Romance in Christmas Town (2026)

[00:00:03] This is a Bramble Jam Podcast Hi, I'm Bran and I love Christmas movies I'm Dan and this is the last JPR movie I will review I'm Alonzo and oh magoo, you've done it again And this is Deck The Hallmark Podcast Deck The Hallmark, it's this podcast

[00:00:29] Friends host this podcast We hope you like it Yes, yes, yes Hello everybody It's great to be here today Our final non-spooky festive Friday of the holiday season A reminder

[00:00:58] A reminder A reminder for those of you We do festive Fridays until the holiday season kicks off And then every day is festive Friday Every day So you can look forward to that I don't know Every day isn't festive Friday, but every day is festive Festive day that ends in a while Every Friday is just festive But every day feels like Friday because of how festive it is I don't think I agree with that Let's put it to a poll All right, great Does the first Tuesday after the marathon feel like a Friday day? Yeah, yeah, yeah Does October 22nd feel like a Friday?

[00:01:27] Actually that might be a Friday Actually that does That's the actually for me No, that's going to be Tuesday That's the start of the NBA season So I do get pretty jazzed for that No, that's October 20th is a Tuesday 22nd is a Thursday Okay, great Does October 21st feel like a Friday to anyone out there? Because there are hallmark Christmas movies available Yeah Get out of here Get out of here I think so I think we're all just happy to be here Okay We're talking romance in Christmastown today

[00:01:54] The 2026 release from JPR Who has released such stinkers as Firefighter for Christmas That's right Christmas at Holly Lodge That's right Civil War Civil Christmas And more So you're welcome for that You're welcome for that Let's just do it Let's just get it over with I want to park on Dan saying this is the last one This is it This is it I am done

[00:02:24] I could like For my money He's the worst For my money Can't argue with that He's the This is the worst brand of Christmas movie For my money I'll probably do another one Let's be honest All right Here we go June 26, 2026 It appears Is when this movie first Came onto the internet It says 2024 On like IMDB But it didn't

[00:02:53] No one could find it Until I don't know what happened We'll have to get JPR On the phone Yeah Uh-huh I just called him The worst filmmaker Yeah No one else is covering his movies So you know what He might He might as well And what a little Something like this Uh We meet Caroline Caroline She pulls up To a Big Nice Airbnb She gets a call From the owner Of that Airbnb Who is Someone who is going to Uh

[00:03:23] Pick up some linens That were there From the last people Or whatever And so she's like All good Looks like they're Pulling up now Um The people that are Pulling up now Is Carl With a K And his grandma The only problem With Carl He's not the linen guy What? He and his grandma Are staying At the Airbnb So after some initial I know I know There's some initial Confusion here They realize The Airbnb

[00:03:51] Must be double booked Oh my god Just then The linen guy Shows up Turns out He booked it to Carl While his wife Booked it to Carol What a very merry mix I tell you No we can't call it that Sorry Uh Caroline is like Well I booked it Months ago And my entire family Is coming into town She decides You know what I need some space While we figure this out So she goes shopping And when she comes back Her family Is already there They hopped on an Earlier flight

[00:04:20] Something that happens I guess And uh They are already Best friends With Carl And Grandma Williams They think that Carl Is Caroline's Boyfriend And before you Jump to conclusions And go Well why in the world Would they think that Well her boyfriend Who is supposed to be Joining them for Christmas Is also Named Carl So you can see How they got there Um so she Uh Sits them all down And explains what happened And tells them to plan

[00:04:50] Her family They're all gonna sleep Upstairs Carl and Grandma They're gonna sleep Downstairs For one night And then they're Going to leave She gets some bad news Uh Carl With a C Her Soon to be Fiance That's right Uh Is gonna be A couple days Late

[00:05:38] But that means Is interrupted By almost Fiance Carl With a C Finally showing up And that Dude Sucks Yeah This guy Sucks So Carl and Grandma Decide that they're Leaving And Caroline Caroline's sister Discoveres that Apparently Carl With a K Actually had a girlfriend This whole time So it's good That he's gone Yeah Dodged a bullet Loser Um

