black women to save us and they do and they shouldn't have to, but my gosh, like that was just a, it was a really, really fun sequence.

[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_01]: As I mentioned, the talking blessed mother absolutely like took me out seeing her in the pew.

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Like should she go up the little choir boy who was supposed to tell the priest that, you know, that Lindsay Lohan's character was sick, but didn't.

[00:28:17] [SPEAKER_01]: And then he has a cute little look on his face.

[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_01]: And then finally, when that priest talks to her after, and I love the way he played it.

[00:28:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Look, growing up Catholic and knowing a lot about the inner workings of the Catholic church that sometimes aren't fantastic.

[00:28:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, I know hard, hard, hot take.

[00:28:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, I just thought it was such a delight that this priest seemed like a good guy, good priest.

[00:28:40] [SPEAKER_01]: And when he goes up to Lindsay Lohan's character after, and you know, just compliments her, you know, saying that it was largely inaccurate, but that it was really.

[00:28:48] [SPEAKER_07]: Well, I, uh, Jack's not to interrupt you, but I had in my weight.

[00:28:52] [SPEAKER_07]: Well, but I'll say it now the pastor saying that everyone loved it.

[00:28:55] [SPEAKER_07]: It doesn't matter if it was accurate is peak church.

[00:28:59] [SPEAKER_07]: That is peak church.

[00:29:01] [SPEAKER_07]: That is they, he said the quiet thing out loud.

[00:29:05] [SPEAKER_07]: He was like, you know, none of this actually lines up with what you're supposed to do.

[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_07]: And are you supposed to treat people?

[00:29:09] [SPEAKER_07]: But, uh, you know what?

[00:29:11] [SPEAKER_07]: The crowd, it was a banger.

[00:29:13] [SPEAKER_07]: The crowd.

[00:29:15] [SPEAKER_07]: They're ready to come back next week.

[00:29:17] [SPEAKER_01]: So I appreciate that.

[00:29:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I, I, I really appreciate that transparency.

[00:29:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, I love how we've like given Kristen Chen with the sly eye, like, okay, fair weather worshipers.

[00:29:28] [SPEAKER_01]: And he's like, I hope I see you.

[00:29:29] [SPEAKER_01]: So, and then my other feels when Kristen Chen with, I mean, honestly, pretty much every single thing that that woman did throughout.

[00:29:36] [SPEAKER_03]: National Trevor project supporter.

[00:29:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Please support this holiday season.

[00:29:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, but when she was saying the line to her daughter, uh, I should have wrote it down, but I forget exactly what it was verbatim.

[00:29:49] [SPEAKER_01]: But when she said something like, oh, you know, it's Jesus's birthday, but you know, you do you.

[00:29:54] [SPEAKER_01]: And it was so darn cute.

[00:29:56] [SPEAKER_06]: 2000 years old, but you know.

[00:30:00] [SPEAKER_04]: Alonzo.

[00:30:00] [SPEAKER_01]: I just love her.

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_06]: And look, as our friend sleepy kitty pause pointed out, like the people accidentally getting high bit is so overdone at this point.

[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_06]: Like they do it in 80 for Brady.

[00:30:15] [SPEAKER_06]: They did.

[00:30:15] [SPEAKER_06]: It's become a really obvious.

[00:30:18] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I didn't know that.

[00:30:19] [SPEAKER_06]: Jack's does it a few weeks ago.

[00:30:19] [SPEAKER_06]: Jack's got high by accident earlier.

[00:30:21] [SPEAKER_06]: That's true.

[00:30:22] [SPEAKER_06]: That's why I didn't know that was a bit.

[00:30:23] [SPEAKER_06]: And it became a thing in movies, you know.

[00:30:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:30:26] [SPEAKER_01]: I should know that.

[00:30:26] [SPEAKER_06]: Um, but yeah, but I just say like, I accidentally, but the, but it all comes down to the devil is in the details and the details is that I think Lindsay Lohan sells it really well.

[00:30:37] [SPEAKER_06]: And the, the, the capper is the priest, not only like thanking her for it, but throwing shade at Kristen Chenoweth for being a Christmas and Easter attendee.

[00:30:47] [SPEAKER_06]: I thought it was like, okay, you, you've landed that plane.

[00:30:49] [SPEAKER_06]: I'll give you that.

[00:30:50] [SPEAKER_06]: And then also I just want to give a shout out while we're talking about how amazing this cast is Henry Cherney, who plays.

[00:30:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh yeah.

[00:30:56] [SPEAKER_06]: He's he low ends dad, a venerable.

[00:30:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:30:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Mission impossible boys of St.

[00:31:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Vincent, like a great, great Canadian character actor.

