Sugarplummed (Hallmark Channel - 2024) ft. Brett White (Pop Heist)

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Hi, I'm Brian and I love Hallmark Christmas movies. I'm Brian and I like Hallmark Christmas movies. I'm Dan and I despise Hallmark Christmas movies. And you're Brett White. Oh, and I'm Brett White. Hi.

[00:00:15] [SPEAKER_02]: And this is Deck The Hallmark Podcast. Deck The Hallmark gets this podcast. Perfect.

[00:00:23] [SPEAKER_01]: We're Dan and Friends host this podcast. We hope you like this jolly podcast. It's on me, guys.

[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_01]: To be fair, we have been having some tech issues today. Usually when a guest comes back for the second time, we do remind them of the intro. And we were a little bit run a little bit late. It's our fault. So we want to make sure we have as much time as possible.

[00:00:49] [SPEAKER_02]: I was like, do you need a reminder on the segment? He's like, no, I got it. So I'm like, I said that I am complicit. I'm complicit.

[00:00:54] [SPEAKER_02]: But it's Brett White from Popeyes. How about that? What is a Popeyes? What are we talking about?

[00:01:04] [SPEAKER_00]: So someone had a hard time finding a new job. So they just made one themselves.

[00:01:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I've launched a new website that is driven by passion and not the algorithm, which passion means please buy subscriptions and pay because that's the only way we make any money and survive these days.

[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_00]: You guys know the deal, right? We do. Yes, we do.

[00:01:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. What can people expect over on the Popeyes?

[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_02]: The what?

[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_02]: What can people? No, you're fine. What can people expect over on the Popeyes?

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we launched with 13 Hallmark reviews that I managed to write while launching a website, which was stressful.

[00:01:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And since then, I've done two more, including Sugar Plum. So if you want spoilers, you can go and see my review of that right now.

[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, that I mean, my guide to doing drag, my guide to the X-Men interviews, lots of weird stuff from our freelancers, including a fact checking of Arise Serpentor Arise, the season two career of G.I. Joe.

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Of course.

[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Which I did not write.

[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_00]: What? You didn't get to that one?

[00:02:07] [SPEAKER_00]: It's all over the gamut, baby.

[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Now, Brett, we had a lot of people. People would have been angry if you didn't join us again. So this is a big season two, two years in a row. It's now a tradition, Brett.

[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_01]: You're a part of us now for the holidays.

[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Please. And I love that I've jumped out. Didn't I do like a time for pronoun to come home for Christmas?

[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you've gotten upgraded. You've gotten upgraded for sure.

[00:02:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's Sugar Plum. Yeah.

[00:02:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Sugar Plum's a little bit, a little, a little bit of a bigger, although some might argue the fifth sequel in a franchise.

[00:02:46] [SPEAKER_01]: And a Blake Shelton-produced franchise would maybe be a bigger.

[00:02:50] [SPEAKER_02]: I told somebody that there were five or six of those or whatever, and I about blew their minds.

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_02]: They couldn't believe it.

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_02]: That's great.

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, but this is a little bit of a...

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like him, her, them, they. Oh, God, like time for it?

[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_01]: It? Pennywise coming over for Christmas. That'd be great.

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_02]: You'll float too.

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_02]: A reminder, you can get Christmas movie magic.

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you've got a chance to play this yet, Brett, but it's our very fun card game.

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_02]: That you can get to play along while you watch these movies.

[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_02]: We still got quite a few movies left, even though we're approaching closer to Christmas.

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_02]: But we got, what is it, six terrestrial movies left after this week.

[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_02]: That's right.

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_02]: And then a handful.

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_01]: But who's counting, you know?

[00:03:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I walked into the office today and Dan said, six more!

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, six more.

[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_01]: One more full weekend, and that's it.

[00:03:41] [SPEAKER_02]: That's right.

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_02]: DagTheHomeware.com slash game if you would like to get your hands on this.

[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_02]: And of course, we watched this movie on Philo, and you can watch this movie as well as this

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_02]: that we're doing right now.

[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_02]: As well as this.

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_02]: As well as this.

[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a weird pause.

[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_02]: I know it was a weird pause, and I realized it too late.

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Philo.tv slash DTH to get your hands on all the movies.

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_02]: All the movies.

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Your eyes on them, even.

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_02]: You can.

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you'll get your hands on the remote, and then your eyes on the movies.

[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_02]: That's right.

[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_02]: That's what we're trying to do.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Unlimited DVR.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_01]: You got it.

[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_01]: That's exactly right.

[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_01]: You nailed it.

[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Shall we talk to Sugar Plum?

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Philo just canceled.

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_01]: No, don't say it.

[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Don't even joke.

[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Write about that on Pop Heist.

[00:04:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_02]: We'll give you.

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_02]: If that happens, we'll give you that.

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_02]: I'll expose.

[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I love it.

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll get the Hallmark glue their sponsorship.

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Man, you'd have so many stories.

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_02]: There's so many.

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Do you have enough internet space?

[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_02]: So many opportunities.

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_02]: We would crash your site.

[00:04:35] [SPEAKER_02]: You don't have the space.

[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_02]: We would heist your pop.

[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Let's get to Sugar Plum, shall we?

[00:04:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Heist.

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_02]: December 8th, 2024 is when it originally premiered.

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_02]: If you missed it, it went a little something like this.

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_02]: The movie kicks off with a promotion for The Harmony Channel.

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_02]: They are airing a marathon of their popular Sugar Plum series, and viewers can win a home decorating contest, and it's going to be a big deal for the network.

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Cut to real life.

[00:05:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Emily is a mom of a moody, artistic teenage girl named Nina and a TikTok-ing teenage boy named Max, and she is married to Ben, an architect who never understands what his son is doing.

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_02]: And I mean fair.

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Emily is very type A, complete with her Christmas checklist.

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Her family doesn't care for the checklist.

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_02]: They just kind of want to do their own thing, and so we'll see how that turns out.

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Emily is a hotshot dealmaker with an assistant who spends her days not working but watching made-for-TV Christmas movies.

[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Emily explains that these movies are dumb, and they all follow the same rules.

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_02]: She says, of course, I'd love for my life to be like one of these movies, but it's just not realistic.

[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Her assistant encourages her to live in the moment instead of focusing on the list, and maybe she'll be surprised.

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Emily's mom collected ornaments, and so when she finds out that those ornaments were delivered not to her house but to the office, she runs by the office late at night to grab them.

[00:06:13] [SPEAKER_02]: The box that they're in breaks.

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_02]: They all fall through to the ground, including a star.

[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_02]: She picks up the star, and on the back of it, it says something like, make a wish, make a wish, big guy.

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_02]: And so she looks up, and on the computer screen are these sugar-plumbed movies.

[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_02]: And so she wishes for a sugar-plum Christmas.

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_02]: She wants to be like she's in one of these movies.

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_02]: And just then the star begins to glow.

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_02]: All of the lights in the office begin to flicker, and suddenly sugar-plumb magically appears in her office.

[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Sugar-plumb is just as confused as Emily is and asks Emily to help her get back to her town of perfection.

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Emily is overwhelmed and says, I'm going crazy, and she runs to leave.

[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Sugar-plum follows her.