[00:06:07] So Caroline Finally figures out That her Almost fiance Sucks And so she Breaks up with him And then we find out That Carl doesn't Have a girlfriend Uh He just has a sister That calls him Hunky Yep It just It happens Who hasn't As one does As one does So luckily They're all reunited And they're able to kiss And I guess they're gonna spend Every Christmas together For the rest of their lives And that my friends was

[00:06:35] Romance in Christmastown We did it We did do it Let's take a break We'll come back We'll break this movie down With four segments Here on Deck the Hallmark Everybody Welcome back We're talking Romance in Christmastown Today A 2026 Christmas movie If you can believe it

[00:07:04] It's time for us To share our thoughts On this movie We're gonna start With a hot take So we're gonna share Exactly how we felt About this movie We do not hold back And I will start With you Alonzo Alonzo This is not our First JPR joint We know what he's Capable of Is romance in Christmastown Living up to the expectation That we have come To have when diving Into a JPR movie Is it a John Paul Rice Signature film? Oh It meets It meets the established Standards of his Ovra I will say yes I have always wanted To visit Frankenmuth Michigan

[00:07:34] At Christmas time And I guess I still do But this movie Does not exactly Make that appealing Because It's a JPR movie Yeah This is All of the hallmarks Of like Terrible acting And lackadaisical Camera placement And indifferent pacing And the presence Of the manipulative And monstrous Grandma Williams Who is the The Thanos Of the shared JPR universe here

[00:08:03] What a That's a great Like You know You know You've gone too far When Grandma Williams Comes on screen And you go There she is You do the Leonardo DiCaprio There she is I think the only movie She's not in Is Civil Christmas Yeah Yeah They would have Worked her into that one Too if they could have Crazy That's his worst movie Maybe that is The problem Yeah She's the secret sauce To make them Simply terrible Yeah

[00:08:33] This was This was a painful Experience Start to finish I would feel Bad Poo-pooing Constantly On JPR movies If we didn't know That he truly Is as bad Of a person As he is At making movies So I don't feel As bad And at acting As we found out Yeah Did you know John Paul Reising Is in this movie Oh We'll get to it In the feels We'll get to it In the feels But I

[00:09:02] This movie Is Just so Frustrating So many Things Happened Lighting choices Audio At some point It looks like It was shot With a camcorder For no apparent reason It's so frustrating And I don't know How he keeps Getting away with it Maybe it's our fault Maybe it's our fault Maybe we're giving him The spotlight And he's gonna keep Making this Cause somebody's Reviewing them But I

[00:09:31] This is This is This is bad We've seen a lot Of bad Festive Friday movies Over the years And there is Something about The way that JPR does this That is truly As bad as it gets He's carved out His own corner Of terrible Yes I would say Study JPR movies To learn what Not to do When making a movie So many Glaring mistakes It's brutal I hope he never Makes another one Dan

[00:10:01] Yeah Thanks I hate it I would say this You know We are professionals On very In very little Brand But we are Professionals in The space Of TV Christmas movies I think we can Say we've put in Our Malcolm Gladwell 10,000 hours What I would tell you Is Is like The foundation To making A passable TV Made for TV Christmas movie Isn't acting Or script Or like Things that are Really good to have It's just

[00:10:31] Consistency Like it's just Shooting a movie Where it all Looks Like it was shot For the same movie At the same time By the same people So like I understand Sometimes it's night time Sometimes it's day time Sometimes you're inside Sometimes you're outside Sometimes it's cold Sometimes it's hot But making a movie Where it does feel like You didn't find Five thumbnails On your Old Mac desktop And drag and click

[00:11:00] Them into place Filmed by five Different people This feels like An anthology Of sucky movies That were all That were all made It's like the grindhouse Of Of Of Of terrible movies Like From To Bran's point From scene to scene No You don't You don't know How the The volume Is going to be On the dialogue You don't know If the music Is going to be Blaring loud Or whisper quiet

