Signed, Sealed, Delivered: A Tale of Three Letters (Hallmark Mystery - 2024) ft. Erin Shea

[00:00:00] Hi, I'm Bram and I love Signed, Sealed, Delivered! Hi, I'm Erin and I like Signed, Sealed, Delivered. This isn't fair. I'm Dan and I have a lot of feelings about Signed, Sealed, Delivered and this is the day that we're going to do this!

[00:00:14] Deck The Hallmark, it's this podcast. Man, friends host this podcast. We hope you like this jolly podcast. Follow the line. Well, hello everybody! And welcome to another episode of Deck The Hallmark, Sprayable Fest Week. Very excited about that here in the study. How's doing it?

[00:00:44] There's a bit of a buzz. A little bit of a buzz. It's powerful. It's almost like we are preoccupied with having to do a lot of other things. But you wouldn't notice that. We have nothing to do. We're done. That's true. We've been done for weeks.

[00:00:55] In fact, that was weird. Elizabeth sent that email to all of us and was just like, guys, we've been done for a month now. I guess the title of the subject of the email was Cruise Control. So, yeah, that pretty much is where we are.

[00:01:09] Yeah, I'm definitely not interested in a perpetual state of panic. It's fine. And also, I know what you're thinking, whether you're watching it on FiloPilot.tv or listening to us, what a shameless bit of cross promotion here for DECOM descendants. Having producer Aaron Shea join us.

[00:01:25] Oh, are we not doing a Disney movie right now? Believe it or not. This is a little show we like to call DEC the Hallmark. I know. It's new and different. It is new and different. Never heard of it.

[00:01:35] It's a DECOM descendants theme song for those of you playing at home. We knew it, for sure. There's the doves. DECOM descendants, everybody. You can listen. And we got new episodes coming out every Friday. Yeah, we got some new reviews in too.

[00:01:48] We can talk about those on the show. We will talk about those on the show. We're recording our first ever live DECOM descendants this week at our Bramble Fest. Who knows how it's going to go? I think it's going to go amazing. You think so? Yeah.

[00:01:59] I think it's going to be good. Guys, I'm excited, I guess. I have mixed reviews, mixed thoughts on this. It's Christmas in July. It's Christmas in July and I feel like some things are sacred and now I have to shift out of Christmas in July mode

[00:02:13] and get back into the LAW Dead Letter Society. And I don't know how to do that. I don't know how to shift out like this. You just do it. I think it's one. You just watch the movie and talk about it? To be fair.

[00:02:30] Yeah, no, but my mindset. I'm going in. Not something we've really done in the past. It is. I worry that it's affecting my review. I think Hallmark is in a tough spot because the postibles are maybe the most ardent fan base, but they're not the biggest fan base.

[00:02:48] And so Hallmark is making another one of these movies but knows it's not going to be a big ratings getter. So what do they do? Hey, postibles, here's a new movie, but also it's in the middle of Christmas in July. It's a tough spot.

[00:03:02] It's easy for me to switch gears, but not for brand so much. I just wish that it would have was next month. I just wish it was next month. It would have been great in August. It would have been great in August. I just think...

[00:03:13] What are we going to get another National Park movie? I think it may have hit me different. For our birthday month, I would have rather watched Sign Still Deliver than a National Park movie. So that would have been a great release. They could do is honor our birthdays.

[00:03:26] That's fine. That's birthday. But we're not holding this review. We'll put it out. We have to. It's our birthdays. That's true. There's not... I mean, there's... I could think of a few from Take the Day Off. Yeah, but we're not talking like those.

[00:03:44] Speaking of August and Take the Day Off, just believe you me right around the corner. Yeah, maybe. Shall we talk Sign Still Delivered? A tale of three letters? Do you want it? Let's do it. Really? I'd rather be talking about a Christmas movie.

[00:04:06] What if you just pretend this was set at Christmas? Tale of three festive letters. All right. A tale of three Christmas cards. I will try. I will try to make this as festive as possible.

[00:04:15] I would love it so much if you just changed like letters to Christmas cards and you just read the whole synopsis of Christmas. Well, if one of these is a Christmas card, it's the meanest freaking Christmas card of all time. Yeah. So there's that.

[00:04:26] Merry Christmas, you filthy animal. That's right. That's exactly right. July 12th, 2024 is 128. I would like to try Harder Merry Christmas. Something like this. Oliver and Shane are in love. They are spending their honeymoon in London doing fun stuff such as checking out the Postal Museum.

[00:04:45] Looking at the Christmas lights. And so they're having a lot of fun. They get back from London and they have straight... Paul's really trying. They get back from London and head straight to the LDO where Norman has been working on a new invention in between decorating for Christmas.

[00:05:06] And so that's fun. This new invention is going to like get mold off stuff. They dive into one of their next projects and it is a letter from a drama teacher. To somebody named Maria and it's a Christmas card. I forgot that one. And so this Christmas card

[00:05:30] was in a mailbox that had explode boom. Explode boom. Exploded boom. Yes. And so it is... It's in tough shape. They don't know who, what or when. Stop caring a lot of public radio. Thank you. And so, but when Charlie hears it she starts acting weird. A-la.

