November 30, 2024 • 60 mins
It's a Wonderful Lifetime!
A famous singer and a football star begin dating, but their budding romance faces intense public scrutiny, forcing them to decide if their connection is real or merely a publicity stunt by the end of the Christmas season.
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(00:00):
Hi, I'm Bran and I love lifetimeChristmas movies.
Hi, I'm Patrick Serrano and I ama Lifetime movie expert.
I'm Dan and I despise Lifetime Christmas movies and this is the
homework back. The home markets, this podcast
we. Hope you like this Dolly
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podcast. Hi.
Oh boy. Wow.
Patrick, Hi. Merry Christmas.
Happy. How was your Thanksgiving?
Was it good? Oh so good.
(00:42):
Gobble, gobble. Gobble gobble too, obviously.
Yeah, of. Course.
What did? You eat the most of.
Well, I just had charcuterie because my family left me for
Ecuador. They're all in Ecuador.
I know they like, I come home, Imove home and my family's like,
where can I go to Ecuador? See you later.
Why did did you not get the invite to Ecuador?
(01:04):
They you, you couldn't go in or you just didn't want to.
I was, I was invited, but it's Iwork in theatre.
In theatre, you don't get to have.
Theatre waits for no, no one. That's right.
That's the. Same you've seen a Christmas
movie or two with theatre peoplelike.
And also like, this is the one, this is the one time of year
where we get to hang out with Patrick every week.
I know. And if he's gone to Ecuador,
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that would have been brutal, would have been pretty mad.
I mean, I could still record in Ecuador.
They have the Internet. They do.
That's great news. You love to see that.
Outside of America as the Internet, this is crazy.
Some sometimes though they do lose power for days, so the rain
water powers the electricity there.
So if it doesn't rain, then theydon't have electricity that's
(01:46):
turned off. Wow.
They shut it down. They shut it down.
We are talking about Christmas in the spotlight today, Patrick,
you made some demands about the way in which we were going to
talk about this movie and who you wanted to talk to about this
movie with. You brought.
Yes. You brought a guest.
It's Guy. I feel like we're just setting
up like, show and tell. Like what?
Who? What'd you bring?
I know. So what'd you bring?
(02:08):
Show and tell. Yeah, what would that like?
You said he made demands like wewould.
We would never have a guest. On this program we don't do.
That there's somebody I'm bringing and it was a whole
thing. We had to make his rider.
We didn't think it was going to happen.
We finally came to. You got all those M&M's?
Yeah, you got them all, though. Oh.
Yeah, just the red ones. Yeah, got them all.
So we have an oldie, but a goodie here.
(02:30):
Used to be the editor of my blog.
God bless because that blog has so many grammar mistakes now and
was on the podcast when we covered eating disorder movies.
Rebecca Freeze is here. Say hi, Rebecca.
Hello. How are you guys?
Doing great. How about you?
I'm great. So why'd you quit but two in the
(02:51):
blog? Was it just the amount of work
that you had to do to fix all the spelling or?
It really, it was a lot of work and I couldn't, I had a full
time job and this was another full time job and I just
couldn't, couldn't it? Was and I didn't have the the
budget to keep paying her to, you know, then I started writing
a lot of blogs and I was like, Idon't know if I can pay you what
(03:12):
I've been paying you for each blog, but I but Rebecca is here
today because this movie deals with Taylor Swift and I felt
like Aaron needs some backup. You know, Aaron gets a lot of
crap on the show being the producer, you know, and, and.
Hold on. We're talking about this.
That's fair. Do we?
Do we get a lot of crap? Aaron, you don't get a lot of
(03:35):
crap. I.
Mean you guys, I think I get a lot of crap, but it's like with
with love. OK all.
Right, I don't know if. That's any, but I didn't mean to
start up. Trash girl.
OK, wait a minute of all the things, trash girl.
Take a step back. All the things that have
happened over the last two yearsthat have mostly been Bran, you
(03:58):
pick that out. Unbelievable.
OK, All right. What I'm saying is Aaron knows a
lot about Taylor Swift, I'm sure, but we needed someone to
come with who had seen the movieso we can understand the Taylor
Swift reference in contacts, right?
Because I it's not going to be me, it's not going to be Bran,
and it's not going to be Dan. So we had to have an.
(04:19):
What makes you an expert on all things?
Taylor Swift, give us your Swifty resume.
I I love her first of all. That seems like a big one I
have. I have dressed up as her three
times for Halloween. Sure.
What eras? So first time it was the
reputation era Taylor Swift and then the.
(04:41):
Worst era, I think we can all agree OK.
Yeah, absolutely. We're just choosing violence.
Nobody later do. That like.
It was us. I'm sorry.
And then the Red era and. Then.
This last one I did a Midnights era A.
Midnights era classic. Yeah, you and I dressed up for
(05:01):
the Midnights era. Which see and.
You guys, we couldn't have namedall those era's?
No, no I couldn't between. The three of them.
It's all been downhill for her since 1989.
That's been our. Time, I agree with that.
But Rebecca, what if you if you could only listen to 1 Taylor
Swift album for the rest of yourlife, which album would it be?
Oh, it'd be reputation. Yeah, producer Aaron Shea is
(05:25):
with you on that. Actually, yeah, I don't think I
am. I.
Know. I got really excited because I
like every like cell in my body needs reputation Taylor's
version. But until I get that, I do think
I'm choosing tortured pose department.
Interesting I. Know, I know.
I would have chosen. No, I don't love.
(05:48):
OK, Alright. Well, this is tough.
Should we shut it down? Do.
You have Do you have a Taylor Swift album that you like?
Yes, the 711. Or maybe Target Christmas album,
of course. No, of course.
The the is is is that the most? Is that what Christmas tree farm
is on or is that the one with Santa?
(06:09):
Tree farm is just a single. So is that the one with like
Santa Baby? Yeah, just sucks.
I hate that. I hate that I hate it.
I actively hate her rendition ofSanta, Baby and Silent Night.
I'm. Sorry.
You can send your emails to Brian at Deck to walmart.com.
That's exactly right. That's exactly right.
(06:31):
This was a what did you know going into this movie did were
you aware that this was obviously this movie got a
little bit of buzz because of the correlation in the
connection? What did you know about it going
into this, Rebecca? About this movie so I I did
listen to Y alls preview I'm. Sorry, thank you for the.
Yep. I knew more about the Hallmark
(06:55):
movie, but this one you know very clearly about Taylor Swift,
but never explicitly says so. Yeah, they came to them.
Right. I don't think so.
Right. Because they didn't.
Oh no, no way. Lifetime paid for the rights.
They didn't even say NFL. Like they didn't even pay the
NFL for the rights, right? Which I guess we'll get to that
(07:18):
in in a little bit. But I I knew pop star falls in
love with a football player. And then I just watch from
there. I mean, kind of big kind of are
there. I would assume there's some
pretty like there's some pretty significantly obvious Taylor
Swift Easter eggs in this film, yes or no?
(07:41):
Absolutely, absolutely. If I got them, then they're
obvious, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's what I mean. And you know, I would just want
to say like the pop star falls in love with the football player
is such an obvious plot. Like why has no one thought of
this before? It's so weird that it took it
being so big in the cultural zeitgeist for people to be like,
(08:02):
we should make a mover. But it's a like a trope, right?
That's. Something it's like a it's like
a no brainer. It's like a yeah, this.
It'd totally be a thing. But no, no one's ever thought of
this before. It's crazy to me.
It's weird. I do feel like in these movies
where there's a celebrity, sometimes it's an athlete on
Hallmark or Lifetime. The other person has to be a
(08:23):
behind the scenes person. Like they have to be like a
personal assistant or they worked on the set or they're a
reporter. They're never these two.
The trope is never big * big star.
Now two big stars. They never do that and I.
And they probably should. I think they should.
I think it makes a lot of sense.I'm interested to hear how
(08:43):
Lifetime did it, but I think in general probably a good idea.
Yeah, the Hallmark movie. Oh, sorry.
Go ahead, Patrick. No, Yeah, go ahead.
Let's let's, let's talk about the Hallmark movie at the top
because we're then we're going to dive into a lifetime.
Then right the the Hallmark movie did the star person behind
the scenes both. Actually are behind the scenes
(09:06):
in it. He's a CEO of the football or
something like. That we've seen it.
It's not out as of this. Recording.
So it comes out tonight, yeah. It comes out tonight.
OK, so we still can't really give our take on it, but he's he
works for the fan. He's not the CEO.
He he's the guy that works for fan engagement.
(09:28):
But he's one of four project managers, which is the weirdest
part of that movie actually, is that aspect of it.
So, yeah, neither of them are really famous, but they bring in
plenty of cameos, for what that's worth.
OK, Yeah. Of actual famous people.
Because this movie has no famouspeople, Yeah.
No this. People maybe Jeanie Mai.
(09:48):
You could say Jeanie Mai, who I love, but I don't know if she's
famous. I don't think people know her.
I don't know who that Jeanie Maiwas.
Jeanie Mai was the agent. She was on the talk I think
maybe and she was on a like HUTVshow or.
The fact that you're the only one that knows who she thinks
rooms are not. Yeah, I think.
No famous people. No famous people.
(10:08):
Four out of five. Don't know who Jeanie Mai is?
OK, the the movie also stars notable people like Jessica Lord
and oh boy lay Layeth wall. He should have changed his name.
(10:29):
I'm just saying, look I this is a hard one.
Christmas and. Christmas in the spotlight.
Walsh. Schleiger is what I would say
Walsh Schleiger. Walsh Schleiger, you're right.
There we go. It just doesn't roll.
Off the tongue, it is not as easy to pronounce as Jessica
Lord. Yeah.
(10:51):
OK, All right. Well, I think he's going to be a
big deal. I've never seen any of these two
people before these two. People now I've never seen
either of. These what did I say you've.
Never seen any of these two. I've never seen yeah, any of
them. You've seen any part of them?
Never seen any of them either ofthese two leads, Jessica, Lord
or Lathe. Do they have a lifetime
experience or no? No, this is their first Lifetime
(11:13):
movie. So this movie cost. $10 to make
like nothing. Well, Discount Tire, yeah.
Yeah, pretty much paid the bunch.
This movie is sponsored by Discount Tire and Yep, that's
all you need to really know about this movie.
Big discount. Tire fans Also, there's no like
characters from this movie may have based on There's no
(11:34):
disclaimer at the. Beginning no no no no.
Stand alone movie. Yes, and I was reading a thing
about the writer and like how she came up with the idea and
like, you know, no mention of like I based this on, but
Taylor. And it just so happens they
finally picked my script. It came to me in a dream.
I've been pitching this movie for years, trust me.
(11:57):
Yes, OK, so let's jump in. The movie starts with a video
shoot where like on set and it'sa bop Christmas pop song.
It it's called I'll Be Alone forChristmas and it's female
empowerment. It is with lyrics like I'm the
star on my own tree. Merry Christmas.
To me, the pop star's name is Bowen Sykes, not Bowen Yang,
(12:19):
which I kept writing Bowen Yang and then you know.
What if Bow and Song was in thismovie though?
Would have. Been great, there's no way it
could have been worse. We love bow.
And I don't know anything about this movie, but Bow and Yang
makes everything better. Come on.
Yeah, I, I like the song for what that's I like.
I I think we hear two different songs in this movie and I like
both. Of them we do.
(12:40):
For what? That's.
Worth. Yeah.
They're both very Swifty, yeah. Rebecca, would you say like I I
could hear a little swift inspiration?
I don't know, maybe a little bit.
Sure, like Discount Tire versionof Taylor Swift.
Discount Tire version that's. Right, for a movie about a
musician, the songs were not very good.
(13:01):
There it is. This is the take that I need.
Well, they were catchy knuckleheads, I.
Enjoyed it. I was like this.
Is nice, I thought they were great for a lifetime.
But I like Rebecca a lot. I'm just worried about it.
I have heard a lot of songs and made for TV movies, and this is
as catchy as they come. What they are like, made for the
movie? OK.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't know.
(13:23):
We didn't have to watch the children sing.
That's true. That's right, no children
singing. They they implied children
singing, but we didn't actually have.
To hear it, we didn't have to watch it.
What's the best type of what's the best type of kids like that?
This one that's just. Implied so Bowen Sykes has is a
world renowned pop * but she wants something more.
She doesn't have like, you know,she she's getting bored with the
(13:44):
whole pop star thing. Her manager Jeanie Mai, who
we'll call Myra in this movie, she only speaks only speaks in
Taylor Swift lyrics. OK, like like she let me give
you an example. OK, Dan, Dan, why are you being
so mean? You don't like my, you don't
(14:06):
like my jacket? Well, I, I, I have a bad
reputation for wearing jackets all the time.
And, you know, you might want totake a picture because that
picture is a, a picture to burn.You know what I'm saying?
