Romance with a Twist (Hallmark Channel - 2024)

[00:00:03] Hi, I'm Bram and I love Hallmark Twisting Movies! I'm Brian and I like Hallmark Twisting Movies! I'm Dan and I despise Hallmark Twisting Movies! And this is the Deck The Hallmark Podcast! Hello! Hi! Happy Tuesday! Oh man! It's great to be here. What's up? What's that?

[00:00:49] Yesterday we left the deckies decorations up. Today, we put up like a khaki something there and we left the trophies. Is that new? It's a slow process. It is a process. Well because we're so sad the deckies are over. Yeah, of course.

[00:01:07] But yesterday, if you were watching Fylo, Fylo.tv slash TTH, you would see that we had the whole deckies thing up and today we're like, limited time. Let's just keep a little bit of that deckies energy around. What's the question of deckies? It's a question of deckies.

[00:01:21] You guys wait until the bowling pen joke lands. The bowling pen joke? We've been setting it up for weeks now. Was that the joke? No. No, wait for it. It's going to bowl you over. I hope it's not in the gutter. No, it's good. No, it'll strike.

[00:01:35] I'm a turkey. You just said, I'm a turkey. You know how you know this movie is good? What's that? It's five bowling jokes. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. It's great to be here today on a Tuesday, another exciting week of Deck the Hallmark.

[00:01:56] I'm excited for this week for a lot of reasons and exciting episode of the way home to about got a preview show coming out, got a fun interview coming out. Lord willing, you know, you never know. Sometimes things happen. Schedules twist. Yes. But you know, I'm excited.

[00:02:13] I think it's going to be a good week. But you know what makes this whole week worth it? What being together as friends having a good time with my buddies being together with my friends. Hope it never ends. Do you hear Aaron trying to just you're my friend?

[00:02:35] You're implied there. I didn't say with the guys, Aaron. I didn't say with the guy's tighter than a bowling shoot. I said with my friends, friends, the boys, friends and Aaron. You're my friend. I'm your friend. Yes. Great. You guys are friends. I think so. I thought so.

[00:02:57] I thought we were friends. Speaking of friends, let's talk about romance with a twist. Yeah. Boy, which was originally titled. What was originally titled there? If you twist swinging into love, swinging into love, a movie about swingers. Right. Clearly.

[00:03:12] And so they think that was because they fall in love. That's right. I got the X-nay. Do you know the place on Pleasantburg right here that's like a place to get it?

[00:03:19] It's close to the Irish pub and it looks like a like an octagon thing and it's like the windows on the outside. Oh, you're talking about Godspeed? The God spell? It's like G. The Godwink. It's something with a G in it.

[00:03:32] Yeah, but I thought it was just rotters. It's not Godwoks. I thought it was a one of these bars that they keep people out of because you have to pay a membership fee. Apparently the rumor is, is it's a swingers bar. It's a swingers bar here in town.

[00:03:48] So for all you swingers listening to the homework that are also local to you at that Greenville, right on Pleasantburg there. I couldn't, I could inquire how you came to know that information, but I'm not going to. That's between you and the God. The neighborhood app.

[00:04:01] What's the neighborhood app called? Next door. Next door. That's the one. Oh, I fretted on the neighbor. We were reading on the next door. Yeah, we were reading the next door. She was reading about this. Is our neighborhood good? Is it interesting?

[00:04:11] It's got some funny stuff in there. I need to get on the next. Is it anonymous? I've never been on next door. Like is that anonymous? It is. You have a username, but you don't have to tell people where you live. Okay.

[00:04:20] I don't know or anything like that. You can tell people as little or as much as you want to. Correct. Yes. And that's true about anything on the internet. Yeah. What's the name of the place? I'm looking it up now. I'm trying to find it.

[00:04:32] This is always good. Good area. Swing town time. It's like not on Google. Well, because that's not the swingers bar. No, I'm trying to find the location gaslight lounge and grill. The lounge and grill. That's it. At least we gave it a proper shout out.

[00:04:50] But this, the pictures on here are different. They must have moved from here to there. From here to there. Yes. Yeah. I mean, definitely swingers. Oh yeah. It's hard to say anyway. You guys ready to talk about this movie?

[00:05:05] Now I am has nothing to do with swingers as far as we know. Swing into love romance with a twist. Romance with a twist. Originally aired on January 27th, 20, 20, 20, 20, 24. That's a little something like this. Leap here. Leap here dog. Y'all. Yeah. Leaping all over this year.

[00:05:24] Skip, skip to 29. Who are you? I'm leap your Dave. Hey, leap your Dave. How are you doing? Awesome. You know why? Why? It's a leap here. Oh, it comes around every four and we celebrate like there's no tomorrow. There isn't every other year. Leap here. Leap here.