[00:11:29] You don't know If the color Of the skin Of the actors Is going to bleed Completely Into the background Or be so incredibly Sharp Or red You don't know You have no idea From scene to scene What It's like in every scene He's like what if we tried Something different In every Single Scene And even within scenes You can't rely on things Like eye lines That's right Yeah yeah We didn't even get there We didn't get to eye lines And so like Yeah I don't even Here's the thing

[00:11:59] Is if this was a good script Or had one single Good performance in it It wouldn't matter Because From scene to scene It is a full Whole hog Hodgepodge beluga Of What's so frustrating Is we watch a lot Of bad movies But no one clears This bar Of Having The signature Is there is no signature The signature is From scene to scene You just don't even know Aside from the same Actors being in there

[00:12:29] What angle Or shot Or eye line Or Lighting Is going to be It just doesn't matter It's like they're just Spinning wheels Back there And going Well today We're going to go with An iPhone And we're going to have The one Light strip Right behind the camera You're going to be able To see a reflection In their cheekbones That's what we're going To do today Tomorrow Who knows And it's like It's so It's so Unnerving To watch And I will say

[00:12:59] Really quick To touch on the performances There are Just Bad performances Yeah But I think the thing That's frustrating Is That Some of the actors In this movie Like I think That there is A quality actor In Caroline I think there's A quality actor In Caroline's sister I think That these are Actors That are given Absolutely no direction That's true And I know that Because I see JPR act in this movie That's right That's right And he doesn't know

[00:13:27] What direction to give himself No So I think that there's Like some frustration There too That I like Not everybody That's in these movies Are Are just Have zero Acting ability I think that there are People that have Some acting skill And are given Absolutely nothing But also You're You know And every TV actor Will tell you this Like you live and die In the editing room In these movies And so Even those two actors Both Both of them

[00:13:57] At some point Almost or definitely Look at the camera Yeah And it's like They might be better actors And he just didn't Give them a cut He didn't edit To where it looked Better You know what I mean I mean I think this is definitely A case where What second take You know So I think The editors have You know The one The one time They did it Maybe he's hitting Record and then Hitting pause You know what I mean And then just Hitting record again Maybe he's doing that In camera Yeah And he's just like Having fun with the lighting

[00:14:26] I would believe it Yeah It's time for the feels That's why we're talking About what in this movie Give us feels I'll start with you Alonzo Oh goodness My feel was That you could You know This is a cliche now That a few tweaks Will turn a Hallmark movie Into a horror movie Oh yeah That's the entire premise Of Adult Swim Yule Log 2 But you could Absolutely make A like An arthouse drama Where Carl with a K And Grandma Williams Are like a pair

[00:14:55] Of gaslighting grifters Who come in And run roughshod Over this like Unsuspecting family And completely manipulate Them to their dark purposes Because They are so pushy And obnoxious And you know Like I felt bad For Caroline Who even At one point Tells herself Oh stop being Such a people pleaser But she allows This chaos To run rampant Around her Without sort of Speaking of And saying

[00:15:25] No this is not What's happening You're gonna leave My house And you know There's almost like There's a Polanski version Of this waiting To be made Basically Is what I'm saying But that's not What we're getting here But no they could Get there Oh easily Easily So Alonzo Who is the worst Character in this movie Oh no question It is Carl the city boyfriend Carl the sea Yeah Carl the sea Who won't shut up About bitcoin What if I told you Carl the sea

[00:15:55] Is JPR Oh that That explains So much Right Right Up to and including The fact that There's an insert Shot of him Clearly In not in Frankenmuth Like at some Tropical location That's right Being in Miami I'm like how did This movie afford That but now I know That's right I probably filmed That by himself Yeah He probably just Put it On a tripod Yeah I uh There's something About this character When he came on Screen and was Doing his things

[00:16:26] Having a ball Laughing at him And then I look Him up And it's JPR I couldn't I couldn't Believe it It was That was my feels That moment That high That I got Yeah When I realized That the worst Character in the world Was JPR That's hilarious I will say the best Thing about this movie Is that Carl with a C calls himself The sea note I think that Could be funny In another movie Like if you Reference yourself By a nickname You gave yourself