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_02]: They figure out that people can see sugar-plum, but they don't recognize her as sugar-plum.

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_02]: It's like when people see me, and they know me from Deck the Hallmark, but they don't know who Dan is.

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Sugar-plum is confused by the lack of snow on the ground and explains that snow is a part of the rules.

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Emily is shocked and asks, the rules are real?

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_02]: And sugar-plum is like, yeah, I mean, look, it's a book.

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_02]: She says, read a book, literally.

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_02]: She pulls out the book and says, it's pretty clear here.

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_02]: And I think what's happening is I am here to help make sure that you have a perfect Christmas.

[00:07:36] [SPEAKER_02]: And after I do that, I'll get to go back to my home.

[00:07:39] [SPEAKER_02]: The next day, Emily wakes up and is shocked to find that sugar-plum has brought in a full decoration crew.

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Decorator.

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, decorating team.

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_02]: A decorating team to her house.

[00:07:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Decoration crew.

[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_02]: A decoration crew.

[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_02]: A decoration crew.

[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Right after I said it, I was like, I don't think that's a thing.

[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_02]: And they decorate the house to make it look like a winter wonderland.

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Emily is surprised to learn that the decorations are, I'm sorry, sugar-plum is surprised to find out that the decorators are working,

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_02]: not working out of the goodness of their hearts.

[00:08:12] [SPEAKER_02]: But for money, what is this world?

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Luckily, she has a bag full of tiaras from all the princes that she's met over the years.

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_02]: When sugar-plum finds out that Emily has a big city job, she just wants to tag along and see what that's like.

[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_02]: She listens in as Emily has a meeting with a developer who wants to tear down a ski lodge.

[00:08:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Sugar-plum walks in and works her magic, and she helps the two enemies, Vic Webster and Fiona Goobelman, fall in love.

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_02]: And boy, is it steamy?

[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Give those two a movie ASAP.

[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_02]: The magic of sugar-plum continues when they find out that the headphones that Nina wants for Christmas is only available if you win a Christmas competition.

[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Sugar-plum absolutely crushes it.

[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Emily is too busy to show up for Max's career day event, so sugar-plum agrees to go.

[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_02]: And at first, the kids make fun of her for being weird and makes fun of Max for bringing in a weirdo.

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_02]: These kids are ruthless.

[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_02]: But then sugar-plum pulls out a magic snow globe, and it causes it to snow indoors.

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Max becomes the most popular kid in school, at least for a day.

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Emily gets great news.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Her newly decorated house has secured a spot in the Harmony Channel's Christmas House competition.

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_02]: That's just what this family needs.

[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_02]: But the magic begins to fade.

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_02]: The power goes out due to too many Christmas lights.

[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Vic Webster actually wasn't a nice guy after all and just was trying to trick her into giving up the ski lodge.

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Sugar-plum gets sued for cutting down a tree that's in the neighbor's yard and then gets arrested for causing snow in the school.

[00:09:48] [SPEAKER_02]: The police are baffled by sugar-plum, seeing as how she has snowflakes as fingerprints.

[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Luckily, Emily knows the law and is able to get her released.

[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_02]: But it's getting too real for Emily.

[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Her son is suspended.

[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Her daughter is mad at her for ignoring her this holiday season.

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Sugar-plum realizes that the magic is fading.

[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Emily thinks that as long as they win the contest, it'll be okay.

[00:10:13] [SPEAKER_02]: That's the thing that will bring this family back together.

[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_02]: And it'll be this memory that they can hold on to.

[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_02]: But things get out of control when she has a ton more decorations to try to ensure that they win the contest.

[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_02]: She doesn't even realize that her family is absolutely hating what is going on.

[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Her kids say, we didn't ask for any of this.

[00:10:33] [SPEAKER_02]: We just want Christmas to be how it used to be.

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_02]: And so they all leave her alone and go to the Christmas pageant to see Nina perform.

[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Sugar-plum helps Emily realize that her family doesn't need a perfect Christmas.

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_02]: They need her.

[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Emily pulls out of the competition and makes it in time to see her daughter perform in the pageant.

[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_02]: But Nina is freaking out and runs away, doesn't want to go on stage.

[00:10:56] [SPEAKER_02]: And Emily gives her a little pep talk about how you don't have to worry about being perfect.

[00:11:00] [SPEAKER_02]: You just have to have fun.

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_02]: A speech that Dan gives me every day.

[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, every day.

[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's why I am who I am.

[00:11:09] [SPEAKER_02]: That's exactly right.

[00:11:09] [SPEAKER_02]: The performance is great, complete with some Christmas magic.

[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Everything is as it should be.

[00:11:14] [SPEAKER_02]: And Sugar-plum says that it's time for her to go.

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_02]: So she suddenly is transported back into the TV and the family sits down to watch a Sugar-plum Christmas.

[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_02]: And they realize that the friend that's been hanging out all week looks a whole lot like Sugar-plum.

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_02]: And that, my friends, was Sugar-plum.

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_01]: We did it.

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_01]: It was a lot.

[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Let's take a quick break.

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_02]: We'll come back.

[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_02]: We will break this movie down.

[00:11:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Pop Heisted.

[00:11:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Pop Heisted.

[00:11:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Pop, pop.

[00:11:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Here on.

[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Check the hallmark.

[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Dan, there's nothing better than Cozy Earth this time of year.

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_02]: The best.

[00:11:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Because one, it keeps us cozy, literally.

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_02]: We got this new blanket in my house.

[00:12:02] [SPEAKER_02]: And it is the best thing to have with me while I'm watching a bunch of Christmas movies.

[00:12:07] [SPEAKER_02]: But it's also perfect as gifts.

[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_02]: We're always thinking about gifts.

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_02]: What do we give somebody?

[00:12:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Cozy Earth is the perfect thing.

[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_01]: It's the perfect gift, Brian.

[00:12:16] [SPEAKER_01]: We're Cozy Earth fans in our house.

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_01]: It's the sheets that keep you cool all night.

[00:12:20] [SPEAKER_01]: It's the blanket that keeps you warm when it's cold outside.

[00:12:22] [SPEAKER_01]: It's the pajamas, the most comfortable pajamas you'll ever put on.

[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Whatever you get at Cozy Earth, it is of premium, high quality.

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_01]: It helps you sleep better.

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_01]: It helps you feel better.

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_01]: And yes, you're right.

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_01]: This time of year, what better gift to give somebody than the gift of comfort and cozy

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_01]: in your own home?

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_02]: That's exactly right.

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[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_01]: And I can tell you this, Brian.

[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_01]: I bought my wife some pajamas this year.

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_01]: They were discounted.

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_01]: I put the code in.

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[00:13:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Promo code Hallmark.

[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome back, everybody.

[00:13:23] [SPEAKER_02]: We're talking sugar plumbed.

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Brent White is joining us from Pop Heist.

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's time to break down sugar plumbed.

[00:13:31] [SPEAKER_02]: We're going to break it down with four seconds.

[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_02]: We're going to start with the hot take.

[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_02]: And we're going to let Brian go first.

[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, Brian goes first.

[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_02]: It's in his rider.

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_02]: So that Brent can learn what not to do.

[00:13:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Brian.

[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, God.