[00:05:43] Skipping on over to 29. Skipping on over to 29. Leap here. That works. What a forever. So this woman Luna is dancing around like a sleepy her kitchen with a hot pot of coffee. Her brother Henry shows up and he is clearly annoyed that she would dance around with

[00:06:07] hot coffee. And I mean, in this particular case, he's right. Don't do that. They go to this warehouse that I guess they have been in charge of remodeling or something. It's now a all purpose gym. That is kind of sort.

[00:06:25] You just said is kind as to what that a journalist is going to come by and do a story about the art festival. That's very exciting. Her friend Katrina heads up this festival and she asks if her family would be interested

[00:06:40] in doing all of the construction and whatnot to prepare for the art. And that's this is big. This is a job that they've wanted for a long time and landed the contract for the Hazelwood farms town of the week or whatever. Art festival. Yes. Best of the arts.

[00:06:57] Yeah. And Katrina's brother. Gabby. Gabby. Huh? Who's Gabby is the friend. Hey, Gabby. Katrina is the boss. Take me to the dollhouse. I thought they were one in the same. Nope. No Katrina and Gabby two different people. Who is who's Bennett sister? Gabby. Gabby is. Yeah.

[00:07:17] I even know she had a boss. I thought it was the family company. She knows one who sings. She does art and honestly thought they were all the same person. Really? Yeah. Well, any whom her friend Gabby shows up and is like, Hey, my brother Bennett

[00:07:34] who is a famous aerialist is coming into town. Maybe your top five aerialist. Danny Tamborino. Danny Tamborino. Leo Carnile. We all know those two. Tamborino and Carnile we know and after that good luck. Frankie Fills. Frankie Fills? Yeah. Leslie Loto. Are they all illiterate? Yeah. And Carmichael Caps.

[00:07:59] Carmichael Caps. Yeah. All illiterate is also one of them. He's coming into town to perform at the festival and but we get bad news. His partner booked a Rihanna music video. That's actually really good news for her, but bad news for him doesn't have a partner anymore.

[00:08:16] So Gabby convinces Bennett to audition locals to be his partner. He's not thrilled about this because he doesn't do beginners like not interested in helping train the beginners. So he's not thrilled about this and the auditions are just straight up lousy.

[00:08:37] No one knows how to climb up the silks. But Luna decides to go for it and auditions and since she climbs good. She climbs good. But how is she going to do? How's she going to do all this? She's got the family construction.

[00:08:57] She made me some leaping magic. And she has to learn the silks. Yeah. In just a matter of time, which I found out later with six weeks. So they start working together, you know, kind of button heads.

[00:09:10] He's kind of a grumpy, grumpy gills and she's like just kind of happy to be around. Grumpy gills also a great aerialist. Yes. One of the best. He is like not. He doesn't want to talk about it.

[00:09:21] He is not impressed or and has no hope for her until he sees her dance and then he's like, OK, OK. Now I know you've got the moves like Jagger. And so let's kind of see how all this goes.

[00:09:36] The article comes out written by the journalist and it is not a flattering article. And we hate that. We hate that. They're hanging out. They're having a good time. They're dancing. They're had checking out the treehouse. They almost kiss. It's all happening there, baby.

[00:09:54] We are getting very, very close to the art festival. We all know it. We all love it. And so it is time for them to do a little bit of a dance or to do a bit of a performance so that boss Katrina can see it.

[00:10:08] You mean Gabby? Boss Katrina. Boss Katrina shows up and is watching the performances take place. And I guess that makes Luna a little bit nervy. She falls down. There's no hope here. Not yet. It's the time. Nobody laughed when she fell.

[00:10:26] No, no, but not here while we were here. They didn't way. It is the art festival time everybody and are they going to show up? Are they going to do it? Yes, they do it set to some awesome music.

[00:10:40] I will say the song is a ball and they actually crush it. They do a great job and they are clearly like in in the moment like they're like occasionally looking at each other and he's like this is so fun. And she's like this is amazing.

[00:10:52] We've overcome our fear of heights. We're having a great time and afterwards the journalists plays matchmaker and it's like, hey, we need you back in here for pictures. She goes back in there for pictures. It's not for pictures. It's for sexy time.

[00:11:08] You know, and he's like, hey, how about you climb up these silks? I've got my khakis on and I've climbed the silks. How about you climb the silks so she climbs the silks and climb the silk weird. You said it a bunch. Maybe that's what it is.

[00:11:19] I think that's more it. And so they have climbed the silks and they're both kind of like the first day. Yeah, they're kind of forward. They're sitting in the silk. They're having a moment. Oh, you can't see the silks.

[00:11:33] Like a great famous area reaches out for her hand says, hey, good news. I got good news. Are you ready for it? So we're going on a bunch of money. We're going on. We're going on tour. We're going to have a great time. We're going on tour.