[00:16:55] That's just funny It's the sea note Sea note speaking I think that is funny I do The I can't believe It got to me There's some legit Actual snow in this movie That looks fantastic Yes Frankenmuth is a feel For sure So this town Yeah yeah yeah I was not familiar With Frankenmuth Even you googled it While you were watching I googled the town Frankenmuth And all of the pictures That come up in Google images Are all in this movie Like There was a couple times Where I saw like Like a shot that he has Where it's like all of these stores

[00:17:25] That are such specialty stores And I'm like Did he use AI No those are real places That giant tree at the end With instead of lights Everywhere they have the giant Snowflake lights That tree is amazing Yeah It is awesome So To you To have that backdrop Drop at your disposal For free And to make this movie Is just It's a It's quite a feat It's quite a feat If we have to give JPR anything It's this He at least With the exception

[00:17:55] Of Civil Christmas Will glom onto a location And milk it For all it's worth 100% The Holly Hotel Frankenmuth Michigan He's like He knows that Whatever production value Is going to happen Is going to be from these Already existing places And he's just got to Insert whatever dumb story He can come up with Into it So yeah It does at least show off The fact that Frankenmuth is Christmas town That is their That is their shtick They lean into that And

[00:18:23] The movie isn't so terrible That it made me Not want to go there I do still want to go there There you go And that's a win I think Yeah That's a win Alright let's take a break We'll come back We'll get to the way what And the what the hallmark Here on Deck the hallmark Welcome back everybody It's time For us to Break this movie down A little bit more Okay Let's do a little Wait what How about that I think there might be a couple

[00:18:52] Let's start with you Alonzo When this movie Did you go wait what Well I got a couple Of Grandma Williams lines That definitely Back up the theory That there was never A second take on anything There's some good ones there One of them Regarding Okay Carl with a C Is constantly referenced As the almost fiance Like the almost fiance That phrase is said Nearly as many times As 51 and a 25 Yes In Christmas at the Holiday Hotel And Grandma Williams Is of course Immediately dubious About this Because this guy Has not stepped up

[00:19:22] And actually proposed And at one point Says to Caroline If a man hasn't Made up his mind He's never going to What? I don't think That that's accurate Never That almost sounds Like something That makes sense But then when you Pause on it for a second You're like What? No There's a missing Dependent clause In there somewhere People aren't allowed To ever be unsure For a moment If a man hasn't Made up his mind He's never going to

[00:19:52] He's never going to Yeah If a man Hasn't made up his mind About you In over two years Right Yeah I get where she's Going with that But that sentence Makes no sense Whatsoever If he's not Proposing to you After the first date He's never going to What are we even doing He's never going to Yeah Yeah Get off the pot already Speaking of pots Another reason That Grandma Williams Is a monster Is that she makes Hot chocolate With water Yeah You Yeah That's for children

[00:20:21] If you're over Ten years old You no longer Can ever have Hot chocolate With just water That's absurd Yeah We're not here For Swissmas In Christmastown That's exactly right That is a That's a five year olds game That's my kids Want hot chocolate Every day Great Here's some water From a kettle With Swiss That's what that is We're not going to Waste the milk No We're not going to This is That is I'm going to Make you something Half the time The kids don't even Finish it Water and hot chocolate What are you doing Get out of here Yeah Oh

[00:20:50] The other The other line She has That baffled me Was when they She and Carl With a K Say they're going To find another Place to stay I don't believe it For a second But she says We couldn't even Find a tenant Again That's close To meaning Something She also I'll piggy Biggie back On that Real quick She also says

[00:21:20] The word Fiance Is the definition Of not married I mean yes But No That's not What that word Means I think the Better way Would be like Fiance Means not Married The word Fiance Is the Definition Of not Married Is not A sentence That you Can say True Yes Too much Detail There That's right There is a Scene where And this Comes up again Later So it's Sort of A leitmotif