[00:05:57] Sean Hunter in Boy Meets World who has a great Christmas episode. Not the one where he blows up the mailbox but they do have... We are so far removed from the synopsis right now. They get back from lunch and there is a Christmas card that is missing.

[00:06:13] Apparently the Christmas card went back into the system accidentally. So six months later it shows up and Charlie comes clean. It was a prank. It was a joke. We did this bit, you know. So we were high schoolers and we thought it was so sad

[00:06:33] that somebody does the same thing every single day. I bet they want a little pizzazz. And so they put a timer inside the mailbox so that when the... Whatever it is. So that when bomb jokes in public places cool again. It was 2017.

[00:06:47] Yeah, it was when Rhian and Fish clearly graduated high school seven years ago. Alarm clock and post-mortem. So I graduated eight years ago I'm just a year older than Rhian and obviously I'm 25. So the guy shows up and is like

[00:07:05] this is a bomb and they do a thing and so she is like I'm responsible for this but it was a joke mom dad so obviously this is against the law but you know what Oliver's like just take the rest of the day off basically. Take the day.

[00:07:23] Having to play it cool after some encouragement from Shane. How are the newlyweds? You might be wondering. Trouble in paradise. They're having a tough time and the holidays will do that to you. Stressful time. Stressful time for everybody. Stressful time for everybody. And so Shane is driving

[00:07:43] Oliver nuts because she keeps leaving her shoes at the bottom of the stairs. Oliver's driving Shane nuts because he does stuff without asking like taking her wedding dress to get preserved or whatever and she accidentally breaks the crank from his father's grandfather clock and is panicking.

[00:08:03] Trouble in paradise. Back at the DLO they find another letter from the stack of burn letters and one of them is for apparently one of her high school chums Barry he's like chums you mean wild man Barry? Wild crazy Barry

[00:08:26] had a crush on her and wrote this letter she never got it obviously because of boom explosion. So add that to the list of people that they're trying to find things keep getting worse for Shane and Oliver they the place where the wedding

[00:08:40] dress was at catches on fire he finds out about that and then he also finds out about the clock crank to real mess because you got a crank it's been it's been cranked consistently for a long time and if you don't crank it you know time will stop

[00:09:00] that's my best I can understand Norman Rita and Charlie tracked down the drama teacher that wrote the first letter and this first letter is very mean it's like you know you're the worst person ever better so she's like wow that's crazy didn't know whatever happened to that

[00:09:20] and she explains that Maria the kid was a good kid was having a tough time and ended up lashing out in anger and that caused her to be late to her first doctor's appointment because she had just been diagnosed with cancer

[00:09:34] so there was a lot going on with her she was angry and so they say well technically we have to deliver this letter but we could also deliver another letter so she takes some time to write a new letter to Maria so

[00:09:48] they include that letter they find Maria and Maria is doing great she's a great human being who places babies with adoptive parents and guess who is trying to become an adoptive parents it is Norman and Rita so maybe that's a coincidence who can say

[00:10:04] Charlie goes to meet with Wildman Barry and Barry is like I did not write I did write the letter technically but I wrote it on behalf of our old buddy our old pal who was a little bit Merlin who was a little bit Merlin Merlin the magician?

[00:10:20] no what was the guy's name? Marlin he pulled the sword to the stone so it was Marlin, Marlin was totally into you she's like oh wow that's crazy man what are we to do about that and so Oliver and Shayner in therapy and after three sessions they're good

[00:10:43] there's a final letter but they can't figure out who it's for they can't figure out what it even says it's such bad handwriting turns out it was Marlin the guy, it was his he shows up and is like hey that's my letter

[00:10:57] turned out he wrote a letter at the same time he's like hey Wildman Barry he's having a kid he wrote a letter without my permission I do like you I want to tell you in my own way this isn't it

[00:11:13] which is a wild thing to write in a letter but now maybe it is it he's also really great with baby Oliver also Rita and Norman find out there's a baby that is in need of a place the baby has a heart condition

[00:11:31] they're not sure what they're gonna if they're the right parents and Norman does what Norman does and helps them realize that they are the right parents all of our surprises Shayne by setting up or binge that he made or way back when in the living room not ideal

[00:11:51] but to show her that he loves her and also here's all these other things and I forgot I was doing that bit and basically they recommit to each other and then Shayne tells him that she's pregnant so we're probably getting another one

[00:12:07] in a couple of years and that my friends was Sign, Seal, Deliver the tale of three letters we did it there is another one next year woo! the gang will ride again they're gonna put that one out December 21st Sign, Seal, Deliver Fly me to the moon

[00:12:27] let me moon in the end I don't know if that's the actual name or if I just read it and then I've just been singing that song that's the moon landing movie Sign, Seal, Deliver a baby we'll come back we'll break this movie down here on

[00:12:45] Deck the Hallmark D-Column Descendants we're back we're doing alright we're talking Sign, Seal, Deliver a tale of three letters a new Christmas movie on Hallmark brand new Christmas joints not Christmassy enough for me Fly me to the moon and back let's break this movie down

