Three Wiser Men and a Boy (Hallmark Channel - 2024)

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[00:04:16] We're talking three wiser men and a boy. Big show. It's a big show. It's a big week. It's a big week. It's a big week. It's a big week. We should mention that. What a big week.

[00:04:26] And I just want to say this. You know, a lot of people are being like, what are you guys doing? How are you doing it? We're doing it real good. Our reviews for this week's movies, the Thanksgiving week.

[00:04:38] Yeah. We start pushing those suckers out on Sunday. That's right. You can expect our holiday touchdown review to come out on Sunday. Yeah. Watch Saturday night and then tune in Sunday morning.

[00:04:48] And if you can't wait. We're efficient.

[00:04:49] If you can't wait to get that review, if you were a double decker, you're going to probably get that review even earlier.

[00:04:56] You can watch the movie, chat along with the double deckers, and you can enjoy our recording of it, the episode, right afterwards.

[00:05:05] Right afterwards.

[00:05:06] Kidding me right now?

[00:05:07] You kidding me right now?

[00:05:08] You kidding me right now?

[00:05:08] This is crazy.

[00:05:09] Giving it away.

[00:05:10] Almost.

[00:05:11] Brainwaregenplus.com?

[00:05:12] It's a big week.

[00:05:12] It's a big week.

[00:05:14] And Sunday's next week, but this week is big too.

[00:05:17] That's right. This is also.

[00:05:18] It's a big week as well.

[00:05:19] Three Wiser Men and a Boy is what we're talking about.

[00:05:21] The much anticipated sequel to last year's Three Wise Men and a Baby.

[00:05:27] The baby is now a boy.

[00:05:29] The men are now wiser.

[00:05:30] It originally premiered on Hallmark Channel on November 23rd, 2024, and it went a little something like this.

[00:05:35] That's the wrong button.

[00:05:36] Those are crickets.

[00:05:37] How'd it go?

[00:05:37] A robot.

[00:05:40] What else you got over there?

[00:05:41] It's been five years since the first movie, and Luke is living the dad life, looking much older.

[00:05:49] As you can tell, Andrew Walker's never looked better.

[00:05:52] Yeah, Andrew Walker looking tough, man.

[00:05:54] Dad life's been hard on him.

[00:05:55] It's tough for him.

[00:05:56] You know, he's forgetting to put out the trash and stuff.

[00:06:00] Oh, what a guy.

[00:06:00] Steve, uh, Stefan.

[00:06:03] Yep.

[00:06:03] Has moved on from being a pep psychologist to working with humans as well.

[00:06:09] He's doing a press tour for his new book, including a radio show with some great sound effects.

[00:06:14] Fing, fing, fing.

[00:06:15] That's exactly right.

[00:06:16] Um, and a tailor is still running tailored games, but is struggling to find a distributor for his new game, and it's leading to some problems for him.

[00:06:27] Luke is 42.

[00:06:30] Yeah, he's 40.

[00:06:31] Just today's his birthday.

[00:06:32] 42.

[00:06:32] I don't know about you.

[00:06:33] Juggling.

[00:06:33] I'm feeling 42.

[00:06:36] Give yourself a little cane.

[00:06:38] You might be needing two.

[00:06:41] What?

[00:06:42] Yeah, man.

[00:06:42] Do you mean candy cane?

[00:06:43] Yes.

[00:06:44] Okay.

[00:06:45] Good, good, good, good.

[00:06:45] Juggling fatherhood.

[00:06:47] Big week.

[00:06:47] It's tough for him.

[00:06:49] Big week.

[00:06:50] Juggling fatherhood.

[00:06:50] For you children on the school bus.

[00:06:52] Well, it's not actually.

[00:06:53] This is our last day on the school bus.

[00:06:54] Oh, this is it.

[00:06:55] This is it.

[00:06:55] That's right.

[00:06:56] Juggling fatherhood has been tough for him while still trying to be fire chief.

[00:07:00] Things are kind of getting lost in the ochres a little bit there, but he's feeling a bit left out from the younger crew because he's just so torn.

[00:07:09] He's spread so thin.

[00:07:10] You're a little late.

[00:07:11] I'm a little torn.

[00:07:12] Speaking of being left out, Taylor is being left out of his building.

[00:07:19] And by that, I mean being evicted.

[00:07:22] Let me try another one.

[00:07:23] Speaking of being left out, Stefan's girlfriend feels left out and neglected because she keeps thinking that he's going to propose, but he does not.

[00:07:34] But the brothers all meet up at their mom's for dinner and accidentally destroys Thomas's Christmas show's sets.

[00:07:42] They go to pick him up and the set for the play gets absolutely destroyed.

[00:07:47] They are shocked to find out that their mom is dating Pastor Roy, a big week for pastors, and they decide the best way to deal with it is by spending the holidays at mom's place.

[00:07:59] The brothers are called to the principal's office and told that since they broke the set, they now have to buy the show.

[00:08:08] In other words, they have to direct the play.

[00:08:11] The only problem is that a lot of the kids have dropped out, and also they've never directed anything in their lives.

[00:08:19] And they have to build the set again from scratch, the one that they destroyed.

[00:08:23] They also have to do it while wearing candy cane costumes because they lost at Pictionary.

[00:08:28] Don't ask.

[00:08:29] Taylor finds himself falling for the volunteer helping with the music.

[00:08:34] Her name is Caroline.

[00:08:36] Caroline.

[00:08:36] Caroline.

[00:08:37] And as the brothers point out, she is a female version of Taylor.

[00:08:42] They go out on a date to an arcade.

[00:08:44] They do the Dance Dance Revolution Christmas edition and have an amazing time.

[00:08:49] They almost kiss, but they are interrupted by the brothers who have brought all the kids to the arcade for a good time.

[00:08:55] The brothers are trying to get the kids ready for the play, but they are failing.

[00:09:00] So they call in Mark LeClerk to help because if anybody can do it, it's him.

[00:09:06] He's doing great.

[00:09:07] The stage looks Christmassy, but maybe too Christmassy because the decorations cause a small fire.

[00:09:14] That's pretty embarrassing seeing as how we got the chief of fire there.

[00:09:19] The chief of fire.

[00:09:20] The chief of fire, as you will.

[00:09:22] He's in charge of all the fire.

[00:09:23] That's exactly right.

[00:09:24] The boys initially blame Pastor Roy because obviously, but then they realize that it's them that have messed up.

[00:09:30] They done goofed.

[00:09:31] Taylor realizes that he made a mistake with Caroline and goes to make things right with her, and they share a big kiss.

[00:09:39] The play happens, and it is a big hit despite Stefan getting stuck in the air.

[00:09:45] The kids really bring it home, though.

[00:09:47] The movie ends with the brothers doing the dance again from the first one.

[00:09:51] Maybe you've seen it half a dozen times over the course of the year on social media, and they celebrate Christmas together, and they are cool with Pastor Roy shacking up with mom.

[00:10:03] And that, my friends, was three wiser men and a boy.

[00:10:07] We did it.

[00:10:09] We did do it.

[00:10:09] Let's take a quick break.

[00:10:10] We'll come back.

[00:10:10] We'll break this movie down.

[00:10:13] We'll have a good time doing it.

[00:10:14] Here on Deck the Hallmark.

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[00:12:00] Hello.

[00:12:01] Welcome back, everybody.

[00:12:02] We're talking three Wiserman and a Boy here on Thanksgiving Tuesday, as I like to call it.

[00:12:07] Because every day this week is a day for thanks.

[00:12:10] I'm thankful for Brian.

