Toast to Italy (Hallmark Channel - 2026)

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[00:00:39] We hope you like this jolly podcast Well hello everybody What I can tell you Brian, in 30 years when people talk about me They'll be like, the two things we know about Dan is he doing an offensive Italian accent And he was a Kemper Those are the two big ones That's exactly right Shout out to our friends from Dressing Festive for providing us with some Will Kemp You keep sending the shirts Dressing Festive, we'll keep wearing them

[00:01:07] Brian left his at home Brian said I'm not wearing them Holding out for a Tori DeVito shirt Yeah, after I rip this movie anew and this Kemper shirt is gonna be hilarious Well, I don't know Kemper's gonna have a whole new meaning Kemp's gonna Kemp This is Sean Kemp Of course From the Supersonics Of course Happy birthday Hallmark Channel Happy birthday Hallmark You should've learned how to say that in Italian We're so glad you made movies But it's August

[00:01:34] That's right, for the next three movies we are celebrating Hallmark's birthday That's it So Let's give it up Hey, alright 25 years Here's to 25 more Long ones Great 25 more long ones As they say 2001 is when Hallmark started Wow The channel I mean the movies were around before then But the channel Yes Channel Yeah, prime cable Interesting That was prime every new cable network

[00:02:03] But look who has survived That's right Hallmark Channel Another The Yes Network Yankees was around that time About 2002 Oh, interesting Which network's better you think? Yes, network is better I think we don't need to do that They do anything special for their birthday you think? I don't know if it's the 25th for them I think it might be the 24th So next year Oh, so Maybe it is the 25th though I don't know Well, look it up I'm doing it right now We're talking to Toast of Italy today Tori DeVito Will Kemp As you can tell by our Will Kemp shirts For most of us

[00:02:32] You're wearing your Bramble Fest shirt though Yeah I'm repping this stuff Brian Next year 2002 I was right Summer Is coming to an end here In South Carolina Sure it is In the sense that vacation is over Like kids are getting ready to go back to school It's going to be hot for a few more months But the vacation part Is coming to an end But how are you feeling about it, Brian? I know that you love summer You love summer vacation You love it all I do And you get so many things done Big projects You love ambiguous time With no certainty Right No schedule

[00:03:01] How are you feeling about it? Yeah I love just downtime Go with the flow, Brian Just relaxing 100% It's been brutal You've been thriving Yeah Today This week We got a little taste of fall in the air In the morning A little This morning was perfect Absolutely wonderful I couldn't believe it I was out there at 6.30 this morning, guys And it was Perfect I said, uh-oh Uh-oh Here it is Uh-oh What's that? Is that a pumpkin spice latte?

[00:03:30] Is it you throwing a paintbrush against a wall? That's me opening the The bottle And then pulling back The little thing that's on top of it Because I bought the bottle from the store As you should It's fall Yeah, I can't wait for This summer has been hot Yeah, it's been really hot I'm ready for fall 100% I'm ready for fall We're almost there We only got three birthday movies We gotta toast to Italy first You know what I mean? We only got three birthday movies And then it's all in on fall

[00:03:59] For eight weeks That's eight? Until fall is here And then it's Christmas Yeah You guys know it? You guys love it? They have, like, confirmed That it's the earliest start to count Under Christmas ever Again This year Yes What does that mean? That means that it's a day earlier than last year It's October 16th Is that a Friday? Last year Yes It's the same weekend It's just a day earlier than Cal Like, every time you creep around I'm like That's two In two weeks after that date It still won't be Halloween Yeah

[00:04:27] But you hold fast to your weekend And then eventually it all circles back But they've only had that weekend post-COVID That's right So holding fast is like, you know We've held Bramble Fest the same weekend longer No The first year that they went to this weekend Was Cranberry Christmas Like 2021 or 22 They used to start the week before Halloween Right And then they moved it one week earlier Hmm When was the first marathon? I don't know I have to look that up Look it up That'll be a good

[00:04:57] I don't know how Because I feel like they 19? Was it 19? You can do an 18 I'd get to work on it Because remember Remember Old Bill Old Bill Bill Always needed to be the first Always needed to be the first And they started early And it was a whole thing You do that research, Dan I'll talk about Toast of Italy How about that? This movie originally aired on August 3rd Is that right? Man What time? Holy cow My birthday's coming up No, not even first You haven't mentioned it Guys, not even close