[00:13:45] [SPEAKER_03]: What did you think about sugar plumbed?

[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Set the bar real low here.

[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_03]: Frickin' like this one a lot.

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_03]: This poking fun at the tropes.

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Having it all crash down unexpectedly.

[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_03]: I didn't see that coming all the way.

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Massacre.

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Tea in the ocean.

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_03]: The twist of everything coming down.

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_03]: Ryan Landels.

[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_03]: Randells.

[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Landels.

[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not sure how you pronounce it.

[00:14:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Wrote and directed.

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_03]: He wrote and directed this.

[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_03]: And Santa Tell Me.

[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_03]: And Santa Tell Me.

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_03]: What a year.

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_03]: What a year.

[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_03]: What a year.

[00:14:16] [SPEAKER_01]: You imagine of him.

[00:14:17] [SPEAKER_03]: Auteur.

[00:14:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_01]: And auteur.

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_01]: He's the Chris Nolan of Hallmarks.

[00:14:21] [SPEAKER_03]: He's right there.

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_03]: Imagine of him and Russ.

[00:14:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Haneline.

[00:14:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Got to talking.

[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, boy.

[00:14:27] [SPEAKER_03]: We're not ready for that.

[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_03]: I've heard they hate each other, actually.

[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Actually, that might work better.

[00:14:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Quite a feud.

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Feuding Christmas movie writers?

[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_03]: That's actually not a bad idea.

[00:14:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Write that down right now.

[00:14:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Write that down right when I throw it to Brett.

[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_03]: So I had a great time.

[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_03]: I got to go write that synopsis for that movie.

[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Brett, what'd you think of Sugar Plumped?

[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_01]: That's really it for your content.

[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_00]: So as editor-in-chief of my own website, I get to do whatever I want.

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And from my Hallmark reviews, I've always wanted to do Marvel trading cards.

[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_00]: From Marvel Series 3 trading cards with the power ratings on the back.

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Except instead of fighting ability and strength and stuff, it's coziness and festivity.

[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_00]: And of the six traits, this movie gets a seven out of seven on four of them.

[00:15:08] [SPEAKER_00]: This is like a cosmic being level power.

[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_00]: This is like the Galactus of Hallmark movies.

[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_00]: This was amazing.

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I checked every single thing.

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was smart and subversive.

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I did not know where it was going.

[00:15:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought Janelle Parrish created a character for the ages.

[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_04]: For the ages.

[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I absolutely loved everything about this movie.

[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Also, the cinematography.

[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought this was shot beautifully.

[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Looked like I could see this on a big screen.

[00:15:39] [SPEAKER_00]: On a larger screen than my old television, which is what I watched it on.

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_00]: This 1988.

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my God.

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Look at that.

[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_00]: You get philo on that.

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_00]: That's crazy.

[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Philo.

[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_01]: It's one of them smart television.

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

[00:15:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Just look at it.

[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_02]: I wasted it.

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_02]: I got to say, first of all, I agree with everything that these fellows have said.

[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_02]: This movie is phenomenal.

[00:16:08] [SPEAKER_02]: One of the best of the year.

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_02]: I think it could be even duking it out as best of the year for me.

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_02]: I thought that this movie was so much fun.

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's been a long time coming for Hallmark to finally do a movie like this, where they kind of make fun of the movies, but also what the public at large thinks about the movies.

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_02]: You see the stories every year about how the Hallmark movies are all the same.

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_02]: And here's take this thing and find out if you are the person that goes back to the small town or whatever.

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Like, there's all of these tropes.

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_02]: And I think that this movie does a great job of playing into those while also still at the same time having a Hallmark movie in it with this family.

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_02]: And I thought that the family – I thought that the actor who plays Nina was phenomenal.

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_02]: More of that.

[00:17:05] [SPEAKER_02]: But, yeah, I thought that this movie hit basically every beat that I could possibly want it to.

[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Loved it.

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Dana?

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's going to end up in my top ten, not my top five.

[00:17:16] [SPEAKER_01]: I guess I'm a little bit more mixed on it than these guys.

[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Was Confessions of a Christmas Letter better than this?

[00:17:21] [SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, and no a thousand times no.

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_01]: But I will say this.

[00:17:28] [SPEAKER_01]: The good news here is Janelle Parrish, I mean, best character of the year.

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Want to see this character – I want to see Sugar Plum in one movie every Christmas season.

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_01]: I want to see as much of that character and as much of Janelle Parrish playing that character as I can possibly see.

[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_01]: She's phenomenal in this movie.

[00:17:50] [SPEAKER_01]: I guess for me, the first 40 minutes of this movie are also great.

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe my favorite 40 if we just get to have the first 40 minutes.

[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_01]: And Hallmark is trying to walk a pretty fine line here, which is we're making fun of our movies.

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_01]: We're telling you that real life shouldn't be like these movies.

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_01]: But also, we do think they should be a little bit like these movies.

[00:18:17] [SPEAKER_01]: And we even get her at the end kind of make the painting crooked a little and wink at the camera.

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's a really fine line to walk.

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like in the second half of this movie, when everything unravels, I didn't find myself caring about any individual thing.

[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_01]: I applaud Hallmark for not having a love story be the A, B, or C plot in this movie.

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_01]: And I thought Janelle Parrish was amazing.

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_01]: But as soon as we get off the train where everything is just like they're the rule book, here it is,

[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_01]: until where the rule book's wrong, it actually makes things worse,

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_01]: I would have almost liked to see it fully commit to that or keep being basically Hallmark's version of Elf.

[00:18:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Which the first 40 minutes of this are Hallmark's version of Elf.

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, Janelle Parrish is her own character, but it's very similar to Elf in the standpoint that she decorates the house in the middle of the night.

[00:19:04] [SPEAKER_01]: They shows up to a big business working job and kind of ruins everything.

[00:19:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Like there's a lot of similarities to the movie Elf.

[00:19:10] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's not a complaint.

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_01]: That's not a bug.

[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_01]: That's a feature.

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_01]: I would have rather continued on that path or seen everything go just full calamitous.

[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_01]: And instead, Hallmark's kind of hedging their bet here and going, yeah, it's not like that in real life.

[00:19:25] [SPEAKER_01]: But also, we still would like for you to watch our movies.

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_01]: And so it almost felt like a commercial at the end for me.

[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Having said that, when it's good, it's good.

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_01]: And Janelle Parrish is undeniable in this movie.

[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_01]: And we give her the deckie now?

[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_01]: She's amazing.

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_01]: She's amazing.

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_01]: I do think she should win whatever that is, a real Hallmark queen this year, the deckie.

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I think she's given the best performance.

[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_01]: And I think she's a star of this movie.

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Definitely in my top ten right now.

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_01]: But not as good overall.

[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't care about anything in this movie as much as I cared about at least one relationship or one plot point in the top five that I have.

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_01]: And that was a deciding factor for me.

[00:20:03] [SPEAKER_01]: So there you have it.

[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Aaron brought this up while watching it, but I think we can all agree.

[00:20:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Let's retire Debbie McComber's Mrs. Miracle.

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_02]: No more Mrs. Miracle.

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_02]: And let's just do Sugar Plums.

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Just do Sugar Plums.

[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I wanted to react.