[00:21:50] Of the movie Where Carl With a K Explains to Caroline That That Christmas Movies Are like Snow globes And they Give you These sort Of suspended Perfect moments That you can Imagine yourself In and blah Blah blah And I just Thought don't You dare A that he Is mansplaining Christmas movies To this woman I thought was Already dodgy And B that JPR is telling Us what a Christmas movie Is Step back Sir No No no no Hilarious

[00:22:19] That's like Little Caesar Telling me What a pizza Is You know Thank you There is Some terrible Terrible Dialogue In the Carriage Scene Oh my bad Yes In general But especially The carriage Scene But who Would know It Because it Is drowned Out by the Loudest Library Music They could Find I have a Theory on This Which is That That scene They shot It outside

[00:22:48] On a Moving Carriage Clearly That's Happening So audio Really bad So they Had to ADR it And that That takes Time To match It up And to Actually make It look Good Time that They don't Have We'll do One take We'll make The music Loud so you Can't Really Notice If it's In sync Like you Have to Really be Truly Fully Locked in On the Words And the Sounds In order to

[00:23:17] Actually hear What they're Saying So if You Can't Hear it And we Have to Do Some sort Of ADR To Get it Even a Little bit Audible Then like Let's make The music Louder So that It doesn't It's kind Of synced Up It's kind Of not Well my Theory Is that It happens In every JPR Movie There's a Weird horse And carriage Scene in Holly Hotel I think It happens In every Movie when There is An outdoor Moving scene No one

[00:23:47] No one Puts Overly Loud public Domain Music Over poorly Miced Actors Like JPR Does He does It at least Once a film It's a Signature Move It's crazy I will say Something Interesting About grandma Williams She is In multiple She is Grandma In Christmas At Holly Hotel She is Grandma Williams In Fireman For Christmas Yes She is Grandma Williams In Doc Holly's Christmas Which we Have not Seen And he's Grandma Williams

[00:24:17] In this one So she Is the Same character In all of These movies Yeah And An irritating Meddling Busybody In all Of Them Yeah Bitcoin Is rocking That's You know Can I ask You this For a Guy that For all That we've Heard Is a Pretty Conservative Dude Politically Ideologically When he Has this Character

[00:24:46] That is Trying to Rip poor People off With subprime Mortgages And he Loves Crypto Who does He think He's making Fun of This is The thing About like When hardcore Conservatives Love a Christmas carol And don't Understand that They are Scrooge And Marley Like he Is making Fun of His Him Like I Like I Don't know How else To say That You are Mr. Potter You are Not George Bailey So crazy To me Yeah That was An odd

[00:25:16] Move And then Okay I Usually Like in a Homework Movie We know That a Guy is Dead inside Because he Gives people Gift cards This movie Skips the Middleman He gives Them envelopes Of cash Yeah And worst Of all He gives His almost Fiance 200 bucks You're the C-note Man You're the Best lady That's the Best you Can do I Can't I Cannot

[00:25:46] Defend The C-note On the Gift to His Fiance But if You're Anybody Else Great Gift Like I Everyone Needs Everyone Needs A Carl A C-note Everyone Needs An Uncle Sure Find a C-note Like my I had an uncle Who would do This and still Does every Year And I He's the Best dude In the World The card With the Cash stuff In it Love it I'm all About it He calls It the The world Something I told You The universal Gift card Is what he Calls it

[00:26:16] Yeah But he But if You're a guy Who calls Yourself C-note You're gonna Want to Make a Splash You're gonna Have to Have an I roller You are Yeah Exactly Yes And then Finally So the Whole thing Where the Sister Who is You know Excessively Online Looks at Carl with A K's You know Social media History And somehow Decides that His sister Is his Girlfriend Is dumb Enough as A conflict Yeah But to Then at The very End when When

[00:26:46] When Carolina Carl with A K are Finally declaring Their love to Each other And the Sister calls And he's Like hang On I gotta Take this Call Like dude You are You're gonna Call your Sister back You're not Gonna like put Your love Declaration on hold Just to give us That one last Minute of thinking Oh it's the Girlfriend Like So bad And if he Does take the Call in the Middle of Declaration of love That is when You make Tracks Do you Think You know She The sister Calls him The hunky

