Reality Bites: A Hannah Swensen Mystery (Hallmark Mystery - 2025)

[00:00:00] Hi, I'm Bramble Jam, and I love Hallmark Mystery Movies. I'm Brian, I like Hallmark Mystery Movies. I'm Dan, I despise Hallmark Mystery Movies, and this is the Deck the Hallmark Podcast. Deck the Hallmark, it's this podcast. We hope you like this jolly podcast.

[00:00:33] Oh boy, Brian, you really hated this movie, huh? I did get into, yeah, my uniform. The uniform, I guess, of delivering bad news. Delivering bad news. Wow. Actually, looking at my notes, it's not as bad as you would think. All right, well, the hot take isn't for a while. Let's just save it. Let's just pump the old brakes. Hi, everybody. Welcome. Welcome to another episode. We're so happy that you are joining us today. Thank God they make more Hannah Swensen movies, you know what I mean? What would we do without them?

[00:01:02] That's right. Record something on Hallmark, maybe. I'm excited about it. I'm excited to dive into it. Can I ask you this? Brian, you came in today and I will say you seemed especially energetic, which is surprising coming from you. Did something happen? I meant to ask you before. A little pep in my step? Yeah, a little pep in my step. What happened? You said pop in your step? I said a hop in my step. Okay. Yeah, what happened?

[00:01:26] I don't know. I was going to say I stepped on a rabbit, but a hop in my step doesn't, isn't a thing, right? So that wouldn't make a lot of sense. No, pep in your step is the saying, I believe, because it rhymes. Right, right, right. The pepper spray is what did it. Yeah, it got sprayed into the pepper spray. What? That'll do it, yeah. Let's try it with Dan. Dan, you walked in today and you had a little extra pop in your step. You were like a little energetic. What happened to you on the way in?

[00:01:50] I get so excited. They're not overdone at all. They've been baked to perfection. You know, I'm here for them. All of them. Bring as many of them as you can bring. Bring them on. You think you can ever not handle them? No, they're never too hot to handle. Never. Never. Never. That's exactly right. Good stuff. We're talking reality bites today. A Hannah Swinson mystery, February 6th, 2025 on the Hallmark. You walked in with a pep in your step today, Brian. I didn't. What was that about?

[00:02:18] So I was driving down, you know, Lawrence Road? Yeah. Okay. So I was driving down Lawrence Road and I saw a car that the best way I can describe it was it's almost not a car. Yeah. So it's like a Tesla truck? No. Okay. It's like, you know, frosted miniweets? I do. Okay. So imagine you take a bunch of frosted miniweets, you crunch them up, you add some berries, you add some berries, you add some salsa, you add some salsa.

[00:02:48] Salsa? Salsa? Yeah. Yogurt? Yogurt? Okay. Are we getting back to the car at any point? Yeah. Imagine that as a car. It can't. That's what I said. Yeah. But it was on four wheels. On four wheels. Street league. And that brought street league and that brought a pep into your step. It did. I mean, it excites me when I see that people are still trying new things. Like I get excited about that. You guys don't get excited about one. What was the brand on the car?

[00:03:11] It didn't have one. It just said made by John. Oh, man. What was that in? What was that? Was that metal? No, ketchup. Ketchup. Yeah. It looked like it looked like ketchup. Hey, you asked, bro. Yeah. Don't get mad at me. I don't know. I don't know. Made by John. It was made by John. Crazy. Made by John. Hello. Oh, we do have John. Hello. It's me. John. Oh my gosh. John. I made it. I made it. Killer CB. I don't know why you guys did it, but I made it.

[00:03:41] I don't know how we did it. Yeah. Did you write it in ketchup on your car? I made it. You made it. The ketchup. The car. The whole thing. You made the car. Okay. I thought you said you made it like you were late for this interview, which did not. We did not ask. I made it. Actually right on time. John, was that accurately described? Oh, he nailed it. Yeah. He nailed it. Is the goal to put the pep in a step? Yes. Okay. I want to make people stay. You want to make people stay. Yes. You sound a little bit like Benny. No. You're not like Benny. I'm not. You're not Benny. Does he know Benny? Do you know Benny? No. Nope.