[00:12:12] Thank you.

[00:12:12] I'm thankful for Aaron.

[00:12:14] It's time to break down three Wiserman and a Boy.

[00:12:17] Let's do it with four segments.

[00:12:18] That's what I propose.

[00:12:20] I love that plan, Brian.

[00:12:21] Let's start with the hot take.

[00:12:23] It's where we share exactly how we felt about this movie.

[00:12:24] We do not hold back.

[00:12:25] And I will start with you, Brian.

[00:12:27] Brian, what did you think of the sequel, our first sequel of the holiday season?

[00:12:33] Three Wiserman and a Boy.

[00:12:37] Funnies.

[00:12:38] Check.

[00:12:38] Funnies.

[00:12:39] Check.

[00:12:39] Complicated family stuff.

[00:12:41] Check.

[00:12:43] Didn't overdo the dance routines.

[00:12:45] Check.

[00:12:45] You don't think so?

[00:12:46] No.

[00:12:47] No, I don't think so.

[00:12:48] I think we did just fine.

[00:12:50] That was entertainment.

[00:12:51] One of my faves of the year.

[00:12:53] Possibly my favorite of the year.

[00:12:55] Wow.

[00:12:56] Wow.

[00:12:57] Better than the first one.

[00:12:59] Wow.

[00:12:59] So many things that I liked about this.

[00:13:01] So many things that I liked.

[00:13:03] Taylor working in the coffee shop was great.

[00:13:06] I don't know if that's a funny gag.

[00:13:07] It's a funny gag.

[00:13:08] It's a funny gag.

[00:13:08] It's not revolutionary.

[00:13:11] It's funny.

[00:13:12] It works really well.

[00:13:13] It's just also not fully fleshed out.

[00:13:14] It was a great idea.

[00:13:16] Yeah.

[00:13:16] But I feel like they didn't quite get there with it.

[00:13:18] Well, they had other stuff to do, probably.

[00:13:20] But yeah, they could have done more there for sure.

[00:13:22] Yeah.

[00:13:22] The piano playing sequence where he and Caroline meet.

[00:13:26] I didn't see that coming.

[00:13:27] That felt very like, I don't know, outside of the world of the Hallmark movies.

[00:13:32] The rock music.

[00:13:33] Just like all the innuendo.

[00:13:35] Like really funny.

[00:13:36] That caught me off guard.

[00:13:37] Really liked that.

[00:13:39] They ruined the set.

[00:13:40] Destroying the set.

[00:13:41] That happened really early on.

[00:13:43] I really liked that.

[00:13:44] I thought that was fun.

[00:13:45] I feel like they didn't hold back either.

[00:13:47] Like they really destroyed that thing.

[00:13:48] So that was really fun.

[00:13:49] Like you had the hot take.

[00:13:50] You don't hold back.

[00:13:50] Thanks, man.

[00:13:51] That's why you're scalding.

[00:13:52] And LeClarke, I feel like in this movie where LeClarke came in, it was at the perfect

[00:13:59] time.

[00:14:00] Like the energy of the movie needed that infusion of what he brought at that moment.

[00:14:04] And I don't know.

[00:14:06] It was almost at a point where I think I was like literally reaching for my phone just

[00:14:10] to goof around and he came on the screen and I put it right down.

[00:14:12] I was like, oh boy, this is great.

[00:14:14] So no goof time.

[00:14:15] Yeah.

[00:14:15] So no goof time.

[00:14:16] And so, and then Taylor giving Steph the grump because he didn't know the lines, which

[00:14:22] I'm sure maybe it was because he was being the good brother, but I'm pretty sure it was

[00:14:27] just because he didn't know the lines.

[00:14:28] And just a really funny little bit.

[00:14:30] There were lots of really, really funny things.

[00:14:32] That was the funniest moment of this movie.

[00:14:33] It was great.

[00:14:34] When he says under the lines and he said, I don't either.

[00:14:37] That may be legitimately.

[00:14:38] Really good delivery.

[00:14:39] It almost felt ad-lib too.

[00:14:41] It almost felt like.

[00:14:41] Yeah, it was perfect.

[00:14:42] It was just so many things.

[00:14:44] And they left a lot of things open.

[00:14:46] Like there's a lot of room here.

[00:14:47] There's a lot of rum.

[00:14:48] A lot of rum here for more.

[00:14:49] A lot of room for a third one.

[00:14:50] My big thought after this was.

[00:14:52] Three wisest men.

[00:14:52] The wisest men.

[00:14:54] Four wisest men.

[00:14:55] And a teenager.

[00:14:56] Yeah.

[00:14:57] I mean, we just could go on forever and ever.

[00:14:59] My biggest thought was.

[00:15:00] I hope it's not.

[00:15:01] They could obviously do another one of this.

[00:15:03] And a couple more.

[00:15:05] What would be really cool is like a limited series version of this.

[00:15:08] Like let's.

[00:15:10] I don't think it needs to go.

[00:15:11] Full house almost.

[00:15:12] Sort of like that.

[00:15:13] You know, like.

[00:15:13] Three guys living together.

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

[00:15:16] Bring them all together.

[00:15:16] I mean, I feel like there's a way to do it.

[00:15:18] Kill Thomas.

[00:15:19] Kill Thomas' mom.

[00:15:20] Yeah.

[00:15:21] Get her out of there.

[00:15:21] She'll get married off.

[00:15:22] We don't need her.

[00:15:23] Well, she's barely in the movie anyway.

[00:15:25] So she'll be gone on.

[00:15:26] You could literally do a full house type thing.

[00:15:28] Yeah.

[00:15:28] With the uncles.

[00:15:29] Absolutely.

[00:15:30] You could do something.

[00:15:30] And I thought that would be.

[00:15:31] I feel like taking it to the next level.

[00:15:32] Versus just doing another movie version.

[00:15:35] Which I'm sure would be great.

[00:15:36] That would be fun to do.

[00:15:37] But I think going.

[00:15:39] Doing something different with it.

[00:15:40] Spinning it a little differently for next year.

[00:15:42] Would be really fun.

[00:15:43] And they left it open to a lot of possibilities.

[00:15:45] So one of my favorites.

[00:15:46] If not my favorite of the year so far.

[00:15:48] Just not going to give that away.

[00:15:49] Just refuses to give a seminal statement on.

[00:15:52] Is it your favorite?

[00:15:53] What do you have at Duke and Adley?

[00:15:55] Because he didn't do it.

[00:15:56] Carol for two.

[00:15:57] Carol for two.

[00:15:58] Oh, that's right.

[00:15:59] Oh, we've also got movies that haven't come out yet.

[00:16:01] I see what's going on.

[00:16:02] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:16:02] I got you.

[00:16:03] Yeah, yeah.

[00:16:04] Fair.

[00:16:04] Yeah.

[00:16:06] There you go.

[00:16:06] Let it out, man.

[00:16:07] Nice.

[00:16:08] Nice.

[00:16:08] I have a tough time.

[00:16:16] I have a tough time.

[00:16:18] Because it's almost its own thing.

[00:16:21] It is very much its own thing.

[00:16:22] These three guys are doing funny times.

[00:16:25] And, you know, it's one of those ones where unless you are a fan of these three and of

[00:16:34] the network and are like kind of in on it.

[00:16:36] I don't know how much this movie works for you.

[00:16:40] But as somebody who loves these actors and is invested in the network, of course this

[00:16:46] is going to work.

[00:16:47] It's funny.

[00:16:49] You know, they're doing it to your point.

[00:16:51] They do all the bits.