[00:31:04] [SPEAKER_07]: So as soon as I saw him, I was like, Oh, when he started narration, I was like, is that the dude, the Kittredge dude or whatever from.

[00:31:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:31:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, I did get a kick out of him, uh, when she's giving him a hard time about his shirt or whatever.

[00:31:19] [SPEAKER_04]: And then when she walks out as a new wife is like, I think she looks great.

[00:31:24] [SPEAKER_04]: And he's like, yeah, I did that.

[00:31:25] [SPEAKER_04]: You've got the matching outfit.

[00:31:27] [SPEAKER_04]: I, uh, I gotta, this is such a small moment, but I, and I don't know why it, it made me laugh so much.

[00:31:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Maybe it's cause it's like something that I would do, but the, the, uh, what is it called?

[00:31:37] [SPEAKER_04]: The choir boy?

[00:31:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:31:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Choir boy.

[00:31:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Alter boy.

[00:31:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:31:41] [SPEAKER_04]: They, when he, they, she walks around there or he walks around the corner to give him the

[00:31:45] [SPEAKER_04]: warning to give to the pastor and, and the boy's just saying, yeah, that's good.

[00:31:51] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know why it made me laugh.

[00:31:54] [SPEAKER_04]: That kid cracked me up.

[00:31:55] [SPEAKER_07]: He's the funniest part of that whole scene.

[00:31:58] [SPEAKER_04]: I thought he was so funny in that moment.

[00:32:01] [SPEAKER_04]: And I don't know if that was in the script or not.

[00:32:04] [SPEAKER_04]: I, I like to live in a world where it's not.

[00:32:06] [SPEAKER_04]: And this kid as a kid's like, I'm going to do a bit, I'm going to do a bit and it's

[00:32:10] [SPEAKER_04]: going to crush.

[00:32:11] [SPEAKER_04]: And it did crush kid.

[00:32:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Great job.

[00:32:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Dan.

[00:32:13] [SPEAKER_07]: Um, this movie pairs a first time writer, Haley de Dominici.

[00:32:17] [SPEAKER_07]: I believe I'm saying that correctly with director Steven Herrick.

[00:32:21] [SPEAKER_07]: And my feels is brand.

[00:32:23] [SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to tell you three movies and they're all directed by Steven Herrick, mighty ducks,

[00:32:27] [SPEAKER_07]: Mr.

[00:32:27] [SPEAKER_07]: Holland's opus and Bill and Ted's excellent adventure.

[00:32:31] [SPEAKER_07]: This guy has been making feature films for 40 years, like crowds.

[00:32:36] [SPEAKER_07]: And they paired him with a first time screenwriter.

[00:32:38] [SPEAKER_07]: And I was like, man, that's pretty cool.

[00:32:40] [SPEAKER_07]: That's pretty cool.

[00:32:41] [SPEAKER_07]: They're working on a Netflix movie.

[00:32:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Very nice.

[00:32:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, let's take a quick break.

[00:32:44] [SPEAKER_04]: We'll come back.

[00:32:44] [SPEAKER_04]: We'll get to the way one, the, what the hallmark here on Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, it's been cold

[00:32:55] [SPEAKER_04]: down here in Greenville.

[00:32:56] [SPEAKER_04]: It almost makes the experience even better to go down town, walk on main street, go to

[00:33:01] [SPEAKER_04]: the skating rink.

[00:33:02] [SPEAKER_04]: It's a magical time.

[00:33:03] [SPEAKER_07]: It's the only thing that could make it better.

[00:33:05] [SPEAKER_07]: We did the parade last Saturday.

[00:33:07] [SPEAKER_07]: You got ice on main.

[00:33:09] [SPEAKER_07]: You got the tree by M.

[00:33:10] [SPEAKER_07]: And Judson's and a little chill in the air.

[00:33:12] [SPEAKER_07]: That ain't hurting anybody down here in Greenville, South Carolina.

[00:33:14] [SPEAKER_07]: We love it.

[00:33:15] [SPEAKER_07]: We love our little hallmark town.

[00:33:17] [SPEAKER_07]: It's the place to be.

[00:33:18] [SPEAKER_07]: You got to come check it out.

[00:33:19] [SPEAKER_07]: That's exactly right.

[00:33:20] [SPEAKER_04]: And there's so many nice little local spots too.

[00:33:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Dan, we love the Claire's creamery.

[00:33:23] [SPEAKER_04]: They got those Christmas flavors out.

[00:33:25] [SPEAKER_04]: If you like some Christmas ice cream, we would recommend that.