[00:11:46] You're now a world famous aerialist as well. Pulse her in. They kiss in the silks and that my friends was Roman. I don't feel good about it, but we did it. What do you know? I feel good about it. I feel great about it. They do. They do.

[00:12:05] They were sitting in the silks. They were sitting in the silks. Climbed them. K-I-S-S-I-N-G. In the S-I-L-K. Yes. All right. Let's take a break. We'll come back. We'll break this movie down with four segments. The way to only we know how.

[00:12:21] No one else knows how to do this. We do though. And we're going to do it here on DECTHALMARK. That would be hot this week, guys. All down with you. Welcome back to the guys. Climb the Silks. We're talking about the romance with a twist.

[00:12:44] The latest, the final. Your insurance would never. No, no, no. It's just when I love it. The final January movie. Obviously ending with that classic winter tradition of. See the end of January? Silk climbing. That's right. Let's start with a hot take.

[00:13:00] Let's share exactly how we felt about this movie. I know, you know, we watched it. We all have thoughts. But I figured who better to start than my good friend Brian. Brian. What did you think of romance with a twist? With a twist. Yeah.

[00:13:14] I thought this was pretty good, actually. Minus the art festival of it all. I needed more like more Bennett, more Luna backstory. They were actually pretty interesting to me throughout this. And a lot of why they shouldn't have gotten together was based on his back story.

[00:13:36] Obviously with like a previous partner, but you didn't get a lot of that. Didn't really like lean into a lot of that. It's just so much like you like this. No, I liked a lot. I like it. You're saying you like. No, no, no, no.

[00:13:48] I like the movie aside from the art festival. All the art festival. I didn't do all the things I wanted to do. The aerial parts. I mean the aerial parts. It's probably his most freezing cold take of the day. I can tell you that right now.

[00:13:59] This is probably not even my third. Maybe. Tell people what you thought about hot pockets. Let everybody know. Listen, are you guys ready for hot pockets? If you're our age, you ate them in college. Yeah. Oh yeah. Lots of times.

[00:14:12] I tell everyone at lunch today, your take on the best hot. It's easy. The best hot pocket is a croissant pocket with cheddar and broccoli. Yeah. He said the broccoli cheddar croissant pocket. The best hot pocket. Clearly the best.

[00:14:28] It's obviously one of the worst takes I've ever heard from. Well, we did. He said he liked romance with a twist. We did find out if somebody have a siren sound effect. There are just four out there. They went the wrong way. They pulled a greenville left.

[00:14:44] That's right. Yeah, the cheddar brock. We did find out there's chicken in it. I was getting a lot of heat for a bit of saving. A lot of heat for just saying it was. Who says the best hot pocket has broccoli in it? Broccoli, cheddar, chicken, croissant.

[00:14:58] Lee Ann says meatball hot pockets. No. Let's take. No. See, he gets it. Lee gets it. Lee, come on man. He hasn't left a comment in like a year. This is where he pops in. Lee, Lee. Also while wearing his Boston Bruins. We have to go here.

[00:15:16] He looks at me in the face. I'm going to do this now. I need camera one, two, three, whatever it is. Looked at me in the face and actually needed to know the name of the character Matt Damon played in Good Will Hunting. That's true. He said it.

[00:15:30] He can switch those cameras there. Get off that camera. He needed to know the name of the character Matt Damon played in Good Will Hunting. Yeah, and the city of Boston came and took the way to Cardigan. The Boston took the Cardigan off it.

[00:15:44] My Cardigan was taken off my back. Luckily it's pretty warm here today. Don't really need a cardigan. I was deep in thought. I was distracted. I was thinking of another thing. Do you want to share why you were thinking about Good Will Hunting? Yeah.

[00:15:57] I was thinking of Good Will Hunting because in my opinion it's she is, Luna is the Good Will Hunting. She is the Will Hunting of this movie. Like she could have picked any place to dance. She chose the studio where the silks are hanging,

[00:16:14] where the Olympic athlete is coming to train. So he catches her Olympic athlete. It's an Olympic. I don't know if he's a champion, but he was an Olympic gymnast, I believe was great thing. And he's a real in real life. He's a Cirque du Soleil.

[00:16:27] Dan, I don't know what do they call performer? I guess is what I said. Not a dancer. Real quickly, how does this a pitch for us to mail them hot pockets? Do not mail us hot pockets. No, mail croissant pockets. We are all too old for hot pockets.

[00:16:39] Broccoli, cheddar, chicken, croissant pockets. Let's talk about we're all too old. What are you talking about? I've not had a hot pocket in a decade. Yeah, they hold up, bro. Yeah, I bet the croissant pockets. When's the last time you've eaten a hot pocket?