[00:16:52] We love the bits.

[00:16:53] I could do without the dance ever again.

[00:16:55] Oh, my gosh.

[00:16:55] But I know I'm in the minority there.

[00:16:57] Please stop with the dance.

[00:16:57] I know people really like the dance.

[00:16:59] And so what can you do?

[00:17:00] But, yeah, I don't know.

[00:17:02] I don't know how to rank this movie in comparison to all of the other original movies that we've

[00:17:10] gotten so far.

[00:17:10] Because it's almost like this is in a totally different category and league.

[00:17:16] That's just tough to rank it against other movies that are kind of standalone.

[00:17:22] This is, to your point, it feels even almost like a sitcom.

[00:17:26] Like, it's just kind of its own thing.

[00:17:28] And so, yeah, I will never say no to another one of these movies.

[00:17:34] I think that these three clearly have great chemistry together, have a great dynamic, and

[00:17:41] are great.

[00:17:42] Like, so much funny just timing, the way that they say things is exactly how you would expect

[00:17:49] three brothers to talk to each other.

[00:17:51] I think that they crush that brotherly dynamic.

[00:17:53] And so, yeah, funny movie, a good time.

[00:17:56] I just don't really know what to do with it.

[00:17:58] So, and I don't know what I will do with it.

[00:18:01] I think I got to go to the war room and pray about it.

[00:18:04] But, like, personally, this is a really funny movie.

[00:18:09] But there are so many other movies that have aired so far this year that I would watch ahead

[00:18:15] of this one because it's just, I don't know, it just feels different and isn't what I'm

[00:18:20] necessarily looking for.

[00:18:22] But it's very funny and very good.

[00:18:24] So, I don't know.

[00:18:25] I don't know what to do.

[00:18:26] Dan?

[00:18:26] So, two years ago, I ranked this movie third overall behind Hall of the Holly and Ghosts

[00:18:32] of Christmas Always.

[00:18:32] And I said, the three leads have chemistry and it's really, really funny.

[00:18:38] I felt like they all three didn't need these love stories.

[00:18:41] They were trying to tie together.

[00:18:42] They, they, it felt overstuffed and unnecessary.

[00:18:48] And they fixed all that in this one.

[00:18:50] And somehow I think the movie's worse.

[00:18:53] And I don't know how.

[00:18:54] The only thing I can figure is this movie does concentrate more of the humor.

[00:18:59] And I think it's better written than the first one.

[00:19:02] I think it's legitimately a better written movie, but it just suffers from some of the

[00:19:09] stuff that all sequels suffer from.

[00:19:11] You're doing the same thing.

[00:19:12] Again, they don't really reach to do anything differently.

[00:19:15] In fact, it's less about the kid.

[00:19:17] If anything, the movie is hardly about this child at all.

[00:19:22] And, but yet we still have a dance scene, a scene in the van, a scene, you know, we have

[00:19:27] all of these, these, Mark Clark's got to show back up.

[00:19:30] Like they do, they go through the paces of the first movie again.

[00:19:35] They took out the stuff I didn't really like about the first one.

[00:19:37] They added stuff that I did like, but yet there's some diminishing returns here.

[00:19:41] And I say that, and I'm very disappointed by that because I was very, very highly anticipating

[00:19:47] this movie as a movie that I thought was going to be probably the best of the year.

[00:19:50] And they, listen, these three leads still have great chemistry.

[00:19:54] I don't think there's any way around it.

[00:19:56] I will echo the echo of that echo of everyone on the panel up here by saying these three in

[00:20:03] a movie together, you're going to get enough laughs to make it worth your while.

[00:20:06] I don't think there's any question about that, but I found myself feeling as though this

[00:20:10] was just redundant.

[00:20:11] I found myself feeling like I was watching the lost world in Jurassic park.

[00:20:14] Like, it's just, how do we get the same situations again to do the laughs again?

[00:20:20] Like I would have preferred them to like try something new.

[00:20:26] You know, obviously it is three wiser men and a boy.

[00:20:29] You're going to have some similarities, but the fact that they're rehashing family dynamics,

[00:20:34] they're doing the dance again.

[00:20:36] They're going through the same paces of where am I in my career?

[00:20:39] Like I just, I found myself wanting more out of this movie.

[00:20:43] And I guess that's a really strange feeling to have with a Hallmark movie because you're

[00:20:46] so used to it being like, you expect a zero of 10.

[00:20:50] And I just don't, I don't think that's fair, but I also think that's what it was.

[00:20:53] So this movie had some laughs in it.

[00:20:56] Listen, there's a movie we've not reviewed yet for this podcast, but we've all watched

[00:20:59] called Christmas on call.

[00:21:00] Erica Tuffley in that movie plays a semi-serious character.

[00:21:03] He has a scene outside of a person's house where someone calls him Magnum, like Magnum P.I.

[00:21:10] And he's so, he doesn't like the gentleman, but he's so taken aback by the compliment that

[00:21:16] he rubs his mustache.

[00:21:17] And that's funnier than anything in this movie.

[00:21:19] And you need to, I need, I need you to be, I need to be very clear about that.

[00:21:22] That one, that one.

[00:21:24] Would you disagree?

[00:21:25] That one.

[00:21:26] Erica Tuffley is the funniest person on this network.

[00:21:28] Yeah.

[00:21:29] It's not even close.

[00:21:30] His comedic timing is not a difference.

[00:21:33] No, he's, he is phenomenal.

[00:21:35] Absolutely.

[00:21:35] I'm trying to think of who, who would do that stuff better.

[00:21:38] No, probably, he's probably the best one with that, with the timing and the unassumingness

[00:21:43] of him.

[00:21:43] Funny guy.

[00:21:44] Really funny.

[00:21:44] And you get to do a range of so many different things.

[00:21:47] So this movie does have laughs in it.

[00:21:49] And I love, I love the addition of Erin Kerpluck, I believe.

[00:21:54] Kerpluck?

[00:21:54] Is how you say her name.

[00:21:56] Is that, is that who plays Caroline?

[00:21:58] Yes.

[00:21:58] Caroline!

[00:21:59] I think she does a great job.

[00:22:00] I think the most inventive part of this movie was trying to like do a female Tyler Hines

[00:22:05] thing.

[00:22:06] And I thought that was a fun swing that this movie took.

[00:22:09] It's really the only swing the movie takes.

[00:22:11] The idea that these three.

[00:22:11] Well, that's what I was going to say.

[00:22:12] I was going to say, you know, your point of last year, your critique about, we just don't

[00:22:17] need any of the romance.

[00:22:17] I actually, in this case, needed more of it.

[00:22:21] It's a circuitous way of me saying, I think I was just wrong.

[00:22:24] Like they did everything I asked for.

[00:22:26] I just think I was wrong.

[00:22:27] I think like the fact that I wanted, I thought the last movie was overstuffed and just like

[00:22:33] lean into the bits, man.

[00:22:34] And then this movie has all the beats of the first movie, but leans into the bits and the

[00:22:39] family stuff.

[00:22:39] And I, I don't know.

[00:22:41] I would have almost rather seen a Tyler Hines, Aaron Kerpluck movie with these other two guys

[00:22:46] in the background.

[00:22:46] Having said all that, if you watch this movie and see the chemistry of Hines, Walker and

[00:22:52] Campbell and go back and want to tell me that the groomsmen have chemistry together, you

[00:22:56] are full of it.

[00:22:57] I'm sorry.

[00:22:59] Like this whole, like the three groomsmen, their chemistry is amazing.

[00:23:03] No, it is not.

