Time for Her to Come Home for Christmas (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries - 2023) ft. Brett White

[00:00:00] Hi, I'm Brett and I love Hallmark Christmas Movies!

[00:00:04] I'm Brian, I like Hallmark Christmas Movies!

[00:00:06] I'm Dan and I despise Hallmark Christmas Movies!

[00:00:09] And I'm Brett and I try to review every Hallmark Christmas movie ever except for the year that

[00:00:16] I take sabbatical, which is this year. Bang, bang, bang.

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[00:00:40] Well hello everybody! Happy Thursday to you!

[00:00:44] He has disappeared.

[00:00:45] Brett White took off on a piece of metal.

[00:00:47] He's trying to turn off my air conditioning.

[00:00:49] I didn't want to have him give y'all a hum.

[00:00:51] I got to be honest, for the people that are watching on Filo, they're getting a show.

[00:00:54] Your office is fantastic. I'm taking it all in right now.

[00:00:59] This is so much Christmas on the screen.

[00:01:01] Look at that.

[00:01:02] And look at that. It's beautiful.

[00:01:04] Brett, for the folks that don't know, you have been reviewing Hallmark movies for quite some

[00:01:11] time with Decider. You got the Hallmark beat, I guess.

[00:01:16] How did all that come to be and how did you stumble your way into the world of Hallmark,

[00:01:21] this world that we also find ourselves in?

[00:01:24] So you know, I've been a journalist or pop culture reporter for about 10 or 15 years

[00:01:29] depending on how you count it.

[00:01:32] When I was freelance in 2013, like working from home at the Christmas time, I would just

[00:01:41] put on whatever was on Netflix.

[00:01:44] So a lot of Marvista produced content, a lot of Dean Cain movies.

[00:01:50] And so I got really accustomed to the vibe.

[00:01:54] I later learned Hallmark is a cut above.

[00:01:57] Yeah, of those like my dog walkers Christmas tale, what kind of nonsense.

[00:02:03] And so at Decider, I think like no one really reviews, or at least back in, I guess, 2018,

[00:02:10] 2019 is when I started this.

[00:02:13] No one really reviews Hallmark movies, like written.

[00:02:18] Yeah.

[00:02:18] So I was like, well, this is an open market.

[00:02:21] I am clearly obsessed with Christmas.

[00:02:24] And I also love bad movies like I'm a mystery science theater nerd.

[00:02:29] And so, you know, Hallmark movies at the time overlap, total Christmas, bad movies.

[00:02:34] We love it.

[00:02:35] And then Hallmark had the nerve to go on and start trying actually making good movies.

[00:02:42] Well, kind of ruined it for me a little bit.

[00:02:46] But yeah, and then this year.

[00:02:47] So like while my Christmas movie reviews stopped in November, but I still did like 16.

[00:02:54] So I did review basically almost every movie that Hallmark aired all your long.

[00:03:01] So I ventured into Valentine's Day.

[00:03:03] Yeah, that's how it happens.

[00:03:05] That's where they get you.

[00:03:06] Three bed, two bath, one ghost, baby.

[00:03:08] Like, yeah.

[00:03:10] You know what, Brett?

[00:03:11] I appreciate is you're right.

[00:03:13] Not many people, not many professional journalists review these movies on a

[00:03:19] qualitative level.

[00:03:20] Like there's bloggers who are just going to give you different versions of it was

[00:03:23] good and then there's podcasters, most of which will give you it was good.

[00:03:28] Then there's us and a couple others that'll give you an actual critical take,

[00:03:31] but we're not journalists and you are.

[00:03:33] And I originally thought, Brett, that you were just a guy that was writing

[00:03:39] positive pieces for every movie.

[00:03:42] And the reason I thought that is because whenever someone would,

[00:03:45] whatever you would write a good review, the actor would always utilize it like

[00:03:50] to its fullest because you're the only blurb that anyone can get.

[00:03:55] The first time that Tyler Hines like shared a thing on Instagram is

[00:03:59] literally the first time in my entire career that my sister and mom have cared.

[00:04:05] More than fair.

[00:04:06] But thank you, Tyler.

[00:04:07] Yeah.

[00:04:07] Like, so I just thought, oh, this, Brett.

[00:04:09] White character just is like writing these positive pieces that can be shared.

[00:04:13] And then I looked into your reviews and it's like, no, you're giving an actual,

[00:04:17] like with like journalistic integrity, like an actual review of these movies.

[00:04:22] And that's what like I'm here for that.

[00:04:25] I'm here for an actual take.

[00:04:26] So thank you.

[00:04:28] Well, yeah, I realized I kind of now to I say that every movie reviewer

[00:04:32] should actually have to one year review every Hallmark movie because it's

[00:04:38] kind of like a movie reviewer boot camp because like it, it strips away a lot of

[00:04:43] the stuff that you're supposed to talk about when you review movies.

[00:04:45] Like you're supposed to talk about while the plot was repetitive or redone it.

[00:04:48] And it's like when that's actually the point of the movie is to give you

[00:04:53] the same thing, you have to thin focus on other things like chemistry.

[00:04:58] Did I laugh literally once at all?

[00:05:00] And was I laughing with or at the movie?

[00:05:03] You have to focus on different stuff.

[00:05:05] You can't just rely on like plot holes, blah, blah, blah.

[00:05:08] Because they point at these movies.

[00:05:10] That's right. The point of these. They're a vibe, baby.

[00:05:13] They're a vibe. That's exactly right. Absolutely.

[00:05:16] What I love also about the pieces on Decider is they do follow

[00:05:20] a bit of a format, so does as the show does.

[00:05:23] But you do the what will this movie like remind you of or something like that?

[00:05:27] I imagine that is like the tougher part of writing those.

[00:05:32] Yes. Like.

[00:05:34] What what is the biggest leap you've made to fill that fill that part?

[00:05:41] Oh, geez.

[00:05:42] I think I said in the mouth of madness for one of them.

[00:05:46] Because a lot of these movies are person goes to town where everyone is acting

[00:05:51] bizarre. Right.

[00:05:53] And so I think I've compared something in the mouth of madness.

[00:05:56] I got there's there was another.

[00:05:58] I said that a fabled holiday was like the closest we'll get

[00:06:01] to a Stephen King Hallmark movie. Oh, man.

[00:06:04] Yeah. That was another one of those like she's dealing with immortal being.

[00:06:08] You are terrifying.

[00:06:11] Yeah. And so a lot in this hallmark movie that we're talking about today,

[00:06:15] they could go into horror very quickly.

[00:06:18] Yeah. It's just it's just a twist.

[00:06:21] And God, there was one and my boss was like, oh, you compared it to this.

[00:06:25] I can't wait to watch it.

[00:06:26] And I wanted to be like that was a stretch.

[00:06:28] No, actually, I can't remember what it was.

[00:06:31] It's a great.

[00:06:32] That's my favorite part.

[00:06:33] I wonder where he's going to go with this.

[00:06:35] I thought Citizen Kane for this whole movie.

[00:06:37] Time for her to come over.

[00:06:38] Yeah, there's just like hallmarks of an all time.

[00:06:41] For for a holiday road when I was watching it, I was like,

[00:06:45] this feels like lost even though, like, you know, there's no mystical element.

[00:06:48] But just like we're bringing all these people together, like on a disparate thing.

[00:06:53] We're learning about their past.