I don't know about you I, but. I got to be honest, I didn't
pick up on any of this. I got this teen jacket when I
(14:32):
was 15 but now I'm 22 and. She did not say that I do
remember the she did. She said I had it since I was 15
and now I'm 22. Well, no, but she said she was
15. Yeah, I do.
Remember, you get, You get the idea.
What's so funny is I didn't evenpick up, but I heard her say
I've had it since I was 15 and Iwas like, OK, all right, this
(14:55):
weird, a weird addition to this movie.
It happens over and over. Yeah, I did write down all of
the song lyric reference. Oh.
My gosh, how many you got? 123 89101112131415 No 17 Oh my.
(15:16):
Gosh. And then I I checked my work
with an Entertainment Weekly like listicle, of course of
course, and they did not have 17.
I had much fewer. So I I feel like they should
have hired me to do. Yeah, hire the.
That's like one every 5 minutes guys.
(15:39):
That is a that is a Taylor Swiftlyric reference every 5 minutes
of movie time. They left.
They left some very obvious oneson the table.
Can you get like I literally didn't pick up on any can.
You just give me a couple of what you made me do or like I
got a blank space or like, oh, the sure, OK.
Great. Well, she did when they agreed
(16:02):
that they when she agreed that she was going to go out with the
football player, she said let the games begin, which is from
Are you ready for it? Right at the beginning.
And then there was the title of the alchemy When they, the
(16:23):
reporters are talking about how you can't deny the alchemy
between these two people, which I don't think is how you're
supposed to use the word alchemy, but we're going to let
it slide. And then, yeah, though why you
got to be so mean, right? Yeah, wow.
Yeah. Man, there's, there's I, I'm
telling you, most of them are are are given to Jeanie Mai to
(16:46):
work into her. This writer not admitting that
it has anything to do with Taylor Swift, she wrote.
A long time ago. Like if anything, Taylor took it
from her. Literally listen to Shaggy.
It wasn't me. It wasn't like I'm not.
I'm just going to stick by it. This has nothing to do with him.
I don't know what you're talkingabout.
That's right. OK, So we cut to the football
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field and more importantly, the locker room.
We see we, like, get right to the locker room.
I was like, whoa, I wasn't expecting this.
The football player's name is Drew Gonzo Gonville.
He's shirtless. He's like talking about not
getting signed. His brother is the more famous
quarterback named Rob. Even as a brother.
Yes. Yes, a brother on this movie
(17:29):
they. Play on the same team, his
brother's a quarterback, so it'sdefinitely not the Kelsey's Very
different. Very different and see, this is
where also I'm in a bit of a blind spot.
I'm like, I don't know anything about the football side of this.
So Rob throws his Rob and his wife Nicole, who only wears high
(17:49):
heels in the movie. I just thought it was weird that
she's like the mom of the movie but she's walking around the
house in full height. He like stilettos.
Looks looks like she's never actually walked in them a day in
her life. True, true.
Hey, you know, yeah. I mean, it takes a lot of
practice. You got to put in the work
early. You got to start when you're,
(18:11):
when you're. Can I Can I slide in another
Taylor Swift reference? Sure.
His name is Drew, which is the infamous reason for the
teardrops on her guitar. Yeah, Yeah, we were talking
about that. Yeah, before.
Yeah. Yeah, and his number is 13,
(18:31):
which is her favorite number as well.
Wow. Which is very well known among
the Swifties. So that was.
You said that you brought a Taylor Swift expert, Patrick,
for the life of me think we werethis is we should be paying
Rebecca for this kind of work. I this is this is great stuff.
Look, I knew. I knew I was going to miss it
(18:53):
all. Like, I know when you say Taylor
Swift's favorite number is 13, I'm like, I have heard that.
Yeah. I've heard that I.
Knew that, just like I knew Britney Spears is from.
I don't know where she's from, Ican't remember.
Come again? What is that noise?
A rocket ship landing in the background.
(19:14):
I don't know what that is. Somebody who was going to give
away Britney Spears hometown andsome aliens showed up.
Like not on your, not on my watch.
OK, That's the city where she's from.
Don't say it. She's from Waka.
Waka Waha. Yeah, everybody knows.
Great. We well see.
I'm just saying that's why we have Rebecca so.
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We're in the locker. Room we're in.
We're in the locker room now we're having a birthday party
for the niece. The niece loves Bowen.
She has a Bowen theme party. She does a little dance.
It's really cute. Kids.
Not an annoying kid. The kids like a normal kid.
Maybe slightly child actory, butnot terrible.
(19:59):
We got some traffic going. It's a traffic situation.
Are we being raptured? Yeah, it's a, it's a traffic jam
getting out to have is. The Rapture real and I missed
it. Yes, but OK, go ahead.
For her birthday, Drew gets his niece a concerts to the the
(20:19):
whatever. Concert Tickets Concert.
Yeah, concerts. Just concert tickets.
Yeah, and. They they.
Talk about like they talk about Bowen as a celebrity, right?
They drop a lot of Taylor stuff here too.
This is where the the mom says, oh, she's gone full Arrowhead.
Because much like Taylor Swift has the Swifties, Bowen has the
(20:44):
arrows. That's what they call
themselves, the fan base. Because, you know, bow and
arrows. Yes.
Bow and Arrowhead is also the name of the stadium where the
Chiefs play that. Should have been renamed decades
ago. That's great.
Yes, it is called. Arrowheads.
I mean, that seems like a different podcast.
(21:05):
Yeah, but. All right.
We brought in the expert, too. That's right.
Let's talk about that. Come on in.
There we go. OK, so the niece and Drew go to
the concert. He's like recording the concert
with his flash on for some reason.
They sneak backstage and they get to meet Bowen and he's like,
(21:26):
I'm a bomber. And she's like, she's like,
what? And he's like, I'm AI know I
don't have a bomb. Like, I'm like, And she's like,
you have a bomb. Yeah, this is real.
That's the name of the team. The team's name is like the
Bomber. The bomber, he walks up to her
(21:46):
and says I'm a bomber and he says I don't have a bomb.
This just seems like a mistake you would make.
It was the best it was that mademe laugh.
It made me. It was so like, like, he's so
awkward, like, you know, he's this big football * but he like,
he is like such a little like goober, you know it, It was
(22:08):
adorable. It was very cute.
He's a bummer. And they take pictures or
whatever and you know, life moves on. 01 niece is like.
I was just going to say they he tries to take a a he takes a
picture of his niece with Bowen.And then he's like, can I take a
picture with you? He asks for consent to put his
(22:30):
arm around her, which she reallyliked.
And then before he like, right as he goes to take the selfie,
her manager calls her so she like looks away.
So he doesn't actually have a good picture of the two of them
together, but he's going to postit anyway.
Got it. OK, so.
Patrick could not be more. You saw it right?
(22:52):
Completely like uncaring about your dropping.
It was stupid. It was a.
Stupid drop, got it. They was a stupid drop.
Back to what I've prepared. I just want to say one more
thing about this interaction. The niece is like drags him and
she's like, you're so weird, Uncle Drew.
(23:13):
I'm never going to have cousins because you're never going to
like, get married and find a woman and the kid.
Is harsh in this one. She's very mean.
She's very mean. She.
Is. Quiffy and everybody say why you
got, why you gotta be so mean. We have Taz and Niece who's also
really mean. It's a tie in.
Yeah, there's a whole meaniece unable that's not made.
(23:34):
It's not true. If the experts didn't say it's
not true. I Want to Be a Nice Janie is not
an album. I don't know that.
It's coming out next year. She's going to drop her as
Taylor's next year without announcing.
Yeah, that's right. It's going to be 12 songs. 8
minutes. Even though the pictures very
bad, even though the pictures not great.
Drew can't stop thinking about Bowen.
He posts on social media and he's like, hey, come to a game
(23:56):
sometime. You know, he's just like putting
it out there like in the world. And Jeanie Mai sees it and she's
like, Oh my gosh, like you have to date this guy.
I'm the I'm the football person.I love football.
She starts talking about all hisstats and all the football
things that I don't understand. And neither does Bowen, by the
way. Bowen's like, I don't know
anything about football. They're they're drinking wine
(24:18):
the whole time. There's a lot of wine drinking
in this movie meta ad. But but the since Jeannie Mai is
the agent, she's like, you couldget more fans.
You could get the Super Bowl halftime show.
Yeah. Think about it.
The big game. The big game?
Yeah, you can't say super. Bowl what a big game they didn't
(24:41):
they Taylor Swift has never donethe Super Bowl halftime right No
no well, like she's she's like. Like like very famously turned
it down. Right.
Yeah. Oh, OK.
And yeah, oh, go ahead, Aaron. Well, for years she couldn't
because it was sponsored by Pepsi and she has a Coke
sponsorship. So for years she couldn't.
(25:02):
It's no longer sponsored by Pepsi.
She could, but she doesn't need to.
Yeah. Yeah, I was.
More recently, though, there's always rumors and she always is.
Like she doesn't. Yeah.
I don't know if they've offered it or not.
I. Guess who's doing the halftime
show this year? Kendrick Lamar So.
I. Think we're all winning there?
Sorry. I've heard of her.
Yeah, I've heard of her. Great.
(25:25):
Sponsored by Discount Tire, though now, which is huge catch.
Yeah, huge catch. Absolutely.
Halftime show sponsored by Discount Tire.
Why everyone's getting a discount big?
So they do, they do get in touch.
Bowen and Jeanie Mai reach out and set up a date, but they
don't like give him like any more info.
They just reach out on social media.
It's like how I do most of my business dealings, you know, I
(25:47):
reach out on social media and I don't actually like exchange
numbers and we just DM on Instagram.
That's how Rebecca got on the show.
Right, that's actually kind of true.
The the message that she sends though is like if you see an
unknown number, like make sure you pick up.
But he gave her his number and then was just like, I guess I
(26:10):
will answer every call that comes in.
Which he gets a lot of unknown number calls for the next three
days. Lots of spam calls and he's
answering them all. His niece is literally playing
tea with him like a tea party. And she's like, I can tell
you're stressed out here. And she gives him like the
little teapot and she's like, spill the tea.
(26:32):
And I was like, wow, this child,this child is sassy.
And then the phone rings. She answers the phone and it's
Bowen. And she's like, he died.
Right, this is where she says. But I'm sorry, Uncle Gonzo can't
come to the phone right now. Because she's dead, Yeah.
Which is another look what you made me do lyric.
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I was just like, man, this little girl's ruthless.
That's brutal. I even I would have caught that
one. I would have caught that one I
feel like. I think if I was I, now that I
know I'm sure I would pick up onsome.
I just wasn't even thinking to look for I, which is my fault.
I'm a dummy. Look what you made me do.
No, no, you're acting. That's right.
So they set up a little dinner date, a post practice dinner
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date. Bowen sends a car and the car
has a bag in and in the bag is adisguise for Drew to wear.
It's a Santa costume. So when he, you know, leaves the
car, no one will see it's him since they're like high profile
secret romance. And he's taken to an airplane
hangar, which we all know about Taylor's airplane carbon
(27:43):
emissions and. That's right, unlike other
planes, her planes emit. Her plane.
Carbon. That's right.
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, I can't. Believe her plane.
Notoriously, she. Chose a a plane that was bad for
the environment when there's so many planes out there she could
have chosen. It's like she doesn't care.
I don't know about Taylor Swift,but I know she has a bad carbon
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footprint. That's OK.
That's what we know, you said. You said.
Speaking of bad carbon footprints, let's take a break
here on Deck the Home Bar. Welcome back to the Discount
(28:25):
Tire podcast we're talking aboutby Philo actually presented, not
presented, No, Philo themovie.tv/DTH, that's exactly
not discount. And you could watch the movie on
Philo and find out that the movie is indeed sponsored there.
Discount. Tire and you can watch us there
as well. Yes, you can.
Yep. Patrick, we, he just, he just
got to the airport hangar. They're about to have their
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first date. On the on the private jet, well,
they don't fly anywhere. So I think I think maybe maybe
Bowen doesn't really fly the plane.
It's just for fun. It's just her like her little
club and they have have dinner, have some wine, they watch a
movie on an iPad and. Where he says, where he says I
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feel like I'm in a movie, which Taylor does have a song called
If We Were a Movie that was originally written for Hannah
Montana. Oh well, I love Hannah.
There you have. It I love Hannah Montana.
It's. The best of both worlds.
Why don't we? Why don't we lead with the
Hannah Montana references so thethey like, you know, talk about
(29:33):
things And we learned that like she wasn't really close to her.
Her parents, like her mom was a like a gypsy like level stage
mom. Sure.
You know, things are not good inthat relationship.
Like Bowen is estrained from herwhole family and her dad died
and this is very much not in line with Taylor Swift's life.
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Like Taylor Swift has like very supportive parents even even I
know that and. The writers like, see, it's
very, they're very different people.
Very different people She's yeah, she's lost the joy for
performing. She doesn't like, you know,
she's like wanting more fun in her life and Drew's like.