[00:13:14] we're gonna start with a hot tag we're gonna share exactly how we felt about this movie Erin, first of all what are you doing here? where's Brian? we actually went the full first segment without even talking about the fact that Brian's not here so Brian is

[00:13:32] boycotting the post office now Brian has not seen a single Sign, Seal, Delivered movie and we just felt that was disrespectful disrespectful and also really hard to jump in after a decade's worth of movies to review in the middle of it never stopped us before looking at you

[00:13:54] we've done a lot of great movies Sugar Plum, Sugar Plum, Fondre Christmas there's been like over a dozen of these that he hasn't seen whereas I have seen them all multiple times so Brian is prepping some fun stuff for Bramble Fest and didn't have time to watch 27 movies

[00:14:12] and also really if we were gonna do this correctly you would be the one saying you love Sign, Seal, Delivered and Brian would be the one saying he likes Sign, Seal, Delivered that would be the real sweat

[00:14:22] and the chat will point out that I do love Sign, Seal, Delivered so much that this weekend I re-watched all 10 episodes plus the pilot of the TV show just for funsies this weekend of course what did you think of this one though? so I went into this one

[00:14:38] really really excited re-watching the pilot and the TV show and I made it through to the Christmas the Christmas movie before I ran out of time this weekend and it just reminded me how much I love this group this show the chemistry they have how every episode

[00:15:00] you know like it's gonna prey on those easy emotions like oh the troops or oh you know someone got sick and died and we found a letter 10 years later and yeah it makes me cry every time even though like I know it's coming I know the plot twist

[00:15:19] whatever but it gets me and this movie didn't get me while watching it Dan you pointed out that it had a different wasn't as like segmented where normally you start off with the back story on how the letter got lost in the first place

[00:15:37] this one doesn't start off with the letter it starts off with the group reuniting and so I just felt like as many callbacks as there were in this movie it just didn't have the same feel and I wonder if I would have liked it more

[00:15:51] if I hadn't just rewatched 10 episodes of the TV show because the chemistry in the beginning is so so so good and I just felt like this movie didn't didn't have all of that same same beats and you love these so imagine what's coming ahead of you

[00:16:11] and if you are a hardcore postable maybe get that fast forward button I really tried I wanted to love this movie so much and it was just fine I agree that it is fine I want to start with the overall mystery of it all the letters

[00:16:33] the three letters if you will in my mind these were going to be three connected letters or maybe they seemed to be separate and what we got was one letter that Charlie did go to school with so I guess there's a connection there but really has nothing

[00:16:55] to do with the rest of this movie aside from the girl now working at an adoption agency and you know we need that and then we have two letters where one letter is and the other letter is written in the first place and so I felt like

[00:17:19] you know what teenage boys when they wanted to tell someone they liked them they mailed a letter that's how we did things in 2017 when I was in high school in the 2010s listen, that was what I did when I was in high school in the early 2000s

[00:17:37] I would still write papers on notebook paper and I would give them to the person or I would tell you how I feel on the AIM chat room we can talk about this more later that part made no sense I just I just didn't feel any sort of

[00:17:54] connection to these three letters and so that's obviously a big part of this franchise is these letters that tell this mystery and also have this overarching lesson that goes along there's a tie into what the people are going through and I just felt like

[00:18:14] it was a bit of a mess a bit of a disconnect from what was going on and I also just like I think that they have told the story and I don't need a continuation but that's just me, I understand the postibles are always gonna want more

[00:18:30] I would welcome another women's world reboot so well the last two or three movies somehow each had perfect endings and this one did when we found out that she was pregnant we all know there's gonna be another movie it's like I don't know it was the least like

[00:18:50] they do such a good job of pulling you in especially early on in this movie did not do that and then we find out that the letters are whatever seemed like an afterthought so a miss for Bran when we started reviewing these I was very quick to say

[00:19:06] this is the best thing Hallmark's ever done and I stand by that take because that was before New Hallmark we watched all those before 2021ish when we stopped and since then Hallmark has gone on to really up their game with The Way Home

[00:19:20] with movies like Ghost of Christmas Always and Unexpected Christmas and Three Wives Men and a Baby Signs of Delivered still represents a notch up in quality whether it's the TV show or the movie this is by far bar none the worst Signs of Delivered entity

[00:19:38] that has ever existed and it's a shame that it happened these guys already hit all the high notes one it doesn't even try to start this off with a case or story that matters that is bigger than Shane and Oliver and the other two it just doesn't

[00:19:56] getting to the letter mystery was like a D-com trying to get to the plot we didn't even do the the Daggum theme song we just jump in we just don't even do it so one a movie of series that has always done a great job of marrying

[00:20:15] character with like serialized theme of the week like Martha Williamson has done that has forgotten how to do that more than I'll ever learn how to do it she's one of one she's amazing at that this movie doesn't do it it falls incredibly flat

[00:20:29] that's a big number one number two someone in the chat mentioned it the marital issues Shane and Oliver are having don't come off as real or interesting at all they come off as very very forced as a next step to get them to baby I love seeing