[00:27:16] Brother Does she Does he Call her The hot Sister Like is That just A fun Thing They do I don't Want to Think about It Sorry My hot Sister Calling One second She turns Me on I like to Think at Some point There's some Giveaway Of like We are Siblings But apparently That does Not surface Lee Clip it Clip it I Alonzo Saying she Turns me On is the Best thing I've ever Heard It's Lee It has

[00:27:45] To go to The front Of the line Everyone Tag him Right there I know There's a Q Right there I was In character As Carl Yeah Of course I got a Kick out Of this The mix Up happens We go full Barbarian To start This movie And The The Guy Who owns It With his Wife Shows up To pick Up the Linens And then They explain What happens Happened And he said

[00:28:15] I was concerned Something like This was gonna Happen So funny Brother You own The place Why were you Not proactive In trying To make sure That this Didn't happen Yeah It's like The mayor Of a town That has A sinkhole Yeah That thing's Been cracking For weeks I was concerned Yeah I was concerned The old system Of you can Call us And you can Book online Go figure Yeah And my worst Fears have come True Yeah Who would have Thought If only I had Actually followed Through on any Thoughts I'd had About it I was concerned

[00:28:45] About it But you know Turns out I was right Carl introduces His grandma And then he says We call her Grandma Williams And it's like He's the first Person ever To call his Grandma Grandma last name It's like He's like You won't believe What we call her Grandma Williams It's crazy It's not like A funny We call her Meemaw Meemaw Yeah Just Grandma Williams That's just Her name I love that She looks at

[00:29:14] Her phone And she says My family's Gonna be here In two hours And twenty minutes And then a minute Goes by And she goes My family's Gonna be here In two hours And eleven minutes Yeah Wild Nine minutes And one It's crazy I wish the movie Would have gone That fast Yeah Amazing Doesn't quite happen Did you catch this Alonzo The dad When His first scene In the movie For half Of the shots He's wearing

[00:29:44] Eyeglasses And half of them He's not Yeah so Camera facing him No glasses Camera over shoulder Glasses on But then at the end There is a shot Straight on Where he's got Glasses on Yes It's a mess man It's a mess Crazy Crazy I love that Carl's about About to shoot His shot Tell her how You know How he feels And it's like Hey can I talk to you Real quick She's talking to her Dad And she's like Yeah And they Go They step over Like one step

[00:30:13] He's about to Shoot his shot In front of the Father Bold move brother Can we go somewhere Private to talk Yeah sure Yeah The dad is a bigger Fan of I know I know So I think You know He's like I'm gonna Wingman I'm gonna Want to see this I'm gonna Want to see this There's a scene Where It is the Where they're Showing us the Full day They do the Carriage ride And what not And it Transitions from Day to night Right

[00:30:43] There's a full day Carriage ride Yeah A classic JPR staple But An activity that Takes an hour Lasts a day A fun thing That he does Is before It goes from Day to night For like A second and a half Two seconds He throws a filter On the daylight To make it Look night For like a I don't know What happened there But it was a mess Dan do you know What it means When I say That's my Raise road

[00:31:12] No Okay very good Alright it's your turn When she Caroline tries To get in the house There's one of those Automated door locks Where you put the code in And it unlocks Oh I remember what it is Good go ahead man These people don't Understand monopoly Oh that's a big one Huge one These people are Messing them up This guy Raise road Railroad Railroad Carl with a C Shows up late To play monopoly He wins like this He sits down

[00:31:42] He rolls the dice That's right He moves it And then he lands And he goes That's my railroad Pay up He landed on it He rolls That's why he's The C note This guy showed up late And then won Immediately Raise road Got me Raise road I finally got it But then there's other Things that happen In that short monopoly Game That's like She's doing this thing Where she's like Rolling it over and over Again and she's like That's what you do And then I don't know I keep getting doubles Yeah go ahead