[00:20:19] [SPEAKER_00]: What I found fascinating about this movie, talking about walking that fine line, is that it almost, I took it as Emily's to-do list ends up being just as impractical and ridiculous as Sugar Plums' big book of rules.

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Which is an interesting way of calling out, like, we all think we're better than Hallmark movies and we watch them.

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_00]: We're like, oh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_00]: But what this movie does is be like, but yeah, you think you're better, but you know what?

[00:20:48] [SPEAKER_00]: You trying to get that perfect Christmas photo a week before Christmas?

[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_00]: It's also equally ridiculous.

[00:20:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And that is like such a level of interesting nuance that I never would have expected from a Hallmark movie.

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And when she says no to the Christmas contest, which is of course happening on Christmas Eve because no one has families to be with on Christmas Eve.

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, loved it.

[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Fantastic.

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_01]: And I think if you read it like that, that's a great read.

[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_01]: I think you got to have this near the top of your list.

[00:21:17] [SPEAKER_01]: For me, the first half of this movie is better than the second half in my opinion.

[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm excited.

[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_02]: I think currently I have it too, but there's a world where I move it over.

[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_02]: You have it too.

[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_02]: I have it too.

[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Wow.

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_02]: There's a world where I put it one.

[00:21:28] [SPEAKER_02]: What is the best?

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_02]: What are y'all thinking is the best?

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I have holiday touchdown as one, but I, I, I cry.

[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, me too.

[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_01]: And I cry at these movies very much never.

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_01]: And so holiday touchdown one.

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_01]: And currently I've moved a finish line up to two.

[00:21:42] [SPEAKER_01]: So finish line.

[00:21:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I really enjoyed.

[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_03]: I have Carol for two.

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Still in my top.

[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Carol for two over here.

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_01]: This guy.

[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_01]: That is number one spot.

[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Let's get to all the feels.

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_02]: This is where we're talking about what this movie gave us feels.

[00:21:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Right?

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_03]: This one.

[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, the, the, the scene where she comes to life in the office was really well done,

[00:22:01] [SPEAKER_03]: but my feels was something we, I mentioned, and we all sort of like, I don't know if we

[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_03]: all got on, on board with this, but Carlo Marks in a sort of a bad guy role, handing a summons,

[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_03]: he showed up and I go, this is what I want to see him doing.

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_03]: I want to see him doing this stuff.

[00:22:17] [SPEAKER_03]: This is great.

[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Great cameo.

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_02]: I want to see Carlo Marks any day and twice on Sunday.

[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_01]: This is one of my wait what's, but we can do it now, which is like the way this movie uses cameos was weird to me.

[00:22:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Like Vic Webster shows up for one scene of this movie originally as a goatee bad guy, which is hilarious.

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm here for it.

[00:22:37] [SPEAKER_01]: But then we get like three character changes for him and we never see him again.

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_01]: So it's like, turns out he was lying to me about the bubble.

[00:22:45] [SPEAKER_01]: But we can see him doing all are in love.

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_01]: And Carlo Marks, like I want cameos like Ben Ayers, like Ben Ayers knows how to cameo, like wrinkle the page, make it funny.

[00:22:55] [SPEAKER_01]: These are what they do here is, is they have Carlo Marks and Vic Webster in a scene each and then make them, especially Vic, a part of the movie without having them on screen.

[00:23:04] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's not a fun cameo.

[00:23:06] [SPEAKER_01]: That was a big like record scratch for me.

[00:23:08] [SPEAKER_01]: I was hard disagree with you on that.

[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't agree.

[00:23:11] [SPEAKER_02]: I thought that the scene with Fiona was phenomenal.

[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was great.

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Great moment.

[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_02]: It's not how I want a cameo.

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_02]: And Hillary wants to know how excited I was to see Carlo Marks show up.

[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so excited.

[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Real excited.

[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_01]: As excited.

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Whatever the opposite of that is, that's what I was.

[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Brett, you got any feels?

[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_00]: What?

[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_00]: So my six categories at Popeye's are coziness, festivity, merriment, sentiment, surprise, and romance.

[00:23:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And this movie was hitting six on coziness, seven on festivity, merriment, sentiment, and surprise.

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Romance was where I was like, man, this is a 2-3.

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_00]: It was so below.

[00:23:52] [SPEAKER_00]: But at the very, very, very end, it got up to a 4.

[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Because what I realized when she's having the talk with Nina, and Nina's like, I want to go to music college.

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Why are you not?

[00:24:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And then when the mother, when Emily looks at her, it's like, you're unstoppable.

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_00]: That just, a mother telling her daughter, no, you know, I believe in anything you can do.

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_00]: You're unstoppable.

[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, tears.

[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And then when I realized, like, the love story of this movie isn't, you know, a mad woman, two leads.

[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_00]: It's the family.

[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.

[00:24:22] [SPEAKER_00]: The movie's, like, arc is, it is the love story.

[00:24:25] [SPEAKER_00]: The romance is between this four-person family unit.

[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And then it just, like, poof.

[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And I just absolutely loved it.

[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_00]: So it got up to a 4 out of 7 on my romance.

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_02]: I agree with that 100%.

[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's something that we've been asking for a while now is for, hey, if we're, let's just do an actual full movie where it's not about the, the, the, like, the, the romance isn't the A storyline.

[00:24:51] [SPEAKER_02]: And maybe there's not even, like, obviously they're, they're married and that's a part of it, but it's not like they had some sort of crazy.

[00:24:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Definitely not A to your C.

[00:24:58] [SPEAKER_02]: No.

[00:24:58] [SPEAKER_02]: And so, like.

[00:24:59] [SPEAKER_00]: That could have been the whole movie is Sugar Plum trying to help her.

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, you need to plan the perfect date.

[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_00]: You need to walk down Main Street.

[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_02]: This is so much better than that.

[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_02]: And so I'm so happy that we finally did it.

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_02]: And this movie, I think it's the funniest movie of the year.

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_02]: And it wasn't like this movie that was like, you know, we, we went into Three Wys and we were like, it's going to be funny.

[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Let's get the funny guys.

[00:25:22] [SPEAKER_02]: And so going into this, I laughed so much.

[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_02]: And the elf trope, it works for, like, Noel.

[00:25:29] [SPEAKER_02]: I love Noel on Disney Plus because it's just so, like, this fish out of water going in and trying, like, it always works for me.

[00:25:35] [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's so funny.

[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_02]: And this movie made me laugh more than any other movie this year.

[00:25:38] [SPEAKER_02]: And so that makes me happy.

[00:25:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Dana?

[00:25:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Two scenes.

[00:25:40] [SPEAKER_02]: One.

[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_00]: When do we talk about our favorite jokes?

[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Do we have favorite jokes?

[00:25:44] [SPEAKER_00]: You can go favorite jokes.

[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Right, go favorite jokes.

[00:25:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:25:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, whenever she's like, this is my friend Sue Garplum.

[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And then that's just her name the entire time.

[00:25:54] [SPEAKER_00]: The Garplum family.

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I also love that they felt the need to explain what a Hallmark movie was at the very beginning.

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Which she was like, can you please not watch full length made for TV original holiday movies

[00:26:04] [SPEAKER_00]: at your desk?

[00:26:05] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, that's right.

