The Royal We (Hallmark Channel - 2025)

[00:00:01] Hi, I'm Brandon. I love Hallmark Royal Movies. I'm Brian. I like Hallmark Royal Movies. I'm Dan. I despise Hallmark Royal Movies and this is the Deck The Hallmark Podcast. Deck The Hallmark. It's this podcast. And Friends host this podcast. We hope you like this jolly podcast. Well, hello everybody. How are we today? Are we doing well? Great. Happy Tuesday. Happy starting.

[00:00:38] The Hallmark of Royal March. It's a title that we gave it because Hallmark didn't give it. No. It is really interesting that they chose to do a theme but not name it. To do a theme, connect all the movies, which I think we're going to talk about later at some point, and then to not try to do any marketing for it. That's weird.

[00:01:02] Well, they did. So I guess the problem that they ran into is that they did three of them and then the last movie of the month is that other thing. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I feel like where there's three you three or more. You got a theme. Yeah. Yeah. So guys crazy thing happened to me on the way into the office. Can't wait to hear about it. So I got in my car. You guys know it's an EV. Take the day off.

[00:01:25] No. Shout out Nissan Leaf. Not a sponsor. I was driving. It was so quiet. And I had to run to the gas station before I had to get some snacks. Yeah, of course. Because we had snacks today. How was your weekend? Yeah. Come on. Come on, buddy. You're better. So serious, man. So I went in and I grabbed a few things. Where were you? Thank you. A candy here, a snacky there. And I went up and I gave it to the person.

[00:01:52] Did you pay cash? Oh, you beeped. Yeah. And I said, how much do I owe you? He said, you owe me. How was your weekend? And I was like, what are you talking about? I don't have that on me. And I don't have that on me. Let me go talk to my buddies. And so I am going to ask you guys how your weekend was. And then I got to run back and I got to make good. You got to pay. Yeah, you got to do a make good. Brian, how was your weekend? Dude, pretty standard. Good weekend. You start mowing the grass. No, no. You need to pick up every leaf individually. I got a lot of work to do in the yard after this storm we had. So I'm way behind.

[00:02:22] You mean the hurricane? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. Oh, yeah. We just had every like stumps ground down. So now we have just chips all over the place. Chips everywhere. The drainage is all messed up. So we got to do some work. Yeah. So I don't really want to talk about the yard work quite yet. Not quite there. I did watch some birds in the backyard. Oh, you're getting out of that. Interesting. But yeah. What birds did you see? We have a lot of cardinals, male and female.

[00:02:48] So red, bright red, and also the gray. Gray. I didn't know that. Yeah. See? I don't know anything about birds. You know what I just saw the other day? It wasn't really the other day. If I'm honest, it was a couple months ago. Yeah. But I saw a bird feeder that identifies the birds that come up and talk to you. Yeah, it's like an app. You watch the thing. Oh, smart. It's smart. It's a smart feeder? It's a smart feeder. And a bird comes. Yep. Takes the child down a little bit. Don't love that.

[00:03:16] And then the camera. You got a chirp on your phone? Yeah, it goes, chirp, chirp. And then it says, how was your weekend? And then you do an IOU. And then it tells you that was a male pigeon. Sure. A male pigeon. I hope not. Yeah. What's your beef with pigeons? I'd rather the other more exotic bird. He wants a more exotic bird. Yeah. I mean, a pigeon. I don't need the pigeon. Pigeon is like, might as well be a squirrel taking my bird. Listen, brother. Pigeons have a place in this world.

[00:03:45] Yeah. Carrying things. Brian, how was your, Dan, how was your weekend? It was great, man. I showed my kids their first Avenger movie ever. Ooh. They had a blast with it. Yeah. It was Spider-Man Homecoming. Do you want to share your feelings on going out of order? It drove me nuts. Oh, yeah. It's against everything I stand for. But my kids, I didn't think they were ready for the other ones. And they were ready for Homecoming. I could tell something was bothering Dan the other day. I was like, are you all right, buddy? He was like, dude, I'm twitching over here.

[00:04:14] I was like seeing Stark Tower destroyed in the background and them referencing Civil War. And it's like, my kids didn't ask any questions. They didn't care. But I cared deeply in my bones. And I could do nothing about it. But my kids had a blast. Yes. So that's really, you know. Yeah. For some reason, they got in their head they wanted to do, they were like, can we have movie night? And I'm like, okay. At three in the afternoon, yeah. But normally we do a movie in the afternoon. But they were like, we want to do movie night. Yeah. Which, same thing.