[00:04:11] Okay. Never a little bit. Never a little. Can you say 2017 for me? 2017. Yeah. You're real. Benny's cousin, brother, something. Wait, I just make cars. You just make cars. That's how you do. For Benny. For Pep and Step. For Pep and Step. That's right. Is that the name of your business? No. Okay. It's made by John. Read a book. Made by John. Read a book. Yeah. Of course. Probably a DBA actually. Love you guys. Yeah. Probably a DBA. I love you guys. Love you too, John.

[00:04:36] Big fan. Would you believe it if I told you that I made cars hoping I knew that you guys lived on Lawrence Road and I wanted you guys to see me? I thought he was signing off. Now he's telling everybody where we live. Well, I live in the general locale and I want you guys to see me so you would talk to me. Would you believe that? John, we're going to have to go. I made a car so they can see me, Dan. John, you're breaking up, John. You're breaking up. Are you there? John, are you there? Made by John. Are you there, John? I can't hear you, John. He just wanted us.

[00:05:05] He just wanted us to know that he existed. Reality Bites, Hannah Swinson Mystery, February 6th, 2025 on the Hallmark Mystery Channel. Went a little something like this. The movie kicks off with some bad guys. Cockroach is going to love that. Yeah, he is. Yeah. I don't think you will. Cockroach. The movie kicks off with a bad guy stealing some diamonds and then breaking a window. They steal some more jewelry. They break another window. They find another box of goodies. I can't do it today. Not my goodies. They find another box of goodies and they break in another window.

[00:05:35] So, finally, they leave. No more windows to break. While that's happening, we see Hannah baking a pie. I was inspired. I can't imagine how you were feeling. That was inspiring. She finds out that Connie Mack... All dressed in black. I went too fast. I'm sorry, guys. You were all... I haven't missed Mary Mack in a while. So, she finds out that Connie Mack wants to come and film in her bakery. Connie Mack! She's a legend. Connie Mack. She's a legend.

[00:06:04] And it gets better. They want Hannah to help. Now, obviously, Norman is around because he's in love with her secretly. And he doesn't even know who Connie Mack is, but he's still very impressed. Speaking of love, Chad comes in to pick up some muffins for the crew at the old Priestinked. I'm not even going to correct that. That's when you wear a dirty shirt to work out and it's Priestinked. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. Chad's a busy bee. Priestinked! Yeah, that's right.

[00:06:34] You knew what I meant, though. You're jewel-o-o-o. You knew what I meant. Chad's a busy bee. He's working on the... Oh, God damn it. You got jewelry on my mind. Jewelry. Here we go. Ready? Yep. Priestinked. Chad's a busy bee. He's working on this burglary case. And he's convinced that he has the right guy, but needs more evidence to prove that that guy is also involved in 13 break-ins in the area.

[00:07:00] He has this very distinctive calling card where he breaks every window in the house. It's time for filming. Connie shows up, and she's a bit of a diva. She shows up last second, and Hannah immediately catches on to the fact that Connie doesn't really know how to cook. Hannah tries to correct her at one point, which Connie does not appreciate, and pours a pie on her head. The producers apologize to her afterwards and confirms that Connie indeed does not know how to cook.

[00:07:29] Let her cook. It's a secret. He asks her to go along with it for one more day, and the next day, Hannah shows up and finds that producer, Hunt, dead. We see on his computer he was reading an article about the burglar that Chad is investigating. Chastly. Chastly, the burglar. Um, obviously, Hannah begins to investigate for herself because that's her deal.

[00:08:00] Uh, she catches Connie on the street, and it seems that she has a bit of a jaw problem that she didn't have before, and, uh, no way to get in charge. Guys, think about the Sunday synopsis for one second and appreciate how hard it is. With all your shenanigans to make it sound fluid. It was barely shenanigans. I'm sorry. What is the Sunday synopsis? Oh. Let me back you up a couple steps right now. Damn. Even I know what the Sunday synopsis is.

[00:08:29] Viral sensation Sunday synopsis. Sunday synopsis. Get it at the precinct. Yeah, that really hurt you last time when you introduced Morgan Freeman and Cockroach, I believe, during the synopsis in the last... I made it work. Yeah. Um, let me cook. Let Connie cook. But Connie can't. Uh, anyway, uh, she catches Connie on the street, and it seems like she has a jaw problem that she didn't have before, and apparently no one can get in touch with Hunt's wife, which is very suspicious.