[00:06:54] And it's like, yeah, it feels kind of losty.

[00:06:56] The lost fans turn it on.

[00:06:58] They're like, what is that guy from Decider said this was like lost.

[00:07:05] I also love that it's a part like the way that you guys do it is with

[00:07:08] stream it or skip it.

[00:07:10] And you were doing that before you could even find a Hallmark movie to stream.

[00:07:14] Like homework used to be just straight linear.

[00:07:16] If you missed it, you missed it, but you still had to do the stream

[00:07:19] or skip it. So it's like, stream it.

[00:07:22] OK, good luck.

[00:07:24] Good luck. Yes.

[00:07:25] You should stream it on demand.

[00:07:27] You should stream.

[00:07:28] Yeah, absolutely.

[00:07:30] Well, today we're talking about the sixth version

[00:07:35] iteration of the time for Proud and blank to come home for Christmas.

[00:07:40] This year it is her got to be honest.

[00:07:43] Surprised it was still around.

[00:07:44] Yeah, it was her.

[00:07:46] I know they keep surprising me.

[00:07:48] I keep thinking this is going to be the year that it's going to get weird

[00:07:51] and it hasn't been them.

[00:07:53] Yeah, these us and them before her.

[00:07:55] It's wild. But we're out of them now, right?

[00:07:58] Like now we've done this.

[00:07:59] You can do all. Yeah.

[00:08:01] Yeah. And then it's just names.

[00:08:02] You start with a time for Abigail.

[00:08:06] Oh, hold on. Hold on.

[00:08:07] Hold on.

[00:08:08] Aaron has a mic.

[00:08:09] She's Aaron. Go ahead.

[00:08:10] producer. Aaron has a take.

[00:08:12] I can't remember which double deck or posted it in the group.

[00:08:15] So I'm really sorry.

[00:08:17] But they were they said, do you think they're going to start

[00:08:19] feeling in like like father time for dad to come home?

[00:08:24] Oh, wow.

[00:08:25] And if they do, it just goes on forever.

[00:08:28] Could we not?

[00:08:29] Could we just not?

[00:08:30] Then you can do steps.

[00:08:31] I don't think that's an option.

[00:08:32] Step down.

[00:08:33] The franchise, the end of the franchise is time for Blake Shelton to come.

[00:08:36] That has to be the best.

[00:08:38] That's the fact that we do this every year and have yet to see Blake Shelton.

[00:08:42] Blake Shelton wakes up laughing.

[00:08:44] He is getting money out.

[00:08:46] Yeah, getting money off of all of these movies.

[00:08:49] He's just waking up like, what do you do for a living?

[00:08:51] It doesn't matter.

[00:08:52] I get money off of these homework movies.

[00:08:54] But you think he's not getting final say on screen?

[00:08:59] Can you imagine him getting up out of bed with his coffee?

[00:09:01] He puts his glasses on.

[00:09:02] He's like, they want to do what?

[00:09:04] No.

[00:09:05] Can I?

[00:09:06] Forget it.

[00:09:07] I just can't imagine.

[00:09:08] Hey, Gwen, what do you think if the pick said joy?

[00:09:13] I'm thinking bangs.

[00:09:16] She's got to have bangs.

[00:09:17] Bangs.

[00:09:18] Her hair is all a catty wampus is what I would say.

[00:09:23] I would say for some reason, Brandon, your Blake Shelton impression was offensive.

[00:09:27] And I don't know why it was offensive, but it was a friend.

[00:09:30] Hey, Gwen, hey, Gwen, hey, Gwen, Gwen, Gwen.

[00:09:36] Remember when she was in a scoban?

[00:09:38] Let's talk about time for her to come home for Christmas.

[00:09:42] It originally aired on November 30th, 2023, and it went a little something like this.

[00:09:48] Carly is a guitar teacher and she bangs.

[00:09:51] She bangs.

[00:09:53] Oh, baby, when she moves, she has bangs is all I'm trying to say.

[00:09:59] She is heading to a small town to help with a Christmas choir.

[00:10:05] A gig's a gig, baby.

[00:10:07] Matthew is a soldier returning home to that same small town that Carly is heading to.

[00:10:12] They go to the same coffee stand.

[00:10:14] They travel on the same bus, but they never actually meet each other.

[00:10:17] When Carly arrives, she is greeted by Pastor John, his wife, Susan and their chicken pot pie.

[00:10:25] She shows up to check out the choir and they are impressively bad.

[00:10:30] You know who else goes to church?

[00:10:31] Matthew, because he's a good boy.

[00:10:34] He's excited to watch his sister Riley in the choir.

[00:10:38] He just smiles while watching them sing.

[00:10:40] But it's a smile that says, boy, this is tough going.

[00:10:44] Riley says they were better than last week, which just doesn't seem possible.

[00:10:50] After church, Carly and Matthew finally do run into each other

[00:10:53] and they both do this whole like, you look familiar bit.

[00:10:56] They hang out a little bit and he even helps her bring a Christmas tree home and decorate it.

[00:11:02] She wants them to come be a part of the choir and be a tenor and ultimately he gives in.

[00:11:08] But the choir is still bad despite the tenor.

[00:11:10] Can you believe it?

[00:11:12] They do this thing where somehow they all sing at various speeds,

[00:11:18] which is just impressive to do.

[00:11:20] I would encourage everybody to record yourself singing and then play that back

[00:11:26] and sing with it and just try to sing off speed.

[00:11:31] It's hard to do.

[00:11:32] It is impressively hard to do, but they all do it flawlessly.

[00:11:36] So they're all just kind of doing their own thing.

[00:11:37] Carly and Matthew hang out some more.

[00:11:40] They're exchanging records.

[00:11:41] He gives her with a record that has a song.

[00:11:45] Maybe you've heard it before time for me to come home for Christmas.

[00:11:49] There's a bear over there and the seer there.

[00:11:51] The next day she's feeling inspired and shows up for choir practice

[00:11:57] and tells them all to close their eyes and envision something that brings them joy.

[00:12:01] And suddenly they're all way better.

[00:12:04] Carly shows up to a Christmas dance and Matthew is dancing with another woman.

[00:12:09] She is somebody that I think we all know about.

[00:12:12] We all care about and we love her.

[00:12:16] We love her.

[00:12:18] He goes to look at the stars outside with Carly.

[00:12:22] She's the pastor's daughter.

[00:12:23] Pastors. She's the pastor's daughter.

[00:12:25] What's her name?

[00:12:26] Jenny.

[00:12:26] Jenny.

[00:12:27] He goes to look at the stars outside with Carly and they have a moment together.

[00:12:31] She talks, she takes the group Caroling and they are so good.

[00:12:36] Suddenly they are like straight no chaser out there.

[00:12:39] Turn into pentatonic.

[00:12:40] Straight no chaser or straight no chaser.

[00:12:42] Straight no chaser.

[00:12:43] The better of the two.

[00:12:44] The better of the two by a mile.

[00:12:45] Absolutely.

[00:12:46] Thank you.

[00:12:46] Straight no chaser.

[00:12:48] Matthew tells Carly he'd love to hear her sing and so she sings time for me

[00:12:53] to come home for Christmas and tells him that she wants to have the choir

[00:12:57] sing that for the big Christmas Eve service.

[00:13:00] The choir is really bonding with each other,

[00:13:01] even helping one of the members with some Christmas activities, wreaths and what not.

[00:13:05] They even drink these egg things.