I promise I will bring fun into your life.
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I'm a fun guy. I will.
I will take you on a second dateand we are going to have fun and
he's. But he does the he does the
Mandy Moore thing. He does the Mandy Moore thing.
And I want to remember. I want to remember.
Don't fall in love with me or you know, and then I'll get
lucky me and die. That's right, and everyone
knows. Want to remember Taylor Show's
favorite movie? Yep.
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OK, Rebecca, what we're going to?
Say I'm trying. I'm trying to.
No, they even do a. Go ahead.
They even do a pinky promise about it that comes up later.
Pinky promise, yeah. I would hope that Walk to
Remember is not anyone's favorite movie.
Oh boy. Well, it's someone's and I'm
sorry for not mine. Yeah, not mine, but I have seen
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it a lot. Anyways, so we we get our Jake
Gyllenhaal character introduced in this little random scene.
He's like a he's like a mix between a Jake Gyllenhaal and a
Joe Alwyn. Yeah, yeah.
Looks more like Jake Gyllenhaal.That yes.
(31:24):
Reputation more like Joe Allen. Great.
Yeah, you got that. Right, I tracked that, I wrote.
Those are the vibes that you I thought that.
Was a great reference. For Brand, the character's
name's Hudson Peters. He's the ex-boyfriend actor who
wants Taylor. Taylor who wants Bowen.
I see now I'm getting all confused.
He wants Bowen to go on a red carpet with him for publicity
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and he's like, you couldn't possibly be dating anybody else
cuz you're unlovable and you're terrible and everyone hates you.
And you know, he's just like, he's like nagging her.
And then Jeannie Mai is like, you need to drop dead and you're
the worst. And I'm not joking.
Like, I actually hate you. Get out of my face.
That's. Right, he is the worst, to be
fair. He is the worst.
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But Drew, the, the relationship's still going on.
It's a big secret, though. Huge secret.
Drew asked Bowen if he can tell his mom, and she says that's OK.
Like you can tell your mom as long as she keeps it a secret.
So he asked his mom for the secret family lasagna recipe.
And it's really cute because thebrother walks in on them like
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talking. And she's like, he's like, what
secret are you guys talking about?
And the mom's like a notorious terrible liar.
So she's like, kind of like me thinking of Britney Spears, his
hometown, yeah. Magilla, Magilla.
Cut he right. Voila, voila.
Voila. And she's like, oh, the lasagna
recipe. He wants me to give it to him,
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but I'm not going to. But she does.
And it impresses Bowen. She's like this has got to be
like so good. Like you're I love that you're
close to your family. You know, they just have like
they like admire each other. Like she likes his family
reputation and he likes like herhustle, her work.
That's right, that's right. So she's going to come to his
family's cabin and he's going tomake lasagna and it's going to
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be a whole thing. She kind of like comes out of
the woods in a big jacket and AIdon't know a mask and I I don't
know where she came from really,but.
She comes in full sunglasses, black like black jacket, hood up
scarf and like a ski mask. Yeah, I don't know where she
came from, she said. She parked, got dropped off and
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came through the woods, is what she says.
Right. It could be a walk through the
woods, you might say. Is that a Taylor's upside?
No, she came out of the wood. Could be a walk.
Through. There you go.
Thank you. Thank you.
Into the out of the woods. Was that a?
Is that why she said it out of the woods?
Did you write that down? I didn't write that one down.
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We're up to 18. We're up to 18.
Yeah, I'm going to write. It down.
Write that down. Yeah, write.
That down yeah, be like, look, guys, I have some notes, OK, but
they they're like doing a puzzlelike in the cabin like like she
loves puzzles that helps her de stress and who knew a puzzle
could be so sexy? Like they're like, you know,
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having really steamy chemistry. They sexify the heck out of this
puzzle. They're like it is.
Sexified puzzle. It's.
Like it's, yeah, they're like doing a thing.
And he's like, it's gotta go here and then a puzzle.
Here. And it's like all.
Right. Oh, I do a.
Puzzle's wrong this whole time. Reenacting what happens when we
do puzzle I'm. Sorry, I know that for you and
(34:40):
I. Personal thing for you to just
it's a very philo.tv/TV show. She crawls into his lap.
Crawls into his lap. Yeah, to distract him, because
apparently they're racing to do the puzzle.
Yeah, it's a race. There's a lot of contests in
these TV movies that was. Good.
They then they then go into the kitchen because they're going to
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do some try some pie and. The pie.
The pie is ready. The pie is ready, she
accidentally or he somehow wine spills on his shirt so he has to
take off his shirt and she has never seen a shirtless guy in
her life is blown away by this fella's ABS.
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Well, actors and indie rockers strumming guitars, they don't
get you ABS like that. They don't.
They don't and she's like can I touch the ABS and.
She she says can I touch your ABS?
And then she proceeds. She proceeds to touch like 123.
Oh my God. Like it's Simon.
Like it's Simon, you know? And and he's and she says, can I
(35:46):
touch your ABS? And he says you can do whatever
you want to with them. You can do whatever you want to
with them. I don't know, something like.
That to his to his ABS. To his ABS.
To his ABS. And we'll stop.
There. Yeah, that's it.
Well, that is where it stops because the rest of the football
team shows up at the cabin. They're all throwing out next to
them. They're like, they're like
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Hawking their horn outside and they're like, we love you, like
we're here and then. The whole football team, like
all 55, just a. Couple his brother.
I don't know how many is on a football team, but it seemed
like the whole team to me. There's more than 4. 55.
There were like four of them, OK.
So not, not even the whole squad, football.
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The whole side. No, no.
The the foot, the the kicker, the quarterback and the wide
receiver. And then the bench, the bench,
the man on the. Bench running back?
What position you're running? What position does?
Need a center? Travis Kelsey play tight end.
I know you knew that I was asking.
Patrick. I would have never but Aaron's
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hearing for trivia today. Did you think Dan did know?
What in the world, guys? I saw that for a.
Minute and then I heard a. Trivia question.
And I responded. And her defense.
Was the highest. Her trivia was down.
She's having a tough time. She's trying to find a new.
Trivia. I don't know anymore football
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references, but Drew is like Bowen.
You have to hide. She goes and runs and hides like
outside, she's freezing. She's like jumping up and down.
His brother's giving him a hard time and, you know, he's making
up lies. He goes out, he talks to Bo, and
he's like, look, I don't know ifI, I want to keep lying to
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everybody. It doesn't feel good to lie to
my family and lie to, like, the world.
So what's up with the Popo? Oh.
Sorry, that's me. Look, if we if you didn't,
couldn't tell. Rebecca lives.
Rebecca lives in DC. Rebecca lives in DC.
In. Yeah, right, Right in there.
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Right in the DC. So there's a lot happening, you
know. No, it's.
Fine. But Bowen's like, if you are,
I'm not ready to go public with you.
I'm not ready to be in a public relationship with anybody.
It's been like so traumatic, like my past relationships that
I don't want to put myself through that or you through
that. And they decide to like, take a
break. That's right, can't do it.
(38:17):
Can't take a break? And I know I said that I could,
but I can't. And so that's, you know,
admirable. They had marble.
Just being in the 'cause they're.
Starting to like each other too much.
That's right. And they and they, Pinky
promised. Yeah.
They did. So Jeannie Mai talks, bowing
through the breakup, giving her a pep talk in Taylor Swift
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lyrics. Oh, it's only exclusively that
it's finally becomes Thanksgiving.
Oh, you have something? Rebecca Well, we missed, so one
of the football players comes out and catches them.
Oh, right. And then right, this is right
before they have the will will we won't we conversation?
(38:59):
And he's like, well, can I tell my girlfriend Cassandra, which
is another Taylor Swift song. Cassandra, the name.
Cassandra is the name of a Taylor Swift song.
Wow. Is there a Taylor Swift song
called Patrick? I don't.
I don't think so, Patrick. I'm so sorry.
I'm just checking. I just, you know, I didn't know
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Cassandra had one, so maybe I had one.
I'll write you one, Patrick. Marcus has one.
Thank you. Marcus has one?
Yeah. Steven, There's a Steven.
There's a Hey, Steven. Yeah.
Hey, Steven. Hey, Steven.
How are you doing? Hey, Steven.
I would listen to this song, yeah.
You're in for a bruise and hey Steven, you have to listen to
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all the bridges. So after, after the the lovely
speech about from Taylor Swift lyrics that we just did,
basically, we reenacted Jeannie Mai's speech there.
Bowen and Jeannie Mai show up tothe football game in the
family's box seats. They're cheering him on.
The relationship is public. There were some like like the
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press, like we start getting like clipped from the press now,
like starting to talk about their relationship too.
And they're like, really shady, like, like news, like just the
worst. Yeah.
They they're just so mean. This is the, I think it's called
off off the field or something. So it's kind of like the ESPN
(40:28):
Sports Center desk or whatever that I don't watch ESPN either,
but that kind of like talk show.OK, they're really talking it
up. Though talking, talking it up.
Yeah, and the family, like, loves Boeing, of course.
They invite her to join them forThanksgiving on Black Friday.
(40:52):
So they go public, and the rumors are swirling about Bowen
using Drew to gain new fans fromthe NFL.
Or maybe they say the NBL or another abbreviation of some
kind. Bomb bomb bomb Town USA,
etcetera. But.
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Yeah, expand the audience, expand the audience.
But but Bowen's like, I don't care.
Like I'm going to just live my life.
She takes Drew to like, all these fancy events and he like
just eats all the hors d'oeuvres.
Like, like that's really. He's there to like, hold a purse
and eat hors d'oeuvres. That's right.
And there's one fancy event where Hudson Peters kind of
(41:36):
corners her and does his whole like, I know what's going on
here. And she, like, sarcastically is
like, oh, you know me, I'm only dating him for publicity.
It's what I need, blah, blah, blah type of thing.
And I'm thinking he's. A big, big dumb job.
Yes. So I'm thinking he's overhearing
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all of this because I've seen. Yeah, you've seen the homework.
That's right. But it that's not exactly what
happens with this conversation, although it does lead ultimately
to a misunderstanding. But that's not what happens.
But we'll get there. There are also so many Taylor
Swift references in this particular scene.
OK. Oh yeah.
So they walk in and he says you're the best thing at this
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party, which is from a Taylor Swift song called You're Losing
Me. And then when the ex-boyfriend
comes up, she says that he thinks he's Wonderland because
that there's the he calls her the Alice to his Mad Hatter.
And there's a Taylor Swift song called Wonderland.
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Wow, man, We're we're really we're doing.
It And to think I just thought Iwatched a movie.
Yeah, I'm learning so much can. I tell you why I'm going to end
up, and I don't want to spoil it, I'm going to end up putting
a cork in this movie is because I would have been somewhere in
between your viewing experience and Rebecca's viewing
experience, which is I'm catching a few of these.
I know there's a lot more and itwould just be a big eye roll for
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me because I don't I'm not a fanenough to really dig in and and
get in the weeds. But I I wasn't watching it like
you and just didn't notice any of them.
Like I would have been somewherein between and I would have been
like, I know this movie is trying to play on 2 levels
without getting the permission to play on any and it would
drive me nuts. Sorry, go ahead.
There's also there's a deep cut here that I don't know if they
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meant to do, but his last name is Peters and she says grow up
Peter, which is, or Peter's, which is the name of another
song. And there's a lot of Taylor
Swift has a lot of like Peter Pan and Wendy imagery in several
of her songs. And so that was that's I thought
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she said grow up Peter, but growup Peter's.
I don't know. That may have been on accident,
but. Well, I don't think the
screenwriter clearly didn't meanto do any.
Of the screenwriter is all just an absolute misunderstanding.
This movie's been in the hopper.For a decade.
There's nothing. There's no way.
Definitely not about Taylor Swift.
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No, no, you're reading into it this.
Is also the point where they left because we are never
getting back together would be too on the nose right So they
just she never says that even though perfect.
Opportunity, I know. Yeah, that's the kind of movie I
thought we were going to get. Is that movie?
Yeah. Right, deep cuts only we can't
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get in trouble for. This we can't get in trouble for
it. We it was just an accident.
Like, you know, grow up, Peters.Like you don't know if that's a
thing or not. We don't know.
So they have this conversation. They do.
They do and like she leaves withDrew and tells him he's the best
boyfriend ever cuz he's like a little like feeling like a a
fish out of water. He's not feeling great.
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And they kiss and it's like veryromantic that it's like super
romantic. And then Drew gets a call from
his agent and he is getting likea offer to go to the LA football
team. That's right, big money unname,
double the salary. Whoa, he's so excited.
(45:12):
It's the LA knife fight. I don't know.
Yeah, something they don't. Say all the team names are very
violent in this. League, right?
But Bowen doesn't seem so happy about it.
She seems like she wants to stayin town with his family and like
she like, seems to be not excited about him going to LA
because he would be changing. He would be changing too much.