[00:05:27] August 1st Yeah My birthday's this Friday So, you know What do you guys give me? We got your birth A movie Saturday night Remember last year We were going to go over To Dan's first birthday And watch the movie He didn't want any part of it I think Well, I think there's a little bit Of gray area in that story But yeah, whatever Sounds pretty accurate That's the way that I remember it too And it went a little something like this Ginny is helping plan her sister's wedding But there's something missing This wedding blessing wine

[00:05:56] That every successful marriage in her family has toasted with at the wedding There's no more of it They thought that they had a bottle of the wine in the family case of the wine But it's gone We don't have it And via quick Google There's only one bottle available And luckily for her It is going up for auction in 16 hours The bad news is Rome So, if she wants any chance of actually getting this in her hands

[00:06:25] And to her sister's wedding in time She's got to go take care of this herself So, she hops on a plane No, Rome actually What's RME probably? Maybe So, Ginny decides she's going to hop on that plane Get the wine And come home in time for the wedding She gets there just in time for the auction She arrives at the same time as Arrigo Arrigo They hit it off until they discover that they're both at this auction

[00:06:55] For the same bottle of wine He's there because he needs it for like a review or a work or something Honestly Pries for a story Who cares? Because what she needs it for is love That trumps it That trumps it They get into a bidding war But then this random extra Ends up coming in last second And outbidding them both I'm still foggy on How it happened She ends up having to go to Italy

[00:07:23] Where another bottle may be available But who does she see on her trip? But one Arrigo Both heading for the same place For the same bottle of wine You'd think that that would bring out the worst in them But they're actually being really nice about it And they end up at her relative's house Who feeds her yummy food Tells her fun family history But alas No wine So They continue their journey The sparks Are beginning to fly

[00:07:52] He measures her body All normal Hallmark movie Stopped But suddenly There's a knock at the door Gunshot Who is this? That knock at the door Is a miscommunication folks The miscommunication in this movie Is as follows They are together They're beginning to like each other He takes a phone call And she's over there Using her translating app For something else Yes

[00:08:17] And the app suddenly begins to translate what he's saying Heck yeah it does And at that moment He is telling his co-worker or boss I don't like her I'm gonna get the wine Won't be a problem But what she missed in the translation Is before that When he says I'm falling for this girl But don't tell them that Just tell them Right

[00:08:46] So she begins to like Give him the cold shoulder Like not talking to him All that stuff And finally he's like What gives And she's like I heard what you said on the phone And he says And he says Well You missed the most important part of that And Good It works We did it Congratulations But She has to get back To the wedding The wedding's happening Yeah man And so she is gonna head back to America Empty handed

[00:09:14] He goes to talk to his Co-worker boss guy And Talking about Hey we actually might have secured One of the wines And it's actually gonna work out great And he's like Oh man I feel awful When he looks Behind him At the bar And what does he find But one bottle Of the wine He says I'm taking it And he hops on a plane And he makes it to the wedding Just in time Before they're gonna toast With

[00:09:42] Non-blessed wine Non-lucky wine He comes running in And he says Stop the toast You're gonna want this Boom And everybody else is like Who's this strange guy But she's like I know him They go And they talk some more And of course He's gonna hang out For the rest of the time And dance And kiss And now my friends was Toast to Italy A toast to Italy Right Or is it toast to Italy

[00:10:12] It's a toast to Italy Two Toast to Italy I believe it's two Bet my life on it Whoa Yep Yep Toast to Italy Okay There you go I still killed you Sorry Was that AT Sword? What do you want to hear about I got all the information How about we take a break And then we'll come back I love it That's great You like that We'll be right back And we'll find out about the history Of Countdown to Christmas And what it means For you For you Take the Hallmark Take the Hallmark

[00:10:39] Hey everybody Hey How's it going? Happy birthday Hallmark Happy early birthday Jesus Like to get ahead of that Shout out Obviously All year long Similar to the big guy Many Well many Many scholars would say That Jesus was actually born In the summer That's right Scholars are saying Probably late Many of them are Probably I'm late now Happy belated I thought I was early But now I'm behind Happy belated That's right I'm getting ahead of it

[00:11:09] For next year Happy birthday Jesus All right Dan You had some information About Countdown to Christmas It is rumored To be starting The earliest yet It is the earliest Yes And it is actually They have made a point Of progressively getting Earlier and earlier Pretty much every year But the first year It's ever started Before October 20th Was not until 2024 Really That's right Okay It started on October 20th In 2023 And then in 2022

[00:11:37] It started on October 21st Noel Next Door What weekend was that? Was that third weekend? Well it was one week And then Halloween was in the middle Of the following week It's just by Like if you look by Halloween Okay Right So this year we're going to do Two full weeks Yeah Before we even get to Halloween Which is bonkers And then the previous year 2021 It didn't start until October 22nd You, me, and Christmas trees October 22nd In 2015 It didn't start until November