[00:23:04] This is amazing chemistry.

[00:23:06] We can't just say everyone's chemistry is amazing.

[00:23:08] It's fundamentally not true.

[00:23:10] Like their chemistry is passable for a movie direct to streaming.

[00:23:15] These three guys love each other.

[00:23:17] Like they don't look anything alike.

[00:23:19] And I buy them as brothers immediately.

[00:23:22] So yeah, there's some funny, funny moments.

[00:23:25] Do you know where you're putting this movie to?

[00:23:27] I have it right now at fifth.

[00:23:29] And that is including some movies that have not, we've not done episodes yet.

[00:23:33] So you guys just both have it higher.

[00:23:34] I don't know why I have a hard time.

[00:23:35] I'm toggling between fifth and sixth.

[00:23:37] Because I like, he's got it one.

[00:23:39] What do you have it?

[00:23:40] You have it lower than six.

[00:23:41] I would rather watch Twas the Day Before Christmas over this, A Carol for Two over this, JingleBell

[00:23:46] Run over this, Christmas with the Sings over this, Santa Tell Me over this, Five Year Christmas

[00:23:50] Party over this. And I

[00:23:52] just feel like all of those movies have such original ideas and like really interesting love stories.

[00:24:00] And I think that's the thing.

[00:24:01] Like when Heinz, when they have the Taylor, Caroline, when they go out on that date, when

[00:24:07] they're doing those things.

[00:24:08] Yeah, come on.

[00:24:08] So I think that's my thing is I, for me, the love story is the most important thing in these

[00:24:16] movies.

[00:24:17] And whether or not I'm a Marine.

[00:24:18] So like I like the brothers, but I almost, to your point with a sitcom, I feel like it would

[00:24:26] take me out of it less because it's not what I'm expecting.

[00:24:29] You know what I mean?

[00:24:30] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:24:30] I don't know.

[00:24:31] I have a hard time with it because I love the funny in this.

[00:24:34] I love these guys together.

[00:24:37] Maybe we're just in the wrong mind.

[00:24:38] Like, I don't know, man.

[00:24:39] It just seems crazy.

[00:24:40] You should have watched it third today.

[00:24:42] Well, I watched it first.

[00:24:44] You forgot how great it is.

[00:24:46] There was strategy in watching it first.

[00:24:48] And I'll tell you about it off air.

[00:24:49] But I will say this, Brian.

[00:24:51] I have Five Year Christmas Party ahead of this.

[00:24:53] Jingle Bell Run.

[00:24:54] I was not nearly as high on as you.

[00:24:56] Those other two movies I have behind this.

[00:24:58] But I get your argument.

[00:24:59] I think Holiday Crashers and Twas the Date and also our holiday story.

[00:25:04] You have Santa.

[00:25:05] Where do you have Santa?

[00:25:06] Tell me.

[00:25:06] Santa Tell Me is ahead of this movie.

[00:25:08] Christmas with the Sings is ahead of this movie.

[00:25:10] Five Year Christmas Party is ahead of this movie.

[00:25:12] A couple movies that we've not.

[00:25:14] Yeah, there's a couple others that like it's battling out for sixth right now.

[00:25:19] But our holiday story, Holiday Crashers, Twas the Date, you know, the enjoyment.

[00:25:24] Carol for two.

[00:25:25] I don't think the enjoyment level here is necessarily higher than those five movies, four movies.

[00:25:32] So I just, you might be right.

[00:25:34] It might be lower than six for me.

[00:25:36] I'd like.

[00:25:37] I'll pray about it too.

[00:25:39] No, I don't.

[00:25:39] I can't.

[00:25:40] When you, when he said it was one, I was very surprised.

[00:25:43] But, but I also thought I was going to have it the lowest at sixth.

[00:25:48] But I'm looking at these movies and I, I think you've got to, there's a case to be made that this movie, while I got some laughs.

[00:25:55] I didn't get as many laughs as I got from Erica Tublay in a movie where he's not supposed to be funny all the time.

[00:26:01] That movie is not a movie where he's trying to go for the comedic fences in every scene.

[00:26:05] And he's still funnier than these guys.

[00:26:08] You got to admit it's a tough movie to rank compared to.

[00:26:10] Not really.

[00:26:11] Yeah, it is.

[00:26:12] Because if you think about it a lot, like you're doing, you're comparing it to like original movie.

[00:26:16] I think I've got to move this down.

[00:26:17] But even, even like with Hall of the Holly, where it is really swinging for the fences with the comedy, the, the, the, the romance between Wes and Lacey is still front and center of that movie.

[00:26:30] Hall of the Holly is better than this movie.

[00:26:32] For sure.

[00:26:33] I'm just trying to compare it to some other sort of where the, where the comedy is the most important thing.

[00:26:37] Like it's primarily a, like it's comedy first.

[00:26:41] Which is the same I would think for this movie.

[00:26:42] It's comedy first.

[00:26:43] But the Hall of the Holly, like the romance between Wes and Lacey is so good.

[00:26:49] And I think that's what we're like, what I was missing here is I almost want more of the.

[00:26:54] Which, which movie do you think is better?

[00:26:56] I don't know.

[00:26:56] Three Wiser Men or Hall of the Holly 2.

[00:26:59] Lit up.

[00:27:00] Oh man.

[00:27:01] Probably Three Wiser Men.

[00:27:03] Yeah, me too.

[00:27:03] Yeah.

[00:27:03] Yeah.

[00:27:04] Me too.

[00:27:04] Because that movie does something egregiously wrong.

[00:27:06] I can see that.

[00:27:07] And they're balancing three story, like four storylines.

[00:27:10] Yeah, I think the difference, like I don't, I don't, I don't care at all about Stefan and whatever her name is.

[00:27:19] I don't care about them at all.

[00:27:20] And I don't care about, I don't care about Andrew Walker's character and the, I don't, I don't care about those.

[00:27:28] But the love story between Taylor and Caroline in this movie was great.

[00:27:34] Yeah.

[00:27:34] They had great chemistry together.

[00:27:35] Yes, definitely.

[00:27:35] So I would have wanted more of that.

[00:27:37] If I, but it's tough.

[00:27:39] I'll just say it's tough, it's tough as feels.

[00:27:40] We're talking about feels.

[00:27:41] Let's talk about them.

[00:27:42] Brian?

[00:27:43] Yeah.

[00:27:43] The, the humor, obviously that the joke between Paul and Kim about following up, they made a joke about basically.

[00:27:52] Classic meta joke.

[00:27:52] Yeah.

[00:27:53] And you get like when, when Paul answered it, you could almost see on his face.

[00:27:56] Like, I wonder where they, in the shooting process, that scene was filmed.

[00:28:00] Because if that were at the end, I felt like I could see on his face, like stress leaving when he said the line, like, yeah, it's horror or something.

[00:28:07] It was just a really funny thing.

[00:28:09] The, that scene in the van actually really did work for me.

[00:28:12] Yeah.

[00:28:12] I thought that was pretty well done.

[00:28:13] I thought it was, it was a good conversation about, you know, just sort of, you can't compare how you're feeling to other people's progress or what you perceive as their progress.

[00:28:21] It's a good reminder.

[00:28:22] The, to follow up on the dancing thing.

[00:28:25] Um, I think that them not having a new dance in this was sort of a statement.

[00:28:29] Like we gave you a dance.

[00:28:31] We're going to do this dance a little bit for you.

[00:28:33] We're not doing another dance type of thing where I'm glad they didn't introduce a new dance because it would have been a little cheesy for me.