(45:34):
She doesn't want to move. Yes, got it.
No, Jeannie Mai says you know all too well I caught that.
I caught that one. She said the all too well, but
she gives the advice more TaylorSwift lyrics I'm sure are are in
that. But basically she comes around
and she's like, you know, OK, well, if he wants to move to
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Elliot, that's a good thing. He wants to be with me.
That's a good thing. The suddenly Bran tell me if
this came out of nowhere. I was watching a dial up of
Daisy commercial and then all ofa sudden the brothers are
fighting. Been there.
But yes, I do feel like the brother fight did come out of
nowhere. He tells his brother about this
(46:16):
offer and his brother gets really mad and he kind of talks
about, you know, how he just. Comes He doesn't talk.
He doesn't talk. He.
Yelled, he screamed. That's right, he says.
He says I'm tired of living in your shadow.
And I and I said living in your shadow.
That's a Ashley Simpson rap, Really.
Let's go. Someone else is Jesus.
(46:39):
So we've got Mandy Moore and Ashley Simpson also getting
shots. That's right in this episode
can't get in trouble for this. That's right.
No way right. But he did.
He got it was a boisterous conversation, which is why,
because. A brother that played football
would never be mad at his other brother for leaving to take more
money to play football. That happens all the time.
It would never. That's what I wrote down.
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Oh, perfect. I was like, I was like, why?
Why would the football brother not?
Or why would they act like he doesn't understand the business?
If anyone would understand it, it would be him.
Like that would be #1 on the list of people that would give
cut you some slack and be like this is the right thing to do.
For sure, yeah, it's. Ridiculous.
I also felt like there was some of this, like maybe he even said
it, but like you're only gettingthis deal because of Bowen, like
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some of that type of thing. And he's like, I, I can do this
myself. Like I'm a good.
I'm do it with a broken heart. That's what I've said for.
Years, bud. Yeah.
There you go. Are are Donna Kelsey stand in?
I really like this actress. The mom.
The mom. Yeah, she's great.
She takes Drew outside. She's so good.
And she's like, you know, I can understand why you're feeling
this way and like, why you feel like you're living in the
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shadow, you know, because, like,it was just easier.
You two were brothers. We had to just do all the same
things growing up. So you just kind of played
football because your brother played football and but and so
on and so forth. And you never got to be, like,
the leader of your own thing. So you should just think, take a
minute, think about what you want to do and then do that
because, yeah, it's not fair. You shouldn't be just doing
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whatever your brother does or whatever your brother says.
That's right. It was a good.
It was a good talk. It was a good talk.
Good talk, good talk. Yeah, it was like a Mike Brady
level. Oh wow, sage advice.
Yeah, my loving wisdom. Sage advice.
Alright, yes, Hudson Peters are Jake Gyllenhaal.
Sanden leaks The conversation tothe press.
(48:29):
Where? What?
Apparently he's Mike. Like they're they're recording
some sort of documentary or something.
And. There was a lady following him
with a with a camera phone and aring light.
Ring light. Yeah, and that's all you need.
A plugged in a plugged in ring light like with an extension
cord. And so he has the audio of her
(48:50):
saying the the thing sarcastically and just, it's
that part of the conversation. So a different take on the
misunderstanding, for what it's worth, you know.
And Drew is upset, like he he thinks it's real.
A lot of bad press comes. And this is where like the the
press gets negative and they're like, she's never going to have
a boyfriend. She's talking about people like
(49:12):
that and the but very quickly the Hudson Peters assistant
quits and releases the whole clip and says, look, this was a
we were trying to manipulate themedia, you know?
Instead of three years later, yeah.
Yeah, instead of released the Hudson Peters assistance con.
And they did. To their credit, they did.
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Oh good. So Bowen deals with the break up
the only way she knows how. She writes a song, she strums on
a guitar clumsily and sings somelyrics about love being a game.
That's right. A football game, if you will.
If. You will, yeah.
And I will. Brianna, I know you played
guitar. Was she really playing guitar in
(49:54):
this movie? So.
Interesting. Thanks for bringing it up.
Great question. Patrick at at the gala where she
plays the whole song. She is playing real chords.
But I thought so. But the chords don't match
what's being played, which is soshe clearly knows how to play
guitar, but it she wasn't the one responsible for writing that
(50:16):
song. And she yeah, this hand looks
like it's doing things. The one up by the net.
She's changing chords. The other one I was like, I
don't know if the strums are going with the strumming.
Yeah, I think just, but also like the other.
Technical terms for you listeners at home.
I don't know if the strums are going with the strumming but.
She was just changing chords andand that it's more than what
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most people do. So good, good, good there.
Right. And the while we're on this
little Christmas gala performance, the song that she
performs is is the song she writes for Drew.
And it's very Michelle Branchy. OK.
It's very Michelle Branchy. The guitar.
(50:57):
Yeah, it was very the same like.Did you notice?
That's not a like the Goo Goo doll.
That's right. Did you?
Awesome. Did you notice how there was one
Christmas tree behind her? That was potentially the
brightest Christmas tree I've ever seen?
That tree was so bright. I even was about to catch on
fire. I was like.
(51:17):
You got to look at this, he. Showed me a still.
It was unbelievable. All the other trees are normal
and then there's just one that'slike, it was a lot.
Yeah. I mean, that's aspirational,
right? Yeah, I think so.
That's that Discount Tire money can't hide.
That's right, you can't. There's nothing you can do.
There you go. So the Christmas gala is, of
course, for the football team. It brings everyone back
together. But before this performance, we
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get a little scene where the niece gives Drew a bracelet, and
it's the Taylor Swift friendshipbracelet.
We all have them for Bramble Fest.
That's right. So that's another nod that I
caught that I was like, oh, the bracelet.
Yeah. I made one for, I made one for a
hockey player. Haven't been able to give it to
him yet, you know well. Be careful, he'll fall in love
(52:01):
with. You what?
What's the hockey player? Can we shout him out?
Can we try? A girl can dream, you know?
His name is Jacob Brana. He plays for the Washington
Capitals. OK, Jacob Brana, if you're
listening, if you're a big DTH fan, come.
On, you know. Trying to get friendship
bracelet to you bro. Got to shoot my shot.
It worked for it, worked for Drew and Bowen It.
Did work for Drew and who are. Definitely not Travis and
(52:24):
Taylor. No, no.
Definitely. Not any comparisons completely
coincidental. That's right, the the the song
isn't terrible at the Christmas gala and she gives a speech and
she promises not to fumble her chance at love again.
And she's like, yeah, I'll make it perfectly clear.
This song is about. Drew does one of those things
where she's like, this is what this song is about.
(52:45):
Yeah, and then Drew runs in and he's like, I love you.
And they're like, let's go, let's freaking go, she says.
Before. Kissing, she says go, man.
She says let's freaking go before.
The second time that's happened.Let's freaking.
Go. Let's freaking go.
This was where she's like, I promise I'll love you.
(53:07):
And he comes in and he's like, is that a pinky promise?
And yeah, that was, that was gross.
I didn't like that part. No.
Let's freak, you know? Yeah, where it goes.
We don't think he swear anymore.We got a final scene of
Christmas morning. He gives her a present.
His present to her is a puzzle piece because she's the missing
piece. Of him.
(53:28):
That's right. And she gives him I forgot.
The puzzle so here's the thing that was crazy to me is he gives
she gives him the puzzle that they put together that was
missing the piece of the cabin he gives her the missing puzzle
piece and then she puts the puzzle piece onto the so there's
no glass cover in that sucker no, this is a picture frame
(53:49):
where at any given time the puzzle pieces can still just
pause the. Point of the frame.
There is none. There's no.
Point. But it happened and they did it,
and that's the movie. Wow, that.
Did it the movie? OK, so now it is time for us to
say whether we would put a cork in it or pour it up.
We'll start with Dan because we already kind of know where he's
(54:11):
going. But Dan, what are your thoughts?
Yeah, I've got to put a cork in this because I heard the let's
freaking go thing. No, it's.
Freaking go no. I I think that like from what
has been described to me, I think I would hate this movie.
And I like Taylor Swift isn't for me, but like she's
undeniable. She's an amazing songwriter.
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She's a whirlwind. She's a a boss bee of a human
being who makes great decisions.Boss baby.
Yeah, different. No, that all together.
She makes great business decisions.
She thinks things through. She empathizes.
She is like she's a magnate thatis better at being a magnate and
people that spend their lives studying business to try to be
(54:55):
magnates are. She's an unbelievable person and
pop star. Not my thing but that doesn't
mean it's she's not good. She's amazing.
This movie trying to capitalize on her good.
Good for him. I don't care.
I'm fascinated to see if she watched it or not.
I think the problem is, is from what I've heard, it seems like
really deep cut references by the dozens and lines like let's
(55:19):
freaking go. And I don't want those two
things to me add up to absolutely not ever.
I I don't want to watch it. So maybe the movie's better than
that. I'm seeing some chatter in the
chat that it is better than that.
But for me and my house, no. So that that's what I'm going.
(55:39):
I'll put a cork in it. And that's fair.
That's. Fair.
I think it's fair. Rebecca as the Swifty, let's
let's see what you think becauseI feel like it could go either
way. I I wrote down EW, why do I kind
of like it? And then later wrote down, I
hate that I like this so much because you know, when you watch
(56:02):
a lifetime movie, you have to suspend reality a little bit.
So if you can divorce it from the Taylor and Travis of it all,
which because again not about. No.
A terrible movie. I mean, it's a bad movie.
It's a made for TV movie on Lifetime but it's not terrible
and I really enjoyed the deep cuts so I think I'd pour it up.
(56:25):
OK. And Bran.
In the words of Bowen, let's. Freaking go.
Let's freaking go. I loved it.
I thought it was fantastic. I had a blast.
The chemistry with these two wasoff the charts.
Yeah, I. Don't get any of this or, or as
Bowen would probably say, off the freaking charts.
(56:47):
It was lovely. Yeah, there there was some
great, great chemistry between these two and some great
moments. Yeah, it were.
And and the music wasn't bad. So a big win for Bran.
Really enjoyed it. And I don't care about these two
at all. So there you have it.
There you go. There you go.
And so I would say like along the lines of like, so we watch a
(57:10):
lot of Christmas movies at Christmas.
This was not very Christmas related.
It just was set at Christmas or around the holidays.
Not even Christmas had little tonothing to do with this movie.
So I think that helped it in a way because we're just getting a
love story and which is the Taylor Swift song and we're
getting a nice love story. It's more about the chemistry of
(57:33):
the actors, less about the plot,less about anything.
The Taylor Swift of it all. It was like 2 good actors who
like had nice chemistry and werefun to watch hour and a half.
Yeah. So no synopsis or recaps going
to do this movie justice. You just got to go watch it and
get and the vibes. And then if you are a Taylor
(57:54):
Swift fan, I think that you would like, yeah, be like, oh
God, I like this movie. And it also has a bunch of
references to something that I already like.
Let's freaking go. Wow, and it wasn't very
Christmassy and you didn't care?No, yeah, this was barely
Christmassy. Normally that's a big, like deal
breaker for you, yeah. Chemistry was good.
Yeah. I don't tell you.
Wow. Yeah, chemistry was good.
(58:15):
Seems like a sliding scale there.
I I didn't get any of that. Obviously you guys did a great
job of keeping your opinions tooclose to the best.
I just based upon what I had, it's an absolute no go, but it
sounds like I need to give it a shot guys.
Should we should watch it together?
Yeah. I mean only on company time.
I'm not watching it my spare time.
You guys watch it? We can watch it.
(58:36):
Yeah, you guys should. Watch it turn it on while he's
doing Christmas morning tomorrow.
We did it. Congratulations to us.
Patrick, Rebecca. Anything else for the people?
I can't hear her. I don't.
Know for some reason we lost herbackup, Jason.
Was great. Jason Vorma, if you're out
there. What was his name?
I don't know what was his name, but he's Paul.
Vorhaus. What's his name?
I don't remember his name. Lars Vorsi.
(58:59):
Yeah, we're having a 2 peppermint mocha moment.
Yeah, we are here. Yeah, it's OK.
It's OK. Yeah.
Patrick, anything else for the people?
No, I think you know, we'll see you next week.
It's going to be amazing. We're actually off next week.
But we will. Oh, right.
But but we'll be back. In I do that I do.
That we'll be back in two weeks for Make or Bake Christmas, Make
(59:22):
or Bake Christmas, which is a lot of fun.
Rebecca, I think you're working again.
Yay. OK, great.
I'm. Back anything else you want to
say to the. People where people can follow
you or or anything like that, anything.
Last thing you want to say. Sure.
I'm on Instagram at Rebecca Freeze.
Just my name Freeze bar. Yeah, that's this is great love.
(59:43):
It amazing. Thanks for joining.
Us for having. Me appreciate it this is so much
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Hi, I'm Bran and I love lifetimeChristmas movies.