[00:13:07] Egg creams.

[00:13:08] Egg creams.

[00:13:09] So all movie Matthew has been catching up with the high school sweetheart

[00:13:14] and Carly finally sees them talking to each other.

[00:13:17] She immediately gets jealous, but then he returns a pick that she lost.

[00:13:21] And so how can he be mad at that?

[00:13:24] She then finds out the real truth bomb of this movie

[00:13:27] that we didn't know was going to happen.

[00:13:29] The pastor's wife is her dad's sister.

[00:13:33] They didn't they knew this.

[00:13:35] They did not tell her she is shocked, but she's not mad.

[00:13:39] Just happy to have family after all this time.

[00:13:42] It's time for the performance.

[00:13:43] They crush it.

[00:13:45] Everyone's going nuts, including the pastries like finally.

[00:13:48] And then Carly and Matthew talk and they go and they kiss.

[00:13:52] And that my friends was time for her to come home for Christmas.

[00:14:00] We did it.

[00:14:01] We did do it. Let's take a quick break.

[00:14:03] We'll come back. We'll break this movie down with four segments here on

[00:14:06] the whole mark.

[00:14:19] Dan, the hard part about straight, no chaser is do I sing along or do I not

[00:14:23] sing along? Because if I sing along, I'm having fun.

[00:14:25] But I also mess up the magic that is this.

[00:14:29] I can't do that.

[00:14:30] No, save that for when you're by yourself.

[00:14:32] Because I want to hear the acapella sensation that is straight, no

[00:14:34] chaser. I don't want you ruining that.

[00:14:36] And who can blame either of us?

[00:14:38] Because, I mean, they're pretty amazing.

[00:14:40] You know the holiday season is here when you start here in those acapella

[00:14:43] voices, they're amazing to listen to.

[00:14:45] There's billions of YouTube streams that prove it.

[00:14:47] But here's the thing is you need to see straight, no chaser live.

[00:14:50] If you've not yet.

[00:14:51] You sure do, Dan.

[00:14:52] They've been on tour since late October on the slayin' at tour.

[00:14:55] And chances are they might be coming to a place close to you, Dan.

[00:14:59] That's true.

[00:15:00] SNC music dot com s n c music dot com.

[00:15:03] You can find out if they're going to be near you.

[00:15:05] It's a family friendly show.

[00:15:07] You can bring the entire family and also check out the stocking stuff

[00:15:10] for EP wherever you listen to music.

[00:15:12] God, you this is the season.

[00:15:13] This is the season.

[00:15:14] Some straight, straight.

[00:15:15] Doesn't get me better than that.

[00:15:17] No chaser.

[00:15:27] Well, hey there.

[00:15:27] Hi there, everybody.

[00:15:28] Welcome back.

[00:15:29] We're talking about time for her to come home for Christmas.

[00:15:32] It's time to break it down with four segments, the first of

[00:15:34] which is the hot take.

[00:15:36] It is where we share exactly how he felt about this movie.

[00:15:38] We do not hold back and I'll start with you, Brian.

[00:15:41] Brian, what do you think about this movie?

[00:15:43] Thanks, Brad.

[00:15:44] This had some welcome.

[00:15:46] You're welcome.

[00:15:46] I hear a year.

[00:15:48] You thank you.

[00:15:50] OK, thank you.

[00:15:50] Great.

[00:15:51] This means a lot.

[00:15:52] Yeah.

[00:15:53] Thanks for the Tony.

[00:15:56] So this has some sweet moments, I think.

[00:15:58] And but the wholesomeness and like the shucks of it all was brutal.

[00:16:05] I can't stand that.

[00:16:07] That that just like so simple and not as I guess shallow.

[00:16:12] It's a very shallow and not a lot to it.

[00:16:15] And I do appreciate movies that are based around music and song

[00:16:19] and singing and you actually get it feels like they were

[00:16:22] actually singing and get to see some guitar playing and what

[00:16:25] not.

[00:16:25] I like that a lot, so it's hard to bash that because I want

[00:16:28] more of that.

[00:16:29] And also it feels like shoveling snow against the tide to

[00:16:33] complain about it because it's inevitable.

[00:16:34] We're getting snow against the tide.

[00:16:37] Wow.

[00:16:39] It just keeps coming.

[00:16:40] It's not going to stop.

[00:16:41] That's not tied.

[00:16:42] That's the tide.

[00:16:44] The ocean.

[00:16:45] Why shoveling sand?

[00:16:46] I turned it to snow for the winter of it.

[00:16:50] Is it snow at the beach?

[00:16:51] So you bring the snow with you, bring the snow.

[00:16:55] The water keeps coming.

[00:16:56] Sounds like a lot of the dumb work there.

[00:16:58] This sounds like an exercise in futility.

[00:17:00] That's what I'm saying.

[00:17:01] That's what it's like complaining about these movies.

[00:17:03] Yes, it's just not going to stop.

[00:17:04] You're just going to.

[00:17:05] So we shouldn't complain about them.

[00:17:06] You can, but it's like, what's the point?

[00:17:08] They're just going to keep doing it.

[00:17:09] So I guess we're going to keep watching them because we

[00:17:12] contractually obligated.

[00:17:13] We got to.

[00:17:15] It's not contractually.

[00:17:17] We can do what we want.

[00:17:18] Stop whatever we want to.

[00:17:20] I feel like I'm contractually.

[00:17:21] You know, you there's a contract.

[00:17:22] You never once made you sign a contract.

[00:17:24] No, you are.

[00:17:25] You are.

[00:17:26] It's like inherent.

[00:17:28] And why?

[00:17:28] Episode by episode basis.

[00:17:29] And after shoveling snow into the tide, it might be your

[00:17:32] last.

[00:17:33] Well, going out on a high note.

[00:17:37] Absolutely.

[00:17:38] Brett, do you care about these movies and what do you

[00:17:40] think about this one?

[00:17:42] Well, I try watch the first two like over the past 72

[00:17:46] hours just to really refresh myself on the franchise

[00:17:49] where there is no connected to except for Blake Shelton.

[00:17:53] And I think the song.

[00:17:54] Yes.

[00:17:54] The song in all of them.

[00:17:55] So is there a mystery in the first one?

[00:17:58] Because we couldn't think.

[00:18:00] No.

[00:18:01] There is.

[00:18:02] There is not.

[00:18:03] God, what was the first?

[00:18:04] Do they all involve troops?

[00:18:06] That's also the most.

[00:18:08] It's the most like.

[00:18:11] This is just pure bland old hallmark, which I do think

[00:18:15] we can now pressure them because after watching like

[00:18:18] Biltmore Christmas and Holiday Road and Where Are You

[00:18:22] Christmas and Heidelberg holiday even then actually go

[00:18:26] into locations and filming in the locations like.

[00:18:29] I think we could be harder because they're trying

[00:18:31] everywhere else.

[00:18:32] So then we get ones like this was just like troops,

[00:18:35] church, every whenever the little boy was like, yeah,

[00:18:39] we just got where my dad's in the military and he isn't

[00:18:42] coming home for Christmas.

[00:18:43] It's OK.

[00:18:44] Of course he is.

[00:18:46] Just like, can we do other excuses?

[00:18:49] Finally, it was it was fine.

[00:18:53] It was, you know, all that to say it was fun.

[00:18:56] Yeah, but it is what it is.