[00:20:47] Rhiannon Fish as much as the next person if not more big fish head big fan no reason it is so unnecessary for her to be here and lastly which you said right before my hot take which is this the last two of these

[00:21:05] movies I believe the vows we have made and to the altar those two movies both stick the landing how often do you stick the ending of a series landing not once but twice two times you sent these four people off into the sunset

[00:21:21] with a perfect you did twice you didn't once you're like hold my beer I'm gonna do it again why did you do it I said in the preview episode I'll say it again I was scared that they were gonna do this

[00:21:33] and they did it and it was a mess this movie is I'm sorry we're being kind because you love them and brands just naturally kind this movie's a disaster it's really bad and I love the people in it I love the people that make

[00:21:45] these movies this did not work at all it didn't it's time for all the feels we're talking about what gave you the Christmas feels and this Christmas movie Aaron so many Christmas feels I guess as much as like I don't really understand

[00:22:07] why all of these letters had to do with Charlie why we were so focused on getting like Charlie just can't be a successful single mom she has to have a man it could be the wrong man and then we

[00:22:19] like she was two men that she thinks are vying for her and it was just a dumb plotline but my feels is Charlie there is a scene where Riannan tears up and it got me a little bit it was the closest I got to crying in this movie

[00:22:35] is Riannan does a great job of just like she gets the teary eyes and the emotion was so well done and that scene and that's it I mean I think the closest I had like every movie in every episode Norman does have a speech and he

[00:22:55] he has a couple in this one sorry Oliver and he doesn't really have a speech no Oliver kind of does this thing at the end of the movie with Shane and that was nice I think the closest I had was the conversation that he has with Norman

[00:23:11] and Rita about the adoption and the kid and the baby who has the heart condition and just like encouraging them that they're the right parents I do think there was he also kind of gaslit them into being the right parents it's a pretty difficult decision one that

[00:23:32] he was basically like seems like the decision is already made I don't know man maybe let them decide that but the speech before he says that was he's so good at doing those things and never gets old seeing him here's the thing that's the closest but not really

[00:23:54] that was the beginning it was three lines my feels was angry I didn't get an Oliver speech I just what are we doing here in a 42 minute TV episode of Sign So delivered you usually get an Oliver speech in 42 minutes this thing is 84 minutes

[00:24:12] I was ready to cry it would have been so easy but I was just tearing up he was ready to go and then it was like no that's it he doesn't do any that's the whole you're wrong baby or they're wrong parents and then that's it

[00:24:32] that was it I was pretty frustrated by that and here's the thing the reason it's frustrating is Oliver typically gives a speech that puts a bow her themes have roots in these movies does the theme from the first letter have any weight to this movie aside from being

[00:24:56] the connection to get Rita Norman to this baby I think that's it you can change as a person yeah I mean like I think it's just supposed to introduce that girl into the story lines so we can get Rita Norman to be there's a lot with

[00:25:12] this one for a number of reasons but there's a lot with the adoption thing that I think they were trying to do that didn't quite come across it just feels like that it's the tale of three like I thought that it was all going to

[00:25:26] and it just didn't let's take a break we'll come back when we get to the way of the Weylau Marker we're on the Weylau Mark hello it is Brian he's no longer with us today it is Brian Brian's gone I was going to get to Dan

[00:25:57] I was going to get to Dan Dan's the most memorable you're not going to even tell that story you shouldn't tell that story it is time for the Weylau and it is we'll tell it to you off the air I will just say this and what happened

[00:26:15] my wife and me Dan just changed his mind he left town then what happened and we were talking about the two of us he was talking about the two of us but he was going to be he's going to be in a

[00:26:38] and they look at me like I could be your bodyguard. And you could be, and as since you are. Well, you see me and you don't think, and you see me in person, I'm a little, I don't know if you heard this,

[00:26:47] I'm a little bit taller in person than people. I will. I think you're shorter. I think that's what throws me off. I just wanted on the record that Brian was just some tall guy. I would absolutely let you protect me. Thank you, man. I appreciate that.

[00:27:00] Like it wouldn't bother me one bit. I wouldn't. Sorry, that was a bodyguard. When you used to. Wait what? We were talking about one, two minutes, go away. What Aaron? Anything? Yeah, I had quite a few. So as I mentioned, like this movie,

[00:27:16] I feel like it was just more about like reminding you what Seinfeld-Liverd had done in the past. There were so many callbacks. Like we get Ramon, you know, at one point we see the porch swing that was such a big point in Shane and Oliver's romance.

[00:27:29] He's wearing the green tie. He has all these mementos from their relationship. The episode in which we find out Norman was adopted and it kind of brings adoption into the storyline is a story about a child with a heart defect that was put up for adoption.

[00:27:44] And so we're bringing like that back. And maybe I just wasn't watching closely enough. But does Oliver at any point drink a yuhu in this movie? I don't think he does. Because I brought a yuhu. She brought a yuhu. For this episode. Because you were reviewing it.