[00:04:43] Probably my kids are to blame. But my kids decided they needed to make decorations for movie night. Yeah. Well, obviously. So my kid got construction paper and he made rings and he stapled them all together. Nice. And he strung them up in the living room around the television for movie night. Yeah. Great. Just like the cinemas. Yeah. It's the same thing that we do every weekend where we watch a movie, except we started it at 5 instead of starting at 3.30. Yeah. And that caused movie night.

[00:05:13] This is why we needed decorations. It's movie night. You think you got enough to go back to the store? You think so? You got enough currency there? Is that going to be a make good? Let me get back to you. Yeah. Wow. Thank you. Thank you. Wow. Okay. I think I'm going to finish this episode first. Okay. And then we'll find out. Yeah. That line will wait. Dan, you and I sat on a park bench for an hour and a half or so. Yeah. It was our annual park bench. That time flew. That time flew. It did fly. I looked, when I got home. I couldn't believe it. I was like, we were there for an hour and a half? They're a long time. We didn't see any birds. Wow. No.

[00:05:43] By all my feet. We were making sure our kids didn't die, but we didn't. Good looking out. Good looking out. For sure. And only minor entries. No death. That's it. Only minor entries. And that's really all you can hope for at this age. Yeah. Is it even a park sit if nobody? They're all done. 100%. They're all waving around like they can't hurt anybody. They just watched Avengers. Let's see how it plays out. I'm a big fan of letting it see how it plays out. It'll work itself out. Let's talk about the Royal We, shall we? The Royal We, March 1st. It's a great name for a movie. 2025.

[00:06:14] And it premiered on the Hallmark Channel and it went on something like this. The movie kicks off with some royal music and flags, so you know what you're getting yourself into. We meet Prince Desmond, who is getting pictures taken with Princess Coralina. Coralina. Coralina. Because they are to be married, despite the fact that they don't really know each other very much at all.

[00:06:37] Some time passes and Desmond walks in to talk to Edwin, the butler, and catches him drawing devil horns on Princess Coralina's picture. He catches wind of it. Did he break it? But we find out, it's always funny, guys. We find out that, can I just be honest with you guys? If you are someone that doesn't think that farts are funny, I'm like, I by and large probably won't get along with you.

[00:07:06] So we find out that Princess Coralina broke things off with Desmond by eloping with a plumber. I bet he has broken some wind in his day. Desmond is going... We're reaching new heights here. Desmond is doing quite fine with the breakup because he didn't really like her. His parents, on the other hand, King Richman, bets that it's political. What about King Winslet? What's he doing? He's doing fine. In town at all? Yes. Once.

[00:07:36] When? Crisp and even? I don't know. Feast of steam. Desmond. Desmond. Dominic? He was good, you know? Desmond promises... I gotta be honest with you real quick as well. Yeah. Dominic was here a lot longer than I thought he was last week. Yeah. A lot of Dominic. Found that on the tape. Yes. As I was taking a gander at the synopsis, I was like, that was a long synopsis. Then it all came back to me. It's crazy how often he gets called. I know.

[00:08:06] I don't know why. Desmond is... So Desmond promises to make sure that their countries don't go to war. Now, the two... They were gonna get married and it was going to allow the two countries who were once one country... They broke up and the kings are trying to work together to come up with some sort of deal that will make them not go to war. And that was part of what the marriage was about. That's the best that I can figure here. And so he remembers that Coralina has a sister.

[00:08:36] So I guess you should just marry her. Her name is Beatrix, but she lives in Boston. So she goes by B. She's working a normal job. She does... She's in that nonprofit world. You know what I mean? And she's going through a normal breakup. She's just a normal person. She begins getting a call from a foreign number, but she doesn't want any part of it. She answers and tells them to never call back again. And she's speaking French. So that's something we now know about her.

[00:09:02] Then she walks outside and someone is watching her through binoculars. Could be bird watching. Could be Brian bird watching. Her best friend Chloe is there and notices the person with the binoculars. And B is like, don't worry about it. I'm sure you're just looking at birds. But he is not just looking at birds. In fact, they end up getting concerned because some SUVs begin to follow them. B takes them into the alley. Chloe is like, what is going on?

[00:09:29] They then corner them in the alley and B is like... Chloe is like, I'm not going to let you get kidnapped without me. So she tags along, find yourself a friend that will get kidnapped with you. They make it to Desmond and she's not having it with this royal romance nonsense. But then he proposes that they just... Then he just proposes. Period. Period. She needs some time to think about this.