[00:28:39] If they're going to rehash, I agree.

[00:28:40] I, I, I, that's a fair point.

[00:28:41] I, first of all, they do a little bit of it.

[00:28:45] They, in that montage teaching the kids and then they do it again at the end.

[00:28:49] And I hated that.

[00:28:50] I would have rather seen another embarrassing tradition.

[00:28:53] So not necessarily a dance.

[00:28:55] If we're going to do this thing where we just rehash the same movie and we just plug and play, which is what they're doing here.

[00:29:00] New van conversation, still in the van.

[00:29:02] Like I would have rather seen another dumb tradition, like another outfit or meal, or they all have to like, I would have rather seen some sort of in, in, in,

[00:29:11] innovation of like, instead of seeing the dance again.

[00:29:16] I think they had to, I think they, they don't, they kind of, the dance became the, the viral part of that movie that they, there's no way around.

[00:29:25] I mean, I was at Christmas con when they were, they were forced to do it on stage.

[00:29:29] They've done it on stage every time they're together.

[00:29:30] They're, to their credit.

[00:29:31] Yes.

[00:29:32] They are great about it.

[00:29:33] But it was, I mean, we did it for the decades for crying out loud.

[00:29:36] Yeah.

[00:29:37] So crying out loud.

[00:29:38] Yeah.

[00:29:38] I would have loved to see not that.

[00:29:40] I feel like it would have been a really easy thing to, to, to do is to make it a new thing and try something new.

[00:29:46] But you know, what are you going to do?

[00:29:48] What are you going to do?

[00:29:50] I found the Pictionary scene to be very funny where they're so bad at it.

[00:29:55] Yeah.

[00:29:56] Pastor Roy comes up there and he crushes it.

[00:29:58] Yeah.

[00:29:58] The claws was great.

[00:30:00] Great.

[00:30:00] I thought that that scene was very funny.

[00:30:04] And we've already talked about the, the line with, with, when Tyler's like, yeah, I didn't know.

[00:30:09] I got it.

[00:30:10] Yeah.

[00:30:10] That were, it was so funny.

[00:30:12] Funniest line for me.

[00:30:13] That's mine too, because it's this class.

[00:30:16] Like when, if you have a brother, the juxtaposition of being serious and sweet and tenderhearted with your brother and being super sarcastic or like, you know, kind of like backhanded.

[00:30:28] Mean is just razor thin to non-existent.

[00:30:31] And I love the idea of him looking like you want to be the grump.

[00:30:35] Here's the stuff you're, you know, I believe in you.

[00:30:38] And then it's this thing where it's like, you, it's not, it's actually not important.

[00:30:41] Like, it's like, I didn't either.

[00:30:43] I didn't have the lines.

[00:30:44] Like, are you kidding me?

[00:30:45] It's for five year olds.

[00:30:46] Like, it's a perfect, and the way Tyler Hunt delivers it, like this super sincere, like, I didn't either, was just exactly, that was like when my mom got really upset because my brother and I didn't want to exchange gifts because we were both young and very, very like poor.

[00:31:04] And so we, she was like, you guys need to give each other something.

[00:31:06] And so we gave each other a $20 bill.

[00:31:09] And, and like, that's, that's the kind of thing that this movie I think does well.

[00:31:14] And you've never spent that $20.

[00:31:16] No, no, no, no.

[00:31:16] I didn't think so.

[00:31:19] Let's, let's take a break.

[00:31:20] We'll come back.

[00:31:21] We'll get to the way, what, and what, the hallmark here on.

[00:31:23] Take the hallmark.

[00:31:29] Dan, you and I love the holiday season because we love giving gifts.

[00:31:32] But sometimes it's hard.

[00:31:34] Sometimes it's hard to think through what to get your mom or someone else close to you because you overthink it and you're like, I don't want to get them another, like, stuffed bear or something like that because it's like, they're adults.

[00:31:47] They don't want that.

[00:31:48] Do you have any ideas for me?

[00:31:50] Bran, I'm here to help.

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[00:33:00] Welcome back, everybody.

[00:33:01] Hopefully you're doing well.

[00:33:04] We're back here.

[00:33:05] That went well.

[00:33:07] Deck the Hallmark.

[00:33:08] Hopefully you're watching us on Philo.

[00:33:09] Philo.

[00:33:10] NotTV slash DTH.

[00:33:11] If ever there was a week to get it, it'd be this week.

[00:33:13] You got eight movies to watch between Wednesday and Sunday, and you can add them all to your DVR anytime you want to.

[00:33:19] Bran, it's about to get stupid cold for Greenville.

[00:33:22] Yes.

[00:33:22] The city of Greenville is not prepared for five straight days where the low is like near 20 degrees, and it's late November, early December.

[00:33:29] But I'm pretty sure we're going to have that ice skate rink up and going.

[00:33:33] Oh, it's up.

[00:33:33] It's up.

[00:33:34] It's rolling.

[00:33:34] So, city of Greenville, if you were on the fence and you have a little bit of time after Thanksgiving and you're like, I don't know, I want to go see this Hallmark town, blah, blah, blah.

[00:33:44] Come here when it's 25 degrees at night and 40 during the day and the sun's still shining.

[00:33:48] You can ice skate on Main Street.

[00:33:50] You can live your best Hallmark life for a weekend.

[00:33:53] It would be the weekend to do it.

[00:33:54] And rumor has it there might be some boys talking about the parade again this year.

[00:33:59] Rumor has it.

[00:34:00] What?

[00:34:00] Well, we'll see how the weather holds up before we do this whole thing.

[00:34:04] November 7th.

[00:34:05] It's going to be cold.

[00:34:06] Yes.

[00:34:06] It's going to be cold.

[00:34:07] Come on out.

[00:34:07] Yes.

[00:34:08] That's why we're here.

[00:34:09] Let's talk about the Wait What's in this movie.

[00:34:11] What made us go Wait What's?

[00:34:13] Brian?

[00:34:14] Yeah.

[00:34:14] Taylor did his bro a solid there delivering the cookies to the school.

[00:34:17] But in my kid's school, you cannot bring homemade cookies into anything.

[00:34:23] You have to bring store by.

[00:34:24] The weird part about that scene was them kind of making fun of peanut allergies.

[00:34:30] Yeah.

[00:34:31] I didn't appreciate that.

[00:34:32] First of all.

[00:34:33] You, like my, almost every elementary school you go in will tell you this is a peanut free

[00:34:37] facility.

[00:34:38] Like as much fun as it is for us that don't have the allergy.

[00:34:43] Yeah.

[00:34:43] I can't imagine how fun that is.

[00:34:44] To kind of laugh at you a little bit.

[00:34:47] We would like, in reality, that's something that is taken very, very seriously.

[00:34:52] Yeah.

[00:34:52] It's dangerous.

[00:34:53] And it doesn't come off like Tyler Hines doesn't know any better.

[00:34:56] It comes off like, gosh, these schools are so like, they're just, they coddle these

[00:35:00] kids.

[00:35:00] Right.

[00:35:00] And that was weird.

[00:35:01] That was a weird thing.

[00:35:02] It was a weird little vibe there.

[00:35:03] Yeah.

[00:35:04] Yeah.

[00:35:04] So that whole thing, the cookies was just a whole thing.

[00:35:06] The, the, I think they used the back of the firehouse as the school.

[00:35:11] When they had that firehouse.

[00:35:12] They were shooting this firehouse.

[00:35:14] They shoot the exterior shot and it had to just, it was the back of the building.

[00:35:18] It had to have been the back of the building for the school.