[00:28:04] Because I was reviewing Seinfeld-Liverd and you can't have a Seinfeld-Liverd episode. Of all the things you felt like they were trying to do in the first 10 minutes of this movie. I think there may have been one in his hand

[00:28:15] when Norman pulls the letter out of the mold machine, but they don't make it a big deal. They don't make any comment about it. And there's a chance that it also wasn't a yuhu. He was holding some sort of beverage thing.

[00:28:26] Well, they're very big on him drinking coffee in this episode. So I, whatever, usually yuhu's a bigger deal than I was ready for. Yuhu! Considering how we got Ramon with a cameo. Yeah, Ramon and they're for like 10 seconds. Yeah, yeah, that's crazy. Yeah.

[00:28:43] Oliver has not heard of Harry Potter. Never heard of Voldemort before, gang. And I get it. You can live in your old fashioned world and not want to use the internet and all that. But what rock have you been living on there? He's 53, not 83.

[00:28:59] That would be like an 83 year old not knowing who Darth Vader is. It's just... That's what that is. Yeah, and Shane does the whole like, we'll talk about it later. I don't know. Just say he's the villain from Harry Potter. So we just move it on. Great.

[00:29:14] With Charlie, and they're like, oh, this is when the mailbox blew up at this school. And Charlie was like, oh my gosh, that was the year I graduated. I went to that school. And they're like, oh, do you know Maria? And she's like, nope, never heard of her.

[00:29:27] And then six months later, Charlie's like, oh yeah, there wasn't Maria. And she got it. She was like this big deal, huge like sports star, big in the theater department. She got arrested and no one ever heard from her again. You're telling me that you don't remember

[00:29:41] that girl's first and last name? Cause I'm telling you, I remember so many people. Like there is a kid, and I'm not gonna name him on this podcast, through a huge party. Terry Flanders. And they're a huge party. And I still remember first and last names

[00:29:57] of every kid who was like, I don't know if they were full on arrested, but they got in a lot of trouble. A letter came through today that was like, hey, this, you know, we're looking for Brian. His name was Brian.

[00:30:09] And I've been like, oh yeah, Brian, such and such. You threw that. It took her six months to think of that one girl who got arrested. You remembered her for sure. For destroying a teacher's car. Which nobody even knew, but I feel like everyone would know.

[00:30:25] Maybe Charlie was too caught up with her fake bomb in the mailbox trick. She was worried about her own bits. She wasn't thinking about others. I just feel like if you smashed a teacher's car, the whole town would know about it. If you smashed your teacher's car,

[00:30:36] everyone would remember you, period. So yeah, nobody knows why Maria is in trouble. It takes us six months to even remember Maria at all. I just thought that was ridiculous. Also, if I told you that I had a crush on a boy in high school

[00:30:50] and had not seen or talked to him in seven years, please, please, please do not call him up and have him come to my- We've got Terry Flanders on the line actually. Come on in, Terry! Come on in, Terry! With no heads up at all as I'm there

[00:31:07] just trying to get my baby to calm down. And you're like, hey! Can you just come in here real quick? She'd love to see you right in this moment right now with no warning. Guys, don't, please don't. Don't do that, got it.

[00:31:21] It would be really hard to find anyone I had a crush on in high school in Greenville, but yeah, that Greenville, South Carolina. And the last one I have is, A, we ditched the mailbox grill, a place that we hung out at for like 20 years

[00:31:38] and then we just- Weird. A weird brunch spot with a salad fountain. Salad tower, I believe is what they would call it. Let's believe that's the term. Some lettuce is in bowls, some lettuce is decorative. You gotta know the difference.

[00:31:53] Salad pieces are in bowls for you to put on your plate. If you wanna use it, you know. And then other salad is just shoved in between bowls for decorative filler and you probably shouldn't eat that one. It calls to you. It calls me.

[00:32:05] But I miss the mailbox grill. I guess those are my feels too. Shout out. It would have been so decorative for Christmas. Yeah, that's exactly, yeah. Oh wait, yeah. Langley says shout out to Ruby Tuesdays, absolutely. They have a better set of bars.

[00:32:18] Is there a place that gets more salad bar play than Ruby Tuesdays? Is there still a Ruby Tuesday in America? It's not in Greenville. Both of them closed down. Sad salad bar feels. Shane says jet lagged. Jet lagged. Which is Canadian for jet lagged. And I loved it.

[00:32:39] Listen, I'm not one to tell people how to be clean. I'm not one to tell people that they should like put their shoes away. You know, sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I just think it's reckless. Even if you're living by yourself to put your shoes, especially heels

[00:32:59] at the bottom of the staircase. It's a hazard. It's a hazard. Even if you're living by yourself, sometimes you wake up in the morning and you're like, oh my gosh, I'm in a hurry. I walk down the stairs. You might trip on your own shoes. It's dangerous.

[00:33:10] Put them anywhere else. Put them anywhere else other than stairs. It just seems problematic. And I just don't think that it makes him an awful person to not want the shoes at the bottom of the stairs. But he never says it. He never says it. That's exactly right.