[00:18:58] I can't have a hot take on this because it's just

[00:19:02] pretty pretty flat line.

[00:19:04] I will say the posters and just the fact that she has bangs

[00:19:08] and dark hair led me to believe this could be a like

[00:19:14] a different kind of movie because hallmark leads do not

[00:19:17] have bangs nor do they have dark hair like that.

[00:19:20] And so I was like, oh, she's like a manic pixie dream girl.

[00:19:23] Is she like an indie chick?

[00:19:25] Like is she kind of like edgy?

[00:19:26] It's like no, she's just normal.

[00:19:28] She's just no manning pixie dream girl for

[00:19:31] their Valentine's Day slate.

[00:19:32] Yes, I can't wait for it.

[00:19:33] Of course, it's going to be great.

[00:19:35] It's going to be a crush.

[00:19:37] Yeah, what is there to say at this point about this movie

[00:19:41] and the rest of them?

[00:19:43] I do not care for this series.

[00:19:46] I do not care for this song.

[00:19:48] I wish that it would end soon so we can all just move along.

[00:19:53] Would not want to.

[00:19:54] Thank you very much.

[00:19:56] Thank you.

[00:19:58] But I thought that this

[00:20:01] the lead gal was of swell.

[00:20:03] I would be fine having her come back.

[00:20:06] Sorry, I just I just had a brainstorm.

[00:20:08] What if they had retitled

[00:20:10] Holiday Road time for y'all to come home for Christmas?

[00:20:12] That would have been it.

[00:20:14] It's like, but that's the thing.

[00:20:16] Like how do they decide which of which of the movies is this

[00:20:20] because they all are

[00:20:22] like all are someone going home and like here's the thing

[00:20:26] and she this isn't even her home.

[00:20:28] No, this is like sure.

[00:20:29] She meets someone that is an aunt, but that's not home.

[00:20:34] And also I think they decided based upon which one

[00:20:37] they would like to write Blake Shelton a check for.

[00:20:40] I honestly were like this movie is too good.

[00:20:42] We don't want to write other residual checks to Blake Shelton.

[00:20:45] So let's pick a different.

[00:20:46] Let's pick the one that airs last November on

[00:20:50] Hallmark movies and mysteries and hope for the best.

[00:20:53] Yeah, I just yeah, I'm just confused to continue

[00:20:56] to be confused about this series and how they decide.

[00:21:00] And but yeah, it was fine.

[00:21:03] Yeah, thank you.

[00:21:04] Thank you, Brian. I hate it.

[00:21:06] I don't.

[00:21:09] Everyone said it more kindly than me, but that no one

[00:21:14] is going home in this movie.

[00:21:17] For a movie called Time for Her to Come Home,

[00:21:20] it is decidedly lacking in the her going home department.

[00:21:24] Honestly, everyone is her.

[00:21:27] They're right.

[00:21:28] You're right.

[00:21:29] It could have been the aunt who would know because she's been

[00:21:31] in one.

[00:21:31] Honestly, everybody has been home aside from her.

[00:21:34] That's right.

[00:21:34] And she still isn't.

[00:21:35] Technically, I every time we do one of these movies

[00:21:39] that always make the same joke, which is it's time

[00:21:41] for them to stop making movies.

[00:21:43] Having said that, like, should I change?

[00:21:46] What do I have to do?

[00:21:47] Like please, please stop.

[00:21:50] You're you're making good movies now.

[00:21:53] You're making quality movies.

[00:21:55] You need to stop this.

[00:21:57] I don't know if it's just like a deal with the devil or it's

[00:22:00] a 12 picture deal.

[00:22:02] I don't know what's going on, but we've got to stop.

[00:22:05] We've got to stop this.

[00:22:06] In none of it gets a fair shake.

[00:22:08] The sister act of it all doesn't get a fair shake.

[00:22:12] The troops stuff doesn't get a fair shake.

[00:22:14] Her eye.

[00:22:15] Like why was her aunt kept a secret?

[00:22:18] I like it just is half baked, underwhelming.

[00:22:21] She doesn't go home.

[00:22:23] I don't know to tell you this movie is really bad.

[00:22:25] It's really, really bad.

[00:22:27] I'm sorry.

[00:22:30] Yeah. Well, yeah.

[00:22:32] OK, OK.

[00:22:33] Let's get to all the fields.

[00:22:34] We're talking about one of those.

[00:22:35] They gave us the fields.

[00:22:37] Brian. Yeah.

[00:22:38] What are the the fields I actually did get was the

[00:22:41] inclusion of kind of the beaten path Christmas music

[00:22:44] sort of, you know, Christmas morning podcast.

[00:22:46] I'm a Christmas morning podcast.

[00:22:48] Oh, that's still going on.

[00:22:49] It sounds like why do you say that, Dan?

[00:22:52] We both said it.

[00:22:53] Yeah, but it hurts a bit.

[00:22:55] But we love it.

[00:22:56] It hurts your feeling.

[00:22:57] It hurts my feeling.

[00:22:58] You know, you love that because you need us to love the

[00:23:01] Christmas morning.

[00:23:02] That's why I just want you to say that you love it.

[00:23:04] I don't listen.

[00:23:07] You could lie.

[00:23:08] But I'm not a liar.

[00:23:09] That's true.

[00:23:09] You should respect that he doesn't pretend to like it.

[00:23:12] I just say I will say this when I listen, it is a joy.

[00:23:16] Thank you, Dan.

[00:23:17] And when I overhear you recording it, it is a joy.

[00:23:19] Thank you.

[00:23:20] Well, thank you.

[00:23:21] But this finding music that's not the traditional like what

[00:23:24] you hear on the radio, I enjoy that a lot.

[00:23:26] And I love hearing Christmas songs that aren't played over

[00:23:30] and over repeatedly.

[00:23:31] So the fact that they included or try to include some music

[00:23:33] that was just not the standard Christmas music and they sort

[00:23:36] of bring that to the focus like we're going to on purpose

[00:23:39] try to discover some music we don't typically hear it.

[00:23:41] Enjoy it.

[00:23:42] I love that.

[00:23:42] That was great.

[00:23:43] And I was digging that the Bluestone Trio.

[00:23:46] Think there was the Bluestone Trio.

[00:23:47] Yeah, the notes trio.

[00:23:48] The one she got was accordion to Steve.

[00:23:51] Yes, Chris Kupolka.

[00:23:52] Which I really that's good.

[00:23:53] I like that.

[00:23:54] Yeah, that's what the hallmark for me.

[00:23:55] Like when do I get to hear the accordion to Steve?

[00:23:58] Sound.

[00:23:58] Give me the six movie arc of that song for sure.

[00:24:03] Yeah.

[00:24:04] Brett, what do you what do you got?

[00:24:06] Well, as as a homosexual man from Tennessee,

[00:24:09] I really did appreciate that in the pastor's office behind

[00:24:13] him, there was an all our welcome sign with like a rainbow

[00:24:17] like stick figure chorus line under it.

[00:24:20] And I appreciated that.

[00:24:22] Thank you.

[00:24:22] I appreciate that, too.

[00:24:24] I did not notice that.

[00:24:24] That's fantastic.

[00:24:25] I don't know if it's just my own like panic

[00:24:27] whenever like church stuff comes up because of, you know,

[00:24:31] residual trauma from coming out in Tennessee.