[00:26:06] [SPEAKER_01]: We all know what that is for sure.

[00:26:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Some of us because it's our job.

[00:26:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Some of us not.

[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Of course.

[00:26:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Two scenes for all the feels.

[00:26:15] [SPEAKER_01]: One in the pawn shop where she explains how she has all this from all the different princes.

[00:26:20] [SPEAKER_01]: That's funny.

[00:26:20] [SPEAKER_01]: That is funny.

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_01]: That's just a good time.

[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, there should be a few princes just walking around here incognito.

[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_01]: That's prime stuff.

[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_01]: It is.

[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_01]: That's as good as it gets.

[00:26:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Really funny.

[00:26:31] [SPEAKER_01]: And then to Brett's point, the best direction of the year or cinematography, however we would

[00:26:38] [SPEAKER_01]: like to, whoever we'd like to give the credit to there, probably a team effort.

[00:26:41] [SPEAKER_01]: The family group hug in this movie where you get a close up of every family member's face.

[00:26:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, in the hug.

[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Nailed it.

[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

[00:26:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Very, very well done.

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Really good stuff.

[00:26:54] [SPEAKER_01]: That is above and beyond what Hallmark I've ever thought was capable of doing.

[00:26:59] [SPEAKER_01]: So above and beyond that.

[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_02]: The most unrealistic part is Sugar Plum going up and being like, it's like a movie.

[00:27:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Not, it's not my movie.

[00:27:05] [SPEAKER_02]: It's not a movie you'd see on Sugar Plum.

[00:27:07] [SPEAKER_02]: No, it's a real movie.

[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_02]: It was like, we all were like, what a scene.

[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_01]: For the record, weirdly enough, I think Finish Line is also funnier than this movie.

[00:27:16] [SPEAKER_01]: I think the Lavi character gets more laughs for me.

[00:27:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I think the Lavi character in Finish Line, on top of the fact that Kim Machula and Bo

[00:27:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Merchoff had crazy chemistry.

[00:27:25] [SPEAKER_01]: For me, that movie worked on levels this movie didn't.

[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_01]: But this movie has its moments for sure.

[00:27:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Let's take a break.

[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_02]: We'll come back.

[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_02]: We'll get to the Wait What's and the What the Hallmark here on Deck the Hallmark.

[00:27:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Hello, everybody.

[00:27:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome back.

[00:27:50] [SPEAKER_02]: We're talking Sugar Plum.

[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Brett White is here with us.

[00:27:53] [SPEAKER_02]: We're breaking this movie down.

[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_02]: It's time for the Wait What's where we're talking about what in the studio made us go.

[00:27:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Wait What?

[00:27:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Brian, you got any?

[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_02]: A couple.

[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_03]: A couple.

[00:28:00] [SPEAKER_03]: The mom bashed.

[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, Nina just wants to go to Berklee.

[00:28:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Great school.

[00:28:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Great school.

[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_03]: And the mom is just like, you need some real prospects.

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_03]: Like, you get into Berklee.

[00:28:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Let's call it a backup school, okay?

[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_03]: I thought they were talking Berklee School of Music in Boston.

[00:28:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I thought.

[00:28:14] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh.

[00:28:14] [SPEAKER_03]: You think UC Berkeley?

[00:28:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh.

[00:28:17] [SPEAKER_03]: It was Berklee in Boston.

[00:28:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, my God.

[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, just.

[00:28:21] [SPEAKER_03]: And the whole time, I felt like, has she heard her daughter play music?

[00:28:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Does she know if she can even sing?

[00:28:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Like, does she even know what her daughter can do?

[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe like Juilliard's a backup, you know?

[00:28:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Right.

[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_03]: In that case, I mean, now we're talking.

[00:28:33] [SPEAKER_03]: Now I'm worried about the prospects.

[00:28:34] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_03]: The fruit cakes that burned at the beginning, I think she specifically said, family meeting

[00:28:41] [SPEAKER_03]: 10 minutes.

[00:28:41] [SPEAKER_03]: And then she put the fruit cake in the oven, and then they caught fire.

[00:28:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Within 10 minutes.

[00:28:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:28:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Like, just.

[00:28:46] [SPEAKER_01]: You can't do that.

[00:28:46] [SPEAKER_01]: How hot was that?

[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_01]: And if you think you're going to sink anything baking past old Bacon Brian over here, you

[00:28:51] [SPEAKER_01]: got your straight mark on that one.

[00:28:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Sheesh.

[00:28:53] [SPEAKER_03]: It's a good thing they didn't show her scooping the flour, because I know she didn't do it.

[00:28:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, she didn't do it right.

[00:28:57] [SPEAKER_03]: God knows.

[00:28:58] [SPEAKER_03]: That's a disaster.

[00:28:58] [SPEAKER_03]: That's a disaster.

[00:28:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Nina said to her mom at one point,

[00:29:00] [SPEAKER_03]: before the pageant, she's very nervous.

[00:29:02] [SPEAKER_03]: She says, what if you're right not to believe in me?

[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_03]: And her mom didn't even flinch.

[00:29:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Good job.

[00:29:12] [SPEAKER_03]: That is how you respond to that pandering.

[00:29:14] [SPEAKER_03]: What if you're right on the, you, all you want to do is music.

[00:29:18] [SPEAKER_03]: All you talk about is music.

[00:29:19] [SPEAKER_01]: It's time for Brian's bad parent text.

[00:29:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Get out of here with this nonsense.

[00:29:22] [SPEAKER_01]: What if, what if you're right?

[00:29:23] [SPEAKER_01]: What if I can't do it?

[00:29:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Get on that stage.

[00:29:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Don't reassure your kids.

[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Don't encourage them.

[00:29:28] [SPEAKER_03]: You don't give them an inch.

[00:29:29] [SPEAKER_03]: No.

[00:29:29] [SPEAKER_01]: You all, you want to go to Berkeley?

[00:29:30] [SPEAKER_01]: You don't give them an inch.

[00:29:32] [SPEAKER_02]: The only way this would have been better for Brian is if they were giving this advice over

[00:29:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Zoom because they're halfway around the world.

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_02]: That's right.

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_02]: As far away as possible.

[00:29:42] [SPEAKER_02]: That's exactly right.

[00:29:42] [SPEAKER_02]: So you know, that's good.

[00:29:43] [SPEAKER_03]: What's the, why do you have to be there?

[00:29:45] [SPEAKER_03]: That's exactly right.

[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_03]: We don't need to go to meetings.

[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Better than the internet in the studio.

[00:29:48] [SPEAKER_03]: That's for sure.

[00:29:48] [SPEAKER_03]: That's for sure.

[00:29:49] [SPEAKER_03]: Anything else?

[00:29:50] [SPEAKER_03]: And her house was kind of decorated before this list.

[00:29:53] [SPEAKER_03]: I feel like she could have checked that one off.

[00:29:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Like, give yourself one of the list.

[00:29:56] [SPEAKER_03]: So, all right.

[00:29:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Brett, what you got?

[00:30:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I love that, you know, Hallmark movies or movies are made by people that know TV production

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_00]: and movie production and whatnot.

[00:30:07] [SPEAKER_00]: But yet, when it comes to how movies and TV shows work in a Hallmark movie, no clue.