[00:33:26] He never said, he just kind of passively, aggressively. Yes. Also. So, but I just, that's a hazard. And if that's you, maybe you've learned to, sometimes you don't realize your mess because you've learned to live in your mess. And I totally get that

[00:33:42] as somebody who is a bit of a mess. But that's reckless. I think it's reckless. Yeah. So our guy, what's his name? What's the buddy Barry does call himself crazy wild Barry. Crazy wild Barry. Talking about himself in high school. Wild Barry Barry.

[00:33:59] And then it cuts to crazy wild Barry in high school. And crazy wild Barry is the only one that we see around that is wearing a button down shirts. He already has a mortgage. It's high school, buddy. He just. I think he's in a button down and cash.

[00:34:16] He's got him. Doing another thing in 2017. Kaki's button down high school guy. Wild and crazy. He's wild and crazy, but also buttoned up. That's right. He's both of those things. Last but not least, they go to marriage counseling, couples therapy. That's great. Love that for them.

[00:34:36] They do three sessions and then their therapist tells them we're done here. We're done here. And I like, I don't think first of all locked and loaded. They're good. Just seeing how they operated. They definitely needed more than three sessions, but to no therapist would be like,

[00:34:52] where I think we've done enough. That that's a bold move to say that I, it's that's my, I am the one who gets to decide when I'm done with this therapist. And she's just over there leaving money on the, please do not spend any more money here.

[00:35:09] Your money is not welcomed here as your therapist three sessions. You're good to go. Congratulations. You've graduated from therapy. I did read a book recently where a couple went to marriage counseling and it was four sessions, but it wasn't like, hey, we're going to go see a therapist.

[00:35:27] It was they signed up for like a couple's retreat and the retreat came with four sessions. Yes. But that is very different. She, they were surprised when she says this is your last one. They were surprised if this was a three session,

[00:35:42] you're just gonna send us home like this? Like we're gonna make it. Like we're good. We're good. You're done here. You've done it. You've mastered it. So then you just go home and you're like, hey, all of our problems are done because therapists said so. You've been there.

[00:35:55] We won therapy. That's right. Dano? That's the goal to win, right? So this movie would have you believe that Shane and Oliver got married after a season of love is blind. They got married and they have known each other for a decade and have declared their undying love

[00:36:15] for each other, know their very many quirks inside and out, talk about how they are committed to each other and they're the one for each other. And in the first six months of their marriage, act as though they are just blown away

[00:36:30] that this other person does weird things and don't use their voice to communicate it, which is something that I still can't, these characters are too good for this. They're too good for this. Oliver not looking at Shane and being like, could you move your shoes? Crazy, crazy.

[00:36:49] And re-watching so many earlier episodes, like neither one of them has ever shied away ever. Confrontation, like when she finds his wife's address in Paris, like she tells him. Immediately. When she sees he writes the letter to Holly and then puts it in his desk drawer

[00:37:06] and she's looking for something in the desk drawer, sees the letter and she's like, hey, I want you to know, I saw it that it's in your desk. I didn't read it. They have never once hid something from the other person.

[00:37:18] And so to watch them go from being so open and honest to being like, I can't talk to them with my feelings. I couldn't tell her about the shoes. Are you kidding me? Here's the crazy thing is, I got married to my wife after we had been dating

[00:37:30] for five and a half years and I was trying my best to show her that I was like a reasonable human being. And I, it's still like- Still working on that? It's still doing my best. But like this is crazy that he wouldn't be like,

[00:37:44] hey, don't you think piling up all your shoes at the foot of the stairs may sprain an ankle or tear an ACL? He hasn't mentioned it. Like it is not indicative of these characters and how rich and wonderful they are. And it was unfortunate that that's the route

[00:37:59] that they chose. They want us to believe that these two folks are like 28 and they got married after dating for six months and that is not what we've seen. That is not true to who the characters are. Speaking of age, Rhian and Fish supposed to be seven years

[00:38:14] out of high school in this movie. Rhian and Fish can be whatever she wants. Having said that, she cannot be 24. Well I'm 25 so- 25. You can't, I just- Grandson's 23. I just- I'm eight. Yeah, like little Deckers. Yeah, Rhian and Fish can be interviewed by little Deckers. That's right.

[00:38:32] That is, that was wild. That shows a mess. So the big premise of this movie outside of the adoption stuff in Shane of Oliver is this teacher wrote a really nasty letter to this girl after she damaged her car. She doesn't want them to send a letter

[00:38:46] but they work in the DLO. They gotta deliver the letter. They don't care if it hurts you or breaks you through your core. There's a stamp on it, it's gotta go. Yeah, so she, they're like, hey there's nothing that says you can't write another letter.

[00:38:55] So she writes a brand fresh new letter that apologizes for her old letter. They find Maria and they're like, hey, here's the deal. This letter was meant to go to you all the way back in 2017. Slide it on over. This letter is brand new from the same person.

[00:39:12] Slide it on over. You can read those however you wanna read them. And this wants to read the new one first. Yeah, no, I'm reading the old one first for sure. Who would read the new one first? You've got an artifact of history

[00:39:26] but new one's not gonna even make any sense. Are you kidding me? She didn't just be like, oh, I gotta say what the mean one says. I gotta see what the first one says. What if she opened the new one

[00:39:35] and it just said sorry for what I said? You're just like, great. I would have, gosh. Just in case you read this one first, don't read the other one. It means nothing. Yeah. I also can't believe that Oliver and Shane didn't have any premarital counseling.