[00:09:57] And ultimately, this proposal between the countries will help make sure that the countries can remain in peace and all that good stuff. And so they agree to just be engaged until the agreement can happen and then they can go their separate ways. So Beatrix is back, everybody. She's no longer B and she decides to say yes.

[00:10:24] And as one request that he stops using the royal Wii and starts talking in eyes. Like instead of... On their first night together, she convinces him to sneak out with her and go get some pizza and go bowling. They obviously get into trouble for that, but they have fun and that's all that matters, right? Obviously, they start to enjoy each other's company. They go visit his parents. They go visit her parents.

[00:10:53] They keep having these late night meetups all above board. And that's good. The families end up coming to an agreement, which means that they don't have to get married. She gives him back the ring and says, hopefully next time you use this ring, it won't be for politics. I have a feeling he's going to use it again pretty soon. And here we are. They go to leave, but they realize that they actually do love each other. And so he runs back to her. She runs to him.

[00:11:23] He proposes and she says yes. And they kiss. And then they have some wedding planning, which we see some familiar faces. And that, my friends, was the royal Wii. Did it. We did it. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll get to this movie. We'll break it down. I love that. I think we showed with four segments here on Deck of the Hallmark.

[00:11:55] Good news. I ran back up to QT during that break. Yeah. We're good. That was a quick, quick run there. I'm pretty fast. Yeah. You ready? In the leaf. Whoa. Whoa. Watch him go. He's like. File out of TV slash DTH. Good stuff. You wouldn't be able to see me run because I'm so fast, but you get the idea. Yeah. It's time for the hot takes where we share our thoughts on this movie. We do not hold back, and I'm going to start with you, Brian. Brian, a lot of people are calling for your resignation after last week's episode.

[00:12:24] Do you want to address the word out there that you should go ahead and pack it up? You should pack it up? Who's doing that? Yeah. We saw some words on there suggesting goodbye microphone. See you, Mike? I'm not going anywhere. That's right. Yeah, that's right. He's not going anywhere. He was saying he should go somewhere. People really liked Chase. People like Chase. I see it. If you want to listen to Chase, come on over to Making the Merge podcast. That's all you got. You can still get him. That's how you do that.

[00:12:54] We are going to trade Brian to Making the Merge for Chase with a few picks and cash considerations. Yeah. Well, they'll have to talk about it. Just for picks? Survivor. Yes. Wait until you get to talk about Survivor. It's not like you're no longer podcasting. I'm up on the first app. Not on your app yet, but the first show. Fair enough. I'll catch your app. Then you're not going to do it. Yeah. Then what's the point? Go ahead. Yeah. What do you think about the movie? We really like this one. You did the royal we. Oh, my God.

[00:13:25] Chase. You're out. You're out. You could never, Chase. You could never come up with stuff like that. Yeah. I can pronounce algorithm. We were not. I should take offense to that. As somebody who struggles with pronunciations. Was I in the mood for a super contentious diplomatic relations talk this weekend? No. I've already had one of those. Yep. Reach my limit. Yeah. I think we all did. Yeah. But this is how it's done.

[00:13:54] This is the model of diplomacy I think we all need to follow. This was a sweet relief from this movie. I had a really good time. Also feel really positive about the future of this universe and this globe now that I know how we have a model for how things can work positively. So that was a great relief. This was really funny. It had a lot of little funny things that I caught.

[00:14:21] Obviously, all the Bruins talk of it is, I mean, say no more. I could stop there. Yeah. They had me right there at the Bruins. I think that it was a really good balance of like making fun of royalness ish and also like having the kind of stuffiness of the royal stuff. And the couple was pretty good, too. So I feel like that was like a really good balance with all that stuff. The I felt that the scooter part when we got towards the end, when the scooter ran out

[00:14:50] of gas, I think I said out loud, this movie just ran out of gas, too, because that ending went on forever. It felt like it should have been over 10 minutes. Oh, it was brutal. It was like, do they not have anything else they can do? And then when it was over, I'm like, that was it. Like, I couldn't believe that was the end. It was a very weird and very abrupt. But yeah, they sort of want me back with the the royal verse of it all, including all the other shows coming up here. So that was really clever. I just didn't like how we got to it. That was a weird ending.

[00:15:20] But some funny stuff. Really good writing. Clever little script. Yeah, I enjoyed it. I agree with you, Bri. I was like, I went into this movie being pretty hesitant. I'm typically not a huge royal boy. That was a royal, obviously. Yes. Rest in peace, obviously. Rest in peace, obviously. And he totally liked those movies. And it wasn't. He didn't just say it one time and then decided. Uh oh. Oh no.