[00:33:29] [SPEAKER_04]: There's so many great restaurants downtown such as Greenville Staples like Sobeys and so

[00:33:34] [SPEAKER_04]: many other ones that when you're in Greenville, you're like, how is all of this in one place?

[00:33:39] [SPEAKER_04]: And I'll tell you how because it just is.

[00:33:42] [SPEAKER_04]: It is amazing.

[00:33:43] [SPEAKER_04]: It's Greenville.

[00:33:44] [SPEAKER_04]: We love it.

[00:33:45] [SPEAKER_04]: So come and hang out with us this holiday season.

[00:33:47] [SPEAKER_04]: If you would like to find out more about what you can expect when you come to Greenville,

[00:33:52] [SPEAKER_04]: you can go to visit greenvillesc.com today.

[00:34:01] [SPEAKER_05]: Welcome back, everybody.

[00:34:02] [SPEAKER_05]: We're talking about our dirty little secret.

[00:34:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Dirty little secret.

[00:34:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Not in the movie.

[00:34:08] [SPEAKER_04]: Not in the movie.

[00:34:08] [SPEAKER_04]: Because it's not dirty.

[00:34:09] [SPEAKER_04]: It's just our little secret.

[00:34:10] [SPEAKER_04]: It's just our little secret.

[00:34:11] [SPEAKER_04]: The only thing dirty has been Jack's talking about Ian Harding on this episode.

[00:34:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, man.

[00:34:18] [SPEAKER_04]: That's tough.

[00:34:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's get to the white what is where we talk about what this movie made us go white what.

[00:34:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Jack's?

[00:34:24] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, two obvious ones that I'm sure that you guys will go into more.

[00:34:28] [SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, you would have just said at the initial onset that they knew each other from

[00:34:31] [SPEAKER_01]: high school.

[00:34:32] [SPEAKER_01]: They didn't even have to say that they hated.

[00:34:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I can understand wanting to keep that a lie, like or wanting to lie about that and thinking

[00:34:38] [SPEAKER_01]: you could.

[00:34:39] [SPEAKER_01]: But there's no way that not knowing each other.

[00:34:42] [SPEAKER_07]: It's just way too much work to keep that going.

[00:34:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:34:45] [SPEAKER_01]: And you know that this is not just a one-off dinner.

[00:34:48] [SPEAKER_01]: And like even we all knew they're not from a big town.

[00:34:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Like all of that didn't make any sense.

[00:34:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Another thing that didn't make sense, but look, it gave us a great scene.

[00:34:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Who does not know?

[00:34:57] [SPEAKER_01]: I am a cat lady and I know the dogs are allergic to chocolate.

[00:35:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:35:02] [SPEAKER_01]: You can't be doing that.

[00:35:03] [SPEAKER_01]: But watching Lindsay Lohan crush the mashed up cookie into that little puppy's face was

[00:35:09] [SPEAKER_01]: so funny.

[00:35:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Again, couldn't stop laughing.

[00:35:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Finally, let's talk about Sophie, who is an incredibly attractive woman who seems kind.

[00:35:21] [SPEAKER_01]: She's a doctor.

[00:35:23] [SPEAKER_01]: There's no way she's interested in Lindsay Lohan's loser boyfriend.

[00:35:27] [SPEAKER_01]: I get that they have a history.

[00:35:29] [SPEAKER_01]: I get that they have a history.

[00:35:31] [SPEAKER_01]: And like, I look, we've all.

[00:35:33] [SPEAKER_07]: This seems personal.

[00:35:35] [SPEAKER_01]: We've all dated down in high school.

[00:35:37] [SPEAKER_01]: I know.

[00:35:38] [SPEAKER_01]: I get it.

[00:35:39] [SPEAKER_01]: We've all dated down in high school.

[00:35:41] [SPEAKER_01]: But like, girl, you can do better than that.

[00:35:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't believe it for a hot second.

[00:35:46] [SPEAKER_06]: Hey, she's a doctor.

[00:35:47] [SPEAKER_06]: He's a lawyer.

[00:35:48] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, it's just one of those things.

[00:35:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, he's a schlub.

[00:35:51] [SPEAKER_01]: He's a schlub.

[00:35:52] [SPEAKER_06]: He's a schlub.

[00:35:53] [SPEAKER_06]: He's a schlub.

[00:35:54] [SPEAKER_06]: Alonzo?

[00:35:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, yeah.

[00:35:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, first of all, I mean, you touched on it in the plot synopsis when literally that

[00:36:00] [SPEAKER_06]: of the most important things that happened in the last decade, three of them are Netflix

[00:36:05] [SPEAKER_06]: projects.

[00:36:06] [SPEAKER_06]: That's right.

[00:36:06] [SPEAKER_06]: And two of them are Elon Musk.