[00:39:52] That seems like something they would have probably done. Maybe that's just me, but like they are pretty quirky individuals. Maybe have some of that and have some real issues that come up when Wild and Crazy, Wild and Crazy Barry sees Charlie for the first time.

[00:40:07] It's been seven and a half years and he's like, we should get together more often. Maybe we could plan a reunion. May I suggest 10 years? It's pretty common. It's a pretty common one. Well they were specifically talking about Barry and Charlie Marlin. Oh just those three.

[00:40:20] Okay, makes more sense now. So could it have been a hangout? Nope, they're not a full on reunion. I had Erin, I didn't have her do this. She did this. She checked this for me. I wasn't like, Erin, do this. So what happened? She just did this.

[00:40:33] It was a goodness of her heart. You have the clip! Hey Erin, if you could do your job for once in your life. Hey Dan, could you please stop speaking to her that way? Okay. Hey, I'm not allowed to speak to Daniel.

[00:40:47] Could you let him know that yes, I will do that for him? I will Erin, thank you for all that you do. Somebody's got to rule with an iron fist right here. Thank you so much for respecting me and my job. You're welcome. Anne C. Anne C.

[00:40:58] Anne clip. Anne clip. When she breaks the handle, the crank that goes in this grandfather clock trying to use it to open a window like a moron. I would have tried screwdriver first. She is frantic about trying to get it fixed. Well, what Oliver cares about

[00:41:15] is maybe getting it fixed in the long run. What he cares about is the clock not stopping. And the thing about old things is it's really hard to restore them but there are modern fixes to help like maneuver and keep them running.

[00:41:31] And you can go to Amazon right now and find myriad cranks, so many cranks that you could use on that grandfather clock. I believe one was called universal cranks. So there was the one for $15. It looked identical to the one that broke.

[00:41:48] So you could have just gotten that one and been great. But then also for $15, they have a universal grandfather clock crank and it has a bunch of different keys to fit different types. Like you order that, you go listen. And it was prime, so two days.

[00:42:02] So let you order that and in day for maybe one day. You order that and you go, listen, I'm really sorry. I've already got this dude working on it. He's gonna restore your original one. I purchased this one while we're waiting.

[00:42:14] And this is something that I believe the character of Shane who literally her job for 10 years was to look up people and what they're doing typewriter style. She couldn't do this? That's crazy. The early, like the whole season of the TV show

[00:42:33] is her trying to prove to them that using the internet is faster. And she forgot how to internet. Yeah. At one point, and this will be my last one. I'll make it very quick. At one point we see that Jeff Gussison and Crystal Lowe,

[00:42:48] I don't remember their names in the show. They have to go to therapy. Rita and Norman. Rita and Norman. At one point Rita and Norman are told in order to adopt a newborn infant, they have to go to therapy, which is wild because that's not something

[00:43:03] a state or DSS would require. Then we find out that it is a private adoption. I would just like to remind everyone that your local department of social services has so many children that would love a home of any kind and you should 100%

[00:43:16] if you feel like it's in your heart to adopt. That is something that could actually change a life forever. And I just wanted to let you know. That's all I got. If you don't feel called to adopt, you could also foster. Foster. Also great. Both end.

[00:43:31] Let's get to what the homework is for we want to... But at Christmas, you can do any of those at Christmas. Aside from what the homework is for, we wonder what could have been happened maybe get some clarity, any questions that we still have.

[00:43:42] Maybe we'll get answers in the next one. Aaron. Yeah. What do you got? All right. I have questions about this grandfather clock. It is such a big deal. Oliver has never missed like keeping it tuned. And I would just like to wonder about

[00:43:59] they have gone on trips in past movies and episodes. So who was doing that when you were off? Like instead of hiring a cat sitter or something, did someone come over and just wind your clock? Clock watcher. Yeah. Well he says that the neighbor was doing it

[00:44:16] for this one. Yeah. He says my neighbor was doing it but had to leave like a little bit early. So that's why he walks right in and starts clicking it. So maybe the neighbor is doing that. Sure. For the last 10 years. Thanks neighbor.

[00:44:30] And then the other one I have is when Shane first joins the DLO, Norman is so proud. She needs a workstation. You know, he has a desk, Oliver has a desk, Rita has a desk. And he makes Shane a movable workstation

[00:44:43] and it has like a fun desktop computer. It's got like, I've always thought of it as like a steampunk design where it has like gears and it looks real fun and she can move it all over the office and it's been great. And then this one,

[00:44:56] she just has like a table with a wood crate on it and then a laptop on the wood crate. Real bad. So she loses her fun movable workstation and then instead of even just getting her a standing desk,

[00:45:07] they just put a wood box on a desk and said, Shane here you go, you can work from here. I would like, I have to believe between that and the mailbox grill where did that desk go? That they just didn't have the original sets.