[00:24:34] And then I also really liked that the Matthew like

[00:24:39] when Bangs was going on about her dead mom and he was like,

[00:24:43] hey, you know, family can be chosen to.

[00:24:45] And I was like, I always love when these movies

[00:24:47] focus on chosen family, although the movie does

[00:24:50] completely undercut that because that's entirely

[00:24:54] the family she's chosen turns out to be surprised.

[00:24:56] Her blood family is so yeah.

[00:24:59] Yeah, that advice does

[00:25:03] chosen family stuff works great when it happens.

[00:25:05] This movie just didn't have it.

[00:25:06] Unfortunately, that's what I'll keep the holiday road ending

[00:25:10] with the with all the method table.

[00:25:11] I don't care.

[00:25:12] I loved it.

[00:25:13] I wanted to bring the son over.

[00:25:16] I wanted him to bring his birth mom to it.

[00:25:18] I want everyone in that house.

[00:25:19] I love it.

[00:25:20] And I also liked Bangs cheering up George.

[00:25:24] I thought that was really good.

[00:25:25] Yes, I love records.

[00:25:28] I love Christmas records.

[00:25:29] I love finding random ones.

[00:25:31] In fact, my buddy Dave just gave me a fantastic one

[00:25:34] that I can't wait to listen to.

[00:25:36] It's an old album we found with a song on it

[00:25:40] called Darcy the Dragon, and it is a bizarre Christmas

[00:25:43] tune and he found me the record of it.

[00:25:44] And I can't.

[00:25:45] But it's just like when you find something weird,

[00:25:48] but also like charming and it also is on some sort of vinyl.

[00:25:54] It's hard to beat that.

[00:25:55] It's hard to beat that.

[00:25:55] So have you all heard Christmas in the Stars?

[00:25:59] The Star Wars Christmas album from 1980.

[00:26:01] Nope. No.

[00:26:02] Yep. Yep.

[00:26:03] With Anthony Daniels and it is also

[00:26:05] John Bon Jovi's first ever recorded

[00:26:07] appearance because I've heard about that.

[00:26:10] He was the janitor at the record studio.

[00:26:13] And so he's the singer on R2D2.

[00:26:15] We wish you a Merry Christmas and it's a banger.

[00:26:18] Learning stuff.

[00:26:19] Learning stuff from Brett White.

[00:26:21] How about that?

[00:26:23] Dano.

[00:26:23] Yeah, I'd never heard of a chocolate egg cream beverage.

[00:26:27] I was like, is that just eggnog?

[00:26:28] And then I watched and we here at the office

[00:26:31] have been trying an eggnog.

[00:26:33] Aaron is like pitching over there like, no, not the same.

[00:26:37] Yeah, we here at the office, if you were at Bramble Jam Plus,

[00:26:40] BrambleJamPlus.com, you would be able to watch us weekly.

[00:26:42] Brian, Aaron and myself,

[00:26:44] we try a different eggnog every weekend.

[00:26:46] I learned about a month ago that I like eggnog.

[00:26:48] It's a beverage I've avoided for years and years.

[00:26:50] I tried it one time.

[00:26:52] Turns out.

[00:26:52] Namely by the first word.

[00:26:55] I don't like eggs at all.

[00:26:56] And so I figured I would not like eggnog.

[00:26:58] I was wrong unless Brian or Aaron makes it.

[00:27:00] It's delightful.

[00:27:03] They both made a batch and I didn't like it.

[00:27:07] It was yeah, it wasn't if this consistent sick.

[00:27:10] I didn't get sick.

[00:27:10] That's true.

[00:27:11] So I love her.

[00:27:14] I'm a fan of good eggnog.

[00:27:16] And then I saw I'm like chocolate egg cream

[00:27:17] and I looked it up.

[00:27:18] It's different.

[00:27:19] And then they make them in this movie

[00:27:21] and they look fantastic.

[00:27:23] They look really, really good.

[00:27:25] They're all having a good time.

[00:27:26] They're all having a good time around the table.

[00:27:28] This is that found family that Brett's talking about.

[00:27:30] That that is that was fun.

[00:27:33] That scene was like, I would like to try that beverage.

[00:27:36] There you go.

[00:27:37] You're on and now any egg related beverage

[00:27:40] you're part of you're jumping on the egg wagon.

[00:27:44] Yeah, I'm allowed.

[00:27:45] Yes, yes, Aaron.

[00:27:46] So an egg cream doesn't Aaron gets her mic back

[00:27:48] and she's just like taking full advantage.

[00:27:50] Go ahead. It's milk and carbonated water.

[00:27:53] Yeah, right on.

[00:27:54] So why is it a foam like a whipped foam

[00:27:56] on top that has some egg in it?

[00:27:58] Right. That's what I that's the way I understood it.

[00:28:00] The egg. There's no egg or cream.

[00:28:02] It's just OK.

[00:28:03] So the entire title is a lie.

[00:28:05] Just like the name of this movie.

[00:28:07] Let's take a quick break.

[00:28:08] We'll be right back here and take the whole bike.

[00:28:18] Welcome back to egg cream, the movie.

[00:28:22] We are back.

[00:28:23] We're talking about the weight.

[00:28:24] What's of this movie?

[00:28:26] Anything that made us go wait?

[00:28:27] What's while we were watching this film?

[00:28:30] Brian, yeah, pretty early on,

[00:28:32] the pastor and his wife brought over a chicken pot pie

[00:28:35] and then they sat down and ate the whole thing on her with her.

[00:28:39] Like on her.

[00:28:40] What do you mean?

[00:28:42] What do you mean?

[00:28:43] That is on her.

[00:28:44] It's like, you know, like she ate it off.

[00:28:46] That's her.

[00:28:47] That's her.

[00:28:48] She's on weird over.

[00:28:50] Like she was on the table.

[00:28:52] I mean, like, like you, I go, hey, Brian,

[00:28:54] I got your drink, but I drank it on you.

[00:28:55] That is showtime's.

[00:28:57] You know what I mean?

[00:28:58] She had a giant slice herself.

[00:29:00] But like at that point, bring two pot pies.

[00:29:03] Like if you're going to sit down and they can eat one on her.

[00:29:05] I brought you a pot pie for you.

[00:29:09] The slices of this pot pie that they're taking

[00:29:11] are like they've never eaten in their life.

[00:29:13] They're just rude to help themselves to the.

[00:29:16] They are taking like quarters.

[00:29:18] Yes, but she's going to eat all we're eating it on her.

[00:29:21] Apparently, so you're upset that she didn't get an entire pot.

[00:29:24] She was promised for a moment, a full pot pie.

[00:29:27] And they sat down.

[00:29:29] You are the reason people have to ask.

[00:29:31] I'm nothing with throw me more than for somebody

[00:29:35] to bring a pot pie and not let me eat it.

[00:29:37] Yeah, that would make me so happy.

[00:29:40] Like, how about you eat it?

[00:29:42] So that would make a nice pot pie.

[00:29:45] So maybe that's the difference.

[00:29:47] She didn't get the whole pot.

[00:29:48] Anything if you bring anything to anybody, I'm not being like,

[00:29:53] hey, I brought you this fudge and then I open it

[00:29:55] and start eating it on them like in front of them.

[00:29:57] You didn't you didn't have a been offered to eat something

[00:30:00] on did you have a piece of the the fudge today?

[00:30:03] And you do I watch today.

[00:30:05] He has not today.

[00:30:07] Today I haven't touched this much.