[00:16:50] Five, ten years, ten, twelve years. That was what I was going to say. You get me right now. They kick you out of plant fitness right now. You can't pop those in the microwave. I know. I've not had a hot pocket in over a decade.

[00:17:02] Probably close to 20 years. It's been a long time. Yeah, that's two decades. Brand. My tongue still hasn't recovered. Oh, within the past 10 years for sure. Yeah, there it is. So yeah, my thought was she is like, she's hanging out like Will.

[00:17:13] Like he could have picked any university in the world. He picks where were they Harvard? He of course, Harvard. She picks this place where she's obviously going to be discovered. So it was just I was deep in this constant thinking of that quote that.

[00:17:26] Hey, who Robert Downey Jr. playing Iron Man? The Hulk, right? Of course. But Jocelyn, Hedon and Oliver were not, I believe it's for not. We're fantastic. He, holy cow, man, like, dude, what a stud. What a stud. Yeah. And she was he was great.

[00:17:44] That's how I had a volume to it that I didn't like her. What a stud. I'll end on this. I'll end on this. In the silks. In the silks. Wait, what? A stud in the silks. Yeah. Oh, it's good TV. Yeah, studs in the silks. Whoa.

[00:17:58] He was rude. I think then most characters are allowed to be and it was like a little off putting, but it worked really well with stud in the silks in the freaking the bed. Yeah. So yeah, this I thought is overall pretty good. Just an OK for me.

[00:18:15] I not enough aerialism. Yeah. He's going to use a new word. Honestly kind of went for it, but I like it. I don't actually know if that's how you would say it, but it works. Yeah. Pretty cool for me. Yeah, not enough of that.

[00:18:31] I will say clearly the two leads here did had spent plenty of time in the silks. And like they were doing it like it looked like they were the ones doing it, which is very

[00:18:43] Beth and McGraw Smith just got an actual laugh out loud for me with her comments. I'm sorry, Brandon. It's okay. I thought you were laughing at me. It's a huge number of changes. I thought that they were really, really good at that. So congratulations.

[00:18:59] And I thought that they were I found at the beginning both him and the brother to be unnecessarily mean, which when you start that mean it's just hard for me to root for you. Like when you come in there acting like because you're in circus, the

[00:19:17] delay is just a little bit of a pain in the ass. Because you're in circus, the delay circus, the delay circus dust delay. I it's like big big like obviously impressive for you that's like but that's

[00:19:42] like me walking in somewhere and being like a podcast for a living like shut up like just be kind to people. Like you walk in there acting like you're the only one who's allowed to touch silk like go touch grass, bro. So did not appreciate his tone.

[00:19:58] Did not appreciate the brother's tone. I thought but and honestly the brother didn't get any better for me. I just thought he was pretty good in general and they just dropped it. Like he's just so mad all the time.

[00:20:09] Like don't be in construction if you don't want to be. All right. So just an OK for me. I did like the two together towards the end. I did find the kiss at the end where you grab like the silk and pull you close. I thought that works.

[00:20:24] So grab the silk, pulled you close swinging. But overall just an OK. I think there's there's a lot of good here. There's a lot of also some weird lines of dialogue and just some wonkiness and a lack of aerialism that takes a few strikes for me.

[00:20:42] You know, Dan has a bullying reference right there. That's really good one. Rachel the fearless leader of the hallmarkies podcast. We love the hallmarks podcast tweeted. I think this year's New Year's movies is the worst month of hallmark movies ever. Wow. Wow. Wow.

[00:21:01] I'm shouting you're out because I think I agree wholeheartedly. But we last January was three wedding veil sequels. Damn. I know. I know. Three wedding sequels. Not a new one. There was a winter movie. There was a winter movie and the best of all the wedding veil

[00:21:24] movies came out during that time. It had Carlo Marx and a B storyline that we love. That was hot. Yeah. I don't know how hot it was, but we did love. It was hot. Guys, this movie is a disaster.

[00:21:34] Here's the thing is the two leads clearly spent a lot of time learning the silks, learning the aerial moves and they should be commended because if there was a stunt double, I could not catch it. And the routine when we finally see it at the end, like

[00:21:51] congratulations for doing all that and figuring it out for a movie of this caliber or any caliber for that matter. The rest of this movie, they basically practice dancing none. This town's clearly hanging on by a thread hoping a aerial routine saves them.

[00:22:08] There are a lot of people this movie that are famous and I don't know why. Like, I had a hard time locking in here and carrying it all. When I, all I really wanted was to see these two really hot people do more of the aerial routine.