[00:12:06] The first year it started Before Halloween Was 2016 And it started on October 29th A Wish for Christmas With Lacey and Paul Green So like It's progressively Like taking that Whenever Halloween's In the middle of the week It takes that opportunity To just scoot back But this is the earliest Well Halloween's not In the middle of the week This year I know They've decided to go That's what I'm saying Is they've decided To go a full two weeks Before Halloween Which they've never done Rumor has it also though Halloween's on a Saturday Greenville is actually Going to celebrate

[00:12:35] Celebrate on Thursday Probably Thursday before That's when you get Go trick or treating So Bran Every year If you started Whenever you started Countdown to Christmas If you added two weeks It was always past Halloween For the first time ever Countdown to Christmas starts And if you add two weeks You're still not to Halloween That's insanity I love it It's crazy What are they going to Give us Why not Why not just do October 1st With only 24 movies Though Bran That's a crazy town Right Wouldn't you agree If they only do 24 movies

[00:13:05] It's the same schedule As last year Yeah But Yeah Would be my guess That means it finishes Even earlier though But although last year Didn't they release The unwrapping movies It would finish on the 19th Didn't they Of December Yeah When did Christmas May be air last year I think the 21st So the 19th That's almost a full week Before Christmas Wouldn't you be upset about that There's no new Hallmark movies No I don't think People want new movies Okay At that point I think people just I don't want them For my job Because I'd love to be done By the 19th

[00:13:34] But that would be The earliest they ever finished I think they've done The homework here People want them earlier And don't want new ones When everybody goes home For Christmas They don't want new movies They just want They got stuff to do That's a better question Is what's the earliest They ever finished Countdown to Christmas How about you do that Tis the season be merry In 2021 They finish on the 19th So there you go I think they do know that Brian Alright very good There you go Alright let's get to The hot take of Toast to Italy It's where we share

[00:14:04] Exactly how we felt About this movie Do you want to hold back I'll start with you Yeah Brian have you ever Been to Italy Never Come on Sorry Stupid question What do you think About this move Did it make you want to go A little bit A little bit A little bit Just to circle back On the airport codes It would have been FCO That she flew into Very good Thank you This right here Good stuff FCO FCO Good stuff is in the movie Is good stuff Yeah Good stuff for me Good stuff What I feel like they tapped Into like a little bit Of a cheat code

[00:14:33] Having Will Kemp Speak Italian to us And dance Really enjoyed Oh he dances Get out of here Yeah In the movie Yeah And in Italy Just really That worked pretty well For me The mystique around Marcello Worked for me And they beat me Over the head With it so much That finally I'm just like Alright I'm on the hook What is up with Marcello What's the deal With this Who's Marcello He was the guy Who had the last Bottle of wine He was her grandfather Giuseppe's best friend Yeah I got you Yeah

[00:15:04] And then the fire Burned the rest of them Exactly One left And nobody could find him But he was just like Right there The whole time A lot of Suspending of disbelief He can't believe His cousin Still loves him so much And she's a car ride away That's right Yeah Right there In the old town No It's Listen Tradition They're stuck in their ways Okay The pasta There's wine everywhere You did have to Suspend some disbelief I imagine that anyone With a radiology appointment Was furious You think

[00:15:33] In real life Probably too It's just a really risky thing To have a doctor Just so brazenly Be like Clear my schedule I'm out of here Like Just a tough Those appointments In America You're booking Four or five months out Can you imagine that Dude I That's what I'm saying Fundamentally cannot imagine Furious Like A lot of Oddly like A lot of trashing Of America In this movie And Americans Specifically Not America But Americans Their coffee is trash They all sleep together They save the big bats For the American tourists

[00:16:03] And they aren't honest Was another thing They did say We do TV better Than Italians Yeah I was about to say I thought it was Pretty accurate To picture No I'm not I wasn't mad I was surprised About it And it was It was funny Especially coming off The World Cup Where so many people Came to America And were just like Amazed at the fun stuff We have in America Yeah Boo But so The Overall I ended up having A good time here And I enjoyed Spending time With these characters Great I'm happy for you Thank you This I can see

[00:16:33] Brageye Why you would Like this movie This is Heavy on like Lore And history There's a lot And you know You're traveling And like Well it's not It's not even The travel part To me It's like Yeah This is like The definition Of more band practice It's like Give me more Give me more Family history Find out more About this wine That's right And maybe I would Have been more in If I liked wine At all Maybe That would help But it's just