[00:30:09] But it was the fudge that you sampled yesterday.

[00:30:13] Did it come from that?

[00:30:14] I wasn't even here yesterday.

[00:30:16] But when you what I'm saying is, is this fudge here?

[00:30:20] So you need to be directed to my representation answer.

[00:30:24] No, wait, what?

[00:30:25] Anyway, no, it's not literally.

[00:30:27] You are the fudge on us.

[00:30:29] The fudge on us.

[00:30:31] If I'm showing up to your house with your family

[00:30:33] and I bring stuff, I'm not like here is for you.

[00:30:35] And I'm going to take half of that stuff.

[00:30:37] I just brought you.

[00:30:38] If I invite you in, what do you do?

[00:30:40] They did.

[00:30:41] They did because it was one of my they said they did like

[00:30:44] if you want some company like we'd love to help.

[00:30:47] You know, this is like any order.

[00:30:48] We got to cut this thing open.

[00:30:49] If you could just lay down horizontally, we'd love to see

[00:30:52] you all right.

[00:30:55] Moving along found family about her dead.

[00:30:58] Keep your clothes on.

[00:30:59] It's nothing like that.

[00:31:00] So weird.

[00:31:01] It's not weird to use people.

[00:31:02] Unless you want to take them off.

[00:31:04] It does not arouse us at all.

[00:31:07] Not weird.

[00:31:08] Just how we eat pie.

[00:31:09] It's not like your family yet.

[00:31:12] So about her dead mom, she says she used to call me

[00:31:16] her little songbird and then he says.

[00:31:18] So how she feel about you spending the Christmas, you know,

[00:31:20] Christmas away like, dude, she just said she used

[00:31:24] to read the room like that is she did.

[00:31:26] Come on. Just just be aware that you're in a

[00:31:28] Hallmark movie where moms exactly are always dead.

[00:31:33] Sure.

[00:31:33] Yes.

[00:31:35] So that was just like, dude, come on, man, you're

[00:31:37] digging a hole there.

[00:31:38] And the pastor, he was struggling with the

[00:31:40] Christmas Eve sermon.

[00:31:41] Like that's the easiest sermon of the year.

[00:31:44] Right?

[00:31:44] Like you're getting people who don't go to church.

[00:31:47] Like you throw softballs.

[00:31:50] Easy.

[00:31:51] Can I tell you something?

[00:31:52] You would.

[00:31:53] That's a very fair way.

[00:31:54] What as having a brother and a dad with a that

[00:31:58] are our pastors, I can tell you that the

[00:32:01] Easter and Christmas messages, they put in an

[00:32:04] ordinate amount of pressure on making sure that

[00:32:08] they can be accessible to people who are there once

[00:32:10] one year, but also don't want to have those people

[00:32:14] in the back who are pushing their glasses going,

[00:32:15] well, that isn't what the Bible really blabble.

[00:32:17] Like that's not my world, but I can tell you

[00:32:20] from growing up around it that they put a lot

[00:32:22] of pressure on those two messages.

[00:32:24] But you gotta have a few.

[00:32:25] I don't disagree.

[00:32:26] You should be able to reach into the old

[00:32:27] sermon roll.

[00:32:29] Jesus was born.

[00:32:30] God, he was born.

[00:32:31] It's also I feel like Christmas Eve is like

[00:32:33] he go for 15 minutes.

[00:32:34] You light a candle.

[00:32:35] They sing some carols and he go home because

[00:32:37] it's Christmas Eve.

[00:32:38] Yeah.

[00:32:39] Well, Christmas Eve is on Sunday this year, Brett.

[00:32:41] And you know down here in the south, they're

[00:32:44] going to have a full service.

[00:32:46] Watch out, baby.

[00:32:47] Well, and the good, the good, the good

[00:32:49] churches will have your normal service.

[00:32:51] And then you come back at night for the candlelight

[00:32:53] joint in a new suit and a new.

[00:32:55] Yeah.

[00:32:55] No, no doubt.

[00:32:56] No doubt.

[00:32:57] Brett, anyway, what's for you?

[00:32:59] What if I said no?

[00:33:02] I love that like one of the first things that

[00:33:04] happens in the movie is a shot of Matthew

[00:33:07] getting on the bus and then you overhear him

[00:33:10] showing the photos of the tree that his

[00:33:12] sister is texting him.

[00:33:13] It's like, oh, yeah, here it is.

[00:33:15] Putting up the stars.

[00:33:16] My favorite part is like this poor old lady

[00:33:19] sitting next to this weirdo for five

[00:33:22] hours or whatever.

[00:33:23] And then again, coming from Southern

[00:33:25] Baptist churches in Tennessee,

[00:33:28] jeans in church.

[00:33:30] Oh, excuse me.

[00:33:33] Like, and I mean, I again have not been

[00:33:35] a regular churchgoer for at least 20 years.

[00:33:38] But back in my day, you didn't wear jeans

[00:33:41] and also secular song.

[00:33:43] Yeah.

[00:33:43] Yeah.

[00:33:43] I brought this part of the.

[00:33:46] Can you imagine, Brett, going to a Christmas

[00:33:49] Eve service and you just are sure

[00:33:51] you're going to hear the hits?

[00:33:52] I love it.

[00:33:52] I love the hits.

[00:33:53] I love the hits.

[00:33:54] Faithful.

[00:33:55] The night.

[00:33:56] Oh, holy night.

[00:33:57] Someone just crushing.

[00:33:58] Absolutely.

[00:33:59] Hark the Herald Angels sing.

[00:34:00] Yeah.

[00:34:00] One song they were singing it.

[00:34:02] Can you imagine if somebody saying like

[00:34:03] Blue Christmas by Elvis?

[00:34:06] And a Christmas.

[00:34:07] And a Christmas Eve service in a Southern

[00:34:10] Baptist church.

[00:34:11] It would just go over like a lead balloon.

[00:34:14] Everyone be like, I was waiting for

[00:34:16] like any like oblique reference to Jesus

[00:34:18] in the Blake Shelton song.

[00:34:20] And there wasn't any.

[00:34:21] It was just about coming home for Christmas.

[00:34:24] Right.

[00:34:24] And I wouldn't say you did that.

[00:34:26] Amen.

[00:34:26] Amen.

[00:34:27] Amen.

[00:34:27] Like Shelton.

[00:34:28] And I loved also that the aunt was like,

[00:34:30] do you want to make candles and just like,

[00:34:33] bam, they are making candles.

[00:34:34] It's like she was ready.

[00:34:36] Yeah.

[00:34:36] I love that.

[00:34:38] Come with me.

[00:34:39] I know just how to do it.

[00:34:40] Now I have a couple.

[00:34:43] One a fellow named Rick Martin

[00:34:47] edited this movie.

[00:34:49] Got it.

[00:34:50] Got it.

[00:34:50] Is this Ricky Martin?

[00:34:53] Has Ricky Martin started a new profession

[00:34:57] where he edits movies only with women with banks?

[00:35:01] And I will say this.

[00:35:03] That's really good.

[00:35:04] She bangs, she bangs.

[00:35:05] But Ricky Martin would never put out something

[00:35:07] this boring.

[00:35:10] Never.

[00:35:11] Ricky.

[00:35:12] Yeah, I like that.

[00:35:13] He'd be doing some really good color correction.

[00:35:15] Like everything would be like cyan.

[00:35:17] It would.