[00:22:21] I think that was the thing that would have made this movie better and it never happened until the very end of the movie. I can't believe I'm saying this and I'm sure we'll get a chance to rank all of these movies, but anytime you leave

[00:22:33] a month and Betty's bad luck and love is your best movie, that's a problem. That's a problem on the Hallmark Channel. The mystery was clearly the best different channel. That's a big, big problem. This movie is pretty terrible.

[00:22:47] Not as bad as the golf movie, but probably worse than the others. I do like the two leads, but not nearly enough to save whatever this was that was going on today. It's time for all the fields. We're talking about when this movie gave us the

[00:22:59] fields of any sorts. Brian, yeah, it was when they first met in the gym area, recreation space, whatever we're calling it. Corner for aerials. Exactly. They had that's that whole scene where they had that strong feelings joke, which was really funny.

[00:23:16] I thought there was some pretty good humor and he was being a real jerk. He was being super mean and she was relentless and she cracked that nut. I would say that you've got to be able to say that in a different way.

[00:23:27] There has to be so many ways to say that. She really got him to that hard exterior shell. She just got right in there was like break it open. We're going to have feelings talk and it's going to be great. That scene I thought was really good.

[00:23:44] Yeah, HR is on the line for this episode. Just keep a little, just keep it waiting next to the whale guy. Would you say it's like you with a Hershey kiss with almonds? Hey, you just worked all the way around. No, no. I wouldn't say that. It's insane.

[00:24:01] You just suck on it. I don't know. You guys made that part up. You guys made that part up. I bite the chocolate around the nut. No, I don't think bite was ever in there. I do think you said you like around the nut. Turn your camera on.

[00:24:15] Turn your camera on. Let me have a camera. I don't think I said main show with Aaron. I don't think I said that. Exactly. We'll have to check the tape on that. I definitely said it. I'm just saying guys are not allergy.

[00:24:28] He's in the he's in a Hershey kiss with almonds. I want to bite around the nut. You know, I don't lick them. Why would I do it if I have an allergy? Why would I? I don't want to consume it. I just I just weird.

[00:24:41] There's so many avenues for you to get chocolate that don't involve eating around. I said it's a unique way to limit your chocolate consumption is a little bit. If you're looking at, you know, you have a cut back part of it is like, Hey, I feel a little

[00:24:57] bit better myself than I'm eating a full ride. You find yourself eating chocolate uncontrollably and just want to stop. I got a new diet for you. Absolutely. It's called suck around the nut. It's when you put Hershey kiss in your mouth with almond in it.

[00:25:13] Suck around it, spit out almond is less chocolate. Get the almond to your friends if someone who likes them. Sorry. I don't know, but just in case I mean, I mean, you can lose me on the friends. The friend, remind me not to eat the nuts in this

[00:25:34] office. Okay. You have to. You have to come with fudge with nuts. It's my bro. Well, keep it moving. Oh man. She baked that. The heat will get rid of any like germs. So don't worry about that. Brian, it was her cracking the nut. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:25:56] I mean, I thought the the ends. Was it ridiculous that they both got back up in the silks in their street clothes? Yes. But it did make way for the extended hand swing her close kiss, which is a dynamite kiss. So well done there and kudos to the

[00:26:15] guys. I, you know, it's not it's a two to what Aaron was saying in the movie. Is it is it the greatest showman Zendaya Zac Efron on the silks? No, still gets the job done though. Dan, I have feelings of anger and just of taking

[00:26:31] offense on behalf of all professional area lists. That's a thing. This woman in this movie goes from I'm afraid to be 10 feet in the air have never been on silks to professional touring area lists in under six weeks. I couldn't believe it.

[00:26:49] I couldn't believe that they did that and they shouldn't have. There you go. Let's take one more quick break. We'll come back with the way one in the what the homework here on the home. Welcome back. We're talking about the area list

[00:27:13] movie, which I remember the name of romance with a twist is time for the weight. What is where we talking about when this movie made us go, wait, what? Let's tell me the brain. Sort of piggy-peak back on your feels there, Dan.

[00:27:27] I feel like in order to in order for an amateur to get offered a job as an area list like on a tour, you'd have to be spectacular from the start. Yeah, like it seems ridiculous that she got the job. Like, yeah, like did I hear that?

[00:27:42] Like one performance was like 30 seconds. And it's just how I anticipated it going after I led my upward team to the upward championships when I was nine. I was expecting a contract. Never got one. Never got one. Maybe we just lost the mail. I think still be sitting.

[00:28:02] They send those in the mail for short. Absolutely. So that like at least make it a backup spot. Like, hey, the we're moving up the backup person. There's a spot open. Do you want to join and learn and all that would have been a lot more sense.

[00:28:17] I would have made more sense. It's good to see local journalism making a comeback though. Like that is roaring in this small town. The number of times that this article and the importance of it is talked about is just yeah, crazy. It is so much weight.