[00:45:19] That is the best I can figure is a lot of this looks slightly different. They did not have many of the original sets. That's my best because I noticed that too and the mailbox grill you noticed and I was like, they just don't have everything.

[00:45:31] Well at first when I saw that she was on the laptop I was like, I got her a fancy new laptop that would be something that you would do in 2024. You know, maybe she's not using the same computer for the last 10 years. But then when they pan out

[00:45:41] and it's just propped on a box. Real bad. Not even trying. She's been full time there for quite a while. So just where did that desk go? And Shane, maybe if you're gonna wear four inch heels don't have a standing desk. I don't know. That's you.

[00:45:56] But good to you. Power to you. My feet hurt watching you do that. So the movie ends with him being like, well before she says we're having a baby saying we're gonna get our own. We're gonna buy a new house. This house is gonna become a historical site.

[00:46:13] A museum. A museum. And so I mean my question is just like the financial implacate. I know. So it doesn't matter. He could still buy a house without selling this house. It's fine. But is there any like, do you get a tax break for your house

[00:46:26] becoming a historical site? Does the city buy it from you and then they own it? How does all of that work out? So you rent it? I don't know. I don't know how it works. That's why it's right here right now. Well maybe there's another movie coming in.

[00:46:38] New name of this segment's called right here. Maybe if there's another movie coming in 2025. We'll find out. You can fly me to the moon. Set up. To the moon and back. Over the moon. And we can have some more discussions. Answer. Dana? Yeah.

[00:46:50] So early in this movie someone's like, you work at the post office right? And Oliver corrects them and says, I work at the dead letter office. Well, that's weird because the dead letter office is in the post office. A simple yes would do. It's not a wait what.

[00:47:01] It's not surprising that Oliver would do that. But I know there's a disclaimer at the end of all of these that say that this isn't affiliated with the blah, blah, blah. They don't use the emblem the whole thing. Can they not say they work at the post office?

[00:47:12] Have we heard them ever say they work at the post office or don't they always say like postal service instead? That's an actual question. Can they not say that? Or could they say it and they can't anymore?

[00:47:21] Do you want me to go home and start over in the beginning? Yeah, if you wouldn't mind. I mean, Langley's in the middle of that right now. She could probably. They do multiple establishing shots of the post office. But they postal service.

[00:47:34] Does it say post office on the outside? There's the logo is on there. The one guy says, do you work at the post office? And they all are like this whole series is about being proud to be a postal worker. And I'm proud to be a postal worker.

[00:47:50] For at least I know I deliver the mail. Mail, they don't. So they do that. Like the whole thing is like the postal worker is the ultimate, you know, honorable position. And that guy says, do you work at the post office?

[00:48:04] And he goes, actually I work at the dead letter office. And I was like, that is part of the post office. That would be like saying, well, I don't work at the post office. I work as a mail man for the post office.

[00:48:15] Like it's weird distinction when they literally are in the building that is the post office. And maybe I'm crazy. It is, it is weird. Langley says some things do say USPS. I think that there is an establishing shot in this movie of the logo is on.

[00:48:30] Why do you? It's just all over being all over. And they have a USPS mail vehicle that is stopping in front of the school. Definitely has a different logo on it. It's not a real logo. Yeah, it's a fake logo. Yeah, I'm sure we'll have plenty of postals

[00:48:44] out of the woodworks on this one. So I'm not super worried about it. It's time for postal worker of the week since it is a science field delivered. Yeah, someone nominated one. Who do we have today, Dan? Yeah, this what is this? This emails from Tandy takes. Okay.

[00:49:01] I have a suggestion for you for postal worker of the week. It's Tadgley the gopher Hamilton. Yep. The gopher Hamilton postal worker number is 0606255 out of Milwaukee. That's all I have. Tadgley the gopher Hamilton. What do we know about Tadgley? It's a real email, everybody. Yeah.

[00:49:20] I don't know. Tadgley, are you on the line? Gof, you there? Are you under the weather? No, I feel great. You feel great? Yes. What makes you so special? Would you prefer gopher, the gopher, Tadg? What do you want? I'm 10 times vaccinated. So I feel great.

[00:49:38] And that's what makes me special. Tadgley, what would you like to be called? Tadgley, Tadg, the gopher, gopher, the gopher? I've never thought about it. For all the money in the world, Tadg, what is your last name? Gopher? It isn't. What? What's my last name?

[00:49:58] You know, I said it in one minute. What's your last name? It's Hamilton. No, it's not. It is. No, it's not. You're saying Tandy's wrong? Tandy's wrong. 0606255 out of Milwaukee. Yeah, that's me. That's me. Tandy takes told me that it's Tadgley, the gopher Hamilton.

[00:50:14] What are your thoughts on the right, the gopher on the line? What he said it was his postal worker number. What are your thoughts on mini itchers? Mini itchers or mini itchers? Both sounds like a little thing that itch

[00:50:30] and also small things that are we got to go. Tadg, thank you so much. Really appreciate it. Thanks for serving the mini itchers. Yeah. Maybe it's first issue. A Merry Christmas. The Homework of Brable Jam podcast is produced by Aaron Shea.

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