[00:35:18] And area yellow.

[00:35:19] Like it would be bright.

[00:35:20] I love the idea of Ricky Martin wanting to do something new.

[00:35:23] But he's like, this feels more like a Rick situation.

[00:35:27] To drop the Y for this.

[00:35:29] She comes into this place with her guitar

[00:35:31] and she puts her guitar on the island like a weirdo.

[00:35:35] Like there are, I don't know, so many other surfaces

[00:35:38] the floor that you can put your guitar.

[00:35:41] And she says, let me put it up here on islands.

[00:35:45] No, you don't need weirdo.

[00:35:48] So the guy who, the kid whose dad is gone in military on army

[00:35:54] in army, yeah.

[00:35:55] Says that his mom took half a day.

[00:35:57] Army had half a day.

[00:35:58] That's why you sent him early.

[00:35:59] This is all his men's army.

[00:36:01] She took, she took extra shifts up at the orchard.

[00:36:06] Like what is?

[00:36:07] It's just where they go to eat the peppermint stuff.

[00:36:10] Oh, that.

[00:36:11] I thought that she was working

[00:36:12] to get an actual orchard.

[00:36:13] Thank you.

[00:36:13] And I was like, why are they going to an orchard

[00:36:16] to drink peppermint?

[00:36:17] Perfect.

[00:36:17] But I guess that's the name of the cafe.

[00:36:18] I totally miss it.

[00:36:19] It was the name of the cafe.

[00:36:20] And I'm like, this is winter.

[00:36:22] Like we don't need to go out there, but thank you.

[00:36:24] That's perfect.

[00:36:24] I love that.

[00:36:25] That's perfect.

[00:36:26] Yeah.

[00:36:26] Extra shifts at the apple orchard.

[00:36:28] Just kind of looking at them.

[00:36:29] You just got to look at the orchard.

[00:36:31] Daniel?

[00:36:32] Yeah.

[00:36:32] Brain mentioned in synopsis, but I have never

[00:36:36] seen acquire this enthusiastic and this bad.

[00:36:40] That what they're doing is, is they're all singing

[00:36:43] well in different speeds to the same song.

[00:36:48] And it's hard to find someone with that good of a voice

[00:36:51] that also can't just do the basic keeping of like,

[00:36:55] it's classic hallmark where they're like act bad.

[00:37:00] And it's like you can tell that they're acting bad.

[00:37:03] They did a double act instead of just like actually pulling

[00:37:07] off singing badly.

[00:37:08] They sing well while they're supposed to be bad.

[00:37:11] And it's like immediately off-putting and not

[00:37:15] in the way it's supposed to be.

[00:37:17] The first time I did start cackling,

[00:37:19] the first time we heard them all singing,

[00:37:20] I was like this is bad in a way I didn't expect.

[00:37:22] That's right.

[00:37:24] It's bad in a way that can only be done on a sound stage.

[00:37:27] It's but you know what I mean?

[00:37:28] It's not bad in real life.

[00:37:31] This Christmas tree lot is not trying.

[00:37:35] Some of the trees are upside down in the lot.

[00:37:38] There is no one manning the front of the Christmas tree lot.

[00:37:43] And this guy is putting it in the net

[00:37:45] and taking it to the truck himself.

[00:37:48] It is a self-serve Christmas tree lot,

[00:37:52] which is impressive.

[00:37:53] I get it if you don't have any extras, but man,

[00:37:56] we are just, we're not even trying here.

[00:37:58] This is exactly what we were striking for.

[00:38:00] That's right.

[00:38:01] This is what we were trying to fight against.

[00:38:02] The Christmas tree farms need workers.

[00:38:05] They can't just be self-serving.

[00:38:07] Exactly.

[00:38:09] Amazon took over the Christmas tree lot.

[00:38:14] You mentioned also when they start caroling all of a sudden,

[00:38:17] they sound like the world's best choir,

[00:38:19] which I thought was hysterical.

[00:38:21] The character of George has this great scene

[00:38:23] where he comes to tears about his wife who couldn't sing

[00:38:25] and then she passed away.

[00:38:26] That's why I joined the choir, blah, blah, blah.

[00:38:28] I will submit to you that while that scene is wonderful,

[00:38:30] George is the worst curmudgeon in the world.

[00:38:32] There isn't any sort of like evolution.

[00:38:36] Yeah.

[00:38:38] He's just like, I'm George.

[00:38:39] I hate you.

[00:38:40] And the next scene he's like, Christmas is awesome.

[00:38:43] I love everyone.

[00:38:44] They're the best.

[00:38:45] Yay, go Christmas.

[00:38:47] And I would have loved, it's an easy, it's a home run.

[00:38:50] It's a softball.

[00:38:52] If you have George be a little bit less mean every scene

[00:38:54] at the end of the movie, you get this big breakthrough.

[00:38:57] Like give him the solo.

[00:38:59] That would be wonderful.

[00:39:00] What if he has the solo?

[00:39:00] Yeah, yeah.

[00:39:01] See, no one can follow Dusty.

[00:39:03] Dusty, how you know?

[00:39:05] That's how you do a curmudgeon.

[00:39:08] That's right.

[00:39:08] That's exactly right.

[00:39:09] Dusty was great.

[00:39:10] The spin-off, Dusty begins.

[00:39:13] Yeah.

[00:39:14] Now, was it weird that Dusty was carrying around

[00:39:16] a bag full of money?

[00:39:17] Cash, yes.

[00:39:18] Some people think that's why he needs the spin-off.

[00:39:20] In small bills.

[00:39:21] Yes, it was.

[00:39:22] It was very weird.

[00:39:22] But he did pull off that role a lot better.

[00:39:25] You're right.

[00:39:26] And then lastly, this woman knows

[00:39:31] that she is our leading lady's aunt.

[00:39:35] Does not, they invite, her and her husband

[00:39:37] invite her to town to take over the choir.

[00:39:41] They do not tell her this information.

[00:39:43] She just lost her mom and her dad.

[00:39:46] And at the end, they'd say that she's like,

[00:39:49] I'm your aunt.

[00:39:50] She's like, you mean your man?

[00:39:51] Why didn't you tell me?

[00:39:52] And the answer she gives is,

[00:39:54] and I'm gonna read it straight off my phone,

[00:39:56] we didn't want to disrupt your life.

[00:40:01] I said, just a quick time out.

[00:40:03] You moved her all the way from her home

[00:40:07] to take over a six person choir.

[00:40:10] You disrupted her entire life.

[00:40:13] You gave her a new home, new job,

[00:40:15] and new romantic partner.

[00:40:16] And half a chicken pie.

[00:40:18] That's right, new romantic partner

[00:40:20] to two weeks in a new home.

[00:40:21] Like you can't just say you did.

[00:40:24] That is the definition of disrupting someone's life.

[00:40:27] That's what that means.

[00:40:29] That's all I got.

[00:40:30] Yeah, but at least it was no news.

[00:40:31] It's just a job.

[00:40:32] Disrupting at all.

[00:40:34] Let's get to the what the hallmarks

[00:40:35] where we wonder what could have been maybe having

[00:40:37] give some clarity on any questions that we still have.

[00:40:39] Brian, what are you still wondering about?

[00:40:40] Yeah, it was the egg cream, peppermint egg cream.

[00:40:43] This has gotten a lot of play already today.

[00:40:44] Yeah, it sure has.

[00:40:45] I wasn't aware.