[00:15:47] But I really found myself enjoying this, especially the first half of the movie. Before they go. I don't even know if it's actually half. But before they go and meet the parents when they're just in Boston, up until Boston, really enjoyed it. And I was having an episode. Boston should be in air quotes here, right? Sure. In Boston. But like the whole, like. Nice area of Boston. The setup, really, really, really funny.

[00:16:15] Her getting kidnapped and Chloe being like, I want to go with you. Funny. Them meeting up. The hesitation. The going on the whole excursion to bowling and stuff was really, really enjoyable. Once they got overseas and started dealing with the parents and stuff like that. And the whole, like, the countries maybe going to war and stuff. Unfortunate timing. But also just like I was a little bit more out.

[00:16:43] But overall, I enjoyed this way more than I anticipated. I went in a little bit grumpy because it was Royals. But I found myself really enjoying it. And maybe I'll start speaking to the Royal Wee from now on. I actually kind of think it's pretty strong. Yeah, it is. And we're now looking forward to where these movies are going to go. Are we? We are. Yes. I kind of was into it.

[00:17:10] When the movie ended, granted, I thought the movie was done. And then I got pulled back into it. It was like a sticker. It was a whole, like, yes, it was a mid-credit Marvel situation. Like, seeing Andrew Walker's face, seeing the other Royal people from two weeks from now. Like, seeing that they're kind of connected. I'm interested. I didn't know that that was going to happen. So I'm intrigued to see if that actually holds any weight in the next two movies. And so I'm down with Royal Month, everybody. I'm down for it. We sure are.

[00:17:40] I think that this might be a good time. Dan, we're going to send it over to you. Yeah, we did not like this movie. I will say it does start off on a pretty strong foot, but it devolves quickly. And the end of this movie is unforgivable. They do the wedding veil one time, and all of a sudden they're like, what if we had anthology series for everything? And this is a surprise attack anthology series. We didn't know. Why do this? Why have a wedding?

[00:18:10] Like, why have a Royal series in March and not advertise that they're connected? Like, why not? Like, even if it's just a- Because it's fun. It's not fun. It was a fun surprise. Here's what I will say. If I knew it was, it's a Stinger 64. It's a Stinger 64, yeah. If I knew that it was- Catch 22, even. Yes. If it was an anthology, I'd be like, I'd be a little grumpy because of previous anthologies. But now that I like, now I'm intrigued. I don't actually know how connected these movies are.

[00:18:39] You're just going to tack it on at the end of all of them. Yeah, and I think that, I like that. I like, okay. But I will say this. Early on, Mallory Jansen gets to really give a performance in this movie because she has to use an American accent, a British accent, and speak French. All while being from Australia, where we've heard her speak before. She does a great job with all of that. I didn't necessarily buy the chemistry of her with the dude. I believe Carrick is his last name. That didn't really work for me.

[00:19:08] By the time we get into this plot, it is a very generic royal plot. I had the privilege of doing the Royals draft on Hallmark Movie Draft. So I've seen every Hallmark Royals movie ever made. And after the first 20 minutes, this starts hitting the beats of a pretty standard one. And then the end of it, which it's a return of the King ending situation. This movie's ending for the last 10 minutes. They kiss and there's like three more scenes. And you're just like, why isn't this movie over? Is time standing still?

[00:19:37] And then we end with a wedding planning that somehow like ropes in the other two stories. That didn't work for me at all. It does start off strong. Mallory Jansen is a delight, but it does not. By the time we get invested in the trappings of her having to marry this guy, I was completely out on the movie. So there you go. We've seen worse this year. Yeah, we sure have. Yes. Lots worse. Quite good. Sheila in the chat says when the movie re-aired last night,

[00:20:06] the wedding planning section wasn't in the ending. Oh, wow. That's interesting. Do you think it was longer? Like, do you think it was a stinger? I don't know. That's interesting. Yeah, that is fascinating. Huh. I don't really know what to do with that information. I hope it is intertwined. But I mean, clearly some time went into it because they superimposed those pictures on the screen. They sure did. Interesting. Well, we'll find out. But all the more reason. I bet we could find out. If we had Andrew Walker, we could find that information out. So dare to dream.