Hi, I'm Patrick Serrano and I ama Lifetime movie expert.
I'm Dan and I despise Lifetime Christmas movies and this is the
homework back. The home markets, this podcast
we. Hope you like this Dolly
(00:21):
podcast. Hi.
Oh boy. Wow.
Patrick, Hi. Merry Christmas.
Happy. How was your Thanksgiving?
Was it good? Oh so good.
(00:42):
Gobble, gobble. Gobble gobble too, obviously.
Yeah, of. Course.
What did? You eat the most of.
Well, I just had charcuterie because my family left me for
Ecuador. They're all in Ecuador.
I know they like, I come home, Imove home and my family's like,
where can I go to Ecuador? See you later.
Why did did you not get the invite to Ecuador?
(01:04):
They you, you couldn't go in or you just didn't want to.
I was, I was invited, but it's Iwork in theatre.
In theatre, you don't get to have.
Theatre waits for no, no one. That's right.
That's the. Same you've seen a Christmas
movie or two with theatre peoplelike.
And also like, this is the one, this is the one time of year
where we get to hang out with Patrick every week.
I know. And if he's gone to Ecuador,
(01:25):
that would have been brutal, would have been pretty mad.
I mean, I could still record in Ecuador.
They have the Internet. They do.
That's great news. You love to see that.
Outside of America as the Internet, this is crazy.
Some sometimes though they do lose power for days, so the rain
water powers the electricity there.
So if it doesn't rain, then theydon't have electricity that's
(01:46):
turned off. Wow.
They shut it down. They shut it down.
We are talking about Christmas in the spotlight today, Patrick,
you made some demands about the way in which we were going to
talk about this movie and who you wanted to talk to about this
movie with. You brought.
Yes. You brought a guest.
It's Guy. I feel like we're just setting
up like, show and tell. Like what?
Who? What'd you bring?
I know. So what'd you bring?
(02:08):
Show and tell. Yeah, what would that like?
You said he made demands like wewould.
We would never have a guest. On this program we don't do.
That there's somebody I'm bringing and it was a whole
thing. We had to make his rider.
We didn't think it was going to happen.
We finally came to. You got all those M&M's?
Yeah, you got them all, though. Oh.
Yeah, just the red ones. Yeah, got them all.
So we have an oldie, but a goodie here.
(02:30):
Used to be the editor of my blog.
God bless because that blog has so many grammar mistakes now and
was on the podcast when we covered eating disorder movies.
Rebecca Freeze is here. Say hi, Rebecca.
Hello. How are you guys?
Doing great. How about you?
I'm great. So why'd you quit but two in the
(02:51):
blog? Was it just the amount of work
that you had to do to fix all the spelling or?
It really, it was a lot of work and I couldn't, I had a full
time job and this was another full time job and I just
couldn't, couldn't it? Was and I didn't have the the
budget to keep paying her to, you know, then I started writing
a lot of blogs and I was like, Idon't know if I can pay you what
(03:12):
I've been paying you for each blog, but I but Rebecca is here
today because this movie deals with Taylor Swift and I felt
like Aaron needs some backup. You know, Aaron gets a lot of
crap on the show being the producer, you know, and, and.
Hold on. We're talking about this.
That's fair. Do we?
Do we get a lot of crap? Aaron, you don't get a lot of
(03:35):
crap. I.
Mean you guys, I think I get a lot of crap, but it's like with
with love. OK all.
Right, I don't know if. That's any, but I didn't mean to
start up. Trash girl.
OK, wait a minute of all the things, trash girl.
Take a step back. All the things that have
happened over the last two yearsthat have mostly been Bran, you
(03:58):
pick that out. Unbelievable.
OK, All right. What I'm saying is Aaron knows a
lot about Taylor Swift, I'm sure, but we needed someone to
come with who had seen the movieso we can understand the Taylor
Swift reference in contacts, right?
Because I it's not going to be me, it's not going to be Bran,
and it's not going to be Dan. So we had to have an.
(04:19):
What makes you an expert on all things?
Taylor Swift, give us your Swifty resume.
I I love her first of all. That seems like a big one I
have. I have dressed up as her three
times for Halloween. Sure.
What eras? So first time it was the
reputation era Taylor Swift and then the.
(04:41):
Worst era, I think we can all agree OK.
Yeah, absolutely. We're just choosing violence.
Nobody later do. That like.
It was us. I'm sorry.
And then the Red era and. Then.
This last one I did a Midnights era A.
Midnights era classic. Yeah, you and I dressed up for
(05:01):
the Midnights era. Which see and.
You guys, we couldn't have namedall those era's?
No, no I couldn't between. The three of them.
It's all been downhill for her since 1989.
That's been our. Time, I agree with that.
But Rebecca, what if you if you could only listen to 1 Taylor
Swift album for the rest of yourlife, which album would it be?
Oh, it'd be reputation. Yeah, producer Aaron Shea is
(05:25):
with you on that. Actually, yeah, I don't think I
am. I.
Know. I got really excited because I
like every like cell in my body needs reputation Taylor's
version. But until I get that, I do think
I'm choosing tortured pose department.
Interesting I. Know, I know.
I would have chosen. No, I don't love.
(05:48):
OK, Alright. Well, this is tough.
Should we shut it down? Do.
You have Do you have a Taylor Swift album that you like?
Yes, the 711. Or maybe Target Christmas album,
of course. No, of course.
The the is is is that the most? Is that what Christmas tree farm
is on or is that the one with Santa?
(06:09):
Tree farm is just a single. So is that the one with like
Santa Baby? Yeah, just sucks.
I hate that. I hate that I hate it.
I actively hate her rendition ofSanta, Baby and Silent Night.
I'm. Sorry.
You can send your emails to Brian at Deck to walmart.com.
That's exactly right. That's exactly right.
(06:31):
This was a what did you know going into this movie did were
you aware that this was obviously this movie got a
little bit of buzz because of the correlation in the
connection? What did you know about it going
into this, Rebecca? About this movie so I I did
listen to Y alls preview I'm. Sorry, thank you for the.
Yep. I knew more about the Hallmark
(06:55):
movie, but this one you know very clearly about Taylor Swift,
but never explicitly says so. Yeah, they came to them.
Right. I don't think so.
Right. Because they didn't.
Oh no, no way. Lifetime paid for the rights.
They didn't even say NFL. Like they didn't even pay the
NFL for the rights, right? Which I guess we'll get to that
(07:18):
in in a little bit. But I I knew pop star falls in
love with a football player. And then I just watch from
there. I mean, kind of big kind of are
there. I would assume there's some
pretty like there's some pretty significantly obvious Taylor
Swift Easter eggs in this film, yes or no?
(07:41):
Absolutely, absolutely. If I got them, then they're
obvious, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's what I mean. And you know, I would just want
to say like the pop star falls in love with the football player
is such an obvious plot. Like why has no one thought of
this before? It's so weird that it took it
being so big in the cultural zeitgeist for people to be like,
(08:02):
we should make a mover. But it's a like a trope, right?
That's. Something it's like a it's like
a no brainer. It's like a yeah, this.
It'd totally be a thing. But no, no one's ever thought of
this before. It's crazy to me.
It's weird. I do feel like in these movies
where there's a celebrity, sometimes it's an athlete on
Hallmark or Lifetime. The other person has to be a
(08:23):
behind the scenes person. Like they have to be like a
personal assistant or they worked on the set or they're a
reporter. They're never these two.
The trope is never big * big star.
Now two big stars. They never do that and I.
And they probably should. I think they should.
I think it makes a lot of sense.I'm interested to hear how
(08:43):
Lifetime did it, but I think in general probably a good idea.
Yeah, the Hallmark movie. Oh, sorry.
Go ahead, Patrick. No, Yeah, go ahead.
Let's let's, let's talk about the Hallmark movie at the top
because we're then we're going to dive into a lifetime.
Then right the the Hallmark movie did the star person behind
the scenes both. Actually are behind the scenes
(09:06):
in it. He's a CEO of the football or
something like. That we've seen it.
It's not out as of this. Recording.
So it comes out tonight, yeah. It comes out tonight.
OK, so we still can't really give our take on it, but he's he
works for the fan. He's not the CEO.
He he's the guy that works for fan engagement.
(09:28):
But he's one of four project managers, which is the weirdest
part of that movie actually, is that aspect of it.
So, yeah, neither of them are really famous, but they bring in
plenty of cameos, for what that's worth.
OK, Yeah. Of actual famous people.
Because this movie has no famouspeople, Yeah.
No this. People maybe Jeanie Mai.
(09:48):
You could say Jeanie Mai, who I love, but I don't know if she's
famous. I don't think people know her.
I don't know who that Jeanie Maiwas.
Jeanie Mai was the agent. She was on the talk I think
maybe and she was on a like HUTVshow or.
The fact that you're the only one that knows who she thinks
rooms are not. Yeah, I think.
No famous people. No famous people.
(10:08):
Four out of five. Don't know who Jeanie Mai is?
OK, the the movie also stars notable people like Jessica Lord
and oh boy lay Layeth wall. He should have changed his name.
(10:29):
I'm just saying, look I this is a hard one.
Christmas and. Christmas in the spotlight.
Walsh. Schleiger is what I would say
Walsh Schleiger. Walsh Schleiger, you're right.
There we go. It just doesn't roll.
Off the tongue, it is not as easy to pronounce as Jessica
Lord. Yeah.
(10:51):
OK, All right. Well, I think he's going to be a
big deal. I've never seen any of these two
people before these two. People now I've never seen
either of. These what did I say you've.
Never seen any of these two. I've never seen yeah, any of
them. You've seen any part of them?
Never seen any of them either ofthese two leads, Jessica, Lord
or Lathe. Do they have a lifetime
experience or no? No, this is their first Lifetime
(11:13):
movie. So this movie cost. $10 to make
like nothing. Well, Discount Tire, yeah.
Yeah, pretty much paid the bunch.
This movie is sponsored by Discount Tire and Yep, that's
all you need to really know about this movie.
Big discount. Tire fans Also, there's no like
characters from this movie may have based on There's no
(11:34):
disclaimer at the. Beginning no no no no.
Stand alone movie. Yes, and I was reading a thing
about the writer and like how she came up with the idea and
like, you know, no mention of like I based this on, but
Taylor. And it just so happens they
finally picked my script. It came to me in a dream.
I've been pitching this movie for years, trust me.
(11:57):
Yes, OK, so let's jump in. The movie starts with a video
shoot where like on set and it'sa bop Christmas pop song.
It it's called I'll Be Alone forChristmas and it's female
empowerment. It is with lyrics like I'm the
star on my own tree. Merry Christmas.
To me, the pop star's name is Bowen Sykes, not Bowen Yang,
(12:19):
which I kept writing Bowen Yang and then you know.
What if Bow and Song was in thismovie though?
Would have. Been great, there's no way it
could have been worse. We love bow.
And I don't know anything about this movie, but Bow and Yang
makes everything better. Come on.
Yeah, I, I like the song for what that's I like.
I I think we hear two different songs in this movie and I like
both. Of them we do.
(12:40):
For what? That's.
Worth. Yeah.
They're both very Swifty, yeah. Rebecca, would you say like I I
could hear a little swift inspiration?
I don't know, maybe a little bit.
Sure, like Discount Tire versionof Taylor Swift.
Discount Tire version that's. Right, for a movie about a
musician, the songs were not very good.
(13:01):
There it is. This is the take that I need.
Well, they were catchy knuckleheads, I.
Enjoyed it. I was like this.
Is nice, I thought they were great for a lifetime.
But I like Rebecca a lot. I'm just worried about it.
I have heard a lot of songs and made for TV movies, and this is
as catchy as they come. What they are like, made for the
movie? OK.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't know.
(13:23):
We didn't have to watch the children sing.
That's true. That's right, no children
singing. They they implied children
singing, but we didn't actually have.
To hear it, we didn't have to watch it.
What's the best type of what's the best type of kids like that?
This one that's just. Implied so Bowen Sykes has is a
world renowned pop * but she wants something more.
She doesn't have like, you know,she she's getting bored with the
(13:44):
whole pop star thing. Her manager Jeanie Mai, who
we'll call Myra in this movie, she only speaks only speaks in
Taylor Swift lyrics. OK, like like she let me give
you an example. OK, Dan, Dan, why are you being
so mean? You don't like my, you don't
(14:06):
like my jacket? Well, I, I, I have a bad
reputation for wearing jackets all the time.
And, you know, you might want totake a picture because that
picture is a, a picture to burn.You know what I'm saying?
I don't know about you I, but. I got to be honest, I didn't
pick up on any of this. I got this teen jacket when I
(14:32):
was 15 but now I'm 22 and. She did not say that I do
remember the she did. She said I had it since I was 15
and now I'm 22. Well, no, but she said she was
15. Yeah, I do.
Remember, you get, You get the idea.
What's so funny is I didn't evenpick up, but I heard her say
I've had it since I was 15 and Iwas like, OK, all right, this
(14:55):
weird, a weird addition to this movie.