[00:08:55] Uh, she finds out that Hunt, uh, moved the booking of the show to their town last minute, and, uh, it also coincided with when they announced the court case of Chasley, so it's all very suspicious, and that's what he was looking at on the computer, so it's odd. Um, and, uh, as she's updating Chad on what she's found, a car comes speeding towards them

[00:09:21] about to hit them, but he pulls her out of the way with his big strong arms. What's that about? Like a cat. Like a cat. Like a cat. Um, they decide that they're going to set a trap by announcing very loudly throughout town that Hannah's mom is going out of town and is going to be leaving all of her expensive jewelry behind. It works. Uh, they catch the bad guy.

[00:09:47] Turns out it was Connie's assistant who is Chasley's daughter. She's, uh, decided she was going to stage a break-in to look exactly like Chasley to keep him from being convicted of all 13 break-ins. She killed Hunt because Hunt knew. Hunt knew. Hunt knew. Hunt knew. Hunt knew. Hunt knew. Um, luckily, luckily Chad knew. Hunt knew. Luckily, as, uh, she has a gun.

[00:10:17] Guys, let's think of the Sundance film. Yeah. Let's think of the Sundance film. As anyone thought of the Sundance film. Let me do whatever even briefly consider the synopsis. Uh. What about the Furman's face? What about the Furman's face? That's exactly right. Imagine if we play these out of the Furman's face. Boy, howdy. Is it big? As she has the gun up to her head, Chad calls Hannah. And she's like, answer the phone. Put it on speaker. So she does.

[00:10:41] And Hannah uses some code words like, hey, I'm making you your favorite cookie knowing obviously he doesn't like sweets. So he would know that she's in some trouble. So he shows up just in time and arrests her. And she says, I know all. Here's every all the information she told us. So we know it all. And that's very nice.

[00:11:05] And the movie ends with Chad and Hannah walking around and just kind of talking to each other. And that, my friends, was Reality Bites, a Hannah Swenson mystery. We did it. We did do it. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and we will, uh, well, let's break it down. Sure. I love it. We should break this one down. Here on Take the Hallmark.

[00:11:34] Welcome back, everybody. We're talking about the latest in the Hannah Swenson mystery world's Reality Bites. Yeah. The good stuff. Let's share our thoughts on it. I think we should call this one the Hot Take. And I think we should share our thoughts unfiltered. Some might say these takes are hot. Brian? Yeah. What'd you think? You just said they were hot. It's really good. You did. What'd you think about this one? I thought overall this one not bad, actually, as far as Hannah Swenson mysteries go.

[00:12:02] So the problem here is what I liked most about this were, was the characters. Like, I feel like there were characters. The characters I liked. The mystery I didn't care about, which I feel like that's a big part of a mystery. So that makes for a good mystery, a Hannah Swenson mystery. I guess so. In this very specific, weird, unique case, yeah. Not enough baking. I mean, in fact, they shut the bakery down. Yeah. Yeah. I saw the Hannah Swenson mystery unless we're not baking much.

[00:12:32] They shut the bakery down, which told me everything I needed to know about wanting baking. Like, it's not happening. Ridiculous. They teased us with a, hey, we're going to get you in the courtroom. And so at that point, I'm like, oh, we're going to do a drama. I'm all here for it. Sign me up right now. Let's do some of this. Yeah. And we bear 55 minutes in before we get in the courtroom. So. No. Bummer. But in my mind, I'm like, ooh, if they go this direction with these movies, we're in the courtroom more. That'd be fun. Not going to do it. Her mom, the savior.

[00:13:02] She's getting better every movie. She's better and better for me. They're letting her cook. Yes. She's having a good old time. She's got her hands in everything. She's really fun to watch. And so she's saving these. Connie, I thought was a really fun character to introduce. Norman, I even liked in this one. Okay. So I don't, the characters, that's where we draw the line. Vic, off the charts, Riz, as they say. Vic was just crushing it as usual.

[00:13:28] So everything, all the characters I really like, the problem is just the mystery not interested. And so they got to figure that out. Get back in the kitchen on the mystery stuff. Open the kitchen. Can you just tell Hannah Swenson to get back in the kitchen? Hannah and France. Cancel Brian, everybody. How about open the kitchen to begin with? And then get back in the kitchen to Brian. I'm just happy that I sent you a stash toot and didn't actually build you a stash toot. Thank you. And I would have gotten so much money. See, this is what I'm talking about. You don't know where you're getting this. You don't have the egg on your face. Yeah, it's fine.