[00:20:36] Dare to dream. All that to say, should have given it a theme. That's all I'm saying. Just name it. Yeah. The Royalverse. The Royalverse. Let's get to all the feels when we talk about what this movie gave us feels. Brian? Yeah. I mean, the Bruins shout outs, obviously. We're in a pretty tight wild card race right now. Go Bees. So thoughts and prayers. Please, everybody, have us on your mind. Go Bees. At one point, her friend gives her an emergency breakup kit, which it reminded me of something

[00:21:05] in my past that I had forgotten about. Was it the kids making fun of your nose? No. Okay. Thanks for bringing that up, though. Thanks for bringing that up. Your nose has never been a point of emphasis in this office, and we make fun of you all the time. Not that I know about. And you told us today, like an hour ago, that you were made fun of because of your nose. That's right. And I can't believe it. Your nose looks great, bro. Thank you, man. I've had a little work done, but so this, when she got the ESK, the EBK, it reminded

[00:21:32] me of when I was, I think in early college or high school, I had a girlfriend and for Christmas, her sister gave me an ESK, which was an emergency study kit, which was the most blatant, oh crap, I forgot to get a gift for this guy who's coming over for Christmas time. So I'm going to put, it was like snacks and a little, like a lamp, like a light and

[00:21:56] like a journal and some pencils and a pencil sharpener and all the stuff you'd need for an emergency study sesh. And she, she was really pumping out. Like she was psyched about this idea. And I'm like, this is the worst. You had to act like it was a great gift. Yeah. I'm like, oh, cool. This will come in handy. I didn't have one of these. So great. So then obviously an ESK became a long running joke with my friends in college. And so this reminded me about that because I'd forgotten all about the ESK. ESK.

[00:22:23] In her defense, you do seem like somebody who would really like that gift and would also just be fine getting a pencil for a present. Like you seem like that type of guy. You seem like you'd be down for a good writing utensil. That's right. Absolutely, man. So just for my, yeah, that, that was my feel. So shout out ESKs. Shout out. What, listen, was the stargazing scene believable? No.

[00:22:48] But I now, it made me want to sneak onto the roof of the Biltmore. Wouldn't do it. No, you wouldn't. Although. Nor have you. Nor have I. No. Although, Dan, you and I did meet the Biltmore family. We did. And I imagine they remember us. Weirdly shared drinks with the Biltmore family in a weird situation. I bet I could email somebody and make it happen. But that's the closest I can think about. But going on top of a castle and looking at stars. You kidding me right now?

[00:23:18] I have lots of great memories of in high school. I didn't have a lot of friends. I'd go out and look at the, look at the stars. You're singing songs to Orlando Magic. You're kidding me right now? You spoke at graduation. Some people thought it was a little weird. You spoke at graduation. No, I didn't have friends. I was about to say. But I, my. McNasty up there? I know, it was McNasty. But one of my best buddies, Dave, who's still one of my best buddies, would come over and we would look at the stars and listen to Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell. And that made me think about that.

[00:23:46] Only thing that was missing was people calling in and talking about aliens. What about Brandon Kaiser? That SOB. Oh! I had to bring him up. BK, you can't be right now! No! Not talking about him. You wouldn't invite him over to stare at the stars? No. Man. That changed everything. Call me names. I don't really have feels. What? I didn't really have anything. How about when he put his hand over the guy going to fist bump him? That awkward handshake? That was a good move.

[00:24:15] Do you have a story from childhood? We all share. I mean, I felt like I had a pretty decent number of friends growing up. Did anybody ever make fun of you? Yeah, I'm sure I got made fun of. For your obvious problems? Yeah. Like what, Brian? No, I don't need to get into it. Yeah. Your height. I never was given an ESK. I can tell you that. We know. It shows. Yeah. It shows. Study. Every study session I had was an emergency. 100%. I would have ran out of material. All three times that you studied. Yeah. Let's. It might be three too many, honestly. Yeah.

[00:24:46] Probably. Let's take a break. We'll come back. We'll get to the wait. What's in the what? The Hallmark. You're on. Deck the Hallmark. Welcome back, everybody. It's time for the wait. What is where we talk about what in this movie, the royal we made us go. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Pump the brakes. What? Brian? Huh?

[00:25:14] I wasn't pumping brakes, but there were a few things. Okay. I didn't go too crazy. Yeah. I didn't have a lot until near the end. A few things popped up for a very small country. They seem to have an awful lot of resources. So many. Like jets. Yeah. Food on the jets. All the motorcades. Just all the. They seem to just have a lot of stuff. So. Yeah. I don't know. Things seem to be going okay. There were many royals. I guess so. There was never.