[00:28:32] And it's so stupid. Yeah, it is. It's so dumb. Like just name our local paper right now, Brian. Greenville today. Greenville news. Yeah. Yeah. Have you read it? I read it. It's a local paper for Simpsonville called the Tribune Times. I guess Greenville today would be

[00:28:50] more like a newsletter. Yeah. Yeah, I just like you could have an article in the Greenville News and people wouldn't know for weeks. Not this place. Although there are some people that found out about us through a Greenville news article. So last year I had a basketball

[00:29:05] team that was ranked third in all of Greenville County at any level. And I didn't know that they would have an article about us until literally weeks later. A parent came to me and was like, I found this in the Greenville News.

[00:29:20] And it was dated for two weeks prior. This is absurd. Yeah. Yeah. So only somebody we knew would send us clippings in the mail. Yeah. That'd be great. It's been a while. It's just we've read one. When he saw her dancing, I forget what the point this

[00:29:38] was, but he said, I've never seen anyone dance like this. Yeah. It's the best. It's maybe the best. This guy, he's an Olympic gymnast who's been around performers his entire life. And she's dancing, grooving to the tunes and she's good, but never. Especially because she's

[00:29:55] apparently dancing like this. According to Brian. She's got her arms here. Five of 10 a dance for a professional dancer. Yes. Straight average. Yes. I've never seen anyone. Oh my goodness. Just solely Ms. for the first time. So they just like a little too extreme, I guess with like

[00:30:10] a spot on the tour. The best dancer, a professional athlete's ever seen. And then they're building these structures for the art festival from scratch. Yeah. Every year and the whole all four person contract four person construction crew. Every booth is made almost kind of festival red.

[00:30:28] I don't know what to tell you. That's the worst thing that could happen. Yeah. That's all for me. I got a few one. I have never in my life been more confused by a warehouse over. I am in this movie. I don't know what this space is.

[00:30:44] I mean the side of it does say aerial studio. Maybe they should have the whole. Yeah, it should all be like an aerial. It's like walking into silk studio. It'd be like walking into a gymnastics studio and just seeing one mat and being

[00:31:00] like, it is what it is. It would be like if we had one microphone in the front of this place. They have more couches and seating areas. Then they do silk. There's like random light fixtures. There's like old treated wood. I felt like I walked into

[00:31:14] an old time pottery or something. Like what is this place? What is it? There's a little like 10% corner that is aerial and the other 90% is 100% not. Yes. You would die doing aerial stuff. There is aerial and then there is also a corner with I don't know a 10 by 10

[00:31:34] hardwood dance area. That's right. That's what this place is. And then a bunch of couches for seating. For real studio with two silks. What is this place? Yeah. And they're like we just finished. No you didn't. You did not finish it. You've only just begun.

[00:31:50] Listen, we talked about this journalist and her weight and she clearly knows by that I'm not that late. I started looking at my notes immediately. I was like we did not talk about the weight of anyone in this movie. Brain is on its own. When you're very clear,

[00:32:10] you put yourself in a real 7-10 split here. I sure did. I sure did. We've talked about this journalist and the clout that this journalist has and it's clearly very proud of because she has the goal to go and watch them perform. My goal? He means goal. Yeah.

[00:32:30] It has the goal to go in and watch them and say goal and add G. I'm going to say what I want. Yeah, we know. You talked about a woman's weight. The weight of that statement. She says quote, try not to put the audience to sleep.

[00:32:47] That's not your job journalist lady to go around watch a private routine and be like, Snows are like just be kinder please. All right. I am afraid of heights. Sure. And I have to be honest. There is nothing that I would appreciate less than being

[00:33:10] very high up and have somebody say, now you can say this to yourself. Thank you fear. You did your job. Politely jump like I don't want you near me. I don't want you around me. Never speak to me again. You did your thank you fear.

[00:33:29] You did your job. I didn't mind that. I hated it. I like that part. What? I like that part. I didn't like it. That's the athlete's speak though. In a vacuum, that line is terrible, but that line is preceded by several lines about like,

[00:33:43] did you do things correctly? Yep. Yeah. No, I'm afraid of heights. I don't want someone talking logically to me. But if you're in there. When I'm afraid. But if you're already up there, it'll probably help. No, it won't. Don't talk to me. Let me work through it.

[00:33:59] Oh, I just said let me work through it. Don't talk to me. Don't talk to me. Gee. Is anyone else like this? Lisa and the chat. What are you afraid of Brandon? Yeah, it's not a secret, Lisa. I live my life in a constant state of fear.

[00:34:16] Five foods and is afraid of water and heights. And to be clear, my fear isn't of death. My fear is living through that. Like the idea of having to go through drowning and then going through the idea of having to go through drowning and then somehow surviving

[00:34:32] it and having to remember that and constantly think about the fact that I was drowning. And snakes too. Don't talk to me. It's like, it's yeah. If I'm around a snake, I don't want someone to be like, they're more afraid of you than you are.