[00:13:57] It's fine. The whole thing's fine. It doesn't sound fine. Well, I really like Vic Webster. Okay, great, guys. Great. We all love Vic Webster. Well, I think Vic Webster and Allison Sweeney, I like them together. And I just, you know, this movie ended in such a way where I was like, here we go. Now it's time. And now I know there's going to be another one. And so that's too bad. I just want them to get together at this point. And so I really felt like we were heading in that direction.

[00:14:25] There was a lot of vibes in this movie. And then the movie ends and they're walking. And he's wearing that Peter McAllister jacket. And he looks great in it. And I just thought for sure this is what we were going to do and we didn't do it. But yeah, I thought that this one, it wasn't my least favorite one of these. And Dan, can I share my hot take, please? Yeah, you can. I'm sorry for interrupting. Let's let Dan cook. We'll let Dan cook here in a second. I thought that this one was fine. Dan, go away. Really good. I'm glad I waited for that.

[00:14:55] Also, I just listened to both of you say, it's fine. I liked it. And then just absolutely crap all over it, which is just like, just be honest with yourselves. I didn't crap all over it. And the people at home. I did not crap all over it. All right, go back and listen. I did not. All I said is that I wish that they kissed at the end. Yeah. They're just not. I wish now there's going to be another one. That's not. That's the series. How about this? They clearly said one thing and then told you another. What do I have to say for you to stop making these movies? I'll say whatever. I'll rave about one. I don't care.

[00:15:25] I can be bought. If it means I don't have to watch any more Hannah Swenson movies, then just let me know because I could not. How many have there been? A dozen? 24? A baker's dozen? Two dozen? I just like nothing reeks more of old Hallmark than these movies where to your point, brand, they're six webs deep and they're still haven't kissed yet. But I don't like how many Victor Webster movies do we need before they kiss? Is Cameron Matheson just going to come back at some point? Like what are they possibly waiting on?

[00:15:55] Are we really to believe that Norman is a possible? I just don't have time for it. I hate it. Allison Sweeney is more than capable. Barbara Niven is having the time of her life. It just doesn't matter. There's so many things I'd rather be watching on the Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Mystery than this. Let's try raving about it. You want me to try it? Yeah, let's try it and then we definitely won't just use it as a clip or something like that. Give me a countdown. Okay. Five, four, three, two, one, go.

[00:16:25] Guys, they cracked it. This is the best of the Hannah Swenson movies by a mile. Barbara Niven, oh my goodness. They're letting her cook. You said it, Bri. They're letting her cook. And the more you let Barbara Niven be a part of what's going on here, the better. The Mystery, a ton of fun. Cooking show? Go down. In the bakery? Yeah, they closed the bakery. They haven't done that yet. They haven't done that yet. It's what we've been telling us needed. Vic Webster, you know what's great is? They know, they know that once they get these two kids together, they're not going to be

[00:16:54] able to keep their hands off each other. So them waiting. Don't let them kiss. Six or seven movies? Don't let them kiss. In order to Vic and Allison to even walk somewhere together like they might date? Pitch perfect. I need more. I need more. It's haunting us. I need more baking. I need more courtroom. I need more of all of it. All in on Hannah Swenson, everybody. Dan like the movie. Dan like the movie. Hey, hey. Wow. It's going to be great.

[00:17:22] It's going to make the socials and people are going to be so confused and then they're going to have to, they're going to probably not listen and just think that I really liked it. If that works, it sucked. It's terrible. Oh, man. Let's get to all the feels. We were talking about what this movie is. Feels? Brian. Yeah. From the two guys that liked the movie, but not the mystery and can't believe there's another one. Wait till you hear my feels, Dan. Speaking of mysteries, the lattice work on that pie.

[00:17:52] Oh, dear God. Are you kidding me right now? That was nuts. Really great. That was hop shop, like high level stuff there. Like I know she's not baking in these movies. Like there's not that going on, but she's letting us know early and often, mostly just early on in the movie that I can still do this. Yeah. I still got it. I haven't lost a step. So that really worked. I had lattice work on mine. I'm sorry, man. How could you not? Dude, I was thinking you had some lattice work done. I don't want to bring it up to you. I didn't want to say anything. I thought it was pretty natural. I thought it was pretty natural.