It happens over and over. Yeah, I did write down all of
the song lyric reference. Oh.
My gosh, how many you got? 123 89101112131415 No 17 Oh my.
(15:16):
Gosh. And then I I checked my work
with an Entertainment Weekly like listicle, of course of
course, and they did not have 17.
I had much fewer. So I I feel like they should
have hired me to do. Yeah, hire the.
That's like one every 5 minutes guys.
(15:39):
That is a that is a Taylor Swiftlyric reference every 5 minutes
of movie time. They left.
They left some very obvious oneson the table.
Can you get like I literally didn't pick up on any can.
You just give me a couple of what you made me do or like I
got a blank space or like, oh, the sure, OK.
Great. Well, she did when they agreed
(16:02):
that they when she agreed that she was going to go out with the
football player, she said let the games begin, which is from
Are you ready for it? Right at the beginning.
And then there was the title of the alchemy When they, the
(16:23):
reporters are talking about how you can't deny the alchemy
between these two people, which I don't think is how you're
supposed to use the word alchemy, but we're going to let
it slide. And then, yeah, though why you
got to be so mean, right? Yeah, wow.
Yeah. Man, there's, there's I, I'm
telling you, most of them are are are given to Jeanie Mai to
(16:46):
work into her. This writer not admitting that
it has anything to do with Taylor Swift, she wrote.
A long time ago. Like if anything, Taylor took it
from her. Literally listen to Shaggy.
It wasn't me. It wasn't like I'm not.
I'm just going to stick by it. This has nothing to do with him.
I don't know what you're talkingabout.
That's right. OK, So we cut to the football
(17:07):
field and more importantly, the locker room.
We see we, like, get right to the locker room.
I was like, whoa, I wasn't expecting this.
The football player's name is Drew Gonzo Gonville.
He's shirtless. He's like talking about not
getting signed. His brother is the more famous
quarterback named Rob. Even as a brother.
Yes. Yes, a brother on this movie
(17:29):
they. Play on the same team, his
brother's a quarterback, so it'sdefinitely not the Kelsey's Very
different. Very different and see, this is
where also I'm in a bit of a blind spot.
I'm like, I don't know anything about the football side of this.
So Rob throws his Rob and his wife Nicole, who only wears high
(17:49):
heels in the movie. I just thought it was weird that
she's like the mom of the movie but she's walking around the
house in full height. He like stilettos.
Looks looks like she's never actually walked in them a day in
her life. True, true.
Hey, you know, yeah. I mean, it takes a lot of
practice. You got to put in the work
early. You got to start when you're,
(18:11):
when you're. Can I Can I slide in another
Taylor Swift reference? Sure.
His name is Drew, which is the infamous reason for the
teardrops on her guitar. Yeah, Yeah, we were talking
about that. Yeah, before.
Yeah. Yeah, and his number is 13,
(18:31):
which is her favorite number as well.
Wow. Which is very well known among
the Swifties. So that was.
You said that you brought a Taylor Swift expert, Patrick,
for the life of me think we werethis is we should be paying
Rebecca for this kind of work. I this is this is great stuff.
Look, I knew. I knew I was going to miss it
(18:53):
all. Like, I know when you say Taylor
Swift's favorite number is 13, I'm like, I have heard that.
Yeah. I've heard that I.
Knew that, just like I knew Britney Spears is from.
I don't know where she's from, Ican't remember.
Come again? What is that noise?
A rocket ship landing in the background.
(19:14):
I don't know what that is. Somebody who was going to give
away Britney Spears hometown andsome aliens showed up.
Like not on your, not on my watch.
OK, That's the city where she's from.
Don't say it. She's from Waka.
Waka Waha. Yeah, everybody knows.
Great. We well see.
I'm just saying that's why we have Rebecca so.
(19:36):
We're in the locker. Room we're in.
We're in the locker room now we're having a birthday party
for the niece. The niece loves Bowen.
She has a Bowen theme party. She does a little dance.
It's really cute. Kids.
Not an annoying kid. The kids like a normal kid.
Maybe slightly child actory, butnot terrible.
(19:59):
We got some traffic going. It's a traffic situation.
Are we being raptured? Yeah, it's a, it's a traffic jam
getting out to have is. The Rapture real and I missed
it. Yes, but OK, go ahead.
For her birthday, Drew gets his niece a concerts to the the
(20:19):
whatever. Concert Tickets Concert.
Yeah, concerts. Just concert tickets.
Yeah, and. They they.
Talk about like they talk about Bowen as a celebrity, right?
They drop a lot of Taylor stuff here too.
This is where the the mom says, oh, she's gone full Arrowhead.
Because much like Taylor Swift has the Swifties, Bowen has the
(20:44):
arrows. That's what they call
themselves, the fan base. Because, you know, bow and
arrows. Yes.
Bow and Arrowhead is also the name of the stadium where the
Chiefs play that. Should have been renamed decades
ago. That's great.
Yes, it is called. Arrowheads.
I mean, that seems like a different podcast.
(21:05):
Yeah, but. All right.
We brought in the expert, too. That's right.
Let's talk about that. Come on in.
There we go. OK, so the niece and Drew go to
the concert. He's like recording the concert
with his flash on for some reason.
They sneak backstage and they get to meet Bowen and he's like,
(21:26):
I'm a bomber. And she's like, she's like,
what? And he's like, I'm AI know I
don't have a bomb. Like, I'm like, And she's like,
you have a bomb. Yeah, this is real.
That's the name of the team. The team's name is like the
Bomber. The bomber, he walks up to her
(21:46):
and says I'm a bomber and he says I don't have a bomb.
This just seems like a mistake you would make.
It was the best it was that mademe laugh.
It made me. It was so like, like, he's so
awkward, like, you know, he's this big football * but he like,
he is like such a little like goober, you know it, It was
(22:08):
adorable. It was very cute.
He's a bummer. And they take pictures or
whatever and you know, life moves on. 01 niece is like.
I was just going to say they he tries to take a a he takes a
picture of his niece with Bowen.And then he's like, can I take a
picture with you? He asks for consent to put his
(22:30):
arm around her, which she reallyliked.
And then before he like, right as he goes to take the selfie,
her manager calls her so she like looks away.
So he doesn't actually have a good picture of the two of them
together, but he's going to postit anyway.
Got it. OK, so.
Patrick could not be more. You saw it right?
(22:52):
Completely like uncaring about your dropping.
It was stupid. It was a.
Stupid drop, got it. They was a stupid drop.
Back to what I've prepared. I just want to say one more
thing about this interaction. The niece is like drags him and
she's like, you're so weird, Uncle Drew.
(23:13):
I'm never going to have cousins because you're never going to
like, get married and find a woman and the kid.
Is harsh in this one. She's very mean.
She's very mean. She.
Is. Quiffy and everybody say why you
got, why you gotta be so mean. We have Taz and Niece who's also
really mean. It's a tie in.
Yeah, there's a whole meaniece unable that's not made.
(23:34):
It's not true. If the experts didn't say it's
not true. I Want to Be a Nice Janie is not
an album. I don't know that.
It's coming out next year. She's going to drop her as
Taylor's next year without announcing.
Yeah, that's right. It's going to be 12 songs. 8
minutes. Even though the pictures very
bad, even though the pictures not great.
Drew can't stop thinking about Bowen.
He posts on social media and he's like, hey, come to a game
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sometime. You know, he's just like putting
it out there like in the world. And Jeanie Mai sees it and she's
like, Oh my gosh, like you have to date this guy.
I'm the I'm the football person.I love football.
She starts talking about all hisstats and all the football
things that I don't understand. And neither does Bowen, by the
way. Bowen's like, I don't know
anything about football. They're they're drinking wine
(24:18):
the whole time. There's a lot of wine drinking
in this movie meta ad. But but the since Jeannie Mai is
the agent, she's like, you couldget more fans.
You could get the Super Bowl halftime show.
Yeah. Think about it.
The big game. The big game?
Yeah, you can't say super. Bowl what a big game they didn't
(24:41):
they Taylor Swift has never donethe Super Bowl halftime right No
no well, like she's she's like. Like like very famously turned
it down. Right.
Yeah. Oh, OK.
And yeah, oh, go ahead, Aaron. Well, for years she couldn't
because it was sponsored by Pepsi and she has a Coke
sponsorship. So for years she couldn't.
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It's no longer sponsored by Pepsi.
She could, but she doesn't need to.
Yeah. Yeah, I was.
More recently, though, there's always rumors and she always is.
Like she doesn't. Yeah.
I don't know if they've offered it or not.
I. Guess who's doing the halftime
show this year? Kendrick Lamar So.
I. Think we're all winning there?
Sorry. I've heard of her.
Yeah, I've heard of her. Great.
(25:25):
Sponsored by Discount Tire, though now, which is huge catch.
Yeah, huge catch. Absolutely.
Halftime show sponsored by Discount Tire.
Why everyone's getting a discount big?
So they do, they do get in touch.
Bowen and Jeanie Mai reach out and set up a date, but they
don't like give him like any more info.
They just reach out on social media.
It's like how I do most of my business dealings, you know, I
(25:47):
reach out on social media and I don't actually like exchange
numbers and we just DM on Instagram.
That's how Rebecca got on the show.
Right, that's actually kind of true.
The the message that she sends though is like if you see an
unknown number, like make sure you pick up.
But he gave her his number and then was just like, I guess I
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will answer every call that comes in.
Which he gets a lot of unknown number calls for the next three
days. Lots of spam calls and he's
answering them all. His niece is literally playing
tea with him like a tea party. And she's like, I can tell
you're stressed out here. And she gives him like the
little teapot and she's like, spill the tea.
(26:32):
And I was like, wow, this child,this child is sassy.
And then the phone rings. She answers the phone and it's
Bowen. And she's like, he died.
Right, this is where she says. But I'm sorry, Uncle Gonzo can't
come to the phone right now. Because she's dead, Yeah.
Which is another look what you made me do lyric.
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I was just like, man, this little girl's ruthless.
That's brutal. I even I would have caught that
one. I would have caught that one I
feel like. I think if I was I, now that I
know I'm sure I would pick up onsome.
I just wasn't even thinking to look for I, which is my fault.
I'm a dummy. Look what you made me do.
No, no, you're acting. That's right.
So they set up a little dinner date, a post practice dinner
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date. Bowen sends a car and the car
has a bag in and in the bag is adisguise for Drew to wear.
It's a Santa costume. So when he, you know, leaves the
car, no one will see it's him since they're like high profile
secret romance. And he's taken to an airplane
hangar, which we all know about Taylor's airplane carbon
(27:43):
emissions and. That's right, unlike other
planes, her planes emit. Her plane.
Carbon. That's right.
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, I can't. Believe her plane.
Notoriously, she. Chose a a plane that was bad for
the environment when there's so many planes out there she could
have chosen. It's like she doesn't care.
I don't know about Taylor Swift,but I know she has a bad carbon
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footprint. That's OK.
That's what we know, you said. You said.
Speaking of bad carbon footprints, let's take a break
here on Deck the Home Bar. Welcome back to the Discount
(28:25):
Tire podcast we're talking aboutby Philo actually presented, not
presented, No, Philo themovie.tv/DTH, that's exactly
not discount. And you could watch the movie on
Philo and find out that the movie is indeed sponsored there.
Discount. Tire and you can watch us there
as well. Yes, you can.
Yep. Patrick, we, he just, he just
got to the airport hangar. They're about to have their
(28:46):
first date. On the on the private jet, well,
they don't fly anywhere. So I think I think maybe maybe
Bowen doesn't really fly the plane.
It's just for fun. It's just her like her little
club and they have have dinner, have some wine, they watch a
movie on an iPad and. Where he says, where he says I
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feel like I'm in a movie, which Taylor does have a song called
If We Were a Movie that was originally written for Hannah
Montana. Oh well, I love Hannah.
There you have. It I love Hannah Montana.
It's. The best of both worlds.
Why don't we? Why don't we lead with the
Hannah Montana references so thethey like, you know, talk about
(29:33):
things And we learned that like she wasn't really close to her.
Her parents, like her mom was a like a gypsy like level stage
mom. Sure.
You know, things are not good inthat relationship.
Like Bowen is estrained from herwhole family and her dad died
and this is very much not in line with Taylor Swift's life.
(29:55):
Like Taylor Swift has like very supportive parents even even I
know that and. The writers like, see, it's
very, they're very different people.
Very different people She's yeah, she's lost the joy for
performing. She doesn't like, you know,
she's like wanting more fun in her life and Drew's like.
I promise I will bring fun into your life.
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I'm a fun guy. I will.
I will take you on a second dateand we are going to have fun and
he's. But he does the he does the
Mandy Moore thing. He does the Mandy Moore thing.
And I want to remember. I want to remember.
Don't fall in love with me or you know, and then I'll get
lucky me and die. That's right, and everyone
knows. Want to remember Taylor Show's
favorite movie? Yep.