[00:32:11] Yeah so there's this She's trying to get Into the house It's got an automated Door Type in the code This is unlike Any other automated Door I've ever seen Because when you get The code wrong It bonks at you Bonk bonk It does a literal You got an answer Wrong or the same As the previous person In Fast Money On Family Feud Like if you do The wrong number In a door It doesn't do anything Maybe an X Appears on the screen This when you put In the wrong code It goes Bonk bonk What in the world

[00:32:40] Is that hilarious What a weird thing To add in post There's a scene Between Carl with a K And Caroline Where they're back And forth The shot on Carl with a K Natural light Coming through the window The shot on Caroline Red light Red light In her face In her face Where's the red light There's another Go ahead Tommy Wiseau Gets all the credit But you know There's a lot of people Out here doing the work There's another scene Where they're walking Around the town

[00:33:10] And there's some sort Of laser line Like you know Sometimes the sun Will reflect off Your watch screen And it'll cause The ceiling To have a little Thing There's one on his chest That keeps moving around From the camera The sun has hit the camera And reflected Onto his jacket And as they're moving You can see it moving Dear God in heaven Just I Like Man She They do a bit Where he wants The window open She wants it closed While everyone's sleeping

[00:33:39] And they keep coming Back down the stairs Hilarious She comes downstairs In her pajamas Goes back upstairs Then in the morning She comes back downstairs To eat breakfast In different pajamas Well And I meant to mention Like who the hell Opens a window In Michigan In December Oh no way No way No way Like you I could see you Fiddling with the Thermostat With the heat Or whatever But no way Are you opening up A window By the tree In the living room Bolt No Bolt No no no

[00:34:09] Yeah I mean Tree's gonna blow down I If the house had like A wood burning stove And not central heat And it could get too hot My wife's grandfather In Wisconsin Like growing up She told me She would go to his house And in the winter He'd keep his window cracked Because of how hot The house would get That is the only thing I can think of But in this house There's just no way You're 100% right Um The sister Decides to Posts

[00:34:38] Something on social media Immediately And then says All the comments Like I And she writes it She's posting about What happened The fact that there's a Carl that's not her boyfriend That is Right Yeah And then she And Caroline's friends Are seeing it now But it's not a picture It's like So I guess this is Facebook She is a 20 something Going viral Immediately With comments On Facebook I mean There is I think you can do

[00:35:07] An Instagram story Where you write text But who does that That's true Great point But also If it's Facebook And subprime mortgages Are a thing Maybe the movie's In 2007 That's true Bitcoin is hot That's right Maybe there's that Our boy C-Note Talks about Christmas movies And mansplains them To her Hilarious Not as hilarious As him saying That the cool thing About Christmas movies Is there's no war There's no racism There's no politics

[00:35:39] Buddy Top 10 If you're a straight White man There aren't Tell me you're A straight white guy Without telling me You're a straight white guy Also Tell me you've never Seen holiday Inner white Christmas With like Good God man Like no What are you Talking about And war You've made A movie about war You do this Yes In Christmas That's true You dummy Dumb Dumb Dumb Can we recommend A film called Fathers of the Bride You made a movie This guy

[00:36:08] The guy talking As an actor Says there's no war In Christmas movies No no no K-Dog Not C-Note Says that But it's in You're right It's in that guy's film It's in his movie Yeah But no racism No politics Are you joking God What a life you lead Sir He already forgot About the movie That he already made Yeah Car with a C Is right about One thing And one thing only New York City And Times Square Is just better At Christmas

[00:36:38] Than this small town I'm sorry Like I'm sorry I'm sorry Small towns everywhere You're wonderful I'm from one I'll die in one New York Thank you New York City And Times Square At Christmas time Stop it Stop it I'm sorry It's not the big Bad demonic New York City It's amazing Go check it out That's all I got It's time for What the Hallmark Is where we Wonder what could Have been Maybe having Some clarity Questions we still Have What are we still

[00:37:07] Wondering about I'll start with You Alonzo I live in terror For where Grandma Williams will Surface next And who will She bend To her unholy Will Yeah That's fair Yeah I kind of want To note Like I don't know If I really Want I do JPR We've talked About it But his Movies are Location heavy Location dependent He has the Holly Hotel He's got this There's something In the Fireman Fireman is in