[00:30:12] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, we're going to run a contest and we're going to decide the winner on Christmas

[00:30:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Eve.

[00:30:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Get out of here now.

[00:30:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Same thing as like Jingle Bell Run where it's like, these people aren't even mic'd all

[00:30:22] [SPEAKER_00]: the time.

[00:30:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's terrible.

[00:30:22] [SPEAKER_00]: The cameras aren't even recording them.

[00:30:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, it's so preposterous that it's camp.

[00:30:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I like, I end up circling around to loving.

[00:30:31] [SPEAKER_02]: There's a reason why, there's a reason why Hallmark is only premiering two movies the weekend

[00:30:36] [SPEAKER_02]: of Christmas.

[00:30:38] [SPEAKER_00]: They're like, we know Pete, you're done.

[00:30:39] [SPEAKER_02]: They're done on the 20th.

[00:30:40] [SPEAKER_02]: You're done.

[00:30:41] [SPEAKER_02]: You're done.

[00:30:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:30:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:30:42] [SPEAKER_00]: We're out.

[00:30:43] [SPEAKER_00]: We are gone.

[00:30:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Christmas card photo a week before Christmas.

[00:30:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Get out of here.

[00:30:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Get out of here.

[00:30:51] [SPEAKER_00]: That was like, oh, that makes no sense to me.

[00:30:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And then I also love that the star's message was essentially Hallmark Mjolnir.

[00:30:59] [SPEAKER_00]: It was literally like, if they be worthy, all the things we wish will be granted.

[00:31:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, no, no explanation as to where that star comes from.

[00:31:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, I hope it shows up in a movie every year.

[00:31:13] [SPEAKER_00]: What if it's like, we don't even know it's coming.

[00:31:15] [SPEAKER_00]: They advertise like a normal Hallmark movie.

[00:31:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And then at the end of act one, they pick up the star and we're like, oh my God, it's

[00:31:22] [SPEAKER_00]: a Sugar Plum movie.

[00:31:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Next year, Hallmark.

[00:31:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Come on.

[00:31:24] [SPEAKER_02]: So sign me up right now.

[00:31:25] [SPEAKER_02]: I would love that.

[00:31:26] [SPEAKER_02]: That'd be wonderful.

[00:31:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Anything else?

[00:31:30] [SPEAKER_00]: No.

[00:31:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Those are, you know, everything else.

[00:31:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Airtight.

[00:31:33] [SPEAKER_00]: That's exactly right.

[00:31:34] [SPEAKER_02]: I only have two.

[00:31:37] [SPEAKER_02]: One.

[00:31:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Thank God Sugar Plum was here for this competition because part of the competition is knitting.

[00:31:45] [SPEAKER_02]: And if Sugar Plum wasn't air to make a whole sweater, that's days.

[00:31:50] [SPEAKER_02]: That's a day long competition for these headphones.

[00:31:53] [SPEAKER_02]: And good luck.

[00:31:55] [SPEAKER_02]: So Sugar Plum really saved everybody, you know, a lot of hours because she's so good

[00:31:59] [SPEAKER_02]: at knitting.

[00:32:01] [SPEAKER_02]: And once again, shout out to Erin.

[00:32:03] [SPEAKER_02]: She said this one and I don't want to listen.

[00:32:06] [SPEAKER_02]: I get I got to give credit to where credit is due.

[00:32:08] [SPEAKER_02]: At the end of this movie, they all are going to sit down and watch a movie and they're

[00:32:12] [SPEAKER_02]: going to wear their Christmas sweaters.

[00:32:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Of course you are.

[00:32:15] [SPEAKER_02]: You are.

[00:32:16] [SPEAKER_02]: And to do that, they just put their sweaters over their fancy formal attire.

[00:32:23] [SPEAKER_02]: She's over there in pencil skirt, which I haven't worn, but I can't imagine is what I would want

[00:32:27] [SPEAKER_02]: to wear while watching one of these movies.

[00:32:29] [SPEAKER_02]: I love it.

[00:32:30] [SPEAKER_02]: It's just like, OK, let's do it.

[00:32:32] [SPEAKER_02]: He's got his button up shirt on.

[00:32:34] [SPEAKER_02]: When I get home, let's go.

[00:32:38] [SPEAKER_02]: What are you doing?

[00:32:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Nobody is nobody is sitting down to watch a cozy Christmas Eve movie in their formal attire.

[00:32:49] [SPEAKER_02]: And they're definitely not going to put a Christmas sweater over top of the formal attire.

[00:32:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Get out of here with that.

[00:32:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Dano?

[00:32:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this teenager played like marvelously by I think it's Kyra Leroux.

[00:33:02] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[00:33:03] [SPEAKER_01]: It could be Kyra.

[00:33:04] [SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of different ways that could go.

[00:33:06] [SPEAKER_01]: The teenage daughter who I think does a great job in this movie.

[00:33:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Language of origin?

[00:33:09] [SPEAKER_01]: She I can't.

[00:33:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Not right now.

[00:33:11] [SPEAKER_01]: OK, use it in a sentence.

[00:33:12] [SPEAKER_01]: She is so her whole life is music so much so that she has four whole posters up in her

[00:33:18] [SPEAKER_01]: room swallowed by white space.

[00:33:19] [SPEAKER_01]: One of them just reading.

[00:33:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's rock.

[00:33:22] [SPEAKER_01]: So speaks for itself.

[00:33:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, awesome.

[00:33:24] [SPEAKER_01]: That's how you know she loves music.

[00:33:27] [SPEAKER_01]: That teenage girl is walking through the mall one day and she's like, is that a let's rock

[00:33:31] [SPEAKER_01]: poster?

[00:33:32] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean it.

[00:33:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.

[00:33:34] [SPEAKER_03]: Parents are going to hate this one.

[00:33:36] [SPEAKER_01]: This high school that this son goes to the week before Christmas, they're holding parents come

[00:33:42] [SPEAKER_01]: in for career week because they hate everyone.

[00:33:46] [SPEAKER_01]: They hate everyone.

[00:33:48] [SPEAKER_01]: They're going to make all the parents show up to talk about their career the week before Christmas.

[00:33:53] [SPEAKER_01]: And I checked the tape on this.

[00:33:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Go ahead.

[00:33:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Especially someone who I think might be a weird defense contract.

[00:34:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, might be an assassin.

[00:34:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Might be an assassin.

[00:34:10] [SPEAKER_00]: You're endangering your child or all the students because I think that there are like dots, like

[00:34:14] [SPEAKER_00]: red dots.

[00:34:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly.

[00:34:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:34:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Is that a sniper?

[00:34:16] [SPEAKER_00]: You guys see that?

[00:34:17] [SPEAKER_01]: They're doing this the week before Christmas because they hate all of us.

[00:34:19] [SPEAKER_01]: And then I checked the tape.

[00:34:22] [SPEAKER_01]: According to Maggie Lawson's character, every kid's parent has showed up but them.

[00:34:29] [SPEAKER_01]: So this is a school where you have 100% parent participation in high school.

[00:34:35] [SPEAKER_01]: That place doesn't exist.

[00:34:38] [SPEAKER_01]: That place doesn't exist.