[00:17:03] An okay for me I do Like I thought That these two They're classics On the network So who better To help Hallmark Celebrate their birthday Of course Two staples Of the network With Will Kemp I'm a Kemper And Tori DeVito Danny's relative So it made sense Why this would happen It is like A fun travel They're going to Different places And what not I just didn't care About the wine

[00:17:32] Of it all And like The family history And the stuff That's not like I've tried Like getting into Those like Family history shows You know Like Oh really Yeah And I just don't care About that And so That was a little bit Of a hurdle for me But two great leads I thought they were Fine together And I do Like when he runs in With the wine Right before they're About to do the toast Of course that works It's like That's the wine Equivalent of A crowd parting So you can tell

[00:18:02] Somebody that you Love them Like it was Great timing That worked But by and large It was like It was a thing That I don't care about By two leads That I think are good So it just kind of Came out as a wash For me Dan Yeah this movie sucks And I This is coming from A Kemper You know Tried and true 100% Listen Will Kemp Is charming There's no doubt About it Tori DeVito Great This movie could have Been an email There is no world Where a radiologist On Sunday Where her sister Is getting married On Saturday

[00:18:32] Is and has Still going to work All week Is looking on the Internet And seeing there's One bottle of wine For auction In 16 hours Going Not winning The auction And then staying There for family Fun times There's Like You lost me So completely In that moment There is nothing You could have done Once I heard When we heard the Premise of the preview Show I was like

[00:19:02] What And then I was like Okay like family Connection blah blah blah And then I hear She's leaving She's bailing on all The stuff Suspension of disbelief Very high That's tough Then they don't She doesn't win The auction I thought her And this guy Were going to fight Maybe Will Kemp Wins the auction She has to sit there And like try to like Get him to understand The importance No they just don't Get that bottle of wine It's just gone It's done There's a mystery man Who bought it And that's the end of that And then we spend Five days where She is in No hurry To do anything

[00:19:31] And it's like Your sister's Getting married You have Daughter's appointments And we have For my money A new entry In the worst Misunderstanding In Hallmark history Really In this movie Awful Awful Misunderstanding This movie Did not earn The right to exist In my opinion Really Really bad I No thank you Thank you But no thank you I'm out And I'm a Kemper Look it says it on my shirt It's tough for you to

[00:20:00] But the charm of one William Kemp Can only go so far Sure Sure Let's get to the All the fields Before we talk about What this movie gave us Field We'll start with you Bright guy Yeah there was a Scene where She was on the phone With her sister And her sister Drops a truth bomb That I laughed out loud at And had to listen to twice And she said Her sister said About her falling in love With Arrigo She said He's just a good friend That's all it can be Vacation romances Don't count When the fantasy Of the trip is over So is the spark Wow Wow

[00:20:30] Jeff Probst I couldn't When your flame is gone So are you So are you I couldn't believe She was so harsh And Tori DeVito's character Was just like Yeah I guess you're right I'm like No fight Like she just Really just devastated Your hopes and dreams And like she was just like Yeah I guess I guess you're right Yeah well I guess that's it I couldn't believe How brutally honest That conversation went Yeah I do Listen I don't know If it worked Right

[00:20:59] It didn't This I believe Is And I'm Our film historians Are still looking into it They're still going through All the archives This might be the first ever Sexy measuring Scene of all time In Hallmark This is what the historians Are working on This like The film historians Are around the clock The idea of Oh I need to get a dress They need my exact measurements I can't possibly I can't do I can't Will you come over And measure Collarbone to shoulder This is in your feels

[00:21:29] You were laughing I What You missed what I said At the beginning I don't know if it worked But I Like my feels is that They try It's a new way It's a new thing That I've never seen before A new day Clearly this is supposed to be The hot sexy steamy stuff It's supposed to be So I don't know if it accomplished that I did laugh while it was happening But like the idea of like I'm gonna feel your collarbone Brian let me get on this Absolutely So like Yeah Yeah Yeah she is real quiet then 14 14

[00:21:58] And then he smiles At the game I don't I don't know if it worked I appreciate the attempt A brutal scene Yes A brutal scene of television We don't always get like These type of things Where it's like I Like I always appreciate New different ways To where like The two Leads like Touch for the first time In a way And they realize that They have chemistry Sure This was an interesting way To do it I've never seen it before And I appreciate the attempt I was distracted By the measurements