[00:34:46] Let me freaking work through it, man. You're not working through it though. You're. I am working through it in my own way. In my own way, I work through things. It's like when I'm about to try to get out of this world,

[00:34:59] I need to sit with it for a while. We got to find a way to prank brain in here with a snake. Honestly, if you do all quit and never come back and you have to figure out what to do. I had a great snake prank idea

[00:35:08] and I just didn't see it through and it was for Bramble Fest. And I was, Aaron and I talked about it. It was so. It was going to be great. Protecting brands fears over there. It's not funny. You're a fairy. There's one thing that is not funny

[00:35:22] and it is messing with people's fears. Not fun. It would have been great. It would have crushed. Would have been awesome. Maybe next year. I would just straight up leave. I would straight up leave. If that was a risk, I feel like it was worth doing.

[00:35:35] I didn't think it was a risk. You would have come back. You should have just come with me with that. You're going to know your audience. It's why Brian also comes to me for another bit and every every year. Every time. That bit is hilarious,

[00:35:48] but we also shouldn't do it. Aaron is right about that one. There's a difference between those two. I know that one is funny, but also that we shouldn't do it. I don't even know what it is. The snake brand thing is great. Not funny.

[00:35:59] Every year is the same bit. What if I'm like, I'm like, hey, Dan, I'm driving and then I crash? Like that's not funny. What? That's not on the same level at all. I don't understand where that goes. Because of the drive. I have PTSD. I have to drive.

[00:36:13] But you just saying I'm driving and I crash does nothing for me. No, but I drive. This is a real thing. I drive and I crash. Before I have to break. It's a funny haul. We buy a toy snake and put it in your office.

[00:36:26] And that is the same thing as you driving me around. No, no, no, no, no. If it's not a real snake, then I think it's funny. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. I'm bringing a python for funny ha ha. Where can you get a python?

[00:36:42] I googled when you want. I mean, I vetoed when you wanted to do it. I didn't think the setting for the snake joke was. If it's a snake, I think it's a python. I didn't think the setting for the snake joke was. If it's a fake snake,

[00:36:54] I'm fine with it. Okay. I don't want someone bringing in real snake. We're not going to bring. We don't have that kind of money around here. I don't want to. I don't know, but I'm not ready to do that.

[00:37:07] We need somebody to get rid of it after you let it go. Any who. Sorry. Wait, what? A couple more things real quick. After the heights thing, they dangle their way down and they land on the ground and then she jumps and straddles him for a second.

[00:37:19] And the next thing you know, she's not anymore. They cut away from that straddle so quickly. They learned their lesson. We would talk about it for years. But we noticed it. No, Aaron. Yeah. Number two there. Royal, I think. Royal python. Oh, yeah.

[00:37:39] That looks like a real scary one. Aaron who didn't want to do a snake bit is now putting snakes on the big screen monitor. Then you go ahead. I thought it would give me pricing. It didn't do that. There's no pricing for renting a snake.

[00:37:52] Yeah, there's no pricing for dealing with the devil. We'll just have to go find one out in the wild. Most of my weight was either have to do... Beth, you owning a snake is the least surprising thing I've ever read.

[00:38:03] You know what's wildest is my nephew does own a snake. I could actually get my hands on a real snake. Yeah, so funny. I just picture Brandon walking into work every morning. Every day. Read the Bible. Every day. All right, get out of here with this.

[00:38:21] Dan, go ahead. I think there are snakes in the Bible if I'm mistaken. Oh yeah. The devil. That's what I'm saying. Read it. You won't mess with that ish. Most of my weight was boiled down to two things. One, this guy says the dumbest sentence is alive.

[00:38:36] And two, this town is putting way too much pressure on an aerial presentation that lasts a minute. At one point they say the whole town is talking about it. And then at one point I believe, I don't remember who says this. Maybe it's Gabby. Maybe it's the sister.

[00:38:53] I don't know. Somebody says that the town can't afford a flop. Yeah. What? Yeah. The town is very much banking on a successful aerial showcase. I don't know why. It's because the pretzel festival, the town over. But when you say you can't afford a flop,

[00:39:20] how much money you got tied up in this thing? Too much. We can't afford a flop. We can't do it. I mean, they're a higher construction company for the props. We also have volunteers for that. I feel like everybody in this movie is selectively famous.

[00:39:35] There's a famous singer but only to one person. There's a famous gymnast but only to one person. That's kind of a mess. Twice in this movie, the dude says two lines that I'm like, why did you say that line?

[00:39:47] One, she climbs up the silks and he looks over and he goes, how'd she get up there? Well, I'll give you three guesses. First two don't count. She did not bring a ladder over. She climbed up. But the big one is they're at her house. They're washing dishes.