[00:40:46] I had just days before this movie

[00:40:48] had heard of an egg cream

[00:40:50] or had seen somebody drinking an egg cream online.

[00:40:53] And I didn't know what it was.

[00:40:54] And so then to see it in this movie again,

[00:40:56] I'm like, all right, I looked it up,

[00:40:57] went through the whole thing.

[00:40:58] It's lovely to be-

[00:40:59] Came across someone eating,

[00:41:00] drinking an egg cream online.

[00:41:01] I was posting about having their first egg cream.

[00:41:03] I don't know why.

[00:41:04] I get a lot of food stuff served to me.

[00:41:06] Stolen reels.

[00:41:07] So I had no idea.

[00:41:09] I had no idea.

[00:41:10] And I thought it would be a fun thing to make.

[00:41:12] He probably could have been drinking egg cream on somewhere.

[00:41:15] Ha ha ha ha!

[00:41:16] Ha ha ha ha!

[00:41:18] That's a close-up special.

[00:41:19] You can't escape.

[00:41:20] Yeah, that's right.

[00:41:21] You just know coming back.

[00:41:22] Yeah, yeah.

[00:41:22] There's no coming back.

[00:41:23] And now all the algorithms know it.

[00:41:25] So you're just gonna, that's it.

[00:41:27] That's all you're gonna get.

[00:41:27] So I do want to try an egg cream.

[00:41:29] I feel like just we have to try an egg cream.

[00:41:31] Basically, we're at a point where we need to do this.

[00:41:34] Yeah, we already have Nogger Clock.

[00:41:35] Yeah, we gotta find an egg cream around here.

[00:41:37] And I'm just wondering all about-

[00:41:38] Cream 30.

[00:41:39] No, can't be cream 30.

[00:41:41] Let's try again.

[00:41:42] Let's see if we can keep workshopping that.

[00:41:44] I already T-M'd it.

[00:41:45] There's nothing I can do.

[00:41:46] Oh boy.

[00:41:47] Brett, any what the hallmarks for you?

[00:41:50] I mean the entire ant secret plot line

[00:41:53] is both a what the hallmark and a wait what,

[00:41:57] wait what the hall.

[00:41:58] It's insane.

[00:41:59] Like from the very beginning,

[00:42:01] they are so suspicious of like,

[00:42:03] I was like, is she her mom?

[00:42:04] What is happening?

[00:42:05] The thing that I am left wondering is like,

[00:42:07] what is about Bangs' dad?

[00:42:10] Why does he suck?

[00:42:11] Why did he disappear?

[00:42:13] What did the letter that he wrote to her

[00:42:15] on her 18th birthday actually say?

[00:42:16] Like, did it say your aunt lives in this place?

[00:42:20] Is Mary too pastor?

[00:42:21] Like, what is anything about her dad?

[00:42:26] They're choir sucks.

[00:42:27] It would be really funny,

[00:42:28] it's like, yep, your dad was my brother.

[00:42:30] He sucked.

[00:42:33] Say something, but justify something.

[00:42:35] Is the thing acted so weird when she just turns

[00:42:39] to her husband and is like, she looks just like him.

[00:42:42] It's like, what is happening?

[00:42:45] So creepy.

[00:42:46] Is Mary too pastor is my favorite.

[00:42:48] Is Mary too pastor.

[00:42:50] So I'm assuming that she is going to move here.

[00:42:57] Apparently it was only for two weeks initially,

[00:42:59] but now that she has a love interest

[00:43:02] and auntie.

[00:43:03] Yes.

[00:43:04] And she gets to keep that house, I guess.

[00:43:06] It's time for her to come home for Christmas.

[00:43:08] But like she has like quite a few clients

[00:43:11] that she was like teaching guitar.

[00:43:14] So yeah, I mean, there's a few loose ends there

[00:43:19] with specifically back there.

[00:43:21] So just enter and see what she does.

[00:43:22] What's the internet for, Brent?

[00:43:24] In the chocolate egg cream scene,

[00:43:26] there's one guy who just goes ham on the poor.

[00:43:29] I don't know if you saw this.

[00:43:30] Silver spill.

[00:43:31] Oh yeah.

[00:43:32] And then a surprise.

[00:43:33] Yes, yes, yes.

[00:43:34] So like it's not like he barely overdoes it.

[00:43:37] He shows less restraint than my seven year old

[00:43:39] with chocolate milk.

[00:43:40] It's just like tip it straight up

[00:43:42] and then he's like, how did I spill it?

[00:43:44] How, how?

[00:43:45] What is always happening?

[00:43:46] Where did the physics go wrong here?

[00:43:48] And I just have questions on how that made him.

[00:43:50] What are liquids?

[00:43:52] It does not unlimited you?

[00:43:55] His dad isn't around to teach him.

[00:43:57] I'm not a poor.

[00:43:58] Oh, he gotta bring up his man.

[00:44:00] Yeah, no, that was why I went to Hallmark.

[00:44:03] That's pretty straightforward.

[00:44:04] Absolutely.

[00:44:05] What is liquid?

[00:44:07] Well, here's the thing.

[00:44:08] We saw some, maybe some frustration.

[00:44:10] We saw some tears.

[00:44:11] Did we see any fights?

[00:44:12] I don't know.

[00:44:13] Good question, good question.

[00:44:13] There's only one person who will know

[00:44:15] it's Vic Webster, something that Brett will not be able to hear,

[00:44:19] but it's time for A Fighting Chance with Vic Webster.

[00:44:22] The Fighting Chance with Vic Webster.

[00:44:25] A Fighting Chance with Vic Webster.

[00:44:28] With the fighting in the movie,

[00:44:29] when someone get hurt is a Fighting Chance with Vic Webster?

[00:44:35] A Fighting Chance with Vic Webster.

[00:44:38] A Fighting Chance with Vic Webster.

[00:44:43] Oh, there were some type one.

[00:44:45] no action.

[00:44:47] Oh, man.

[00:44:49] Braddy said no.

[00:44:53] There was no fighting.

[00:44:55] Brad, tell people how they can see all your stuff and your

[00:45:00] writings and anything else you really want to promote in this

[00:45:03] moment.

[00:45:04] Yeah, you can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at

[00:45:07] bratt.

[00:45:08] You can read just a backlog of Hallmark and just Christmas

[00:45:11] movie reviews in general at Decider.

[00:45:14] I particularly love my I believe in Santa from Netflix

[00:45:17] for you because that movie is not.

[00:45:21] Yeah, we reviewed it on this podcast.

[00:45:23] I love it.

[00:45:24] Yeah, and I am also I'm also a drag queen named Barb

[00:45:27] Hardley and I am working on my Christmas special so you

[00:45:30] can look up Barb Hardley on YouTube and Instagram.

[00:45:33] I have two numbers already done and up and that's

[00:45:36] what I will be doing probably for the rest of the week

[00:45:39] is finishing that so.

[00:45:41] That's exciting.

[00:45:42] I'm watching Hallmark movies, man.

[00:45:44] I tell you what.

[00:45:45] I tell you what.

[00:45:46] Well, thank you so much for joining us.

[00:45:48] This was so much fun, a long time coming and I'm

[00:45:50] happy that it finally worked out for us.

[00:45:53] We'll be back tomorrow.

[00:45:54] More of this, more of the same.

[00:45:56] Until then, we're the first to wish you a Merry Christmas.

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