[00:35:20] Uh, that was just really funny.

[00:35:22] The pastor, not, uh, not very understanding about the boys being upset.

[00:35:26] Eh?

[00:35:27] Yeah.

[00:35:28] With, uh, stomping all over the relationship.

[00:35:30] Yeah.

[00:35:31] Yeah.

[00:35:31] Yeah.

[00:35:31] Just really no, no patience, no time.

[00:35:33] I got a lot of Pastor Roy stuff that I'm like.

[00:35:35] That's all I'll say about him.

[00:35:37] Yeah.

[00:35:37] Uh, Balsam Hill shout out.

[00:35:39] Yeah.

[00:35:39] A super duper shout out.

[00:35:41] Product placement of the week here.

[00:35:42] No wonder we didn't get a way up on that sponsor.

[00:35:44] Yeah.

[00:35:44] No kidding.

[00:35:45] Um, and then Tyler's thing about he wants to be a game designer.

[00:35:50] It's just like a little week for me.

[00:35:52] Super week.

[00:35:53] Like just sell out, take the deal.

[00:35:55] Thank you.

[00:35:56] You know, like we're just a hit.

[00:35:57] You're not.

[00:35:58] Yeah.

[00:35:58] You're not.

[00:35:59] Be committed.

[00:35:59] It's like, you're going to have other ideas.

[00:36:01] Like just sell the idea.

[00:36:03] But the idea, like, how is it going to sit with anyone lower middle class that the guy

[00:36:09] with a seven figure offer on the table is getting evicted?

[00:36:13] Are we supposed to feel bad for you?

[00:36:15] Like, I like as someone who co-owns some intellectual property and takes that very seriously, you

[00:36:23] can't possibly think I'm going to be sympathetic for you getting evicted from your office because

[00:36:28] you refuse to sell.

[00:36:29] Parachute like that?

[00:36:30] Yeah.

[00:36:30] Get out of here, man.

[00:36:32] It's a video game.

[00:36:33] Yeah.

[00:36:33] Come on.

[00:36:34] It was, that was just ridiculous.

[00:36:36] Uh, the last thing was just that tent where they were having a convo while little Thomas

[00:36:41] is asleep was lit up with the brightness of a thousand songs.

[00:36:45] Oh, yeah.

[00:36:45] It was a torture chamber with the brightness level.

[00:36:48] That kid is not sleeping.

[00:36:49] That was it.

[00:36:51] Um, shout out to the person who is evicting Taylor though for putting the eviction notice

[00:36:57] on very festive paper.

[00:36:59] You want people to feel like in the spirit when they get evicted.

[00:37:01] And also I believe the eviction notice was posted inside of the elevator.

[00:37:06] No, he got to his door.

[00:37:07] He got to his door.

[00:37:08] He got to his door.

[00:37:09] Because I was going to say, I don't know if you could do that.

[00:37:10] No, you can't.

[00:37:10] I don't know if you could just be like, hey, um.

[00:37:12] Hey, I know where you're going.

[00:37:13] I know where you're going.

[00:37:14] Can you, I would be, if I got an eviction letter and it was on festive paper, I would

[00:37:18] be like irrationally angry at the fact.

[00:37:21] It's like insult to injury.

[00:37:22] Yeah.

[00:37:22] It's like, I didn't need a reminder that it's the holiday season.

[00:37:25] I know.

[00:37:25] Yeah.

[00:37:26] Take that out of my rent.

[00:37:27] And it shows that you know.

[00:37:28] It shows that you know too.

[00:37:30] That's right.

[00:37:30] You know it's the holiday season and you're still evicting me.

[00:37:35] You know, I don't really understand, you know, fire codes and what you're allowed to do

[00:37:41] and what you're not allowed to do.

[00:37:42] But I have to imagine that having lit up garland on the side, draped on the side of a fire truck

[00:37:51] would be some sort of hazard to them doing their job effectively.

[00:37:55] Right?

[00:37:55] It's got to get in the way.

[00:37:57] It's got to get in the way of something somewhere.

[00:37:59] I've always been under the impression that every aspect of a fire truck was meticulously

[00:38:04] thought of and put together for the usage.

[00:38:09] Yeah, absolutely.

[00:38:10] Of its primary need to put out fire.

[00:38:13] And so when you have just draped loosey-goosey garland, I want Christmas decorations anywhere

[00:38:20] and everywhere, but not at the risk of someone dying in a fire.

[00:38:26] And I just want to put that on the record.

[00:38:27] There's been a lot of people slavering me about that.

[00:38:29] Some people say you prefer Christmas decorations over lives saved.

[00:38:32] I know, but this was a good point for me to clear up the record there.

[00:38:38] I will take lives over Garland.

[00:38:41] Dan?

[00:38:41] We're here first.

[00:38:42] The most unrealistic part of this movie is we're supposed to believe that Andrew Walker

[00:38:47] is struggling with being a dad.

[00:38:49] Like, his life's falling apart.

[00:38:51] Bro, you can see a vein in your arm through your shirt.

[00:38:56] You look better than you did two years ago.

[00:39:00] Yeah.

[00:39:00] You're crushing it.

[00:39:02] Stop acting like dad life has.

[00:39:04] Clearly, you've got an hour for the gym every day.

[00:39:07] At least.

[00:39:07] Like, I'm not like, stop it.

[00:39:09] Stop it.

[00:39:10] If you want to pitch me that dad life has made things overwhelming, you have to start with

[00:39:15] your appearance.

[00:39:16] Wouldn't that have been really funny if they gave him a gut?

[00:39:18] Yes.

[00:39:20] I mean, the guy, he's always looked good.

[00:39:23] He's shirtless in 2022.

[00:39:25] I guarantee if he was shirtless in this movie, it would have been a step up across the board.

[00:39:29] It's too risky.

[00:39:29] I mean, it would be too much.

[00:39:31] It looks too good.

[00:39:31] The TVG would have gone to TVPG, just like that.

[00:39:34] The idea that dad life has really got him down.

[00:39:36] I know where you can get an hour a day, bro.

[00:39:38] I know where you can get an hour a day.

[00:39:40] I guarantee you, if you're so overwhelmed right now with your dad life, because you could

[00:39:45] take a few plays off there.

[00:39:46] You could sit a few plays out.

[00:39:47] You're still going to look great.

[00:39:48] I got news for you.

[00:39:49] They call Pastor Roy, at the school, they call him an honorary substitute.

[00:39:55] What does that mean?

[00:39:57] It just kind of comes in.

[00:39:59] An honorary doctorate where you're not really a doctor, but you got the degree?

[00:40:03] Like, I've never heard that term ever.

[00:40:06] He doesn't actually sub.

[00:40:08] He's an honorary substitute.

[00:40:10] I was an honorary teacher.

[00:40:11] No, you were technically a real teacher, if you can believe it.

[00:40:14] I know it's hard to...

[00:40:15] You called yourself an honorary teacher.

[00:40:17] Yeah.

[00:40:18] I couldn't...

[00:40:18] Probably safer from a legal perspective.

[00:40:20] I couldn't in good faith put me in the same category as real teachers.

[00:40:23] Yeah.

[00:40:24] That's fair.

[00:40:24] I'll be your honorary teacher today and for the rest of the year.

[00:40:27] They kind of...

[00:40:29] The scene with the auction and the fire truck with the garland on it, is that the garage?

[00:40:35] Is that the garage?

[00:40:36] I think it's supposed to be.

[00:40:37] Yeah.

[00:40:38] Well, earlier in the movie, they have like six 10 feet tall Christmas trees all around

[00:40:43] the fire trucks.