(30:38):
OK, Rebecca, what we're going to?
Say I'm trying. I'm trying to.
No, they even do a. Go ahead.
They even do a pinky promise about it that comes up later.
Pinky promise, yeah. I would hope that Walk to
Remember is not anyone's favorite movie.
Oh boy. Well, it's someone's and I'm
sorry for not mine. Yeah, not mine, but I have seen
(31:01):
it a lot. Anyways, so we we get our Jake
Gyllenhaal character introduced in this little random scene.
He's like a he's like a mix between a Jake Gyllenhaal and a
Joe Alwyn. Yeah, yeah.
Looks more like Jake Gyllenhaal.That yes.
(31:24):
Reputation more like Joe Allen. Great.
Yeah, you got that. Right, I tracked that, I wrote.
Those are the vibes that you I thought that.
Was a great reference. For Brand, the character's
name's Hudson Peters. He's the ex-boyfriend actor who
wants Taylor. Taylor who wants Bowen.
I see now I'm getting all confused.
He wants Bowen to go on a red carpet with him for publicity
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and he's like, you couldn't possibly be dating anybody else
cuz you're unlovable and you're terrible and everyone hates you.
And you know, he's just like, he's like nagging her.
And then Jeannie Mai is like, you need to drop dead and you're
the worst. And I'm not joking.
Like, I actually hate you. Get out of my face.
That's. Right, he is the worst, to be
fair. He is the worst.
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But Drew, the, the relationship's still going on.
It's a big secret, though. Huge secret.
Drew asked Bowen if he can tell his mom, and she says that's OK.
Like you can tell your mom as long as she keeps it a secret.
So he asked his mom for the secret family lasagna recipe.
And it's really cute because thebrother walks in on them like
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talking. And she's like, he's like, what
secret are you guys talking about?
And the mom's like a notorious terrible liar.
So she's like, kind of like me thinking of Britney Spears, his
hometown, yeah. Magilla, Magilla.
Cut he right. Voila, voila.
Voila. And she's like, oh, the lasagna
recipe. He wants me to give it to him,
(32:51):
but I'm not going to. But she does.
And it impresses Bowen. She's like this has got to be
like so good. Like you're I love that you're
close to your family. You know, they just have like
they like admire each other. Like she likes his family
reputation and he likes like herhustle, her work.
That's right, that's right. So she's going to come to his
family's cabin and he's going tomake lasagna and it's going to
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be a whole thing. She kind of like comes out of
the woods in a big jacket and AIdon't know a mask and I I don't
know where she came from really,but.
She comes in full sunglasses, black like black jacket, hood up
scarf and like a ski mask. Yeah, I don't know where she
came from, she said. She parked, got dropped off and
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came through the woods, is what she says.
Right. It could be a walk through the
woods, you might say. Is that a Taylor's upside?
No, she came out of the wood. Could be a walk.
Through. There you go.
Thank you. Thank you.
Into the out of the woods. Was that a?
Is that why she said it out of the woods?
Did you write that down? I didn't write that one down.
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We're up to 18. We're up to 18.
Yeah, I'm going to write. It down.
Write that down. Yeah, write.
That down yeah, be like, look, guys, I have some notes, OK, but
they they're like doing a puzzlelike in the cabin like like she
loves puzzles that helps her de stress and who knew a puzzle
could be so sexy? Like they're like, you know,
(34:19):
having really steamy chemistry. They sexify the heck out of this
puzzle. They're like it is.
Sexified puzzle. It's.
Like it's, yeah, they're like doing a thing.
And he's like, it's gotta go here and then a puzzle.
Here. And it's like all.
Right. Oh, I do a.
Puzzle's wrong this whole time. Reenacting what happens when we
do puzzle I'm. Sorry, I know that for you and
(34:40):
I. Personal thing for you to just
it's a very philo.tv/TV show. She crawls into his lap.
Crawls into his lap. Yeah, to distract him, because
apparently they're racing to do the puzzle.
Yeah, it's a race. There's a lot of contests in
these TV movies that was. Good.
They then they then go into the kitchen because they're going to
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do some try some pie and. The pie.
The pie is ready. The pie is ready, she
accidentally or he somehow wine spills on his shirt so he has to
take off his shirt and she has never seen a shirtless guy in
her life is blown away by this fella's ABS.
(35:23):
Well, actors and indie rockers strumming guitars, they don't
get you ABS like that. They don't.
They don't and she's like can I touch the ABS and.
She she says can I touch your ABS?
And then she proceeds. She proceeds to touch like 123.
Oh my God. Like it's Simon.
Like it's Simon, you know? And and he's and she says, can I
(35:46):
touch your ABS? And he says you can do whatever
you want to with them. You can do whatever you want to
with them. I don't know, something like.
That to his to his ABS. To his ABS.
To his ABS. And we'll stop.
There. Yeah, that's it.
Well, that is where it stops because the rest of the football
team shows up at the cabin. They're all throwing out next to
them. They're like, they're like
(36:06):
Hawking their horn outside and they're like, we love you, like
we're here and then. The whole football team, like
all 55, just a. Couple his brother.
I don't know how many is on a football team, but it seemed
like the whole team to me. There's more than 4. 55.
There were like four of them, OK.
So not, not even the whole squad, football.
(36:28):
The whole side. No, no.
The the foot, the the kicker, the quarterback and the wide
receiver. And then the bench, the bench,
the man on the. Bench running back?
What position you're running? What position does?
Need a center? Travis Kelsey play tight end.
I know you knew that I was asking.
Patrick. I would have never but Aaron's
(36:51):
hearing for trivia today. Did you think Dan did know?
What in the world, guys? I saw that for a.
Minute and then I heard a. Trivia question.
And I responded. And her defense.
Was the highest. Her trivia was down.
She's having a tough time. She's trying to find a new.
Trivia. I don't know anymore football
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references, but Drew is like Bowen.
You have to hide. She goes and runs and hides like
outside, she's freezing. She's like jumping up and down.
His brother's giving him a hard time and, you know, he's making
up lies. He goes out, he talks to Bo, and
he's like, look, I don't know ifI, I want to keep lying to
(37:34):
everybody. It doesn't feel good to lie to
my family and lie to, like, the world.
So what's up with the Popo? Oh.
Sorry, that's me. Look, if we if you didn't,
couldn't tell. Rebecca lives.
Rebecca lives in DC. Rebecca lives in DC.
In. Yeah, right, Right in there.
(37:56):
Right in the DC. So there's a lot happening, you
know. No, it's.
Fine. But Bowen's like, if you are,
I'm not ready to go public with you.
I'm not ready to be in a public relationship with anybody.
It's been like so traumatic, like my past relationships that
I don't want to put myself through that or you through
that. And they decide to like, take a
break. That's right, can't do it.
(38:17):
Can't take a break? And I know I said that I could,
but I can't. And so that's, you know,
admirable. They had marble.
Just being in the 'cause they're.
Starting to like each other too much.
That's right. And they and they, Pinky
promised. Yeah.
They did. So Jeannie Mai talks, bowing
through the breakup, giving her a pep talk in Taylor Swift
(38:38):
lyrics. Oh, it's only exclusively that
it's finally becomes Thanksgiving.
Oh, you have something? Rebecca Well, we missed, so one
of the football players comes out and catches them.
Oh, right. And then right, this is right
before they have the will will we won't we conversation?
(38:59):
And he's like, well, can I tell my girlfriend Cassandra, which
is another Taylor Swift song. Cassandra, the name.
Cassandra is the name of a Taylor Swift song.
Wow. Is there a Taylor Swift song
called Patrick? I don't.
I don't think so, Patrick. I'm so sorry.
I'm just checking. I just, you know, I didn't know
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Cassandra had one, so maybe I had one.
I'll write you one, Patrick. Marcus has one.
Thank you. Marcus has one?
Yeah. Steven, There's a Steven.
There's a Hey, Steven. Yeah.
Hey, Steven. Hey, Steven.
How are you doing? Hey, Steven.
I would listen to this song, yeah.
You're in for a bruise and hey Steven, you have to listen to
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all the bridges. So after, after the the lovely
speech about from Taylor Swift lyrics that we just did,
basically, we reenacted Jeannie Mai's speech there.
Bowen and Jeannie Mai show up tothe football game in the
family's box seats. They're cheering him on.
The relationship is public. There were some like like the
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press, like we start getting like clipped from the press now,
like starting to talk about their relationship too.
And they're like, really shady, like, like news, like just the
worst. Yeah.
They they're just so mean. This is the, I think it's called
off off the field or something. So it's kind of like the ESPN
(40:28):
Sports Center desk or whatever that I don't watch ESPN either,
but that kind of like talk show.OK, they're really talking it
up. Though talking, talking it up.
Yeah, and the family, like, loves Boeing, of course.
They invite her to join them forThanksgiving on Black Friday.
(40:52):
So they go public, and the rumors are swirling about Bowen
using Drew to gain new fans fromthe NFL.
Or maybe they say the NBL or another abbreviation of some
kind. Bomb bomb bomb Town USA,
etcetera. But.
(41:13):
Yeah, expand the audience, expand the audience.
But but Bowen's like, I don't care.
Like I'm going to just live my life.
She takes Drew to like, all these fancy events and he like
just eats all the hors d'oeuvres.
Like, like that's really. He's there to like, hold a purse
and eat hors d'oeuvres. That's right.
And there's one fancy event where Hudson Peters kind of
(41:36):
corners her and does his whole like, I know what's going on
here. And she, like, sarcastically is
like, oh, you know me, I'm only dating him for publicity.
It's what I need, blah, blah, blah type of thing.
And I'm thinking he's. A big, big dumb job.
Yes. So I'm thinking he's overhearing
(41:56):
all of this because I've seen. Yeah, you've seen the homework.
That's right. But it that's not exactly what
happens with this conversation, although it does lead ultimately
to a misunderstanding. But that's not what happens.
But we'll get there. There are also so many Taylor
Swift references in this particular scene.
OK. Oh yeah.
So they walk in and he says you're the best thing at this
(42:20):
party, which is from a Taylor Swift song called You're Losing
Me. And then when the ex-boyfriend
comes up, she says that he thinks he's Wonderland because
that there's the he calls her the Alice to his Mad Hatter.
And there's a Taylor Swift song called Wonderland.
(42:42):
Wow, man, We're we're really we're doing.
It And to think I just thought Iwatched a movie.
Yeah, I'm learning so much can. I tell you why I'm going to end
up, and I don't want to spoil it, I'm going to end up putting
a cork in this movie is because I would have been somewhere in
between your viewing experience and Rebecca's viewing
experience, which is I'm catching a few of these.
I know there's a lot more and itwould just be a big eye roll for
(43:04):
me because I don't I'm not a fanenough to really dig in and and
get in the weeds. But I I wasn't watching it like
you and just didn't notice any of them.
Like I would have been somewherein between and I would have been
like, I know this movie is trying to play on 2 levels
without getting the permission to play on any and it would
drive me nuts. Sorry, go ahead.
There's also there's a deep cut here that I don't know if they
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meant to do, but his last name is Peters and she says grow up
Peter, which is, or Peter's, which is the name of another
song. And there's a lot of Taylor
Swift has a lot of like Peter Pan and Wendy imagery in several
of her songs. And so that was that's I thought
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she said grow up Peter, but growup Peter's.
I don't know. That may have been on accident,
but. Well, I don't think the
screenwriter clearly didn't meanto do any.
Of the screenwriter is all just an absolute misunderstanding.
This movie's been in the hopper.For a decade.
There's nothing. There's no way.
Definitely not about Taylor Swift.
(44:08):
No, no, you're reading into it this.
Is also the point where they left because we are never
getting back together would be too on the nose right So they
just she never says that even though perfect.
Opportunity, I know. Yeah, that's the kind of movie I
thought we were going to get. Is that movie?
Yeah. Right, deep cuts only we can't
(44:29):
get in trouble for. This we can't get in trouble for
it. We it was just an accident.
Like, you know, grow up, Peters.Like you don't know if that's a
thing or not. We don't know.
So they have this conversation. They do.
They do and like she leaves withDrew and tells him he's the best
boyfriend ever cuz he's like a little like feeling like a a
fish out of water. He's not feeling great.
(44:50):
And they kiss and it's like veryromantic that it's like super
romantic. And then Drew gets a call from
his agent and he is getting likea offer to go to the LA football
team. That's right, big money unname,
double the salary. Whoa, he's so excited.
(45:12):
It's the LA knife fight. I don't know.
Yeah, something they don't. Say all the team names are very
violent in this. League, right?
But Bowen doesn't seem so happy about it.
She seems like she wants to stayin town with his family and like
she like, seems to be not excited about him going to LA
because he would be changing. He would be changing too much.
(45:34):
She doesn't want to move. Yes, got it.
No, Jeannie Mai says you know all too well I caught that.