[00:18:21] It's pretty clear to anybody that sees you that you've had some lattice work done. There's no doubt about it. And I think it works for you. Thank you. I don't think you look bad. A lot of people can go, you can go too hard on the lattice work. It's just very light. Light lattice. Yeah. Light lattice. I, when Connie, Connie Mack poured the pie on Allison Sweeney, I didn't see it coming and either did Allison Sweeney. And I thought that that scene was really funny. It made me laugh and I appreciated it. Dano?

[00:18:50] Dude, the lattice work on that pie. Did you see it? I know we've already talked about it. Hey, Brian actually already talked about it. Brian brought that one. Did you have anything else besides the lattice work? It's only that I wrote down. What about when they dumped the pie on her head? Oh, man. Oh, wait. No, that was taken too. I didn't see it coming. I didn't think he'd say it. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll get to the way what the what the homework. You're on. Take the homework. Let's talk.

[00:19:20] Let's talk way what's here. Welcome back, by the way. Welcome back. Do you know we just came back from a break? I forgot. This is serious stuff. We did it in post. Definitely not in real time. Let's get to the way what of this one. Brian, anything in this movie we could go way what? This is tough. See if I can dig something up here. Rock solid movie. The D.A. came around checking filming permits at a bakery. The district attorney. Didn't he do that in the last movie? He did the last one, too. So I guess they're consistent.

[00:19:49] He just keeps showing up at a. While preparing for a big trial. It's almost like some people in law enforcement tend to overstep what their prerogative is. That's like the undertones. What their jurisdiction is. They'll clean it up in the next one, Dan. Yeah, for sure. It's like the Jody Sweet. Yeah, exactly. I know. There was an interview happening at the Pre-Stinked. You said it right. Thank you. Somebody from the crew was in an interview room.

[00:20:18] And I think Hannah was just out in the hallway. Door wide open. Just questions flying. Conversation just flowing right out that window into the Pre-Stinked for everybody to hear. And just the cost of a traveling baking show just doesn't make sense. A traveling baking show where you have to find a new location. You have to move the entire crew unless you're hiring local people. It looks like they travel with the same crew. It's still cheaper than dramatized television. I mean, if you're talking about just diners, drive-ins, and dives. He doesn't cook.

[00:20:46] But traveling all across the country. It doesn't make sense, though, if you're not going to introduce the bakery. Correct. Yeah. They're doing their whole show. The person who bakes in the bakery. That doesn't make sense. They're bringing their own recipes. They're doing their entire show that you do in a studio just in a different location all the time. So just the whole show didn't make any sense to me. And it bugged me the whole time because I'm like, you just shouldn't. You shouldn't do that. But a quality flick. Quality flick. Mystery sucked. That sucked. But quality flick is what you're saying. The people in it. I like the people. And I'm rooting for them. We love the people. Rooting for them.

[00:21:16] And just Hannah and Norman chase after a gunman, which you just, I don't know. I don't know. Don't chase after a person with a gun. I don't know. Don't run after them throughout the house. Yeah. I got a few. One, Chad and Hannah do have a conversation on a stairwell in the middle of that stairwell. And I don't think that that's right. Someone even has to go around them. It's just that, guys, there's common courtesy that I think we all need to abide by.

[00:21:43] And one of those things is not having conversations in the middle of a stairwell. You can't do it. That's exactly right. I got a kick out of when they almost get hit by the vehicle. Immediately, my boy Chad goes, such an odd street to be speeding down. That's his first thought after getting almost hit by a vehicle. Pulls her out of the way. Such an odd street to be speeding down. Super chill. Yeah. He's just immediately like, this doesn't make any sense. Yeah. It's almost like they were coming for us. Why would they do that?

[00:22:13] It doesn't make any sense. Such an odd street for them to be speeding down. It doesn't make sense. Almost like it was intentional. What's the top kilometer rate on this road? If it was, if this was. It'd be 100. 100. It'd be going 100 KMs over there. If this street wasn't such an odd street to be speeding down. 100 plus, eh? If this street wasn't such an odd street to be speeding down. You wouldn't be standing in it. This would almost, this would almost not be like they were coming for us. That's right. But now that. Yeah. Now that it is.