[00:22:27] On the tape Sure Because they're in a different Country here Numbers are numbers though Right But the It would be Probably wouldn't be inches It would have been like Yes Like centimeters Like what would it be And I was a little concerned About that How comfortable They did have a United States measuring system Tape measure They had it ready to go Really good How comfortable Do you need to be With your own body Which I am not To call the person over That you're kind of into And just be like Will you measure my body What are my measurements

[00:22:57] I'm not I don't know I don't want like I don't want you to know The exact numbers It's burned into the brain there Burned into the brain 36 waist over there Brando Weird leg length We don't need We don't need you to know His torso's never been measured He's at 3642 3642 I don't need you to know I don't need you to know I think you mean 4230 No He's at 3642 Flip it reverse Whatever you got I don't need you to know that

[00:23:27] Come on Dan Yeah I mean It's a freebie But I'll take it Italy's nice I would love to go I would love to go to Italy And eat pasta And bread And cheese And drink wine And it looks pretty great I would love to go Throughout the Mediterranean And do that That sounds wonderful So yeah I'll take Italy Okay I like to call you Mediterranean Dan Mediterranean Mediterranean Mediterranean Mediterranean Mediterranean Mediterranean Mediterranean Mediterranean Mediterranean Mediterranean Mediterranean Mediterranean

[00:23:57] That's right That's pretty good That's a good one Yeah we figured it out We weren't shocked You want to try it once Mediterranean There you go Thank you I feel better now Alright I'm Mediterranean And I despise And I'm a Kemper I'm a Kemper Mamma mia I'm mad at the rain It's a mad at the rain It's a mad at the rain It's a mad at the rain It's a mad at the rain That sounds way better That way That was a full That was Nana over there Yeah Not the bread Alright let's take a break We'll come back We'll get to the way Weather with all We're here on Take the whole Oh my

[00:24:33] Hi everybody Welcome back Hey if you're cool with it Share your measurements In the comments Yeah Alright let's get to the Weight what is When we share Anything in this We're in the medical Weight what I'll start with you Bri guy Yeah absolutely Just a few here Share your measurements In the comments In the comments Grandpa Giuseppe Brought back Geppetto Could have been They call him that for short Giuseppe Giuseppe brought back An entire case Of magic wine And they drank it all Yeah they just were like See you sucker

[00:25:03] You can't just drink The magic wine Yeah you can Are they popping this open On like a Tuesday Wednesday night Like go get the wine Go get the magic wine You can't just finish All the magic wine They did I couldn't believe And then a bunch of it Burned down right Yeah There was a big fire I couldn't believe They were just like Oh yeah did we drink All of that What's a better one They burned Or they drank All the magic wine I don't know Like they both seem To be tools Of a screenwriter Yeah They both don't seem To be like Possible

[00:25:33] Well It happened Yeah So just brutal The talking in inappropriate places Was driving me crazy Oh my god It only happened twice really The auction hall And the church Where they just kept Going on and on And not one like Shh Like quiet down Nothing And they felt no remorse Or weren't worried at all About the noise they were making I couldn't I almost fast forwarded The auction scene When they were talking I'm like they wouldn't stop talking Like you have to pay attention

[00:26:03] In the auctions Yeah Driving me crazy You ever been to an auction bro Never No Have you I had to take some I used to work at a car lot I had to take some cars To an auto auction And stay there To bid on other cars Are they rowdy like that I mean auto auction Is a little bit different Than like that is But in that setting And I've been to a silent auction Like for charity and stuff Sure But I've never been to one like that Yeah I feel like art and wine Is probably a quieter crowd It's gotta be a quieter crowd The car crowd I could see those people Yeah yeah That's outside Crazy

[00:26:32] In the dirt The wrestling match With the elderly lady In the street Was crazy Crazy When she I guess she was choking On a nut But she She just came up And the hardest looking slap I've ever seen I wrote this down About the Hallmark Because technically We did look it up And now we have the answers But my question was Has the Heimlich changed And it has Back in my day You just Two arms around that Boom But now It's a five And you go five Oh is that right Five times And then you go Heimlich

[00:27:00] If that doesn't dislodge it Then you go traditional Heimlich And then you go back You alternate five How about that Good to know Yeah So a wrestling match Was because she had She's a medical profession I was worried about Good Samaritan law If you were wondering If you were wondering Have they changed Heimlich Yes They have changed Heimlich They've updated Heimlich Wonderful Never stop changing Never stop changing Put your measurements In the comments That'll be it for me There's a few But you guys I want to hear Very good I got a kick out of