[00:40:43] And you're like, I don't know a lot about being a fireman, but I know that you can't possibly

[00:40:49] like having like a clean space to where you can get from where you are to the truck and

[00:40:56] out the door as quick as possible.

[00:40:58] It's kind of like number one.

[00:40:59] Get an alarm.

[00:40:59] Unplug those trees.

[00:41:00] Get them out of the way real quick.

[00:41:01] I would put it ahead of like an emergency room.

[00:41:03] Not that we're going to talk about that this weekend, but like I would put it like you want

[00:41:07] to be able to get there right like as quick as possible.

[00:41:09] So we see those all up early and then there's another scene in the garage.

[00:41:15] There's no fire.

[00:41:16] There's no Christmas trees anywhere.

[00:41:18] And then at the auction, they're all back.

[00:41:21] And so I don't know if it's two rooms and they, but there's a fire truck in there.

[00:41:25] And so I just, there was no like consistency with that at all.

[00:41:30] What was the other one?

[00:41:31] Oh yeah.

[00:41:32] The fact that the boy's mom in this movie is gone, the whole movie is absurd.

[00:41:36] I know that she's out of town on something, but it was, it reminded me of a lot of Aaron

[00:41:42] Craiko when calls the heart.

[00:41:43] Like she's just never around baby Jack.

[00:41:44] And it's like, we just like the whole plot of this first movie.

[00:41:48] Correct me if I'm wrong is, is that this woman like is struggling to make sure she provides

[00:41:53] and like not, she's not sure she's capable of being a mother.

[00:41:56] Like I would have loved to see like how that is like.

[00:42:01] Yeah, that's true.

[00:42:02] Like I think of that.

[00:42:03] It's absurd.

[00:42:04] It's crazy that this movie isn't about this kid at all.

[00:42:07] I think maybe that's my issue is.

[00:42:08] What kid?

[00:42:09] Yeah, exactly.

[00:42:09] I thought there was going to be some shenanigans with the kid, like some stuff where the kid,

[00:42:15] they've got to go do this thing and the end like, you know, whatever it may be.

[00:42:19] I'm thinking of like the friends episode where they lose the baby or whatever, like stuff

[00:42:22] like that, I think would be really funny.

[00:42:24] And this movie is, they don't, as much attention is paid to this child that's dropped off at

[00:42:30] the fire station in the first movie.

[00:42:32] It's like, oh, we got to deal with this kid in this movie.

[00:42:34] It's very much not that at all.

[00:42:39] And Roy decides he's just going to hug a woman without asking her.

[00:42:43] He literally attack hugs her.

[00:42:46] All right, Roy.

[00:42:47] It was an honorary attack hug.

[00:42:48] It was an honorary attack.

[00:42:49] It was a real attack hug.

[00:42:51] That was, that was pretty weird.

[00:42:53] He's an honorary weirdo.

[00:42:54] He was an honorary weirdo.

[00:42:55] Yeah.

[00:42:56] That's it.

[00:42:57] It's time for what the hallmark is where to wonder what could have been maybe having

[00:43:00] against McLaren.

[00:43:01] Any questions that we still have?

[00:43:02] What are we still wondering about?

[00:43:03] That's what this segment's for.

[00:43:04] Brian, what are you still wondering about?

[00:43:06] Was Tyler or Taylor, I guess, carrying a guitar case?

[00:43:09] He was.

[00:43:09] Okay.

[00:43:10] Was there a guitar?

[00:43:10] Did we see?

[00:43:11] What, Aaron?

[00:43:12] What do you got?

[00:43:13] It's his tailored neon sign.

[00:43:15] Oh, really?

[00:43:16] He carries it around because he sets it up at the coffee shop for meetings.

[00:43:20] That was my question was, I'll just piggy-wig you back here.

[00:43:24] My thing was, he was doing that before he got evicted.

[00:43:28] That's what I don't understand.

[00:43:30] He's carrying that up the stairs.

[00:43:32] He's going to the coffee shop.

[00:43:32] Yeah, because he's using a table at the coffee shop as his office.

[00:43:36] So he sets it up behind him.

[00:43:39] Yeah, I understand that from the Zoom meeting.

[00:43:40] What I'm saying is, is that he didn't know he was evicted.

[00:43:44] He's carrying that sign up to his office.

[00:43:48] He thinks he still has an office.

[00:43:50] Up to his apartment.

[00:43:51] No, it's up to his apartment.

[00:43:52] He got evicted from his apartment?

[00:43:53] Yes.

[00:43:53] Yeah.

[00:43:54] That's why he wants to live with mom for a couple weeks.

[00:43:56] Oh, my gosh.

[00:43:57] So he doesn't have an office.

[00:43:58] He got evicted from his apartment.

[00:43:59] His apartment.

[00:44:00] Brandon, I asked Brandon, and then I got-

[00:44:02] No, no, no.

[00:44:03] I got sidetracked.

[00:44:04] No, no.

[00:44:05] I think you were right.

[00:44:06] I thought that it was his office.

[00:44:09] My bad.

[00:44:10] He got evicted from his apartment.

[00:44:11] Got it.

[00:44:12] Okay.

[00:44:12] He never had an office.

[00:44:13] He was using the coffee shop.

[00:44:14] Got it.

[00:44:15] Okay, we're good.

[00:44:15] So he had a sign in there.

[00:44:16] All right.

[00:44:17] Yeah.

[00:44:17] No, I knew what it was in there.

[00:44:19] I just thought it was crazy he was doing it before he got evicted.

[00:44:21] But why wouldn't he use his apartment?

[00:44:23] He could just use his green screen.

[00:44:25] What apartment?

[00:44:25] But what if his apartment is like the apartment from A Carol for Two, where there's just no space?

[00:44:31] It doesn't matter.

[00:44:31] I feel like there's as much space as there is in the coffee shop.

[00:44:34] He should have used his apartment.

[00:44:35] Definitely.

[00:44:36] Yeah.

[00:44:37] All right.

[00:44:37] Should you call Tyler together right now and ask him?

[00:44:39] I should.

[00:44:40] A seven-figure deal on the table, I guess.

[00:44:41] A seven-figure deal.

[00:44:42] Yeah.

[00:44:43] Yeah.

[00:44:45] Yeah.

[00:44:46] I would like-

[00:44:47] I don't know what they're going to do for a third.

[00:44:50] To your point, they could do a third.

[00:44:51] Yep.

[00:44:52] I think they have an interesting through line here with the boy getting older.

[00:44:58] This was five years after the first one, and so if they're going to do that,

[00:45:01] it creates some different challenges.

[00:45:05] Can I tell you this?

[00:45:06] Go ahead.

[00:45:06] I just thought of this.

[00:45:07] Okay.

[00:45:07] I like to live in a world where these three dudes are still doing this in 10 years,

[00:45:12] and they're all in their 50s, and there's a new group of Hallmark actors who have taken

[00:45:18] over the mantle of what these guys are now, but they still show up for these movies occasionally.

[00:45:23] Maybe they're still leads in these movies, and then we get another one of these in 10 years

[00:45:27] where the kid's graduating high school, and I love that.

[00:45:30] Take 10 years off?

[00:45:31] Real quick?

[00:45:31] I love that.

[00:45:32] I'm not saying take 10 years off like that.

[00:45:35] I'm saying that I think the combination of sentimentality and humor might ripen perfectly

[00:45:41] with these guys at 50, 52, 3 years old, and the kid at 18.

[00:45:45] I think that's a fun time.