[00:22:43] I think they might be coming for us. Yeah. And then she, the criminal's dumb. She's dumb. She's a dumb criminal. To overhear someone being like, I'm going out of town. Like they were so clearly acting so suspicious. And for her to fall into that trap, she had everything. She deserved everything she has coming to her. That's what I'll say about that. Dano? Does this thief at the beginning of the movie like breaking windows? They love it. Like he's in there stealing. Yeah.

[00:23:12] And he steals a piece of jewelry and then he looks and throws a rock through a window to the outside twice. Yeah. Is that his thing? Is he breaks in and then he's like, now I get to break some windows. It just doesn't. You're just drawing attention to yourself. Once you're in, I've not really stolen anything, you know, in that manner. Yeah. Other manners, of course. Other big manners. But you, why would you break the windows? Yeah.

[00:23:41] What about the doubly manner? Doubly manner? Yeah. I can't speak on that either. Yeah, I can't. And also to have a noise, a signature thing, be the noise that says, I'm robbing this house. It's his signature noise. You hear breaking glass. You go, somebody is getting robbed. Ridiculous. Pick a different noise. Early in this movie, Hannah Swenson's mom sees her and they're waiting on Connie Mack or the producer, somebody famous. And Niven is dressed to the nines. And Hannah Swenson leaves.

[00:24:10] And we see Barbara Niven start to say a line. And then the camera goes back to Allison Sweeney and she goes, maybe change into something more presentable before you come back. Which is a classic Barbara Niven line. But what's wild to me, that passive aggressive line of you don't look presentable right now from mom to daughter gets a full laugh track. There is a sound that they play where everyone else in that scene apparently thought it was a sick burn that doesn't know Hannah Swenson.

[00:24:38] They're just laughing because they think she looks ugly, I guess. Like, oh, you got had. You don't look good. It's weird. It's a weird scene. Vic Webster with all the riz in the world, according to Brian and the kids out there. He leans over in his coat, just tall, deep voice, leans over to Hannah Swenson and goes, what's your schedule like? And then she goes, I'm actually free tonight. He's like, not during the night. I was wondering if you'd like to come watch me lawyer.

[00:25:08] Vic Webster asked her what her schedule's like, not because he wants to ask her on a date. Not yet. But because he wants to see if she would be interested in watching him lawyer. Bro. Come on, man. Worked for me. Come on. This whole thing is an offense to actual TV personality chefs. I don't know any of them, but I do know that all of them would tell you.

[00:25:33] And I'm sure there's plenty of stories out there of TV personality chefs that aren't as good at cooking as maybe their personality at TV is. But there's not a one where the entire crew believes that they can cook and they cannot cook. You mean to tell me the entire crew shows up for every episode of decades of Connie Mack. They said she's been a celebrity for over a decade. Decades of this show and never once they go, have you ever noticed that she never cooked anything?

[00:26:03] We travel with a full time chef. She never cooked anything. All right. But it's fine. Maybe she cooks it in her spare time. I don't know. So that's weird. And we do this every time. But there are 8.258 million people in New York City. Last year, there were 377 homicides. One for every .00004 people. One is too many. That's right. We want that on the record. In Greenville, South Carolina, 72,000 people, five homicides.

[00:26:32] You're twice as likely to be murdered in Greenville than you are in New York City per capita. And both of those places are considered incredibly safe compared to the fake small town where Hannah Swenson lives. I don't know how to tell you, like, this is getting out of hand. This woman is around or party to so many murders. And you just, like, it's just weird at this point, guys. It's just weird. You just need to leave the town.

[00:27:03] I have two that I don't remember. I've written two things down, so it's going to be an all play. One is... It's crazy because you like the movie so much. So much. Maybe the worst idea in the history of getting information. That's what I wrote down. So at some point, they were gathering information, and it was so stupid how they were doing it. And I don't know what it was. It was Norman offering free cleanings. Oh! There it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Obviously. They offer free teeth cleanings in a random office. It's a fun game. Let's keep going.