[00:25:39] It never seemed to be like a real conversation about, hey, is this weird? Like. Is this weird that I'm, you know, in this relationship? With this guy who was all about my sister. And now it's just me. Like. It didn't feel like. I feel like we could have used one of those. Like her friend just being like, hey, are you okay? Like, are you cool? You sure? Yeah. I guess. I do think they just pass it along as like, this is what we have to do. Yeah. No, I get that. But just. I don't know. Maybe as like the commoner, her friend could have just been like, I don't know. This is a little weird. Right. And I don't know.

[00:26:10] It just felt like a missed conversation where I was just wondering, like, nobody's stopping to think that this is my people. This is weird. But I guess. Yeah. They're royals. They don't. This is what they do. I was underwhelmed by the conflict resolution exercise. I was actually looking forward to some good tips during that conflict resolution exercise. I thought I was going to walk away with some good stuff to use in my own conflicts in my life, but I feel like they could have done more. I feel like I could have used some more tips on resolving conflict.

[00:26:39] What a wait, what, Bri. What a great one. Yeah. Needed more comfort resolution tips from a Hallmark Coral movie. Go a little harder. The last one was they got a grant that they had applied for. And got way more money. Yeah. She's like amazing. We just got more. That's just not how it works. That doesn't happen. Like, you have to. Doesn't happen. Budget it and explain down to the penny what you're using the money for. And then can you imagine asking for $50,000 or whatever and then be like, what if we gave you $150,000? We know you didn't write it down, but what if we gave you $150,000? What if we gave you three times as much? You can't. It just doesn't.

[00:27:08] It's just grant money. Get out of here. A grant money maybe, but it just didn't happen. That's not how it goes. I have a few. One, they want her to work on her social media presence as princesses. Princess. And so to do that, they're just letting her run her social media account by herself, making her own memes. Like, with how organized organizations are now and trying to create an image for somebody,

[00:27:37] there's no way that the royal family is just like, here you go. Create your own memes. Have fun with it. They would be doing this whole, it'd be this pristine, polished social media account, but she's just up there in the middle of the night making memes. Love that for her. I got bad news, everybody. The royal family's approval ratings are down. Oh, no. Yeah. The princess's approval ratings are down. What are they going to do? Make a meme. Does it matter? Nothing. It literally doesn't matter. Nothing. That's right.

[00:28:06] The points in whose lines, anyway, matter more than royal approval ratings. I don't really know what she was eating in the middle of the night, but it looked like a little poop bite, so I just wanted to recognize that. What? For the record. Great. Yeah, I just wanted it on the record. Yeah. They are going up to the top of the castle, as I mentioned, and he's like, how do you know about this place? I don't know. Maybe because she grew up there? Yeah.

[00:28:34] Like, as a kid, one of the things that you do is explore every possible nook and cranny of your house. You got to come up with good hide and go seek spots, all that stuff. So if you're a kid and you have a castle, you are figuring, what is this door? No, of course she knows all the best places and how she would get all that. How do you know about the roof? I don't know. It's the roof of the place that I grew up.

[00:28:59] But he wakes up the next day and he says, that was the best sleep that I've had in weeks. This is offensive. The best sleep that he had in weeks was on concrete. On concrete. Yeah. On top of a roof. Buddy, go to a doctor. Like, that should never be the case. And I know, like, he was probably trying to be sweet. Like, this is such an amazing night. It's such a great time. No. There's, and that he has a hard time sleeping. But your best night cannot, like.

[00:29:27] How offensive is it that people in their mid-30s think that they can just sleep all night on concrete? You can't. This would be the next, like, three to four years of my life. I would be waking up and be like, ah! Crack. Damn. No, can't do it. Absolutely can't. I love early in this movie where they go to one of those classic, you're from the Massachusetts area. Yeah, sure. Classic Boston pizza place. Yeah. Where they have the table right on the sidewalk with a tablecloth on it. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about. Dude, they're just all like. You've been to Boston.

[00:29:57] They set a bar at those places so high. And if you're not going to live at that place, you forget it. And the pizza was huge, too. Side alley in Boston, Massachusetts. Giant drape tablecloth. Bowling alley next door. Yeah. Just taking up the whole walkway. Glasses outside. Glasses outside. Massachusetts is just not what I visited, clearly. But they didn't have enough money for the Boston Bruins B. They had a B that wasn't Boston. And you know what's crazy is?

[00:30:27] Is that Boston B is free. Do you know how I know that? Is because on filo.tv slash DTH right now, it's on your screen. Right now, it's on your screen. We didn't pay anything for it. So it was just. I don't really know if that's how that works. I don't think it is either. But I'm just telling you. How do you not use the Bruins logo? We're going to get a call from Filo and be like, guys, you can't wear the logo. How do you not use. I dare you to blur it out. Like people use the Yankees logo in the background. Like you'll be watching movies and somebody has a Yankees hat walking in the background. They don't have to pay for that. There's no way. Right? I think they do.