[00:36:08] [SPEAKER_06]: That's right.

[00:36:09] [SPEAKER_06]: Like who wrote this list?

[00:36:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:36:11] [SPEAKER_06]: And why are you so a terrible person?

[00:36:14] [SPEAKER_06]: If you tell me.

[00:36:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Can I ask a follow up on that?

[00:36:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Like I get the Netflix thing.

[00:36:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Why do you think they had Elon Musk in there twice?

[00:36:20] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[00:36:21] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't know why they thought the cyber truck and the invention of X was like that big a

[00:36:26] [SPEAKER_06]: deal.

[00:36:26] [SPEAKER_07]: Like it just seems very random at best, but there were two or three legitimate ones that

[00:36:33] [SPEAKER_07]: threw the whole thing off.

[00:36:35] [SPEAKER_07]: They should have done it with just Netflix shows and dumb stuff.

[00:36:39] [SPEAKER_07]: That's what they should have done.

[00:36:40] [SPEAKER_07]: But they had three or four in there that made you go, they're really trying to jump

[00:36:46] [SPEAKER_07]: us 15 years here and they're using Squid Game.

[00:36:49] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:36:50] [SPEAKER_07]: It should have been like Love is Blind.

[00:36:52] [SPEAKER_07]: It should have been like all Netflix shows.

[00:36:53] [SPEAKER_06]: Emily in Paris.

[00:36:54] [SPEAKER_07]: That's right.

[00:36:55] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:36:56] [SPEAKER_01]: That actually would have been really funny.

[00:36:57] [SPEAKER_06]: Christmas Prince 3, the Christmas baby.

[00:37:00] [SPEAKER_06]: One, two, and three.

[00:37:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah.

[00:37:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Princess Switch, one, two, and three.

[00:37:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, all of them.

[00:37:05] [SPEAKER_06]: The other thing is like, okay, they never come out and say, but this is Atlanta because

[00:37:12] [SPEAKER_06]: Marietta and Peachtree City are actual suburbs of Atlanta.

[00:37:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Shout out.

[00:37:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Peachtree City is not the tiny backwater they would make you think it is, by the way.

[00:37:20] [SPEAKER_06]: No.

[00:37:21] [SPEAKER_06]: It's like, it's pretty big.

[00:37:23] [SPEAKER_06]: Two people could be from there and not know each other.

[00:37:25] [SPEAKER_07]: It's like Greenville.

[00:37:26] [SPEAKER_07]: It's like the size of Greenville.

[00:37:27] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:37:28] [SPEAKER_07]: Greenville City is 65,000.

[00:37:29] [SPEAKER_07]: I think Peachtree City is close to that.

[00:37:31] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, totally.

[00:37:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:37:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:37:33] [SPEAKER_06]: So also, it was like, they are acting like they're somewhere colder.

[00:37:39] [SPEAKER_06]: Like they don't do the fake snow or anything, but there's a lot of bundling up and stuff.

[00:37:44] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, Atlanta in December, you know, like.

[00:37:47] [SPEAKER_06]: It has been a cold December.

[00:37:49] [SPEAKER_07]: It's been cold the last five days, but typically it's like 70 degrees here and it is not cold

[00:37:55] [SPEAKER_07]: like that.

[00:37:55] [SPEAKER_04]: But I will say.

[00:37:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Throw a fleece on and shut up.

[00:37:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's right.

[00:37:58] [SPEAKER_04]: But you know, as somebody who like grows up, grew up in Florida, anytime it gets below

[00:38:03] [SPEAKER_04]: like 70, you're like, get out the big jacket.

[00:38:07] [SPEAKER_04]: So maybe it was just like a brisk night and they're just acting like they're from the sun.

[00:38:10] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, maybe so.

[00:38:12] [SPEAKER_06]: Anyway, that was it.

[00:38:13] [SPEAKER_06]: Pretty much everything else.

[00:38:13] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, like whether or not it worked for me, at least I think made internal logic sense.

[00:38:18] [SPEAKER_07]: The Peachtree City of it all was crazy.

[00:38:20] [SPEAKER_07]: That's a big place.

[00:38:21] [SPEAKER_07]: That's that's not that's not Mayberry.

[00:38:23] [SPEAKER_07]: Like there's a big place.

[00:38:25] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know, like this family, especially Chris and Chinua's character who is so like

[00:38:31] [SPEAKER_04]: buttoned up and we're got we got all the family portraits framed and I'm in the front.

[00:38:36] [SPEAKER_04]: That was a funny.

[00:38:37] [SPEAKER_04]: It was very funny.

[00:38:38] [SPEAKER_04]: I like things to be a very specific way.