[00:34:40] [SPEAKER_01]: I've spent 20 years in high school.

[00:34:41] [SPEAKER_01]: They don't exist.

[00:34:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Every parent of every kid has been like, yeah, I'll show up for career day for sure.

[00:34:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Not in your life.

[00:34:50] [SPEAKER_01]: You can't get that many people to go to a first grade hayride.

[00:34:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Are you kidding me?

[00:34:54] [SPEAKER_01]: By high school?

[00:34:55] [SPEAKER_01]: By high school parents don't care?

[00:34:56] [SPEAKER_01]: They're just like, where do I give the check to?

[00:34:58] [SPEAKER_01]: What's the, like, all of them have showed up for this, including an assassin.

[00:35:03] [SPEAKER_01]: That was wild.

[00:35:04] [SPEAKER_01]: That was a wild thing that happened.

[00:35:07] [SPEAKER_01]: And then lastly, Maggie Lawson's sweater before the news crew is going to come in and

[00:35:11] [SPEAKER_01]: gets eggnog spilled on it.

[00:35:13] [SPEAKER_01]: And how could it not when her high school son is carrying a restaurant pitcher full of eggnog

[00:35:19] [SPEAKER_01]: to the brim with no lid around a corner at warp speed?

[00:35:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Full speed.

[00:35:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Not even doing this.

[00:35:28] [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't say corner.

[00:35:30] [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't say anything.

[00:35:32] [SPEAKER_01]: He got the pitchers from Pizza Hut back in the 80s, filled it to the brim with eggnog,

[00:35:38] [SPEAKER_01]: put no lid on it, and said, how fast can I walk without spilling a drop?

[00:35:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And apparently it's a tradition.

[00:35:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Because he's like, it's our tradition every year.

[00:35:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, every year we make chugs of eggnog.

[00:35:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe it was like a minute to win it game situation.

[00:35:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, a reindeer game at home.

[00:35:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Two liters of non-alcoholic eggnog, because we all want to be sick to our stomachs.

[00:36:01] [SPEAKER_01]: You think he just chugs that?

[00:36:02] [SPEAKER_01]: I heard the door open.

[00:36:04] [SPEAKER_01]: What if I walked lightning fast?

[00:36:06] [SPEAKER_04]: I'll get it.

[00:36:07] [SPEAKER_04]: It was the worst.

[00:36:08] [SPEAKER_01]: The part of this movie that was most unbelievable was that scene.

[00:36:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, that's not, it didn't happen in a Hallmark movie.

[00:36:14] [SPEAKER_01]: That's supposed to take place in real life.

[00:36:16] [SPEAKER_01]: And then I do have to mention that this family got together, huddled up, and said, what if we run tech for her performance?

[00:36:24] [SPEAKER_01]: What if we, I know that they, I know that they for weeks practiced the tech and the sound and the lights.

[00:36:30] [SPEAKER_01]: But what if, Bobby, you go get on the spotlight.

[00:36:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll run the sound.

[00:36:34] [SPEAKER_01]: We're running tech.

[00:36:35] [SPEAKER_01]: We really botched career day.

[00:36:37] [SPEAKER_01]: We got to make up for it.

[00:36:38] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a tech takeover.

[00:36:39] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a tech takeover here on Sugar Plum.

[00:36:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Move over AD class.

[00:36:43] [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

[00:36:44] [SPEAKER_01]: You've been practicing for months.

[00:36:46] [SPEAKER_01]: I did this.

[00:36:46] [SPEAKER_01]: This tech hasn't changed in 30 years, right, gang?

[00:36:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Watch out.

[00:36:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Poor Tanner on the spotlight has one thing.

[00:36:52] [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

[00:36:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:36:53] [SPEAKER_02]: He has one thing and dad took it from him.

[00:36:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:36:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Pour me a pitcher of eggnog and watch me work.

[00:36:58] [SPEAKER_02]: That's exactly right.

[00:36:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Bring it to me.

[00:37:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Bring it to me.

[00:37:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Let's get to what the Hallmark is for.

[00:37:03] [SPEAKER_02]: We wonder what could have been.

[00:37:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe have a good sort of clarity.

[00:37:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Any questions that we still have?

[00:37:06] [SPEAKER_02]: What are we wondering now that we've seen this movie, Brian?

[00:37:09] [SPEAKER_03]: I really wanted a little bit more on how people didn't recognize her.

[00:37:12] [SPEAKER_03]: There was that one.

[00:37:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Was there only that one mention of the person in the elevator, the janitor, who didn't recognize

[00:37:18] [SPEAKER_03]: her?

[00:37:18] [SPEAKER_03]: And that was it?

[00:37:19] [SPEAKER_03]: That was the only?

[00:37:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:37:20] [SPEAKER_01]: That was the thing.

[00:37:21] [SPEAKER_01]: My thing was they established it and then everyone else didn't recognize her.

[00:37:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:37:25] [SPEAKER_02]: I think what happened here is once she goes back into Sugar Plum, then they look at her

[00:37:32] [SPEAKER_02]: and they go, oh, she looks familiar.

[00:37:34] [SPEAKER_02]: So I think there's a realization after the fact.

[00:37:36] [SPEAKER_03]: The magic wears off.

[00:37:37] [SPEAKER_03]: So I wonder what she looks like.

[00:37:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Does she just look like that and they don't remember her from TV?

[00:37:42] [SPEAKER_03]: That's just I'd like a little more on that.

[00:37:44] [SPEAKER_03]: A little more detail on how that works.

[00:37:45] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure we'll get it in the number two, which isn't going to be a Sugar Plum movie.

[00:37:49] [SPEAKER_02]: You're not going to see it coming.

[00:37:50] [SPEAKER_02]: That's right.

[00:37:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Brent, what are you still wondering about?

[00:37:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I need so much more clarification on what the Harmony Home Sugar Plum cinematic universe

[00:37:58] [SPEAKER_00]: is.

[00:37:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:38:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Because like, is she a magical could because in order for it to be a Hallmark parody, she

[00:38:04] [SPEAKER_00]: cannot be a magical entity in those movies.

[00:38:07] [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.

[00:38:08] [SPEAKER_00]: She needs to be playing the type A business lady.

[00:38:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:38:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And they show up like a smorgasbord of the movies where she has different jobs in every

[00:38:15] [SPEAKER_00]: one, but they're all named Sugar Plum.

[00:38:17] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's like, is the character just constantly getting new corporate jobs and losing them for

[00:38:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Christmas every year?

[00:38:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Or is the actor's name Sugar Plum?

[00:38:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Like a Christmas Beyonce.

[00:38:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It's got to be that one.

[00:38:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's like Sugar Plum.

[00:38:29] [SPEAKER_00]: So like that, I really, that was like very confusing, but hey, go along with it.

[00:38:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, of course.

[00:38:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:38:35] [SPEAKER_02]: More than fair.

[00:38:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Who's going to break it to our guy, Bob?

[00:38:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Bobby.

[00:38:39] [SPEAKER_02]: What's the kid's name?

[00:38:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Is it Bob?

[00:38:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Max?

[00:38:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Whatever.

[00:38:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Let's call him Bobby.

[00:38:51] [SPEAKER_02]: During the career day activities.