[00:27:30] The first person That she goes to In the States About like the wine Like hey This person might have The wine right And she's like We don't have the wine That's right There is one though It's for auction It's in Roman This is wild And then she's like Great Could you put in a bid And she's like I mean Like you just Go to Rome Yeah That's the option I mean And she acts like It is not a big deal I noticed that too Why are you Involving me in this She's like You're in New York There's multiple flights

[00:27:59] That go to Rome That go to Rome You could be there so fast And bid on it Can you imagine being 16 hours from the auction In Rome And being like The logical thing For me to do here Yeah Is to fly to Rome For one bottle of wine That is on auction And my funds are clear She decides she can only Go to a thousand That's right Yeah Don't go Yeah A hard don't go Speaking of auction We get to Pay more than that For the flight What are you doing I don't know Why are you asking me To do this Tomorrow

[00:28:28] Flying to Rome Tomorrow Just fly Now I'm looking it up Just fly Just do it Just get over there Quick You're being so stupid Why are we still on the phone Why haven't you booked A flight yet Go So when they get to the auction It's going back and forth Between these two people Right You're gonna want FCO Yeah FCO Actually right around a grand If you leave tomorrow Right around a grand Not bad actually Last minute fight Should we Let's go Let's go Should we go Should we go I think we should go Yeah The

[00:28:58] What was I talking about The auction They get to the auction Yeah they do These two folks are going back This is the craziest I can't believe that it got to him He has been like I can't go any higher She Goes 2500 Right She's high Right Yeah The person There's a person Who jumps in last second To bid And doesn't go up a ton Goes up like a normal Increment of auctioning Yes And she just doesn't Anymore Yeah She just gave up Like she was like

[00:29:28] You're right there This movie's over If you just finish this thing Like it wasn't like a Like a Last second I slid in there It was a She had a chance Yes She had a chance And like If we assume lodging And flight is $2000 And then she spends And she's willing to go to 2500 on the bottle of wine I can't imagine a person That's comfortable Spending 4500 on a whim Not spending 5000 On a whim Yeah And I know that there's A slippery slope there But like

[00:29:57] She clearly thinks This is a big deal What are we doing Yeah Just go Just keep Just keep doing it Until you win And then tell your sister You're splitting it Yeah If it's that important To you guys Or you think her wedding Will be cursed Which is also stupid Then you'll Well And then I also After the auction She goes She hears that Another place might have The wine And so she goes Into this wine place And the person's like Why would you want An old wine like that Yeah

[00:30:26] I don't know if you know Yeah They haven't heard yet Who Who would want An old wine like that What are you telling About wine All All wine drinkers Yeah All The best wine Is Rifer's been corked Yeah You know what I mean Don't give me That old stuff This vintage is yesterday Who is this Open that up Who is this weird Wine shop owner In Rome That's like 2025 or bust For me We've got the newest Wines on town Yeah You're gonna want To get a hold Of this stuff And I I think it was Supposed to be Like a joke Like we don't have

[00:30:56] Any old stuff I'm gonna try to Sell you On the new stuff But to ask The question Who wants An old wine Like that Is very funny Even I know That the answer Is everyone Everyone wants An old wine Like that Dana Yeah So we gotta go Back to the auction Again because Not only does she Going back Great Not only does she Just stop bidding But I wanna talk About the guy In the back row Who is like If gold member And the monopoly Man had a baby Who can't talk

[00:31:24] He's dressed in gold Has a mustache And has decided To spend $4,000 On this wine Can't talk He doesn't bid Until the bidding Like what kind of Psychopath is this guy He wants a bottle of wine But he wants it At the most expensive He could possibly pay Good for the value Yeah He doesn't jump in At $500 He doesn't jump in At $1,000 He lets two people Drive the price Through the roof And goes Double it

[00:31:53] What are you doing Buddy in the back What's your story What happened You can't talk I know But that's a weird Auction move That is not an auction Move that we see Ever Because it defies What an auction Is about Weird auction move Like why not pay retail You know what I mean Like why not just That's a crazy move By that guy And I just couldn't Believe it It does feel like There should be a little Like decorum In an auction Like if you want Something like You get in

[00:32:23] You don't come in At the last second And swoop in Yeah and double the price Or whatever It feels like mean Yeah it does Feels wrong I guess not much Has changed since High school English class Great Gatsby still Puts him to sleep Am I right Oh She just casually Breaks out the Great Gatsby Which good on her I'm not Listen Yeah yeah yeah She's just on a train And she's like Where is my Oh right Hardcover copy Of Great Gatsby That I brought From the states