[00:40:01] He looks outside to obviously what the movie wants us to believe is a treehouse. And he goes, is that a treehouse? No. That's the outhouse. We don't like to go potty in the doors. What are you talking about, bro? Of course.

[00:40:18] And then she says we haven't been back there in decades. And I got to be honest. It is lit every night and it is perfect in there for this village just built. Yes. They've not gone back there in decades. Are you kidding me right now? That's crazy.

[00:40:35] The writer of the article for this town's newspaper that's such a big deal. She describes our leading lady as not an ex dancer, but a failed ex dancer. She's just so mean. That's a little much isn't it? She's so mean. Define failed.

[00:40:51] I don't like why do you need that in there? Like that's just personal for zero reason. You would never ever do that and go, this article is perfect. Oh, you know what? I did forget to mention that the person that's lived here

[00:41:05] her whole life is not an ex dancer. She is a failed ex dancer. And I need to make sure I get that clear. Like when she gets sad eats a little bit too much ice cream. What else can I say about her? Here are a few more things.

[00:41:20] This is she could sue her for defamation. It's unbelievable. Yeah, that's all I got. That's important. Time for what the hallmark. What about a flip? It can't afford one of those. I was talking with the hallmarks where we wonder what could

[00:41:34] have been maybe having some clear questions to laugh. Brian, what are you still wondering about? I'm always curious about athletes, exercise and diet routines. And I just want to know what this guy's eating. What's he working out with? Like what's his routine? They don't show him eating.

[00:41:49] They show one scene of him being, you know, picking lettuce and building, I assume what is a salad. But I want to see like his meals, like how much proteins this guy put down. This is one of the questions for the actor. Well, yes. Yes.

[00:42:01] But also I feel like they should have incorporated a little bit like he's an impressive dude. I want to see how you fueling that specimen of a body. That guy is a Ryan is more invested in. Is it Olivier Renaud? Is that how you say this guy's name?

[00:42:16] Then he has any right to be ripped into silks. He is ripped in the silks where it counts. Man, so what's his deal? Obviously want to know about the pretzel festival one. One here. This guy's diet, how much proteins he put back.

[00:42:30] The pretzel would obviously love to go. Would be happy to go to a pretzel festival. But honestly, how bad do the arts have to be for the pretzel festival? That's literally all they have is pretzels is out drawing. They can't afford a flop.

[00:42:45] But my other one is it's her birthday and she blows up the candles. Oh, this is a weird one. Yeah. One candle lit. Apparently she doesn't notice it. And I was like, you get one more left and she blows it out. Cut. Go to the next scene.

[00:43:04] What was that? It honestly seemed like something in an A24 horror movie. Like you missed one. And then like a ghost shows up. It seemed like something ominous was hunting her around the corner. What was that scene? I don't know why it happened.

[00:43:23] Could they just not relight the candles for one more take? I don't know. It seemed like there was more to it and then we just got nothing for it. Dana? Yeah. If you tell Brand and myself that a place has the

[00:43:34] best pretzels and beer cheese, we literally could walk into an unmarked van. We would not even, we'd be like, is it here? This is where the best pretzels and beer cheese are. Great. That sounds good. I trust you here. Why would you lie to me about this?

[00:43:49] Because Brand and I are always on the hunt to find the best pretzels and beer cheese. And the fact that this town has a pretzel festival leads me to believe that there has to be some beer cheese involved, right?

[00:44:01] You wouldn't have a pretzel festival no beer cheese, right? If you give the boys a pretzel, they're going to ask for some beer cheese to go with it. They are. And so that was all my questions. This festival didn't stand a chance as soon as I

[00:44:12] found out the other one was pretzel festival. That's exactly right. Yeah. Can't afford a flop. Can I have a what the homework? No. Yes. I'm just kidding. Go ahead. Follow that to your social media. I want to know what Bennett's plan was. If she was not immediately offered.

[00:44:32] Austin month is next month. If she was not offered the contract, he was long distances hard. I don't know what to do here. And then his amateur girlfriend gets to go on tour with him. You think he's making it up? Yeah. What was his plan?

[00:44:51] Was he going to try to stay with her? Like this just worked out for him. This guy's so afraid of long distance that he made up a spot for her. She's going to show up and he's going to be like, Oh, just kidding.

[00:45:02] Someone up, but you can my salary. Give it to her. Literally, it's not a real contract. It's just part of your salary. I just want to know that worked out so well for him in the last 30 seconds. He had no plan.

[00:45:13] And I just want to know how that works out for them. Yeah. There you have. There's no money like circus dosolay money. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's where we're going to back tomorrow. The way home season two episode two, the deuce until then

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