[00:45:47] But maybe that's just me.

[00:45:48] We'll see.

[00:45:49] But also, give me a sitcom.

[00:45:51] Give me a sitcom on Hallmark Plus.

[00:45:53] You won't.

[00:45:53] You won't.

[00:45:54] Your skirt.

[00:45:54] Every Thursday?

[00:45:55] Every Thursday.

[00:45:57] Every Thursday.

[00:45:58] I love it.

[00:45:59] I got nothing else coming out, man.

[00:46:00] I love it.

[00:46:01] Anything else, Dan?

[00:46:02] Thursday's wide open.

[00:46:03] We do, everybody.

[00:46:04] Congratulations to us.

[00:46:05] We'll be back tomorrow with, Dan, you alluded to it, but Christmas on call.

[00:46:10] Christmas on call.

[00:46:10] That's right.

[00:46:10] Shout out.

[00:46:11] We'll be talking about that tomorrow.

[00:46:12] And, you know, kids, if you're listening and you're still on the bus, it's a long drive.

[00:46:18] It's a long drive on the bus.

[00:46:20] And I apologize.

[00:46:21] Maybe you're last stop.

[00:46:21] But we're still putting out an episode tomorrow, whether you're on the bus or not.

[00:46:25] So tune in.

[00:46:27] Find a bus.

[00:46:27] Find a bus.

[00:46:28] Find a buddy.

[00:46:30] And give us a listen.

[00:46:31] All right.

[00:46:31] We'll be back tomorrow with that one.

[00:46:32] We've got a double-decker of the week.

[00:46:34] I forgot it's Tuesday.

[00:46:35] It's BrambleJamPlus.com.

[00:46:37] Go to the double-decker tier or higher.

[00:46:39] And we shout one out a week, Bram.

[00:46:41] One a week.

[00:46:41] And this week's double-decker of the week is Lindsey Runge.

[00:46:44] Lindsey Runge.

[00:46:45] Yeah.

[00:46:46] Lindsey did some research on Lindsey.

[00:46:49] Obviously found a little.

[00:46:50] Lindsey, a bit of a prankster, is what I found.

[00:46:52] Likes the pranks.

[00:46:53] Likes the jokes.

[00:46:55] Sort of discovered an untapped market, I guess.

[00:46:58] For pranks?

[00:46:59] For pranks, yeah.

[00:47:00] Oh, interesting.

[00:47:01] So I really feel like the camping industry could be disrupted with some prank materials.

[00:47:06] The camping industry?

[00:47:07] Yeah.

[00:47:08] My friends were just talking about this.

[00:47:09] You were?

[00:47:10] When your people are camping, that's when you want to prank them.

[00:47:12] For sure.

[00:47:12] Nothing could go wrong there.

[00:47:14] I was thinking about how we have figured out how to prank everybody in every circumstance

[00:47:18] except for campers.

[00:47:19] Right.

[00:47:19] So this is, yeah.

[00:47:21] So you guys are ready to say, maybe you could get in.

[00:47:23] I'm listening.

[00:47:24] So things like.

[00:47:25] The campers have it coming.

[00:47:26] They do.

[00:47:27] That's the thing.

[00:47:28] Some people, they camp too hard.

[00:47:29] And you have to bring them back down.

[00:47:30] Are you talking about summer camps with all the kids' shop?

[00:47:32] Are you talking about camping, like going to a campground?

[00:47:35] Camp equipment.

[00:47:35] Yes.

[00:47:35] I got you.

[00:47:36] Summer.

[00:47:36] Like Aria.

[00:47:37] For example, it's not like a subscription, but it's things you can order either all together

[00:47:43] or separately.

[00:47:44] Like a poncho.

[00:47:45] You use a poncho camping.

[00:47:47] But her poncho, it has no opening.

[00:47:50] So it's more like a punch no.

[00:47:52] So you can't put it on.

[00:47:53] It doesn't open.

[00:47:54] Okay.

[00:47:54] What else?

[00:47:55] What else does she got?

[00:47:56] We got the, she also has the dud flares.

[00:47:59] They don't really shoot.

[00:48:01] That seems actually problematic.

[00:48:03] You're going to get somebody killed.

[00:48:05] Flares for the anticlimactic is what we call those ones.

[00:48:08] Oh, no.

[00:48:09] They don't do anything.

[00:48:11] So if you're in trouble on the mountain top and you're shooting a flare, joke's on you.

[00:48:14] What else you got?

[00:48:15] Anything else?

[00:48:16] This is really dark.

[00:48:17] This is the flagship product.

[00:48:19] The one she's probably launching the business.

[00:48:22] Exactly.

[00:48:23] And probably what the business will be named after.

[00:48:24] It's called Ben, but Don't Steak.

[00:48:28] And it's just tent stakes that you go to hammer those bad boys in the ground.

[00:48:32] They just keep flopping around.

[00:48:33] They don't go anywhere.

[00:48:34] So I really think she's going to do great, especially this holiday season.

[00:48:37] I don't know if Lindsay, like I think Lindsay seems like she's really smart, like tip of the spear.

[00:48:42] But I also think that maybe doing things like this where people are, it's survival.

[00:48:48] Well, I'm sure you would have to.

[00:48:51] Survival we're talking about, right?

[00:48:52] You'd have to like probably sign a waiver, like trick somebody into signing a waiver.

[00:48:55] Yeah, like I'm going to go to them.

[00:48:57] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:48:57] You know what you're getting into.

[00:48:58] Sign this card for Josephine.

[00:49:00] Sign this card for Josephine.

[00:49:02] It's actually clearance for me giving you Ben, but Don't Steak.

[00:49:05] Ben, but Don't Steak.

[00:49:06] Ben, but Don't Steak.

[00:49:07] Your responsibility.

[00:49:08] I can't get in trouble for this.

[00:49:09] Of the three, I think the Ben, but Don't Steak is just like more annoying.

[00:49:13] The other one, like you're going to get, I mean, like pouring rain.

[00:49:18] You go for your poncho.

[00:49:19] It's a punch note.

[00:49:20] That's trouble.

[00:49:20] I mean, you could still.

[00:49:21] You're stuck on the mountain.

[00:49:22] Although punch note, you could die.

[00:49:25] Freaking 127 hours and you have one flare gun and it's just a flare.

[00:49:29] If you get plastic on your head, they say don't put a bag over your head.

[00:49:32] That's right.

[00:49:32] Very dangerous.

[00:49:34] And the flare, though, if you're in a situation where you need a flare, isn't that like your own?

[00:49:37] That's the worst.

[00:49:38] That's the worst.

[00:49:39] You shoot the flare and it's like, got him.

[00:49:41] What is it?

[00:49:41] Like a little flag come out?

[00:49:42] A little flag pops.

[00:49:43] Like, gotcha.

[00:49:43] Yeah.

[00:49:44] Your body is going to, like, you're going to forget that you gave it to you.

[00:49:45] Are you sure this isn't the company that works Acme for Wile E. Coyote?

[00:49:49] Is that not this company?

[00:49:50] It might have been where Lindsay got the idea.

[00:49:53] We'll see where it goes.

[00:49:54] The campers have it coming, though.

[00:49:55] They do.

[00:49:56] They do.

[00:49:56] I've been saying that for years.

[00:49:58] I know what they do.

[00:49:58] When are the campers going to get what's due them?

[00:50:00] It's now.

[00:50:01] The time is now.

[00:50:02] You guys said it.

[00:50:03] We'll be back tomorrow with another one.

[00:50:04] Until then, maybe the first to wish you a Merry Christmas.

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