[00:32:53] With me Great American novel When am I Gonna get to The roaring Oh It's right here And then she's Gone Cashed out Been there brother What a crazy move Listen The Great Gatsby Is a classic For a reason Nobody's here to tell you It's a bad novel Pretty weird That a traveler From America Has a hardback They brought with her That she's just not Gotten to until now Like I've been saving GG for a perfect time And it's now And I brought my hardback Maybe she reads it Once a year And also I want to see

[00:33:22] What her carry on is If she's got room For a hardback Great Gatsby I mean that is That's packing Right now That's packing That's last minute Packing too That's exactly right She did that At the last second She said Yep Yep Absolutely They meet Tori DeVito's cousin This older woman I mean she's lived A full life And she finds out That Tori DeVito Is her cousin And she proclaims it To be the greatest Day of her life That's right Boy Yeah Man that's tough man Like you know

[00:33:51] Life's a vapor guys And she's had a lot More of the vapor Than we've had And there wasn't Like a day That like she had I think she has children Yeah it sounded like it And she had a husband Like I'm not trying To discount you Meeting a long lost Great cousin But greatest day Of your life Seems a little bit much Seems a little bit much Is all I'm saying A little bit much This transaction When there's one Hotel room key For the two of them

[00:34:21] Like all we needed Was Paul Green To say I'll give you Some money now She says There's only one room And they say We'll take And she goes Here's the key And that's the There's no credit card There's no document Up the stairs Yeah yeah yeah Up the stairs Just upstairs There's no like That could have been A line that they meant to I just like Guys when you go To a hotel You gotta put an ID You gotta put An incidental card down You gotta sign a thing They're gonna tell you When breakfast starts There's a whole She's like We've got one room You'll take it Great here's the key Get out of here I don't have I don't wanna talk

[00:34:50] About it anymore I gotta be honest Will Kemp's middle name Should be I never miss a chance To dance I Guys That's why we're Kempers Kempers Mariah Carey Was in a Hallmark movie And she doesn't sing Will Kemp is in a movie Where he's an Englishman That speaks a little bit Of Italian Look He's a journalist Who's a writer Looking for a bottle of wine On a globe trotting adventure

[00:35:19] And he finds time to dance Did you say trot? Yeah exactly Did you say trot? Fox trot even He This guy Is it in his contract? I know he's a great dancer We have people that are in movies That don't sing That need to How is this guy dancing In every movie he's in? This movie isn't even adjacent To dancing He's a good dancer And he's like What if we have a dance scene Of course You know we've done the bit You think now he's gonna measure people In every movie he's in? Maybe Maybe he's had that That's a writer

[00:35:48] We've had the misunderstanding What I consider to be The worst Hallmark misunderstanding Is the time for him To come home for Christmas Where Tyler Hines Is behind the staircase Here's one sentence Out of context And then doesn't speak To the woman for a decade That is like Still funny That is ultimate This might give it a run For their money He is on the phone With his boss In Italian He declares his love For the woman next to her At that moment

[00:36:16] She decides to hit translate And then hears him say But don't Right after he says But don't tell the owner that Tell him Lie to him Tell him this And she only hears that And then We have four scenes about it Four straight scenes Where he's like She's like I heard And he's like You did? Great And she's like Yeah I guess we'll just Go our separate ways They end that scene Then they go out to eat And he's like Did I do something wrong And she's like Nope I heard you loud and clear And then they end that scene And then they go A third scene

[00:36:46] Before they get to the hotel Where he's trying to like And she's like Can you get out of the way That's my room Heard you loud and clear Guys I want to throw something Through the TV I liked it Of course you liked it We've not found the bottle of wine yet She said she accidentally Started translating Which is just a lie She was trying to translate the sign I think But she hit translate Right Yeah So she didn't clear that up ever It's so bad

[00:37:15] It's so so bad Guys I don't know how to tell you And I'm thrilled The fact that Brian liked it Is all you need to know And I do want to point out That this movie contains Four scenes Where they never get To the misunderstanding Over and over again The same conversation Four times It's December 7th That's why we're here Followed by a montage Of why they love each other Of moments from the movie We've already seen Tastefully done I mean This movie could have been Under 60 minutes There's nothing to it But keep the dancing Yes

[00:37:45] Two days before Her sister's wedding Two days before Her sister's wedding She talks to her other sister And she goes I haven't found the wine yet I'm not worried about it Like I I just couldn't I couldn't My brain broke And I never could fix it I'm sorry I'm not sorry Alright Very good It's time for the What the Hallmark Are we gonna start doing that Happy birthday Happy birthday You did This is part of the show Where we wonder What could have been Maybe have Get us to clear Any questions we still have What are we still wondering about I'm gonna start with you Brian Guy Brian Yeah