[00:38:54] [SPEAKER_02]: And then suddenly makes it snow.

[00:38:57] [SPEAKER_02]: And then he goes viral on TikTok.

[00:39:00] [SPEAKER_02]: And she's now nice.

[00:39:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Don't forget how she treated you before you were somebody.

[00:39:05] [SPEAKER_02]: She showed you who she was, buddy.

[00:39:08] [SPEAKER_02]: She showed you who she was.

[00:39:09] [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to happen.

[00:39:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

[00:39:11] [SPEAKER_02]: You've got, you're going to, she's, she's a bully.

[00:39:13] [SPEAKER_02]: She's a bully through and through.

[00:39:14] [SPEAKER_02]: And just because she's nice to you afterwards doesn't mean that she's nice.

[00:39:19] [SPEAKER_02]: She's, it's going to come back out.

[00:39:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Believe you me, not speaking from experience.

[00:39:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Dan?

[00:39:23] [SPEAKER_01]: I want to know how long and to what venues did Carlo Marks travel to serve Sugar Plum?

[00:39:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Because he serves.

[00:39:35] [SPEAKER_03]: I think he's bouncing around the world.

[00:39:35] [SPEAKER_01]: He serves her at Maggie Lawson's place of business.

[00:39:39] [SPEAKER_01]: And we know that Sugar Plum is a made up name.

[00:39:42] [SPEAKER_01]: So he goes to the neighbor, gets, writes the, she doesn't know Sugar Plum's name.

[00:39:49] [SPEAKER_01]: So he goes to the neighbor.

[00:39:51] [SPEAKER_01]: He's like, all right, I need to serve this person.

[00:39:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Who is the person?

[00:39:53] [SPEAKER_01]: We don't know their name.

[00:39:54] [SPEAKER_01]: So then he's got to go.

[00:39:55] [SPEAKER_01]: They're staying with Maggie Lawson.

[00:39:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:39:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, he, he's got her name before he shows up to server.

[00:40:00] [SPEAKER_01]: He's got to go over there.

[00:40:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Somebody over there gives him the name.

[00:40:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Definitely the son, right?

[00:40:05] [SPEAKER_01]: The son for Bobby is 100% narkin.

[00:40:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Sugar Plum.

[00:40:09] [SPEAKER_01]: And then he's like.

[00:40:09] [SPEAKER_00]: The son's kind of clueless.

[00:40:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:40:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Does he just decide, I'm going to go to Maggie Lawson's place of business and hope for the best.

[00:40:15] [SPEAKER_01]: And then I know what she looks like.

[00:40:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I guess you would go there and ask her.

[00:40:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:40:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:40:20] [SPEAKER_01]: But she, and she doesn't do that.

[00:40:21] [SPEAKER_01]: They just, she runs, he runs into her in the hallway and.

[00:40:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah.

[00:40:24] [SPEAKER_01]: He knows immediately that it's her somehow.

[00:40:28] [SPEAKER_01]: It was it, that whole like line where he, she gets served.

[00:40:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I was very, I want that universe.

[00:40:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't necessarily want as a movie.

[00:40:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe just a timeline would be great for me.

[00:40:40] [SPEAKER_01]: But yeah.

[00:40:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it's a digital short of Carlo Marx.

[00:40:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:40:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Just tracking down.

[00:40:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:40:44] [SPEAKER_01]: It's like a very serious detective story.

[00:40:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:40:47] [SPEAKER_02]: That's exactly what it is.

[00:40:49] [SPEAKER_02]: You, you call me.

[00:40:50] [SPEAKER_02]: I'll find out.

[00:40:50] [SPEAKER_02]: I'll find out.

[00:40:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Have you ever wanted to sue somebody, but you don't know their name?

[00:40:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:40:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Carlo Marx.

[00:40:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Or where they look like, what they look like, where they live.

[00:40:58] [SPEAKER_01]: That's exactly right.

[00:40:59] [SPEAKER_01]: We had a double decker of the week at some point that was like that.

[00:41:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Something like dog to bounty hunter.

[00:41:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure.

[00:41:03] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure that we have.

[00:41:05] [SPEAKER_02]: We did it.

[00:41:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Brett, thank you so much for joining us again.

[00:41:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Tell the people once again about the Pope Heist and where they can find it and all that stuff.

[00:41:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

[00:41:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Please go to Pope Heist.com where you can read now, I think 15 of my Hallmark holiday movie reviews as well.

[00:41:20] [SPEAKER_00]: So much more content.

[00:41:21] [SPEAKER_00]: We are, you know, worker owned, independent, no ads on the entire side.

[00:41:25] [SPEAKER_00]: It will not crash your browser.

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[00:41:30] [SPEAKER_00]: So also, you know, subscribe if you want to.

[00:41:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And you can follow me on Blue Sky at Brett White because that's where the cool kids are now.

[00:41:38] [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.

[00:41:39] [SPEAKER_01]: I just joined a few weeks ago and I'm following you right now.

[00:41:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Blue Ski as I thought that it was called.

[00:41:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[00:41:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Blue Ski.

[00:41:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Throw me a Blue Ski.

[00:41:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Throw me a Blue Ski.

[00:41:48] [SPEAKER_02]: And is there going to be a, I believe last year you were talking, you promoted your Christmas

[00:41:53] [SPEAKER_02]: drag video.

[00:41:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Is there, is there something?

[00:41:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Do we got one this year?

[00:41:57] [SPEAKER_00]: No, I guess the website has taken up all of my time.

[00:42:02] [SPEAKER_00]: No.

[00:42:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Unbelievable.

[00:42:04] [SPEAKER_00]: A very Barb Hardly Christmas is still available to stream on YouTube.

[00:42:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's called Christmas and the Hard Luck Lady.

[00:42:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Bob Hardly had a Twitter account.

[00:42:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Have you moved?

[00:42:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Has that, has Barb moved over to Blue Ski as well?

[00:42:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Barb is, Barb Hardly can be found on the internet, it's at Instagram and YouTube.

[00:42:21] [SPEAKER_00]: YouTube, my YouTube channel is comparatively popping with a, with a nerdy drag content.

[00:42:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I watched a whole bunch of real UFO videos in a drag and, and, and screamed because aliens

[00:42:34] [SPEAKER_00]: are screaming.

[00:42:34] [SPEAKER_00]: So, well, I, I know what I'm doing right after this.

[00:42:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:42:39] [SPEAKER_02]: I love that.

[00:42:42] [SPEAKER_02]: That's going to be a must-see content for me.

[00:42:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Brad, we thank you so much for joining us.

[00:42:46] [SPEAKER_02]: We can't wait for you to join us again next year.

[00:42:48] [SPEAKER_02]: And may we be the first to wish you a Merry Christmas!

[00:42:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Deck the Hallmark is a Bramble Jam podcast is produced by Aaron Shea.

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[00:43:23] [SPEAKER_02]: It's really up to you at this point.

[00:43:25] [SPEAKER_02]: It's at the end of the show.

[00:43:26] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you're listening to me.

[00:43:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Hi.

[00:43:29] [SPEAKER_02]: But here they come.

[00:43:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I promise they're coming.

[00:43:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Yep.

[00:43:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Here they are.

[00:43:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Happy day.