[00:30:58] I think. Yeah. It's a brand. I think you're supposed to. So they couldn't afford to use the Bruins logo? I think they just don't do it in general. Yeah. They just don't care. Yeah. We're not going to go get a Bruins hat. You love the prince doing the thing with the fist bump. Yeah. And I was like, how does this guy not know what a high five is? Oh, that's so funny. Like, how does he not know what a high, just a basic. Maybe he does it on purpose. Yeah. That's his move. The weirdest way what this movie though is, is there's this thing that happens all movie long where they make fun of Mallory Jansen's appearance.

[00:31:27] Mallory Jansen's appearance. It's like three different times. She's like, isn't my sister so beautiful? Like I had to live in that shadow my whole life. And then it's like, why are you so tall? They do that one. Yes. And then they're like, is this the best way to like, they basically call her angular at one point in this movie. This movie spends a weird amount of time giving Mallory Jansen an inferiority complex about the way she looks. And that's, that is, if, if we can't mention that in the wait, what segment, I don't know where we mentioned it.

[00:31:56] You can't. Like, well, like, Hey, you just, you look kind of angular here. Can we just, well, why are you so tall? Why are you blah, blah, blah? I mean, your sister's really beautiful. What are we doing? What, what's happening there? Um, she gets a notification on her phone that this shooting star is happening at 10 30 PM. Yeah. What's going on? That's not over funny. Great. Glad you did it. She gets a notification that the shooting star is happening at 10 30 PM.

[00:32:21] She then texts the Prince and goes, if you're in the insomnia, uh, whatever it is, the, the insomnia club, we're going to meet. If you can't get to sleep either, then, then we'll meet you at the top of the stairs. Guys, it's maybe 10 o'clock at night. They are knowing it. They are acting like it is two in the morning. It is 10 PM. It is not crazy.

[00:32:48] You know where you're saying they have enough time to make it to the top of the castle in time for the 10 30. Like, are we supposed to believe this is some crazy feat that they both were up at 10 PM because they couldn't sleep. Why don't you have that in our calendar? I don't know. Big, like just in case. Big astronomy. Like if I'm up, she subscribes. I think she subscribes. Star calendar. Yeah. That's all I got. Uh, it is time for, uh, what the hallmark is where we wonder what could have been. Maybe it was a clear new country.

[00:33:17] We still have, what are we still wondering about? That's what this is all about. Right? Yeah. I'm wondering about Cody and whether or not he's still plumbing because I don't know if you stop. If you keep it. I mean, you got to keep your business though, because it's got to be booming. Yeah. Yeah. I think you sell the name or you reap the benefits. I don't know. If I know Cody, like I think I know Cody. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like he's still out there plumbing. He's probably out there plumbing. Yeah. He's probably out there plumbing. He's probably doing it for fun.

[00:33:44] Um, guys, I am concerned about the bowling friends. You are? I think they're killers. They gave me strong killer vibes. Um, everything that from the setup of their handshake to then, uh, just like how to watching inviting themselves into kind of the evening. Let me get you guys a beer, bad energy, bad energy.

[00:34:13] If I, if I am going, maybe it's just the way that I'm wired, but if I'm on a date, if I'm on a date and I'm going bowling, let me, don't try to, don't try to insert yourself into my dates. But you know what's why I don't drink. Yes. I don't drink. There's a group of people that are not with us that go on vacation and go on dates to make friends. And meet like other friends.

[00:34:39] Whereas if I, my wife and I are bowling and in what universe am I going to try to make some friends to bowl with? If I lost an event that said I have to make a friend. That's right. That'd be the only way. That's it. If I'm paying for a sitter right now, back off. If I'm on vacation with my wife, just like anywhere. Yeah. I'm not trying to make resort friends. It's not happening. No, absolutely not. Though you need those people so they can do that with each other and leave me alone. Yeah. But I don't want to be part of that.

[00:35:09] We're trying to make adult friends. Oh, I don't, I didn't trust them. I'll say that much. I don't trust, I don't trust the beer. I don't trust the beer. You gotta be careful with that. Don't trust the beer. So they did invite them to the wedding. Are we going to see them? Oh, you know they're going. Are we going to see them in a future? I don't know how these are going to all shake out, obviously, but they do set up. That's mine. Yeah. That's a good one. They kill all the royal families. The stinger of this movie is them planning a wedding and they talk about everyone that's

[00:35:38] going to be at the wedding, including all of the leads from the other two movies. So is this just a fun add-on where every movie is going to show a picture of the other movies? Or is the last royal movie in March going to be at this wedding? Because if it's the former, then I'm okay with it. If it's the thing that you guys were like, it was fun, then I'm fine with that. I'm fine with just like a winking, we know that this is the royal verse.