[00:38:15] There was an alternate ending That I just couldn't get Out of my head here And it was him coming in With the wine He pours the toast For the bride The groom Him and her And they're standing there And then it pans over To the groom And he's just like Nah I don't really like wine And that's like Perfect They just gotta go from there Man that would have been A better movie Cause not all Not at Not any time Do they ever talk about Liking wine I couldn't get it out of my head I just wanted to be like Nah Thanks Of course It's possible they said it

[00:38:45] And I missed it But when Like how much Did Will Kemp Pay that bar owner For that bottle of wine Oh he just took it Yeah And the boss took care of it Yeah the boss took care of it How much like Yeah We don't know Did he get a good deal Did they know it's a big deal Did they know it's a big deal The boss A.K.A. Italian Manny Finocchio Exactly yeah Does the bar owner know How big of a deal This wine is Oh man I hope not Did they rip this bar owner off I don't know These are all questions You know who's gonna be mad

[00:39:15] Is the guy who won it at auction Cause that's gonna decrease The value It's just out there Randomly on any bar shows Can't talk about it That's right Dan Yeah I do wanna see The other movie That's going on here Which is The sister getting married Hearing that her sister The week of the wedding Like guys Has disappeared Yes Weddings don't happen one day On a Saturday Or a Thursday even For one time And a reception There's a whole Procession that happens Especially when you're a part of the wedding

[00:39:44] When you're a part of the wedding When you're a sister of the bride There's a There's a rehearsal There's a rehearsal Like There's another movie Happening right now Where this sister Is going Freaking So she's in Italy And she's falling in love With a guy Is she gonna make Like there's a There's a fitting Of these bridesmaids dresses Yeah She probably Like There is so much Going on Sister super cool That Yeah Just great So I would actually Have preferred to see That one

[00:40:13] And just an occasional I think she's fallen in love With some English Italian man Yeah But she found the wine She says she's not worried about it You know the wedding's in two days Yeah she seems to have it covered Yeah That sister's going nuts Like going absolutely crazy Well and Corina Vito's character Is also really chill about it Really chill I would be like I can't do I can't do this anymore I have to go Gotta go After the auction I'd be like I tried Yeah Yeah I have to get back Yes Exactly That's why I'm saying This movie could have been An email at the very most

[00:40:42] A quick trip to Italy Well them's the breaks We did everything we could See you That's what I would have done Yeah That's true Well we did it everybody Congratulations to us I'm going to pull this up Dano It's time for the Double Decker of the Week It's time where Brian Does the deep dive On a Double Decker How do you become a Double Decker You go to BramblejamPlus.com You sign up for the Double Decker tier or higher It's an amazing Facebook community The best corner of the internet Some are calling it Some are And you get so many perks For doing that

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[00:41:41] He popped on alive Like three or four days ago And he said I'm going to bed That's right Love Ronaldo though And I'm happy to hear That he's doing something Yeah what's he doing He's doing some fancy stuff So he's got obviously Friends all over the world And a big thing with Ronaldo He likes to bring people together Yeah And like smooth relations Great And so he figures I think he figured out a way here Where he can smooth relations Between people Conflict All over the world Wow And it's through Through diplomats

[00:42:11] Diplomats? Yeah Like people that go To On the behalf Of a group of people That's a diplomat But Ronaldo has A venture here Is this some sort of A laundromat? No No No Okay This is So like A lot of people Everybody likes music Generally And so like Try to find someone Around the world Who can't Nod their head To a Diplo song And so And all this thing And you know Welcome mats Diplo My boy

[00:42:41] Make some Diplomats And we'll throw those things around And So it's just like Diplo lyrics on Yeah Or the face Or whatever How does the licensing work though? You can't just like Take lyrics Well I don't Diplo's cool with it Diplo's cool Diplo signed off on it Well Technic I mean I wouldn't say Technic Diplo hasn't Asked him to stop Right Well that's it right there So he just figures He's just gonna go forward with this Until Diplo says no Do you got any Lyrics? No No I don't I don't have Diplo I'm not as well I'm not

[00:43:11] I don't really know I know the name Diplo But I don't really What's his real name For Five dollars Oh you know what It's not Matt Is it Thomas Wesley Pince There it is Yeah Ronaldo would've known that Of course he would've He's got a lot of remixes With folks And so But Ronaldo thinks He's probably a Diplo song You know He thinks diplomats Could do it Very good Love it Thank you Ronaldo For your support If you wanna join us

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