I caught that one. She said the all too well, but
she gives the advice more TaylorSwift lyrics I'm sure are are in
that. But basically she comes around
and she's like, you know, OK, well, if he wants to move to
(45:54):
Elliot, that's a good thing. He wants to be with me.
That's a good thing. The suddenly Bran tell me if
this came out of nowhere. I was watching a dial up of
Daisy commercial and then all ofa sudden the brothers are
fighting. Been there.
But yes, I do feel like the brother fight did come out of
nowhere. He tells his brother about this
(46:16):
offer and his brother gets really mad and he kind of talks
about, you know, how he just. Comes He doesn't talk.
He doesn't talk. He.
Yelled, he screamed. That's right, he says.
He says I'm tired of living in your shadow.
And I and I said living in your shadow.
That's a Ashley Simpson rap, Really.
Let's go. Someone else is Jesus.
(46:39):
So we've got Mandy Moore and Ashley Simpson also getting
shots. That's right in this episode
can't get in trouble for this. That's right.
No way right. But he did.
He got it was a boisterous conversation, which is why,
because. A brother that played football
would never be mad at his other brother for leaving to take more
money to play football. That happens all the time.
It would never. That's what I wrote down.
(47:00):
Oh, perfect. I was like, I was like, why?
Why would the football brother not?
Or why would they act like he doesn't understand the business?
If anyone would understand it, it would be him.
Like that would be #1 on the list of people that would give
cut you some slack and be like this is the right thing to do.
For sure, yeah, it's. Ridiculous.
I also felt like there was some of this, like maybe he even said
it, but like you're only gettingthis deal because of Bowen, like
(47:23):
some of that type of thing. And he's like, I, I can do this
myself. Like I'm a good.
I'm do it with a broken heart. That's what I've said for.
Years, bud. Yeah.
There you go. Are are Donna Kelsey stand in?
I really like this actress. The mom.
The mom. Yeah, she's great.
She takes Drew outside. She's so good.
And she's like, you know, I can understand why you're feeling
this way and like, why you feel like you're living in the
(47:45):
shadow, you know, because, like,it was just easier.
You two were brothers. We had to just do all the same
things growing up. So you just kind of played
football because your brother played football and but and so
on and so forth. And you never got to be, like,
the leader of your own thing. So you should just think, take a
minute, think about what you want to do and then do that
because, yeah, it's not fair. You shouldn't be just doing
(48:07):
whatever your brother does or whatever your brother says.
That's right. It was a good.
It was a good talk. It was a good talk.
Good talk, good talk. Yeah, it was like a Mike Brady
level. Oh wow, sage advice.
Yeah, my loving wisdom. Sage advice.
Alright, yes, Hudson Peters are Jake Gyllenhaal.
Sanden leaks The conversation tothe press.
(48:29):
Where? What?
Apparently he's Mike. Like they're they're recording
some sort of documentary or something.
And. There was a lady following him
with a with a camera phone and aring light.
Ring light. Yeah, and that's all you need.
A plugged in a plugged in ring light like with an extension
cord. And so he has the audio of her
(48:50):
saying the the thing sarcastically and just, it's
that part of the conversation. So a different take on the
misunderstanding, for what it's worth, you know.
And Drew is upset, like he he thinks it's real.
A lot of bad press comes. And this is where like the the
press gets negative and they're like, she's never going to have
a boyfriend. She's talking about people like
(49:12):
that and the but very quickly the Hudson Peters assistant
quits and releases the whole clip and says, look, this was a
we were trying to manipulate themedia, you know?
Instead of three years later, yeah.
Yeah, instead of released the Hudson Peters assistance con.
And they did. To their credit, they did.
(49:34):
Oh good. So Bowen deals with the break up
the only way she knows how. She writes a song, she strums on
a guitar clumsily and sings somelyrics about love being a game.
That's right. A football game, if you will.
If. You will, yeah.
And I will. Brianna, I know you played
guitar. Was she really playing guitar in
(49:54):
this movie? So.
Interesting. Thanks for bringing it up.
Great question. Patrick at at the gala where she
plays the whole song. She is playing real chords.
But I thought so. But the chords don't match
what's being played, which is soshe clearly knows how to play
guitar, but it she wasn't the one responsible for writing that
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song. And she yeah, this hand looks
like it's doing things. The one up by the net.
She's changing chords. The other one I was like, I
don't know if the strums are going with the strumming.
Yeah, I think just, but also like the other.
Technical terms for you listeners at home.
I don't know if the strums are going with the strumming but.
She was just changing chords andand that it's more than what
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most people do. So good, good, good there.
Right. And the while we're on this
little Christmas gala performance, the song that she
performs is is the song she writes for Drew.
And it's very Michelle Branchy. OK.
It's very Michelle Branchy. The guitar.
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Yeah, it was very the same like.Did you notice?
That's not a like the Goo Goo doll.
That's right. Did you?
Awesome. Did you notice how there was one
Christmas tree behind her? That was potentially the
brightest Christmas tree I've ever seen?
That tree was so bright. I even was about to catch on
fire. I was like.
(51:17):
You got to look at this, he. Showed me a still.
It was unbelievable. All the other trees are normal
and then there's just one that'slike, it was a lot.
Yeah. I mean, that's aspirational,
right? Yeah, I think so.
That's that Discount Tire money can't hide.
That's right, you can't. There's nothing you can do.
There you go. So the Christmas gala is, of
course, for the football team. It brings everyone back
together. But before this performance, we
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get a little scene where the niece gives Drew a bracelet, and
it's the Taylor Swift friendshipbracelet.
We all have them for Bramble Fest.
That's right. So that's another nod that I
caught that I was like, oh, the bracelet.
Yeah. I made one for, I made one for a
hockey player. Haven't been able to give it to
him yet, you know well. Be careful, he'll fall in love
(52:01):
with. You what?
What's the hockey player? Can we shout him out?
Can we try? A girl can dream, you know?
His name is Jacob Brana. He plays for the Washington
Capitals. OK, Jacob Brana, if you're
listening, if you're a big DTH fan, come.
On, you know. Trying to get friendship
bracelet to you bro. Got to shoot my shot.
It worked for it, worked for Drew and Bowen It.
Did work for Drew and who are. Definitely not Travis and
(52:24):
Taylor. No, no.
Definitely. Not any comparisons completely
coincidental. That's right, the the the song
isn't terrible at the Christmas gala and she gives a speech and
she promises not to fumble her chance at love again.
And she's like, yeah, I'll make it perfectly clear.
This song is about. Drew does one of those things
where she's like, this is what this song is about.
(52:45):
Yeah, and then Drew runs in and he's like, I love you.
And they're like, let's go, let's freaking go, she says.
Before. Kissing, she says go, man.
She says let's freaking go before.
The second time that's happened.Let's freaking.
Go. Let's freaking go.
This was where she's like, I promise I'll love you.
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And he comes in and he's like, is that a pinky promise?
And yeah, that was, that was gross.
I didn't like that part. No.
Let's freak, you know? Yeah, where it goes.
We don't think he swear anymore.We got a final scene of
Christmas morning. He gives her a present.
His present to her is a puzzle piece because she's the missing
piece. Of him.
(53:28):
That's right. And she gives him I forgot.
The puzzle so here's the thing that was crazy to me is he gives
she gives him the puzzle that they put together that was
missing the piece of the cabin he gives her the missing puzzle
piece and then she puts the puzzle piece onto the so there's
no glass cover in that sucker no, this is a picture frame
(53:49):
where at any given time the puzzle pieces can still just
pause the. Point of the frame.
There is none. There's no.
Point. But it happened and they did it,
and that's the movie. Wow, that.
Did it the movie? OK, so now it is time for us to
say whether we would put a cork in it or pour it up.
We'll start with Dan because we already kind of know where he's
(54:11):
going. But Dan, what are your thoughts?
Yeah, I've got to put a cork in this because I heard the let's
freaking go thing. No, it's.
Freaking go no. I I think that like from what
has been described to me, I think I would hate this movie.
And I like Taylor Swift isn't for me, but like she's
undeniable. She's an amazing songwriter.
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She's a whirlwind. She's a a boss bee of a human
being who makes great decisions.Boss baby.
Yeah, different. No, that all together.
She makes great business decisions.
She thinks things through. She empathizes.
She is like she's a magnate thatis better at being a magnate and
people that spend their lives studying business to try to be
(54:55):
magnates are. She's an unbelievable person and
pop star. Not my thing but that doesn't
mean it's she's not good. She's amazing.
This movie trying to capitalize on her good.
Good for him. I don't care.
I'm fascinated to see if she watched it or not.
I think the problem is, is from what I've heard, it seems like
really deep cut references by the dozens and lines like let's
(55:19):
freaking go. And I don't want those two
things to me add up to absolutely not ever.
I I don't want to watch it. So maybe the movie's better than
that. I'm seeing some chatter in the
chat that it is better than that.
But for me and my house, no. So that that's what I'm going.
(55:39):
I'll put a cork in it. And that's fair.
That's. Fair.
I think it's fair. Rebecca as the Swifty, let's
let's see what you think becauseI feel like it could go either
way. I I wrote down EW, why do I kind
of like it? And then later wrote down, I
hate that I like this so much because you know, when you watch
(56:02):
a lifetime movie, you have to suspend reality a little bit.
So if you can divorce it from the Taylor and Travis of it all,
which because again not about. No.
A terrible movie. I mean, it's a bad movie.
It's a made for TV movie on Lifetime but it's not terrible
and I really enjoyed the deep cuts so I think I'd pour it up.
(56:25):
OK. And Bran.
In the words of Bowen, let's. Freaking go.
Let's freaking go. I loved it.
I thought it was fantastic. I had a blast.
The chemistry with these two wasoff the charts.
Yeah, I. Don't get any of this or, or as
Bowen would probably say, off the freaking charts.
(56:47):
It was lovely. Yeah, there there was some
great, great chemistry between these two and some great
moments. Yeah, it were.
And and the music wasn't bad. So a big win for Bran.
Really enjoyed it. And I don't care about these two
at all. So there you have it.
There you go. There you go.
And so I would say like along the lines of like, so we watch a
(57:10):
lot of Christmas movies at Christmas.
This was not very Christmas related.
It just was set at Christmas or around the holidays.
Not even Christmas had little tonothing to do with this movie.
So I think that helped it in a way because we're just getting a
love story and which is the Taylor Swift song and we're
getting a nice love story. It's more about the chemistry of
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the actors, less about the plot,less about anything.
The Taylor Swift of it all. It was like 2 good actors who
like had nice chemistry and werefun to watch hour and a half.
Yeah. So no synopsis or recaps going
to do this movie justice. You just got to go watch it and
get and the vibes. And then if you are a Taylor
(57:54):
Swift fan, I think that you would like, yeah, be like, oh
God, I like this movie. And it also has a bunch of
references to something that I already like.
Let's freaking go. Wow, and it wasn't very
Christmassy and you didn't care?No, yeah, this was barely
Christmassy. Normally that's a big, like deal
breaker for you, yeah. Chemistry was good.
Yeah. I don't tell you.
Wow. Yeah, chemistry was good.
(58:15):
Seems like a sliding scale there.
I I didn't get any of that. Obviously you guys did a great
job of keeping your opinions tooclose to the best.
I just based upon what I had, it's an absolute no go, but it
sounds like I need to give it a shot guys.
Should we should watch it together?
Yeah. I mean only on company time.
I'm not watching it my spare time.
You guys watch it? We can watch it.
(58:36):
Yeah, you guys should. Watch it turn it on while he's
doing Christmas morning tomorrow.
We did it. Congratulations to us.
Patrick, Rebecca. Anything else for the people?
I can't hear her. I don't.
Know for some reason we lost herbackup, Jason.
Was great. Jason Vorma, if you're out
there. What was his name?
I don't know what was his name, but he's Paul.
Vorhaus. What's his name?
I don't remember his name. Lars Vorsi.
(58:59):
Yeah, we're having a 2 peppermint mocha moment.
Yeah, we are here. Yeah, it's OK.
It's OK. Yeah.
Patrick, anything else for the people?
No, I think you know, we'll see you next week.
It's going to be amazing. We're actually off next week.
But we will. Oh, right.
But but we'll be back. In I do that I do.
That we'll be back in two weeks for Make or Bake Christmas, Make
(59:22):
or Bake Christmas, which is a lot of fun.
Rebecca, I think you're working again.
Yay. OK, great.
I'm. Back anything else you want to
say to the. People where people can follow
you or or anything like that, anything.
Last thing you want to say. Sure.
I'm on Instagram at Rebecca Freeze.
Just my name Freeze bar. Yeah, that's this is great love.
(59:43):
It amazing. Thanks for joining.
Us for having. Me appreciate it this is so much
fun Lifetime on court.com all holiday season all movies all
the time until next time will bethe first to wish you a.
Merry Christmas that the Hallmarks of Bravo Dream podcast
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