[00:38:41] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't buy her sending two people that aren't a part of their family to pick out the Christmas

[00:38:48] [SPEAKER_04]: world like that was like that's there's to your point.

[00:38:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Like, yeah, that's just doesn't make any sense.

[00:38:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Why those two would have ordered it months ago and had it delivered.

[00:38:57] [SPEAKER_07]: They had the times that they have these two and Ian Harding and Lindsay Lohan end up together.

[00:39:01] [SPEAKER_07]: Most of them don't hold water at all, even for this movie.

[00:39:05] [SPEAKER_07]: Like, yeah, they just don't.

[00:39:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:39:06] [SPEAKER_04]: And then also later on in the movie, we get to Secret Santa and he realizes what's about to happen very quickly.

[00:39:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[00:39:17] [SPEAKER_04]: And he's like, hey, can I talk to you over there?

[00:39:20] [SPEAKER_04]: And everyone, no one in the family is like, what about that's about?

[00:39:24] [SPEAKER_04]: I wonder why those normal people normal saw one present open up in the Secret Santa and then went into a room by themselves.

[00:39:33] [SPEAKER_07]: Now, let's give them the time.

[00:39:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's give them the time.

[00:39:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Give them the space.

[00:39:37] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm sure it's I'm sure it's going to all.

[00:39:38] [SPEAKER_04]: We're holding space.

[00:39:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Dan.

[00:39:40] [SPEAKER_07]: Um, justice for wine with a screw cap on it.

[00:39:43] [SPEAKER_07]: Uh, I don't understand why that gets such a bad rap in the year of 2024.

[00:39:47] [SPEAKER_07]: I've had, I'm not the biggest wine drinker in the world, but I've had wine from a bottle with a screw cap that is a better than a grocery store bottle of wine before.

[00:39:57] [SPEAKER_06]: I just, you know, back in the day, like only like, you know, your Boone's farm got the screw cap.

[00:40:03] [SPEAKER_06]: But that one is Boone's farm.

[00:40:05] [SPEAKER_06]: That's right.

[00:40:05] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:40:05] [SPEAKER_06]: But it's a, now it's a different story.

[00:40:07] [SPEAKER_06]: And, and, and I think Chenoweth's character would know that.

[00:40:11] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, she would.

[00:40:12] [SPEAKER_07]: Like there's a, there's a wine from Willamette Valley in Oregon.

[00:40:15] [SPEAKER_07]: That's a Pinot Noir and it's a screw cap and it's delightful.

[00:40:19] [SPEAKER_07]: So like, I like there, there are legitimate wines that have screw caps on them.

[00:40:24] [SPEAKER_07]: And that was a weird thing for this movie to do.

[00:40:26] [SPEAKER_07]: I thought, I just thought of all the things.

[00:40:28] [SPEAKER_06]: How does the Willamette Pinot pair with the THC gummies?

[00:40:31] [SPEAKER_07]: No, like that's a, that'd be a Jack's question.

[00:40:33] [SPEAKER_07]: But I, as far as I know, pretty good.

[00:40:37] [SPEAKER_07]: You drop them in there, right?

[00:40:38] [SPEAKER_07]: Like Mentos and Coke.

[00:40:39] [SPEAKER_07]: That's how that works.

[00:40:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:40:41] [SPEAKER_07]: It does explode.

[00:40:42] [SPEAKER_04]: That's why you got the screw cap.

[00:40:43] [SPEAKER_07]: You put it right back on there.

[00:40:45] [SPEAKER_04]: It takes a little bit of time.

[00:40:46] [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[00:40:47] [SPEAKER_04]: But then.

[00:40:47] [SPEAKER_07]: You'll get it.

[00:40:48] [SPEAKER_04]: You'll get it.

[00:40:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Once they get going.

[00:40:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Don't put a second one in there.

[00:40:52] [SPEAKER_04]: It's gonna happen.

[00:40:54] [SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[00:40:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:40:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Just wait for it.

[00:40:55] [SPEAKER_07]: Uh, I know dog owner that treats their dog like a child.

[00:41:00] [SPEAKER_07]: Not that I have any experience with that.

[00:41:02] [SPEAKER_07]: No dog owner would ever leave their dog in the situation that their dog is in and wait

[00:41:09] [SPEAKER_07]: out in the waiting room.

[00:41:10] [SPEAKER_07]: Like my dog has ingested chocolate and I stayed with my dog until the moment they told me I

[00:41:15] [SPEAKER_07]: had to leave the room.

[00:41:17] [SPEAKER_07]: Lindsay Lohan in a, in a brief moment of, I'm going to air quote brilliance here goes,

[00:41:22] [SPEAKER_07]: you don't want to see this.