[00:36:06] If we're building towards an actual scene with all of these people, then Hallmark, you got to stop doing this. You got like, just because it worked once, you can't keep doing this. You can't keep unwrapping Christmas and the love club and the groomsmen and like, just don't. I like, I don't want it. If it's just a fun, like winky face thing at the end of every movie, then I'm fine. If it's not, if it's building to something, I'm all out on it.

[00:36:37] We did it, everybody. Congratulations to us. It's time for Double Decker of the Week. It's where we dive deep into the life of a double decker. Brian, you do the deep dive. You find out who we're talking about, and then you just kind of find out some fun, sort of fun nugget about that. Try, yeah. Try to. Typically, you have. I've found some stuff. Yeah. I've found a little bit, yeah. Who do we have today, Dan? We have Melissa DeVries. Melissa DeVries. Yeah. Melissa has been pretty busy on Capitol Hill lately. Oh.

[00:37:05] Lobbying, really, for a new venture Melissa's involved in. Okay. You know, like, regulations are loosening. Sure. Lots of different types of things are popping up, and so Melissa's trying to ride that train. Okay. And got a new cryptocurrency. Oh, boy. She's trying to get out there, and so just- Fool me once. Listen, I don't need another one of these. Are you still in? No, I sold it. Yeah. No, I've made money on it. You did? Well, yeah. I would hope so. Still? Yes.

[00:37:35] On your doge? Yes. Even though it dipped back down over the last week. Still. Man. Congrats. Thank you, man. I appreciate that. But Melissa's trying to get in on that, because it's a hot area. Okay, sure. What's her crypto? Well, it's not- There isn't like a- She's just in the realm of it. Okay. So it doesn't have like- It's not like a name of a coin or anything like that. Okay. She's just kind of like- Whatever she can dig around and find is what she's trying to get in there and get a profit with. So just kind of like digging around. Do you know what this is?

[00:38:06] Yeah. What is it? It's Melissa's crypto. What's it called? It doesn't have a name. It's more about like whatever she can find. What do you mean? In the crypts that she's digging up. She's digging up crypts. Yeah. Like find- Just see what mummies are in there and like- So she's using whatever she finds as currency? That's the hope. The bones are her money? Sure. Or maybe jewels. Some people are buried with jewels and I don't know, maybe maps.

[00:38:35] So she goes around the world and digs up ancient- Wait, regulations are loosening on this? Cryptocurrency? Yeah. So she's just trying to like get in there a very broad definition of cryptocurrency. Okay. So that it includes- So she is going around the world digging up ancient tombs and looting the corpses. Well, she would argue against the- Am I wrong or am I right? Right now, but again, the regulation is loosening.

[00:39:04] So she is hoping to get permission to dig up ancient corpses and loot the bodies? Yeah, basically. I mean, whatever is old becomes new again as it goes. Amen. But just to- I just want to make sure that I'm pretty clear. The cryptocurrency that we know and have lost money to- Is not this. But she's trying to lump digging up corpses and taking their stuff as cryptocurrency. There is a value. So see if there's a value there. Yeah.

[00:39:34] Okay. Yeah. That's the big push. But you can't trade it like on Robin Hood. It's just like things that you get. Yes. That's, you know, we'll see how far she can get. Maybe next week someone's going to create an app for it. We'll see who's up next week. Yeah. I don't like it. I will say that. I hate it. But I- Melissa, you're loving it. Everybody, it's a new idea. It's a new thing. It's a new thing she's trying. One of these days will all be robbing the grapes. You know what I mean? Yeah. What are they sitting in the ground for other than for us to dig them up?

[00:40:04] I don't want to stand behind that. Well, we did that. Everybody, congratulations to us. Coming back next week. I think we'll do this again. Maybe Brian will be back too. Until then, we're the first to wish you a- Merry Christmas. Deck the Hallmark's a Bramble Jam podcast is produced by Aaron Shea. What? For more information on Deck the Hallmark, you can go to deckthehallmark.com. For more information on the Deck the Hallmark family, you can go to bramblejamplus.com. Deck the Hallmark is presented by Philo TV. For a free trial of Philo, go to philo.tv slash dth.

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