[00:27:33] Yeah. So the whole thought process there is... Well, somebody's going to talk because they're getting their teeth done. Yeah. So let's bring in all the people from the... While they're getting their teeth worked on. And he's like, well, people are actually really talking, blah, blah, blah. And then the other one is... Not me. I just put Norman, and then I put in quotes, is that our phone signal? And then I put dumb B. Wow! Oh, oh, oh. You know this one? At the end of the movie, they're watching the cameras. From the car. The cameras cut out. Yeah.

[00:28:03] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So they're watching the cameras, and there's individual screens. Good work. Good work, guys. There's individual screens on their cell phone, and just the individual screens cut out, but the webpage is still running fine. And he's like, do you think it's our phone signal? Idiot. That's not how that works. He's just asking a question. And lastly, our murderer, and I want to make sure you understand this, our murderer is holding a gun, if you're watching philo.philo.tv.cth, with her right arm, a pistol, like this.

[00:28:31] She shoots Norman in the arm, and the kick, or the blowback of that pistol is so much that it kicks only her left arm. So she shoots like this, and then she goes, whoa! Like she falls back to her left, not her right. She doesn't kick back to the opposite side in one of the weirdest acted scenes maybe of all time. This movie's a mess. Bring it back to you. Thank you, Dan.

[00:28:58] And it's time for What the Hallmark is, where we wonder what could have been, maybe happened, give some clarity. Any questions that we still have, what are we still wondering about? That's what this is for. Brian. While Norman was offering the information gathering free teeth cleanings, I'm pretty sure at one point he said to somebody, something along the lines of good night, or we'll see you in a little while. Wow. Was he sedating people as well? Yes. In addition to who? So you had a short amount of time. Yeah. Yeah. I got to imagine that he was, while he saw the cavity, he was like, let's go ahead and

[00:29:28] He offered all those government employees, what if they all showed up? Like he'd just have weeks of appointments? Yeah. That's a lot. That's a lot. What can you knock out? Four or five in a day? It's a risky thing. It's a whole thing. With a fake assistant? Yeah. So mine also involves Norman and the cleaning and the line that you mentioned that people are talkative when they're getting a cleaning. Is that real? Are people actually talking? If I, I will say, hello, how are you?

[00:29:56] And then that's it because I want to get in and I want to get out of the most miserable place on the planet. Are there people that want to take their time and get to know their dentist? I had a dentist once that would ask me questions while they were working on my teeth and I'm like, all right. It doesn't make any sense. I don't get it. I don't get it at all. I refuse to believe that there's anybody out there that loves it in this so much that they're like, let's drag this out longer than it has to be. I refuse to believe it. It's impossible. Dan? Yeah.

[00:30:21] So I love cookies and I love coffee and Hannah Swenson, when she's worried that people aren't going to come back to her bakery after a murder happened there, she says she has a new sign and the sign says two cookies and a coffee for the price of one. What is for the price of one? Is that the whole bundle? Do I get four cookies and two coffees for the price of two cookies and one coffee? Sure.

[00:30:48] Or do I get, what is the one there? I legitimately, this is what the hallmark is. I need to know this. Is it two cookies and coffee for the price of one coffee? Or is it just you, I'm getting four cookies and two coffees. And if it's for all of it, isn't that just better to say half off cookies and coffee? No, I think the four one speaks for itself. It's a four for two. It's a four for two. It's a three. Six for three. Yeah. Really? Yeah.

[00:31:18] You know what I saw the other day was a contraption that I thought of Rick. I don't know if Rick's here today, but I thought of Rick. Oh, twice in a week. Oh, bro. Okay. So it's the four for two. I hit the lotto. Oh, dadgummit. So it's a breakfast thing. It's a breakfast thing. I'm listening. You take the lid off. There's one circle that you put egg in. There's one circle that you put sausage in. You close that up. You pull out a drawer.

[00:31:46] You can fit up to two pieces of bread in there. Oh, and they're toasting the bread while you're cooking it. I don't know if, am I getting closer? Yeah, you're good, but that's all on one side. You didn't flip it or reverse it. So that's a little downer. But it's good in there. Fair enough. We did it, everybody. Congratulations to us. Shout out. Anybody else got anything to say? I think we're good, man. All right. Come on back next week. It's going to be a lot of fun. I hope that you will. I hope that you will. Until then, maybe the first to wish you a happy Christmas. Deck the Hallmark is a Bramble Jam podcast. It's produced by Aaron Shea.

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