[00:41:23] [SPEAKER_07]: You wait outside.

[00:41:24] [SPEAKER_07]: I'll wait with the dog.

[00:41:26] [SPEAKER_07]: There is just not a dog owner that would do that.

[00:41:29] [SPEAKER_07]: I'd like literally they would all be like, you, you can take this dog out of my cold,

[00:41:32] [SPEAKER_07]: dead fingers.

[00:41:33] [SPEAKER_07]: I'm not leaving the dog.

[00:41:34] [SPEAKER_07]: Like that's like for Kristen Chin was character.

[00:41:36] [SPEAKER_07]: There's nowhere where she would do that at all.

[00:41:39] [SPEAKER_07]: In my opinion.

[00:41:39] [SPEAKER_07]: Um, I have to mention it because we are deck the hallmark.

[00:41:43] [SPEAKER_07]: This business proposals do on Christmas Eve.

[00:41:45] [SPEAKER_07]: I'd like, you know, say what you will.

[00:41:47] [SPEAKER_07]: And the best way to stand up out.

[00:41:49] [SPEAKER_07]: And they do mention this later is to give a cover page to your business proposal that

[00:41:53] [SPEAKER_07]: just says construction proposal.

[00:41:55] [SPEAKER_07]: It doesn't have the, any big letters, construction proposal, the typeface.

[00:42:01] [SPEAKER_07]: The typeface was popping.

[00:42:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I do have a question for you though.

[00:42:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Work ever so slightly better for you.

[00:42:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Look, I know it's ridiculous, but ever so slightly better.

[00:42:10] [SPEAKER_01]: That's more of like a family and friend thing.

[00:42:12] [SPEAKER_01]: So it doesn't feel like you're, they're running into an office.

[00:42:14] [SPEAKER_07]: I will say it worked better when the guy goes, I've seen five just like this.

[00:42:18] [SPEAKER_07]: That helped me.

[00:42:19] [SPEAKER_07]: That was like my lead.

[00:42:20] [SPEAKER_07]: Wait, what?

[00:42:21] [SPEAKER_07]: Like construction proposal.

[00:42:23] [SPEAKER_07]: And then that guy goes, Tim Meadows goes, I've seen five like this.

[00:42:26] [SPEAKER_07]: Show me something different.

[00:42:27] [SPEAKER_07]: And it's like, oh, they did it on purpose.

[00:42:28] [SPEAKER_06]: That did help me a little discover page.

[00:42:30] [SPEAKER_07]: And then my last one, I didn't know where to put this, I guess, hot take, but I just

[00:42:34] [SPEAKER_07]: wrote why even have Tim Meadows in this movie?

[00:42:36] [SPEAKER_07]: And if Tim Meadows wanted to be in the movie, cause he's friends with Lindsay Lohan.

[00:42:40] [SPEAKER_07]: Awesome.

[00:42:40] [SPEAKER_07]: But Tim Meadows is so multifaceted and talented and like can play cringe humor and quiet humor.

[00:42:49] [SPEAKER_07]: He can be more dramatic than this.

[00:42:52] [SPEAKER_07]: Literally anyone could have done what he did in this movie.

[00:42:54] [SPEAKER_07]: And I just didn't get it.

[00:42:55] [SPEAKER_07]: Like you have.

[00:42:56] [SPEAKER_04]: He's in it.

[00:42:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Cause mean girl.

[00:42:58] [SPEAKER_07]: That's the only thing that I can think, but it seemed like everyone.

[00:43:01] [SPEAKER_07]: I'm like that.

[00:43:02] [SPEAKER_07]: Even like, even Chris Parnell got to chew more than, than Tim Meadows did in this movie.

[00:43:08] [SPEAKER_07]: And I didn't get that at all.

[00:43:10] [SPEAKER_06]: Dare I suggest that a lot of very talented people make these Christmas movies knowing

[00:43:15] [SPEAKER_06]: that they're not going to be called upon to dig deeply into their bag of friends.

[00:43:21] [SPEAKER_06]: Don't talk about that.

[00:43:22] [SPEAKER_06]: How dare you think that?

[00:43:23] [SPEAKER_06]: Just going to throw that out.

[00:43:24] [SPEAKER_06]: To say that he's giving anything less than a hundred is unbelievable.

[00:43:27] [SPEAKER_06]: Let's get to it.

[00:43:28] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm saying he knows it's not going to demand that much of him.

[00:43:31] [SPEAKER_06]: He's going to show up every day.

[00:43:32] [SPEAKER_06]: Hang out with friends.

[00:43:33] [SPEAKER_06]: On time.