[00:37:37] The same town As where the Holly Hotel Is Right But like What's his Like What comes First for him A like Location that He can use For free And then he Writes the movie Around that But then also In this movie Like this movie The town is so Empty For like A lot of the Movie Like literally No one's around Yeah And I don't Like How did he Do it How did he Do it Either like Weird times of

[00:38:07] Day or I Imagine like He shot it All on December 26th Maybe Or something Yeah Everything was Still up But like The crowds Were gone I don't know Dana I have two If you'll grant Me the time No What Unbelievable I do so much No I got I got told You can do it Yeah I do want To know Why grandma Williams And her Grandson Booked this Entire mansion Oh good point For the two of Them I would Love to know That story Of I know she Said she Wanted to Stay there When she Was younger But

[00:38:36] Just seems Kind of a Crazy Expenditure There are Smaller Airbnbs Yeah Just like A crazy Thing That That's how We booked It But My bigger One is They're at The breakfast Table And he Looks at Carl With a K And goes Hey Me and you Die The dad Says me And you Die hard 15 minutes Alright Die hard At nine In the morning Is a choice And I It's not a Choice I Would make But it's A choice And if You want To do That's Fine Christmas Movie Absolutely I'm on Board But the Problem Is in The very Next scene They're Watching a Detroit Lions Game

[00:39:06] Literally The announcer Is like St. Brown With seven Receptions That line Is not In die Hard I promise You And so I have a Few questions About that Number one What Lions Games Started At nine In the Morning And two What Happened To die Hard And also I think At some Point Carl With a K Makes Some Reference To Like Watching The whole Die Hard Series I'm like Only the First two Are Christmas Movies Yeah Yes That's True

[00:39:35] But also Before anybody I don't know What anyone To defend This movie But before Anybody Goes Hey maybe That was Later In the Day Later In the Movie They do Watch Die Hard Yes So You hear The line About So This is A 9 a.m. Detroit Lions Game That they I saw I saw Going To do The game Might have Been Last night

[00:40:04] And NFL Network Will replay It the Next morning So they're Just casually Watching So they Turn They turned On the TV It was On They were Like We missed This They don't They're just Michiganders That don't know The Lions Score We missed This one Do you want To watch It Well they're Not from Michigan They're Visiting Chicago We missed This one You want This Than JPR Ever Fair That's Absolutely Correct

[00:40:34] All right We're Going to be Back next Week We're Starting Our Spooky Season Off With I know What You Did Last Christmas How Did Nobody Get There I Know And I Got To Be Honest With You Guys I Don't Know This For Sure I'm Going Off Memory Here You Were The One That Told Us We Should Do This I What I'm About To Say I Never Ever Wanted To

[00:41:04] Do A Champ Dog Movie I Endorsed The Idea Of Doing Spookies It's A British Movie You Did Not Tell Oh My God With The Credits This Movie Is Again I Just See The Titles And I Think Well This Could Work And I

[00:41:34] Don't I I I'm Never Recommending Anything To Brand We've Not Doing Some Due Diligence There's A Champ Dog Movie Called Dracula In Space I Don't Know How We Get There Here On Deck The Hallmark Did You We Have Not Seen Horror So We're Going To Give That A Go Next

[00:42:04] Week To Kick Off Spooky Season Come On For That I I My Understanding Was That Once Marvel Mondays Wraps Up That You And Rye Guy Were Going To Do Like Champ Dog Monday Instead Yeah God No Work Your Way Through The Over You Don't Have To Pull My Arm I Christmas Deck The Hallmark Is Bramble Jam Podcast

[00:42:34] Produced By Brandon Gray And Yeah That Greenville South Carolina For More Information On The Show You

[00:43:05] Get The Lights On Here In The Old Studio Thanks For Listening Or Don't Listen It's Really Up To You At This Point Is At The End Of The Show I Mean You're Listening To Me Hi But Here They Come I Promise They're Coming Yep Here They Are Happy Day