[00:43:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Know his lines.

[00:43:34] [SPEAKER_06]: That's right.

[00:43:35] [SPEAKER_06]: And you know, as few takes as possible, he gets it.

[00:43:38] [SPEAKER_06]: He's a pro.

[00:43:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, let's get to what the hallmark.

[00:43:42] [SPEAKER_04]: It's where we wonder what could have been.

[00:43:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Maybe he's declaring any questions we still have.

[00:43:44] [SPEAKER_04]: What are we still wondering about?

[00:43:46] [SPEAKER_04]: That's what this is for Jax.

[00:43:48] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, yeah, Tim Meadows and Christian Chenoweth.

[00:43:51] [SPEAKER_01]: What's going on there?

[00:43:52] [SPEAKER_01]: I love that.

[00:43:53] [SPEAKER_01]: So it is, um, it's interesting because do you remember those?

[00:43:58] [SPEAKER_01]: I think it was the Today Show anchors that got together and then their jolted husbands,

[00:44:02] [SPEAKER_01]: they got together.

[00:44:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Um, I don't know if you're guys familiar with that scandal, but I am.

[00:44:08] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't know that story at all.

[00:44:08] [SPEAKER_06]: I missed that one.

[00:44:08] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:44:08] [SPEAKER_01]: And I, I've known a couple instances where that's happened and yeah, I just think it's

[00:44:13] [SPEAKER_01]: so fun and I'm glad it works out for everybody.

[00:44:15] [SPEAKER_01]: So I really want to see more of Christian Chenoweth and her cute little dog and Tim Meadows.

[00:44:21] [SPEAKER_01]: And I bet they have a very active, um, life.

[00:44:25] [SPEAKER_04]: What the hell?

[00:44:26] [SPEAKER_04]: What a way to say it.

[00:44:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, Alonzo?

[00:44:29] [SPEAKER_07]: They got Fitbits.

[00:44:30] [SPEAKER_07]: They're going on walks in the mountains.

[00:44:32] [SPEAKER_07]: It's unbelievable.

[00:44:33] [SPEAKER_07]: Pilates spin class.

[00:44:34] [SPEAKER_07]: It's crazy.

[00:44:35] [SPEAKER_04]: They're going in harding on everybody.

[00:44:38] [SPEAKER_06]: What?

[00:44:39] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to piggy piggyback on that.

[00:44:43] [SPEAKER_06]: When we did the preview, I talked about how the plot of this kind of reminded me of Noel

[00:44:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Coward's private lives, which is a play about a divorcees who go on a honeymoon with their

[00:44:53] [SPEAKER_06]: new spouses and wind up in adjoining hotel rooms.

[00:44:56] [SPEAKER_06]: And I'm thinking now they have set us up that they could do a sequel.

[00:45:00] [SPEAKER_06]: This, that just is a production of private lives with, you know, uh, Dan Bukatinsky and

[00:45:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Chenoweth and, uh, and Tim Meadows and the woman from scrubs.

[00:45:10] [SPEAKER_06]: It's like, it's, they, they, they've laid out the groundwork for us.

[00:45:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

[00:45:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I would, what I would give to watch that.

[00:45:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:45:16] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to take a play out of Brian Harold's playbook and just go, I wonder how that, uh,

[00:45:21] [SPEAKER_04]: the house transaction went.

[00:45:23] [SPEAKER_04]: So, you know, he was obviously he wanted to sell the house and he comes back and he's

[00:45:29] [SPEAKER_04]: like, Hey, uh, you, you're going to have to buy it.

[00:45:32] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, he says a man's got to eat.

[00:45:34] [SPEAKER_04]: So she does buy it.

[00:45:35] [SPEAKER_04]: She has to get a mortgage.

[00:45:36] [SPEAKER_04]: I imagine some sort of discount for his daughter.

[00:45:40] [SPEAKER_04]: You would think full price, right?

[00:45:42] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[00:45:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Like what's the deal there on this house?

[00:45:45] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, I would like to get into the weeds there.

[00:45:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, maybe the deal is like, she pays it.

[00:45:49] [SPEAKER_06]: She pays the mortgage until he dies.

[00:45:51] [SPEAKER_06]: And then it's like, we'll just forget the whole thing.

[00:45:53] [SPEAKER_06]: That's right.

[00:45:54] [SPEAKER_06]: What does her character do?

[00:45:57] [SPEAKER_06]: Like I knew she's some sort of big boss, big boss, big boss.

[00:45:59] [SPEAKER_06]: But like in the big, yeah, big.

[00:46:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes.

[00:46:01] [SPEAKER_04]: She knows business plans.

[00:46:02] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[00:46:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Big boss.

[00:46:04] [SPEAKER_04]: That's exactly big boss.

[00:46:05] [SPEAKER_06]: The business business business.

[00:46:07] [SPEAKER_06]: That's right.

[00:46:09] [SPEAKER_07]: Um, I, do you know what, what is a Lindsay Lohan's contract with Netflix?

[00:46:13] [SPEAKER_07]: Like how many movies do we know that information or I think this was it?

[00:46:17] [SPEAKER_07]: This was it.

[00:46:17] [SPEAKER_07]: I think this was it.

[00:46:18] [SPEAKER_07]: I'm not saying that Netflix is a second class like organization.

[00:46:22] [SPEAKER_07]: They, they're, they clearly have made some of the things that people have watched more

[00:46:26] [SPEAKER_07]: than anything else.

[00:46:26] [SPEAKER_07]: But I think Lindsay Lohan has gotten better in all of these movies.

[00:46:32] [SPEAKER_07]: Like I think acting wise, I think she has some real subtly funny moments here, including

[00:46:37] [SPEAKER_07]: the delivery when she finds out chocolate is poisonous to dogs at the one, how she says

[00:46:42] [SPEAKER_07]: like, well, who knew that is really funny.

[00:46:44] [SPEAKER_07]: Her narration is really funny.

[00:46:46] [SPEAKER_07]: So my question is as a, as a tried and true member of the Lohan-a-sants is Lindsay going

[00:46:52] [SPEAKER_07]: to get a feature film?

[00:46:53] Hmm.

[00:46:53] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:46:54] [SPEAKER_07]: Has she paid her dues?

[00:46:55] [SPEAKER_07]: She's yeah.

[00:46:56] [SPEAKER_07]: Has she shown you that she's back yet?

[00:46:58] [SPEAKER_07]: Like we need to see Lindsay in a feature film on the big screen.

[00:47:02] [SPEAKER_07]: That's what needs to happen.

[00:47:03] [SPEAKER_07]: And I want to know if that's in the works.

[00:47:05] [SPEAKER_04]: She's too old for Hallmark.

[00:47:07] [SPEAKER_04]: And so, you know, she can't get there.

[00:47:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, I mean, although here's the thing though.

[00:47:15] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, they're tragically the, the Hollywood writ large is not making movies that are centered

[00:47:22] [SPEAKER_06]: on women north of 30, unless you're Meryl Streep.

[00:47:26] [SPEAKER_06]: And even then the, the, you know, not with the frequency they should.

[00:47:30] [SPEAKER_06]: So this is kind of a sweet gig for her.

[00:47:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:47:33] [SPEAKER_06]: It would be nice if, if yeah.

[00:47:34] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I agree with you.

[00:47:35] [SPEAKER_06]: I think she is, she has proven, Hey, I can still do this.

[00:47:38] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm, I'm really good at this.

[00:47:39] [SPEAKER_06]: You should put me in other things.

[00:47:41] [SPEAKER_06]: And I hope some enterprising, like, like Coralie Farja, who should be calling her to do the

[00:47:46] [SPEAKER_06]: substance too, or whatever, you know, like cool filmmakers should be hiring her to do cool

[00:47:52] [SPEAKER_06]: stuff.

[00:47:53] [SPEAKER_06]: That's exactly what I thought feature film.

[00:47:55] [SPEAKER_06]: But in the meantime, but in the meantime, this is a nice paycheck gig for a woman of

[00:47:59] [SPEAKER_06]: her status in the industry.

[00:48:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:48:01] [SPEAKER_07]: I think feature film is the wrong way to say, I want somebody like it, like directors to

[00:48:06] [SPEAKER_07]: take notice and they're, you know, who would like to take chances and like to do things

[00:48:10] [SPEAKER_07]: differently and make new stuff.

[00:48:11] [SPEAKER_07]: I think Lindsay should be up for something in there.

[00:48:13] [SPEAKER_07]: I think she should.

[00:48:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, all right, we do it everybody.

[00:48:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Congratulations to us.

[00:48:18] [SPEAKER_04]: We're going to be back next week with our final Netflix.

[00:48:20] [SPEAKER_04]: One of the year.

[00:48:21] [SPEAKER_04]: It's going to be that Christmas.

[00:48:23] [SPEAKER_05]: That Christmas.

[00:48:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Right.

[00:48:25] [SPEAKER_04]: So join us for that and join us tomorrow.

[00:48:27] [SPEAKER_04]: We'll be back with another one until then.

[00:48:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Maybe the first to wish you a Merry Christmas.

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[00:49:09] [SPEAKER_04]: I promise they're coming.

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